The Presidential election came and went in a New York minute. In less than an hour, both Republicans and Democrats were shocked. Everyone thought it was going to be so close. It wasn't.
Why?
Romney didn't inspire us. Plain and simple. It had nothing to do with demographics, the mandate on the Catholic Church, gay rights or even the economy. Romney just didn't inspire us.
Reagan inspired us. His ability to transcend party lines couldn't be quantified. George W Bush had a similar ability, albeit not nearly as special. We liked and trusted him. We gave him two terms.
Obama was the Reagan for the 2008 Democrat party. He inspired us. We gave him a term. He didn't however inspire us in 2012, but neither did Romney. Obama was the incumbent. He won because people didn't want to change. They were uninspired.
Now the Democrat party is trying to eliminate the Republican party. They want to reign Republicans in and turn them into the Democrat party. Democrats are saying that Republicans need to change their focus, and try to get votes from all the different demographics.
We aren't statistics. We're people. We aren't demographics. We're human beings. The Republicans don't need to change, or focus energies on attracting specific demographic blocks. We need a leader who inspires all of us.
Patrick
www.apostle.com
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If a faithful Catholic wants to vote for what links to our faith - it should NOT matter if they "inspire" us or not. This election had a CLEAR ROAD FOR CATHOLICS TO VOTE - the VERY FIRST "measure" was abortion or no abortion. I am VERY ashamed of Catholics who voted for ABORTION and a REQUIREMENT for ME TO PAY FOR ABORTIONS! THAT is the CLEARNESS every Catholic had a choice to make. We KNOW that when one ACCEPTS and AIDS sin, they are just as much damned as the first person. CHRIST did NOT say - get the babies and children away from me - He said "bring the little children TO ME" - to do that we MUST do all we can to PREVENT MURDER of His children!! WHY is this NOT CLEAR to "Catholics"?????
ReplyDeleteAlthough I agree with you 100%, I'm being realistic and pragmatic. I voted for Romney, you voted for Romney, and I'm sure alot of good Catholics voted for Romney as well. Where were the rest of the Catholics? Almost 50% voted for Obama. Instead of Pro-life being the number one issue for the other half of Catholics, it became part of a list of other issues. Obama inspired his base while scaring the rest of us. Romney wasn't our best choice, he was our only choice. Being the "Not-Obama" guy just wasn't enough.
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