In the aftermath of tragedy, I'm writing as somebody who has given tens of thousands of dollars since 2008 to Republican causes, including both PAC's and individual candidates. I said from the start that Romney as the GOP candidate was disastrous because he was nothing more than a moderate stooge whose flip-flopping would eventually destroy his credibility. There were those here--Cabanski, speak up now--who claimed Romney was a true conservative, certainly not a moderate, the most honest and best choice the GOP could provide (after all, we love Romney so much that we made him run for the candidacy twice). The bandwagon effect in full force, I suppose. Result? We lost. Again. Hell, Romney and Ryan lost their own states. Now, the popular vote was razor-thin (essentially a 50-50 split) but we lost where it mattered most in the swing states--not Florida, not Ohio, not Virginia. Basically, the independents we needed to convince were not convinced. How can we prevent this from happening again? It's not the Obama effect, it's the Republican failure on trial here. GOP, STOP RUNNING MODERATE CANDIDATES. Listen to the Tea Party. Listen to the real conservatives, the ones giving you check upon check to take back America. Listen to us, not the political consultants paid to dominate the conservative blogs and media, who in turn feed us the garbage. In the words of a Tea Party activist:"We wanted a fighter like Ronald Reagan who boldly championed America’s founding principles, who inspired millions of independents and ‘Reagan Democrats’ to join us, and who fought his leftist opponents on the idea that America, as founded, was a ‘Shining city upon a hill.’ Instead what we got was a weak moderate candidate, hand-picked by the Beltway elites and country-club establishment wing of the Republican Party."
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