Posted on 11/07/2012 4:46:49 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Conservatives lambast Romney, vow to take over Republican Party By Erik Wasson - 11/07/12 02:43 PM ET
Conservative leaders on Wednesday lashed out at Mitt Romney, saying his attempts to paint himself as a centrist and hide his principles cost him the presidency.
They vowed to wage a war to put the Tea Party in charge of the Republican Party by the time it nominates its next presidential candidate.
The battle to take over the Republican Party begins today and the failed Republican leadership should resign, said Richard Viguerie, a top activist and chairman of ConservativeHQ.com.
He said the lesson on Romneys loss to President Obama on Tuesday is that the GOP must never again nominate a a big government established conservative for president.
Jenny Beth Martin of Tea Party Patriots said Romney failed to make the kind of strong case for conservatism that would have won the election.
She described Romney as a weak, moderate candidate hand-picked by the country club elite Republican establishment.
They didnt see a clear distinction so they went with what they know, she said of voters.
It should have been a landslide if Romney had run as a true conservative, said Brent Bozell of the Media Research Center.
Romney took all the right stances, no question. The problem was not communicating them on the national stage with President Obama, said Marjorie Dannenfelser, the head of the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List.
Martin argued that there was no repudiation of the Tea Party by the electorate because Tea Party values were not firmly articulated.
This is not the death of the Tea Party, Martin said.
Tea Partiers will take over the Republican party in the next four years, Viguerie said.
In the meantime, conservatives will work to ensure that congressional Republicans do not compromise their principles in fiscal talks with Obama, he said.
Conservatives and Tea Partiers are just sick and tired of Republican leaders compromising on the state and national level with Democrats that grow the size of government, Viguerie said. We are going to hold their feet to the fire.
Bozell said conservative groups need to up their financial pressure on GOP lawmakers unless they agree to a series of demands, including again vowing to approve of no tax increases for anyone.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
Excellent post!
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.
danke :-)
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