You tweeted that Reince Preibus is not the problem. No? Well, he’s part of the problem. Today Mike Gallagher (conservative talk show host) opened up about the many avenues he took to try and get Romney on his show (and convince him to go on several radio shows) to help sell himself to the public as most candidates do. Reince Preibus was one of many who said, “no.” I might be able to understand not going on Rush’s considering the left’s use of Sandra Fluke, but all conservative radio?

I can only assume a distancing from conservative talk radio. Not smart. It also shows the ugly “republican establishment” colors…again. Do you recall Romney doing the rounds of any radio talk shows? I don’t either.

Preibus is not THE problem he’s just one of many.

I don’t think Rosie Gray and Melissa McEwen are making fun of Republicans as much as they are making fun of people like you.

If you really think the main issue was that Mitt Romney was officially a moderate Republican, I don’t know what to tell ya

note that I do not endorse a generic, David Frum “BE MORE LIBERAL” strategy, and i’m pretty sure Romney would’ve been a fairly centrist technocratic president. but the problem’s deeper than that. he was not perceived that way.

he was not perceived that way

Class warfare. That was the election in two words.

We need to buck up.

Don’t let the screen door hit you on the way out. Good riddance.

Understood.

You think Preibus told the Romney campaign what to do? Of course not.

Romney determined himself to run a serious campaign, no frills and light stuff that demean the dignity of the office he sought. And talk radio is a minefield best avoided.

Remember the “47%” brouhaha? All it takes is one slip in that environment – or for the host to say something that can be targeted, unless the candidate rebukes him on the spot.

The talk radio audience was already ours, and those cranky fringe nuts who weren’t were not about to be won over.

If we give the Democrats what they want and make a deal and the voters still blame us, then there is no possible way to win anyway, is there?

The coming recession will wake a few up. These folks haven’t seen bad yet.

It occurs to me that we have only a few peaceful routes out of this misery:

1) Capitulate. Wait, that won’t get us out of it.

2) The long, slow, slog of generations enduring Japan-like terrible economies

3) Starve the beast.

Somehow I like that last one, best. It’s kind of Randian, but I think in this internet-connected age, we can come up with some way to have a virtual gulch.

For months Nate Silver, other pollster and even RCP has had Obama ahead in every state he won last night. Republicans did not believed them because in their little world we live in a socialist/communist land where our president wasn’t born here, our economy is doomed and NOT recovering, the world as we know is over. They made this election about birth certificates, Benghazi, abortions, gay rights, and countless of other things, among them many lies or stretched truths. Look at your article, you use the words “doom”. “gloom”, “dread”, and “horror”. You put down christie, where all he was doing was looking after his own state and doing his damn job (politics aside). I mean outside of the far right tea partiers, these pictures you paint are just not tue. When people hear these non truths in the press, from the republicans, from your nominee for president they want no part of it. They see the true reality and this bubble that you guys paint your self in, is not reality sadly (as seen last night). No matter what I sit here and type you will still not see reality. All you will see is doom and gloom and your readers will respond to me with snark, cynicism, put downs, and anger.

Frankly if they focused on the economy, Romney would not have lost. But the tea party could not let that happen, they forced Romney into the situation where he had to keep flip flopping. The flip flop is what lost it and I guarantee if he stood far right (without flip flopping) he would have lost even more. Unfortunately the existence of the tea party puts republicans in tough corner for the primaries that they cannot get out of in the general election. Reality check, it was not Christie, it was not Sandy, it was not the lack of focus on Benghazi, etc… It was the the lack of focus on the economy and the flip flops. It was the bubble that every tea partier lives in. And in this bubble, Romney was going to win in a land slide. Everyone of them believed it no matter the proof that they were shown: Simple math and science.

Bubble meet reality please, reality meet bubble please.

Seriously, you’re saying conservative talk radio (across the board) is a mine field? I’d like to point out that Stacy tweeted Reince was not the problem. I respectfully made an argument why he didn’t help Romney.

Gallagher stated he went through several channels to get Romney to go on his show, one of them was Reince and he was a “no.”

What political candidate cannot go onto talk radio and be articulate, warm, and get his political point across? No mine field, this is what he needed after the debates, friendly territory to get his point across. Or even explain his 47% comment?

Come on, this is a no brainer. I’ve heard several other politicians use talk radio and they always had more points, rather than less, when they were done.

1) You must be new here.

2) You obviously don’t know anything about the Tea Party, or the Romney campaign.

3) Bye, troll.

wow you guys actually edit comments becuase you dont “like/agree” with it? I didn’t call anyone names. A comment that had 3 up votes, btw. Now go and give it down votes, or delete it all together, that’s the America you want, right?

One main point you edited out was:

“No matter what I sit here and type you will still not see reality. All you will see is doom and gloom and your readers will respond to me with snark, cynicism, put downs, and anger.”

Thanks for making my point.

now delete/edit this comment, ban me again, and make my point again. I will go away laughing at your asinine stupidity and hypocrisy.

It is really difficult not feel disheartened. I write as a Canadian and I am stunned by the result of your election. We have a (barely) Conservative majority here so, I thought if we could make that choice in these times, surely America would!
I just read Sarah Palin, Michelle Malkin and The Anchoress’s thoughts – which were are comforting – but it is just so …disgusting!! America is the last refuge for freedom. We Canadians who cannot get healthcare under our socialist system travel to the US, people fleeing “hate speech” violations fell there, etc., etc. Now you have Obamacare and a filmmaker getting a year in jail!
I honestly think Palin could’ve done much better than Romney. McCain/Palin actually got more votes than Romney did with all the Bush/economic crash/historic black prez stuff they were up against.

Someone who can articulate the foundations of the US Constitution is what’s needed and take it to the MSM and call them on their BS. Romney could do neither. He was tepid, safe, moderate, establishment and a known flip-flopper lacking bedrock principles.

I for one hopes Palin makes a Senate run in 2014 to attempt to re-establish herself.

Worse, perhaps, was that Romney ran a moderate campaign. Simply doing a better job of defending his stance on the auto bailouts would have helped, as would making Benghazi a much bigger issue. The prevent defense rarely works in politics.

But this was bigger than Romney and his mistakes. It goes back, in fact, to the failure to aggressively defend Dubya on the economy and Iraq, a weakness that was partly Dubya’s own. In effect, we let the Dems control the narrative.

Quite. This might well be the socialists’ last gasp if we play it right.

Well-worth considering, as is working to effect a separation from King George Obama.

I wasn’t going to say it, but it seems I must: We who supported Sarah Palin warned you.

I don’t agree with you at all….

But I’m against the banning.