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I think you're fooling yourself. Mitt was a fine, if not stellar, candidate. If someone like him could not win in this battered economy and against the most Marxist president the US has ever had, then the America I knew is gone.
What will it take next time? We'll be $20T in debt. Death panels will be the way healthcare is rationed. High earners will be looking at 70% of their earnings going to the government, and the middle class will still be unemployed. Texas, flooded with amnesty-fresh aliens, will be the new swing state we watch turn blue.
And in 2016, we'll be lamenting that we didn't connect well enough with one group or another as we watch Hillary sworn in.
Face it. There is no future for our way of thinking.
In the wake of Mitt Romney's loss, many Republicans say the GOP must make far-reaching changes to be competitive in future elections. White voters are a smaller and smaller part of the electorate, they point out, while Latinos and other minorities are growing as a percentage of the voting public. Unless the Republican Party reinvents itself to appeal to those voters, the argument goes, the GOP can get used to being out of power.
There's something to that. The electorate is changing, and the Republican Party needs to keep up with the times. But the more fundamental answer to the...
All this blame Mitt stuff seems to me an attempt to deny the obvious.