Posted on 03/03/2013 10:10:39 AM PST by lowbridge
Mitt Romney says it "kills" him that he's not president. But he doesn't blame Superstorm Sandy, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie or anything else on his loss to President Barack Obama--except his campaign's failure to connect with minority voters.
“I lost my election because of my campaign," Romney said on "Fox News Sunday" in his first television interview since his November defeat, "not because of what anyone else did."
The former Massachusetts governor refused place blame on Christie, who some Republicans say elevated Obama in his embrace of the president in the wake of the storm.
Romney said his inability to win over black and Hispanic voters--and the damage done by those disastrous "47 percent" comments--ultimately derailed his White House bid.
Ann Romney, though, pointed the finger at the fourth estate. “It was not just the campaign’s fault," Ann Romney said. "I believe it was the media's fault as well, in that he was not being given a fair shake--that people weren’t allowed to really see him for who he was. ... I’m happy to blame the media.”
She added: “I totally believe at this moment, if Mitt were there in the office, that we would not be facing sequestration right now."
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Oh, I think we did Ann
If that’s his attitude, then he’s telling us that he would have been a bad POTUS. Not worse than Obama, but most likely very close to the same thing. Coveting the office is a bad sign. And what makes it worse, the obvious way to win—i.e. go conservative rather than liberal—was utterly eschewed by him and the GOP.
He lost because no one thought he was authentic. One day, he was a flaming liberal, the next a “severe” conservative. They are all phony, but he was particularly so. Very few people understood him or really connected with him.
Romney made a stupid statement about the 47% will never vote for him..
Akin mad a stupid statement about pregnancy from rape.
Mourdock made a stupid statement about pregnancy from rape was God’s intention.
So long as GOP keeps nominating stupid people, losses are guaranteed.
No Mr. Romney, you lost because you alienated the Republican base and proved via your history that you were no ‘severe’ conservative. You also lost because moderates say you flip on many issues and knew that you were not trustworthy.
That’s why you lost.
-except his campaign’s failure to connect with minority voters.
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I am not convinced that Romney lost.
However....Anyone not willing to FIGHT massive VOTER FRAUD does not deserve to be president. WIMP!
Mr. Etch A Sketch screwed up an election that was the Republicants to lose.
If only Romney hadn’t killed that steelworker’s wife and failed to pay taxes for 10 years he’d be President.Not paying taxes? Well,the word *was* out! Dirty Harry filled us in...from the floor of the Senate,no less.
Yes, indeed. By November, he could not have surprised me by anything he said.
Now that the ether has worn off, can anyone explain how this nobody, with little connection to the GOP, and no real politics or American interests or party roots, rose to the top of republican politics and became the presidential nominee?
From the GOP perspective it wasn’t a complete loss. by running Romney they moved the bar further to the left. Bhoner and McConnel now regularly cite the public’s ‘shifting attitude’ on a bunch of subjects...subjects Mitt championed like Gay whatever and such.
So they didn’t completely lose. In fact, I think that was the goal all along and to date, I have yet to see anything suggesting otherwise.
We can’t win the stupid vote by always worrying about being politically correct. The GOP is trying to be Democratic-lite in all things and when the voters have a choice between the real Democrat and a poser they’ll vote for the Democrat. The country has no leadership in either party so they’re going to follow the ones who promise the most government goodies. Is that what we want from all of our future leaders? If the GOP establishment wants to be Democrat-lite then it’s time already for a third party alternative.
90 million eligible voters sat this one out, Mitt...you couldn’t convince them to go to the polls to support you.
“Kills ya?”
Reeealllllly??
Then why didn’t ya TRY TO WIN THE THING??
It will literally kill a lot of people around the world that he wasn’t elected.
Thanks Karl Rove, Thanks Mitt, for assuring us these four more years of the evil POS, America hating White Hut usurpers.
Romney is hard to figure. Certainly he is not a stupid man; indeed, far from it. And he is probably the most decent man who’s run for pres in many, many years.
But how is it that these goofball statements come out of this mouth. Is there a bypass route around his brain that just lets idiocies blurt out and works to sabotage him at incredibly inopportune moments?
I just don’t get it. He didn’t get where he is financially by just looking at the “next” step and doing something apparently intelligent about it. He has to be a multi-step planner. He seems to lack something in the “rehearsed comments” of the vocal library; by that I mean, when you have no particular idea of something to say, revert to repeating a tired but tested utterance of some sort that fulfills the human tendency to reply to questions.
This is like being a guitar (other solo) player in a band. Not every night can you come up with a piece of total brilliance, of pure originality. But you have to drop a solo in this particular spot. The better approach is to recognize that you can’t be a fountainhead of creativity every instant, and sometimes you have to drop in a prefab something or other.....at least to get going. To you, it’s cheaping out and it probably sounds corny. To anyone else...it’s just notes that go by that they’ve never heard before and it makes not the slightest bit of difference.
But Mitt never hung out with a garage band. And it shows.
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