There are a lot of variables to the “Conservatives stayed home” argument beyond dissatisfaction with Romney.
A big one is that Romney’s GOTV vundar system, called Orca, collapsed on election day, and without any sort of backup plan robbed him of the turnout margin he needed to win.
So it’s really hard to lay blame for Romney’s defeat at the hands of dissatisfied Conservatives. At least alone.
So it’s really hard to lay blame for Romney’s defeat at the hands of dissatisfied Conservatives. At least alone.”
Agreed. On the night before the election, Romney had a tremendous crowd show up at some odd hour, IIRC, and he was overwhelmed with the turnout, where zippy was having peeps bussed in, paid to show up in union thug shirts, free cig’s etc. The fraud here in WI (OMG - everyone says no fraud - my fanny.... grrr) and the dead peeps voting, etc. did cost Romney. Yes — multiple reasons.
Also, keep in mind all “obamaphones have text messaging” and I saw a detailed Bret Baier report on how the Dems used texting statements to the low-fo-voters saying things like “you wouldn’t want your neighbors to find out you didn’t vote for Obama, now would you?” Geeeeeeeeeesh.