Posted on 11/28/2012 10:33:56 AM PST by GVnana
The key 'R' word is Republican, not Romney
With all the efforts to understand the recent election defeat, a lot of the focus has been on former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and his campaign.
That is exactly the wrong way to begin analyzing the outcome of the 2012 campaign.
The focus on Romney as a candidate is profoundly misleading for those who want to prepare for future Republican victories.
Any analysis of recent Republican presidential results will reveal a systemic failure which can’t be ascribed to Romney.
The last clear Republican presidential victory was in 1988 when Vice President George H W Bush won with 53.37 percent over Dukakis.
Since then we have lost the popular vote in five out of six elections for president and dramatically underperformed in re-electing a president with the lowest margin in the history of presidential re-elections. (Other incumbents were defeated for re-election but none was re-elected with a narrower margin than President George W. Bush in 2004.)
Consider the results:
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
“When someone to the left of Bill Clinton can register republican in 1993 and 19 years later be it’s republican nominee for President, while still campaigning against the party’s platform for being pro-life, for homosexual Scout leaders and a gay military, and his only political accomplishments being that he gave the nation gay marriage and Romney Care, then something is wrong within the republican system”
AMEN!
FHS, some of you in the face of CLEAR evidence are just numbnutz! republicans LOST because of a rino! Why don't you get it? DOLE, MCCAIN, ROMNEY. I should throw Bush in the mix, even though he won by selection of the SC, it wasn't a clear victory at all!
Romney should have been a SLAM DUNK, but conservatives made up their mind after McCain. Conservatives told everyone. Screamed at the GOP, NO MORE RINOS, GOP!
I guess you really can't fix STUPID!
Newt could have cost us the House.
He couldn’t even beat Romney because he was ran such and awful race.
Never mind that he’s barely to Romney’s right if at all.
Every time I think about the media and their shameless destruction of this country by supporting socialists and destroying everything that is noble about America, I think of the end of the Godfather movies, where all the bad guys end up with a bullet in the head. The mob knows how to deal with traitors. They should all be charged with sedition.
” FHS, some of you in the face of CLEAR evidence are just numbnutz! republicans LOST because of a rino! Why don’t you get it? DOLE, MCCAIN, ROMNEY. “
Thats it.
Exactly.
Okay, we need to nominate a conservative but that candidate will need to be charismatic and inspirational, drawing in those who did not vote this time—even some who voted for Obama. The candidate will have to bring out the conservatives from neighborhoods where they appear absent, drawing more votes than Romney did in Philadelphia, Cleveland and Detroit. Conservatives and potential conservatives are there, ready to vote conservative, if they hear the right message about how conservatism will benefit them and their families. The candidate will need to mount a 50 state strategy in the way Howard Dean conducted a 50 state liberal strategy, except do it smarter. The candidate will need to fight dirty without getting dirty. Who will it be? Who can stand up and fight to save America?
Newt is right, but some of his consultants are some of the worst. And he listens to them too often.
Some were on his campaign. Some were on Winning Our Future, and I argued with them all the time.
But, I lay them to waste here:
www.gone2012book.com
I was not for Romney, I want a conservative too.
Gingrich is not that man. No one worth much ran in 2012. Bachmann and Cain I liked best but they seemed in over their heads.
Scott Walker should be the choice in my opinion.
Newt’s a progressive too.
I despise the GOP more than the Democrats. The Democrats revel in their evil. The GOP puts on a mask to hide their evil.
You and me both brother. When Newt was phased out I began to realize we were "screwed" whatever happened.
The return of mindless Newt-loving is distressing to me.
No one liked the fella when was not only endorsing Super RINO Dede Scuzzobama in the NY congressional but whining and acting all offended when people called him on it. Now quickly they forget. Newt is more like a chameleon.
I never know what to expect from Newt, but this one is spot on correct.
yes. Newt is a very smart guy, but he also commits a lot of political hypocrisy. The party needs more unity next time. I say move the first primary to Ohio and then have the whole field blasting the Democrats’ policies rather than each other.
Newt is not a real conservative by any stretch of the imagination. A background check on his positions tell the story.
I have forwarded that video to friends and received rave reviews. One wrote back to me and said she ended up watching the entire video collection from the event and thanked me!
I would love to see him run for President.......not kidding either. I believe he could WIN.
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