Posted on 03/03/2013 10:10:39 AM PST by lowbridge
Mitt Romney says it "kills" him that he's not president. But he doesn't blame Superstorm Sandy, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie or anything else on his loss to President Barack Obama--except his campaign's failure to connect with minority voters.
“I lost my election because of my campaign," Romney said on "Fox News Sunday" in his first television interview since his November defeat, "not because of what anyone else did."
The former Massachusetts governor refused place blame on Christie, who some Republicans say elevated Obama in his embrace of the president in the wake of the storm.
Romney said his inability to win over black and Hispanic voters--and the damage done by those disastrous "47 percent" comments--ultimately derailed his White House bid.
Ann Romney, though, pointed the finger at the fourth estate. “It was not just the campaign’s fault," Ann Romney said. "I believe it was the media's fault as well, in that he was not being given a fair shake--that people weren’t allowed to really see him for who he was. ... I’m happy to blame the media.”
She added: “I totally believe at this moment, if Mitt were there in the office, that we would not be facing sequestration right now."
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I honestly don't know, but it certainly isn't Palin.
And it won't be someone running on a "I hate homos and want to ban all abortions in all circumstances" ticket either.
One problem is that a lot of people here don't grasp just how badly they are outnumbered. If you are religious, older, and live in a dark red rural portion of a red state there's a high chance your whole family, church, and workplace shares your worldview - which then leads to the "all polls are wrong" nonsense you see when they find out their views aren't a majority.
But as an example, for every gun-toting grizzly Mama in Wyoming, there are TEN View-watching, gun-abhorrent, liking their gay-friend-hair-stylist, half-heartedly religious upper-middle class housefraus in New Jersey, or the Northern Virginia suburbs, etc.
And the few people that do understand how badly they're outnumbered come up with ridiculous schemes that have no hope of being implemented like one electoral vote per county, etc.
You need a base more aligned with your desires. Try DU.
I don't know about Romney's numbers. More relevant: McCain carried 45% of votes in 2008. Romney had to get to 50%+. He didn't do it and the "47% comment" hurt.
It's not so much that people dependent on government didn't vote for Romney (or Bush or McCain). It's that the comment made Romney look bad with swing voters.
That's the way it is with a lot of these "gaffes": the people the "gaffe" refers to may not vote for you in any case, but the comment hurts you with other voters who might have been yours to pick up.
Well said!
Yes or no. Should the GOP moderate it’s platform and become more accepting of things it opposes just to win?
Simple question. Please answer.
Not in my circle. But I do believe it is BS to think any Republican or Tea Party candidate has a snowball's chance in hell from this point on.
It's over, folks.
Yeah, one thing that you are not shy about, is revealing your politics and political agenda, you never let up from constantly pushing freerepublic to the left.
I believe in the constitution and the republic. I also believe that not voting for a viable alternative, flaws and all, over a known socialist would-be dictator for whatever personal feelings or religious reasons/prejudices is immoral and not in keeping with preserving the Constitution and the Republic. Establishing a free nation under the Constitution is what our forefathers, including one or two of my own; fought for.
I put the preservation of the Constitution above my personal likes or dislikes of the candidate as well as my religious beliefs. In the end, the Constitution is what preserves our religious freedoms. God gave us those forefathers and Constitution and leaves it to us to preserve it. Not voting because of any of those reasons allows a dictator like obama to remain in power. THAT IS STUPID AND IMMORAL, period. We are now approaching a situation where those of us who still put the preservation of the Constitution may have to repeat the actions of our forefathers to regain our Constitutional Republic.
I repeat, nitwits who have made this nightmare reality possible for another 4 years and leaving many of the rest of us to try to clean up the mess.
By the way, I never said obama was the antichrist. The idea that mitt the twit is as evil as obama is absurd. I don’t think much of him but he is no obama.
Don’t bother to ever vote again because you will never find someone who will live up to all of your expected “values”.
Good for your circle. But as long as no one stands up for what they believe in, then I agree. It’s dem city from here-on out. For that very reason.
I don’t know how many people here realize that Bishop Romney was running pro-abortion ads in some markets, and was campaigning against the GOP pro-life platform, and supported homosexualizing the military and Boy Scouts.
August 27,2012-CBS
PELLEY: Well, the platform as written at this convention for the Republicans does not allow for exceptions on abortion with regard to the health of the mother or rape or incest. Is that where you are?
ROMNEY: No. My position has been clear throughout this campaign. I’m in favor of abortion being legal in the case of rape and incest, and the health and life of the mother.
“socialist would-be dictator”
There were two of those running, as their records prove. Give me someone -not- in bed with the abortion/gay/gungrab lobbies and I’ll vote for them.
Seriously, with the excuses that are flying, would it matter? No one believes principles matter Ansel. Not anymore. Listen to these people. They are making excuses for supporting a man with a record filled with dead children, sodomy and stripping people of their right to self defense...
And then BITCHING that not enough of us would help them get more of that...because he ‘said’ he only did that in Mass. He’d NEVER do it anywhere else.
How freaking pathetic is that? I’d be ashamed. They clearly are not.
I am not convinced that Romney lost.
However....Anyone not willing to FIGHT massive VOTER FRAUD does not deserve to be president.
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Where is the “Like” button here?
But that's tough for that scenario to occur in '16, especially when it's not too difficult for mainstream media to stir the voters into a frenzy and pull the level for the Democratic candidate once again.
He was a willing tool to turn the party to the left. As the left goes more left, the GOP follows.
I saw nothing to dispute that as all the politicians fell like dominoes supporting him, even the ‘most elect’ as did voters claiming they held their nose. Everything went out the window and they didn’t care. The primaries showed their stupidity before all of that.
What’s a good collective denial party without a couple shots at Palin? Gotta have PDS included in the Big Tent.
PDS in, Traditional Republican values out. Well, soon they will have the ‘Republican Marriage’ they always wanted. Boy won’t they be surprised when they get it. Of course their honeymoon with liberalism will end the same way, metaphorically speaking.
Side note: For those reading unfamiliar with the term, see revolutionary era France.
Conservatives are only hurting themselves by not making reasonable compromises (they feel they've been burned too many times - GWB, for example). By staying home this election in large numbers, they guaranteed us four more years of Obama. They stay home again in 2014 and we'll see Obama control not just the Executive but both houses of Congress.
Yes or no. Should the GOP moderate it’s platform and become more accepting of things it opposes just to win?
Simple question. Please answer.
Why are you telling me this. I don’t like this any more than you do. I blame Romney and the people who forced him on us.
Over 100 replys and maybe a dozen got it right. Christie wasn’t the fault. It was him, his whole campaign and his choices on those who ran it.
I don’t like straw men in straw hats relying on straw polls who go tilting at straw windmills.
GOPES weren’t watching the left hand. herf://www.theusmat.com/
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