If we went with Gingrich, Perry or Santorum we’d be losing by as much if not more. Gingrich was disgraced when he retired in 1998. He had a 20% approval rating. Gingrich would satisfy the conservative base and that’s it. He’d lose independents by 25 points. Perry is a moron and Santorum lost his senate seat by a wider margin than any incumbent in modern history. Those were our choices. There were no others.
Any half decent GOP candidate should be able to beat Obama this year. Jim Gerarity at NRO wrote this morning that conservatives tend to blame the candidate or the campaign. But Gerarity’s point is the public has a clear choice. Conservatives point out how the culture the schools and media are leftist then wonder why the public favors democrats. Gerarity says we may have to face the fact the voters are increasingly liberal. That shouldn’t mean the GOP becomes liberal. It means we need leadership to move the country to the right.
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MittenMan is not losing. These polls are lying through their teeth. There is no way Mittens can be winning independents by 14 and still be losing by 6 (CNN poll). NOT POSSIBLE.
A ham sandwich should be able to beat OMarxist but with the schools, media, welfare recipients and those on government payroll are the only things making this close.
Utter bullcrap.
Gingrich wasn’t “disgraced.” You’re a Romneybot repeating his lies from the primary. People were surprised he resigned because there was nothing forcing him to. He in effect fell on his own sword because of the big target he had become of the media and the left, the same reason Palin resigned. Arguably the party had a better chance to get its work done with someone else in his role due to the media having done their best to make Gingrich and Palin into distractions and nitpick their every word to death. But approval ratings from the past are meaningless in the present day. You can look at how Hillary Clinton’s and G.W. Bush’s have steadily gone up from some dismal low points in the past as proof of that.
Exactly as it should be. If a party and/or candidate cannot convincingly make their case to the electorate -- particularly after six full years of campaigning, in Mittens' increasingly limp case -- then the fault for that absolutely lies with them, and them alone.
Period. End of sentence. End of paragraph.