wednesday morning, I found myself feeling bad for both Mitt Romney and Scott Brown, even though I voted for neither of them. Both are intelligent, honest, hard-working citizens who care deeply about America’s future. They lost because of the “R” next to their names.
In different ways, both candidates had to contort their positions to respond to the increasingly conservative posture of their own political party. They both understood that overtly conforming to it would make it hard to win in races with national implications.
Comments
This type of commentary abounds now, as the leading narrative. It is the idea that the GOP must "change", it must moderate, if it ever wants to win another election. But moderation has always been present in the GOP, whereas the Democrat party has always been highly regimented in it views. In other words, this narrative is demonstrably false. NEW PARAGRAPH: How many pro life democrats get elected to higher office? Where George W. Bush took principled stands against his party when he thought it was the correct course (he pushed for immigration reform, for example); Barack Obama has never shown any similar principled arguments against his own party. Never. NEW PARAGRAPH: The Democrats have mastered the art of dividing us into special interest groups, and has promised the world to each of these special interests. The pandering has been to Hispanics, blacks, gays, and so many others. That is not a way to govern, and I pray the GOP never stoops to this.
This comment has been removed.
Both ran like hell away from the R in front of their names! That was never a factor. There are plenty of good reasons people did not vote for them but their positions on the issues and thier pig in a poke plans were certainly big factors. System is still laughing, and Richmond wants to forget Romney's 47%:
"The Democrats have mastered the art of dividing us into special interest groups, and has promised the world to each of these special interests. The pandering has been to Hispanics, blacks, gays, and so many others."
The Republicans have no one to blame for their sorry record, their fetid votes and their divisive policies and politics than themselves. And the country agreed, including a Warren landslide in MA.