Romney Adviser: We Lost Because Far Right Has Taken Party to Place It Doesn’t Belong

Gateway Pundit ^ | November 18, 2012 | Jim Hoft

[greyfoxx39]

Carlos Gutierrez, adviser to Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, said Sunday he was “shocked” by Romney’s comments this week on minorities.
“I think we lost the election because the far right of this party has taken the party to a place that it doesn’t belong.”

Ugh.

CNN reported:

In an interview set to air in full Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” with Candy Crowley, Gutierrez also sharply criticized Romney’s remarks made on a call Wednesday with donors following his loss in last week’s election. Romney explained his loss in part by pointing to “gifts” President Barack Obama gave to certain groups that turned out in high numbers.

Gutierrez, the former secretary of commerce, said he was “shocked” by Romney’s comments.

“I think we lost the election because the far right of this party has taken the party to a place that it doesn’t belong,” he said. “We are the party of prosperity, of growth, of tolerance. I mean these immigrants who come across and what they do wrong is they risk their lives, they come here and they work because they want to be part of the American Dream.”

[greene66]

These repulsive bastards. All campaign-long, they spit on the conservative base! And now they blame them for the loss. I’m sick to death of these loathesome cretins of the GOP-E, which have a strangehold on the Party. Abject scum!!

Give me a new party. I can’t take these POS crapweasels. I can’t share a party with them anymore. They refused to allow the words “tea party” even be uttered at the convention; they spent four years trashing and smearing Palin; they treat social conservatives like crap, and neither show any true interest in fiscal restraint; they dutifully bow down to the lib media every damned time; And now of course they blame conservatives for their failures! Vile, dishonorable scum.

[Republican1795.]

What nonsense - that this adviser is advancing because the conservative voters did not even support Romney! Notice how the pejorative Far Right is used. The term Far Right is enemy propaganda aimed at vilifying folks who have conservative values. By their standards the Founding Fathers would be described a Far Right. I think we should promote a slogan: Just Right [ as in correct ] not Far Right.

[Jim Robinson]

If they have a wish to never ever win another election, all they have to do is push amnesty. Or abortion. Or homo sexual marriage. Or socialist healthcare. It will definitely be curtains for the GOP. We don’t need two godless socialist parties, though we’re pretty close to that already. Damned the statist GOP-e!!

[Wuli]

Mister Gutierrez is disengenuous at best.

He starts out lamenting Mitt Romney’s statement about Obama “gifts” and slides from there - Mitt Romney, who is totally NOT part of the “far right” - into blaming the “far right” of the GOP.

Another Bush-RINO and part of the GOP-elite looking for scapegoats for THEIR preferred candidate - Romney.

I will keep repeating this until Romney and his advisors get the message: “Hey Mitt; quit allowing political pundits and your ‘insiders’ to continue to publicly scapegoat everyone but you and your own team. You and your team need to look yourselves in the mirror and find the real faults for your loss in your campaign and what it did and did not do. Obama lost many millions of voters from 2008. All you had to do was to do better than John McCain.”

[greyfoxx39]

I suspect Romney threw the race too; but may have been forced too.

Forced to? How and by whom?

[GBA]

Good lord, you fools still don't get it.

You win in spite of yourselves and lose because of you don't stand for anything other than compromise.

Here's a freebie: Compromise is not a principle you run on, it is an expectation you will lose.

You lose because you let your opposition define you and then you unfailingly live down to their definitions.

Even when you win, you make me cringe in anticipation of how you will snatch defeat from the jaws of the victory we gave you with our votes and donations.

You would have to pay me to be a republican, but no one has enough money for me to lower myself to your luke warm spew.

There you have it, rino, all the answers for your failings. Reagan wouldn't join what you've become, even though your wins come by cashing in on his legacy.

[GeronL]

The “far right” did that by nominating the most moderate GOP canddiate evah!!

wait a sec....

[Marcella]

He was an adviser to Romney and they dumped conservatives and Tea Party due to their being “right” rather than middle or left. They thought they could win without the base that irritated them. That is exactly what Romney thought and carried out at the national convention and immediately the conservative base leaders across the nation dumped him.

This isn't over - the GOP elites do not want conservatives/Tea Party in “their” party. They have kicked out God and conservative values and that's the base.

The elites including the national party board members want an “electable” candidate next time (again) and that will be someone who welcomes illegal aliens and agrees to give "compassionate" money to any who don't want to work, able bodied or not. They think that gives them the Hispanic vote and welfare voters. Naturally, that candidate won't win, either.

[JRandomFreeper]

I don’t get another four years of obama though

Blame that on the GOP-E and their liberal candidate.

Every time the GOP runs a conservative, they win.

/johnny

[Sun]

Romney lost because many on the “far right” stayed home, because Romney wanted to be Democrat Party light. Romney worried more about getting moderate votes than the base. In the future Republicans better focus more on the BASE!

[boomop1]

Romney and his bunch jumped the shark a long time ago.

[mosesdapoet]

Correction...They didn’t want AHCA Zero-care OFF the books

[drypowder]

its painfully clear, legitimate elections in the US are no more. So now what?

[Sun]

“..Col West is the only one fighting this.”

Romney only fights with conservatives.

[Logical me]

What Romney quoted is 100% correct and it is about time we realize that the election was bought by the communists Democrats. We will never gain the support of the weak that rely on the handouts that the communists party King Obama handed out. And to further the corruption of giving billions to business that contributed to his party must be realized. If Americans do not understand that they have sold their Country out to these communists and the end result is they will eventually thrown under the bus with us. It may be too late to correct this path.

[steve86]

lost because of massive voter fraud

You really believe that? Can't accept that conservatives (both social and financial) have become a true demographic minority with decreasing numbers each day that goes by? And a crap northeast liberal republican candidate didn't help.

[muawiyah]

Typical hispanic propaganda ~ no, they are NOT immigrants ~ you gotta’ have a green card for that. They can wait in line behind the gazillions of others who have applied and want to come here.

[itsahoot]

These people will never win an election again.

One might contend that they won the last one. This one does contend exactly that.

Everyone with an (R) by their name is not a good guy. We have plenty of enemies within who change parties whenever it suits them because few people even notice.

Unlike Leopards Libs can change their spots, they become Republicans In Name Only.

I have been told that spying from the inside is easier, don't know if that is true, since the Republican party seems to accept all converts.

[sheikdetailfeather]

Romney avoided going on conservative 540 am radio talk show host Bud Hedinger’s show here in Orlando, avoided Mark Levin, Glenn Beck and all the other conservative talk show hosts except Hannity. He felt all of us would vote for him anyway. The left painted Romney as a flip flopper (based upon pure facts) and also said he would continue the Bush policies that got us into the financial crisis of ‘08. Then what did we see? All of the Bush family came out in support of Romney (a big major noose around his neck. All people could think about was Bush and the financial crisis after that.) Romney never used the opportunity to teach people who or what caused the financial crisis. We were shoved aside at every turn and then were expected to fall in line. Now we get blamed for his loss! Get real!!!

[CyberAnt]

Did everybody see what Mark Levin said (paraphrase) - only the Tea Party stands against Tyranny!!

And Tyranny is exactly where O wants to take this nation.

Hopefully, there are enough of us Tea Partiers to stop him.