From the beginning of the 2012 primaries there was a loud cry from folks like me. We told all who would listen that we would not vote for a northeast progressive. Many news articles appeared in old and new media warning that conservatives would not vote for the Damn Yankee.
Republican primary voters in blue states, often with democrat votes in open primaries, picked our designated loser. As predicted, Romney lost. Y'all were warned. We cannot beat progressives by voting for progressives.
And amazingly the Romney acolytes blame conservative voters for the loss, not the candidate or the party establishment.
“Republican primary voters in blue states, often with democrat votes in open primaries, picked our designated loser. As predicted, Romney lost. Y’all were warned. We cannot beat progressives by voting for progressives.”
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And believe it or not, voters (or non-voters, as it were) like you played right into the hands of progressives. You act as if nominees like McCain or Romney were sad that they lost. They were very happy to be losers to serve their masters. True, they are part of the Uniparty Ruling Elite, but at least if McCain was elected, we would have had Palin in position. Now she’s a writer. And we will have eight years of Obama’s destruction, plus his ultra-radical court appointments for decades to come.
Had McCain or Romney been elected, at least we could have incrementally moved the football toward our own goal. Now the wrong team is first and goal, and the clock is starting to run out.
All because a few hundred thousand “conservatives” were too ideologically “pure” to vote for a centrist candidate.