I think Romney campaigned according to his faith and values.
Mormons are conciliatory and compromising, respecting of others.
I don’t hate them for that. They are decent people who don’t want to start fights with other people since their forefathers were attacked violently in the Midwest back in the 1830s and 40’s.
But the campaign should have involved stronger attacks.
The kind of attacks that would have driven Obama’s support down like all negative attacks do when they are properly executed in a political campaign.
I gotta disagree about Romney not being willing to go on the attack. He showed no such inhibitions during the primary. I would chalk it up to a flawed strategy of thinking all they had to do was let Obama lose and they would win, along with a deliberate plan by the GOP-E to ignore the grassroots lessons of 2010. I really think they would rather lose without us than win with us - even though many Tea Party groups did try to help out in the end - but the Romney camp refused to co-opt the core Tea Party values that made them attractive to crossovers in 2010.