[SeekAndFind]

Thus, when Romney essentially proclaimed that the 47% of Americans who receive government assistance were a lost cause, the statement confirmed, to the others, the narrative that he does not care for people.

[freekitty]

Fraud and possible a deal between Romney and Obama lost him the election.

[gotribe]

Romney is a stiff. Who the hell wants to vote for a stiff.

[neverdem]

This reality led Jack Kemp to say “They don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” Mitt Romney may have had the better plans for America, but before voters were willing to consider them, they first had to think that he cared about them, which too many did not.

Remember Texas Gov. Ann Richards deriding GWB saying he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth? The GOP has a major image problem. Too many voters think it's the party of big business.

[mosesdapoet]

He failed to hammer away on what will happen when Obama gets returned; The Obama past due 2013/14 Tax Increases. The impact of Obama’s gagging energy resources (a socialist construct never branded as such) with policies requiring reliance on intermittent sources wind and solar and that resulting in massive corruption .,restricted use of drilling, and coal ,bans and on fracking, and resulting prices doubling on everything.. This was a bread and butter issue which reached into every “demographics” pocketbook including accepting the demo-com definition of hyphenated African-Hispanic -Americans . .The impact of Supreme Court Appointments.. 18,000 new IRS agents and on and on. . Some were very briefly touched most weren’t and Benghazi/ foreign policy was left to languish. Then there is Obama’s personal extravagance and behavior refusing to visit Nashville after its disaster showing up at New Orleans after Mitt visited it. Even after the Christi thing if that was brought up it would have blunted the impact.

Instead we got a sales pitch on executive ability but not the reason why one should toss the old model and buy his. That print and tv pitch , 20 million new jobs, was given a discrarded dose of skepticism

This from a much larger essay on the subject I’ve been placing in the comments sections in FR postings on this subject.

[Revolting cat!]

Me, I'm so happy we have a POTUS who cares about me. Me, ME, ME!

[firebrand]

Poor Dr. Republican, so misunderstood.

This is often my opening line to people who are shocked that I am a Republican. Then I follow it up, if anyone is still listening, with the assertion that we have a different way of caring for people. We want them to be all they can be, instead of just giving away stuff on a long-term basis.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”The answer lies in perhaps the single most illustrative exit poll question conducted, where CNN asked “What is the most important candidate quality to your vote?”
The response options were “Strong Leader,” “Shares Your Values,” “Has a Vision for the Future,” and “Cares about People.” Among folks that chose one of the first three responses, Mitt Romney won between 54-61% of their vote. But, among folks who chose “Cares About People,” Romney lost dramatically – 81-18%.
“Cares about you” is the single phrase that lost Romney the election. Those for whom empathy was the most important candidate quality clearly did not get a sense that he cared about people and worse, many even though he was antagonistic towards many Americans.”

No doubt, Romney did this to himself.

[denydenydeny]

“Cares about you” explains a lot; it doesn’t even require doing anything, as “makes life better for me” would have. It allows a Democrat to get away with complete incompetence as long as he “feels your pain.”

“Too stupid to live” is a solid description of these people.

[Revolting cat!]

Are we literate? This is a great thread, but the enemy can find a 100 spelling and grammar errors here to call us names. Jeez!

[Badabing Badablonde]

Interesting. I want a heartless, focused, determined, SOB as my president, not some bleeding heart dimwit who claims to feel my pain. Maybe then we can reclaim our standing in world politics, make some budget and spending cuts, and stop trying to give Disneyland to every sniveling weenie who is scared some else has more than them.

But that’s just me.

Back to dreaming that Margaret Thatcher is a US senator from Texas. Goodnight.

[Rummyfan]

What really lost Romney the election? A dumbed-down and bought-off electorate. If the people are stupid enough to vote for the Great Nothing, then so be it and they will get what they deserve. I feel we here did what we could, as the saying goes, you can lead a horse to water....

[Elsie]

The Phrase That Lost Romney the Election

"...and I am a MORMON."

We're we REALLY so dumb to think that GOD would let a believer in such a heresy as MORMONism run a country that...

 

 

 

Mayflower Compact

 

In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, defender of the Faith, etc.

Having undertaken, for the Glory of God, and advancements of the Christian faith and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic; for our better ordering, and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod the 11th of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth, 1620.

 

 

 

[usconservative]

Romney’s business career, which was the central argument for his candidacy in an election dominated by the economy, was turned into a weakness by the left and the Obama campaign early on, with them portraying his experience leading Bain Capital as one of the opposite of care: harm. Laying people off, taking away their pensions, and destroying communities, Mitt Romney allegedly brought all of these across America.

Which can only mean one thing: Today's headline in Pravda war right. Obama was re-elected by a bunch of ILLITERATE idiots in America.

These are the same FOOLS who believed Obama's lies in 2012 the same as they did in 2008.

This country is so f**ked.