Note to GOP: All you need is love

Well, I missed this on the front page (I just got home), but I still want to put in my 2 cents.

The face of the country is changing, but the values of conservatism are eternal. That’s what liberals believed about their philosophy: They stuck with it, and finally, forty years after their disastrous 1972 election, the votes for McGovern have come in.
Republicans need to bring their values to people who don’t hear about them often enough, whether because they are stuck in the mainstream media cocoon or because the aggressive Democratic political influence machine got to them first.
And they will only do it by hanging onto and trumpeting their philosophy. Romney’s lack of an obvious philosophy was why millions of GOP voters stayed home on Election Day – it didn’t seem to make much difference who won. Americans like candidates who believe in something.

Romney did that in the first debate through an unfiltered media. THEN by the third debate he shifted to a prevent defense and agreed with Obama on just about everything. He didn’t differentiate his foreign policy with Obama’s; he didn’t even call him out on Benghazi for crying out loud. That was the best opportunity to show those “conservative values,” but Romney voted present.

It’s true that Conservatism needs to get out beyond our base, but that takes 1) someone who truly believes in Conservatism and governs accordingly; 2) someone who can articulate them well. Romney did neither except in debate #1. That won’t win an election against an incumbent with a Lap Dog Media covering for him.

conservative pilgrim on November 16, 2012 at 9:29 PM