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Topic: Why the Republicans Lost |
Why the Republicans Lost
The Aspen Times, by Charlie Leonard
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Posted By:Aspenhuskerette, 11/15/2012 9:29:14 AM
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| Let´s get a few things straight right up front: Republicans lost the presidential campaign in part because their nominee did not have the resources to respond to several hundreds of millions of dollars of attack ads launched by the president in May, June and July. They also lost it because they had an inferior get-out-the vote operation in comparison with the president´s. And yes, they also because they alienated several large blocks of voters, including blacks, Latinos, gays and women voters who focused primarily on reproductive rights. Those are the cold, hard facts. I´m a lifelong Republican, but I´ve never
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
bpl40, 11/15/2012 9:35:49 AM (No. 9015793)
This is typical RINO clap trap. He (I believe deliberately) fails to mention THE reason. Two year long willful alienation of conservative grass roots. As for the attack ads, Romney outscored many losing Senate candidates. Were they also victims of slander?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
lazyman, 11/15/2012 9:41:24 AM (No. 9015805)
They lost because they refuse to take Alinski´s rules out of the library.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DARling, 11/15/2012 9:43:03 AM (No. 9015812)
It makes perfect sense to me. We change our values, encourage illegal immigration by legalizing those already here, and go along with higher taxes and we´ll be a better party whom voters will run to.
If we do all of those things, we´ll be democrats. Why should anyone vote for a republican when the demcrats do all of that stuff better?
If we lose who we are, we deserve to fade away.
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TheMotherCO, 11/15/2012 9:43:19 AM (No. 9015815)
What a twit - I will add Aspen to Denver and Boulder as liberal and stupid. I had tons of mail from the Pubbies and phone calls. Had some nice chats. It also gets tiresome after awhile. charlie did say he voted Republican, there is hope for him.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
BcdErick, 11/15/2012 9:47:19 AM (No. 9015826)
Nope. Nice try though. Romney did, indeed, have a crappy get out the vote operation. The rest of this scribblers´ "cold hard facts" are tired, lame RINO opinions.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
drive, 11/15/2012 9:48:32 AM (No. 9015830)
Alicia made a better case in her column today
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Illinois Resident, 11/15/2012 10:01:23 AM (No. 9015847)
The writer forgot to include that Obama is a community organizer and that the Chicago-way is they pay people off; it is called "pay-to-play".
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
addicted_to_coffee, 11/15/2012 10:32:21 AM (No. 9015943)
the difference was a couple of percentage points. The lapdog media NOT sitting on their thumbs would have changed that much
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
choey, 11/15/2012 11:22:43 AM (No. 9016141)
In my opinion, the 0bamaphone (and all the other gimmes) won.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
ladychatalie, 11/15/2012 7:32:46 PM (No. 9017139)
For democrats the term "get out the vote operation" is a euphemism for voter fraud.
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