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Mitt The Mild – Jobs, Jobs, Jobs And Deficits, Deficits, Deficits, Lose, Lose, Lose
grasstopsusa.com ^ | 11/09/2012 | Don Feder

Posted on 11/09/2012 11:47:24 AM PST by massmike

How do you blow an election when your opponent presided over the worst economy in memory – unemployment has hovered at 8% for almost four years; the price of gas has doubled; the national debt has grown by a third; long-term unemployment is up 87%; the number of Americans in poverty increased by 6.4 million; and the president’s signature initiative (Obamacare) has been consistently opposed by a majority of Americans since it passed two and a half years ago?

How do you lose an election to an incumbent whose foreign policy consists of cringing, kowtowing and abject apologies – a foreign policy defined by the body of an American ambassador being dragged through the streets of a Third World sinkhole?

Governor Romney is a decent man – a patriot with a nice family who knows how to create jobs. As a candidate, he was unimaginative, uninspiring and pathetically adverse to taking risks.

Romney resolutely refused to talk about anything but the economy.

Romney was maniacal about staying on message. When Benghazi exploded in the president's face, the Romney camp outsourced the issue to talk radio. That's not leadership.

Perhaps 40% of the nation is hardcore entitlement addicts.

But it’s Romney who bears ultimate responsibility for Tuesday’s debacle. When asked how Lenin and the Bolsheviks defeated democratic socialist Alexander Kerensky, the late Ayn Rand of “Atlas Shrugged” fame observed, “You can’t beat something with nothing.” Exactly.

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1 posted on 11/09/2012 11:47:34 AM PST by massmike
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To: massmike

Oh, stop. I take it this Felder genius likes 0’s *plan* better?


2 posted on 11/09/2012 11:49:51 AM PST by Jane Long (Soli Deo Gloria!)
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To: massmike
Romney was maniacal about staying on message. When Benghazi exploded in the president's face, the Romney camp outsourced the issue to talk radio. That's not leadership.

Romney did try, and the Press mercilessly attacked him for "jumping the gun" and "playing politics."

3 posted on 11/09/2012 11:50:04 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: massmike
Obama has presided over the worst economy in memory – unemployment has hovered at 8% for almost four years; the price of gas has doubled; the national debt has grown by a third; long-term unemployment is up 87%; the number of Americans in poverty increased by 6.4 million; and the president’s signature initiative (Obamacare) has been consistently opposed by a majority of Americans since it passed two and a half years ago! His foreign policy consists of cringing, kowtowing and abject apologies – a foreign policy defined by the body of an American ambassador being dragged through the streets of a Third World sinkhole!

And people were able to justify giving him ANOTHER term because "four years really isn't enough time to get much done"......

4 posted on 11/09/2012 11:52:31 AM PST by massmike (At least no one is wearing a "Ron Paul - 2016" tee shirt........yet!)
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Hey Feder, what was Obama’s message? He had “nothing.” Romney did talk at high levels about his plan. So, he had “something.” I would say it was Obama who beat something with nothing.


5 posted on 11/09/2012 11:53:37 AM PST by TJ Jackson
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Obama’s job plans is ... millions of unionized teachers!

He has no plan. Just socialist ideology.

http://confoundedinterest.wordpress.com/2012/11/08/vampires-werewolves-and-the-post-election-market-reaction/


6 posted on 11/09/2012 11:55:56 AM PST by whitedog57
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To: massmike
I've enjoyed Feder's writing in the past, but he whiffed on this one. Once Romney started with the criticism of Zero's mideast policies, he was actually blamed for causing the situation to worsen. The story became "Mitt's remarks may have fanned the flames", rather than "O sat on his thumb whikle Americans died". He hammered Benghazi in the second debate only to have Candy Crowley the Hindenberg lie to cover for O. The economy should have won it for him; but the media kept reporting that we're in a recovery and that jobs are being created (more lies). I think this race was unwinnable. 4 years of O's failures were not enough to separate the state of the economy from Bush in the minds of the idiotocracy.
7 posted on 11/09/2012 11:56:21 AM PST by Sans-Culotte ( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
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The ignorant, filthy, sub-human, piece of crap, American pig-dog voter is responsible. They will get what they deserve. I hope I can avoid their justly earned punishment.


8 posted on 11/09/2012 11:57:26 AM PST by Doctor 2Brains
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Romney ran a 'Dewey like race', as a manager.

He even picked a 'numbers guy' as his VP.

The face of the GOP is Karl Rove.

There is nothing in the GOP to excite anyone about freedom, it doesn't stand for freedom, it stands for management of the welfare state, and that is a losing message.

It was with the GOP during the Roosevelt/Truman days (only the popularity of Ike, could get passed it), and it is now.

What does the GOP stand for as a Party?

The GOP is nothing but a low tax liberal Party, it will only fight for low tax rates.

9 posted on 11/09/2012 11:58:36 AM PST by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: massmike

FDR did it.


10 posted on 11/09/2012 12:01:55 PM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE www.fee.org/library/books/economics-in-one-lesson)
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And Communists were running wild in FDR’s administration,too.


11 posted on 11/09/2012 12:03:03 PM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE www.fee.org/library/books/economics-in-one-lesson)
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To: massmike
Registered Republican voters sold us out by foolish “I hate Romney” bunch of shi!. Now the stupid voters will bitch about how bad things are or will get. Enjoy the depression.
12 posted on 11/09/2012 12:05:25 PM PST by Logical me
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He tried. I doubt if there are many folks who could have realized the electorate has changed this much.

People in general cannot remember anything about the founding fathers, how they struggled to make this "GREAT EXPERIMENT", how we used to be a nation of proud people who just wanted to be left alone to make our way, (or our fortunes..)

We never used to beg for handouts, but with all the Blacks on welfare and just whiners in general....

Those generations who were never taught these things are now the MAJORITY!!!!

Worse, the Hispanics who at least will work could not have realized that Romney was their friend, NOT Obama.

13 posted on 11/09/2012 12:05:55 PM PST by FixitGuy (By their fruits shall ye know them!)
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Romney's message was Jobs, Jobs, Jobs.

Do you know what that sounds like to the welfare/entitlement/food stamps class??

It's a threat, it's frightening, and it's racist. Many of them have spent their entire life avoiding work.

Obama message was that the rich should pay for everything.

14 posted on 11/09/2012 12:07:05 PM PST by oldbrowser (Welcome to U.S.Zimbabwe)
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To: FixitGuy

P.S. The[endulem will swing the other way, or, we will die as a nation. We can just be bled so far. The Great Silent Majority seems to still be silent!


15 posted on 11/09/2012 12:10:01 PM PST by FixitGuy (By their fruits shall ye know them!)
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To: massmike

He didn’t give out free phones and he didn’t go after the dead vote.


16 posted on 11/09/2012 12:10:10 PM PST by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: FixitGuy

P.S. The pendulem will swing the other way, or, we will die as a nation. We can just be bled so far. The Great Silent Majority seems to still be silent!


17 posted on 11/09/2012 12:10:35 PM PST by FixitGuy (By their fruits shall ye know them!)
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To: Doctor 2Brains

Well said


18 posted on 11/09/2012 12:11:25 PM PST by CatherineofAragon (The idiocracy has come home to roost. God help us.)
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To: massmike

I don’t believe this loser shit for one New York minute. We weren’t beaten because he did or didn’t do that. We were beaten by a preponderance of loathsome hateful sloths that have been increased by Obama these last four years. We were beaten by the MSM, massive cheating, and crap carping like what you’ve just posted.


19 posted on 11/09/2012 12:18:37 PM PST by Gaffer
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We lost because you can’t tell everyone how bad they have it when YOU are making sure they don’t have it that bad. Sure, lots of people out of work. But also true, lots of people getting extended unemployment bennies courtesy of the republicans. No pain, no pain. Time to stop and time to Spread the Pain.

Also, until such time as the republicans stop sighing and going all eeyore via the media, i.e. “oh well, it is what it is.” they will lose. You can’t have a media that wholesale fabricates reality and hope to tell voters some other version of reality. Republicans need to take the media out, Breitbart on steroids style, by any dirty means necessary. Otherwise, they are losers.


20 posted on 11/09/2012 12:24:34 PM PST by FlipWilson
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