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Old 11-07-2012, 12:07 PM
 
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Who in this year's GOP crop was a better candidate? Gingrich? Santorum? Cain? Trump? Bachmann?
In my order Cain then Santorum, but i was really after Ron Paul.
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Old 11-07-2012, 12:08 PM
 
Location: Bella Vista, Ark
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I almost never write about myself, considering the subject too boring and unimportant, despite numberous desperate leftist attempts to change the subject from whatever a thread was started for to "what Little-Acorn thinks".

But I predicted that Romney would win the popular vote by 5-6%, and win Ohio, Florida, Virginia, Colorado, and possibly Pennsylvania.

I was wrong. I'll devote considerable effort from here on in, to making sure I don't make the same mistake twice.

So, instead of the course of changing our government from an interfering one to a non-interfering one that lets people run their own lives and their own country, we will now see four more years of what it has been for the last four: A govt that believes it can fix things, while ignoring the fact it govt is what broke them in the first place, and keeps overriding the decisions of citizens on how to run their own lives, and uses its coercive power to take from those who earn and give to those who either can't (for whatever reason) or won't.
you certainly were not the only one that was wrong. it is beyond my wildest imagination how this happened, but it did, now if it time for the GOP to reflect and rebuild, so we can come out on top in 2016.
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Old 11-07-2012, 12:15 PM
 
Location: Tampa (by way of Omaha)
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you certainly were not the only one that was wrong. it is beyond my wildest imagination how this happened, but it did
The cause is simple. You believed what you wanted to believe rather than what the facts were showing you.

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now if it time for the GOP to reflect and rebuild, so we can come out on top in 2016.
You had this chance in 2008 and you doubled down on the same. Maybe now the message in clear, but I have a feeling it will just get MORE extreme.
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Old 11-07-2012, 12:18 PM
 
Location: On the "Left Coast", somewhere in "the Land of Fruits & Nuts"
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because that is what liberals did in 2000? and in 2004?

LOL.

sorry im not going to be gracious to an electorate that decided to vote for the guy that would give them more stuff.
Then looks like you better get used to being a (sore) loser...
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Old 11-07-2012, 12:19 PM
 
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I thought Romney would win, not by much, but a win. I underestimated how the "Chicago gang" was able to put together a group of voters and win a majority. Lies about a war against women was the teachable moment for this election.
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Old 11-07-2012, 12:19 PM
 
Location: A safe distance from San Francisco
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It appears to be too late to edit a typo in post 5.

"The old USA is dead and gone. 1883 thru 2012..... it's it dead and gone."

Should be 1783 not 1883.
The old USA was gone in 1983, Mac, but many were fooled into thinking that the Reagan "recovery" was a real recovery.

Millions of new "burger-flipping" jobs appeared while the jobs that built our middle class quietly disappeared overseas along with our national treasure. By 1987 some of us saw very clearly where we headed, but many to this day remain in denial of what the Reagan era and influence really did to this country. That includes all who thought electing Romney was the ticket back to good times.
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Old 11-07-2012, 12:23 PM
 
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Oh, please. The only women I've heard of that believe that tripe are empty headed hollywood types. And a few nutcases here.

Real women with working brains know better.
We certainly like to think as you do dont we? problem is the election tells us something very different.

had Romney won 50% of women, this would have been a republican victory. Guess what? Romney got waxed where women are concerned.

Now I think it is sick that the democrats appeal to women by threatening (falsely mostly) their sex organs, but it works. We had better accept this and start to devise a plan that counters that nonsense.
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Old 11-07-2012, 12:25 PM
 
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Then looks like you better get used to being a (sore) loser...
if you have read anything ive posted today then clearly you know that is exactly what I am doing.
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Old 11-07-2012, 12:28 PM
 
Location: Great Falls, Montana
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Well, I for one, know I'm right.

Neither Romney nor Obama are worth a tinkers dam.

As long as we continue to have the second highest corporate tax rate in the world, as long as we keep meddling in the affairs of other nations, as long as we continue to kick the old can down the road ..

There will be no jobs, no production, no peace.
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Old 11-07-2012, 12:35 PM
 
Location: West Coast of Europe
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Well, I for one, know I'm right.

Neither Romney nor Obama are worth a tinkers dam.

As long as we continue to have the second highest corporate tax rate in the world, as long as we keep meddling in the affairs of other nations, as long as we continue to kick the old can down the road ..

There will be no jobs, no production, no peace.
Reality Check: Effective U.S. Corporate Tax Rate Much Lower Than Most Other Developed Nations | ThinkProgress
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