[Cringing Negativism Network]

Yes and no.

You have the 75% about right I think. However Mitt Romney was the killer.

I believe he was the strongest candidate we had remaining following Palin’s refusal to run, but it doomed us, because the single women were strongly opposed, and even some Catholics were opposed.

We must not make that mistake again.

No more Mormon candidates. They are very welcome supporters, but keep them off the top of the ticket please.

[rintense]

The problem I see with many liberal women is their need to be part of a collective so they are accepted. Heaven forbid they have an original thought or individuality. Amazing how the original mantra of feminism has completely failed, and liberal women are now nothing more than indentured servants to collective group think.

[YankeeReb]

You have the 75% about right I think. However Mitt Romney was the killer.

I agree with you but with a small difference. Mitt was the killer, not because he was a Mormon, but because he was a moderate. He was afraid of offending anyone. Look at it this way, when was Mitt riding highest? Right after the first debate, when Hussein was shown up as the arrogant empty vessel that he is. After that it was downhill. The 0bama media and sycophants went to work in every state (not just swing) and negatively campaigned. Even here in the people's republic of CT, I was seeing 0bama ads. Not one for Mitt. Nothing from Mitt articulating free market, supply side pro growth positions. Not even a strong condemnation on 0bamacare. The GOP should have been introducing bills attacking specific pieces of 0bamacare legislation throughout the campaign(i.e. taxes on wheelchairs, tax on stock transfers etc). Make the dems in congress defend this crap, and the MSM will have to cover it, followed by a strong statement by Mitt that he would REPEAL this (not replace, but start from scratch)

Anyway, that's how I would have handled it. He may have still gone down, but go down swinging at least. That 3rd debate ("I agree with the president on that....") was a mockery.

[rockrr]

These self-same women would have turned their collective noses up against Palin. Romney wasn’t the problem - Santa Claws is.

[Nowhere Man]

I believe he was the strongest candidate we had remaining following Palin’s refusal to run, but it doomed us, because the single women were strongly opposed, and even some Catholics were opposed.

I think Romney would have had a fighting chance if he came out swinging on Bengazi.

[muawiyah]

You really need to ask yourself why we had a 4 million vote drop off from "W" in 2004 to McCain in 2008 ~ since we ended up with the same problem in 2012.

I have a couple of theories. One is attrition through death and failure to push registration drives. The other theory is simpler ~ we managed to purge dead, missing and long moved voters from the voting rolls in Red States and counties with an overly aggressive purge operation ~ imagining that only Democrats take advantage of such conditions.

[muawiyah]

BTW, Mitt Romney was ALWAYS our weakest candidate ~ particularly in the 7 years he'd been campaigning.

Some guys just don't have what it takes.