I just read all the rants on here and it convinced me to vote along party lines cuz I didn’t want to be a part of the the racism and hate I heard on fake news and the far right winger tea baggers on here.

Ryan/Cain next 4 years 2016 lol

In order to be “middle class” you must have a job. Thats another thing willard the rat and his punk nazi have in common. Neither have worked a day in their useless lives.

That qualifies them to be “republiCON”.

If they are truthful, and work with facts, not spin and bald-faced lies, they are necessary and useful. If not, they are a drag on all American progress. Not interested in their wars on women, people of color, workers, the environment, science, seniors, students, health care, infrastructure, the poor, the middle class, the constitution, democracy… Feel free to add to the list.

I voted to Governor Romney mainly because I like his plans for America better than Barack’s plans. Cutting the military is a major mistake and you just do not raise anyone’s taxes during times of economic troubles. I also do not like Barack targetting the wealthy! And let me not leave out that while I do believe abortion should be an option under certain circumstances, I am totally against making it legal for all situations. I should also add, I do support same sex marriage. It is just the right thing to do! But as for a VP, I couldn’t have been happier with Paul Ryan as a VP and I am hoping one day to see Paul Ryan as President.

James, I absolutely agree with you it is time for both parties to roll up their sleeves and get to work for America and not for their party, or the tea baggers.

I disagree with this assessment. The decision to pick Paul Ryan was not to appeal to a national audience, but to rally the GOP base which, until then, was very hesitant and troubled by the nomination of Mitt Romney. The real reasons for Mitt Romney’s loss were (1) a political platform that reiterated the very policies that contributed to the fiscal and economic debacle we are finally oveercoming, (2) Mitt Romney’s gaffes, especially his 47% remark, (3) Mitt Romney’s failure to repudiate some of the racist statements and noises made throughout the campaign and, particularly, during the rNC when he had an opportunity to reject bigotry and run as a candidate of all Americans, (4) the de facto abandonment of Republican values and goals in favor of facile tactics to get votes. An example of this is Romney’s decision to restore the MEDICARE $716B saving and DoD spending cuts while at the same time emphasizing the need for spending reductions, (5) last, but not least, was the record of an out of touch elitist whose privileged life included doing whatever it took to accumulate wealth, often at the expense of average Americans.

The problem is not just Ryan and his Ayn Rand ideas, but the base that forced Romney to pick him. Mitt really wanted Bob Portman, someone who knew the federal budget and was from battleground Ohio, but was seen by the base as too vanillia. Ryan touted himself as a policy wonk and wonderkin but was an empty suit when faced with a a derisive Biden who took him apart. We have to lay blame at the entire party and not pick out one. They allowed Dick Armey a defrocked house member to create a tea party, that tore the inside of the republican primary processs apart . Emboldened by their 2010 house victory they really thought their ideas would sell mainstream, so without restraint they popped off one after another. The fact that wingnuts like Michelle Bachmann, and Ron Paul were given a national stage to let the public in on their plans, hurt the Republicans more than Ryan. 999 became a mantra and everyone but Mitt was given the mantle of leadership. Every wacky idea was broadcast.The republicans deluded themselves by letting house elections in safe gerrymandered districts determine what their national agenda was going to be. They really thought that the old coalition of southern and other angry whites was going to propell them to a national win. They fell into the trap pushed by Fox and Friends that Obama’s 2008 coalition was disafected and would not come out in droves. That lead them to feel comfortable in attacking women, gays Latinos, and writing off Afro Americans, attacking the enviornment, and protecting the rich. Independents began to recoil also at the virulent attacks from multiple sources. The outburst by women in VA, because of restrictive abortion measures and the recall of Scott Walkwer didn’t ring a bell that all was not going as planned. Statements by Akin, and Murdoch about rape sealed the fate of the elections. So this is an entire party that was hallucinating about who really makes up this country and what their needs are, and not just one.

we should have more elections it is the way to get ALL the White millionaires billionaires to redistribute their own wealth they must have given 2 billion dollars the get the economy going at least in the add dept.
we should have elections for Judges ships also every two yrs we should not appoint we should electic that is the worst thing that could happen to the Repuicks they will spend billions more for that sceniaro

You can’t blame one person it’s the Republican Platform. Foodstamp President did you ever that what races are on foodstamps mainly White People who need food because they need to feed their kids. Duh you IDIOTS that’s what you get for being against the American People. Kids need financial aide cut that cut food stamps cut section8. Then privatize prisons so you and your buddies can make more money. YOU CAN’T FOOL ANY AMERICAN CITIZEN EVEN ONE WITH AN 8 GRADE EDUCATION.

I want to see those 18 public records…scathing or not
Chief McCurry
USN retired

He is only qualified to teach about Ayn Rand but quite frankly who cares about her or her ideas? Besides Republicans, that is.

forward………………………………

Dispite the dismal record of the worst president since Jimmy Carter, Dems won for three reasons: 1. Obama giving voters a continual drip of left wing propaganda and personal Romney attacks, 2. The constant Obama loving cheerleading by the mainstream media and press, and 3. Mexicans and Blacks like free stuff and are drawn to a socialist regime.

It is hilarious to read the hateful rants by the unhinged angry liberal left that accuse Republicans and Independents (“repubics,” “teabaggers,” “bigots” and “Nazis”) of being hateful. Laughable, really.

The right wingers would of had us all out of work with no welfare and on the streets lol

I am independent and would have given Romney a chance. But Ryan did it. Like it did with Palin before. I went for Obama. A not to happy voter.

Paul Ryan Class Crook lol

Plus they were to focus on getting Obama the Blackman out of the White House . That to angered people. Fold the race card to many races out there now, its not just black and white anymore.

thinking and reasoning for your self without Fox noise and Hannity Insanity BS

LOL of the article…leaving out how the GOP robbed Ron Paul of the nomination all throughout the campaign, at the GOP Convention, and how Romney and Ryan packed their campaign with rich Israelis, Vegas and Macao gangsters, th City of London bankers who would rule the world, Netanyahu and the LIKUD party, and Israeli military intelligence.

Let me put it this way
the white rich bastads decided to destroy families in the african nation and bring them here for slaves as we all know this country said NO
Then those rich white Bastards decided to bring as many mexicans and latinos in to use as slaves and that didn’t work NOW those WHITE RICH WHITE BASTARDS want to send everyone HOME
Can U believe THAT . We have to get these RICH WHITE nBASTARDS out of this country without their money

The Repuicks believe that if you say something 6 times it becomes TRUE

republicans – quit your whining and GET OVER IT! you are part of the problem, get out of the way.

GOD won Evil LOST the REPUICKS are EVIL

Wah Wah Wah! You’ve lost the election! No one is to blame but the Republican candidates!Suck it up, get over it, let it go and move forward with your lives! End of th discussion! Sum it up: Nanh Nahnny Nanh Nanh! HPHLMAO!

“We are worried about ‘the cow’ when it is all about the ‘Ice Cream. ‘The most eye-opening civics lesson I ever had was while teaching 3rd grade. The last Presidential election was heating up and some of the children showed an interest.

I decided we would have an election for a class president. We would choose our nominees. They would make a campaign speech and the class would vote. To simplify the process, candidates were nominated by other class members. We discussed what kinds of characteristics these students should have. We got many nominations and from those, Jamie and Olivia were picked to run for the top spot.
The class had done a great job in their selections.

Both candidates were good kids.

I thought Jamie might have an advantage because he got lots of parental support.

I had never seen Olivia’s mother.

The day arrived when they were to make their speeches.

Jamie went first.

He had specific ideas about how to make our class a better place.
He ended by promising to do his very best.

Everyone applauded and he sat down.

Now is was Olivia’s turn to speak.

Her speech was concise. She said, “If you will vote for me, I will give you ice cream.” She sat down.

The class went wild. “Yes! Yes! We want ice cream.”

She surely would say more. She did not have to.

A discussion followed. How did she plan to pay for the ice cream? She wasn’t sure. But no one pursued that question. They took her at her word.

Would her parents buy it or would the class pay for it…She didn’t know.

The class really didn’t care. All they were thinking about was ice cream…

Jamie was forgotten. Olivia won by a landslide.

Every time Barack Obama opened his mouth he offered ice cream and 51.4 % of the people reacted like nine year old’s. They want ice cream.

The other 48.6% percent know they’re going to have to feed the cow and clean up the mess.”

I am so sick of people like Paul Ryan worshiping Ann Rand, a woman who never had a real job in her life. Ann Rand was an intellectual who never produced anything of real material value. She was one of the high society ‘hangers on’ — the effete intellectual ‘artists’ that her books criticized and definitely not one of the ‘builders of railroads and steel mills’ that she glorified in her work. A hypocrite to the day she died, she ended her life on the public dole – living off Social Security while the government picked up the tab for her cancer care!

Maybe Obama should just let all the idiots in Texas and any other state secede from the union and let them form their own little territory in some hellhole like Kansas, or just give them Kansas, border them up with barbed wire and leave them to their incestuous misgivings, ass backwards misgivings.

I agree with most of the details in this article, but not the central theosis. Clinton was definitely a big boost to the Obama ticket, and I’m sure they got plenty of good advice, but I believe there were three main reasons why Romney lost.
1) Obama had a better ground game than Romney. He had more offices in swing states like Ohio. His aparatis from the 2008 campaign was still largely in tact and he had more grass roots support. Romney counted on fatcat donors.
2) The mysogeny of Aiken and Mourdock (and other GOP congressional candidates) drove women’s votes (and anyone that doesn’t think women are breeding stock) away from the GOP.
3) The racism of the teabaggers ensured that the vast majority of “minorities” (the term is becoming a misnomer) voted democrat.
Finally, one sobering thought; despite the media trying to bill this election as a landslide, Obama won by 3% of the popular vote. The evils mentioned above are alive and well in the USA. We need to fight every day to send them back to the stoneage where they belong.

I consider myself a liberal minded republican and can tell fellow republicans that many of these comments being made about our party are TRUE. Historically the more fundamental (often noted as extreme) elements within my party have in fact shown visceral bias against foreigners, non-whites,non-Christians,homosexuals, and poor and indigent. They are also as addicted to their fake drug war as any crack or heroine addict they have been so eager to charge with as many felonies as possible and just throw away instead of rehabilitate and bring back into the useful folds of society like most other modernized,civilized nations do. I cautiously (but optimistically) crossed my party lines and voted for Obama the first time around but could not in good conscience do so a second time. If he had done more to bring equality to the gay community and actually kept his word regarding keeping the Feds off the Medical Marijuana Dispensaries He would have had my vote a second time. I didnt like how he was all to eager to pass another bill that further stripped us of what few Constitutional Rights we have left either. I had to give my vote to the only candidate that actually seemed to believe in smaller government or give a shit about our Constitutional Rights…..Gary Johnson. So until the G.O.P. wakes the hell up and pulls it’s ignorant head out of it’s uptight ass and takes a good,long,hard,historical, look at it’s past and present priorities they wont have my vote again. Oh yeah,and to both parties…There is such a thing as a LIBERAL REPUBLICAN and a CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRAT!! Always remember that small minded, chronic, compulsive, party line-towers inevitably damage whatever party we belong to(like the G.O.P. has damaged itself).