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If republicans believed in limited government, reducing spending and more freedom they would win elections. We haven't had a president that truely believed in those things since Calvin Coolidge.

The die hard registered republicans keep voting for whatever peace of $#!+ is handed to them and they seem to accept and want the GOPs move to the left.

Those of you who recall the 1976 and 1980 Presidential campaigns will remember that the Republican Establishment fought Reagan every step of the way. Bush was their man in 1980.

Really doesn't matter who they run anyway. Its silly that they always listen to the losers, but at this point its irrelevant.

Once the nomination process begins the usual suspects frantically look for the one guy they can nominate that will short-circuit the "job interview" process and dump a damaged candidate on the rest of us, just like the last several times. These people cannot be talked out of setting off that political IED. They just want everyone to be quiet and stop interrupting their TV schedule.

First, I think that Romney won the election. But it's a moot point now. It's not the first American election that was stolen, and it won't be the last. There were Paulione Gregoire, and Al Franken, and others. Those elections were clearly stolen.

There is a mountain of verifiable evidence showing that election fraud was extremely widespread. And all it requires is a few votes in a few critical precincts to win the precinct. And when they take the precinct, the state goes Blue — with all its electoral votes. Why does anyone think the Democrats fight voter I.D. laws so hard? You need a picture ID to buy beer, and to drive. How is voting any different? The answer, of course, is that picture ID's would cut down on illegal voting.

Numerous precincts were 'won' with literally 110% or more of the votes going to Obama. Romney did not get ONE SINGLE VOTE in many areas! Students of human nature know that you could not get 100% of Italians to agree that the Pope is Catholic; and even in all-black areas, it is preposterous to believe that EVERY last vote went to Obama, with not one exception. There are surely disgruntled blacks, just like every other race. There are surely Conservative blacks, too. So the election was stolen. When electronic voting machines kept repeatedly posting the citizen's vote as "Obama" — when the voter kept trying to vote "Romney" — you know there were shenanigans going on. And when TV stations reported that Obama won — two WEEKS before the election — you know there were shenanigans afoot.

Second, regarding Sowell's point: if a true, fire-breathing Conservative was nominated, he would win.

Why?

Because poll after poll has shown that Americans self-identify as Conservative by a 2:1 margin, over those who self-identify as Liberal.

America is a conservative country. Conservative candidates should build on that, not try to pander to the image that the Liberal media paints. Most Americans want secure borders. Most Americans want a strong military. Most Americans — even gay Americans —do not want gay scoutmasters taking Boy Scouts up into the mountains for weekend getaways. Most Americans want the Constitution upheld. Most Americans want the government to stop its profligate money-printing. Most Americans oppose the idea that more than half of the population should be supported on some type of welfare. And so on. That's just the way Americans think.

In numerous state and local elections, Conservative candidates have won their contests. That is why Reagan won his elections.

The next election is there for the taking, for a true Conservative candidate. If the Republican Party [and IANAR] can get away from RINO's like McCain, and George H.W. Bush, and George Jr., and Romney, etc., and nominate a true CONSERVATIVE, they will be successful. But to the extent that they nominate pseudo-conservatives like McCain, they will continue to lose.

Oh, and the leftist talking heads on the teevees have plenty of advice to offer Republicans on how to win presidential races.....

The RINOs tell us to follow their guy and we won't have to get our hands dirty, and countless millions of dumb-asses follow that advice and then complain that the RINOs didn't do what the lazy voters just kind of wished, in a vague and fuzzy way, but never actually said to anyone out loud.

The loser POTUS candidates didn't fly here from Mars. They were picked by lazy and clueless voters, often in great haste, so they could flip back over and keep following the Kardashians. There were millions of Republican voters in the very first months of the nomination battle that claimed Romney was the guy we needed and we should hurry up and dismiss all the other candidates. Apparently, there is some great prize for voting in May for the nominee that will lose to the Dem in November. And the sooner you vote for the future loser the bigger that prize must be.

Mark my words. In the first month of the next nomination fight we will have Republicans in a damn hurry to nominate the most RINO candidate RIGHT THIS EFFIN MINUTE. They will get their way and we will watch Hillary preside over what's left of a once great country. The voters have learned not a damn thing from all the Gerald Fords, Nelson Rockefellers. Bob Doles, HW Bushes, McCain's, and Romneys.

Remember, Romney was the guy that lost to McCain in 2008 and our side picked him to fight the guy that defeated McCain. This is like replacing your Ford Pinto with a Yugo. You skipped over the Yugo first, now you think it will win the race.