Not so much for the voters, they've voiced their opinion with their vote, or more like lack of, but hopefully a wakeup call for the RNC as to how voters see the party. I've been telling you all along that the TP ideals and their vitriol is a minority of the way the right feels. They are just the vocal minority, and hopefully their ideals will die out sooner than later. We can only hope.
But in Florida, the decline became unmistakable. Maybe it decreased because the Romney and Gingrich campaigns, plus super PACS, spent more than $18 million in the Sunshine State on TV ads, of which 93% were negative in the last week alone, according to the Campaign Media Analysis Group. After all, negative ads depress turnout. But after all the mud was thrown, 1.6 million people turned out in the nation's fourth largest state, which might sound impressive until you compare it with the nearly 2 million who turned out in 2008.
Nevada was even worse, with 32,894 people turning out to vote in a state with more than 465,000 registered Republicans. Four years before, more than 44,300 participated in the caucus. Turnout was down more than 25% despite the GOP caucuses being the only game in town. Party officials were expecting a turnout of more than 70,000.
All this should be a wake-up call for the GOP. Despite an enormous amount of national media attention devoted to each of the states to date, the response has been a notable yawn among the Republican rank and file.
The turnout numbers are even worse when you compare them with the number of registered Republicans in each state that has voted to date.
People in general are disgusted with these candidates.each one is afraid of telling the truth what is really happening in this country and hide behind their so called phony concepts in these primaries.The GOP Party better wake up and smell the coffee before it is to late and Obama is voted again in the White House for another 4 years more.
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I think their only long shot is to nominate someone NOT currently in the race... a Jeb Bush or Chris Christie like person. Course that might cause full scale revolt. But the GOP is like a herd of lemmings, they blindly focus on a route and even if the "bridge is washed out" they never stop to re-evaluate their course... OFF the CLIFF !!
It's really BOs to lose, unless something hugely catastrophic prevents it. . . like maybe the end of the world !!
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I think their bed was made a year or two ago when all of the most popular (and probably smarter) Republicans decided not to run. There just is not much to debate about in the GOP primary process because under President Obama and the Tea Party, they've completely balkanized. How could anyone palatable in a general election participate in that?
The fun of it is. McCain was runner up to George W Bush back in 2000. And he beat out the others in 2008 then lost the general. Now front runner is Mitt Romney who was runner up to McCain. Where does anyone think that it's a good idea to back last time outs runner-up?? If he wasn't good enough for prime time last time, what makes him such a good deal this time?
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Part of it is also threats from idiots like Grover Norquist. Many years ago he got many young and new GOP Congressmen to sign a pledge NEVER to raise taxes. And now even when we need to (Reagan did 7 times), he tells them if they do, they'll fund any opponent in the GOP primary that runs against them and signs the pledge. (read terrorist approach) This way they keep them all "under their thimbs" where they can't do anything but the strict TP line.
The TP is doing more damage to the GOP than the Dems could ever hope to.
The TP is doing more damage to the GOP than the Dems could ever hope to.
Yep, I knew that the TP was bad news from the start. The only ones it was good for were the extremi$t$ like Rush, Hannity, and Beck, part of that 1% vocal minority.
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