He thought he had it in the bag and was trying not to make any waves at all, I assume.
This Romney-bashing is ridiculous, when in fact he ran well ahead of his party from coast to coast. The party pulled down Romney, not the other way around. Check the senate disasters in both red and blue states.
As to the 3rd debate, Romney’s polls had him up. He wanted to avoid another set-up by the MSM to hurt him on Libya, as Candy Crowley had done with Axelrod in the 2nd debate. Moreover, it was a tactical decision to come after Obama from the left on several foreign policy items to help close the gender gap and keep the hard Left at home - disgusted w Obama over the economy and rationalizing that Romney wouldn’t be a hard liner on foreign policy.
This was a strategy much like Reagan vs Carter: reassure women he wasn’t a warmonger.
We now know that Obama’s ground game was so superb that it didn’t matter how awful Obama was in the debates.
The bottom line in 2012: Romney was better than his own campaign; unfortunately Obama’s campaign was much better than Obama. Incredibly better.
Out 120 million votes, a switch of 432,000 votes in 5 states and Mitt would now be president-elect.
Yes, in retrospect the tactical decision for the 3rd debate was a terrible mistake, then compounded by Sandy, but is has to be seen in context at that moment.
And Romney made the 3rd debate decisions himself, because he was livid w Candy Crowley and didn’t want to get railroaded again.
I am still studying the various specifics of the vote. I have a suspicioun that evangelicals yet again didn’t bother to vote, probably because of Mormonism, and I hope every one of them loses his job in the next 12-18 months as we enter the double dip. Idiots.
It’s unbelievable that this nation would re-elect this thug and ignorant juvenile delinquent. We are in deep trouble.
ROMNEY IS AND WAS A RINO.