Posted on 01/24/2012 4:23:32 AM PST by Colofornian
We all know that the GOP candidates are vying for what could be called the most prestigious "Toilet Bowl" in the world -- the "Toilet Bowl" within the White House!
I suppose we could label this "season" as the "POT-US SuperWhiteHouse 'playoffs'" -- POT-US representing the acronym of "President Of The United States."
Each year, the NFL plays a 16-game pre-playoff regular season.
Well, what if...
...the 2008 primary season -- at least the races Mitt Romney competed for beyond his "home turf" -- constituted Romney's "regular season?"
Sizing up only Romney's races beyond his 'home turf' -- what you could call Romney's 'road record' -- what is it won-loss-wise?
Answer? 0-16. And you toss in the 2012 South Carolina race...that dismal record becomes 0-17!
And yet Romney has 'spent' his way into the 2012 "POTUS SuperWhiteHouse 'playoffs' despite his zilcho road-race record???...And he's constantly 'billed' as THE 2012 "frontrunner" by the Lamestream Mainstream Media?
Columnist and TV commentator George Will finally became the MSM's rep who got the "ball kicked off" this past weekend...finally noticing this elephant in the losers' locker room...mentioning in one TV commentary that so-called "Mr. Electability" Mitt Romney was an outright loser...having a race record of 6-19. (See George Will: Mitt Romney's Problem Is His "Romneyness")
Rush Limbaugh picked up on Will's theme during his Monday broadcast, but errored in reporting what Will said re: Romney's won-loss record in races...Limbaugh claimed Will said Romney was 6-16. (The Limbaugh transcript can be seen here: The GOP Establishment in Abject Panic: They Don't Understand Their Own Base (Rush Limbaugh))
Upon double-checking Will's figures using Wikipedia (Republican Party presidential primaries, 2008), we can arrived at the fact that George Will was over-generous to Romney by a win...Romney's actual won-loss record in various races is 5-19, not 6-19.
Note: George Will did not include caucus campaigns -- like Iowa, for example -- just state-based races:
* 1994 Senate race in MA (Romney lost)
* 2002 Gubernatorial race in MA (Romney won)
* The first 20 2008 state primary races in January through "Super Tuesday" the first Tuesday in February. [Romney dropped out two days post-Super Tuesday]
* The first two state primary races in January, 2012 (New Hampshire and South Carolina; Iowa was not counted because it was a "caucus")
All totaled, the abysmal Romney "race record" in 2008 was 3-17! (Not including caucus campaigns).
Yet when you break this down even further -- Romney's "road record" vs. his "home turf" mark -- Romney falls flat on his face as a candidate who has absolutely NO viability beyond his own home turf! He was 0-for-16 in 2008!!! And 2012 South Carolina has only extended Romney's 'road' losing streak to 0-17!
You see, Romney's five "wins" are all on his "home turf":
* Massachusetts Gubernatorial race, 2002, where Romney lives, having attended Harvard [yet even here Romney lost the Senate race in 1994]
* Massachusetts primary, 2008, where Romney lives
* New England extended: New Hampshire, 2012 [yet even here Romney lost this primary in 2008!]
* Mormon Utah primary, 2008 -- Utah being Romney's home both during the Salt Lake City Olympics and his years @ BYU
* And finally, Michigan primary, 2008 -- Michigan being Romney's home during his father's years as the state's governor
Other than these above "home" wins, the rest of the country has yet to hand Mitt Romney a single all-out race victory despite his gobs of campaign expenditures!
* The South hasn't embraced Romney...he's lost South Carolina -- twice, and Florida, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, and Tennessee rejected him last election cycle;
* The Midwest? Nope. They didn't want Mitt Romney, either, last cycle (Missouri, Illinois, Oklahoma);
* Beyond Mormon Utah, a Romney "home field" advantage to the tune of receiving 94 percent of the Mormon vote, the West didn't want him in '08 (Arizona; New Mexico; California);
* Surely the East Coast would be "open arms" for a fellow East Coaster. Right? Wrong! In 2008, Connecticut, Delaware, New York, and New Jersey rejected Romney!
Now if you throw in the caucus campaigns, Romney has picked up more wins than losses in that separate category. Yet, overall, he still has lost almost 2/3rds of his campaigns (13-24).
Most of those caucus campaign wins come from the Mormon-populated West (Nevada, Wyoming, Colorado, Montana, Alaska). Yet even Mormon-populated Hawaii, where BYU has a second campus, didn't fall into Romney's win record. Another Romney caucus win was in New England (Maine). His Midwest caucus record is mixed (two losses in Iowa vs. '08 wins in Minnesota and North Dakota). He also suffered caucus losses in West Virginia and Louisiana in 2008.
I suppose we could label this "season" as the "POT-US SuperWhiteHouse 'playoffs'" -- POT-US representing the acronym of "President of the United States."
Each year, the NFL plays a 16-game pre-playoff regular season. Well, what if...
...the 2008 primary season -- at least the races Mitt Romney competed for beyond his "home turf" -- constituted Romney's "regular season?"
Sizing up only Romney's races beyond his 'home turf' -- what you could call Romney's 'road record' -- what is it won-loss-wise?
Answer? 0-16. And you toss in the 2012 South Carolina race...that dismal record becomes 0-17!
And yet Romney has 'spent' his way into the 2012 "POTUS SuperWhiteHouse 'playoffs' despite his zilcho road-race record???...And he's constantly 'billed' as THE 2012 "frontrunner" by the Lamestream Mainstream Media?
Where does the Media 'get off' placing such an all-time 'loser' as THE 'front-runner?'
Y'all out there in media viewer land are being hoodwinked by the MSM!
Milt’s a big loser, can’t wait to see him fold this time.
This could have been the headline, the body, and the closing statement.
loser Romney - place marker
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