[shove_it]

Video at link.

[Dixie Yooper]

No matter what Mitt would have tried, it wouldn't have mattered. The DNC and Obama2012 stayed active in all the precincts that mattered in the states that really mattered ever since 2008. In the meantime, the RNC had an identity problem because they had a black leader that sucked and wanted to replace him with another leader that also sucked, but was white. Once they took care of that, they decided to spend their money on stacking the deck in Mitt's favor at every turn in the primary race that the RNC should have been keeping fair for all candidates. There is something very twisted about a candidate having to raise money just to fight money being used against them that they have all helped raise for the RNC. When you start getting those letters for donations to the RNC in the next few years, think about that before reaching for your credit card or check book.

[ilgipper]

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.

[ejonesie22]

We lost because we ran Romney.

Period.

[Uncle Miltie]

RomneyCare IS 0bamaCare.

How could we mount an effective attack?

[Jim Scott]

This isn't rocket science. The RNC bosses manipulate the 2012 GOP primary races in such a way as to ensure Romney wins, offering America a candidate who spends half his allotted time during the debates saying "I agree with you, mister president" to Obama and has to be 'humanized' by his handlers. Gee, what could possibly go wrong?

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.

[CodeToad]

Too many “insiders”. They need to start observing America from outside the boardroom.

[US Navy Vet]

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[Servant of the Cross]

.... how the GOP lost the 2012 election?

www.tokyorove.com

[Iron Munro]

FRAUD

[VRW Conspirator]

bfl

[Political Junkie Too]

I think Romney could have won if he hadn't pulled back on the reins after the first debate.

Sure, he got slammed by dirty tricks. Romney had to debate two opponents where Obama only had to debate one. SEIU bartenders were secretly recording Romney's "private" donor meetings. The MSM played "gotcha" games with down-ballot candidates in several states.

But Romney also failed to nationalize his campaign. He didn't extend coattails into the states and advocate a national ticket. This is reflected in the failure of Republicans to retake the Senate after peaking just before the convention. If Romney had followed a strategy of campaigning with the state candidates for Senate and focus a message on forming a team to "fix" Washington if only voters would sweep out the old and support a new crew, he might have gotten the final voters to turn out.

BTW, I do think that more voters did turn out for Romney, but that their votes were "lost" in the counting.

-PJ

[pfflier]

IMO the neverending primary season with 10-15 candidates created most of the problem.

The incumbent only has to campaign.

The GOP nominees slashed each other up for the entertainment of the press and the opposition for at least two years and up to the convention.

There should be one or two candidates at most by the beginning of the election year. The GOP leadership should concentrate on selling their candidate for the year before the election, not selecting them still.

This is only a criticism of the methods not the substance of candidate selection.

[Lancey Howard]

Anybody who goes back to the same old “Republican strategists” again and again deserves to lose.

[LongWayHome]

Romney lost cause we are a center-left nation. Clinton is going to win in a walk in 2016 cause we are a center-left nation. The DEMOGRAPHIC ship has sailed folks. They have the numbers.

[itsahoot]

Romney campaign’s failure to humanize Mitt Romney

Romney campaign’s failure to make a conservative out of Mitt Romney........