[Baynative]

Ineffective communication is part of it - that would be the Milquetoast approach provided by the RINO consultants who get paid tens of millions to lose election after election.

[LiveFreeOrDie2001]

Yea, thanks a lot, idiots.

[Baynative]

"While watching Obama take the oath, Ryan said he thought about what he and Romney could have done if they won and implemented their conservative agenda."

AMAZING- What if they had simply talked about a conservative agenda in the campaign and not been shied away from confronting Obama head on?

[Nervous Tick]

I have come to the conclusion that Ryan is phony and ineffectual. He (usually, sort of) talks the right talk but he can’t ever seem to accomplish jack. And he’s pretty eager to climb on the bipartisan bandwagon, once he figures out what it is.

I really don’t care what he thinks any more. He lost my respect and only actions, not words, have any chance of regaining it.

[kiryandil]

Ummmmmmmmmm.

Romney and Ryan got MUCH better turnout in Wisconsin in November than Scott Walker got in June 2012 in his recall vote victory.

I think that the Obama campaign just had more walking-around money to "spread the wealth" than did the Wisconsin recall forces - and this was true in ALL the swing states.

[martin_fierro]

It was your RINO running mate, Paul.

[cripplecreek]

Its better than the idiots who are blaming the consumer for the crappy product.

[a fool in paradise]

With the MSM calling the shots, what do you expect?

[Diogenesis]

They lost because Mr. RomneyCARE did not want to win,
wanted his wife to defend him as HE usually defended Obama,
and because Mr. RomneyCARE was the inventor of ObamaCARE
and the imposer of gay marriage (but pretended he was not).

Also, they lost because Mr. RomneyCARE and Tokyo Rove
attacked every real conservative over and over and
then even would not let the other sides speak at the
convention.

They also lost because when the other side cheated
extensively, Mr. RomneyCARE could not wait to ‘give up’,
so that he and Mr. Rove could split hundreds of millions
of $$$$$ between themselves.

Never forget that Obama is ONLY pRes_ _ent
because Mr. RomneCARE attacked Gov. Palin
on the EVE of election 2008.

[chris37]

I blame it on GOP impotence, of which Mr Ryan is part.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

R&R lost because too many Americans didn't want to give up their government tax payer funded goodies. Most women wanted their free birth control and abortions. Gays wanted their life styles legitimized and their ailments paid for. The unions wanted their man in office to run interference for them as he did during the GM and Chrysler bailouts. And students with tens of thousands of dollars of debt over useless degrees in womyns and gay studies wanted their loans paid for them. In that environment, I doubt even Reagan could have won.

IMHO.

[jwalsh07]

He lost because Obama can turn out 90% plus in urban America.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

[Sigh]

Willard RINOmney was the best candidate Obama could have asked for. What a fantastic opponent to use as a punching bag.

He was pushed by the GOPe. He sucked. He still does.

Ryan was steamrolled by Biden.

[Arm_Bears]

Pi$$ing-off a sizable portion of your base and daring them to stay home didn’t help either.

[jrcats]

The loss was in part due to voter fraud here in Florida, Ohio etc. especially by the unions & Democrats. They will win at any cost even if it means the United States becomes a 3rd world country.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Slick Willard was a ringer for Zero.

[TomGuy]

ineffective communication

I thought that for a while. Then, I began to think that maybe they were communicating, but the voters didn't care for the message they were communicating.

Why go for Dem-lite. If that's the direction one wants, why not go for the real thing -- the Dem party.

The Republicans talk about a bigger tent, more inclusive, yada yada yada. All that does is make them more like the Dems.

No. What many voters wanted was a real alternative. And the Dem-lite Party doesn't offer that, even if they call themselves the Republican Party.

[fatnotlazy]

Where I live, there was NO communication. While the Obama forces were running attack ads against Romney almost non-stop, there were few ads from the Romney camp. And Romney/Ryan spent very little time here, except in the closing days of the campaign. Can't prove it, but I suspect the campaign thought Romney would win with very little effort. It assumed the people, well aware of Obama’s dismal economic record, would elect Romney in a landslide. They underestimated the Obama machine.

[ansel12]

There are so many clues to look at, who was the obvious choice for keynote convention speaker, to heal the party and unite it, and which choice would signal a doubling down by the rinos, that they were in total control of the party, and that the Reagan wing could get lost? So who was not allowed at the convention, and who gave the speech?

Running pro-abortion TV ads was probably a mistake of the same type, as was the presidential candidate sticking to his position of homosexualizing the military and the Boy Scout leaders, and rejecting the party’s pro-life platform on television.

[jimbo123]

No more RINOs.

[livius]

Well, that’s true. Ryan was this year’s Sarah Palin; the GOP practically dropped a bag over his head and didn’t let him go out in public. Ryan actually had a plan to go and address lower income people (even in black neighborhoods) in the cities and to get the message out in media channels where it might have made a difference, but since Romney had no ideas and was terrified of even being thought to have any ideas other than professing his love and respect for Obama, that came to nothing.