Hoyt on why the Republicans lost

[james_davis_nicoll]

Enjoy!

Comments

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

since when was contraception and abortion part of the campaign? The Republicans campaigned on the economy.

The lesson here is one side cannot count on dictating the terms on which the election will be fought. Well, a lesson. Don't let your rape-apologists talk to the press if you can avoid it would be another.

[elynne.livejournal.com]

And all of my libertarian friends who think the problem is that Romney didn’t say he was okay with contraception and abortion — since when was contraception and abortion part of the campaign?

That poor baby, all those crazy liberal lies! He's so confused! It's so hard to do a Google search on "republican convention platform" and click the first non-news link and then scroll down to "Defending Marriage Against An Activist Judiciary," "A Sacred Contract: Defense of Marriage," and oh look--"The Sanctity and Dignity of Human Life." Yeah, since when is something specified as part of the official Republican campaign platform supposed to have anything to do with the official Republican campaign platform? Sheesh!

[mme-hardy.livejournal.com]

Beat me to it!

[elynne.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, has someone made a userpic of that "drinking republican tears" .gif? because I'd like to use it right about now.

[montedavis.livejournal.com]

http://www.balloon-juice.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/goptears.jpg

[sesmo.livejournal.com]

Plus there is Ryan, whose signature accomplishments in the House were introducing a budget bill that didn't go anywhere, signing on to the forcible rape story, and introducing a personhood bill. I can't imagine why people might think this has something to do with the Republican party.

[elynne.livejournal.com]

He was an unrestrained mortar launcher, obviously.

[kithrup.livejournal.com]

As pointed out elsewhere, when your response to "our rape-apologising candidate lost" is "which one?"... you've got a serious problem.

[jamiam.livejournal.com]

The fun part there was how---almost immediately after denying that the campaign was at all about contraception/abortion/social conservative issues---she went off for a paragraph or two about being pro-life.

Classic denialism. Is that a word? Do we have a word for that phenomenon? Because we need one.