MONTHS have
passed since the 2012 election and people are still trying to explain
why Republicans lost. In fact top Republican leaders are meeting to -
DUH - figure out why they lost. Do they really need to figure this
out?
What did U.S.
Sen. Ted Cruz say about this while at the Cuyahoga Lincoln Day
Dinner...
"You want
to know what happened last election cycle? We didn't win the argument
for the American people. The Democrats' story is the Republicans are
the party of the rich, the Democrats are the party of everybody else.
And if that's the narrative people believe, we'll never win another
national election."
Is Cruz for real?
If he is he won't get to far with that analysis. The GOP for years
had the label the party of the rich. Reagan changed it by bringing on
board Reagan Democrats and the Christian Conservative Right. What
changed it back to the party of the rich? Romney. Republicans have
been labeled the rich man's party once again because voters look at
the nominee or president elect of where the party is headed whether
this is right or wrong. If Cruz thinks we could of won the argument
with Mitt as our nominee he just doesn't get it. Mitt was the stock
market big government establishment picked nominee. While people are
looking for work and trying to get by Romney's business past
hi-lighted mergers, shut downs, buy outs, and speculation. To the
average person he was partly to blame for hardships we are
experiencing. Mitt never ran a store or ran a typical business -
period.
Locally here in
NE Ohio what is the thinking on why the Republicans lost? A
couple of Tea Party's are in agreement with another reason why the
GOP failed. They believe the reason the Republican's lost the
presidential election was due to the fact that they are not
attracting the conservative Hispanic and Afro-American voting bloc.
I believe Republicans do not need to attract Afro-Americans or
Hispanics or minorities. Going after smaller groups such as
minorities, unions, homosexuals to name just a few is the Democratic
Party's philosophy. The Democrats need to woo these smaller groups
because their message as a whole is anti-American and
anti-Constitution. These individual groups that make up the
Democratic voting bloc do not care as long as they get what they
want.
The
GOP's base on the other hand is much wider. Their base is the
Christian/Conservative right which encompasses ALL nationalities, ALL
races and ALL people of faith. If the Republicans would stay true to
their platform it would also spread out to voters who are very
conscience of the Constitution and people of wealth because of its
limited government stance.
This
may be an extreme example and maybe I am wrong for writing it but
Lincoln did not go after the African or slave vote they followed him
because he did what was right. With Reagan he had a strong message
and even though he was a Conservative even Democrats came out to vote
for him. The Republicans simply lost because they drifted from their
platform and alienated their base.
Furthermore
Republicans were beyond hypocritical in their pushing of Romney. The
GOP blasted Obama for mandated healthcare, same sex marriage, fees,
gun control but where did some of this start? In Massachusetts while
Romney was governor. What made them abandon their principles in
favor of Romney? They drooled all over themselves when they saw
Mitt's wallet and his fund raising capabilities. What did
Republicans do with all this money? They used it to convince you
that Mitt was a Conservative and the only one who could beat Obama.
They could of saved all that money and gathered around Ron Paul who
already had ground troops or Santorum who had a strong message.
Instead they gave us Obama.
In
conclusion IF Republicans expect to win again they need to quit
pushing RINOS and act like Republicans if not get out of the way and
let a third party in. We do not need two Democratic Party’s, which
is what's happening now.
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