Posted on 11/14/2012 3:40:05 PM PST by Arthurio
Mitt Romney told his top donors Wednesday that his loss to President Obama was a disappointing result that neither he nor his top aides had expected, but said he believed his team ran a “superb” campaign with “no drama,” and attributed his rival’s victory to “the gifts” the administration had given to blacks, Hispanics and young voters during Obama’s first term.
Obama, Romney argued, had been “very generous” to blacks, Hispanics and young voters. He cited as motivating factors to young voters the administration’s plan for partial forgiveness of college loan interest and the extension of health coverage for students on their parents’ insurance plans well into their 20s. Free contraception coverage under Obama’s healthcare plan, he added, gave an extra incentive to college-age women to back the president.
Romney argued that Obama’s healthcare plan’s promise of coverage “in perpetuity” was “highly motivational” to those voters making $25,000 to $35,000 who might not have been covered, as well as to African American and Hispanic voters. Pivoting to immigration, Romney said the Obama campaign’s efforts to paint him as “anti-immigrant” had been effective and that the administration’s promise to offer what he called “amnesty” to the children of illegal immigrants had helped turn out Hispanic voters in record numbers.
“The president’s campaign,” he said, “focused on giving targeted groups a big gift — so he made a big effort on small things. Those small things, by the way, add up to trillions of dollars.”
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Bad investment...just like Madoff securities.
I’m sure the media will call Romney a racist just like they claimed Ryan was a racist for mentioning “urban areas.”
But the facts are the facts. Obama ran the most divisive, carve-up-the-country campaign in history.
that bamey gave trillions to his friends and put others out of their pensions....
there's no reason a conservative should ever behind the 8 ball on the economy and why it affects EVERY single American...
and Mitt...you know in your heart the election was stolen...You know it and a lot of us know it too...
Kinda late for the media to call him or Paul racists.
After all, they got their boy into the white hut again.
How about asking donors for money to investigate the voter fraud??
True and Romney DID NOTHING to stop it.
Romney was weak from the beginning.
If we don’t get Republicans with testosterone (men or women) we will never win, I am sick to death of wimps running as Republicans.
Maybe its time to start a new party with balls, maybe even call it the Ball Party.
What could have been:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c1-22w2G7M
THIS is how you talk to liberals!!!!
Agreed. Although I thought towards the end, Romney didn’t need to hit home the thuggery of Obama, as (to me) he was closing his campaign with an uplifting positive message. But clearly not enough.
Bottomline: Obama paid out all his constituencies (free healthcare to the young college aged living in mom’s basement, free phones and welfare to poor minorities, Obamacare to the working poor, free birth control to young single woman, etc). And in return they came out in droves.
Romney won (big) the vote of those who work or worked (retirees) for a living.
A genuine conservative -- gifted with the incredible bounty of a six-year head start, campaign-wise, AND several hundred million or so in loose sofa change -- might conceivably accept some meager portion of the blame unto himself, for being wholly incapable of closing the sale against a sitting president responsible for real unemployment whipsawing somewhere between 18% and 22%, depending...
... and then, of course, there's Mitt Romney.
Pfffftt.
Romney
said he believed his team ran a “superb” campaign with “no drama,”
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Good grief Willard...
If your ORCA white whale or elephant wasnt “drama” I dont know what was...
Romney never belonged in republican politics.
With Romney it was the little things, like leaving the republican party and eventually coming to support democrats with donations, fundraising, and even voting democrat after rejecting Reagan and his conservatism, and the Reagan revolution.
“I think Bill Weld comes as close as anyone,” Romney said when asked whom in his party he aligned with.
“I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I’m not trying to return to Reagan-Bush,”
“I’m not a partisan politician. My hope is that, after this election, it will be the moderates of both parties who will control the Senate, not the Jesse Helmses.”
“These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense. They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people.”
"Farce," technically, I think. ;)
Regardless of what you think of Mitt Romney as a conservative, I, and many others here, thought he ran a good campaign given the extreme media bias and Hurricane Christy. Most thought he closed well (including the Revenge Ad) and wouldn’t suffer a defeat due to D+6 turnout. All of us were fully expecting D+2 or better for the GOP right up until the late afternoon Nov 6 exit polls rolled in. We had the Walker recall election, 2010, big rallies in PA, OH and VA and Rasmussen finding the country now is R+6 in self-identification to give us hope. All I can say these past 8 days is WTF?
Romney ran a great campaign, it was solid on the issues and energized the base with record crowds.
Obama gave out trillions of dollars and Romney actually gave him a race. We will probably never get another real business man or military man in the running for the Whitehouse, chances all they will be politicians who never had to earn a dime or serve our country.
Let’s bad mouth the guys who had the guts to go through the terrible process of running a race and lose because the other guy basically just bought the votes..... yea
Welcome to retail politics where performance and issues don’t matter, just need a big smile, be a minority, give away lots of stuff other people earn, and lie. Can we get a Conservative to do that ?
Romney was terrible on the issues, rejecting the party platform on abortion and homosexuality was not a good thing.
“Romney was terrible on the issues, rejecting the party platform on abortion and homosexuality was not a good thing.”
If those were your key issues you are right. The focal issues were jobs and economy....
I’m guessing the independents they were after didn’t focus on the social issues as much as the economic issues.
What would have been helpful was for surrogates to triangulate. The folks who lost the primary should have been campaigning for Republicans as well - meaning that they should have been funded.
LOL, being a conservative site, of course those issues are important, Romney was a lousy candidate, lousy on the issues, he hurt the ticket and was devastating for conservatism.
Mitt could not even beat Carter 2.
Considering that Romney has been anti-conservative his entire life, it isn’t surprising.
The failed Massachusetts governor, father of Romney/Obama care, who considered William Weld his mentor, and Reagan so right wing that he couldn’t vote for him, was the wrong man and in the wrong party.
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