Nobody could have beaten OBOBO. Especially with the press sitting on all Obobo's scandals, and pumping (pimping) up Obobo!
Posted on 11/14/2012 12:35:08 AM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
In a New York magazine piece this week, Benjamin Wallace-Wells eulogizes Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign. The headline pretty much sums it up: “So long, Mitt: In love with America, terrified for its future, relegated to its past.” But in the final paragraph, Wallace-Wells made a good observation about Romney’s lasting legacy as the GOP nominee. “[J]ust a week after Romney seemed poised to become president,” he writes, “there is no segment of the Republican Party that could be called Romneyist.” That’s part of the reason why he lost.
Many times during the campaign, I slammed Romney for his ideological promiscuity. His flip-flopping was a character flaw that engendered mistrust among the Republican base and disbelief among the general electorate. As I wrote last month, politicians changing their minds on a core issue isn’t uncommon and should be respected. What Romney did during his six years running for president was change his mind on everything.
Romney’s change of position on abortion, gay rights, gun control, immigration, climate change, his own health care law — collectively, they called into question whether he had a core at all. They also made it impossible for those who believed in the former Massachusetts governor to point to anything he really believed in. That’s why there’s no discernible Romney philosophy from 2012 that will define the Republican Party for decades to come. That’s why there are no Romneyites.
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“I never want to hear from you again...or your skank supporters....”
Romney will be like herpes and Karl Rove. They will never go away for good until the organism dies.
Ah, but there's the rub, Vendome, we'll hear from them again in four short years.
Moved and seconded.
Nobody could have beaten OBOBO. Especially with the press sitting on all Obobo's scandals, and pumping (pimping) up Obobo!
So, how soon before Ann Coulter starts pimping for Jeb?
Slipshod statistical analysis. Pappy Bush (CINO) lost. Dole (CINO) lost. McCain (CINO) lost. Romney (CINO) lost. Dubya is, demonstrably, the aberration; not the rule.
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Bush 2 the compassionate conservative is also not a very healthy exception. The thinnes ot wins the second time around, and one whose policies led to the routs of ‘06 and ‘08. Now people quake over the excessive police state powers of DHS, TSA, etc. Who started that pray tell? Bush 2 had a conservative veneer and jargon, but the same globalist, big government core as his father.
No doctrinaire Massachusetts liberal ever could, at any rate.
“I’m glad to see that Romney finally has the political stake through his heart.”
He doesn’t. He’ll taint 2015 as well, if only pump for Jeb Bush or a comparable blue state loser.
And he proved how amazing of an executive he was by running a truly awful Election Day campaign.
Romney'll be rolling out Project ORCA 2.0 in 2016!
When will we see the first Jeb-Hillary poll? Or maybe somebody has already put one out?
With all due respect, you could not be more wrong.
There is a very sizable element of the GOP electorate that absolutely adores a genial, grandfatherly man who has immaculate executive-style hair and speaks in soothing platitudes about apple pie, baseball, and Old Glory.
My wife's family is full of these types, most are age 50 and over....I struggled in vain to get them to vote for Cain or Newt in the primaries.
This is one of the many realities that those who live in ideological conservative echo chamber will always be stunned by.
You've never actually been to Seattle, have you...? ;)
You are correct, but.....who is "the GOP"??
Rove and Will and Coulter did not jigger the machines on primary day and replace all those Perry and Cain and Gingrich and Santorum votes with Romney votes.
The "GOP-e" who gets the blame is not the establishment but the electorate!
But we had a whole lot of Freepers here a year ago who apparently only talked to other Freepers, and had managed to convince themselves that no true Republican could ever vote for Mitt.
There are millions of "CINO's" who are registered Republicans and vote in their states' primaries. We can work on this fact, but we can not ignore it.
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