I hate to sound overly bitter but this is just laughable: Hey, maybe we need, like, a stronger candidate next time. Ya think? Let's review:
Weak
Romney's biggest weakness
Romney's the one because, um . . .
"Not worth getting angry about"?!
Is it wrong to be angry about Obamacare?
Summing up a Romney candidacy
The people with the money backed Romney from the start and foisted him on us as "inevitable" and as the "most electable" candidate. His weaknesses and lack of conservative core values were glossed over. Pundits from both sides trashed all the other candidates, whom they belittled and dismissed as a bunch of bungling idiot/extremists who couldn't possibly beat Obama. We'll never know whether any of them could have done so (and I tend to think not, the tipping point having been reached) but it might have been instructive for the electorate to hear some arguments for limited government (remember that?) and see some real anger about Obamacare, now virtually set in stone. But a real conservative might have frightened those skittish PC soccer moms and single ladies. So primary voters cravenly swallowed the "electable" line and dutifully nominated the RINO.
And all the worst predictions came true. Romney lost big. Analysts are still sifting through the rubble, looking for the missing votes that might have put Mitt over the top. If it does turn out that Republican voters stayed home because they weren't enthusiastic about Romney, well, that's not exactly a surprise, right?
And back to the top, from what enchanted realm will spring that magical candidate who will save us in 2016? He (or she) can't be, what's the word -- severely conservative because that will scare too many people off. And he can't be too much of a RINO because that will turn off the base. So that's going to be tricky. We do know for sure, though, that he or she will have to be cool because we're so past electing a boring Father-Knows-Best type of guy, even if he does know best, or at least better.
Meanwhile, as America goes into the darkness, Congress prepares to raise the debt ceiling again and our vice president does a guest spot on a sitcom. FORWARD!
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Update:
You were warned: Obama's layoff bomb goes BOOM!
Layoff bomb detonates; Large corporations join small businesses in announcing mass cuts
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November 9, 2012
Not so electable after all
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Hearing the arguments would have been nice. Even at that one moment when Bob Schieffer gave Romney a fat one down the middle about Benghazi. Why the allergy to *making the case*?
ReplyDeleteForgive me for posting this link here -- I just want you to see it: http://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/otn.cfm?id=947
Ways to make the arguments and fix the culture. Or at least start.
Great post. I was for Newt before I was for Mittens - and must now continue to live in the Empty Suit's dreary Ameritopia because the Establishment GOP couldn't pull its head out of you know where in time, and see we need to nominate unapologetic and articulate bare-knuckle conservatives to combat the progressive mob.
ReplyDelete"...the Empty Suit's dreary Ameritopia" What an apt description! Thank you for putting a (very slight) grin on my face - the first since the debacle.
DeleteThe numbers don't back up this claim. First, Romney certainly wasn't painted as moderate in the media. Secondly, more people showed up at the polls for the McCain then for Romney. The right (or most of it anyway) loved Ryan so it can't be that Palin factor helped McCain more.
ReplyDeleteThe sad truth, people on the right sat on their butts and couldn't be bothered to vote. Some congressional districts in Va tell the story. The conservative candidates won re-election easily, and Romney lost them. I find it hard to believe that an Obama voter would vote for these people, as they are conservative. Which means only one thing, some of those people didn't bother to check a box for president.
Hi, Jacg. I agree with you on the numbers. I can't agree with your conclusion about conservative VA voters, though. What Conservative would get to the polls and then deliberately not vote against Obamacare, against a return to the Clinton tax rates, against a likely repeat of the fecklessness that was the Benghazi scandal? It defies reason.
DeleteAnd I've read that the Evangelicals Bush missed in 2000 but got in 2004 turned out for the Mormon this time, so it wasn't that.
I was an Anybody-But-Romney, too - first I wanted Bachmann, then Santorum, and I'd still have preferred Cain and Perry. But Romney was good on the trail, I really started to like him, and I think he'd have made an excellent prez.
I think it's the hatred. It's intensified in the last four years, maybe because of the Internet and Twitter. Wish publicly for Dick Cheney's death, and you get immediate positive feedback. You all know the danger to your car's paintjob if to stick Romney's name to your bumper. Yard signs, you know the drill.
Polling places used to be thought of as little temples to civic duty, now the media shows us images of rudeness and strife there.
I think it's detached some of our less fervid partisans. "Politics, what a mess! I'll just tell people I don't vote, and nobody will bother me or call me racist."
What turnout we have is very committed, though - the Tea Party lives. (Those Romney/Ryan rallies were huge!) We'll make gains in 2014 again. Presidential elections bring out the whole Dem base, though, and now it's bigger than ours.
No candidate running this year would have won Jill. Romney did as well as a white candidate can do in today's America. The country is changing. The old people are dying off, no more "Reagan democrats" to steal.
ReplyDeleteThe people are uneducated in what it takes for a nation to survive including what a good citizen is asked to do. That is intentional.
read the comments on the exit polls about how forgiving voters were for Obama's behavior and performance. You want to complain, complain that Romney's "he's a good guy but over his head" gave people an excuse to give Obama another chance, just like we do in our daily lives. It is human nature.
But don't complain outside that. millions stayed on regardless of computers or campaigns. They just didn't care enough.
I've blogged about this a lot and will do more in the future.
But the bottom line is this. The America we knew is dying. If the Republicans want to regain power they'll have to change. No more Romneys, no more Boehners, no more Mitch McConnells. What will happen is the Republicans will need to embrace the Hispanics before the Dems do and give them major leadership roles in the new party.
Young conservatives like Ryan will find many people like Rubio and Martinez who do not like big government. Immigrants will get that. Now you'll have the dole lovers in the Hispanic community just like in the black. BUT the percentages and the generational rot is not there yet.
It's over. White people vote their unions, their wallets, their PC far too much to offset the other micro-demographics the dems have been able to isolate and recruit.
http://truthandcommonsense.com/2012/11/08/part-1-what-happened/
They will continue to be able to do this for years. Good for them on the effort. We don't get out early voters like they do or have their ground game. Of course, we can't depend on unions and other organizations to do the heavy lifting.
So, what now? Well, two things. I think we let them have their way. The Obama experiment- high energy costs, Obamacare etc, will bankrupt the economy. People will get laid off, people will lose money. People will get angry. We need to keep enough space between us and Obama to be able to point at the Left and say, "they did it and we tried to tell you. So are you ready for adults to fix it?"
Then recruit Hispanics until the cows come home, take care of border issues, solve the immigration problem with amnesty and CLAIM it as ours. Don't let the Left co-op the issue or the MSM to lie about it.
Rubio takes lead, becomes the face of it. That way nobody can claim it later.
Thanks for the linky love.
ReplyDeleteWhat Mark Levin said on his Wednesday show should be contemplated by every conservative:
We may have to think about this...
Why is it that the left are the only people in this country who can resist, who can obstruct, who can sabotage?
I say we resist and where we can obstruct and where we can sabotage tyranny.
What do you say?
http://www.therightscoop.com/mark-levin-maybe-its-time-we-should-be-a-little-more-scoundrel-just-like-the-left/
Sadly, archer52 is right. No matter who was the nominee, the result would have been the same.
ReplyDeletePerry was my 1st choice, but he didn't bring his "A" game. And if he had? He'd have been painted as a white, out-of-touch, racist, war-monger, oil-company-buddy, etc., etc. - not to mention that he's the gov. of TX, just like you-know-who. Santorum? A religious extremist, they'd say. Romney is mature, articulate, successful, knowledgeable, experienced, hardworking, classy, generous, humble -- everything Obama isn't -- and ran on a message of American Greatness and Individual Responsibility. Yet more than half of the voters rejected him and his message. They neither value nor esteem Romney's virtues or the values that he promoted. Instead they chose promises of free stuff, a message of class warfare and envy, and "Eye Candy."
Romney was drawing crowds of 30k -- what more could he have done? (BTW, did Catholics embrace Ryan or stick with Obama?) Even Allen West is probably going to lose, and Michele Bachmann barely hung on. "We" have to face the hard truth that more than half the people who voted are either ignorant/uniformed (The bad economy? "Bush's fault." Benghazi? "Who's he?") or actually prefer to be coddled/taken care of, than be free.
And, in light of the "scandal" involving Petraeus(no wonder he played along on Benghazi) it's further evidence that the rot is utter and complete -- it's "me first" at every turn.
I have 3 young children, and my heart aches when I think of what their future might be. I feel as if I have let them down. Our formerly purple state is now solid blue. We're considering moving, but it's anybody' guess how long the remaining Red States will remain so.
--Meem