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Romney: ‘It kills me’ not to be in White House
yahoo ^ | march 3, 2013 | Dylan Stableford

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: conservatives; goawaymittens; hopesuidiotsrhappy; inman; mittromney; nomorerinos; obama; rinobegone; romney; sayno2rinos
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To: Norm Lenhart

I think you’re right.


61 posted on 03/03/2013 11:03:55 AM PST by donna (Pray for revival.)
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To: lowbridge

Romney had already lost the day he announced he was running. His reputation was all he needed to loose. He could not pull off the Con this time.


62 posted on 03/03/2013 11:04:19 AM PST by Revel
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To: Olog-hai
If that’s his attitude, then he’s telling us that he would have been a bad POTUS. Not worse than Obama, but most likely very close to the same thing. Coveting the office is a bad sign.

Coveting the office? No, I'd say it's more like regret in hindsight. Maybe he finally realizes how messed up things are with Obama and wishes he'd run a better campaign.

My hunch -- and it's only just a hunch -- is that the truth was somewhere between Romney lusting after the presidency and his son's notion that he really didn't want it and didn't care.

Is it possible that he really didn't know how bad things were before? It's possible. I suspect a lot of people were in the same boat.

63 posted on 03/03/2013 11:04:49 AM PST by x
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To: lowbridge

If the Republican party had not abandoned conservative voters, things would be different.

He lost because he’s too darned liberal, plain and simple.


64 posted on 03/03/2013 11:05:18 AM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: dowcaet

“Uh, conservatives also deserve blame for this too...”

You are correct. And there are conservatives on this site who are a part of that...they stayed home.

We voted (for one of the conservative candidates) in the primary here in Ohio, and we voted in November. I promoted the benefits of not allowing another four years...

Somehow we also need a coordinated effort between conservative candidates such that they do not destroy each other and allow another Rovette to be the candidate.


65 posted on 03/03/2013 11:05:26 AM PST by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders.)
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To: lowbridge

So why did he loose? (sic) So many diagnoses, each so certain, I’m confuuuuuuuused!


66 posted on 03/03/2013 11:06:07 AM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: donna

I wish I wasn’t. But the facts on the ground pretty much prove my case. Which should be the death knell for the GOP. But people want more pain I guess. So they will keep empowering that very thing.


67 posted on 03/03/2013 11:06:37 AM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: lowbridge
"...he doesn't blame...anything else on his loss to President Barack Obama--except his campaign's failure to connect with minority voters."

What putrid (and typical) RINO droppings.

That statement ought to show every conservative that Romney is as out of touch with the base as many of us have always said he is.

It wasn't his failure to connect with minority voters that caused his loss. It was his failure to connect with the pro-American center-right that doomed him.

Geeez!

68 posted on 03/03/2013 11:06:44 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: dfwgator

Just go look at the exit polls. Romney won a higher percentage of the white vote than Reagan did. But the minorities derailed him. That’s not his opinion, it’s a fact. Minorities voted in record numbers last year.

The GOP that won national elections in the past will not win again in the future. The Reagan coalition is not enough anymore. The numbers are just not there.


69 posted on 03/03/2013 11:06:54 AM PST by BarnacleCenturion
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To: Strategerist

I’m convinced that Romney presented a picture of people rolling up their sleeves and going back to work and a significant segment of the demographic you list responded, “Are you kidding me?!!”


70 posted on 03/03/2013 11:07:31 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: lowbridge

It kills me too. Anything is preferable to Dear Leader.


71 posted on 03/03/2013 11:07:47 AM PST by TheRhinelander
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To: entropy12

That 47% statement was true enough. And damn the Carter grandson and the enemedia for making it THE talking point of the whole campaign. If stupid people voted for a round two, then let them CHOKE on it.

Of course I voted for Romney...I wouldn’t have voted for a freaking ham sandwich over this nightmare alternative.

On to the next crisis..sequestration, The lobbyists and the powerful will make those cuts in the most painful places they possibly can to get them undone, rather than tighten their own belts a little. We are accelerating down the path to ruin. But dammit, I’m going to do my best to enjoy the blessed life I’ve been given...and fight the rabid left with my last breath.


72 posted on 03/03/2013 11:08:50 AM PST by SueRae (It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

The only agenda I saw Romney pushing was Obamacare banning, Tax relief driving, regulation stopping, Keystome pipeline approving, States rights promoting, Border enforcement urgency and Foreign policy strengthening. Looking at Romney’s credentials on these issues against Obama’s, the choice was obvious.

If after that campaign, you perceived that all the sewage you listed was at the top of Romney’s agenda, then your emotions got the best of you. I am talking about the priorities of the candidates, not projecting from mistakes or contradictions of the past.

I respect your feelings about Romney’s failings but you are totally off base in your interpretations about his clear Priorities had he won the presidency. I hope you and I will be joined at the hip moving forward into the mid-terms and the next presidency. It is clearly impossible to totally satisfy everyone’s preferences.


73 posted on 03/03/2013 11:09:07 AM PST by untwist
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To: ansel12

“Now that the ether has worn off, can anyone explain how this nobody, with little connection to the GOP, and no real politics or American interests or party roots, rose to the top of republican politics and became the presidential nominee?”

He had support in the GOP establishment. Faux conservative Hugh Hewitt, always an indicator of what the GOP-e is thinking, wrote a book promoting Romney seven years ago.


74 posted on 03/03/2013 11:09:15 AM PST by Pelham (Marco Rubio. for Amnesty, Spanish, and Karl Rove.)
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To: lowbridge

Majority of the 9 Pubbie candidates was conservative. And that majority split the votes of conservative primary voters. That is how we got a non-conservative presidential candidate elected to the nomination by the minority of primary votes. Correct?


75 posted on 03/03/2013 11:10:22 AM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Revolting cat!

Go with mine. It is correct. ;)


76 posted on 03/03/2013 11:10:31 AM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: GGpaX4DumpedTea
And there are conservatives on this site who are a part of that...they stayed home.

I seriously doubt that. I strongly suspect a lot of people who were on the "Romney is Satan" bandwagon in the primaries did vote for him in the general. Some have admitted, some have not and will not.

And as a voting block FR is so tiny it's irrelevant, and most of it is so concentrated in the Reddest of Red states that their Presidential election votes are extra-irrelevant.

77 posted on 03/03/2013 11:11:10 AM PST by Strategerist
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To: HonkyTonkMan
They really do need to just shut the he** up and move on. Obama was for the taking and Romney ran a campaign that dovetailed with the voter fraud and all the other shenanigans that occurred.

The time to speak out and raise a ruckus was before the election.

78 posted on 03/03/2013 11:11:32 AM PST by Delta Dawn
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To: untwist

Romney has a detailed history of saying one thing and doing the opposite. If people were/are so gullible to believe his conservative rhetoric when his lifetime was the very opposite, then there is nothing more to say. History speaks for itself.


79 posted on 03/03/2013 11:14:42 AM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: Gay State Conservative
So "the base" decided that it wanted a President who'd be wrong *all* of the time instead of,perhaps,20% (or maybe even 50%)of the time.Brilliant move,"base".

An compulsive liar, anti-Reagan leader in an anti-Christian cult, ex-fund raiser and supporter of the democrat party, running on a platform of abortion, homosexualizing the military, and the Boy Scouts, and who gave America Obama care and homosexual marriage, and a permanent gun ban, was just too much.

Mitt Romney is a figure for the history books, he was the most bizarre nominee in American history.

80 posted on 03/03/2013 11:15:21 AM PST by ansel12 (Romney is a longtime supporter of homosexualizing the Boy Scouts (and the military).)
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