Mitt Romney: How to Lose the Most Important Election of our Time by not Really Trying

GrasstopsUSA.com ^ | September 21, 2012 | Don Feder

[Stepan12]

Mitt Romney is losing the most important election of our lifetime. Don’t be deceived by the polls that show him “within the margin of error.” Don’t put your faith in last minute media-buys from the campaign’s gargantuan war chest.

Don’t expect the debates to turn things around. The president may not be an electrifying speaker, but he knows how to demagogue. His message will be: I love the middle class; Mitt Romney wants tax cuts for millionaires and eats children.

And, don’t count on the fact that public opinion is against Obama on almost every significant issue. (At no time since its passage has less than a majority favored repeal of Obamacare.)

The stars should be perfectly aligned for a Republican blowout this year. The economy is in the dumpster – deficits to dwarf anything we’ve seen in the past, the highest sustained unemployment since the Great Depression, anemic growth, huge tax hikes just around the corner, consumer prices through the ceiling – and the man responsible for it all is coasting to a second term.

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The Governor, bless his bland little heart, is the worst candidate the GOP has fielded since Viagra Bob Dole – so bad he makes John McCain look like Harry Truman on his 1948 Whistle Stop Tour.

Almost every national poll shows Romney behind by 1 to 8 points – Rasmussen (Obama 47%, Romney 45%) Gallup (47% to 46%), Washington Post (52% to 44%), AP (47% to 46%) and Pew Research (51% to 43%).

[MNJohnnie]

Shooting your own political allies in the back, instead of using your platform to help fight the Leftist media machine is not a “conservative” position.

[Jaguarmike]

Look, the Democrats and media (but I repeat myself) have been saying the same things against GOP candidates for as long as I can remember. Ronald Reagan’s “There you go again,” moment was directed at Jimmy Carter, after he said Reagan would cut off funding to Medicare.

Voters know things are not getting better for the middle class. They know the country is a mess. No amount of media disinformation or propoganda is going to change that.

Get your conservative friends out and vote.

[kabar]

Socially they are conservative - but not in terms of economics.

More delusion from the Reps. Blacks have an out of wedlock birthrate of 71% and Hispanics 50%. The school dropout rates among Hispanics and blacks is about 50%. This is the social pathology for failure in this society and also for greater dependence on government. How do those statistics make them more conservative socially?

We are creating a permanent underclass in this country. By 2019 half of the children 18 and under will be minorities as classified by the USG and by 2042 half of the country will be minorities. Demography is destiny. The current demography of CA is about what the US will look like in 2050.

[Fiji Hill]

Be gentle. Some people read books and articles, and have done so for decades. Some are limited to bumper stickers and fliers, and those are seldom signed.

I recall Feder appearing regularly in Human Events and other publications in the '80's and '90's, but I haven't seen much of his stuff in recent years, so younger conservatives or those new to the movement may not be familiar with him.

[Jaguarmike]

By the way...the polls in the last week have been trending toward Romney. In Gallup, after the DNC ,Obama was up by something like 7 points. As of yesterday, they’re tied. Rasmussen’s poll today shows a tie, after Obama led by 2 just a few days ago.

Even in the swing state polls, Romney usually wins the independent vote....so why do the polls show him losing? Because they massively oversample Democrats. The only way they can hope to get such a big oversample is by dampening conservative’s hopes. Don’t let them. Get your conservative friends out and vote.

[man_in_tx]

People such as radio talk-show host Michael Savage have been issuing dire warnings along these lines for about a year now.

What warnings? Warnings that Romney has weak and liberal advisors — just as McCain did.

Warnings that Romney should have the good sense to go on Michael Savage’s show to reach out to his millions of listeners, but he WON’T! (Why NOT!)

Warnings that Romney should call out Obama for the hard-core Leftist and Muslim sympathizer that he is.

Etc.

And what do we get week after week? The plastic Ken and Barbie Doll game talking about how single mothers are the backbone of America, or some sort of psychobabble like that.

I would share with the Romney campaign the slogan of the British SAS: “Who Dares Wins.”

Sadly, Romney does not dare cross is Rovian advisors.

If he wins, it will be, because, as Rush has put it, enough people vote AGAINST Obama.

Romney will never win because so many people want to vote FOR him!

[granada]

true.
when Mitt goes into attack mode, some self-styled “conservatives” will enter into an alliance with liberal media to criticise him.

[Psalm 144]

They have consistently provided the margin to vote down homosexual ‘marriage’, and while their stats are appalling in many areas they usually acknowledge ‘babies having babies’ etc. as wrong. White statistics are lackluster too, and likewise in decline. The fact of the matter remains that making no efforts at persuasion means no one is persuaded.

But by all means if one finds more comfort in muttering that demographics is destiny then putting one’s head in the oven to die, carry on.

[jmaroneps37]

Fake polls don't mean a thing. Don't believe anything I am about to tell you, look it all up yourself. Here goes: Barack Obama is not winning any group he lost in 2008. He is NOT doing better with any group he did win.This includes Blacks Hispanics Jews Young voters and women. He is not closing the gap with any group he lost (veterans for instance which he lost by 11 he now trails with by at least 20 points). ANYONE who “believes” these over sampling of Democrats under sampling of Republicans and Independents polls is A) a fool or B) a liar and sometimes both. This crap is wearing a bit thin don't you think?

[Psalm 144]

Yes I had one person try to flash credentials to me on this site as being ‘neoconservative since 1988’ like that was some kind of land grant from the Spanish Crown.

Like puppies barking, it is cute if not too prolonged.

[Holly_P]

“When the hell is Romney is going to take the gloves off?”

Romney’s gloves are, well, they’re mittens. Zero’s gloves are weighted.

Obamby is a street fighter and Romney is a sissy fighter. The electorate gets what they vote for, whether in the general election or the primaries.

The primaries started with several comparatively conservatives and the ultra liberal Romney, he won with a plurality. Until the republican primary system is fixed, it will continue to produce Romney/McCain/Dole nominees.

No, I don’t have a proposal to fix it.

[Psalm 144]

Savage is a loose cannon, to put it very mildly, and it would probably be more effective to show Hussein’s devotion to Islamic supremacy than to simply call him a Moslem. As for the rest, I could not agree more.

[ilgipper]

Yep. It is clear who needs to be jettisoned from any future election cycles...start with that idiot Bill Krystal, and work down to this guy (whoever he is). If people have concerns about the Romney strategy, voice it to the Romney team. If they don’t change course, come back to the public and use pressure to change things from the outside. At no time have I heard any of these naysayers mention that they went to the campaign and offered advice. They just go out and undercut the candidate in public.

After 2008, the losers like Steve Schmidt and Nicole whatever her name were essentially put out to pasture by the party and are now MSNBC sources. The same needs to be true of many more after this cycle. These people need to be shunned and ignored.

[driftless2]

I still think Romney aka Willard the Bland will win, but he’s making it a lot closer than it should be with his “I can manage the welfare state better than Obama” approach. Romney has to tell the public why Obama’s leftist ideology makes him such a miserable failure. On the “bright” side if Romney loses, we won’t have to worry about nominating moderate Pubbies ever again.

[stevem]

I live in a pretty liberal part of Minneapolis, MN. This year I have seen almost no Obama signs out. Four years ago I couldn't walk in the neighborhood without stumbling over them.

Are we sure Romney is losing?

I don't expect Romney to take Minnesota, but find it interesting that the people haven't climbed aboard the Obama juggernaut.

[stevem]

I live in a pretty liberal part of Minneapolis, MN. This year I have seen almost no Obama signs out. Four years ago I couldn't walk in the neighborhood without stumbling over them.

Are we sure Romney is losing?

I don't expect Romney to take Minnesota, but find it interesting that the people haven't climbed aboard the Obama juggernaut.

[Stepan12]

Don Feder is a great Conservative writer; a friend of the family, and I think his voice should be heard.

If nothing else, someone should get Romney and Ryan should stop saying the Messiah is a likeable guy. It is very annoying.

As I regard the Messiah as an affirmative action Hitler, I do not think he is a nice or likeable guy.

[kabar]

Denial just ain't a river in Egypt. Most blacks and Hispanics are not conservatives nor do they hold conservative values. And regardless of what they may or may not believe socially, most of them vote Dem. In 2008 Blacks voted 95%-4% for Obama and Hispanics 67% to 31% for Obama.

The majority of Hispanics vote their perceived economic interests, rather than their social values (evangelical Hispanics may be an exception to this rule). Blacks are equally conservative on gay rights and other favorite liberal crusades, and that doesn’t affect their allegiance to the Democratic party.

they usually acknowledge ‘babies having babies’ etc. as wrong.

Then why are 71% of blacks and 50% of Hispanics born out of wedlock?

But it’s the fertility surge among unwed Hispanics that should worry policymakers. Hispanic women have the highest unmarried birthrate in the country—over three times that of whites and Asians, and nearly one and a half times that of black women, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Every 1,000 unmarried Hispanic women bore 92 children in 2003 (the latest year for which data exist), compared with 28 children for every 1,000 unmarried white women, 22 for every 1,000 unmarried Asian women, and 66 for every 1,000 unmarried black women. Fifty percent of all Hispanic births occur outside of marriage, compared with 24 percent of white births and 15 percent of Asian births.

The rate of childbirth for Mexican teenagers, who come from by far the largest and fastest-growing immigrant population, greatly outstrips every other group. The Mexican teen birthrate is 93 births per every 1,000 girls, compared with 27 births for every 1,000 white girls, 17 births for every 1,000 Asian girls, and 65 births for every 1,000 black girls.

But by all means if one finds more comfort in muttering that demographics is destiny then putting one’s head in the oven to die, carry on.

You seem to accept as a given that we must bring in 1.2 million legal immigrants a year. 57 percent of immigrant headed households with children use at least one major welfare program. We are importing poverty and hundreds of thousands of high school dropouts every year through our kinship system of immigration. 25 percent of the adult legal immigrants who enter each year lack even a high school degree.

Until we recognize how our immigration policies have affected our country, we will not be able to resolve many of the problems that will take down this country.

Immigration, legal and illegal, has had and will continue to have a major and far-reaching impact across a broad spectrum of existential challenges that confront this nation, e.g., national security, the economy/global competitiveness, jobs, health care, taxes, energy independence, education, entitlement reform, law enforcement, social welfare programs, physical infrastructure, the environment, civil liberties, and a continued sense of national identity/shared sense of endeavor. Immigration is the defining issue of our time with enormous implications for the future of this nation and the preservation of our patrimony. Yet, seldom will you hear immigration mentioned by our political and intellectual elites in connection with solutions to these challenges

The U.S. adds one international migrant (net) every 36 seconds. Immigrants account for one in 8 U.S. residents, the highest level in more than 90 years. In 1970 it was one in 21; in 1980 it was one in 16; and in 1990 it was one in 13. In a decade, it will be one in 7, the highest it has been in our history. And by 2050, one in 5 residents of the U.S. will be foreign-born. Currently, 1.6 million legal and illegal immigrants settle in the country each year; 350,000 immigrants leave each year, resulting in a net immigration of 1.25 million.

Since 1970, the U.S. population has increased from 203 million to 315 million, i.e., over 100 million. In the next 40 years, the population will increase by an additional 125 million to 440 million. Three-quarters of the increase in our population since 1970 and the projected increase will be the result of immigration. The U.S., the world’s third most populous nation, has the highest annual rate of population growth of any developed country in the world, i.e., 0.963% (2011 estimate,) principally due to immigration.

The nation’s immigrant population (legal and illegal) reached 40 million in 2010, the highest number in our history. The U.S. immigrant population has doubled since 1990, nearly tripled since 1980, and quadrupled since 1970, when it stood at 9.7 million. Of the 40 million immigrants in the country in 2010, 13.9 million arrived in 2000 or later making it the highest decade of immigration in American history, even though there was a net loss of jobs during the decade. Growth in the immigrant population has primarily been driven by high levels of legal immigration. Roughly three-fourths of immigrants in the country are here legally. With nearly 12 million immigrants, Mexico was by far the top immigrant-sending country, accounting for 29 percent of all immigrants and 29 percent of growth in the immigrant population from 2000 to 2010. The median age of immigrants in 2010 was 41.4 compared to 35.9 for natives.

As Figure 3 shows, during the decade there was actually a net loss of about 400,000 jobs according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) survey of businesses. In contrast, the BLS reports a net increase in jobs of about 22 million between 1990 and 2000.

[Stepan12]

when Mitt goes into attack mode, some self-styled “conservatives” will enter into an alliance with liberal media to criticise him.

Big deal.... If some Conservatives are wimps, we will have to ignore them ore even ridicule them, Alinsky style.

Of course, it is never going to be a smooth road. That... we all know.

[fabian]

Yes and Romney obviously has more spark than Mccain or Dull for heaven sakes!