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Despite making "competence" and "electability" core foundations of his campaign, Romney's campaign also struggled throughout the primaries despite being able to overwhelm his opponents in staff and advertising. He was able to win the nomination because he was the only candidate with the reputation and funding to assemble a large campaign organization before the primaries began.

In the first debate with the current occupier of the White Hut it appeared that the Mittster won hands down; however, in the second debate he sat on his hands and allowed the Harvard whiz to roll over him in a disgraceful exhibition.

There were so many issues that could have been used to tear the halfrican to shreds. Here a totally unknown, no doubt phony American has put four disastrous years of killing this nation behind him and goes on to put America through four more!

Ted Cruz would make an excellent cadidate to run against this 'decaying scum encrusting the bottom of the barrel' as he is younger and probably the most conservative candidate we could find with the ability to fight and not lie down and let America's opponent run over him. As a campaign manager we'd need someone like Greg Gutfeld. (or, if possible, a younger Don Rickles.)

If ever a target needed to be insulted, and debated to the point where he is driven back into the sewer system from whence he came it is this totally phony Bronco Bama!

1 posted on 02/26/2013 4:04:04 AM PST by IbJensen
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2 posted on 02/26/2013 4:13:37 AM PST by WKB ( Remember "Bush Lied and People Died" Now it's "People died and Obama Lied")
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3 posted on 02/26/2013 4:14:39 AM PST by WKB ( Remember "Bush Lied and People Died" Now it's "People died and Obama Lied")
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So we are supposed to believe that Romney, a man who achieved such success in business, went out and hired a team of idiots to win?

Either Romney’s financial and business success was a total accident or he tanked himself. No other explanation is logical. Next issue is while so many cling to “Oh he would have been better than Obama!”

Really? Is this article supposed to be some kind of proof of that? Hiring incompetent idiots that destroy a campaign would not instill confidence in any thinking person that the same wouldn’t have happened in his cabinet. Or other policy advisers.

But excuses will continue I’m sure.


4 posted on 02/26/2013 4:21:44 AM PST by Norm Lenhart
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This is total BS. Romney would have lost no matter who was running the campaign.

The fact is that the GOP ran a candidate who:

Was a privileged kid with no “real world” experiences put against a black thug street fighter. He simply did not know how to fight since his world didn’t have problems like that.

Second, he was a pure blooded RINO of the first magnitude.

Third, he had no idea how the rest of us lived and what was important to us.

Fourth, he was absolutely the wrong man to run. We needed a fighter, not a wimp.


5 posted on 02/26/2013 4:24:21 AM PST by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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This story is supposed to be a DISTRACTION. But it points to the TRUTH.

ZERO was CHOSEN to win the "election". Our overlords wanted it this way.

6 posted on 02/26/2013 4:32:11 AM PST by mountn man (ATTITUDE- The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It.)
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If this were true, wouldn’t he have lost in the primaries?


8 posted on 02/26/2013 4:42:07 AM PST by RPTMS
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Expecting voters to know what is going on and relying on MSM to do so, and not confronting their blatant bias is just part of why our great loss. While there are examples of fraud which may close up the gap, the gap is too big to blame the loss on fraud ..

.Expecting GOPES to address media bias or Romney to call Obama a congenital liar or even point out that the fact and figures released by the white house were allways questionable is another. Let alone call him a “socialist”..

But the fault lies really in the messaging the Republican campaign came up with.

They violated the first principle, the basic mechanics of campaigning (without going into the sacrosanct”social issues “) which could be defended and are gone into after this opus.

These are the “Bread and Butter Issues” which affect everyones pocketbook. Instead Choking on political correctness parameters or triping over past positions on global warming and Romneycare. Both of which were pocketbook issues and mourned about when the election post mortum was conducted. For these topics were confronting these policies and sections of every “demographic” in the political play book .

The MSM and allowing them to set the agenda ..
Romney ran a ‘Johnny One Note Campaign’. Used a poison dart blow gun when he should have used a cannon loaded with grape shot because he had pleanty of stuff he could fill that cannon barrel with..

Besides failing to hammer away on what will happen when Obama gets returned; The Obama past due 2013/14 Tax Increases. The impact of Obamas gagging energy resources (a socialist construct never branded as such) with policies requiring reliance on intermittent sources wind and solar and that resulted in massive failure and corruption (barely re-mentioned).,restricted use of drilling, and the effective banning use of coal for electrification , and the restrctions on fracking, with the resulting prices doubling or even trippling on everything and where a connection could be made to those on restricted incomes forcing a dependency of government never made.. This was a dream bread and butter issue for the GOP which reached into every ‘demographics’ pocketbook.

They could have even ridiculed accepting the Demo-Com* definition of the hyphenated African-Hispanic -Americans . But nothing was said.*More on this later.Let alone mention the denial of God episode and the wedge issue that created within the democratic party which has yet to be exploited.

Then there is the impact of Supreme Court Appointments.. 18,000 new IRS agents and on and on. . Some were very briefly touched most were not and Benghazi/ foreign policy was left to languish.

Lastly Then there is Obamas personal extravagance and behavior refusing to visit Nashville after its disaster showing up at New Orleans after Mitt visited it. Even after the Christi thing if that was brought up it would have blunted the impact.


12 posted on 02/26/2013 4:52:20 AM PST by mosesdapoet ("It's a sin to tell a lie", in telling others that , got me my nickname .Ex Chi" mechanic"ret)
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All politics is personal. Romney never knew that and his team’s incompetence defies all post-game analysis. Romney’s team was like an inventor in 1899 trying to get the first airplane to fly by adding anvils for “balance.”


18 posted on 02/26/2013 5:14:59 AM PST by pabianice (washington, dc ..)
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And in other news, Tokyo Rove still thinks of himself as a genius.


19 posted on 02/26/2013 5:15:31 AM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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RE :”People this blind and lacking in perception would have eventually snatched defeat from the jaws of victory no matter what had gone right; these are the people who quickly advised Mitt Romney to “tone it down” after his excellent performance in the first debate and go into prevent-defense to “appeal to Independents and women.”

Watching the last two debates was outright painful. Obama kept on slamming Romney while Romney just stood there on camera with that goofy grin on his face.

I knew Romney was toast when O nailed him with ‘now a days the military has things called planes that fly in the sky and submarines that go under water ’ and the audience laughed (as did I almost), as it was a great line.

Romney just stood there on camera with that goofy grin on his face : ‘please kick me again Mr POTUS’

I and a few others ruffled a few feathers on two Bengazi threads by posting Romney needs to get aggressive on it in the debates because he is getting beat. Many here were so convinced Romney was winning when he was losing. After all Rush said 'everything points to a landslide (for Romney) mexcept the polls'

21 posted on 02/26/2013 5:28:10 AM PST by sickoflibs (Losing to Dems and Obama is not a principle! Its just losing.)
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Romney lost because he was a poor choice and at best a moderate - not conservative. It does no good to look any farther than this.


22 posted on 02/26/2013 5:28:57 AM PST by Sola Veritas (Trying to speak truth - not always with the best grammar or spelling)
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Poor little Mitt, he had an idiot in charge and didn’t know it. Can’t blame him.

BS.

The candidate is responsible for the candidate’s campaign. Romney’s own son said the man wasn’t really interested in the job....more recreating the story so far as I’m concerned.

It was demographics, it was vote fraud, it was evangelicals, it was apathy, it was an idiot campaign manager.

My first concern is that this is Romney trying to launch another campaign from the ashes of this failed one. But, surely, even the GOP-E won’t push such a thing....would they????

Romney lost, first, because he was a flawed candidate lacking guts. He lost, second, because he pursued a flawed strategy. He ran to the left and ignored his base.


23 posted on 02/26/2013 5:39:08 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True supporters of our troops pray for their victory!)
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I have wondered, since Mccain’s run, if our consultants and campaign managers have been compromised by the DNC. Those who have run the Presidential campaigns have obviously been in over there heads or appear to have been working for someone else.


29 posted on 02/26/2013 5:48:36 AM PST by buffaloguy
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RINO’s hiring RINO’s


31 posted on 02/26/2013 5:52:09 AM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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I love Cruz.

The fact that the Media Monsters are attacking him so early is that view him as a serious threat.

No matter WHAT they dig up on Cruz, Rubio, or ANY genuine GOP conservative, we need to hang tough, NEVER criticize them and support them regardless.

A political movement which glorifies a serial rapist (Clinton) and a Marxist Muslim Foreigner (Obama Hussein) is in NO postion to criticize ANYONE else!!!


33 posted on 02/26/2013 6:00:35 AM PST by ZULU (See: http://gatesofvienna.net/)
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Romney lost because the Republican Party is the political equivalent of the “bad guy” in any WWE pro wrestling event.

In this day and age, they have become a construct of the Ruling Class to make sure that nobody will make any meaningful changes that might derail the 14-digit taxpayer-funded gravy train for lobbyists, political consultants, political appointees, government bureaucrats, public sector unions, and crony capitalist corporations.

The sooner we all figure this out, the sooner we can destroy this ivy-league locust swarm that ravenously feeds on the fruit of our hard labor.


36 posted on 02/26/2013 6:03:38 AM PST by EricT. (The Second Amendment is Tyrant Control.)
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Only the congenitally clueless eGOP thought that running a Wall St. billionaire against a Black president who feeds off The Poor was a good idea. Simple common sense would have ditched that notion, but no, Common Sense was never offered in the wimpy RINOs’ university degree programs.


37 posted on 02/26/2013 6:08:29 AM PST by txrefugee
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The Democrats have admitted that they had a room full of Social Scientists advising them on the last election. Political Scientists tell you WHY people vote the way they do. Social Scientists (Psychologists, Sociologists, etc...) tell you HOW to get people to vote for you. The Republicans are always a day late and a dollar short.


38 posted on 02/26/2013 6:08:57 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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Romney made all the decisions. He is the LOSER. There is no other blame.
Good grief, do we really need this tedious adolescent drama at this time?
40 posted on 02/26/2013 6:22:29 AM PST by MaxMax
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Voter fraud in Ohio, Florida and Virginia did him in.


41 posted on 02/26/2013 6:30:40 AM PST by 38special (For real, y'all.)
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