[Jim Robinson]

It was so obvious even a political neophyte like me could see it plain as day. Not one of Rove’s finer picks.

[Arthurio]

The Democrats tried running a massachussetts flip flopper in 2004, didn’t work out too well for them either.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

In their sweaty, increasingly bug-eyed and frantic desperation to win win win -- no matter how glaringly unsuitable their anointed candidate, or how poisonously anti-conservative their favored platforms and tactics -- the now wholly irrelevant CINOs have long since forgotten just why, precisely, "winning" is so important to conservatism in the first place.

The goal, plainly, isn't simply to plop any handy, available "R"-branded hindquarters into any given House or Senate seat, in and of itself; otherwise, we could just as easily nominate and run (oh, say) Justin Bieber, or Chris Hemsworth, and be virtually assured of a nice, easy victory, ten times out of every ten.

If "winning" said seat means doing so by filling it with someone who does not willingly vote and/or legislate along demonstrably conservative lines -- or who routinely needs "their feet held to the fire," in order to decently advocate for and represent conservative principles -- then: that is, by any sane and rational definition, L-O-S-I-N-G.

A large, capital letter "R" following their name in the congressional ledger, notwithstanding. ;)

[COBOL2Java]

It was so obvious even a political neophyte like me could see it plain as day. Not one of Rove’s finer picks.

[screwing off Rove's head, peering inside] My God, Jim, he has no core!

[Graewoulf]

Note to Romney/Ryan: Here are a small sampling of the REAL reasons that y’all lost:

Never questioned Obama’s place of birth;
Never questioned Obama’s reasons for sealing his personal documents and school records;
Never Campaigned from the end of the Primary until people started early voting;
Never allowed The Father of the Tea Party to be involved in y’alls GOP-Elite Campaign;
Y’all listened to y’alls sorry Harvard top campaign advisers;
Ignored Moderator Bob Scheiffer when he delivered the election to Romney on a silver platter with his question to him about Benghazi as the first question in the third debate;
Romney, as the Father of Socialist Romney’care’ ran against the Father of Communist Obama’care.’
Y’all NEVER ONCE went for the coup de gra’ce;
Every time that y’all got ahead, y’all relaxed and changed course;
Y’all kept y’alls advisors that had done a perfect job of designing a campaign to “LOSE AT ALL COSTS.”

Y’all are just another pair of loser RINOs.
Don’t run in 2016 unless you understand all of the above, as we damn sure won’t forget ANY of y’alls RINO blunders!

DUH! I’m surprised that y’all received as many votes as y’all did.

BTW, the only good thing that came out of y’alls Primary and General Campaigns was HOW NOT TO RUN A CAMPAIGN!