Posted on 10/21/2012 7:54:27 AM PDT by Evil Slayer
On Oct. 3, I raised a question here that reflected President Obama’s strong momentum and Mitt Romney’s apparent readiness to accept defeat.
“Are you a good loser, Mitt?” I wrote.
I have my answer. I’ve gotten it so many times in the last 17 days that I am now convinced of it.
The answer is no, Mitt Romney is not a good loser. He is instead determined to be the next president of the United States.
And I am starting to believe he will be.
The New & Improved Mitt took the stage in the first debate, which came on the day of my question. The timing is important, because the day marked what, in hindsight, was the low point of the Romney campaign.
He was drifting, not fighting, and seemed oddly content with a race sliding away, as though the nomination was victory enough. Obama, on the other hand, gave every indication he wanted to keep the job, no matter what it took. His re-election had a growing sense of inevitability.
Then came that first debate, where Romney’s brilliant performance and Obama’s snooze flipped the script. But it is now clear Romney’s sudden zest wasn’t a one-off. He has continued to gain support after the second debate, an illustration of the power and depth of the change to his approach.
Some polls show him leading nationally by as much as 6 points, and the Electoral College map is moving in his direction. Romney still needs more states in his column and there is plenty of time for the race to swing back to Obama.
But there is no denying that we have witnessed a man rising beyond what seemed his ability to meet a challenge. If Romney were an athlete, we would be asking whether he’s on steroids.
That’s
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Maybe Romney was intentionally lulling Obama into a state of complacency.
I think that the leftists fanatics and their Cult icon Obama actually believed their false narratives and nonsense to the point they did not see the RR freight train steam rolling their way.
I have to say - Romney is really impressing me lately. I did not vote for him in the primary and was ABO, but I am fully in support now and ready to roll!
The author is full of chit....he is projecting the left bubble he lives in...
Mitt was not accepting defeat...
I personally believe that we are headed towards Romney winning with almost as many Electoral College votes as Obama did in 2008. Why? Because Americans—unfiltered by the mainstream media—are expressing strong disapproval of Obama, especially with Obama’s highly-questionable foreign policy and the anemic state of the “recovery” (if that’s the right term to use!) from the 2008 stock market crash.
Update from NE Ohio—went through Parma yesterday (Cleveland suburb where Slick Willy and Bruce Springsteen were here for BO the other days—next to no signs up compared to normal election year-counted 4-5 for BO ——and 5-6 for Mitt.
Went into inner city Cleveland today to my father’s family’s old church (Catholic)The priest old school maybe 70, delivered a very pointed homily/sermon—saying the 3 great public evils curreently facing Catholics (abortion, gay marriage, and the freedom of religion/insurance-health care issue)should be in the front of their minds—he said personally any one of those would disqualify a candidate from his vote-and one candidate (he “slipped” once and referred to that candidate as “the President”) was so egrigiously on the wrong side of all three as to make it a done deal. He also said several times to look past the agenda of the “secular media” Unreal!!!!
Of course today the local rag—the Cleveland Plain Dealer, endorsed Obama—I think they are totally out of step with the people here.
Mitt is a winner!
*****
As opposed to the whiner! :)
I don't know if that is true or not, but it sounds about right.
We're in a bad way. I shudder to think how it will go for us if obama is reelected.
But, if Romney and Ryan win and then do what they say they'll do, we are on the verge of an American renaissance. They will be this generation's and the next's Reagan and that's a legacy worth taking a risk on and vote for.
Correct
2009 NJ race
Scott Brown
2010 mid terms
Chik a filet day
The signs have been building for a long time that we are going to oust this disgusting thug from office.
And unlike Bush, Romney is actually a very smart, focused leader. As I’ve said here on FR any number of times in recent weeks ... like him or not, Mitt Romney may be the most capable, effective executive to run for the White House in our nation’s history.
And if Europe and the rest of the world pay attention to the changes Mitt will bring about, we may on the verge of a human renaissance.
He’s a winner. Take it to the bank!
Bingo.
I say give Romney a solid change.
I may end up rooting for Palin in 2016, but for right now it’s Romney’s opportunity.
We shall see...
I think that same question applies to some of the ABR Freepers as well. We were obviously misled.
That whole lay low thing was really pissing me off. Month after month allowing Obama/MSM to define him. But it now seems Romney was supremely confident that, once people got to see him unfiltered for the first time during the debates, all that money and effort in demonizing him would be wasted.
And he was right. Four months and over $250 million — gone like a Solyndra investment!
That is all anyone needs to know about what this Election represents.
Polls Rigged for six years now. Our enemies must be utterly defeated. Times Require Sacrifice of Patriotic Blood to refresh the Tree of liberty etc,
“I'm Voting for the Winner, not the Whiner”
Ya know—it is what it is. We have 3 choices, and 2 of them are bad........
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