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Romney Adviser Blames Bad Messaging
Foxnews.com ^ | 07 Nov 2012

Posted on 11/08/2012 11:25:45 AM PST by US Navy Vet

Romney Adviser: It Was the Messaging By Robert Costa | November 7, 2012 Boston — A Romney adviser partly blames last night’s defeat on a weak message. “Turnout was the big problem, since we didn’t get all of McCain’s voters to the polls, but we really should have been talking more about Benghazi and Obamacare,” an adviser says, speaking on the condition of anonymity. “Those are major issues and Romney rarely mentioned them in the final days.” The adviser expects Stuart Stevens, Romney’s chief strategist, to bear the brunt of the blame, but not all of it. “There is a Boston clique that will stick together,” the adviser says. “But blaming Stuart and the other newcomers means blaming Romney, so they will be careful. They know Romney always gave Stuart his complete confidence.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: benghazi; blame; gope; idiotsdidntvote4mitt; obamacare; rino; rommney; romney2012; stuartstevens
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1 posted on 11/08/2012 11:25:58 AM PST by US Navy Vet
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To: US Navy Vet

Morons.


2 posted on 11/08/2012 11:27:39 AM PST by boomop1 (term limits will only save this country.)
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To: US Navy Vet
I've had it with our stinking "Establishment Republicans" who keep blaming conservatives for THEIR LOSES.
And yes, I DID cast a vote for LOSER and "Establishment Republican" Romney, and AGAINST the Arab-Kenyan Barack Hussein Obama II, (a.k.a. Barry Soetoro),
the one guilty of TREASON !
That last caller should have told Rush that Conservatives have little in common with "Establishment Republicans".
Every time "Establishment Republicans" tell us what to do, WE LOSE !
Every time "Establishment Republicans" sell us a COMPROMISING LIBERAL, we lose !
Don't you get it ?
No more MONEY or VOTES for "Establishment Republicans" !

Jack Kerwick's article May 24, 2011 titled The Tea Partier versus The Republican was right.

I'm fresh out of "patience", and I'm not in the mood for "compromise".
"COMPROMISE" to me IS a dirty word.
Let the RINO's compromise their values, with the conservatives, for a change.

Mitt Romney and the "Establishment Republicans" can go to hell!

3 posted on 11/08/2012 11:28:30 AM PST by Yosemitest (It's simple. Fight ... or Die !)
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To: US Navy Vet

Who is this Ben Ghazi guy the Republicans are NOW talking about? Geez, what a bunch of morons.


4 posted on 11/08/2012 11:29:23 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (Greed + Envy = Liberalism)
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To: US Navy Vet

I don’t understand why they keep saying Romney didn’t get the voters McCain got. . . I have seen several articles/references to the fact that tens of thousands of votes have not been counted yet (absentee, military, provisional) and that it is expected that Romney will actually exceed McCain’s vote totals by some.


5 posted on 11/08/2012 11:29:28 AM PST by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: US Navy Vet

Missed big openings and playing nice guy doesn’t win.


6 posted on 11/08/2012 11:30:23 AM PST by Red Steel
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To: US Navy Vet

Democrats committed voter fraud

This freeper txrefugee had a post that I think we all should read and spread around:

“On CNN today, they revealed that Axelrod & Co. had the 2010 Census sheets from the heavy-minority counties in the swing states. They supposedly knew every house where their voters lived and followed up with absentee ballots etc.(No one has moved in the last two years? Hard to believe.)

Now, if this isn’t a recipe for stealing an election, I don’t know what is. They could request the ballots, have someone collect them at drop boxes, fill them out and submit them. No wonder the turnout of Blacks, Mexicans, and students actually went up over ‘08, though the enthusiasm was obviously missing. That doesn’t make sense unless someone was doing something shady.

3 posted on Wednesday, November 07, 2012 7:53:38 PM by txrefugee


7 posted on 11/08/2012 11:31:55 AM PST by Democrat_media (limit government to 5000 words of laws. how to limit gov Quantify limited government ...)
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To: US Navy Vet

I’m having a hard time with this turnout thing. I don’t even live in a swing state, but the turnout was crazy here. People were in line forever. The lines were full of short-haired men and with women dressed in red; the parking lots were full of pickup trucks. Conservatives turned out in droves, in herds, in masses. You may have heard that in heavily conservative areas of Virginia like Norfolk, there were people (service members and their families) standing in line for THREE HOURS in the dark and cold after the polls closed, stubbornly insisting on their right to vote. We didn’t see this for McCain and Palin, sorry. So I’m mystified: where did all their votes go? Where?


8 posted on 11/08/2012 11:34:35 AM PST by ottbmare (The OTTB Mare)
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To: US Navy Vet

Yawn.

Romney should have promised a free rifle to every GOP voter and that probably would have worked better.

People now want free stuff - give it to them.

Democrats offer free condoms - we offer free rifles.

Lets see who turns out more peopler.


9 posted on 11/08/2012 11:35:09 AM PST by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: US Navy Vet

Bet source was Stephen Schmitt.
Sounds dumb enough to be him


10 posted on 11/08/2012 11:35:14 AM PST by Zathras
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To: US Navy Vet

I don’t understand why Romney chose not to clobber Obama over Benghazi. Perhaps it had to do with some notion of being a “gentleman”, or “running a clean campaign.” Maybe he thought that if he aggressively criticized Obama on this issue, new facts might suddenly come to light that would make such a tactic appear foolish. Who knows.

But it’s no mystery why he was hamstrung with the issue of Obamacare: as governor of Massachusetts, he imposed the same program. It’s difficult to get around that fact.


11 posted on 11/08/2012 11:41:07 AM PST by GoodDay
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To: Yosemitest

Obama has levraged the Demographics - Why do you think the Dem’s go further & further to the left. It’s their new base. That 47% Romney spoke of is 51% of the voting base.


12 posted on 11/08/2012 11:41:53 AM PST by KSCITYBOY
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To: Persevero

You wrote”I don’t understand why they keep saying Romney didn’t get the voters McCain got. . . I have seen several articles/references to the fact that tens of thousands of votes have not been counted yet (absentee, military, provisional) and that it is expected that Romney will actually exceed McCain’s vote totals by some.”

Ok you have posted this on about every thread discussing turnout so either prove with sources that the vote totals listed in the article is not true or explain why you keep posting it.


13 posted on 11/08/2012 11:50:39 AM PST by crosslink (Moderates should play in the middle of a busy street)
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To: GoodDay

Most of us were saddened that Mitt tap danced around the Benghazi coverup. Most of the morons voting never heard about it - thanks to the lame-stream media. This would have brought the subject to the forefront, but as usual - the nice guy decided to let it ride. Mitt said he would repeal Obamacare, but then added - repeal and replace. Replace it with what? He stood by Romneycare, therefore, Obamacare was a losing issue. Most of us knew this when he got the nomination, but hoped that the failure of these past 4 years would overcome this. It didn’t. I also know they fudged the unemployment numbers to help zero.

We can second guess this election forever, but the fact is - the Dems stole this election. We all know it, but proving it is another story.


14 posted on 11/08/2012 11:55:14 AM PST by Catsrus (WANT)
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To: ottbmare
I’m having a hard time with this turnout thing. I don’t even live in a swing state, but the turnout was crazy here. ... I’m mystified: where did all their votes go? Where?

Maybe they were Dim voters? If you look at results across the country, the Rats got out their vote. Here in CA, they have a 2/3 supermajority in the legislature for the first time in decades.

OTOH white turnout was down. Not in relative percentage but in absolute numbers. If whites had turned out in bigger numbers proportional to their fraction of the population, Romney and many other Pubbies would have won.

Was it evangelicals sitting it out? See my post,

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2957103/posts
15 posted on 11/08/2012 11:55:56 AM PST by fifedom
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To: Red Steel

The Republicans are shattered now. Ran the wrong guys and didn’t support the. Gov. Christie betrayed the party by hugging Obama-—The ball is in Obama’s court now—if he’s smart he has two years to break the GOP to pieces and secure 50 years of Progressive rule.

Republicans need Cool people to run for office.
Drop the religion thing—it turns the people off.
We need comedians who can make people laugh.
We need a good War Hero! Some one like Audy Murphy or ???
We must be true to our colors.
Put Newt in charge! or even—dare I say it—Sarah Palin! Hey they might do a better job!
We must do more Talk shows and comedy shows—Even Dick Nixon did Laugh In—”Sock it to me?”


16 posted on 11/08/2012 12:03:01 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: Red Steel

Neither does saying “I basically believe in what they believe....just less.”


17 posted on 11/08/2012 12:07:49 PM PST by trappedincanuckistan (livefreeordietryin)
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To: US Navy Vet

Well, it certainly true that Romney just wimped out and let Obama get away with murder without more than a brief complaint.

But the problem isn’t just that he didn’t speak out. The problem is, even if he had spoken out, who would believe him? His record is pro gay, pro abortion, and pro socialized medicine. He is a serial liar and flipper flopper, and the media would have torn anything he said to shreds.

So, his only recourse was to stand there with perfect hair and smile and pose with his wife. Sure, but that isn’t enough to cut it.


18 posted on 11/08/2012 12:17:57 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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There’s an old saying about political campaign postmortems:

If you won, everything you did was right.
If you lost, everything you did was wrong.


19 posted on 11/08/2012 12:32:44 PM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: GoodDay

I don’t understand why Romney chose not to clobber Obama over Benghazi.

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I think that after Candy “Beeyotch” Crowley hamstrung him during the second debate on that (by backing Obama’s lie), Romney was afraid to bring it up again for fear of looking like he was a member of the tinfoil hat brigade. I hope Ms. Crowley loses her job as a part of “necessary downsizing” one of these days....


20 posted on 11/08/2012 12:46:52 PM PST by Hetty_Fauxvert (FUBO, and the useful idiots you rode in on.)
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