Neither Chick-Fil-A nor the Tea Party have anything to do with that message. Both are both tailor made for MSM distortion. The MSM convinced its audience that Chick-Fil-A was run by homophobic hatemongers, and that the Tea Party was the second coming of the KKK. If Romney had openly supported Chick-Fil-A or the Tea Party, the MSM's biased coverage would have left its audience convinced that Romney was a homophobic racist. Romney would have been forced to respond. It would have been ugly -- and ineffective. "I am not a homophobic racist!" would have done Romney as little good as "Rape is an evil act!" did for Todd Akin.
So I understand your disappointment, but I think Romney was just trying to avoid the MSM's traps.
Media is key. Want to win future elections on the national level.. establish your own megaphone...media voice to get out your message. That is what the progs have done and we all have been duped to believe that we had a conservative voice in outlets such as FOX and various conservative talk show personalities.. that also blow in the direction of the prog media when they need to.
Oh, I do understand all that. It’s just that after such a mind-boggling stream of things that Romney supported, from gay-adoption to cap-and-trade to his own Romneycare mess, all WILDLY unpalatable... to top things off by not even giving a pat “people are standing up for their beliefs” answer to the Chick-Fil-A protests, just came across as a final insult, conveying this guy doesn’t share a single damn value of mine. Then, the outlawing of the words “tea party” at the convention (when two years ago, it was the tea party that contributed to much of the GOP’s mid-term victories), was like being spit in the face.
Thus, my only point: Obama winning again is an all-out horror. But unlike previous elections, I’m not in mourning for the losing GOP nominee, because I ultimately had no trust in him.