Posted on 10/14/2014 5:28:25 AM PDT by cotton1706
You remember how you felt a year before the 2012 presidential election, don’t you?
Conservatives were energized and passionately engaged. We were itching to throw President Obama out on his ear, along with Obamacare and all his other wrong ideas and abuses of power.
All the “conventional wisdom” indications were on our side. We had good, principled candidates lined up. We had thousands of cheering fans at our rallies. Obama had dozens at his.
It was a heady, exciting time!
Right up to the point Mitt Romney ran away with the nomination.
It was like we were Charlie Brown, and Lucy’s holding the football, and we’re about to kick a game-winning field goal, and …
And all we got was “I’m not a conservative, but I play one on TV!”
Obama was Jimmy Carter 1980 all over again, and …
How did we lose?!
Maybe a better question is how could we not?
We had a statist pro-abort who authored the model for Obamacare running as a pro-life fiscal conservative who was going to repeal Obamacare.
He couldn’t carry off a speech about how conservative principles were going to rescue this country because he didn’t really believe his own talking points.
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Romney did not want to be President. He still does not want to be President. He covets, however the glorious Nomination. The Gopes see Romney as their bulwark against the Right and all it implies, free markets, less government control, lower taxes, all those things that take away from their wealth opportunities and power.
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