[samkatz]

sadly I can’t blame this on Romney. My disgust is with the American people who fell for Obama’s pack of lies, even after 4 years of misery with him. Sure, Romney could have been more aggressive in the last 2 debates, done more character assassination vs Obama, run better commercials. But Mitt was an infinitely better candidate than McCain, Bush and Dole. He held himself high in the debates. I think he listened too much to his pollsters and “sat on a lead he didn’t have”.. BUT, when all is said and done: Mitt had as much $$$ as Barry to get his msg out. He laid out a choice: Socialism that has failed or return to free enterprise. The voters made their choice. Not just the minorities (sure it’s hard to overcome 95% Blacks voting for O) but the whites who are living off the fat of the land yet are overcome with “guilt” that others are not. Believe me. I live in Massachusetts. So I”m sick of my friends and neighbors and blame them for this fiasco more than I blame Mitt.

[Moseley]

But Mitt was an infinitely better candidate than McCain, Bush and Dole.

Yes, that's true. But Romney's campaign was still run and dominated by the same disastrously incompetent campaign consultants and self-proclaimed experts who have run the GOP into the ground for many many years.

Mitt Romney was better than his campaign. But his campaign was a dead weight that Romney had to drag around.

Romney turned out to be pretty good. His campaign was terrible. In other words, his campaign consisted of the same old establishment hacks who couldn't run a campaign for dog catcher and win.