I'm a conservative and I must move, sorry!

How can the message of killing babies and stealing from workers to give to free loaders win an election?
Sickening.

What "we" as concerned Americans (not republicans) need to do is STOP listening to everyone who tells us what we must do now to regain our country back. Only way to get it back is to just take it by whatever means!

Reprise 1773.

We need to change because we lost? Those on the left were saying they were gonna riot if Obama lost, no one will tell them they need to change.

Now what are those on the left gonna do to reach out to us?

There is nothing to do. We have lost, and for all time. If the Republicans could not beat an incompetent empty-suit racist that hates America and white people like Obama - game over. I have gone Galt - and I'm going to do my best to convince my wife to retire early and move to another country. I will be damned if I'll work to pay for other people who hate me and just do drugs and party with the money.

Teddy Kennedy's (D-Chivas Regal) immigration policy has succeeded and the demographics of this country, along with the propaganda organ of the Politburo, will see to it that no freedom-loving candidates are ever elected again.

The United States is dead, and we allowed it to happen on our watch.

I cannot properly express the disgust and outrage and sorrow I am feeling as I type these words.

It's over.

We lost on ideals. The majority does not want personal or financial responsibility. They want government handouts, and the want the 'rich' (someone else) to pay for them.

We are living in a very selfish generation.

Demographics = destiny. People like me were simply unaware we had already reached the tipping point a couple years ago. The demographic changes include the exploding number of Balkanized minorities who are rapidly on their way to majority status. Additionally, more women are now single than married. This has NEVER been the case before in the US. In other words, there are lots of struggling single females and many are head of household. Add to that the monstrous (and growing) amount of people on federal assistance and you finally overpower the cadre of Ozzie and Harriet-style working people, investors, and business leaders. Also one in five Americans now claim atheism, agnosticism, or simply are not religious. That's a big change. It's that way in Europe - a very secular society. We are headed that way as well: empty churches, no local cohesion, no religious identity. I'm not saying it's good or bad, it just is.

The GOP message of fiscal responsibility simply doesn't resonate. You can't get people excited about being on a budget when they've been living well beyond their means. In addition, the GOP has to drag along all the little old church ladies, evangelical preachers, and moral busybodies who think it's government's job to cow people into good behavior as they define it. In the end, the GOP comes out of the gate like wacky religious scolds and xenophobic haters of gays, blacks, Latinos, immigrants, etc.

When the GOP does manage to get elected, they immediately crab walk away from critical fiscal and security issues, and tackle legislation like Remember the Confederacy Day, no drinking on Sundays, and Let's All Kick a Homo Week.

Evolve or die.

Romney ran ran a decent and honorable campaign on the pressing issues. He did it about as right as it was possible in the political climate of the 21st century.

The blame rests not with him but with us - with what the average American today is willing to think and do. Handouts to those who won't work, deviant behavior approved by the electorate - in referenda in two (northeast) states - coverup and lies passing as campaign strategy with a complicit press.

We have become decadent Rome and will soon morph into present day Greece.

we have met the enemy and it is us.

If Republicans and Conservatives believed in lying constantly and utilizing voter fraud to win, the end result of last night would be different.

We, who listened, heard lie after lie from the mouths of the Democrat talking heads and from the MSM/LSM. Their actions will have a blowback one of these days. If conservatives and Republicans will be devastated by the LIAR in Chief and his unelected Czars so will the mindless democRATS!

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.”

? Alexis de Tocqueville

Our society will dance, laugh, and urinate away the last of our national wealth. We will soon forget how to extract energy resources from the Earth or build an airplane. When we are beset from outide and inside by the forces of Islam, we will beg for a dictator to save us as we begged for DHS and TSA after 9/11.

It's coming folks. It's coming.

He won thanks to 3 people- Bill Clinton, Chris Christie and John Roberts. And you can bet at least Clinton is not going to let him forget it.

No party ever stays in power forever. Eventually, the Democrats' misguided policies will catch up with them. In the meantime, we are in for a lot of difficult times. Keep the faith.

While Radosh's points have merit, the GOP is not longer the vehicle to carry the message. We must throw off the 'party of the rich' albatross and start a new party - sans them. There was nothing wrong with our message, it was never effectively delivered. The GOP Establishment will never effectively deliver it. Better to have a minority party with conviction for a while than to be a "me too" big-tent party that will never again hold the majority. I'm with Ldotters who suggest that the Pubs in the house "vote present", stand aside, and let the Dems take full responsibility for what is to come. Better yet, let the true conservatives in both partes form the core of a new party that genuinely represents the middle-class. Let NerØbama's agenda go forward unfettered. Time to boil the frog and hope it jumps out. There are no good options left.

What happens when the chickens come home to roost?
Go listen to the Bob Dylan song "Queen Jane."
Our debt will soon be called. What happens when we cannot pony up?
We are weak. What happens when N. Korea drops a bomb on Seattle? What happens when Iran nukes Tel Aviv?

We have a new direction. Down.

The depression is coming. When the Gulf of Hormuz is sealed and we can't get any more oil, then what? We can't drill here.

Canada ships her oil to China.

Nobody is going to have anything to sell to us, as our money is no good. What happens when our credit rating goes the way of Argentina? Who will buy our bonds?

Weimar Republic, and a new Hitler, here we come!

#15: it will be Bush's fault, of course.

Binders! Big Bird! Lady Parts! The sheep never understand when they're being led to slaughter until the slaughtering begins.

Is anyone else sicken by our side-example-Rove, and other pundits like him, laying every detail of plans that our Presidential candidate is going to take to get to the WH? Why tell the enemy what you are going to do? Mr. Revenge and his band of criminals didn`t lay out their plans to our side.

Conservatives must win this with Benghazigate, and with investigation of the excessive spending by the white house and state department.

The House should put the white house and the state department on the same budget that working Americans are on -- hot dogs, NOT wagu beef.

Let's not repeat the mistake of serving up the runner up from this year's election in 2016. Rick Santorum is a good guy and good conservative but could not be elected now, let alone in 2016. Let's go with new blood like Rubio or Jindal, or someone else. Time to clean house and that should also include Boehner and McConnell. We need new leaders.

New Mexico went for Obama over Romney by 10%. New Mexico also twice elected Gary Johnson by 10%. Governor Johnson is not a Democrat. He was elected as a Republican -- running as a fiscal conservative, social liberal.

If the GOP wishes to remain relevant, it needs to drop the social conservative emphasis, and go all out with a "freedom" message. Otherwise, we're doomed to continue down the road to serfdom.

Buy ammo, inform your family of what is happening, have a plan. Find a place in the boonies to escape to quickly when it starts going south. The urban animals fear the woods.

Learn how to survive, heck even if its watching Survivor Man on Science Channel....

Obama won/stole the election because of a lying corrupt media, massive voter fraud in key swing states, weak Republicans afraid to fight and the dumbing down of America by the government schools and liberal culture.

The Republicans did well in 2010 because it was the grassroots that fought the left. There was no standard bearer. As soon as a standard bearer was required the Beltway stepped in and foisted one on us who had no connection with the grassroots. Decent man, fought hard and well but you cannot beat the appeal of 'free phones' without any emotional connections to the rank and file. By deliberately severing and denying Tea Party connections the Republican Establishment handed the re-election to 0bama.
Come 2014 Tea Paryt driven Republicans will once more do extremely well, a repeat of 2010. They have to guard that 2016 does not become a repeat of this year.

We need to drop the strident social conservative part of the platform that was hung around Romney's neck. The rape comments by the losers Akin and Mourdok did major damage. Those were two winnable seats.

I disagree with articles of this slant. The USA is changing before your eyes and you are blind to it. If Romney wanted to WIN AN ELECTION, he should not have chosen a brilliant white man as his running mate, because that is who HE is. He should have chosen someone who would have appealed to a different segment of the population, be it women, minorities, Hispanics, whoever. I think Paul Ryan is an excellent Congressman and a good man, but he brought few votes to Romney, and they did not even win Ryan's own state. If THAT doesn't tell you something, then as I stated, you are blind to what is happening in the U>S> If Mr Romney had chosen a black or Hispanic woman as his VP, then right now he would be President Romney. Its as simple as that.

So, the way forward for the GOP is to abandon conservatives and founding principles and become socialists. Got it.
Choosing a candidate based on their “electability” might sometimes be a winning strategy. This time it wasn’t. Romney earned fewer votes than McCain.

It is too late to save the nation from the course it chose 8 decades ago. People look at this election as a major turning point (and it is, in a way) but the road to socialism begun with Wilson and FDR was already finished with the Great Society. This election was not going to change that regardless of who won, only the speed at which the payment will come due. Romney’s plans were NOT going to save the nation from socialism.

The comments here are indicative of that fact. Throw out conservatives and founding principles – we can’t win with that message. Really? If the GOP refuses to accept the mantle of founding principles and limited government, it no longer serves any purpose. There is no going back at this point because the electorate has flatly rejected what is necessary to make this nation solvent. Believe it or not, some of those things involve social issues. Do you really think the government can subsidize 2 million abortions a year for free? Akin and Murdoch were poor candidates, but the election results indicate these seats were probably lost regardless.

As for me and my house, we will continue to fight for principles of freedom and personal responsibility – even if we do it alone.

Feeling a lot of conflict, today. I'm a hard-core constitutionalist with a sudden desire to repeal the nineteenth amendment.

I'm not sure I agree with #25 because I don't think identity politics is the way to go (and it usually doesn't work--neither Sarah Palin nor Geraldine Ferraro brought in the women's vote). I do think it might have been smarter to pick an evangelical Christian from a swing state--if he could have found one. But hindsight is 20-20. It's time to look forward, not back.

Rush had it right: In a land of children, Santa Claus always wins.

Amen #20!