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I think we need to do better among all groups:

Hispanics, Jews, Blacks and Muslims.

The Dems are pretty owning all this vote and its cancelling out the white vote.

That’s why Romney lost pretty badly.

Oh, bull. Romney lost because he was a fricken GOP-e LIBERAL!!

Abortion should be safe and legal in America. - Mitt Romney

I’ll be better than Ted Kennedy for gay rights. - Mitt Romney

Ever heard of RomneyCare (precursor to ObamaCare)?

I love mandates. - Mitt Romney

That’s why Romney lost pretty badly.

Wrong!

Is that you Karl Rove?

Same crap he is shoveling.

Romney lost because he did not excite anyone.

Romney lost because he couldn't communicate a conservative vision if his life depended on it because he is nothing better than a light-weight Democrat pretending to be a Republican.

Romney lost because instead of having any solid conservative principles, he is a businessman who ran a campaign based on risk-avoidance.

Romney lost because he lied about being a conservative pro-life Republican during the primaries and then after he had won the primary he came out in support of Abortion in the case of Rape, Incest, Life AND HEALTH of the mother, basically the same crap the left uses to put ok almost all abortions.

Romney lost because he supported Gays in the Military, Gays in the Boy Scouts and Gay Adoption.

50 million available, legal voters did not take part in the election of 2012.

A goodly portion of those voters would have been motivated, much less the base, to vote and Get out the Vote, if they actually had a conservative to vote for.

The base didn’t turn out for Romney. The GOP elite had their perfect pod candidate, and he actually did everything at least pretty well, some things quite well. He wasn’t old like Dole, or grouchy like McCain, he wasn’t a walking malapropism like either Bush. He still lost, mostly because conservatives didn’t turn out for him. He didn’t give them anything to vote FOR. Liberal/Moderate Republicans cannot win unless they masquerade as conservatives (see Bush, and Bush), and I think too many are onto that ruse.

We do need to do better among all groups, and trying to be Dem-Lite won’t be the answer.