Looking like he’s walking around with a broom handle up his ass didn’t help either.
I just have to laugh at the British and Canadian fascination with U.S. politics.
The fact is that Romney WAS a good candidate. He was singularly equipped with the skills to turn this country around.
Over two million less Republicans voted for Romney than they did McCain. Total Republicans that didn’t vote for him probably double that.
Once I discovered that I went outside, faced the West and yelled, “I hope your farking happy, Jim Robinson!”
I blame many others here as well but it’s not really any of your fault. You were simply mirroring a popular sentiment.
I hope all of you are happy. The damage in the next four years will be unrepairable.
If only he had been as ruthless with Obama as he was with all of his conservative primary challengers.
All of those things are true, and Romney only got bumps when (a) the party selected Paul Ryan as his running mate and (b) he had a rare flash of personal beliefs, such as in the first debate.
Romney was quite aggressive about eliminating his GOP opponents in the primary, but he lost all his aggressiveness once he became the candidate because the GOP honchos seemed to believe that the best way to beat Obama was by trying to be as similar to him ideologically as possible, only without some of his more annoying mannerisms.
I didn’t like him overall (except when he showed that rare flash of principle) but I voted for him, and I think he would have done a decent job as president if only because the people who would have surrounded him would not have been the dangerous band of radical leftist and Islamist flakes that surround Obama.
We actually needed someone who could have given a call to battle, but that might have been uncomfortable for the GOP-e, and we wouldn’t want that, would we.
He tried to turn onto Reagan and failed.
This gem of wisdom coming from a puking rag in the socialist armpit of Europe.
I don’t think that Romney was Main Sewer Media’s candidate. As I recall, our neighbours who registered as Republicans selected him as the candidate. Blame the MSM for protecting Obamao, even after Benghazi and Fast and Furious, bigger scandals than the scandal of the scotch tape on a door that was Watergate.
Yeah, yeah, Romney was bad, ran a bad campaign, we should have nominated a true conservative like a David Duke, etc, etc.
‘splain to me, Lucy, why the Republicans who had voted for Juan McCain in 2008 stayed home this year! Or have they all croaked in the meantime? By any measure Mitt wasn’t worse than Juan. Unless of course the Republican voters are as dumb as the Rats.
Romney was probably the best candidate that the GOP could have run this cycle. Republicans can’t sit around waiting for the next Reagan because it isn’t going to come unless some rich conservative wants to start a “Boys from Brazil” type program. He was a good candidate that ran a good campaign by conventional wisdom. He tried to build an ideological coalition and failed. Obama built an interest group coalition and succeeded. That might be the wave of the future,
campaigned as if the whole experience was deeply uncomfortable for him.
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No doubt it was ...
He was forced to shake hands and socialize with peons and other inferior types...
Elitists dont play well with others...
I did not support romney to begin , but I was very impressed with the man and would vote for him again.
Cold hard facts
People like Clinton—Gore-Kerry—Obama should not even get within hailing distance of the presidency in a normal populace
Mickey Mouse should have been able to landslide against them
We have a majority brainwashed society that is kept that way by the schools and MSM
No nation has ever turned itself around once down the road to ruin
We are on the fast track now
Hindsight will view Romney as a poor candidate with no core values who looked deeply uncomfortable
At the risk of sounding like I’m saying I told ya so. Shouldn’t foresight have told folks this at the beginning of the primary?
One RNC worker who tweeted conservative critic Debbie Schlussel noted that the GOP relied on phone banks while the Democrats had a get out the vote army.
After four years, the RNC did nothing to build a modern get out the vote organization. It failed utterly!
Besides the mechanics, Mitt Romney’s lack of principles, his inherent liberalism and arrogant confidence in victory contributed to his defeat.
America’s demographics are changing but “me too, only bigger” is not what what voters what. People will pick the Original Coke liberal over the generic pretend New Coke liberal every time.
Put it all together, the scale of Romney’s loss doesn’t exactly come as a surprise.
Romney is just the symptom of the disease plaguing the entire Republican Party. The Party has to get young, and boot out all of the deadweight of the past. As in sports, it’s time to “blow up the team”.
The Brit author of this piece, undoubtedly a lefty writing for The Mail, is pretty much off base. So is Mr. McIntyre, who has no reason to be embarrassed.
Romney ran a pretty good campaign with no major gaffes. His debate performance was solid. The GOP campaign seemed to be geared to picking up independent voters, among whom he apparently picked up a significant majority. He may regret not playing up the Benghazi issue more, but for some reason he didn't. He may have overestimated the intelligence of the American electorate.
Problem is that when one side is honest and plays by the rules and the other cheats and lies like crazy and uses illegal voters and rigs vote counting machines, for example, the good guys are it a severe disadvantage.
There is pretty good evidence from the numbers of this election (especially the sound Romney advantage with independents) that the better man had it stolen from him by the fraudsters and cheaters. As Edmond Burke once famously said, "all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing."
These “Romney failed” articles are nothing but attempts to “cool the mark.”
They know damn well that Romney won, and any investigation is going to turn up massive corruption in the voting systems.
History will prove that this was our last chance to save the Union...at least for decades.
So Romney was supposed to give his victory speech in a state he couldn't win, a state where he was governor?
Now his son is blabbing to the liberal Boston Globe that his slick father, who had two positions on every issue, who would say anything to get a vote, didn't want to be president.
Yes, the problem was Romney and the inside the beltway GOP that anointed him.