Conservatives lambast Romney, vow to take over Republican Party

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[D-fendr]

It will be difficult to institutionalize the tea party movement; an oxymoron even.

TP was successful because it was a massive truly grassroots uprising. Its strength came in large measure because it focused on one issue only: taxing to spend on big government.

It didn’t matter where you were on other issues, only that you agreed on the one big one. It had no leaders and needed none.

Now, imagine that in a party caucus. Imagine what happens when social issues are addressed and religious issues and foreign policy and defense issues.

[Cuttnhorse]

I have said several times that, if Romney lost against the worst president in my lifetime, the GOP would split.

Yours is my take as well...I said that if the GOP cannot beat the worst president in history, an utter failure, why would any GOP candidate win? Obama is the most corrupt, lying, incompetent piece of crap in history and quite frankly Romney was a much better candidate than I thought he would be. If the GOP wasn't able to pull this one off, as a political party the GOP is dead.

I intend to register as an independent next week...I will never support the "party" again...it is a losing effort.

[ThermoNuclearWarrior]

A lot of Conservatives didn't want Romney or Obama, and want to begin a decisive revolutionary sized movement to save this nation or lose it instead of just changing the speed we travel in the wrong direction. Romney would have just bought a little time, and might have stopped the rise in support we have needed to attempt to salvage what we can that this nation was built on. Obama just stepped it up to a new level, and that's finally woke up those in the dark. It's time for us to save this nation, or let it be destroyed, because anything else is just temporary. It's time to bring this to a conclusion one way or another.

[Boogieman]

“It is our own parties fault that he lost, republicans did not show up and vote, period”

Well, you nominate a moderate candidate, and they cannot generate enthusiasm. It has always been that way, and it will always be that way. The American electorate is not Goldilocks, they don’t get excited over lukewarm porridge.

[Boogieman]

Yes, you can blame the media, but that is pointless. Any candidate we could nominate has to get around the media to win. So, any candidate who can’t do that is not a good candidate for us to run, since they can’t do the bare minimum it would take to win.

[ansel12]

The tea party is mostly made up of social conservatives, the “religious right” voters, who are also economic conservatives, so there aren’t as many groups as you think.

Basically there are actual conservatives, who are social, economic, and defense conservatives, and then the social liberals, who are democrats that like the economics of conservatives.

Basically two groups, the Reagan wing versus the Romney/Rove wing.

[Boogieman]

Well, there’s one thing to take away from this debacle for us Christians, end times or no. When everything you have been putting your hope in fails you, then maybe it’s God’s way of telling you that you should just be putting your hope in Him. He’s been saying that all along, but sometimes we can lose sight of that.

[stilloftyhenight]

Excellent post!

[Trod Upon]

Interesting perspective, and you are certainly correct re: 64 and 74. I guess I’m just, to put it mildly, less than sanguine about the future implications of the demographic and cultural changes we are beset with. I fear we are well down Hayek’s road, driven along by masses who are not only incapable of seeing where it leads, but utterly uninterested as long as the right inducements are offered. But then I have a knack for seeing the underbelly, so maybe there’s some hope.

[lonevoice]

danke :-)