I knew he would lose when he ignored Sarah Palin and the TEA Party, but I kept praying. He needed her to speak at his sorry convention. She was the VP nominee in ‘08 for crying out loud.
Yes, she was very luke warm for him as the nomineee, -— she was for Newt Gingrich in the primaries -— but nominees have to be big men and rally the base. Nobody can rally the base like Sarah Palin! Apparently, Romney was too scared Sarah would put off the independents...lol. What a colossal fool. Romney listened to the old, loser dogs in the GOP-E who despise Sarah Palin and we all noticed her absence!
I voted for Romney regardless, but a whole lot of others didn’t. I cringe every time I hear that McCain got more votes than Romney. Wrong. Sarah Palin got those votes!
Spot on.... all of it.
“I knew he would lose when he ignored Sarah Palin and the TEA Party, but I kept praying. He needed her to speak at his sorry convention. She was the VP nominee in ‘08 for crying out loud.”
I like Sarah Palin, but the media had marginalized her into a caricature; she wouldn’t have brought more votes than he would have lost because of her. Mitt Romney didn’t lose this election for ten reasons; he lost it for one: The media campaigned for Obama for four straight years, and suppressed Romney’s message. He was sabotaged in the same manner as Palin, and with the same effect. I’m no fan of Romney, but voted for him because he was clearly better than the alternative.
In the eyes of his shriller, more spittle-fueled adherents and apologists hereabouts, you see, Mittens is much like a cow wandering placidly through the streets of downtown Cairo: immune to any/all criticism and/or impediment by divine principle, if not an object of abject veneration outright.
The cow is holy. The cow is perfect. If the cow, for whatever reason(s) -- by whatever unguessable confluence of events, in the course of its dull, plodding amblings -- doesn't end up wherever the hell it was it wanted to go to in the first place: that's absolutely and unalterably your fault, buddy -- NOT the cow's.
The CINOs and squishes neither can nor will admit -- now or EVER -- that their rote, repeatedly failed p!ss-on-the-base-and-grovel-for-disaffected-liberals campaign strategy is what's genuinely at fault, for the second presidential election in a row.
The cow is holy.
The cow is perfect.
... and thus, predictably: the cow is now last week's hamburger. ;)
I tend to agree with you. Mitt wouldn’t do any conservative radio programs, and when he went on tv -he went on liberal programs. People criticized Obama for doing Pimp with A Limp and MTV, but he went where the youth were. Romney did look out of touch and a throwback to the 50s and 60s and well - old fashioned.
Yes, I still voted for him, but everyone noticed the Sarah Palin snub. Mitt would have done well to bring her on board and get rid of Karl Rove. He chose poorly, and maybe, just maybe because of some of these things - he might have chosen poorly on issues as president as well. Not that obama chooses well, but he out-foxed Mitt in so many ways.
>>I cringe every time I hear that McCain got more votes than Romney. Wrong. Sarah Palin got those votes!
Thank you! I pointed this out in a thread the other day. Many post-election analysis columns have done this, mentioning the fewer-votes-than-McCain while not mentioning Palin.
I could not have put it better myself. Well done!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LLS
I cringe every time I hear that McCain got more votes than Romney, but it's because actually, Romney got more votes than McCain.
In the 10 states that have completed vote counting, Romney had more votes than McCain in 9 of them - the only one where he didn't was Vermont.
Romney's vote total is now only 36,000 behind McCain nationwide, with millions of votes still to be counted.