Put away the jack daniels, sober up and try again later.
Posted on 11/07/2012 5:56:55 PM PST by Libloather
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 Romney’s 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 didn’t 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.
“If you don’t like Conservatives then you’re free to go back to DU where you belong.”
Oh I belong here more than you do. Those who support traitorous actions, like sulking in the play pen at home rather than vote for a “rino” in a pathetic attempt to have it their way, do more to advance the DU agenda than I do.
If you did go out and vote just say so metmom
oh poor conservatives, Romney “never reached out to me and I was offended and had my poor widdo feewings hurted waaaaaaaaaaah, so I stayed home and sucked on my pacifier so I could teach him a lessen”. Pathetic
We had a real chance to get rid of the communist and it really wouldn’t matter if Bozo the clown was running as long as he wasn’t a communist, but oh Romney wasn’t good enough for your crowd. Pathetic
“Reince” Prebus should be the first to go.
And get someone in there who will fight for VOTING REFORM
I think this election had more vote fraud than any of us imagine. I saw lines with heavy turnout in (R) districts, and yet the (R)’s lost.
The last time the census was taken the results went to the White Hut rather than the commerce department (as it always had)
WE HAVE BEEN HAD!!
And the spineless Republicrats LET IT HAPPEN
It is time for ALL the old-timers to go. They are the LOSING TEAM. McCain, Lindsay Graham, ALL OF THEM have been in office forever and LOOK WHAT WE HAVE
We need a TEA PARTY MARCH ON GOP HEADQUARTERS
well that is a certainty. Sarah Palin should have been a speaker and they could have left Clint out
I agree with parts of your screed. We need to put together our election antifraud unit for next time, starting today. All those machines have hard drives. All the hard drives have electronic footprints. It’s not that mysterious.
You make a good point- ANY post election results should be available to ANY party for forensic examination after the elections
The electronic voting is making me VERY suspicious.
Yeah..well lets start with an empirical analysis of exactly who did and didn't vote for Romney and why.
I'm hearing seniors didn't vote for Romney in the expected numbers and I'm pretty sure it was for reasons other than Romney's establishment credentials.
There's also some evidence in Florida that Cuban Americans didn't vote Republican in the expected numbers either.
Mourdock certainly is a fine man but clearly wasn’t ready for prime time. He ran 10 points behind Romney in our state. As for third party competition, a very widely known Libertarian candidate didn’t keep Mike Pence from winning for governor.
As Dana Loesh said on her show yesterday, how can a candidate for national office not expect those kind of questions from the MSM? He should have been ready to grab that pass and slam dunk it.
All he had to say was “so you’re in favor of keeping convicted murderers alive and killing innocent pre-born children?” And then shut up.
In these Senate races where a mistake haunts us for 6 years, we have to be much more careful vetting candidates. Now we’ve got “Obama Joe” until 2019.
I DID go out and vote, as I do for EVERY election.
So did mr. mm, and our now voting age kids. My son drove in two hours from college to vote because he doesn’t trust the mail in ballots. (course, I don’t trust the electronic voting anyway.)
Chalk up 5 votes from this conservative, Evangelical family.
And I know of others at church who told me they were voting Tuesday and how they were voting, and it weren’t for obama, that’s for sure.
The thing that some people seem to miss in claiming that the Evangelicals stayed home is that Evangelicals as a whole are well aware of what’s at stake. They are very motivated to get out and vote.
FWIW, I think the election was stolen by fraud. I don’t trust the electronic voting machines. Someone has to write the software and there’s no way to verify that the software was written properly or wasn’t messed with.
And if there was the suspicion that the GOP won the election by fraud, the dems would be all over that like white on rice. When it’s the other way, as it has been for the last couple elections, the GOP just rolls over and plays dead instead of manning up and pushing the issue. They play nicey-nice, and let it go. Wusses that they are, they give up and GIVE AWAY the election by their complacency, So I place a large part of the blame on the Republican party for not having the wherewithal to address it.
Traitors......
Obama, convinced voters that Romney was another Bush. Once painted as Bush Romney was bound to lose. Obama ran against Bush in 2008 and won. Obama ran against Bush in 2012 and won. Will Obama run against Bush again in 2016? Bush is the gift that keeps on giving, to democrats that is. The GOP needs to solve its “Bush problem” to win the presidency. On the bright side 2014 should be good to a tea party GOP.
Romney’s closing argument was the fat, sloppy, tongue-deep 90-minute kiss to Obama that was his final debate: “Oh, yes, don’t you worry, I’d follow the same excellent foreign policies that Barack has been overseeing”.
In his second debate, he promised that he’d get comprehensive immigration reform passed in his first year as president.
Through the summer he, for example, refused to rule out the implementation of a VAT tax and he continued to congratulate himself publicly for Romneycare.
If it weren’t for his spirited first debate, his loss would have been as great as McCain’s.
The guy’s a big-government technocrat—I know, I was in the MA GOP at the time he was decimating the party—and really, I’m not sure ultimately if we’d have been better off with him and a go-along Congress or without him and a Congress that at least fiercely fights Obama’s policies.
Fair enough.
That works for me. I have no use for Poppin’ Fresh.
Put away the jack daniels, sober up and try again later.
I wish I were a drinker, I would be smashed. But I am eating chocolate
No, you don't. I voted for your liberal Piece of Mitt against my better instincts after RINO assdrips kept pssing and moaning that Conservatives were too unreasonable in demanding their candidates at least try to be a little Conservative. And like a turd in a toilet, you lousy RINOs are already floating another Bush for 2016.
You just don't get it do you, sparky? You can't run a liberal against a liberal. Keep up your losing streak, loser.
Romney was not my choice., but come on, he ran great campaign. Hindsight is 20/20, let’s face it, America is lost. I heard stupid Hannity saying we need amnesty. Get what you can, while you can, we a goin’ down.
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