Conservatives who didn't vote? (Vanity)

11/8/2012 | Al Gore Vidal

[Al Gore Vidal]

 

Part of me believes that the biggest reason for the Romney loss was because he could not get out the conservative vote, and all the FReepers who predicted this were right.

 

Having said that another part of me can't help but be mad at these people because they, in essence, helped to get Obama elected. 

 

But will these non-pragmatic conservatives now do the work to start there own party because they correctly see the Republican party as not truly conservative?

 

I'd like to be able to understand why they sat it out. And can a conservative who did sit it out for lack of ideological purity really be called a true conservative? If you actively and knowingly aid and abet Obama by helping him to get reelected how can you call yourself a conservative?

 

I just want to know how they justify themselves. 

[AppyPappy]

I personally don’t know anyone who sat out.

[Therapsid]

48% didnt vote

http://www.blacklistednews.com/2012_US_Elections_%E2%80%93_The_People_Have_Spoken%3A_No_Confidence/22457/0/38/38/Y/M.html

[Ingtar]

I had severe problems with Romney. However, in the end, I pulled the lever for him. For me, someone who is paying attention, four more years of Obama was too high a cost. However, the majority of those who had problems with Romney’s past, personality, or even his faith, do not look at things as closely and decided that there was not enough difference to make it worth the effort of voting. They believed that four more years of Obama would not be so bad. Besides, they have been inundated with “The economy is getting better, we just need more time.”

[goldstategop]

I didn’t vote for Mittens whose domestic and foreign policy views where to the LEFT of Obama’s.

I couldn’t vote for someone who wasn’t a conservative. Whether he won or lost didn’t matter much to me - as nothing much would change over the next four years, no matter who won the White House.

Mitt Happens is a genuinely nice guy, but nice doesn’t win elections and he didn’t excite me.

[Atlas Sneezed]

I hated Romney in the primaries, but voted for him with enthusiasm.

Yet I wonder if there weren’t some evangelicals who had little enthusiasm for the choice between the Mormon and the Moron, and stayed home.

[massmike]

From what I've read here,MANY evangelicals stayed home because Romney wasn't "conservative enough" (shades of 2008). Why they did that when the alternative was four more years of Obama,I have no explanation for.Maybe Romney wasn't Reagan,but do they REALLY think they've got a better deal now with America's first gay president?

I'm starting to wonder if Christ himself came down from Heaven to run for president if they'd stay home because "his hair is too long and he looks like a hippie!".....

[Vaduz]

The biggest reason for the Romney loss was the game was fixed,remember your dealing with a Chicago hack.
JFK was the first unduly elected Obama was the second.
Dead people do vote.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

He got my vote. I knew he was by no means a conservative but I didn't feel the hold my nose and vote for him anyway like I did with McCain. Especially after I saw him in the debates.

As to the what went wrong I still don't think any conservative candidate could have won this. At best the perfect candidate would have pulled out a close contested win. There are no more Reagan/Scoop Jackson/Zell Miller Democrats these days. Moonbat liberalism is now the mainstream thanks to the MSM and the dumbing down of America. Used to be stupid people didn't vote. Now they do.

[mosaicwolf]

I don’t buy that BS. Conservatives are not stupid people.

[Hojczyk]

They wanted nothing to do with the tea party....Gone Sarah, Michelle, Herman and many others..no tea party no win..Michael Reagan called and got turned down.did not do any talk radio that I listen to..maybe Hugh Hewitt??

[R0CK3T]

If any conservative did not vote Romney because he was not a true rock-ribbed conservative or because he was a Mormon they are truly insane be queen they have allowed the country to be taken by Obama.

[TheThirdRuffian]

I did not vote for Mitttens.

I recall how he systematically destroyed all the viable conservative candidates with lies and slanders -— from Thompson in the first primary to everyone else in the second.

He had paid minions who went forth and slandered good men.

All while smiling like the white washed tomb that he is — clean and white shirt with a rotten, corrupt, heart inside.

The RINO establishment assumed we’d come along because Obama is so bad. Well, they were almost right. I had misgivings.

But it’s time to stop taking half measures. If it takes our country getting destroyed by Obama for actual conservatives to rise from the ashes, then that’s what it has to do.

[nhwingut]

I think you will see some stories coming out in the next few days with some fishy voting counts.

Obama performed extremely well in some deep red counties in swing states which went for GOP by 3 to 1 in 2010.

Obama lost about 10 million votes. And Republicans did not sit out. Their votes were tallied to Obama. Nothing else explains it.

[stop_fascism]

You are a true RINO.

[ducttape45]

Different groups of people can be blamed for the election night fiasco, but did anyone really stop to blame the GOP for running out a candidate who is not really a conservative?

If they would stop messing around give the people a true conservative, he/she would get elected.

[Tau Food]

I voted for Tom Hoefling, a conservative. I know I did the right thing.

I have no complaint about liberals who voted for either Obama or Romney. That's what they're supposed to do.

As long as someone voted for his favorite candidate, I think he did the right thing.

The rest was in God's hands.

[eclecticEel]

Not all of us live in states where our votes matter ...

[pwatson]

Purist are the same people who argue all day about the number of angels that will fit on a pin head. You can never count on them, they will always splinter off with a different Cristian church on the next corner or try the Constitution party or some such other dead end. They simply do not understand politics and how a party system works. I point out the two non-senators who talked about rape abortions as examples. Too ignorant of Politics to understand the art of what to say in the environment of a Liberal Press.

[montanajoe]

Romney is a liberal Republican and many conservatives wont vote for a liberal under any circumstances regardless of party affiliation. Looking at the vote totals more closely in many states, folks like me, just did not vote for the top of the ticket..here in Montana I figure at least 15000 conservatives refused to vote for Romney. The voter initiative saying Montana's could not be forced by the federal government to buy health insurance got 15000 votes more than R/R and parental notification and illegal alien measures passed with more than 65000 votes than R/R could get. The conservatives were out there the GOP just could not get them to vote for their candidate..