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Comment by Tom Wright on November 27, 2012 at 6:22pm

Romney never was my favorite, I wanted Newt, but Romney had the money.

However once he was our nominee, I worked my butt off for him.

No, they can not place the blame for this loss on the Tea Party. We wanted a more conservative candidate, that understood our founding values.

Until we get the RINO's out of our party, this is what we are going to end up with, also we have not been able to stem the tide of people wanting the free goodies.

Tom Wright

Comment by Patricia M. McBride on November 24, 2012 at 1:42pm

I had no issues with Romney at all.  He would have begun the process of undoing the Obama mess by getting rid of health care and getting our finances in order.  For anyone to think this can all be fixed in 2 presidential terms, it can't.  It will take years because it wasn't just Obama, but certainly he made many aware of the mess we are in.  Our elected representatives have been spending and borrowing and spending social security and every other dime they could get their hands on and spending on ear marks and heaven knows what else.  Romney might have gotten the ball rolling, but unless we get every single one of these people that are in Washington out and replaced by someone who has at least read the constitution, even if they don't have it memorized, we are going to continue having problems.  So much legislation and amendments to the constitution need to be repealed (like the one allowing for varying tax rates based on income instead of everyone paying the same percentage of tax....................which means those who earn more will automatically pay more).  The tea party was divided, because those who favored minor players in the game refused to move off that person, some didn't like Romney (or in other words they preferred to keep Obama apparently), and still others didn't like his religion (which had zero to do with it) and on and on.  The most important thing we could do was get rid of Obama and no one seemed to get behind the idea, so with another 4 years, we will have a country that probably can't even defend itself when the muslims come and they will (and I half way wonder if that isn't why Obama is doing what he is doing..........he has already said the next century is not the century of the Christian and since he isn't one, I suspect he is helping his brethren).

Comment by Jack on November 24, 2012 at 11:27am

“They went well out of their way to ignore us, marginalize us and pretend we did not exist, and they gave us the most liberal nominee in the history of the Republican Party,” Mr. Phillips said, taking particular aim at Karl Rove, the mastermind behind former President George W. Bush’s career and founder of American Crossroads, a super PAC that spent more than $100 million in the campaign but had few successes to show for it.

 

And I think that the Tea Party let them do it............ for some unknown reason We The People refused to come together and get behind any one candidate........... I wouldn't have cared even if that one candidate had been Ron Paul at least we would have been united together and speaking with one voice. Instead we let the republican establishment choose our candidate for us and this is what we get for it............... and as long as we continue to let them nominate the most liberal candidate running in the primaries this is what we will continue to get............. when you water down your conservatism by nominating the most liberal candidate in an attempt to attract the moderate, independent undecided voter in the middle what you end up with is a candidate to liberal to fire up your conservative base and many of them stay home.............