He was the most electable. The best candidate for this cycle did not run. The dems have already picked their candidate for 2016. The question is, can she beat Chris Christie. He is dynamic in his own ways.
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Why did Romney lose?
- Thread starter nutmeg
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He was the most electable. The best candidate for this cycle did not run. The dems have already picked their candidate for 2016. The question is, can she beat Chris Christie. He is dynamic in his own ways.
Quote from AAAintheBeltway:
Why did Romney lose? People in this country have long been conditioned to hate rich people who earned their money instead of inheriting it, as rich democrats usually do. Obama and the media made it respectable to engage in the sort of envy-driven class hatred that has undermined europe and latin america.
Romney for his part ran a poor campaign. He sat back and let the Obama slime machine define him over the summer as a vile corporate looter. One who callously caused the death of workers' wives. The media snickered. Rather than denouncing the slimy ads, Romney took a long vacation to the Olympics where he made serial gaffes.
Romney had to show everyone how smart he was, so he came up with a complex tax plan that would never be passed. It did give Obama something to attack all through the campaign and hammer his demagoguery home.
Romney never attacked obama directly as the architect of a failed economy and a hostile national mood.
Picking Paul Ryan as VP was a huge mistake, one I noted at the time. it elevated Ryan's medicare plan to prominence. Now the democrats had not only Romney's tax plan, but Ryan's plan, to attack. Never mind that their plan consisted of denial and lying to people. I heard an ad in Florida, guy says" I'm 55, paid into medicare my whole life and now they say I won;t get it? that's not fair." Simple and deadly.
At least two republican candidates put their foot and other parts of their anatomy in their mouths with idiotic comments about abortion, rape, etc. The media and public applied them to Romney even though he had denounced the remarks. Tone matters.
Romney blew the last debate. He wasn't great in the second one either, but it wasn't totally his fault. This was another self-inflicted wound for republicans, as they continue to go along with a debate commission that is hopelessly biased against them. Candy Crowley, seriously?
Romney somehow allowed the media to turn the Cairo and Benghazi disasters into his gaffe. Then he wouldn't touch them in the last debate. Odd. Neither he nor Ryan could articulate a coherent foreign policy visison or really show where obama had gone wrong.
Hurricane Sandy gave obama a chance to posture for the adoring media. Christie was a big help in that. The reality is that obama's response was at least as poor as Bush's in Katrina but the media had a field day with obama and christie.
Massive vote fraud in Ohio and other battleground states removed any doubt about the outcome. The mainstream media will not report it, but there were numerous precincts with improbable 100% turnouts and 100% obama vote totals. Instead, the story will be about republican efforts at voter suppression. I actually heard Al Gore on election night raving about that.
It was the Clinton DNC speech, I heard my prairie friends buzzing about that for a week. That is when I knew Obama was going to win. In 2008, it was my prairie friends who alerted me to this senator from Illinois. I did not know who he was until I finally had to ask because of all the bumper stickers on all the cars down here.
Quote from RCG Trader:
It was the Clinton DNC speech, I heard my prairie friends buzzing about that for a week. That is when I knew Obama was going to win. In 2008, it was my prairie friends who alerted me to this senator from Illinois. I did not know who he was until I finally had to ask because of all the bumper stickers on all the cars down here.
More parody?
even other mormans had a problen with his dishonesty:
Bush Had More Mormon Support Than Romney
Pew Research finds that Mitt Romney won 78% of the Mormon vote in the 2102 presidential election.
In 2004, George W. Bush was backed by 80% of Mormons.
Bush Had More Mormon Support Than Romney
Pew Research finds that Mitt Romney won 78% of the Mormon vote in the 2102 presidential election.
In 2004, George W. Bush was backed by 80% of Mormons.
Quote from AAAintheBeltway:
More parody?
No. Ask Tsing if was parody. You who do not live in the Heartland greatly misread their ability to feel the pulse of America. I warned Tsing. He said put your money where your mouth is, and I did. Listen to the Heartland, and you will not go wrong.
From day one it was obvious that Romney had chosen a team of amateurs to run his campaign. It was painful to watch. They were always on defense, getting caught wrong-footed time after time, and incapable of playing offense.
I'm surprised Obama only got 50.5% of the vote. I expected him to win by a much larger percentage.
I'm surprised Obama only got 50.5% of the vote. I expected him to win by a much larger percentage.
Quote from pspr:
Spics voted for Obama because they want citizenship for themselves and their illegal family members and friends. Negros voted for Obama because they want more freebies and AA and they are racist....
"Spics"?
"Negros"?
Are we so upset that we have to stoop to flagrant racism?