Unsure

Over the course of this 2012 campaign, I had occasion to disagree with Reliapundit of The Astute Bloggers regarding Mitt Romney’s chances as a candidate against Barack Obama. I believed during the primary process that conservatives needed a candidate that drew a sharp ideological contrast with the incumbent. My belief at the time was that there were other candidates who fit the bill more than Mitt Romney.

As I reflect upon Obama’s dismal record and disgraceful fingerprints upon the Accomplice Media-Ignored scandals of Fast and Furious and Benghazi, I am stupefied that this election would have been close, let alone resulting in re-election. Mickey Mouse should have been able to beat Obama on his record. I wonder whether I was correct in my assumptions back in the primaries, or if this thing was unwinnable from the get-go.

Never a Romney fan, I honestly have to admit that I was impressed with the way he ran his campaign in an overall sense. My one major complaint in his debate performances is that he refused to use stronger terminology to illustrate the failure of Obama’s policies. In the aftermath of this election, one must wonder if the debate strategy of “playing defense” in the second and third debates was a major mistake. I know it drove me to drink.

Six of one, half-dozen of the other

While I have this nagging feeling that I (among many others) was right during the primaries that Mitt Romney would not be conservative enough to win the election, I also have this sick feeling as I view the election results and wonder what in the bloody hell happened to the United States. Any thoughts from all of my reader out there? Did we nominate the wrong candidate, or has the country finally slipped past the point-of-no-return socialism? If it’s the latter, where will we – and the rest of the world – turn when a strong, free society is needed?

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