Posted on 08/06/2013 6:41:37 AM PDT by shove_it
It was too little, too late.
Washington Post correspondent Dan Balz, whose new book Collision 2012 provides in-depth reporting and analysis of the last presidential election, says the Romney campaign’s failure to humanize Mitt Romney was an important factor in sealing the candidate’s loss.
Balz tells “The Fine Print” that the more he reported on the campaign, the more “baffled” he became by the Romney team’s “inability to humanize Mitt Romney throughout the entire campaign.” ...
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
A “pro-2A” guy who signs in a permanent assault weapons ban then lies about his own gun ownership is hard to “humanize”.
http://therightscoop.com/2004-romney-signs-off-on-permanent-assault-weapons-ban/
I agree 100%.
Then again, the entire GOP has gone into remission against Obama.
Our press is flat-out bonkers about Obama.
I think the GOP is broken. America thrives on competing ideas.
There are none from the GOP.
Wake up. Bring back US jobs. and stop sleeping about Obama.
America needs an opposition party.
WAKE UP GOP.
“It’s the candidate, stupid.”
Apart from the fact that Romney was the wrong guy for this campaign and for this opponent, I am certain (as with ALL Conservative losses) that voter fraud was significant to the outcome. Romney is a relic of a relic party. Who would or could see that succeeding? If you don't even look at any other factors, this would sink the chances of ANY candidate. Romney is "OLD" politics. If nothing ELSE, the nomination and subsequent election/ RE election of "O" have demonstrated that "OLD" politics will NOT succeed any more.
Just wondering what Amazon’s going to do with WaPoo?
You’re correct as well.
But I DID dislike Romney. He had the expression of a soulless sociopath, unable to connect and detached from all principle. I seemed to see him with his wet finger constantly in the air, trying to detect the direction of the wind, to go with the flow. No anchor whatsoever.
A good candidate shouldn't need advisors, nor consultants.
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True. We had a complicit GOP-e working against conservatism and a truly winning candidate as well. Their actions during the convention proved that.
Why are they talking about this.
He is a wimp
He attacked everyone on his own side like a sissy with a bully older cousin who disappeared when the real enemy showed up
All of the GOP establishment thinks the way he does so they’ll never get it
And it will happen again if they and their big cousins (this round the ones wit the $ are big retailers and the like for whom amnesty works in the short term. Unwise fools. And very afraid of dems, their voters, their media and most especially has been hillary whom they’ll treat a lot better than they do Cruz and Sarah) aren’t sent home
This is so ugh
One incident that keeps lingering in my mind is when a reporter questioned Romney on his reaction to the big Chick-Fil-A protest. Obviously didn’t expect him to give a big thumbs-up (especially since he himself helped facillitate fag-marriage in MA by not confronting the legislature’s actions). But you’d think he could at least muster a sort of generic praise for people standing up for their beliefs. No, instead, Romney replied with a pathetic “uh, that’s not part of my campaign.” What a damned coward. The worst kind of cowardly politico.
I already disliked him for his liberal record, and his scumbag minions (Stevens, Madden) who constantly trashed Palin and the tea-party. Not even letting Palin nor the very words “tea party” appear at the convention. But that Chick-Fil-A response was the moment I truly came to have utter contempt for the man. Loathed his blasted guts. The first GOP candidate in my voting lifetime who did not get my vote. And seeing his ticket-mate, Paul Ryan, now embracing amnesty, homo-adoption, and Obamacare, my anger and disgust at the ticket continues unabated. Damn the whole 2012 GOP campaign crowd to hell!
That's because he pretty much agreed with Obama.
The irony of the Romney campaign is that the longer it went, the more I became convinced that he would be a much better president than Obama despite all his flaws and wishy-washy liberal positions, and I also thought he was a better candidate than what the GOP had offered in a long time. He clearly was better than McCain and Dole and, in retrospect, was probably better than Bush I or Bush II. That’s a sad statement for me to think about — in my opinion, Romney was probably the best national candidate the Republican Party has put up since Reagan.
He was also a Mormon. No one talks about it, but I think it is a disincentive for some voters.
No disagreement that we need jobs in this country. But saying “bring back American jobs” sounds like something a big-government statist would say. No offense, but think about it - the only way a government can “create jobs” is either to hand out cash ala Porkulus which does nothing, expand the size of the federal gummint (i.e. wealth redistribution) or artificially try to pick winners and losers (see: “Solyndra”).
It’s impossible.
The role of government in a free market capitalist system is to create favorable conditions for business creation, investment, and growth through its policies. That’s it. It’s like the role of a farmer is to create the conditions for plants to grow, then stand back and let nature take its course.
Romney wasn’t perfect but he understood capitalism very well, and had proven it in the only arena that matters. Whether he would have created a favorable business climate is something we will never know, but do you honestly think it would have been as bad as what Obama is doing?
Romney sure wasn’t perfect but the alternative means we have to sweat out this health care bill, have the most pro-abortion left winger ever. I liked Santorum, Perry, Gingrich and Paul all well before Romney.
More than people will let on. It's the kind of thing people wouldn't admit, but privately to their like-minded friends, it would come out.
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