Posted on 11/11/2012 3:07:39 PM PST by diamond6
Mitt Romney wasn't a bad candidate. He ran a fairly strong race. He made a few errors. And he made many good moves. Certainly he was adequate. And he was probably the strongest Republican candidate among the primary field of contenders. That is, he was the best man available to run against Barack Obama. And he did a pretty good job.
Obama on the other hand, was a horrible candidate. He was mean and vindictive. He was contemptuous and superficial. He ran on irrelevancies like abortion and a fictitious Republican war against women. He didn't give his supporters any reason to feel good about themselves. Instead, he used class warfare to stir them to hatred of their countrymen.
Yet Obama won. And Romney lost.
In retrospect it is possible that the race was over before it began. A strong case can be made that Obama secured his reelection in 2009 when he bailed out the US auto industry and so temporarily stanched the hemorrhage of jobs in Ohio and Michigan. And maybe, with the youth of the 1960s now the Medicare recipients of the 2010s and 20s, there are simply too many Americans dependent on government handouts to care about what happens in the future.
An equally strong case can be made that Romney lost the election before he secured the Republican nomination. He may have squandered his chances when he took a strong position against illegal immigration in one of the early Republican primary debates and so arguably made winning Florida, and perhaps Colorado a mathematical impossibility.
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I look forward to Caroline’s book.
Romney was Dole was McCain—RINO LOSERS!!!
When we have a CONSERVATIVE candidate (ala Reagan) again we will win. The GOP-e must be crushed.
PERIOD!!!
The Jewish vote was 0ver 65% for Obama, you've written your destiny. Don't complain to me.
That 65% Jewish vote for Obama means one thing, and one thing only.
American evangelicals give a damn about Israel. American Jews don’t.
Let anyone here, on FR, or anywhere else dare challenge me on this one. Make my day.
Exactly. Either that or make the Tea Party a legitimate contender.
“Mitt Romney wasn’t a bad candidate.”
a. Obama couldn’t have chosen a better opponent
b. The embodiment of a GOP caracature: Wall Street, 1%er, cultist, Boss, etc.
c. Poor candidate with a poor message
d. Bad candidate who failed to unite the base
e. Bad candidate forced on us by the GOPe
f. All of the above.
Correct answer:
f. All of the above
“Mitt Romney wasn’t a bad candidate.”
a. Obama couldn’t have chosen a better opponent
b. The embodiment of a GOP caricature: Wall Street, 1%er, cultist, Boss, etc.
c. Poor candidate with a poor message
d. Bad candidate who failed to unite the base
e. Bad candidate forced on us by the GOPe
f. All of the above.
Correct answer:
f. All of the above
The election was fraud.
I agree ... Romney wasn’t the best candidate, but he was a hell of alot better than Obama. Now we have Obamacare.
“Romney wasn’t the best candidate, but he was a hell of alot better than Obama.”
Still as irrelevant today as last week before the election. As long as conservatives continue to vote based on that framework, they will remains on the GOPe Plantation as slaves, saying, “yes, massah!” for every lame candidate.
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