Posted on 11/07/2012 3:23:45 AM PST by xzins
I’m stupid. You’re smart. I was wrong. You were right. You’re the best. I’m the worst. You’re very good-looking. I’m not attractive. < /HAPPYGILMORE>
Todd Akin and his ridiculous remark about rape.
That put our side on the defensive with women and we never recovered.
We only lost by a little but we lost big with women.
Good morning, FRiend. I wish you the best.
Wrong. It was the changing demographics of the United States.
Dick Morris just said that he predicted a Romney landslide because he thought the electorate would return to 2004 levels. So did I. It didn’t. This electorate is here to stay, and (for once), Morris is right. Republicans will NEVER win with the electorate as it is. It’s not possible.
Young voters, Hispanic voters, black voters, and single women voters are larger segments of the electorate now, and they all vote against us.
I REFUSE to compromise the basic principles of the party by the amount we would have to so that we can “snare” these voters. We might as well just have the Democrap party, rather than two Democrap parties.
I’ve said already. We are the Copts. A minority living under the tyranny of the majority.
since you weren't part of the solution, you're simply part of the problems..
Romney ran a superb race but he couldn't undo the Soros vote rigging machines and the other fraud....
you can't have your cake and eat it too...either Romney wasn't conservative enough for you or Mia and Allen were too conservative....
figure it out sometime....
Todd Akin was the single biggest factor... after the media of course
His remark was about abortion
and he was right pretty much
The gun-grabbing architect of the blueprint for Obamacare, who lost to the guy who lost to Obama the last time? Are you kidding me?!
I'm sorry, the Republican Party, and this entire country, is hopelessly lost. We're officially at the "brace for impact" stage of things now, and nothing is going to stop it.
The GOP will never win the Hispanic vote...no matter how much Illegal Alien Amnesty you give. McCain did not get even 1/3 rd of the Hispanic vote in 2008, and he authored the Illegal Alien Amnesty bill in 2007
An Illegal Alien’s rights end when his rights violate the rights of those legally here....that is what real inalienable rights are all about
You will not beat the Dems with more Liberalism
Another concern: Voters blame Bush for the economy. Repubs never disavow what he did wrong (push programs like the prescription drug thing) that increased the deficit or the problems that liberals created (affordable housing). Obama supported both of those causes of the problem.z
In short, no Republicans tried to inform the public.
“Young voters, Hispanic voters, black voters, and single women voters “
The Free Sh*t Army
West , Love , Allen, all lost too! This country is done.
Attacking each other isn’t going to help.
I really do think it was voter fraud.
I can see how the morons would vote for O (though don’t agree) but the Senate races? And some House seats?
I agree with you - Romney was a good candidate. The problem is that he didn’t simply run against Obama - he ran against the media. If I learned anything from this election it was to send a check to Free Republic, support Rush Limbaugh, etc. We can’t win elections without first managing to overcome the corrupt media machine.
Now it's time for the GOP-E (and the country) to reap the whirlwind.
At the same time, I see your point. I think conservatives need a wake-up call about what is possible. We need to nominate a straight-up conservative ticket in 2016 and see where that takes us. If we re-run 2008's complete wipeout, it will lead the more intransigent among us to understand that you can't go home again.
Politics is the art of the possible. What is possible in red states is different from what is possible in swing states. If we require multiple shellackings at the polls to accept this basic principle, so be it.
Am I being defeatist? All I can say is that the Founding Fathers understood that democracy is a death spiral. Once the property requirement was removed from the franchise, ambitious politicians began buying indigent votes with other people's money. Reagan's failure to dismantle the Education Department one year into its existence shows that the death spiral doesn't stop even for the nimblest of politicians. Ultimately, we, the people, have pointed a pistol at our collective head. Every program the Dems gin up gets us in deeper. I just want to stand athwart history, yelling stop. Unfortunately, it just keeps hurtling into the abyss.
It sucks, but everything played out the way I thought it would. Run two liberals against each other and the more liberal one will win.
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