[SoConPubbie]

Romney's theme was like 'I ran a business. I will cut taxes, drill some oil, cut some unspecified spending, some change to medicare effective 2022 and you all will get great jobs'

That was only part of the story where Romney is/was concerned; that's just his PR. What you left out, and what were his stated policy positions, is what sunk his boat all along.

1. Implementation of a Socialistic Healthcare program called RomneyCare across all 50 states, as if that made it a states right issue and somehow made the Socialism OK (Repeal and Replace).
2. Support for Gays in the Military
3. Support for Gays in the Boy Scouts
4. Support for Gay Adoption
5. Support for Abortion, almost wholesale Abortion. August 2012 - something to the effect of "I support Abortion in the case of Rape Incest, Life and HEALTH of the Mother. That has always been my position".
6. Overt lying about the other candidates in the primaries rising to the level of smears. (See the lies about Newt Gringrich)

Let's not whitewash what amounted to the worst possible GOP POTUS candidate in our lifetime.

A sock-puppet could have beaten Obama, because of his extreme leftism, if they only had even just a slight majority of conservative principles and could communicate them.

Romney did not take or communicate conservative positions and his campaign approach was to run away from the base and to the mythical moderate voter that was going to save his election chances. Thereby disengaging, if not infuriating, his base and giving them no reason to get excited or get involved.

In other words, this was his election to lose, and he chose to lose it.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”A sock-puppet could have beaten Obama, because of his extreme leftism, if they only had even just a slight majority of conservative principles and could communicate them. “

Clearly not.

Those other losers and light-weights had no better chance of winning than Romney did.

It looks like that group was just looking for TV air-time and not really opposing Romney either.

A perfect sign that disaster was coming was when Wallace asked them all if they would accept spending cuts if they were attached to 1/10 of the $$$ amount in tax increase (10 in cuts to 1 in taxes) and they all lied on stage and said they would reject that deal, because that's what they thought the audience wanted to hear.

Romney lied his way through the primary, but the others were not serious.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”6. Overt lying about the other candidates in the primaries rising to the level of smears. (See the lies about Newt Gringrich)”

Perfect example, Newt. Definitely not a serious candidate.

Video : Newt Gingrich and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi - We Can Solve It (Newt says: “Speaker Nancy Pelosi and I agree that we need to demand action from our leaders to combat climate change” ie mandate ethanol)

Gingrich Earned Twice As Much As Previously Disclosed From Ethanol Lobbying Group