Posted on 11/08/2012 5:55:44 AM PST by teg_76
1) Corrupt Media
If the media slanted towards Romney like they did Obama, we'd have won by ten points. Candy Crowley 2nd debate performance completely epitomized the corruptness of the media. Libya, Solyndra, Fast and Furious. Imagine those under a Republican president. We need to change the media, not ourselves. How I don't know.
2)Demographics
More minoriites, more single adults, don't spell a picture for electoral success. Bush and Rove deserve a lot blame for this, as they should have been protecting our border and our soveirgnty rather than pushing amnesty. So much for Rove's "permanent Republican majority"
3) Chris Christie
The polls turned out to very accurate, and they reflected the huge shift towards Obama after Christie's over the top, effusive praise. There's no reason he couldn't have called for a moment of unity and had both Romney and Obama tour the area.
4) Passive Candidate
Everytime Romney showed strength, he moved up in the polls. His pick of Paul Ryan, his 1st debate performance, both showed a strong side of Mitt that gave him momentun. Unfortunately he followed his 1st debate with passive performances, thinking he had the lead and trying to run out the clock. Whoever advised him to not bring up Lybia in the third debate should find new work. It is a huge scandal and Mitt deserves blame for not being confident enough in his debate skills to explain it to the American public.
Unless states pass a ‘Voter ID’ law, the urban districts and wards will stuff the ballot box to claim their state’s electoral vote for the cheating party.
Newt Gingrich was the ONLY candidate that was sticking it into the media’s face
AND PEOPLE LOVED IT
I dont CARE about his past!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We know all about it.
He is still the former speaker of the house that BALANCED THE FEDERAL BUDGET !!!!!!!! Dealing with Bill Clinton, no less...
Agreed!
I’ll illustrate how the Chicago machine works. We are one town away from Cook County in DuPage County and half the town got redistricted, and why was that and why didn’t the town right next to Cook County get redistricted? Because the Latinos live on this side of town,and there are none in the town east of us. Get the picture? Evidently I live in a ghetto!
Benghazi was squelched by the media. Romney could have made his speeches 100% about it and the media would play the clip where he says “great to be here!”. Mr Mellow may not be the best way to fight Obama but Mr. Angry would be all over the media and they would dredge up the stories about how he beats puppies.
you would think the GOP would have learned now.
They wanted Romney because he was successful, rich, Presidential looking and not a voting record and a nice moderate guy.
It’s time the GOP GOT SOME BALLS, NAME NAMES IN THE MEDIA, call their bias out, and then fight, fight likemad, fight the homostapo, fight for what we stand for, get the message out and mention how people want to be rich and having crumbs off the Govt is not the way to go.
Stop this pandering nicey nice crap
Didn’t you beat up Romney enough before the election? Just give it a rest.
As for Christie, he's just another motormouth for the corrupt/ignorant public to factor into its emotional "decision making."
False dichotomy. The substance of a message does not depend on the style in which it is said. The message needs to be solidly conservative backed by a solidly conservative candidate. But he needs to know how to smile and relax otherwise he will never win.
I agree with teg and not with you. Christie hurt Romney, and then he made it worse trying to defend it and repeating it over and over again. It was picked up by the Obama media and beamed repeatedly into every TV screen in America.
Obama could not have produced a better campaign ad.
Anyone who thinks Romney was right to disengage on Benghazi is not facing the reality that it was Benghazi that had Obama on the run. If Romney had brought it up in the debate, in TV ads, and in interviews, then Obama would have been forced to answer the question: "Mr President there doesn't need to be an investigation to determine where you were and what you did and what you followed up on when the live feed showed our Seals fighting for their lives. Where were you, what did you do, and what were the results of your follow-up?"
Romney went timid and dropped the ball. There's simply no denying it.
I think Romney figured at some point, though I agree with you on him being a great candidate, that the time had come to pass the buck on to the Democrats and Obama. IMO, let the media, Democrats, and Obama take a bath in all the dollar bills in debt they hope to pile up with Obamacare, interest, and 22 plus trillion dollars. Then add the inflation part, and frankly, if they screw this country badly enough, and can hardly pay for crap with inflated currency benefits, all the better, I may sound cynical, but it’s all like my little brother, he kept reaching for the stove, so eventually my mom said to simply let him burn his little finger. Guess what, he felt the pain, but it gave him a hard message.
, one has to look at the exit polls, look at the results, then look at the all the fraud, the machines, the obervers thrown out and something is fishy about this election.
NOthing adds up but I guess most on here just want to move on, the troll then come out and push their liberal homosexual agenda and tell us the party has to accept them in order to win.
I’ve looked at the counties around here and all came out more than 2008 and 2010 and yet Romney got less votes as did obmaa by 8 million.
Where ddi the voters go from 2008 then, my wife and I said that we have never seen the population fired up, more yard signs than ever seen, more stickers than ever seen, go and talk to a neighbor and it was about oama and getting rid of him
sorry some can move on and say ah well better luck next time but not me, something doesn;t sit right with me on these results
I’ve heard about how the Chicago machine works and then when I see the results in places on the federal level not the state level i.e. WI goes republican but they vote for a Dem senator and obama, !!! doesn;t make sense
I;ve listed some cases on my profle page and they are al facts which no one has looked into. It’s not me making it up or acusing but just facts.
Chicago had 4 years a DOJ and Holder , in those years they had a lot of time to look and win this last election and then carry on with ant gun, homosexual agenda, force the states to ignore DOMA, put more radical judges on the bench.
Exactly. He was even given an opening on Fast and Furious with a “assault weapon” question in the first debate, and he spent 90 seconds mostly agreeing how violence is terrible blahblahblah. Barely mentioned F&F, when he could have HAMMERED both Obama adn the Obama MSM for two straight minutes.
Ditto Benghazi in the other debates. Mittens couldn’t hit.
“Beat up”?
Wrong.
His liberal positions were discussed in detail.
Woe to America that a liberal RINO was chosen again
as the “selected loser”. Every FReeper tried
to help Mr. Romney for this election, but except
for the 1st debate, he was mostly MIA and ignoring
issues which would have captured the base and the
Presidency.
But he had three debates where the cameras were running directly into most American living rooms, totaling many hours. The debates could have redefined the media talking points for the last month.
But he missed his many chances to put Obama on the defensive about F&F and Benghazi.
Totally missed them, since he was coached to be "Moderate Mitt, the nice, squishy, non-threatening guy."
In a bare knuckles fight against the Chicago machine, that is called "LOSER."
I agree. Romney should have said four of our fellow Americans died, mr. President. Wat did you do? Nothing!
We need to change the media, not ourselves.
This is so spot on. 100000% true. If the media were even half way fair, no democrat would ever get elected.
5. Chicago-style thuggery combined with union thuggery.
6. 47% remark.
7. Relentless negative ads before Romney could legally spend campaign funds.
8. “I like to fire people.”
9. Legitimate rape & “God intended” rape remarks that tarred the whole Gop.
10. Hurrican Sandy.
11. Superior GOTV efforts by the Dhims.
I also believe that what that traitor Christie did was going to hurt Romney and it did.
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