Rove made his 50 to 200 million $ so he is happy
as a clam as America rots and burns.
The GOP was warned but was glad to comply ... as always.
Last paragraph:
The result of all of these false numbers and inaccurate ground reports is simple: Mitt Romney had no idea what was coming on election day and his false sense of confidence directly translated into how the campaign operated in the closing weeks. In the words of one source, it was a con job. As David Mamet famously said, “If you’re in the con game and you don’t know who the mark is … you’re the mark.” Mitt Romney had no idea what was coming.
And the fall of our once great country is worth it?
How could anyone who voted for McCain not vote for Romney, other than dying. Know at least five who voted for Barry in `08 who switched to Romney this time...I cannot concieve how someone for the love of their country could not vote against Obama.
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Sorry, I forgot to attribute the article to author
Ben Howe
The GOP-E at its finest.
You might be interested in this story about how Romney’s campaign was nothing but a con job...
The first hint that ORCA was going to be a failure should have been the fact that the use of cell phones are prohibited in many (if not most) polling places.
I can tell you right now the ORCA thing was completely misplaced money and resources. The ORCA was apparently just to monitor turnout which is really after-the-fact info for analysis. Someone I know who volunteered was sent to a precinct far from their home, in what can be described as a Dem snakepit where they would stand out like a sore thumb. It was asinine. They turned around and left before something bad happened. They also only got sent the voter list and participation instructions the Friday before the election, so they had to go the the county R office the day before the election to get credentialed.
I also agree that when “money is no object” it gets mostly wasted (just like the fed gov).
BS, Romney doesn’t appear to be a stupid man. Stuff like this is written to pound the final nails in his coffin and/or the conservative movement.
Sadly, this is probably why Axelrod was so confident the Obama campaign would prevail. ORCA was not a secret and the Obama campaign knew it would fail.
Really, I thought Romney had smart people running his campaign, but this is a political blunder that will go down in history as one of the worst of all time.
I don’t know any details of the Romney campaign’s expenditures, but the few times I’ve looked at expenditures for previous campaigns, there were some pretty amazing amounts being paid to ‘consultants’.
It might be interesting to see a summary of the Romney campaign expenditures when available.
Volunteering in my precinct to get out the vote. We were told to use this great new software program(after we were given password access) to help identify voters. Never could get into the program. Thought it was just me and my lack of computer literacy. Turns out now it was a fiasco.
I never was a Romney fan, but like most people with their eyes open I knew he was a better alternative to Obama.
But one of the reasons I had any hope at all for a Romney Presidency was because of his “skill” at picking and working with talented people that know what they are doing.
Apparently, that delusion is off the table now based on the above story.
So it was with the Romney people. They weren't going to say at the outset, "Hey we're going to lose." They'd try to encourage, rather than discourage their supporters. They'd choose polls and models (subconsciously perhaps) that portrayed their candidate in a favorable position. You could argue that they needed a devil's advocate, somebody to scare them into working harder and doing more and taking steps that they may have figured they didn't need to take. But I don't see them as terribly different from other losing presidential campaigns in history. Maybe they were better than most (Mondale, Dukakis, Dole). They weren't good enough to win though.
Last election's viral sensation -- "Romney People Badmouthing Palin" -- came from somebody who worked for a firm that had worked for McCain. It was never clear that those "badmouthers" were really "Romney people" or just longtime McCain loyalists who wanted to blame Palin and let Romney take the blame for their attacks. FWIW I note that Ben Howe has his own media company. No word on who his clients are.
I wouldn’t blame the staff - blame the candidate - Mittens made poor decisions, allowed Obama to define him early, never hit back and he had no game plan for getting out the vote in a very tight election.
He seemed intent on coasting to the presidency and the arrogance of Republicans and the Romney campaign in their belief in a landslide win was the ultimate form of hubris. People will be asking how they blew this thing. Barack Obama was beatable but he easily beat the weakest candidate in GOP history - a liberal who never much excited the conservative base.
This was the guy GOP elites picked to contest Obama. As a result we are saddled with Obama for another four years. Thank Karl Rove and Ann Coulter for the final result!