Posted on 12/28/2014 2:43:47 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus reportedly told a donor that he blamed 2012 presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s campaign for the candidate’s poor showing at the polls.
The New York Times reports that a donor met Priebus during an RNC fundraiser in New York and told the chairman that the GOP’s intense primary season didn’t give Romney the time to pivot back toward the center after primaries, where he needed to appeal to the party’s more conservative base.
But Priebus reportedly said that the problems ran deeper than the structure of the primaries, noting Romney’s widely reported comment that “47 percent” of Americans are dependent on government. He added that reports of Romney’s extreme wealth, specifically the fact that his California mansion had a car elevator, didn’t help either.
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Romney was never supposed to win by plan. The GOPe caved to race in 2008, and when Romney started winning in the debates and started to rally, he pulled back in the last 2 and Obama crushed him. McCain..Mitt...Jeb...they’re ok with Democrats winning if its gonna keep the elitists fat and happy on both sides of the aisle.
They are still stuck on stupid.
He lost because he was NOT a Conservative, and too many Evangelicals would not vote for a Mormon.
“didn’t give Romney the time to pivot back toward the center”
In other words, talk out of both sides of his mouth.
The Hill.
Romney lost when he cowered during the 2nd debate after Obama yelled out ‘get the transcript, Candy’ regarding when Obama first used the word ‘terrorist/terrorism’ when speaking about the Benghazi attacks.
Romney phoned in the final debate — which was on foreign policy.
Romney’s poll numbers were dropping.
I’m disgusted by the word “pivot.” It implies pandering to different bases, showing each your “honest” front. Is there such a thing as a politician with a stated set of values that remains constant?
add Perry, Cain, Gingrich, to name 3 more.
Huntsman had the good sense to exit early.
I thought his biggest problem was that the liberal media was on him with a vengeance. They hated him. For example the comment about "binders full of women" was made into a major outrage by the media. The right also had issues with him being a big government man and a Mormon at that. I thought anybody would be a better choice than Obama.
Romney lost. They will probably nominate Jeb and have same result. We certainly have become the definition of insanity. Going thru the same thing time after time and expecting a different result.
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There was a reason that he could never define, and why no one else can, what 47%?
I wonder why they leave off the part about him returning to his pro-abortion position after the nomination and coming out against the pro life party platform and running pro-choice ads in Virginia, Ohio, and Wisconsin, and losing all three states?
Romney lost for many reasons. Art Laffer was on TV before the election talking about what a great president Bill Clinton was, then Clinton campaigned hard against Romney on “the math doesn’t add up” platform. Meanwhile, Romney’s wife was campaigning for him & that endorsement made him look weak...like “if all you got is your wife on your side, you’re in trouble”. Many people didn’t like Ryan’s Medicare voucher idea.....and Romney paying 14% on $20 million income DID hurt him, especially because he was pushing for a zero percent capital gains tax rate & lowering the top tax rate to 25%..which was the lowest since the 1920s-—with Democrats having luck persuading voters that lower taxes & faster growth lead to biggers booms followed by bigger busts.
In Pennsylvania, Democrats have a 51% to 37% voter registration advantage, so any “try to get our base to outvote their base” could not work in PA, & Romney’s campaign strategy, platform, and even his convention scared Democrats more to the polls than any GOP stalwarts....but many independent voters also were frightened of Romney in states where “swing voters” lean more often Democrat than Republican. Romney campaigned in well-off, mostly white suburbs of swing states & lost the city vote bad but also lost the suburban housewives & working women who are atuned to big city media, which leans left & for minorities.
In Ohio, GOP has only a 37% to 33% voter registration advantage, so independent voters tend to vote for the candidate they least fear & who seems most “moderate”. Romney might have had a “moderate” past, but he did not run as a moderate in 2012. Trillion dollar deficits were still a campaign issue in 2012, so Obama kept pushing a “balanced approach” & Romney was pushing to lower his tax burden from 14% to ZERO percent.
Romney also ran a little too hard against the public sector & scared federal workers in Virginia more than a little..even if he did say he would cut the Fed workforce by attrition rather than making major job cuts......In fact, government does create jobs, but Romney claimed only the private sector creates jobs....and his “I like to fire people” comment did as much to harm him as did his 47% comment. If you look at the Federal tax burden for the middle class in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s & 1960s....with high standard deductions, middle class exemptions for some capital gains & dividend income, & only a 2% individual payroll tax for Social Security, you can’t really claim that Obama somehow undertaxed the middle class compared to any era except 1970s until W Bush.....and you can’t even claim Obama overtaxed “the rich” except compared to President George W Bush, because taxes “for the rich” are lower under Obama than they were under Clinton or even Reagan (whose 1986 tax reform) wasn’t phased in until 1988 % eliminated deductions & raised the capital gains tax to 28% & the SS tax to 6.2% besides.
Many people disliked “Obamacare”, but Romney over-all failed to persuade voters to abandon Obama & switch to him out of fear. Romney scared more people to vote against him than he scared people into voting for him or against Obama. That is the sad truth. You don’t have to actually BE “moderate” to make your platform sound more moderate than the guy you’re running against and win elections in states that count electorally. You just have to know how to debate to win converts by sounding reasonable & knowledgeable on economics & foreign policy & even on pop culture.
Having Ann Romney campaign in Virginia while her husband was campaigning in Pennsylvania harmed him way more than it helped Mitt Romney.
Santorum would probably have helped Obama win even bigger among Catholic voters.
It is quite helpful of Priebus to identify all these problems with Romney...after the fact!
And which 2016 potential candidate is Priebus buddies with? Scott Walker, that’s who. We can’t say we did not know better this time.
The New York Times reports that a donor met Priebus during an RNC fundraiser in New York and told the chairman that the GOP’s intense primary season didn't give Romney the time to pivot back toward the center after primaries, where he needed to appeal to the party’s more conservative base.It appears most of the GOPe "donors" want moderate candidates.
Wonder what kind of candidate is in demand for the Democrat "donors"?
The auto bailout was certainly more complex than most people want to understand. I guarantee the competing bigwigs are Ford and Toyota were happy to see it because if GM and Chrysler had gone under, they would have lost parts manufacturers. That in turn can take down a seemingly healthy company.
Seems like something similar happened in Australia not long ago.
People seem to have trouble grasping the concept that when they buy a Toyota or Ford, those cars are full of parts that come out of the same factory that produces Chrysler and GM parts. The last factory I worked in had two “bread and butter jobs”. They were Cadillac door skins and F-150 vent covers. We also did a dozen other smaller jobs for Jeep, Tpyota, Mercedes etc.
The real problem with the bailout is that we had a marxist president who used it for leverage to impose his will.
"Bring back American jobs"
79% of Evangelicals voted for Romney, higher than his Mormon vote.
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