I doubt the GOP-e crowd, and their friends, are educable. We must purge them from the party immediately.
I believe Romney thought he was winning and falsely believed that he should “be nice” so as not to annoy liberal women in the suburbs who were pre-committed to Obama. Tom Dewey similarly was so sure he would win that he spent the last two weeks of the 1948 campaign planning Cabinet appointments. But I think Dewey won his native MI, unlike Romney. And he won NY in 1948, unlike Romney’s not even bothering to contest MA in 2012.