Mitt didn’t have a chance. Here’s what’s really happening.
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, followed always by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.”
~ Alexander Fraser Tytler, Scottish-born British lawyer and writer, 1747 - 1813.
The Tea Party was a great thing but it didn't translate into anything effective enough to overturn squat.
The Tea Party was a great thing but it didn't translate into anything effective enough to overturn squat.
Excellent article.
Pretended virtue lost to authentic vice.
I don’t think people looked at Obama and Romney and said “Romney is too liberal, I will vote for Obama instead”.
Romney beat two Tea Party candidates last night, in Red states, by 10 points and 15 points last night.
Which essentially destroys the whole argument in this article.
Here is why Mitt lost.... this is a stunning revelation, so please sit down......... He lost because he received less votes than Obama.... Stunning, I know.
I agree with so much of this article. The Tea Party was thrown under the bus, shut out and ignored - at the peril of the RINOs. They also could have embraced some of the Ron Paul support, but didn’t. His supporters were shut out as well.
Oh well, 4 more years of misery, and being lectured to by a dictator and his dictator wife. What a pretty thought.
I disagree with this one simply because he does not allow for the fact that we have a large population of black people who voted for Obama because he has black blood. And we have a large population of illegal immigrants that voted for Obama because he promises the Dream Act is the fast-track to citizenship.
You dummies just don't get it, Conservatism lost big, Look at all the Senators that lost.
If Romney ran as a real Rino, he would have won. But his hard stand on immigrates, planned parenthood lost him the election.
The kids on under 40 are libs forever and Godless.
Smell the roses, conservatism is over in America,
In a few years We all we be Californians.
Even gay marriage won last night.
Turn off the lights the party is over!
At this point, only three opportunities remain for Republicans and conservatives.
1) For the Republican house to close ranks and not permit any more insanity from the Democrats. This may precipitate a recession by refusing to pass any more continuing resolutions to keep the inessential parts of the government functioning.
Obama and his bureaucracy can only run wild if they have the funds to do so. It is better that the government shut down than that they be allowed to do so.
2) Republicans should put their efforts into the mid-term elections right now, with their emphasis on capturing the senate, which will reduce Obama’s second term to two years instead of four.
3) Tea Party conservatives must put their foot down to the Republican leadership. Three times now, the leadership has foisted worthless presidential candidates on the party: Bob Dole, John McCain, and Mitt Romney. Never again.
In doing so, they have failed the party, but more so, they have failed the United States. Thus they have lost legitimacy as the leaders of the Republican party.
Republican and Democratic Parties have succumb to destroying the colonial U.S. and the traditions that made this nation great...I’m glad I grew up during Reagan - so I know what it is like to be part of a once powerful country...now. like the Romans...I get to watch as the Empire falls to the savages...
Zombieland - here I come!!!
I don’t disagree, I think we all have evaluted “the Buckley rule” in our own way and made a determination as to whether or not Romney was the “most conservative candidate who could win”.
Obviously, being more conservative doesn’t do anything unless the candidate can get elected. Sarah Palin realized early-on that her belief were too conservative for her to win, and she wasn’t about to compromise her beliefs. Gingrich and Santorum could not win. So here we are.
The electorate has changed, in part because of the economic collapse that has left many who would prefer otherwise with no choice but the government.
Whether we are at a tipping point or whether we will see another four years much like the last is beyond human ability to predict. But it is incorrect to blame conservatism because conservatism was not running in this election.
Now it’s time to get behind Sarah. Mitt declared so early, then a mess of people joined in, to boot. It was a messy primary.
Romney should have spoken up in support for Mourdock and Akin, told the public that we are all free to hold differing opinions, but those opinions don’t necessarily carry over into law. Instead, they disenfranchised them. It gave many a reason to pass, who might’ve supported them, otherwise. That probably hurt Romney, as well. Sent a message that real conservatives would not be welcome at the table.
I think the republican party shot itself in the foot. By not getting behind true conservatives, it left the door open for its demise. It’s time to start a real conservative party...call it the Tea Party or the Reagan Conservatives (would probably pick off conservative democrats this way). We need to start right now.
RACE TO THE BOTTOM; FEWER VOTES IN 2012 THAN 2008; FEWER VOTES IN 2012 THAN 2004 ~
Fortunately we still hold the House and something like 3/4 of the State legislatures. And those facts will become far more important as the Obama downward spiral continues on toward next summer.
With power production down so low the big cities can no longer allow air conditioning, you will see considerable unrest. The Democrats and their hordes will begin to kill each other and Obama and his crowd will be as powerless in the face of such events as they've proven to be in Libya. He'll let his own peeps die meaninglessly in the streets.
I’m exhibit #1 - a conservative who didn’t vote this year. I felt that no matter who won, things wouldn’t really change at all over the next four years. And they won’t.
It’s the free stuff, stupid.
The best analysis I’ve read yet.
It echoes what I’ve been saying for years.
We need to learn the Art of Political War, as explained in David Horowitz’s book of that title.
We need to stop trying to get along. WE need to get in THEIR faces.
And we need to attack with the full arsenal of conservative principles.
That includes SOCIAL ISSUES.
The left has been welding the social/cultural issues to political and economic issues since the 1960s, through regulation, legislation, and funding.
If we give up the social issues or try to appeal to the left on the social/cultural issues, we unwittingly give up the entire argument.
Morons like akin and mourdock need to be kept far away from politics. Scaring away mushy voters and women is not a winning strategy.
In fact, eliminate all gonadal politics and focus on what can be done to improve the lives of those that vote and are willing to earn the money they receive.
Very few people desire a politician that meddles in their personal decisions.
Rove was given way too much of a free hand. Romney should’ve kept him at bay. Even many republicans are sick of him. I think many just sat it out. The problem with voting for a 3rd party candidate who declares after the republican primary is that it is WAY TOO LATE to garner enough support to do more then spoil the election. Besides, Gary Johnson was NO CONSERVATIVE, either. Both Ron Paul (had he ran a 3rd party) and Gary Johnson had very non-conservative views. I could not support either one. Talk is cheap, but actions are telling.
We need to begin a real 3rd party right now, call it the Tea Party or Reagan Conservatives, the Constitution Party, the Founder’s Party...whatever. But start it now so that people are already seeing it as a viable alternative.