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Earl29 Wrote: Jan 16, 2013 5:50 PM
The first clue that he could not win was when he did not reject RomneyCare, ann.
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annfan_777 Wrote: Jan 16, 2013 3:37 PM
Romney deserves 100% of the blame for his loss. He failed on almost every level to communicate conservative principles.
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It's hard for a lot of people, particularly on the right, to recognize that the conservative movement's problems are mostly problems of success. The Republican Party's problems are much more recognizable as the problems of failure, including the failure to recognize the limits of that movement's success.
American conservatism began as a kind of intellectual hobbyist's group with little hope of changing the broader society. Albert Jay Nock, the cape-wearing libertarian intellectual -- he called himself a "philosophical anarchist" -- who inspired a very young William F. Buckley Jr., argued that political change was impossible because the masses were rubes,...
Time to Grow Up, GOP