The failed experiment was being blinded by purity. I’m glad to hear you will no longer support that.
Too bad it’s too late.

Mimzey on November 8, 2012 at 12:58 PM

I voted for Romney. I won’t support another liberal.

Twice the GOP fielded RINO losers and twice they lost. I will never again support another failed experiment.

dogsoldier on November 8, 2012 at 12:20 PM

The only one that really mattered was this last one.

The failed experiment was being blinded by purity. I’m glad to hear you will no longer support that.
Too bad it’s too late.

Well, yes. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect a candidate to do all he can to show people that he’d be worth voting for and to show how he’d be doing a better job as President than the guy in the Oval Office now.

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say “You blew it, Mitt. You didn’t convince people to vote for you.”

Aitch748 on November 8, 2012 at 12:33 PM

He did imo.

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect the people to do all they can do to not be uninformed dolts, easily swayed by rhetoricians, or willfully trusting blindness in the face of what is and has been in front of them for four years. Watching their country and its founding principles flushed permanently down the drain.

I guess that too much to ask.

Who’s fault is it that such a high number of people stayed home on election day? Mitt Romney?

Mimzey on November 8, 2012 at 12:13 PM

Well, yes. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect a candidate to do all he can to show people that he’d be worth voting for and to show how he’d be doing a better job as President than the guy in the Oval Office now.

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say “You blew it, Mitt. You didn’t convince people to vote for you.”

Indeed, Romney is one of the best presidential candidates the Republicans have ever fielded. Blaming the candidate may be fun, but it’s delusional and won’t help us avoid making the same mistakes in the future.

No he is far from it, Ann. He and the ballless RINO GOP leadership need to go. We now know the base will not vote for a liberal and we cannot force them to do so. Please pull your head out.

Twice the GOP fielded RINO losers and twice they lost. I will never again support another failed experiment.

that’s. just. sad.

Terp Mole on November 8, 2012 at 12:06 PM

And who’s responsible for the dumbing down of the information systems that people use to base their decisions on?
Mitt Romney?
Who’s fault is it that such a high number of people stayed home on election day? Mitt Romney?

Given that you apparently (a) don’t care about any principle other than winning and (b) choose your candidates entirely based on electability, isn’t it incumbent upon you to (c) take into account the fact that some other people are lazy and some other people actually care about principles (d) not foist on us the one candidate who couldn’t possibly have won, ever?

joe_doufu on November 8, 2012 at 11:45 AM

You’re just making that up to fit your own standards. You know nothing about me.

The problem is people..apparently like you( based on your response)..that are easily manipulated by personality types rather than issues.

The issue in this election was, in fact, winning.
Not halo surrounded purity.
If you look at your itemized reasons, a..b..c..d. They are all the same point. You could have simplified it by just saying. “Not pure enough…NEXT”.

Coulter went on the record declaring that we’d lose if we nominated Romney..

joe_doufu on November 8, 2012 at 11:28 AM

Here’s what she said at CPAC on 2/12/2011:

I may as well tell you what my prediction is, because then you can either totally congratulate me or laugh at me 2 years from now…

Well, I’ll put it in a nutshell: If you don’t run Chris Christie, Romney will be the nominee and we’ll lose.

Now she says “Romney was the perfect candidate”.

He was not the perfect candidate. He lied about his reasons for exiting the race in 2008. He was the grandfather of Obamacare. He allowed Obama to perpetuate the false claim that Obama inherited a mess that was the fault of “Republican failed policies”.

What Obama and the other Democrats (Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Senators Obama, Biden, Clinton, Reid, and others) inherited when the balance of power shifted on January 3, 2007 was better than what the incoming Congressional Republican majority inherited from Democrats when the balance of power shifted on January 3, 1995. The Republican majorities of January 3, 1995 – January 3, 2007 inherited higher unemployment and a bigger deficit from Democrats in January 1995 than the unemployment and deficit the Republicans handed off to Democrats in January 2007.

Romney and Ryan had a platform to deliver that message: that it was not Bush and Republicans who drove the economy into the ditch, but rather it was PELOSI, REID, OBAMA, BIDEN, CLINTON, etc. who drove the economy into the ditch.

The last budget produced by a Republican House, Republican Senate, and Republican President was passed in 2006 for FY 2007 and produced a deficit under $161 Billion … smaller than EITHER of the two budget deficits produced by Bill Clinton with a Democrat House and Senate.

To win, Conservatives MUST communicate that message!

Obama was able to run with the lie that Republicans “had their turn and got us into this mess”. Paul Ryan, in his VP debate, accepted the premise that Obama had inerited a bad situation.

Obama didn’t arrive in Washington, D.C. for the first time on January 20, 2009. That’s not the economy he “inherited”. The economy he “inherited” is the one the Republican majority turned over to him and the rest of the Democratic majority on January 3, 2007. Obama was an active part of the Congressional Democrats who drove the economy into the ditch.

And Romney and Ryan allowed Obama to blame that on Bush.

In several areas of the country Republican candidates lost on “lady parts” social issues, and didn’t even fight on fiscally conservative issues.

In 2004 Bush had 62 million votes and John F. Kerry had 59 million votes.

Even John Kerry had more votes in 2004 than Mitt Romney. (57.4 million).

that’s. just. sad.

The electorate voted for the cool kid because they didn’t perceive any real alternative. That’s not the fault of the electorate.
ddrintn on November 8, 2012 at 9:41 AM
This is an example of the case you’re no making.
People should evaluate the options, not surface looks or perceptions.
Fault goes to dumb and intellectual laziness.
Mimzey on November 8, 2012 at 9:58 AM

People should, but they don’t. Gnashing one’s teeth over the fact that charisma and personality are a factor for voters won’t change anything. Where has standing on principle gotten us in this respect? 8 years of Bronco Bama. Thanks but no thanks. That’s not a hill I want to die on ever again.