First and foremost, it was the 12 million or so primary voters who gave the nomination to Romney. He was near bottom of my preference list. Cain, Perry & Newt were at top of my list.
Second, those who claim it was GOPe who pushed Romney down our throats, the truth is in spite of all the claimed help from GOPe, Romney never broke the 30% barrier until his nomination became inevitable. That is clear proof one on one any conservative would have defeated Romney nomination.
The problem with Romney abstainers is they are not honest about why Romney got the nod. The real reason he won nomination is because the more conservative candidates formed a circular firing squad and destroyed each other. Whereas the moderates displayed unity by staying out of Romney’s way, the conservatives let their ego’s get in the way and refused to drop out. One on one, Newt or Santorum or even Cain defeats Romney.
But of course I am holier than thou conservative abstainers have never commented on the circular firing squad aspect.
Now look at Romney versus Obama.
Obamacare, tax reform, regulations on private enterprise reform, Keystone, fracking, SCOTUS appointments....on and on.....if you can’t see the difference, you deserve to be financial failures in life. Have fun with deteriorating conditions all around for 4 more years.
If I remember correctly, Newt was on my ballot. I voted for him in the Primary.
I did not take part in the Conservative firing squad. I DO remember getting my a$$ kicked though all 3 Conservative primaries.
The 1st I could not get over, when Sarah made her announcement on the Mark Levin show she was not running.
It took me a while to recover. I had ALL my eggs in her basket. I know a lot of people were ticked off at her because of that, but the one thing I remember, SPEAKING ONLY OF MYSELF, is that I did not listen to her.
She kept on telling us she was praying for guidance; therefore, could not say yes or no. What happened between her and God Almighty is between them.
I have learned NOT to question His judgement.
Sometimes, we ALL need a smack down. Our country as a whole is no different.
We have allowed God to be removed from every aspect of society (in which our country was built upon) and are ridiculed when we speak His name.
It is time for us to stand proud, not be so polite, speak your facts and argue with those based purely on emotion. DEMAND they provide facts to back up their assertions.
See how quickly that conversation ends.
That's not too many.
We had 13 others ~ some of whom had actually been Democrat candidates, or campaign workers, or candidates for OTHER parties.
In effect, the 12 non-lifelong Conservative republicans were always out there picking up their 1% or 2% totals and making Mitt's 20% readings look good!
Without those 11, Mitt would have been scoring in the low to mid teens in the primaries.
When he ran in Virginia ~ after his boy Bolling had manipulated things so that he faced only Ron Paul, he did get something like 60%, but it was of a record low turnout barely 20% of a normal Republican presidential primary ~ or, 12%!!!!!!
We must make sure the RNC accepts candidate declarations with an eye to the integrity of the party credentials brought by the candidates.