I still like Mitt. Would vote for him again in 2016 minus Orca.

DeathtotheSwiss on November 17, 2012 at 1:03 PM

So you like being in the minority?

unseen on November 17, 2012 at 1:08 PM

It doesn’t change my opinion any. I’d rather be right than popular.

Anyways, I’m a pro-choice, pro-gay everything Atheist Veteran who supported the Iraq war. So…yeah…

President Obama won Americans without high school degrees overwhelmingly along with other low-information voters. I don’t think Romney had a chance at gaining those votes.

The problem is we, the guys on the ground, have not made the fiscal case for tax cuts, a simpler tax code and limited government to the people around us. Mitt Romney’s plan for the country was a good one and I loved that he chose Paul Ryan as his running mate instead of pandering for race votes.

We’re going to be a minority if we don’t take our shared values and arguments to the Latino and Black communities as well as fight to neutralize the Liberal bias indoctrinated into our children from Elementary school on.

So yeah, I’d vote for Romney in 2016 even if I knew he would lose. I don’t think he would, however. Unless another Cult of Personality can form up over another major Democrat figure in the next four years I doubt they’ll have the kind of advantage that President Obama did.

People who think if you purge the socons suddenly capitualate on gay marriage, abortion, and immigration are suddenly going to be embraced by the media and not be labeled racist, homophobe, and sexist are frickin delusional. Republicans still can’t get the message out that it THEY who passed the Civil Right’s Act.

melle1228 on November 17, 2012 at 3:34 PM

They do not understand why progressives are called progressives. They take their victories and move on to even more ridiculous goals that degrade and destroy life even more. Just in case they are reading this post and want to know the final goal of progressives… The end goal of progressives is a world with fewer than 10 million total human beings, and many actually have a goal of 0 humans beings, with people long forward to be the last suffering the most while they live luxurious lives as they destroy other humans beings.

Energy? It is what keeps humans increasing in numbers. It must not be allowed to be cheap, but must be made prohibitively expensive.

Food? They want us to go back to eating wild berries and nuts and to add insult to injury, we have to give up all meat that even in our worst ancient times we ate.

Children? Must be made into an exorbitant luxury item that is also almost completely without gratification or future benefit. Make children as rare as possible.

There is a difference. We need to recognize this difference. And as a party it’s not intolerant to insist that our prominent GOP’ers not come off as stereotypical dumb hicks.

BTW, those “ignorant hicks” are a loyal GOP voting base. Your wonderful intelligent northerners voted for Obama. So keep insulting people who are on YOUR side.

Outside the South there is a “Southern-stupid” image of the GOP.

I grew up in Chicago and now live in the South; I know what ignorant people like Petunia think of the south. Repeating stereotypes doesn’t maket the person you are stereotyping wrong; it makes the bigot wrong. And for someone like Petunia who touts how “tolerant” she is; apparently it is “rocket science.” And I have met more ignorant hicks in urban Illinois then I have in Tennessee, Alabama, and Louisiana(all places I have lived).

melle1228 on November 17, 2012 at 3:28 PM

Outside the South there is a “Southern-stupid” image of the GOP.

Rick Perry, for example, appears to possess the intellectual curiosity of a high school jock. Newt Gingrich, however, does not. Neither does Bobby Jindal. There is a difference. We need to recognize this difference. And as a party it’s not intolerant to insist that our prominent GOP’ers not come off as stereotypical dumb hicks.

This isn’t rocket science.

Republicians switching sides isn’t the reason Mit tlost. Mitt and his mittbots heaping distain on the bas eof his own party is the reason Mitt lost. From this thread the Mittbots haven’t learned their lesson yet.

unseen on November 17, 2012 at 2:56 PM

You’re assertion is unsupported by any data from the election.

We all turned out for Mitt, just as we would have for Santorum or Gingrich or Perry or anyone else. Anyone who didn’t vote for Mitt because “Mitt and his mittbots heaping distain [sic]” are, by definition, not part of “the base.”

Romney is not popular with me, of course, once I get back home I will be changing my voter registration to unaffiliated.

astonerii on November 17, 2012 at 3:04 PM

Already did that when I saw some of the comments on these boards. We have run TWO moderates in the last two elections, but it all those dreaded socon’s fault that those wonderful candidates lost. It had nothing to do with the candidate’s inability to sell himself or his policy and make voters realize that they weren’t voting for the lesser of two evils. People realize that when the new guys looks alot like the old guy- they are going to vote with the devil they know. People who think if you purge the socons suddenly capitualate on gay marriage, abortion, and immigration are suddenly going to be embraced by the media and not be labeled racist, homophobe, and sexist are frickin delusional. Republicans still can’t get the message out that it THEY who passed the Civil Right’s Act.

Uneducated and intolerant is not an image I want.

petunia on November 17, 2012 at 12:52 PM

Too late sweetie, you are already there:

So, either the Party leaves the “southern-stupid

BTW,when you say being more “tolerant” what you mean is being more tolerant to Democrats and their pet projects who will tar you as a racist, sexist,homophobe no matter how much you are for immigration, abortion or gay marriage. Good luck with them as allies- you intolerant twit.

remember Reagan Democrats. Now you have Obama Republicans thanks to our so-conscountry club republican elites.

Marcus on November 17, 2012 at 12:26 PM

there fixed if for you. When you have the leader of your party gropup many of those GOPers in with the freeloaders and moochers is it any wonder they decide to vote for Obama. But People lose sight of the fact Obama got almost 9 million LESS votes than he did in 2008. Republicians switching sides isn’t the reason Mit tlost. Mitt and his mittbots heaping distain on the bas eof his own party is the reason Mitt lost. From this thread the Mittbots haven’t learned their lesson yet.