At this point, what difference does it make???
Race car guys go by feel in the "set-up", sometimes after it feels good don't try to tweak it anymore, run what ya brung at that point. Ditto that Rock and Roll bands they know the music or the song is a hit by a reaction of the crowd. I get the sense Romney didn't have the 6th sense that what he was doing was working even when he hit on it, he kept trying to tweak it more, maybe it is because it wasn't in his core. Ronald Reagan had this 6th sense, and unfortunately I think BHO has it too.
I’ll watch it right after I watch Weinstein and Streep’s film.
He should have gone negative from day 1 and kept poring it on for the whole election. It could have been a rout.
But he was too too goody good to do that.
Why did the big donors insist upon a candidate that did not “match well with our party”?
That’s such an obvious recipe for failure.
Yet they could have guaranteed the Republican candidate’s failure just as well by denying funding to any candidate.
Why spend money to get what they can have for free?
I had Republicans here try to tell me that Romney was a good candidate. Same with McCain.
Over the last 8 or 9 years I have tried to dig very deeply into who Romney is and has been all of his life.
Artificial is the word, from his youth to everything else, he is an artificial man, totally driven to check off boxes of success.
Even after decades in elective politics and two major presidential runs, his life as the son of two major politicains, and as the husband of a small time politician who has held office, an attempt to decide what his true politics and positions are, is impossible for almost everyone, he is just an ambitious, artificial man, driven to win things.
someone at headquarters had told him: “In some ways, we kind of had to steal the Republican nomination
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Yep that’s the only way liberal Willard got the nomination...
killed off the Conservatives in the race...
Romney helped Obama in 2008, for Soros, by directing
the attack on the Palin Family.
As a reward, the miserable GOP gave him the nomination
of which he had no real interest.
Romney didn’t know he was going to debate two people in the second debate (Obozo and Crowly), and he didn’t know Obozo would be wearing a wire. When I saw Obama months later speaking to someone with a foreign language and he had a wire, he had the same look on his face.
The fact somebody at his headquarters told him this, and that he believed it, is pretty much exactly what's wrong with the Republican Party.
First, look at the red/blue map. The Republican Party is an everywhere Party, not just in the South. The Democrats big problem is that they're entirely an URBAN Party, with no support outside of large cities to speak of.
Second, evangelical? Please be serious. For those with religious affiliation, the Republican Party is almost evenly split between mainline Protestants and non-Latino Catholics, Of the Protestants, only 65% percent identify as Evangelicals. And, as a matter of fact, 25% of Republicans identify as atheist, agnostic, independent, or nothing at all. [numbers from Pew Research, 2011 -- this agrees well with earlier Pew and other supporting polls.] That makes Evangelicals a large, important minority within the Party, but hardly a makes the Republican Party an "Evangelical" Party.
Third: Populist? That's the dumbest part of all. The squishy RINO's are hardly "populists," they're blue-blood hereditary and elitist types, and the conservatives are principled ideologues, with no populist inclinations at all.
If Romney had jackasses like this in his headquarters, and worse yet, believed them, it's no wonder he lost. They didn't even understand the composition of their own party, or what would be needed to reach them, let alone the Indies.
Even when he won, he could not overcome the fraud.
If he had only fought Obastard in the general as hard as he fought Conservatives in the primaries.
Our party is southern, evangelical and populist. And you’re northern, and you’re Mormon, and you’re rich. And these do not match well with our party.
Had Romney not ignored the base then he would’ve won. The guy went to the mushy center in the primary...who does that and expects the Conservative base to vote for you!!!!
At the Convention, no SArah Palin...really...why watch if Romney and co treat her like Democrats did.
Even more unfortunate is that the GOPe is doubling down on stupid rendering themselves worse than useless, they have become the enemy of conservatism and can go the way of the Whigs.
Saw a vanity plate today that read “NO MITZ” and wasn’t sure what to make of it. Romney comment? Rep or Dem? Baseball Fan?
Why didn’t he play his ace in the third debate, the one about foreign policy? I kept yelling at him through the TV screen to bring up Benghazi, but he never did.