Yes,
and Newt ,Michelle and Rick warned us we needed a conservative to fight.... as the elites like Karl Rove and idiot Kristol circled the wagons for Mitt.

Michelle (who barely won her house seat!) and Rick? Yeah, Akin and Mourdock on a 50-state scale. Gingrich? Donald Trump? That 9-9-9 whatshisname? Yep, the darlings of conservatives would have done better than Romney.

The GOP hates Conservatives more than they hate the Left. The elites would rather run a losing Party than to be followers in a winning Party.

Dittos # 3

The give to me folks in large cities out number the working class. Plain and simple.

Yes we do need Conservatives, start answering those who are calling Conservatives extremists, start fighting back.

NO ONE as a GOP candidate could have won this election. I believe Romney won if the votes had been fairly counted. This election was in the bag before the ballots were cast. The people voted for Romney but the machines voted for Obama.

If we can´t win the elections anymore it is time for atlas to shrug. It won´t be easier, but it would be the most effective way. When we stop pulling the wagon it will stop.

I have been saying this for years. They always run the most liberal rat they can find so why don´t we run the most conservative of our lot.

Romney is a fine man and would have made a great leader. However, I´m not going along with a moderate next time. I´m not kidding this time.

But it was his turn.

Now, I´m sure its Jeb´s turn.

The future belongs to Palin, Ryan and Jindal. And Susana Martinez.

Ditto #2. No one, not one of the Republicans who ran in the primaries, stood a chance against THIS administration.
By all means, let´s eat our own once again, shall we?
Before the election was even over, Democrats were gleeful in their predictions that the Republican Party would be at each other´s throats on 11/7. (Kinda makes one wonder what made them so sure Obama would win.) All the same, in this case they were right. Sad.

#2
Neat trick bringing up sideshow issues the media hounded day in and day out.
On the national stage, Newt would have eviscerated Obama in debate #1 2 AND 3 and choke Obama with Benghazi and place his corrupt administration around his neck....and then he would have made sure the voting apparatus wasn´t sabotaged....and then he would have....
it goes on forever. Mitt waited around to be annointed and was shocked as he!! when he wasn´t.

This reminds me of the professional football or basketball drafts. Do you choose based on the position where you have a need or do you choose the best overall player available.

We didn´t have very good conservatives available in this draft. Next time we´ll have a whole lot of good conservatives available (write it down now: Kasich will be on the ticket in 2016).

One more thing:

Wouldn´t you have loved to have seen Gingrich in the debates with Obama?

When conservative Republican candidates talk social issues, they lose. When they don´t, they win.

The republicans like mccain,boehner and mcconnel have more in common with democrats like pelosi than conservatives. Considering who is "running" the country now, I fear it will become a moot point in the next 12-18 months. There may not be much left to govern. In the long run, we may be happy that we lost and removed ourselves from economic ground zero.

His rantings are getting boring.

Go away, stop hawking your books, and stop telling us how brilliant you are.

Have to disagree. If this was a legal election (not massive voter fraud), my dog could have beat obema.

I do not believe that, with this much fraud, ANYBODY in the country could have beaten obeme.

What the Republicans need is a presidential candidate with the courage to declare BEFORE Election Day that unless the decent hard-working, taxpaying citizens of America vote Republican, Obama will win the election because of the trillions of dollars of ´gifts´ he´s made to low-income voters, the unions, etc., etc., during his first term.

Instead, Republicans had a candidate this year who waited until AFTER the election to opine, ´´Obama won the election with ´gifts´ to low-income voters,´´ etc.

It would probably help if Republicans, whether in office or the media, stopped using the euphemism ´´spending´´ when accusing Democrats of ´´taxing and spending,´´ when what they are really doing morning, noon, and night is taxing and BRIBING.

As usual Levin is on the right track. Priebus was totally inept. But the main problem is that an immoral, totally fraudlent, anti-American (probably muslim), cocaine user and seller, gay, poorly educated, forced to surrender his law license, totally unvetted by the RNC even though 900 mil was spent in mostly silly ads, greedily spending over 500 mil in lush vacations and parties was NEVER exposed to an ignorant electorate which would have probably reacted and either stayed home or voted Republican.

Nominate a conservative Professor Levin? What the GOP really needs to counteract the leftist, heathen Dark Siders, who now have a stranglehold on American Civilization, is a modern day Attila The Hun!

#15, the problem with that oft-repeated line of logic . . .

Mitt DIDN´T talk social issues.

He lost anyway.

The more I look back on my lifetime, the more I see the Republicans were NEVER conservative. They were just less liberal than the Democrats. Even when we got Republican victories, we rarely got the civil liberties or our money returned. Usually they just took more, differently.
Now they have lost to the most corrupt and inept Communist in the history of the nation. Even with the massive voter fraud, it should have been a slam dunk. It wasn´t.
Its past time to unload that dead weight and see if we cant get a coalition of conservatives and libertarians together, and really sell our ideas. What can it hurt? All we do is lose now anyway.

#23 is correct. Since WH Taft, the party rank and file have remained true to conservative principles; while the GOP elites have been in the pocket of ´big business´ whose interests have absolutely nothing to do w/these principles. The GOP is a carcass who has had many funerals but badly needs a burial.

Ronald Reagan couldn´t have won this election. True conservative, fake conservative, rino, Wake up! It was the obAma Claus effect. The get out the vote ground game and the unions who lied saying they weren´t helping Obama and did the most damage.

Like Rick Santorum? Or Akin? Christine O´Donnell? Mourdock? Sharon Angle? Chris Christie? Hang up the phone, ya big dope!

#25, a vociferous demurral. The likes of Disraeli, von Bismarck, TR, Lady Thacher, Ronald Reagan, among others; were instinctive politicians anchored in core principle which translated into their politicial genius. Willard Romney, a trendy lefty squish w/o any core principles will never, ever be confused with any of them. He stood for anything, everything and nothing; all in the same sentence and the voters grasped this in their bones. This was a very winnable election against arguably the worst POTUS in our history. But doofus Romney, the worst possible choice, was the nominee w/decisive defeat predictible.

Nonsense. Anybody who is not a Democrat or Dem suppoter should vote for whoever the Repubs nominate. This is us versus them. If you don´t show up to vote no matter who the Republican candidate is, the evil Dems win.

I agree with #2 and #17. IMO it´s past time to stop beating up on fellow Republicans and work TOGETHER! What a concept!

I wish that one of the "true" conservatives on this thread who so joyously trashes Mitt Romney could explain how any one of his primary opponents could have done a better job?

And anyone who thinks that one of the other GOP hopefuls could have beaten Obama is living in a fantasy world. An old, snarly white guy with [bleep]loads of personal baggage like Gingrich? Good Grief, just take an honest look at the coalition of idiots, moochers, libertines and clueless wonders who gave Obama his majority, and you have to conclude that Mitt did the best anyone could to bring people over.

Romney would have been a fine president, a principled leader for the world we live in today. It is unfortunate that some on our side don´t realize that. But that´s OK with them - they´ll continue to live in an alternative comic book universe in which some imaginary conservative superhero swoops in to save the day.