[HonkyTonkMan]

people weren’t allowed to really see him for who he was

Oh, I think we did Ann

[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. And what makes it worse, the obvious way to win—i.e. go conservative rather than liberal—was utterly eschewed by him and the GOP.

[Tau Food]

He lost because no one thought he was authentic. One day, he was a flaming liberal, the next a “severe” conservative. They are all phony, but he was particularly so. Very few people understood him or really connected with him.

[entropy12]

Romney made a stupid statement about the 47% will never vote for him..
Akin mad a stupid statement about pregnancy from rape.
Mourdock made a stupid statement about pregnancy from rape was God’s intention.

So long as GOP keeps nominating stupid people, losses are guaranteed.

[TheZMan]

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.

Actually, Mitt, blacks and hispanics don't win you the presidency. Conservatism does. The "47% comments" were the smartest thing you've ever said.

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.”

Quite right, but at the same time, it's kinda like baking a cake. Having the right temperature and cook time doesn't mean a whole hill of beans if you didn't use the right ingredients.

Perhaps because neither of you seems to have a clue, even now, it's best that you didn't win.

[Norm Lenhart]

No Mr. Romney, you lost because you alienated the Republican base and proved via your history that you were no ‘severe’ conservative. You also lost because moderates say you flip on many issues and knew that you were not trustworthy.

That’s why you lost.

[wintertime]

-except his campaign’s failure to connect with minority voters.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I am not convinced that Romney lost.

However....Anyone not willing to FIGHT massive VOTER FRAUD does not deserve to be president. WIMP!

[Gay State Conservative]

If only Romney hadn’t killed that steelworker’s wife and failed to pay taxes for 10 years he’d be President.Not paying taxes? Well,the word *was* out! Dirty Harry filled us in...from the floor of the Senate,no less.

[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?

[who knows what evil?]

90 million eligible voters sat this one out, Mitt...you couldn’t convince them to go to the polls to support you.

[Flintlock]

“Kills ya?”

Reeealllllly??

Then why didn’t ya TRY TO WIN THE THING??

[fso301]

It will literally kill a lot of people around the world that he wasn’t elected.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

Thanks Karl Rove, Thanks Mitt, for assuring us these four more years of the evil POS, America hating White Hut usurpers.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Romney is hard to figure. Certainly he is not a stupid man; indeed, far from it. And he is probably the most decent man who’s run for pres in many, many years.

But how is it that these goofball statements come out of this mouth. Is there a bypass route around his brain that just lets idiocies blurt out and works to sabotage him at incredibly inopportune moments?

I just don’t get it. He didn’t get where he is financially by just looking at the “next” step and doing something apparently intelligent about it. He has to be a multi-step planner. He seems to lack something in the “rehearsed comments” of the vocal library; by that I mean, when you have no particular idea of something to say, revert to repeating a tired but tested utterance of some sort that fulfills the human tendency to reply to questions.

This is like being a guitar (other solo) player in a band. Not every night can you come up with a piece of total brilliance, of pure originality. But you have to drop a solo in this particular spot. The better approach is to recognize that you can’t be a fountainhead of creativity every instant, and sometimes you have to drop in a prefab something or other.....at least to get going. To you, it’s cheaping out and it probably sounds corny. To anyone else...it’s just notes that go by that they’ve never heard before and it makes not the slightest bit of difference.

But Mitt never hung out with a garage band. And it shows.

[greyfoxx39]

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.”

Mormonism's whiny fall-back position since the 1830s...persecution, persecution, persecution.

[jimbo123]

[Moonman62]

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.

Romney failed to connect with majority voters.

[b4its2late]

Every RINO needs to know that feeling in the next election cycle. We need conservatives.

[untwist]

The recriminations against Gov. Romney are understood and many are justified. Still, I cannot understand why so many on our side made decisions and took actions (or refused to act) in a way that handed the presidency to Obama for another 4 years.

I love my country and my children too much to allow that man to continue to willfully destroy our nation with socialism and endless corruptions of our culture.

Ronmey is what he is. Given the choice between him and Obama I would vote for Romney again, no question. Time is not on our side.

[jmacusa]

Thanks Mitt, hell of a thing to say now! You lost you jerk because you ran as everything except a conservative. You lost because you lacked a certain important part of the male anatomy necessary for drive, verve, and courage in war, and politics is war. That's why you lost you moron. And if the GOP intends on running fat-ass Christie we've lost already.