08 Nov
Posted by MacRanger as 2012 Presidential Election, News
Lots of hand wringing over Romney’s Tuesday night’s loss to Barack Obama. Media pundits and conservative prognosticators are telling us that the GOP needs to change, get more diverse and even out pander the Democrats towards minorities, blacks, hispanics and women.
But nothing is further from the truth. We don’t need to change the message, we simply need an authentic deliverer of the message of conservatism. We found out today that over 3 million Republicans didn’t vote in the election. Rush Limbaugh:
“So three million Republican voters stayed home on Election Day. Three million predominantly white voters stayed home. The media is all over the place with the fact that the Republicans lost “the white vote.” They can’t get the white vote. They did lose the white vote, but Democrats didn’t get it. They just didn’t show up, and it wasn’t voter suppression that didn’t turn ‘em out.
What would be the reason that three million voters didn’t show up? Let’s go through the possibilities. It could be that there are a number… We’ve talked to ‘em. We’ve had ‘em call. We got ‘em, in fact, on hold. A number of Republicans are tired of moderate nominees. They’ve sent the Republican Party money for years and said, “To hell with it. If you’re gonna eschew conservatism, I’m not giving you any money, and I’m not voting for you.”
And that’s what I’ve been harping on for the last 7 years of this blog, and for all of those 7 years we’ve had only a few strong conservative voices to carry the message. Remember just after the 2006 midterms the media and pundits were telling us the same thing, “Change” and touting the GOP was dead, stuck in it’s own ways. For a while it looked as though they would be right. But then McCain – not exactly the pure conservative – had a respectable showing against Barack Obama, but still not a win. Again the calls came for “change”.
Then in 2010 all that changed. Fueled by the anger over Barack Obama’s mugging of America over Obamacare the Tea Party rose to take the House – by 62 seats – in a historic election. A year later Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker, survived the media, liberal super PACs, to beat back a recall election after he moved to limit union influence in his state.
No nothing’s changed since then. American’s aren’t welcoming socialism, the majority of people that voted for Obama actually bought the idea presented by the media that he’s some kind of centrist. They’ll soon find out how wrong they are as the government keeps growing out of control, they’re freedoms are eroded, taxes increase and the economy collapses.
We have two opportunities to get this right. One in 2014 in the midterm elections where 20 democrat Senate seats are up for reelection. We need to take at least 12 of them. A tall order yes, but by that time the economy should be in ruins and it will be easy to present a conservative message. The other of course is 2016 in the next Presidential election.
The time is now to prepare true conservative candidate to take back America. We don’t need to change the message, just find the right message giver.
2 Responses
retire05
November 9th, 2012 at 5:34 pm
1Mac, there was not a lot of reason for conservatives to GOTV. Anyone who researched Romney during the 2008 primary season understood that he was a northeaster liberal squish who did not begin to meet the standards/values of those of in flyover country. We also knew that Romney governed as a liberal, and only started spouting conservative ideals once he no longer had to prove it by actions in office. He could not run fast enough to get away from his past.
We also need to end the practice of candidates by attrition. McCain lost to Bush in the primary, he was the next selection. Romney lost to McCain in the primary, he was the next selection. The last loser become the next pick. That has to end. It is also important to end the practice of a few states in the east/eastern seaboard picking our candidates for the hundreds of millions who live in other states. What makes Iowa and South Carolina so special?
We have our work cut out for us. It will not be easy. But we pulled it off in 2010, and if we don’t want to become ancient Rome, we MUST pull it off in 2014.
retire05
November 9th, 2012 at 11:28 pm
2Mac, what’s the word you are getting on Petreaus?
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