It should have been Santorum. Romney was too much like Obama. Why change?
As far as the GOP-e is concerned, after Dole, McCain, and now Romney, I've come to the conclusion that the GOP-e DOES NOT WANT the Presidency. Having the Presidency makes them accountable for results. They don't really want to be held accountable.
Just having some House and Senate seats allows them to enjoy the perks of being an elected official, without the fuss and drama of actually having to oppose the Dem agenda. People who were paying attention in Madison Wisconsin during Scott Walker's fight with the unions saw how ugly things can get when the Dems are actually opposed.
In 2010, the Dems took a shellacking.
In 2012, the Repubs took a shellacking. They lost several Senate seats that seems winnable. Both of their top-ticket candidates lost their home states in the presidential race.
Perhaps, it was Romney’s big win in the first debate. It seemed he went into coasting mode after it.
Perhaps, it was Christie’s big hug of Obama after Hurricane Sandy.
Perhaps, it was the seeming over confidence of the conservative talkshow hosts [ignore the polls!] and pundits — Barone, Rove, Morris — they were expecting a 300+ EV blowout. Well, there was a blowout, but that 300+ went to Obama. The pundits/talkshow hosts misread something badly.
Perhaps, it was that the worst president since Carter was as ‘worst’ as many of us thought.
Perhaps, it was the anticipation of more free stuff from Obama.
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Pundits, columnists, commentators, talkshow hosts will have months to analyze.
Some already were claiming that the GOP needed to bring in more moderates. Well, other than possibly Huntsman, Romney was the most moderate candidate on the stage during the Republian debates, and he couldn’t bring in enough moderates to eek out a win.
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Frank Luntz claims that the negative ads Obama ran had impact.
[If true, then Romney fell into the same trench McCain did in 2008 — trying to take the high road and ending up taking the road home. Recall all the ‘he looks presidential’ comments after each debate? Well, apparently he didn’t look so presidential to the voters.]
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What went wrong?
This election and its losses are going to take a while to analyze. It does, however, signify that the Grand Old Party, the Republican Party, is in deep trouble — it can’t seem to sell its message. Either the message is wrong or the messengers are.]
So then, who is the right man when you have millions of wrong voters? The problem is so much deeper now because fools have become the majority.
better yet- the GOP the way its made up and run today- is the wrong party...do you realize George Bush received more votes in 2004 than obama did last night....
You’ve been against Romney for quite some time now.
Allen West lost. Mia Love lost. Two conservatives.
I worry that the country is lost, you have people voting yes to legalizing dope. More of the country is now on some kind of assistance, food stamps, welfare, the older people are receiving social security, they fear it will be reduced. Fear works. The media played it well, and with the help of some like you, we have four more years of Obama with his executive orders.
The ultimate plan of the democratic party was to get most of the country on the government dole and then be able to control them for their entire life.
Seems to me, mission accomplished.
I’ve posted this before...but I intend to keep repeating it:
We can blame it on the Establishment, on the nominee, on several things...but the MAIN reason we are in this mess is because of all of our choices.
“Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.” ... Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Until we come to the place of GREAT repentance on the part of the majority of this nation, we will see an increasingly worse scenario. The CHANGE that is really needed is spiritual. History teaches this. The Sacred Scriptures teach this. Why don’t we want to learn?
Yes. Romney listened to his GOP handlers and continued with the wimpy responses to the Obama campaign attacks.
Boehner said this morning that the House will need to reach across the isle now.
Republican “talking heads” are already spewing the garbage that Romney lost because he was too far right. Look for a repeat liberal in 2016. The G.O.P.e. never learns.
Not really looking to play shoulda, woulda, coukda here but I will anyway.
If Rep and Conservatives across the board had followed the Reagan doctrine of speaking no ill towards our Party and would have backed the Party’s chosen candidate after the primaries there is no doubt in my mind the outcome would have been different.
To believe LESS people turned out this cycle vs 2008 still stuns me given all we now know about this president. So to all of you “purists” who simply couldn’t bring yourselves to vote for a man who by your non action as much as said he is actually WORSE than the disaster currently in the WH, you will assume the full responsibility for what if anything of a calamitous nature awaits us down the road.
Frankly I am both nauseated and totally repelled by your selfish actions
I honestly don’t see how anyone who ran could have done better. Gingrich? Santorum? Cain? They would have been destroyed. None have national organizations. Perhaps Perry (who was my first choice) but he proved incompetent on the national stage. Romney had the money and the organization and by the end, had a good message that I could live with. From October onward I thought he was a good candidate and deserved to win. But as others pointed out, we can’t win with 90% of blacks and 75% of Latinos voting against us. If we had this demographic, Ronald Reagan would not have won (and if we had the 1980 demographic, Romney would have won easily).
Mittens supported amnesty for illegal aliens. No - I can’t support breaking the law just to pander for votes. That is the wrong thing to do. I won’t trade America’s identity for future votes for this or that voting bloc.
As for ObamaCare, in the debate on domestic policy, Mittens defended what he did in Massachusetts. He also touted by bipartisanship and reaching across the aisle. He lost because he was never a conservative. I could never vote for a liberal candidate no matter what party labels he wears. And I felt that four years of the same Obama policies under a Republican President was too much like what we has under Bush. Thanks but no thanks.
With Obama being terrible and having let this country into a mess - he could have been beaten! The fact he won says that this country has changed and not for the better.
You all are totally missing the big picture. The Dems set this whole scenario up back in the 60s. Control the big cities and you will control the national election. Until the Repubs retake control of the big cities, especially now 47% are on the tit, you will be wasting you time and money.
and Paul Ryan is no longer in Congress...
Some good insight. Thank.
The current level of vote fraud is now the permanent minimum.
I see a train wreck of politics and finance.
Even the lying squaw Elizabeth Warren won in massachushit.
Would it have been the conservative Jesus?
Or perhaps the liberal Jesus?
Dr. X, thanks for the post. I agree that Romney dropped the ball and could have run a more effective campaign. But in the end I’m not sure it would make a bit of difference.
America has chosen the government it wants and God will give America the government it deserves.
I have come to the sad realization that America is no longer a Christian Nation. We say we believe in God, but in reality Americans worship their Federal handouts and government programs and rely upon the government more than they rely upon God. We have reached the point where the populace has discovered that they can vote themselves money from the public treasury. The takers now exceed the producers. The Republic can no longer survive.
I don’t see this turning around without a complete collapse of the American economic system. As long as there are hard working American people paying their taxes there will be lazy, indolent people who covet the fruits of other people’s labor and who are more than willing to use the power of the government to steal those fruits and distribute them to themselves.
That is where we are.
As a nation we have become a majority of covetous tax thieves seeking to take the money from those who earn it and give it to themselves.
America’s sin is greed. But it is not the greed of those who work hard to produce the goods and services that drove this nation to the pinnacle of ecomonic freedom and success, but the greed of those who would use the power of the government to take the fruits of that initiative and labor.
The democrats have purchased their power using the money they have confiscated from the taxpayers and by borrowing against the next generation and the generation after that.
We are now at the point where the majority of the nation is receiving some kind of benefit from the public largesse and they are loathe to vote in anyone who might threaten the bounty they have received from their democrat benefactors.
I don’t blame Romney.
I don’t blame Akin.
I don’t blame Mourdoch.
I don’t blame Karl Rove.
I blame the American people. Shame on them.
Except they repent of their sins, this nation is doomed to collapse.
Our only hope is to turn to God, like the people of Nineveh. Repent, pray, fast... the whole sackcloth and ashes thing. I’m not sure I believe that will happen without some kind of really bad situation occurring that brings the whole nation to its knees.
This election was about our spiritual values. America has shown that it no longer has any.
I don’t have any other answers.
America has voted.
They have chosen their American Idol.
Now they have to live with him.