View Single Post Old 01-04-2013, 03:36 PM   #30 Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Virginia Posts: 98 My Ride: 2001
M3 Coupe And conservatives tend to be more faith-based in their
thinking than fact based? I'd rather live in the moment than the
past but prefer most to look forwards.  Yes, GWB did get two
terms, once selected, once elected, and perhaps akin to Clinton,
probably only won, errrr, prevailed in 2000 because of Nader.
Also, GOP presidents have only won by a majority of votes (50%+)
once out of the past six elections there is not as much of a GOP
popular mandate as you might imply.  Yes, had the GOP placed a
better candidate, a MUCH better candidate, on the ticket in
2012, they would have prevailed, but that's sort of self-evident
in the abstract and says little about the reality of the GOP.
The problem was that the GOP didn't have, much less place on the
ticket, a stronger candidate. Also, I think it somewhat
deflective to conveniently blame the candidate and not the
policies and platfor