Romney taking the primary is obviously a huge disappointment, but Obama’s numbers currently are almost as bad as they were in November of 2010.
On November 1 of 2010 the average price of a gallon of regular was $2.81; the average price is currently $3.87. Over the summer prices are likely to increase further. Obama will continue to lie about why this has happened, but the truth is that his administration has done everything possible to restrict domestic supplies of energy; this along with record breaking deficit spending is destroying the country's economy. Enough people are noticing that the election, despite the lies from the left will most likely swing further back in the right direction.
The Republicans had an historic opportunity that has now been blown... we could have had a true conservative back in the White House along with both the House and the Senate. Instead if we work hard enough over the next few months we will likely have the House and the Senate and the least conservative presidential candidate who was in the primary.
So where did conservatives go wrong this year? We had some good candidates but each had vulnerabilities that our leftist media was able to exploit to take them down one by one. Then there was the nasty infighting between conservative candidates and their followers. What is the real difference between someone who was excited about Rick Perry and someone who was excited about Herman Caine? Not a whole lot; yet on Free Republic and other conservative forums they were at each other’s throats. I am as guilty as many others.
We have almost all violated Ronald Reagan's Eleventh Commandment, “The personal attacks against me during the primary finally became so heavy that the state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican. It's a rule I followed during that campaign and have ever since.”
I firmly believe that Obama is a usurper out to destroy the country. Romney is no conservative. He has been foisted upon us by a leftist media and our own disorganized infighting. Independent thinkers on the right cannot agree on anything much of the time and it makes us vulnerable to this type of thing. It is very unfortunate that this happens so frequently. God Bless both President George W. Bush and President George H. W. Bush; I love them both, but neither of them of them were particularly conservative.
Now Romney is the most likely man to be our next president. The alternative of four more years of Obama is literally too awful to contemplate. Time is running out for our great nation, but if we allow Obama to be reelected he will not only bankrupt the country... he will reshape the makeup of the Supreme Court to the point that we can kiss our second amendment rights goodbye. Our grandchildren will be living in poverty while trying to make reparations for civil war era inequalities. We live in dangerous times.
“Romney has no shot.”
“Romney taking the primary is obviously a huge disappointment, but Obama’s numbers currently are almost as bad as they were in November of 2010.”
This is a key point.
2012 wont reverse 2010, but will be a semi-continuation of it.
We never had a rock-solid credible conservative consensus candidate to be a strong ‘not-Romney’. If you want proof of that, consider that the last men standing - Newt and Santorum - were both in single digits in the summer. We turned to them out of lack of choices.
The real conservative hope - Perry - turned out to be a dud, although I think he was treated overly harshly and might today be a credible candidate despite his early misfires. It was in the end not helpful to have not-ready-forCinC folks like Cain and Bachmann attract energy and attention.
I agree that the negative attacks on others in the GOP are harmful and continue to be harmful. Part of that is vetting but we ovrfocus on the negative.
This is now water under the bridge. Newt will reportedly endorse Romney and that will seal the deal - Romney vs Obama.
The opportunity has not been blown, if we get a conservative Congress in with Romney to send him conservative bills.