No Regrets, No Apologies

Stop the circular firing squad. I’m here to tell you it is not only crazy, it is counterproductive.

No, Mitt was not the man we wanted. Yes, he was shoved on us by the establishment. But he was the best candidate we could have this year, and he campaigned well. He campaigned like he wanted it. Unlike McCain, he deserves our thanks, and a place as speaker at future conventions.

And all of my libertarian friends who think the problem is that Romney didn’t say he was okay with contraception and abortion — since when was contraception and abortion part of the campaign? The Republicans campaigned on the economy. Contraception and abortion were the media’s theme, introduced in the Republican primary. It was never in doubt that it wouldn’t be outlawed — a president can’t do that.

And yet even our side thinks that’s what it was about, and tears into each other over it...

“Unlike McCain, he deserves our thanks, and a place as speaker at future conventions.”

I don’t think so. It appears he got fewer votes than Mr. McCain, even while there were 10 million additional votes not going for the Kenyan of which he could have picked up a few.

You must have the same crystal ball as I do.

I am certain what you described will happen.

There will be reasoning and loud calls to “save the core foundation of our country, the vanguards of the 1st ammendment!”

Gag me.

I want to believe that the meida was the problem, but Obambi got 10 MILLION few votes and Mitt did not do as well as McLame...geez. What happened to the TEA Party volunteers and the army? The people that turned out for Scott Walker stayed home, the folks that liked Kasich LOVED the pres - go figure AND one report said "40% of Cubans voted for Obama" - huh? The theories will be all over the map for weeks.

Mitt ran the race as a CEO, with no understanding of mycomments/ message above. He never had an elevator speech (30 sec to 1 minute) on any issue that was important to "working class" - the majority of voters. (his message never said, "I helped create companies like Staples they built 90,000 jobs. Domino's has even more workers.)

Mitt and anyone who ever entered politics KNEW that Bill Clinton destroyed Dole IN THE SUMMER, but they let the Bain stories run without push back.

Mitt was the best we could put up because the young guns would have gotten killed and the old guys - newt or Rick had no record anyone who is not a partisan would like. /rant off

I’ve been saying we need to stop feeding the beast and boycott companies who advertise on the networks. But that won’t help. I doubt very seriously that msnbc gets enough viewers to demand top ad rates but they’re still on. So maybe they can demand top ad rates and get them.

So even if a huge boycott was to take effect, I doubt it would be effective. The corporations would keep paying them. That means we’re screwed.

Yes. I noticed that many “real” conservatives urged Todd Akin to remain in the MO race and claimed if we (and the GOP) didn’t support him it would be our fault that he didn’t win.

Yet, many were too “perfectly” conservative to support Romney even though he was the only viable GOP candidate.

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