Posted on 08/06/2013 6:41:37 AM PDT by shove_it
Why don’t you tell us how you really feel, greene? :)
Yes, I am just as enraged. Romney’s Chick-fil-A comment was unconscionable and degrading. I already knew he was this kind of “man,” but that comment reveal the truth to the whole world. I’m sure he lost at least 2 million conservative votes at that very moment.
When it came to running his campaign, you can remove one of the "m's".
And we're probably better off that Mitt lost, seeing as he was only slightly less lib than 0bama. Stuff is starting to stick to The Teflon One now, Mitt would have been blasted by everybody.
If your focus is to ‘humanize’ a candidate, you’ve already lost. That’s all they did for four months, and it failed in tremendous fashion. Romney was actually our most polished, president-like candidate since Bush 41, but they bought into all the left’s traps...that Obama could not be criticized because he is uber-popular, and that the campaign need to ‘humanize’ their candidate rather than present a policy plan to make people’s lives better.
I remember Rush and others scoffing last fall at the concept of ‘humanizing’ him. What a joke. They ran the completely wrong campaign. It was clearly obvious from July forward. The convention was blah blah boring, trying to ‘prove’ we don’t hate minorities (which also didn’t work).
What a fiasco...and then the DC idiots turn around and blame conservatives.
We lost because we ran Romney.
Period.
RomneyCare IS 0bamaCare.
How could we mount an effective attack?
As ironic as that statement is, I agree with it wholeheartedly. Most republicans, especially conservatives, know to oppose the blatant liberal that Obama is. Romney would have gotten token support by default from most Republicans and many Democrats, ushering in the same liberal policies with less opposition.
The simple truth is that Romney, whatever his attributes, and he had some, was the wrong candidate in 2012. He was far too liberal for conservatives and did a poor job of hiding his contempt for them. That, along with the media acting as Obama's PR organization and the massive voter fraud (changing demographics are also a factor worth noting) pretty much ensured Romney's defeat. One other factor: although Romney's Mormon religion may have been an almost subliminal negative for him, the fact that many 'low-information voters' didn't want to think of themselves as rejecting The First Black President was likely another factor in Romney's failure to win.
In the Republican primaries Romney was a bare fisted brawler that took no prisoners. He was ruthless. In the election he was milk toast. Nice guys finish last in an election with the exception of Ronald Reagan. Reagan destroyed his opponents with humor and logical conservative principles.
You can say that again, LOL. As for thinking on his feet, he had a tough time handling Candy Crowley.
You are correct. A lot of people said they’d never vote for a Mormon and they were pooh pooed.
Contrary too popular spin, Romneycare had little to do with Obamacare. Here are the differences:
Romneycare was custom designed to meet the needs of just one state, not a one size fits all program for the entire nation.
In MA, before Romneycare was enacted, just 8% of the population lacked health coverage. These folks in the 8%, however, were helping drive up costs for the 92% who had health coverage. The uninsured would walk into hospitals and clinics, receive treatment, care, and surgery, and then leave the taxpayers stuck with the tab. Romneycare did put an end to that. Yes it did require every person in MA to have health coverage. States CAN mandate insurance-—the federal government CANNOT (despite the SCOTUS ruling, assuming the 10th Amendment is still valid). If states can require that we have auto insurance, they can require that we have health insurance. Another huge difference between Obamacare and Romneycare.
Romneycare did mandate everyone have health coverage in MA. For those who could not afford it, Romneycare redirected funds ALREADY allocated to the state through Medicaid (they got permission from the Bush Administration) to help low income people purchase PRIVATE health insurance coverage. Romneycare (unlike Obamacare) did not raise taxes, nor did it expand the size and scope of the state government-—another HUGE difference with Obamacare. Romneycare did not impact the 92% of the population that already had health coverage. It only impacted the 8% who were mooching off the taxpayers. Romney care was not tax and spend like Obamacare is. Romneycare did not raise taxes. Romneycare did not spend new money. Romneycare did reallocate funds from Medicaid to help low income people buy private health insurance.
Popular spin is that Romneycare begat Obamacare. Nothing could be further from the truth. Romneycare was all about one state and one state alone grappling with the problem of the uninsured and freeloaders gaming the system. By the time it was all said and done, nearly 100% of the people in MA had health coverage, all done without raising taxes or increased government spending. Romneycare in that sense was the polar opposite of Obamacare.
Too many “insiders”. They need to start observing America from outside the boardroom.
he also had help from Santorum and Bachman in the primary debates.
If those two hadn’t run, Romney would never have been the nominee
I do agree with that-—public perception-—that is Washington created spin drove the narrative that Romneycare was similar to Obamacare.
Truth is Romneycare tried to put an end to moochers and freeriders gaming the system, driving up costs on everyone else and requiring people to take responsibility for their own health care. And it did so in a fiscally responsible manner without raising taxes or increasing spending. It redirected funds from Medicaid to accomplish this——NOT Medicare.
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