Comments on: Putting The Contempt In The Right Place http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/2012/11/26/putting-the-contempt-in-the-right-place/ A First Things Blog Fri, 24 May 2013 16:53:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Kate Pitrone http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/2012/11/26/putting-the-contempt-in-the-right-place/comment-page-1/#comment-30858 Kate Pitrone Tue, 27 Nov 2012 02:45:18 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/?p=9726#comment-30858 About half of registered voters didn’t vote. Of the half that did vote, 49% went for Romney. And he lost with that. Romney took a beating in the primaries from the folks you mention and Obama had no primary opposition. Doesn’t that make a difference? Lots of people, maybe everybody people here, for example, didn’t like Romney in the primary. Folks were only hopeful when there was another potential candidate in the news, even Rudi Guiliani or Donald Trump for goodness’ sake. For conservatives, anyone paying attention to the economy or international affairs or anything at all was willing to accept Romney as better than Obama, if only because Obama for four more years scared the heck out of them. Most people I know are still walking around stunned by the loss. That’s not because they thought Romney was so great, but because they thought the country knew Obama was so awful.

Conservatives are a mixed bunch. That’s only human, I guess. Bur there are plenty of arguments about what a candidate should do, be or say and while we see a mighty agreement on a few topics there is mighty little on others. A good chunk of the conservative base was ill-disposed to Romney from the primaries and no sweet-talking on his part did anything to ameliorate them.

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