Romney and his loving sycophants both on the ground and in the media.
The media created the nonsense that he was lazy and wasn’t trying, when if you looked at his schedule, he was actually doing more than any of the others. Hell, he was doing more than McCain did in a lot of the GE campaign. The media meme about laziness stuck though. Even a lot of folks here bought into it, as you can see in the responses on this thread.
The Romney people were willing to do whatever they had to do to keep us divided enough for their guy to win. They saw Fred as a huge threat. They threw everything at the wall and the lazy thing is what stuck.
Tis a shame, but it’s all in the past now.
Queue Romney apologists in 3...2...1...
OK, that makes sense and jives with popular media tale being pushed...it also jives with the “insider” attacks on Palin coming from former Romney supporters in the McCain campaign.
Other then pretty good reasoning, are you privy to anything to independently support this theory?
Thanks,
“The Romney people were willing to do whatever they had to do to keep us divided enough for their guy to win. They saw Fred as a huge threat. They threw everything at the wall and the lazy thing is what stuck.”
Sorry, I’ve got to disagree with you pretty strongly. Most Romney people had Fred as their #2 guy, which made sense. Both were running the most conservative campaigns of the bunch.
Fred was my #2 guy. I’ve come to like the guy even more listening to his radio show here in Nashville.
Sorry, you’re a member of the Romney Derangment Syndrome crowd. I always found the anti-Mitt bias strongest from the Thompson supporters, which never made much sense to me. I liked and continue to like Fred plenty fine—and as I said, even moreso than when he was running.