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That is, were Reagan alive today and running against Obama as he ran against Carter. Obama is wily, cunning, ruthless. And a very good money raiser. He’s far tougher and smarter than Carter.

I don’t blame the voters. Their choice among candidates was pretty dismal in terms of picking a viable nominee.

I have to assume you’re being satirical in your post? I’m pretty sure the voters can only vote for who is on the ballot – so if Mitch Daniels or Bobby Jindal aren’t actually on the ballot, then how are the voters to vote for them?

As for Reagan not winning – oh, yes he would beat Obama. Obama’s BACKERS are rich and slick and hard to beat. Obama, on the other hand, ain’t all that bright. He’s the King of “Uhhhh.” I daresay he’s not smarter than Carter and Reagan beat the pants off of Carter.

hope you understand

Nice piece, Mr. Crown. Not sure that I agree with the “time out” idea, although I daresay that’s meant to be satirical as well.

This is a political site, and I know that it probably isn’t considered PC to say something like this on a political site, but sometimes I wish we would get out of the mindset of depending quite so much on the realm of politics and simply take the initiative to do more things on our own.

You know, just a few bold ideas that might give us a better chance at getting some things done. It seems like we spend a lot of time waiting and waiting and waiting for politicians to do things for us these days.

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The political class we get is the one we tolerate. If Bush and Obama have shown us anything, it is that the American public is very easy to dupe into supporting foolish things on the basis of partisanship, illogic, or sentimentalism.

Recommended because I’ve felt the same way sometimes. This post reminds me of looking at a good case of road rash when someone has fallen off a motorcycle and just got all their epidermis, endodermis, musculature and everything else scraped right down to the bone, and then into the bone and the still-live nerves inside.

And that’s how I feel sometimes, too.

Even though I disagree with you.

We have to make the best of it, somehow, Mr. Crown. We have to try.

The cause is not this crop of candidates.

Next time conservatives need to find a candidate early and get behind them. Willard buffaloed everyone out of the race before it began. Locked up all the local state officials which, in Michigan, are stealing a delegate and giving it to Romney.

One more thing, Romney spent about $60 million to date for 149 delegates. That’s nearly $358,000.00 per delegate. At this rate, it will cost romney $600 million to capture the nomination. Some businessman.

Blame the voters? True leaders don’t need polls a year in advance to tell them they should lead.

Primarily because Barack Obama is, as they say, “toast”. He cannot, and will not, survive electorally, unless some crank goes third party and siphons off 5 or 10 percent of the (otherwise Republican) vote.

Where does this sort of defeatism come from? I mean, other than the bland acceptance of the pop culture narrative that insists Republicans are mean old white guys who bunk up with their sisters in the dark recesses of their trailer crawl-spaces, and Democrats have sovoire-faire leaking from their monstrously oversized brain-pans, and only a dunce, a rube, a bigot, a homophobe would vote for a Republican? We must stop buying this sort of crap, or it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Barack Obama is genuinely loathed by a significant portion of the voting population. And, when the voters trot off to the polls in November, sporting the $5 gas in the tank of their ten-year old car, giving a lift to their brother-in-law who’s been out of work for two years, the dawn will break over them that this Obama misery cannot continue, and The One will go down in glorious flames.

Make bank on it: All summer, and into the fall, Barack Obama’s poll numbers will say he’s a lock, a shoe-in. But, two weeks before the election, they will plummet, and Obama will lose with barely 170 electoral votes.

This is no normal election cycle. Somethin’ strange is a-brewin. And to give up now, and start tossing around “blame” is the height of narcissistic, self-flagellating defeatism. I’d rather read old “Highlights” magazines in the dentist’s office than partake in this kind of epistle.

The three GOP candidates left in the race are all good men. Try running for office sometime to see how easily YOU can take the slings and arrows, have your positions slandered, your family name besmirched by vile smears. Each of these men, including Romney, (but not including the anti-Semitic, no-Confederate Truther Ron Paul) are solid Americans, and so are the folks voting for them.

As for blame: The GOP establishment was trying to determine that in June of 1980, too. Pick up any issue of Newsweek or Time from that time period, and their full of the same game.

But, Carter figured it out, eventually.

“Now, it’s tempting to say that, based on the last two cycles, residency in New Hampshire should permanently disqualify you from voting for a Republican nominee, and frankly, everything from President down to Sanitation Director. And I think we can all get behind that. ”

Sanitation Director on the ballot? I beleive that is an appointed position in Department of Public Works a.k.a DPW.

12 Delegates. New Hampshire has 12 delegates. The smallest delegation of any state going to Tampa. Romney won 7 of those delegates. So why do the first 7 delegates matter more than the remaining 2279 delegates? If NH can’t pick a good candidate for the nomination then why isn’t NH alone in its choice?

3/1/2012 poll

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We the People started on this journey with verve, excitement, and with an open mind.

What we the People received in return was manipulation by the establishment, and their candidate, who thought he could climb his way to the top by climbing over the bloodied bodies of his fellow Republicans he had tried to destroy.

Drudge and Coulter sold their souls to get their candidate elected – hope it will have been worth it, guys.

But make no mistake, if Romney is the last man standing and it’s a choice between our slimeball or their slimeball, I will chose our slimeball.

But, don’t you dare blame us!

GO NEWT!

I haven’t even gotten to vote yet and won’t until the end of April. Until then all I get to do is watch the slow and painful race to the bottom. Then again, all I am is a little, itty-bitty, fish in a great big pond, and whatever happens will happen regardless of what I have to say.

Blaming someone or something might make others feel better, but it really doesn’t help me much. It’s all water under the bridge as soon as it happens.There’s always a plan B, C, D, etc… even when options seem elusive. If there’s a will, there’s a way; and we won’t be able to find our path while were busy pointing fingers.

And then, there is something else. I usually try to keep my spiritual beliefs out of politics, but I firmly believe we are, and have been living a major part of the master plan for the world. Things happen the way they do for a reason, and we won’t always be able to understand it. Just when we think we’ve been left alone, it couldn’t be farther from the truth. Remember the Footprints poem? We are very blessed, even now, and no matter how bad things appear to be, I find at least some comfort in knowing who is in the driver’s seat.

We lack the courage of our convictions. And when we do win elections, we are too scared to implement what we believe.

Look what the left has accomplished since the 1960′s. In a sense, their pushing though ubamacare and getting it done, was heroic. They were not to be stopped.

And if umbamacare stands, we’ve lost.

Lacking the courage of our convictions. This explains it all.

“The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.”

Until this changes……

We lack the courage of our convictions. And when we do win elections, we are too scared to implement what we believe.

Look what the left has accomplished since the 1960′s. In a sense, their pushing though ubamacare and getting it done, was heroic. They were not to be stopped.

And if umbamacare stands, we’ve lost.

Lacking the courage of our convictions. This explains it all.

“The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.”

Until this changes……

This is a great strategic vision for the future. Let’s alienate the entire country. Let’s only allow 5 southern states to vote. That’s smart. I’m not great at arithmetic but I don’t think there are enough electoral votes between south Carolina and Texas to elect a president.

This is a very emotional entry. The author is upset so I won’t be too hard on him.

Romney is surging. He’s now 2 points behind Santorum in Ohio and will win state comfortably.

Yesterdays Gallup poll had Romney 50 Obama 45. It s only going to get worse for Obama once we have a nominee so Its hard to take the pessimism as anything other than petulance.

Voters have seen what anyone willing to take a sober look has seen. They’ve seen clown after clown come and go and Romney remain. They’ve seen him come feom behind in Florida and Michigan and they are about to witness it in Ohio.

Probably best to take a look in the mirror before assuming it’s the majority conclusion that’s the stupid one. It could be ofcourse. It’s always possible that your right and everyone else is wrong. But that’s not usually true. And it certainly isn’t true in this case.

I think we should ensure a conversion of the Pagans. Certainly, in that lies victory…or at least conquest of their spirit.

It would take far more space than this comment allows to explicate on structural issues with the Republican Party. Weak “leaders” (quotes intentional…Boehner and McConnell- where does one start?), the party apparatus giving us a contra-intellectual primary process (and defending it ad nauseum)preserving the prominence of…Iowa and NH (Hi Reince, psst you’re not the smartest guy in the room)? Ditto party “activists”, pundits and commentators who have suddenly elevated Mr. Obama to god-king (oddly, they have poked fun at liberals for this vacuous, curious designation. Does that mean they now agree or is it just some type of self-loathing? Perhaps a question for another day.

By the way, where is that scandalous Illuminati called the “Establishment”? Have the gone the way of Dumnonos or the bogeyman? I can’t seem to find them. But they do make a convenient albeit ethereal scapegoat.

We owe our suck, to the people in the mirror. Somewhere we falsely equated any negotiation as surrender and abandonment of principle. We’ve become lazy, tactical and fractious.

Take a hard line and die on the hill? Well, as you see that ain’t always a fairytale.

By the way, if Obama keeps on this trajectory and Romney keeps getting better. We win. Despite ourselves.

Next time, don’t fall in love with a candidate until after he or she has been vetted:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/republican_presidential_nomination-1452.html
or
http://tinyurl.com/4ywaotu

I’m talking about BOTH Perry and Cain. And perhaps Gingrich as well.

How many losers can you bet on before you lose your credibility and leverage.

of candidates. No matter how often the bumper falls off or the trunk opens spontaneously, Romney looks like a lemon and talks like a cheap used car salesman, slick hair and all. Jimmy Carter 2.0, man the liberals certainly are happy these days.

Maybe Jennifer Rubin is right, considering she’s a fake conservative who knows maybe she is. I’ve seen her on CNN rambling like a rat on acid, nah its the coffee and bad make up days that make her the way she is.

Everyone, please vote for whoever the Republican candidate is and fight like crazy for their election. Honor the memory of Andrew Breitbart by making sure that Obama does not win this.

My apologies in advance.

I agree with this column. My belief is that there is a lack of cohesion within the party. This is not to say that it is not okay to be a more moderate Republican, or that more conservative members of the Party need to be willing to bring themselves a little more toward the center. If there is one thing we know it is that no two Republicans are alike, just as no two humans are alike. It is the way that it is. What I mean to say is that we are seeing too much infighting in the Party now. One House member will state that a bill isn’t conservative enough or that it is not moderate enough. It doesn’t matter, in my opinion. At this point in time what we should be doing is advancing any cause that impedes the progress of the bad ideas that are put forth by President Obama. If it’s moderate, it’s moderate. If it’s conservative, it’s conservative. What’s important is that it’s not an Obama ( or Democratic) policy.

This, I believe, then trickles down into the electorate (us!). Instead of looking for the best candidate to defeat Obama, we look for the candidate that is the most this or that.

Maybe it is time for our great political party to regroup. I will vote for whomever occupies the (R) next to President Barack Obama in November.

Also, let’s not forget that we could also focus a good amount of attention on bolstering our majority in the House and gaining a majority (or carving away at the Democrats majority) in the Senate. George Will will have a good article coming out this weekend about that. It would be another way to halt the policies of the Obama administration. Just some food for thought.

There is a lot of truth to this article, but I have been PO’d at this situation for a long time.