That is so true. Remember for weeks before the primaries the polls showed that Romney was the only candidate that could beat Obama? I wonder how many votes that influenced.
Of all the people that were actually running (so not Palin, not Christie, not Hologram Reagan) who would be doing better against Obama right now?
I thought Perry was the God-send, but he was DREADFUL. That wasn’t Romney’s fault, that was Perry’s fault.
Prior to that I liked Pawlenty, I thought he was the anti-Obama, the complete opposite, well he wouldn’t say “Obamney-care” to Mitt’s face so clearly he wouldn’t say “boo” to a ghost.
I like Santorum too, I sent Santorum money (not much) so that is true support. But....he couldn’t seal the deal.
I suppose I should mention Ron Paul, but in all the years he’s been around he’s never found a way to broaden his appeal. I think he’s basically a professional crank and happy to be one. Maybe his son (whom I love) can go further.
And I don’t know what someone was talking about (here, elsewhere, somewhere on FR) but the party didn’t give Romney any money during the primaries.
The voters chose Romney, he wasn’t selected in a smokey backroom. And Romney chose Ryan, who is great, I don’t think anyone else would have done that.
And by far the best thing about Romney - and he himself should make more hay of this - is that fixing messed up things is what he’s really good at. It’s been his entire career and he’s been very successful.
Isn’t that what we need now, someone to fix our completely financially messed up country?
I really think we should be excited about giving Romney a chance to bring his expertise to bear on things. I’ve come to the conclusion that he really is THE best man for the job, probably the best in the whole country as a matter of fact.
Further, he’s a sober, clean-living, honest, kindly guy.
As for all the social squishy-ness about him, one after the Sandra Fluke war-on-women stuff he can be as right wing as he likes and just watch them stew.
For the rest of it we’ll just have to stay vocal and active.
Don’t forget we ALL share part of the blame for where this country is right now. I know that for years even though I paid attention, I didn’t really pay attention I just read the headlines and all the while I always thought “they’ll figure it out”. But, they didn’t figure it out at all, they just kicked the can down the road as the saying goes.
It’s going to be a long, hard slog to get this nation turned around. But for sure getting rid of Obama is a big part of that.