It is ironic that a man known for his prowess as a CEO was unable to assemble a competent staff for his campaign.
Ironically, I think the GOP would have been well served to have a popular "red state" governor run at the top of the ticket -- and have Romney serve as the campaign director.
One more bit of irony is that if you had gone back to early 2012 before the start of the primary season, you'd be hard-pressed to find any conservatives (including just about everyone here on FreeRepublic) who would not have been thrilled to hear that Romney would not be elected President. Let's face it, folks ... the Republican Party lost with a candidate who none of us wanted anyway.
I agree.
The GOP seems to have a top flight leadership both in public and behind closed doors that think it is still 2002.
Romney had huge funds, huge motivation and yet so badly under performed. I think he could have been a fine President.
Republicans have got to start playing nasty like they used to. If they don’t they’re finished. There is a serious and worrying void of leadership.
Romney was able to make money because he had money and a nice smile to help him at the art of making a deal. Private equity, i.e. vulture capitalists simply sign desperate, troubled companies onto bad deals that can't go wrong for the venture capital firm. It doesn't take any skill because they make money whether the companies they take over fail or succeed. They help the companies borrow a bunch of stimulus money and make them cut expenses. Then the company either succeeds or fail on its own and Bain profits either way. At best Romney was a good "stock picker" in terms of picking companies that would rebound. But he was only a CEO of pushing money around, much like a hedge fund manager. He didn't actually work on practical, functional tasks within a company.