“Romney had good enough campaign to beat fantastic candidates such as Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and gov. Perry in the primaries. He will prevail in general election if people wake up and smell the coffee about what the radical socialist from Chicago is doing to the country. If not we will soon be Greece. People deserve the government they vote for.”
Mitt Romney did that basically with a lot of help from the “conservative” media that did everything it could to undermine each of our legitimate candidates. Bloody Thursday did not come from some Mittens speech, but by a coordinated attack on Newt with lying stories that no one, not even Rush, bothered to tell the truth about until after the damage had already been done. He followed it up with lying political ads, aided and abetted by the media at large. Then he was left alone with Santorum, whose campaign consisted of “God loves me more” with little to no specifics in his speeches, with big banners in the background that read “COURAGE!”, with a campaign website with an issues page that began with an article on the evils of pornagraphy, and all of this he did in the backdrop of a political campaign where open primaries and negative campaigning served to suppress the conservative vote (Romney’s states were all won with below average turnout). Essentially, Romney was handed the nomination simply because he dominated with big money and had the media on his side.
Now he is facing a candidate who is also a master of media manipulation, has near unlimited funds, and is more charismatic. And Romney, like Santorum, is on the side of having no real ideas or plans, with every thing he does support being contradicted now and then by himself directly or by his subordinates. Mittens is running as the “I’m not Obama” candidate, and I’m afraid he is so utterly an empty suit and so demonstrably a liar that winning this election, even in this economy, is going to be extraordinarily tough. All these people talking about how Willard is an awesome business man who did this or that don’t care that this “businessman” inflicted RomneyCare on his state and was in bed with the left from global warming to the war on the coal industry to tax increases (ahem* they were increased fees and closing of loopholes) to on and on and on, a miriad of job destroying political positions he embraced in other to out commie the pink-commies of his state. But because we are all supposed to be loyal Republicans before conservatives, we’re supposed to ignore this reality and just stand stupefied as we watch his campaign crash and burn when it should be leading by double digits.
If you haven’t already read it, I would suggest looking over Nathan’s insightful observations at #29.
I tend to agree with most of what you said. However I can see the difference between Romney and Obama. One worked in the private sector for quarter of a century and was a huge success. The other never worked in any private sector. I have worked 2/3 of my working career in private sector and 1/3 for the government. I have seen both from the inside.
I am going with the guy with private sector experience.