Why Republicans Lose Elections

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I remember sitting in a hotel lobby after the Reagan landslide in 1980 and watching one liberal Democrat after another going down in defeat. It was a good feeling, but I knew it wouldn’t last. It wouldn’t be long before the GOP establishment would co-opt the Regan Revolution.

By 1988, the warm glow of Reagan’s trouncing of Jimmy Carter and a near sweep of all 50 states against Walter Mondale in 1984 dimmed to a burned out cinder when Vice President George H. W. Bush started his presidential campaign against Michael Dukakis.

Bush was far behind Dukakis after the Democrat convention in late July. The following material is taken from Pat Buchanan’s fascinating book Suicide of a Superpower (2011)

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  • http://thechristiansolution.com thechristiansolution

    To all the people who say, "We can't vote for Ron Paul because we will get Obama," I say…

    1988 – We did not vote for Ron Paul, we got the first Bush

    2004 – We did not vote for Ron Paul, we got Obama

    2008 – If we do not vote for Ron Paul, we will get what we deserve.

    • Looking4Sanity

      Bwahaha! Ron Paul just committed political suicide last night on the Fox debate! It was exhilarating to watch! A more whiny display of "Blame America First" I have never seen!

      Ron Paul is so stupid that he doesn't understand that you don't win elections by telling voters everything is THEIR fault!

      • ForConstitution

        He should just change his name to "TheFinalSolution" since he hates the Joos so much.

        • Looking4Sanity

          I was wondering when/if anyone would make that connection! Good job! I'm telling you, this guy is a neo-Nazi masquerading as a 'christian'. It is sooo obvious.

          • Tim T-Bone

            In case I don't run into you between now and then, Merry Christmas to you, L4S. :o )

          • ForConstitution

            I'll have a steak grilled, well done with some A-1 sauce. K?

          • Tim T-Bone

            Looks like I won't be answering you–can't imagine why that was 'canned.

          • ForConstitution

            Yep. I just got deleted automatically too. I think I'm gonna email em about this b/c I think it's not intentionally being done.

          • Looking4Sanity

            And a very Merry Christmas to you too, Kevin! Happy New Year as well!

          • Tim T-Bone

            Thank you, Sir. Dittoes on the new year.

          • ForConstitution

            2AllAGoodNight:

            ROTFL This man's an inspiration. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1394864/R….

            God Bless us, every one.

            Tiny Tim in Dicken's A Christmas Carol

          • ForConstitution
          • ForConstitution

            ROTFL This man's an inspiration.
            http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1394864/R…

          • Tim T-Bone

            Ha. 'Guy had a Hormel moment. I wonder if his life insurance premiums went up after his name became public.

          • ForConstitution

            Morning! Yeah. I wonder if the Muzzies didn't put a fatwah on his head for going all Smithfield Ham on 'em. We could make those sayings into a Hallmark Card.

          • Looking4Sanity

            I can't believe the guy took it that far and then apologized. If I were motivated enough to ham them, I would never have apologized.

            They were lucky the guy was lobbing meat products. If he were one of them he'd have been slinging lead and high explosives!

      • corautmors

        He was the only one who is not a neo-con war monger on that stage. The rest will be bombing Iran just as soon as they settle in.

        Unfortunately far too many have grown up indoctrinated by our current system of BIG government and American empire and are unable to see past it. Add to this the fact that most have likely never even been out of their own state, and their worldview is sorely lacking.

        Gingrich the rotund, actually made Ron Pauls point when he was speaking about rockets being launched into Israel. He asked if WE would like it if that was happening here. This is EXACTLY the point, buffoon, that all those middle eastern countries WE drop bombs on feel the same way ( .., but hey, they only hate us because were rich and 'free' right..?! ) Talk about pathetic.

        • ForConstitution

          Yes, please please please bomb Iran!

          Bomb bomb Iran
          Just like Japan
          We'll turn the sand into pebble
          pebbles into sand!
          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iKuMVqht4U

        • ForConstitution
        • Looking4Sanity

          Has anyone ever been honest enough with you to tell you what an obtuse idiot you are?

          • MILOSDAD

            GROW UP PUNK,THIS IS SERIOUS,WERE DAM CLOSE TO LOSEING EVERYTHING OUR FOREFATHERS FOUGHT AND DIED FOR,AND THATS THE BEST YOU CAN DO GO READ 400 BOOKS OR SO,THEN COME BACKON,.

          • Looking4Sanity

            If you're going to critique someone's intelligence, you might try using correct spelling…idiot.

            Also…anyone who would name their child "Milo" has got some serious problems, pal!

            Lastly…You know I'm right or you wouldn't be so angry. After this last debate, Ron Paul doesn't have the proverbial snowball's chance of getting the nomination. He shouldn't even be up on that stage…as he is no Republican. He's a retarded Libertarian and a RINO.

          • corautmors

            Such a truculent and vacuous reply. I can see why you are still searching.

            Ad hominem replies devoid of dialectic argument offer nothing. Name calling is a typical leftist tactic.

            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1YAv_tPmho

          • Looking4Sanity

            Yeah…I get that a lot from you moon bats. You like accusing people of name calling while you're in the middle of calling them names. a tad hypocritical don't you think?

            Here's a suggestion…grow up and deal with it.

          • corautmors

            Truculent and vacuous are referring to your reply. Had they referred to you it would have stated that you are truculent and vacuous.

            To imply hypocrisy without understanding the comment is not…, grown up.
            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LZyHoAPL3M

          • Looking4Sanity

            Like I said…you people never shut up!

            So tell me…how do you moon bats feel about sharing the support of your messiah with atheists, anarchists, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, pot heads and homo s?

            That's quite an impressive constituency group you've got going on there!

        • ForConstitution
      • Pat78

        That's not what he said. Have you read his book End the Fed? He makes a lot of sense bringing me to the conclusion we are the ones who didn't learn from our American teachers about how the U.S. Constitution worked before it was hijacked little at a time for the last 100 years.

        I'll give you a smaller scale example as to how the U. S. works. I'm sure you know something about small town politics jockeying for power no matter who wins the city and county offices. If one wants to have more control, they donate to all candidates expecting influence on whomever wins. Well, that's the U.S. with foreign governments hoping to be able to control using the purse and military might. We have no business getting in there deciding who gets what between the Isralis and the Palestinians. That's their feud not ours. We mess with them, yet we leave our own borders unprotected. It's a power play! It's dangerous, and it's our fault!

        • Looking4Sanity

          I've heard the man speak. Do you really imagine that I'd actually read a book by him?!? You must be crazier than he is!I don't need to read a book by Charles Manson to know he's crazy as a loon. I don't need to read Mein Kampf to know Hitler was evil. And I certainly don't need to read a book by Ron Paul to know he has no clue how the world actually works.It's a pity that idiots like you seem to think you do.

          • Pat78

            I thought the same way until I read his book. Then I educated myself. You sound like you're not as in touch with reality as you think you are. Knowledge is power.

          • Looking4Sanity

            So, you thought you were crazy too…but then talked yourself out of it?

          • Pat78

            No, I thought Ron Paul was crazy, but educated myself. I would be as crazy as you are if I continue bantering with you this way.

          • Looking4Sanity

            If you educate an idiot you only end up with an educated idiot.

            If you're such a pacifist…move to Canada where you belong. Maybe Iran will nuke you last.

          • Pat78

            One last comment to you as you look for your sanity, and BTW, you're looking in all the wrong places. If you think any of the other Republican candidates or Barack Obama will bring our financial system back to the gold standard, reign in govt. growth and spending, establish term limits in Congress, stop the runaway train to total bankrupcy collapsing the dollar, close our borders, restore the middle class, restore freedom to managing your own healthcare and who you choose to worship, create jobs that aren't illegally taxed (Tarrifs are legal) away from earned income while giving it to able bodied Welfare(Corporate also) recipients, reduce entitlement fraud, end D.C.'s arrogant fraudulent inside trading, then you you really do need to educate yourself.

          • Looking4Sanity

            “One last comment…”Promises, promises!It seems to me you made that claim previously. Idiots like you never shut up. I don't mind you being an idiot OR a liar. The more you talk, the more you damage your own cause. You're the best advocate I have!

          • Looking4Sanity

            Ron Paul is a RINO just like Arlen Specter…but with even less spine.

      • Doug Rodrigues

        I beg to differ with your assessment of Ron Paul. Ron Paul is the odd ball of the bunch. What makes him the odd ball? Ron Paul is the only 100% honest politician who tells it like it is, and THAT is beyond the comprehension of the average voting citizen. Basically, citizens got the government that they deserve for being so stupid to keep voting in the very politicians who got the government so screwed up as it is. To make matters worse, they even voted a Marxist President. Is that really stupid, or what? Ron Paul doesn't know how to play the part of the typical lying two-face politician. For that reason he'll never get the Republican Party nomination. The citizens want to be dazzled by politicans who tell them what they want to hear. The three contenders the Republican Party want to shove down our throats are Romney…the RINO; Perry…the Bilderberger menber…or Gingrich the "Conservative" who speaker of the House voted along with the Democrats after making after bashing the very bills he voted for? We are suppose to vote for whoever the major Parties present to us. No, Ron Paul knows exactly what is wrong with government, but most people are too stupid figure that out.

        • Doug Rodrigues

          Sorry for the typos. I'm sleepy and tired.

        • Looking4Sanity

          Assuming everything you say is true, which it's NOT…where is the evidence he would actually do anything about any of it. He has been a part of that very same government for 24 years or more. What has he done in all that time to warrant my confidence? Nothing. He's the only person on that stage that has YET to brag about his accomplishments! THE ONLY ONE!Everyone else up there has at least one thing they can point to and say “I'm proud I did that”. Not Paul! All I hear about from him is how lousy my country is. I've already had 3 years of that. I'm certainly not going to vote for 4 more years worth of it.

    • http://Yahoo.com Thomas Martin

      thechristiansolution, Why not do your drinking after you copy and paste loser?

    • Dana G. Carter

      Yes if you vote for Ron Paul you will get a physical conservative, but you will also get a 100% total isolationist. If you read your history at all you will know where that puts the United States. The mans elevator does not go to the top floor. We do not need to elect Newt, but we don't have to settle for Romney. Stop listening to the Barrack Obama news agencies and do the right thing and vote for someone that they say can not win. Remember, thay said that Reagan could not win up to the day before his first election. I don't care who we put in there, to a point, but just about anybody is better than you know who!

  • Stephen Russell

    No Vision
    since 1994
    Ideas Yes,
    No Unity around Ideas even Cains 999 plan.
    Or adapting idea for Race etc.
    Then we Win.
    Unify around some BIG Projects etc.
    See 1994.

  • http://thechristiansolution.com thechristiansolution

    Ron Paul is the only Candidate who comes with good verifyable REFERENCES. No more Obama surprises!

    • OBAMAHATER4SURE

      Censored by the Administrator again,
      He sure is a tough old bird and I'll
      bet he is an OBUMMER supporter
      too.

    • Looking4Sanity

      It's good to know that Ron Paul has locked down the Neo Nazi vote!

  • ellen gilmore

    Count on the "establishment " to bring out all the tired labeling of "isolationist" . That's the term the globalist CFR crowd coined to repudiate anyone who called for "America First" policies. The "war party" isn't call the "war party " for nothing. Rep. Paul's possibility of winning Iowa is scaring the cr—- out of the establishment who want a globalist/internationalist in the White House to continue the very same policies as the "Usurper in Chief".

    • dingbat36

      What an incredible pile of equine excrement…………..and stop dragging out that Council on Foreign Relations baloney. That's about as useful as the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderbergers……………..everyone just loves the conspiracy behind every bush………….excuse me but I am offering you a tinfoil hat, last worn by your candidate at the debate last night.

      He made a glaring historical error citing a telephone call between Kennedy to Khrushchev to avert the Cuban missile crisis. There was a phone call, but it was AFTER the blockade which challenged the Russian ship carrying the missiles TO Cuba stopped the Russians cold! Paul needs to get his history straight before he blurts out any more trash like that.

    • Looking4Sanity

      You've got a LOT of nerve! No one throws around more PC buzzwords than you Ronulan moon bats! I've got news for you. Your candidate just committed political suicide in the last half of that debate. It's about time that someone told you that Americans are getting sick and tired of your Charlie Manson – like cult.

      Put your tin foil hat back on and go hibernate under whatever rock you crawled out from.

  • joyce bracy

    anyone that votes for Ron Paul is just as big a nut as he is and needs to be put away on the funny farm

    • Pat78

      He can justify everything he says with reason. Can you?

      • Looking4Sanity

        See? There's your problem. You actually think the idiot is "reasonable".

        Let me ask you one question…"Who's the bigger fool? The fool, or the fool who follows him?"

    • MILOSDAD

      your wrong about the man,i known him for years.hes a great americal who loves this land like reagan did.GOD BLESS HIM,SGT.GIBSON

      • OBAMAHATER4SURE

        God Bless him my butt, God should have him committed to the LOONIE bin before he hurts himself.

        • Looking4Sanity

          "Dr." Paul has been writing his own prescriptions for decades! ;o)

  • http://Yahoo.com Thomas Martin

    Ron Paul, Your room is ready at Sweethavens reat home, we'll furnish your crayons for you.

    • MILOSDAD

      your wrong about this man.HAS THE DEVIL BLINDED YOU ALL ! ! ! WHERE JOHN WAYNE THE DUKE WOULD TELL YOU,CONGRESS RON PAUL HAS HIS VOTE AND MINE.I AM PROUD TO STAND WITH HIM.SGT.GIBSON

  • Pat78

    Ron's problem is his delivery. His information is sound, but most Americans need to be better informed about the U.S. Constitution and how it has been abused. Our republic is at the crossroads with continued socialism decline or recreating our republic. The establishment candidates will only slow down our demise compared to Obama's swift pace. We need a complete overhaul now!

  • jerry1944

    i can see us with obambo 4 more yrs the way the gop is thinking the same old way like when they put mc cain up last time and want to do the same this time. So that means 3rd party for me even if it is ron paul and that is scary because he dont want to protect freedom in other country and probly not ours. But if the gop puts a any which way canidate up i would vote for him

    • MILOSDAD

      STOP LISTENING TO THE FEAR-MONGERS.GO READ HIS WEBSITE,SEE WHAT HE REALLY BELIEVES,WHY HAS MORE VETS LIKE ME SUPPORTED RON PAUL ,US VETS GOT SECURITY CLERANCE'S WE KNOW WHATS GOING ON,AND RON PAUL IS THE RIGHT MAN AT THE RIGHT TIME,.HE WILL STOP WARS NOT VOTED ON BY CONGRESS.AS THE CONSTITUTION SAYS!!!! SGT.GIBSON

    • Looking4Sanity

      Morons like YOU are what's wrong with this country.

  • FlaJim

    The GOP establishment seems to be content in losing elections with its losing strategy as long as they continue to enjoys their perqs and get invited to all the fashionable parties inside the Beltway. That's why they're so gung-ho on the unprincipled Romney although they'd settle for Santorum since they've coopted him in the past (his sudden support for Specter).

    GOP candidates lose only when they compromise moral principles or, in the case of Goldwater, when the establishment actively sabotages their efforts. Our first order of business needs to be to reform the GOP structure from the grassroots up. Not this coming year but right after the next election. Bye bye to the neo cons who are strong on defense but little else.

  • TedRWeiland

    Hand-in-hand with this is Jerry Johnson's latest video presentation, entitled "Why We Are Wrong About Homosexuality," found at http://againsttheworld.tv/?videos=against-the-wor….

  • luvmyusa

    Newt is 2012! Newt is the only candidate that is capable of exposing BO and his corrupt administration, along with the bias main street media, as well as the liberal judges. Newt knows where al the political bones are buried, that includes, Nancy, Reed, Shummer, Dodd and Barney just to mention a few. As a register Democrat I will be voting straight Republican in 2012. The Democratic Party is no more, then a Socialist party , boarding on a Communist agenda. We can not afford another McCain. Newt will tear BO up in a debate. Please give Newt a closer look and consideration. We have to defeat BO in 2012.

  • TonyN

    When they try and cover-up their stuff is why they loose !!! What is this stuff on Romney about ? It even has Jack Abramoff' in it http://tinyurl.com/dxwtmbt http://tinyurl.com/d5a8bwp

    Bachmann Loves Newt Gingrich http://tinyurl.com/7dgmgvv

  • pat

    i see the socialists have found there way to this so called conser site,,it moderates anything thats truthful

  • cheryl jessup

    Are we lll ready to give up? The libs hope we will and not even bother fo fight.With the exception of Paul's forgein affairs they would all be better than obama. Whoever it is we need to get behind him 100%
    Call your Repulican office and offter to stuff envelopes, make phone calls, drive people to the polls and poll watch even if you have to pay for the training. The number one enemy of success is pessimism.
    The libs are going to try every tactic they can to discourage from voting. Check out everything and if it's not written in stone, ignore it. They want to demoralize Conservative and Republicans and keep them even from voting. Don't let them get away with, stick to his failed policies like a laser beam.

  • Dana G. Carter

    There are some things that Ron Paul is right about. But there are others that outweigh those good points. We do not need military bases in Japan, Korea, Germany, those wars ended a long time ago. However, we can not pull all U.S. troops back to the homeland because the U.S. is not an Island. We trade with a lot of countries around the world and that is a good thing. We need to start manufacturing here in the states again. I don't have the right answers myself, but neither does Ron Paul. I might vote for Rand Paul, but it will be a cold day in hell before I vote for Ron.

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