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Topic: Let’s Not Panic Over Romney’s Defeat |
Let’s Not Panic Over Romney’s Defeat
American Spectator, by William Tucker
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Posted By:Pluperfect, 11/21/2012 6:15:04 AM
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| I know most people would like to forget about the election, but as someone who supported Mitt Romney throughout the primary campaign -- taking a lot of flak from Spectator readers in the process -- I would like to defend his effort and make a few comments about the future of the Republican Party. First of all, Romney ran a damned good race. He was up in the polls by as much as 7 points (Gallup) going into the last week. Where he got sandbagged was Hurricane Sandy. The storm captured the nation´s attention
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Country Boy, 11/21/2012 6:22:05 AM (No. 9027048)
"he got sandbagged was Hurricane Sandy"
That´s absurd. He got sandbagged by massive and multi-pronged election fraud.
Aside from the 100.00% sweeps in Dem areas, van loads of blacks showing up to vote where none live, and 140% turnout of registered voters, the voting machines were just gamed for the Dem win. At my voting location and everyone I talk to, lines were out the door. Massive turnout. But at the end, the official numbers are that 12 million fewer people voted for POTUS than 4 years ago. My guess is that maybe 20 million votes were discarded, probably all of them for Romney.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Country Boy, 11/21/2012 6:25:21 AM (No. 9027049)
Add to #1. Obvious solution/redress is who? Eric Holder. Never mind. And that is why the RNC is dead in the water.
Why the GOP won’t challenge vote fraud http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2012/11/15/why-the-gop-will-not-do-anything-about-vote-fraud/
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Spidey, 11/21/2012 6:30:06 AM (No. 9027052)
I agree,the republican hand wringing needs to stop.This whole movement of being liberal lite needs to stop also.Our biggest problem is Obama´s open borders policy which is in direct violation of the law.There needs to be lawsuits brought against them for recruiting foreigners with welfare welcome kits.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Crosscut, 11/21/2012 6:34:07 AM (No. 9027056)
If you delete the votes cast for Obama because Romney was white, Romney would win big time. Obama isn´t really president to the majority of the people who work in the private sector and are paying the freight for this circus.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
slipstik, 11/21/2012 6:44:51 AM (No. 9027070)
Let´s end all this hindsight. Face it, it´s all over. Romney was beaten by being what he was, a flip-flopper. He was also beaten by the 47 percent running around with Obamaphones. He was beaten by 8.5 million "disabled". He was beaten by god knows how many food stamp users. Cain had a chance until somebody assassinated him (hmmmmmm, I wonder who???). The republicrats consistently ran machine politicians except where the tea party candidate was able to beat the republicrat candidates. Dare I say that the difference between republican and democrat is infinitesimal. Well folks, we finally did it, we ended the greatest experiment in human history. The republic is no more. The Constitution is a bath mat. The lunatics run the asylum. Welcome to the USSA. I hope you like it here ´cause this is all that´s left. Stop talking about this in get into the handout line like a good little American. Oh, and drop your pants for the TSA cavity check.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Really?, 11/21/2012 7:24:39 AM (No. 9027128)
I am far from "panicked" or however you spell it....but I do wonder why we are no longer seeing pictures of Obama touring the Storm sites. What is he doing ? And what is Romney doing ?
If Romney wants to "prove" his worthiness then I would expect to see him helping out even in defeat. The GOP needs to know what sells and not just quit because we lost.
Do the right things and stick to the message. Win or lose. If this is truly the right course people will see it eventually.
Mitt needs to be organizing food deliveries and soliciting funds. Is he , or were we looking at a false front ?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
RayLRiv, 11/21/2012 7:52:32 AM (No. 9027168)
All politics is local. 30 of 50 states are either controlled by a Republican governor or GOP-controlled state houses. All the states that matter to me (OK-TX-KY) are solidly RED.
Save for some college towns and liberal outposts here and there Middle America did NOT vote for Øbama and will never embrace the shame of relief and assistance.
Build on what we have. Redouble the effort to reach out to Hispanics with a clear, concise message about free enterprise and social conservatism (the Libre Initiative is working on this right now)
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
tangles, 11/21/2012 7:55:11 AM (No. 9027171)
Mitt won´t call a press conference to tell you what he is doing to help people. He happens to live it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
MDConservative, 11/21/2012 8:00:16 AM (No. 9027182)
All this handwringing is to convince itself that the Republican "brand" is not "conservative". The Republican election pros insist the dogs won´t eat the conservative food, and thus refuse to feed them any as proof.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
thelmalou, 11/21/2012 8:29:19 AM (No. 9027251)
RE: #2 - Wow. Just...wow.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 11/21/2012 8:30:41 AM (No. 9027256)
The country should panic over Obama´s victory. After 4 years of failures, there will now be abject and total ruin.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Eheu Fugaces, 11/21/2012 9:39:04 AM (No. 9027406)
At least Tucker isn´t blaming conservatives, especially Sarah Palin. I suppose this is an improvement.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec, 11/21/2012 10:16:16 AM (No. 9027476)
I expect John Boehner and Mitch McConnell to be huge disappointments in the next 2 years and beyond. More so than Obama, at least with him we know what we are getting.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
mikkins2, 11/21/2012 11:27:39 AM (No. 9027650)
Yup! Dont blame the people who selected a loser, slandered you when you pointed out his flaws, and when he lost, whatever you do dont blame them.
Yawn......
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
SouthSanAntonio, 11/21/2012 12:19:04 PM (No. 9027784)
Sorry, but this nation, and the Republican Party as a viable second party, both died on 11-6-2012.
As soon as NØbama gets 20,000,000+ illegal aliens instant citizenship, and they all register as Demon-RAT voters to thank their beloved President NØbama, BAM, there won´t be a single red state left in this union.
We instantly go from 50% of all US citizens on some sort of government assistance to 75% of all US citizens getting cool ´´free stuff´´ (or should I say ´´liberte material´´ for all those 20,000,000+ new citizens who probably won´t bother to learn English) from their beloved Demon-RAT representatives.
The 25% of us that are left that still believe in hard work, liberty and freedom, are going to be a quckly extinct breed.
We needed to panic in 2008 and work like there was no tomorrow in 2012 if we didn´t. Well, we didn´t. Evil won, and we are through. 236 years was a good run...
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
tomanderson61, 11/21/2012 12:45:13 PM (No. 9027839)
While I don´t share quite the level of pessimism with #15, he makes a valid point. I am quite tired of hearing:
*-Voter fraud cost the election *-Romney was a bad candidate, or ran a bad campaign. *-Conservatives stayed home and didn´t vote *-Obama used technology and got his word out better
None of these are true, and yes, we sound like a bunch of liberals looking for a convenient answer.
The real answer is the simple one--the takers outnumber the producers, and you are not going to win their votes over, EVER.
Do I know the future? No, I don´t. But now IS the time to panic. No IS the time to start yelling at your neighbor. Now IS the time, in your social, and work life, to start digging a little deeper into people you know and work with.
They want divisiveness? Why don´t we show them some. Dump your cute girlfriend who believes in abortion and free birth control. She´s not that cute. Seek out vendors that share your values, even if it takes a little bit longer to get to know them. And when you are handing out good advise, business ideas, or just being neighborly, maybe think twice who you are associating with. Here´s a shocker, maybe, just maybe, exclusion isn´t a bad thing, it´s actually a good thing.
Sorry, this last election changed me. I cannot be friends or associates with anyone who voted to ruin this country.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Japanorama, 11/21/2012 5:20:44 PM (No. 9028221)
What Tucker doesn´t mention is that, since three Supreme Court justices are over 80, they probably will be replaced under Obama II, by hard-left anti-Constitutionalists. Time to panic now, Bill?
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