2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumPrediction time: will the right blame Romney or blame their policies?
When (not if) Romney loses BADLY in November, will the Republicans place more blame on Romney for being incompetent at campaigning or "not conservative enough" or will they take a look in the mirror and admit that it isn't that Mitt Romney is himself a terrible candidate (he is) or that his campaign is woefully inept (it is as well) but that the country overwhelmingly rejects their policies.
They have only cared about the rich white straight guy forever.
That is finally catching up with them.
As Sen. Graham said "there aren't enough angry white guys."
Well, you can't exclude women, brown people, black people, smart people, gay people poor people, middle class people, and expect to win.
Sure you can dupe some into voting against their interests by trotting out abortion or flag burning or gay marriage or any other number of social hot button issues to tug at the heart strings of people maladroit at understanding how badly your economic and foreign policies are screwing their backside, but you can't do it forever.
Yet, I wonder if instead of realizing this truth whether they will double down on their Ayn Randian idiocy in four years and run Ryan or Santorum or some other tea party loon who is a "true conservative."
Care to predict whom they will blame?
elleng
(130,156 posts)for all of the repugs failures.
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)DCBob
(24,689 posts)Speck Tater
(10,618 posts)oldhippydude
(2,514 posts)actually think there is a fair chance they will say "he wasn't a real conservative".. my reasoning is, that to do otherwise would not fit the fox business plan... that's really what the modern Republican Party is about.. increasingly it's more of a marketing tactic than a legitimate political party... they have the base and they will simply reprogram them to the next corporate suit...
the good news for us, is that while this will make a great business model, it will assure their ultimate destruction, as demographics are on our side, and it's simply a matter of time..
OffWithTheirHeads
(10,337 posts)SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)lol
which is why I think they'll dump on Romney.
Cosmocat
(14,543 posts)their whole operation is based on alternating between validating a sense of victimhood and railing against boogymen.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,355 posts)After all, Mitt ran as a "severe conservative", right?
oldhippydude
(2,514 posts)can't take an oak!!!
theKed
(1,235 posts)just leaf it alone, wood you?
Besides, it's all the LIBRUL MEDYAS fault!
oldhippydude
(2,514 posts)i was a little board
theKed
(1,235 posts)Repubs are definitely barking up the wrong tree with Mittens.
oldhippydude
(2,514 posts)theKed
(1,235 posts)for a loss for that son of a beech
gopiscrap
(23,674 posts)Swede Atlanta
(3,596 posts)First they will blame Obama for telling lies
Next they will claim the voting systems were rigged to favor Oama
Then they will say that Robme was not a conservative...i.e. if he had been even more bat-shit crazy he would have won.
They will not understand that the vast majority of Americans do NOT share their "values". They will not understand that demographics are against them if they hold to "traditional" conservative views. The nation is not only growing older but also more ethnically and religiously diverse. Christians are still the majority religion but many other religions have found their place in our society including MUSLIMs.
In a way I am glad that the reich-wing will not understand what defeated them because they will repeat this in 2016.
But mark my word...we cannot be complacent. We need every vote, every phone call, every sign, every dollar to defeat a campaign that has unlimited amount of Koch and Koch-like money to confuse and lie the way to the White House.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)In 2016, they'll nominate Alan West.
smorkingapple
(827 posts)I want them to go full bore with the nutso candidate in 2016. Santorum will of course think he's next in line since he was last one standing. Tea Party will ensure they stay crazy. We want this. This is good for us.
theKed
(1,235 posts)if we take the chance to push national politics back to the left.
center rising
(971 posts)begin_within
(21,551 posts)Cosmocat
(14,543 posts)was going on about how they were actually right about the embassy situation, just blew it politically.
That is what he is doing - saying Romney is a GREAT man, just a bad politician.
What he is saying, but does not know, or the "liberal" media can't see or won't expose is - they simply feel they did not have a good enough actor to get past their putrid policies.
They are so lacking in self awareness to get it, but that is what they are bemoaning, not having someone capable of selling their crape well enough.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)Liberals already hate him.
Republicans will blame him.
Independents find him irritatingly snobby.
Jennicut
(25,415 posts)They thought that in 2010 there was this huge cultural change for them, just like in 1994. Except, it was more that Clinton and Obama voters did not come out enough. In 1994 they overreached and they did so again. They also never learn, just keep going further to the right.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)They'll blame rMoney for "misrepresenting" himself and buying the nomination.
They'll blame Demon Obama for casting a spell over the "minorities" and "stealing their votes."
They'll insist that "illegals" voted in droves.
They'll blame anyone, everyone and anything that shoves the responsibility OFF them and onto anyone else. They will paint themselves as agonized victimes, like they always do.
Arkana
(24,347 posts)will be blaming ACORN and the Black Panthers.
They're delusional asshats and I hope I get to drink gallons of their tears on election night.