Uh, conservatives also deserve blame for this too. They didn’t get off their butts in January, February, and March of last year and they allowed the establishment to nominate Romney. Then in the fall a number of conservatives stayed home rather than vote for the lesser of two evils and thus four more years of disaster. If we repeat this cycle in 2016 and get another moderate like Christie or Jeb Bush then it really is over for the GOP but conservatives need to work a helluva lot harder than in 2012. There was a lot of bellyaching and crying over moderates but not enough grunt work was done to prevent them from picking Romney.
None of the Republican candidates stood out and clearly separated themselves from the rest...all were deeply flawed...and frankly there were too many of them....It needs to get whittled down to three max, by the time the primaries start.
Eventually people will understand that you can ‘work’ all you like. The GOP has an agenda and conservative values are no longer needed to implement it.
Work at a viable replacement or work to continue the GOP’s destruction of your values. Them’s the real choices.
Here’s another stupid thing, why do we need debates between Republican candidates....all it does it to tear each of them down....it does the Democrats’ dirty work for them. Especially when they use moderators who are liberally biased, who are more than happy to do the Rats’ bidding.
There's nothing I'm more ABSOLUTELY confident of than this assertion:
Gingrich or Santorum would have lost by at least 5 points more than Romney did.
That was a pretty tall order, Romney has dominated and shaped the primaries for 7 years, spending 50 million dollars of his own many when needed, combining that with the power of the combined efforts of the GOP leadership, the Democrat party, and the media, supporting his fight against the conservatives, and you have a challenge that was just too big.
“Uh, conservatives also deserve blame for this too...”
You are correct. And there are conservatives on this site who are a part of that...they stayed home.
We voted (for one of the conservative candidates) in the primary here in Ohio, and we voted in November. I promoted the benefits of not allowing another four years...
Somehow we also need a coordinated effort between conservative candidates such that they do not destroy each other and allow another Rovette to be the candidate.
“Then in the fall a number of conservatives stayed home rather than vote for the lesser of two evils and thus four more years of disaster.”
1. It was such a poorly run messaging campaign, that in *most* states, it didn’t matter who you voted for, Zero won.
2. Republicans in Congress can hardly bring themselves to do combat against Zero’s ideas and plans. They could hardly be expected to do less than go along with RINOmney’s similar plans.
No, Romney deserves the blame. He ran a vicious campaign to smear Conservatism, and then expected Conservatives to be scared by his lefty RINO quislings into voting for him in the general election.
There is no reason for a Conservative to vote for a liberal. Romney is and remains a severe liberal. He personally hired Kevin Madden. FUMR.