Romney lost because he was playing not to lose.
He did not explain why:
1. debt and deficits would cripple our economy.
2. Obamacare was bad.
3. America heading toward European socialism was bad.
4. Obama’s foreign policy was bad (Benghazi SHOULD have killed Obama!).
Obama won because enough people are still blaming Bush for the economic troubles and enough women were scared into thinking that Romney was going to take away contraceptives. Obama also won because the media did an exceptional job in protecting him and the GOP remains CLUELESS in how to combat a media that is openly hostile.
And it also helps for Obama when such a large portion of the American electorate is absolutely clueless and want as much free stuff as they can from the government.
“The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America. Blaming the prince of fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their President.”
- Prager Zeitungon, Czech Republic newspaper, 4/28/2010
You got it pretty well summarized. Romney allowed the Main Sewer Media got away with lies and propaganda. The race should have been against Obamugabe as well as against the MSM, even if Romney’s proxies had to run it.