Posted on 11/09/2012 11:47:24 AM PST by massmike
How do you blow an election when your opponent presided over the worst economy in memory – unemployment has hovered at 8% for almost four years; the price of gas has doubled; the national debt has grown by a third; long-term unemployment is up 87%; the number of Americans in poverty increased by 6.4 million; and the president’s signature initiative (Obamacare) has been consistently opposed by a majority of Americans since it passed two and a half years ago?
How do you lose an election to an incumbent whose foreign policy consists of cringing, kowtowing and abject apologies – a foreign policy defined by the body of an American ambassador being dragged through the streets of a Third World sinkhole?
Governor Romney is a decent man – a patriot with a nice family who knows how to create jobs. As a candidate, he was unimaginative, uninspiring and pathetically adverse to taking risks.
Romney resolutely refused to talk about anything but the economy.
Romney was maniacal about staying on message. When Benghazi exploded in the president's face, the Romney camp outsourced the issue to talk radio. That's not leadership.
Perhaps 40% of the nation is hardcore entitlement addicts.
But it’s Romney who bears ultimate responsibility for Tuesday’s debacle. When asked how Lenin and the Bolsheviks defeated democratic socialist Alexander Kerensky, the late Ayn Rand of “Atlas Shrugged” fame observed, “You can’t beat something with nothing.” Exactly.
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“How do you blow an election when your opponent presided over the worst economy in memory – unemployment has hovered at 8% for almost four years; the price of gas has doubled; the national debt has grown by a third; long-term unemployment is up 87%; the number of Americans in poverty increased by 6.4 million; and the president’s signature initiative (Obamacare) has been consistently opposed by a majority of Americans since it passed two and a half years ago? “
Then Feder says Romney’s problem was that he talked about the economy.
Quote: “Romney ran a ‘Dewey like race’, as a manager.”
Absolutely!! That automatically lowered his chances of winning from day one. To say, “you know, this government, it just needs me running it” totally squandered the Tea Party momentum. That message was anathema to the Tea Party momentum and it is why the primary was so fiercely contended. If you look at the votes that Johnson got, they were leftovers from the resentment of the primaries.
Nonetheless, even with the “manager” approach as a handicap Romney should have been able to win. I still believe the two factors of most import were the insulation of the electorate from the consequences of Obama’s policies and the media.
Spread the Pain and disgrace and expose the media, by any means necessary.
Add to that list the fact that the GOP insists on taking tea cozies to a gun fight. When the Libs were bitching for Romney’s tax returns, why didn’t the GOP have the stones to say: “As soon as you unsequester all of your past records.” The GOP allowed dead people to vote in Lake County, IN, in 2008—some dead people vote twice—and then wonders why they did it again this year. The GOP needs to take off the kid gloves and kick the donkey in the crotch.
Quote: “Then Feder says Romney’s problem was that he talked about the economy.”
Right but how do you convince a voter who is out of work, collecting a check that he has it bad? Romney and the republicans wiffed badly because they missed the fact that the pain was not there in the electorate. Even worse, it was by their own doing.
That (GOP= a bunch of appeasing pussies) is why I’m going to everything in my power to Primary my two Georgia Senators, Saxby and Chamblis. Two of the most faux Republicans I’ve ever seen...they’ve never seen an issue upon which they cannot backslide.
I don’t see how that question can be asked. It is very easy to lose an election when you have the whole big media machine dead set against you.
We still don’t know what Mitt’s politics are, or why he invested so many years of his life and 55 million (personal) dollars to become president.
We do know that Mitt is a political disaster, in 20 years of running for office, and breaking spending records in every race, Mitt has a single victory to his name.
Mitt served a single term as Governor, destroyed the state party, was forced to give up his hope of reelection, and left office with 34% approval, and turning the office over to the democrats ever since.
Without even looking into his long political history, didn’t his losing to the unfunded Huckabee and the old man McCain reveal how weak he is?
I think the massive voter fraud had something to do with that. 30% of the vote cast in the Philadelphia precincts where Republican observers were temporarily ejected were fraudulent, and not matched to names, with 99% for Obama.
Can’t blame Mitt for that.
I TOLD YOU SO.. Boehner is capitulating as we speak..
The republican heirarchy has become Obamas "bitch"...
The old axiom for prez elections “it’s the economy, stupid” just got stood on its head. That’s all Romney mostly did is blather about the rotten economy. He still got trounced. I knew there might be trouble when I saw polls that said a majority of Americans still blamed Bush far more than Obama for the bad economy. Romney and the Pubbies did nothing to counter that message.
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