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I hear this a LOT:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/12 ... suggests/#

zorro
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 9:39am

“ltb
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 4:42pm
Obama did not win because Romney was too conservative, Romney lost because he was not conservative enough.”

Exactly.

Does that mean Obama was the more conservative candidate in the election?

It means the conservative base stayed home, and so the liberal base was able to outvote them.

kunkmiester wrote:It means the conservative base stayed home, and so the liberal base was able to outvote them.

Last year, while following conversations over at Free Republic, I lost count of how many people said they would absolutely refuse to vote if Mitt Romney became the nominee. He was seen as just another North Eastern Country Club Rino who would stab the base in the back, the way all those North Eastern Country Club Rinos always do. Also, the choice of someone who is a Mormon was objectionable to some of the more religious types.

A lot of people regarded Romney as a bridge too far, and they decided they would rather have a genuine Socialist/Communist as opposed to a Socialist-light. I have some sympathy with this perspective as well.

How much of his loss is attributable to this reason I do not know, but some of it surely was.


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