I personally don’t know anyone who sat out.
I had severe problems with Romney. However, in the end, I pulled the lever for him. For me, someone who is paying attention, four more years of Obama was too high a cost. However, the majority of those who had problems with Romney’s past, personality, or even his faith, do not look at things as closely and decided that there was not enough difference to make it worth the effort of voting. They believed that four more years of Obama would not be so bad. Besides, they have been inundated with “The economy is getting better, we just need more time.”
I didn’t vote for Mittens whose domestic and foreign policy views where to the LEFT of Obama’s.
I couldn’t vote for someone who wasn’t a conservative. Whether he won or lost didn’t matter much to me - as nothing much would change over the next four years, no matter who won the White House.
Mitt Happens is a genuinely nice guy, but nice doesn’t win elections and he didn’t excite me.
I hated Romney in the primaries, but voted for him with enthusiasm.
Yet I wonder if there weren’t some evangelicals who had little enthusiasm for the choice between the Mormon and the Moron, and stayed home.
I'm starting to wonder if Christ himself came down from Heaven to run for president if they'd stay home because "his hair is too long and he looks like a hippie!".....
The biggest reason for the Romney loss was the game was fixed,remember your dealing with a Chicago hack.
JFK was the first unduly elected Obama was the second.
Dead people do vote.
As to the what went wrong I still don't think any conservative candidate could have won this. At best the perfect candidate would have pulled out a close contested win. There are no more Reagan/Scoop Jackson/Zell Miller Democrats these days. Moonbat liberalism is now the mainstream thanks to the MSM and the dumbing down of America. Used to be stupid people didn't vote. Now they do.
I don’t buy that BS. Conservatives are not stupid people.
I did not vote for Mitttens.
I recall how he systematically destroyed all the viable conservative candidates with lies and slanders -— from Thompson in the first primary to everyone else in the second.
He had paid minions who went forth and slandered good men.
All while smiling like the white washed tomb that he is — clean and white shirt with a rotten, corrupt, heart inside.
The RINO establishment assumed we’d come along because Obama is so bad. Well, they were almost right. I had misgivings.
But it’s time to stop taking half measures. If it takes our country getting destroyed by Obama for actual conservatives to rise from the ashes, then that’s what it has to do.
I think you will see some stories coming out in the next few days with some fishy voting counts.
Obama performed extremely well in some deep red counties in swing states which went for GOP by 3 to 1 in 2010.
Obama lost about 10 million votes. And Republicans did not sit out. Their votes were tallied to Obama. Nothing else explains it.
If they would stop messing around give the people a true conservative, he/she would get elected.
I have no complaint about liberals who voted for either Obama or Romney. That's what they're supposed to do.
As long as someone voted for his favorite candidate, I think he did the right thing.
The rest was in God's hands.
Not all of us live in states where our votes matter ...
I left the Prepublican party in 2007 when I realized the moderates were in control.
I still voted for Romney. Conservatives who didn’t made a mistake, in my opinion. I don’t think we really know yet exactly what happened.
America just asked for four more years of decline and stagnation. I don’t know why we did that.
Romney would have opened up the energy industry, which would lowered oil prices and created a lot of jobs. That’s more important at this time than the social issues. I did notice an attitude from some that the election needed to be about them pesonally rather than the country. Another selfish and silly mistake in my opinion. But what’s done is done.
Now we will decline until we experience a complete financial and social collapse. That will probably take 10-15 years, and younger people are really screwed as they will find it very difficult to acquire wealth.
We older folks who planned will be in much better shape than those under 50. I went mostly Galt in 08 as it was obvious what was coming. I’ll stay that way now.
Americans just voted themselves a long trip down a very hard road.
I left the Prepublican party in 2007 when I realized the moderates were in control.
I still voted for Romney. Conservatives who didn’t made a mistake, in my opinion. I don’t think we really know yet exactly what happened.
America just asked for four more years of decline and stagnation. I don’t know why we did that.
Romney would have opened up the energy industry, which would lowered oil prices and created a lot of jobs. That’s more important at this time than the social issues. I did notice an attitude from some that the election needed to be about them pesonally rather than the country. Another selfish and silly mistake in my opinion. But what’s done is done.
Now we will decline until we experience a complete financial and social collapse. That will probably take 10-15 years, and younger people are really screwed as they will find it very difficult to acquire wealth.
We older folks who planned will be in much better shape than those under 50. I went mostly Galt in 08 as it was obvious what was coming. I’ll stay that way now.
Americans just voted themselves a long trip down a very hard road.
You’re wrong. Everybody’s looking the wrong direction for a scapegoat here. Conservatives voted ... there just aren’t enough of us right now. The problem isn’t Romney, or Johnson, or Christie, or Coulter, or the GOP Establishment, or the Tea Party, or any of that ...
The problem is “the 47%” ... not that Romney made the comments, but that they are largely true. There are a lot of people that want that kind of government. There are a lot of people who live on unemployment, or SS disability, or welfare, or food stamps, or medicaid, or Obamaphones, or Social Security, or whatever. Those numbers are going up, not down, and every last one of them is a built-in Obama voter. They’ll vote themselves a pay raise every time.
You can paint that as a platform problem. Our positions don’t speak well to the dependent. You can paint that as a demographic problem. You can paint it as a messaging problem. Ultimately, it is an intrinsic problem with the electorate — one that is not only bad for the Republican Party, but one that is bad for the country overall ... and not one that is easily overcome.
The takers are starting to outnumber the makers. The tough part is going to be convincing the takers that there is a better way to live before Atlas shrugs. But, it can be done. I was hopeful that 4-years of Obama would shake it up enough to make the point, as 4-years of Carter did before. Apparently, it’ll take at least four more.
We made some headway — Obama lost 10M votes between ‘08 and ‘12. So, there are a lot of people that don’t like Obama’s way. But, the GOP also lost 2M between’08 and ‘12. So, we need to do a better job of convincing people that there is another way ... and we can get it done.
America gets the government it deserves. Maybe by 2016, it’ll deserve better.
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