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I don’t think any of this can be laid at Romney feet. The most damaging blows were dealt by the likes of Akin, Muourdock, et Al. The GOP enabled the war on women meme. The Democrats just plowed the fertile field they were given.

When a candidate that is so vulnerable does this well the blame rests on us.

I agree with you. We lost to a man who is the worst President in my life time.

But, what the media makes, the media also destroys. In the second term, maybe they might just begin to ask the questions they should have asked 4 years ago.

I agree with both of you. Romney campaigned as well as he could have. I don’t fault him.

The deck was stacked against him, the media were 100% partisan for 0bama, and most damning, 50 years of public indoctrination left us with a permanent majority of an ignorant and greedy electorate who will not vote against their Santa Claus.

I think Romney played the best strategy possible, knowing that everything he did was going to be twisted against him by the media. He had to go directly to the American people and get around the media filter, which he did admirably in the debates. And he damn near pulled it off.

We could have nominated Gingrich, Santorum, Reagan, George Washington or Jeffrey Dahmer. It didn’t matter. The outcome would have been the same.

When I started my campaign against Preibus in Febuary 2011, none of these people were candidates, but I could feel the whif of loser blowing from his numerous orifaces ~ and knew we would lose everything right when we had the Democrats where we wanted.

Well, it came to pass that Preibus engineered one of the Republican party's epic fails.

We fired his predecessor for winning ~ what do we do to losers?

I want to believe that the meida was the problem, but Obambi got 10 MILLION few votes and Mitt did not do as well as McLame...geez. What happened to the TEA Party volunteers and the army? The people that turned out for Scott Walker stayed home, the folks that liked Kasich LOVED the pres - go figure AND one report said "40% of Cubans voted for Obama" - huh? The theories will be all over the map for weeks.

Mitt ran the race as a CEO, with no understanding of mycomments/ message above. He never had an elevator speech (30 sec to 1 minute) on any issue that was important to "working class" - the majority of voters. (his message never said, "I helped create companies like Staples they built 90,000 jobs. Domino's has even more workers.)

Mitt and anyone who ever entered politics KNEW that Bill Clinton destroyed Dole IN THE SUMMER, but they let the Bain stories run without push back.

Mitt was the best we could put up because the young guns would have gotten killed and the old guys - newt or Rick had no record anyone who is not a partisan would like. /rant off