Posted on 09/30/2013 8:43:19 AM PDT by dirtboy
CNN) – Mitt Romney has had some time to reflect on what went wrong last November. His main conclusion: the Hispanic community didn’t understand his immigration stance well enough.
"The largest strategic error was not investing sufficiently, particularly in Hispanic TV and Hispanic outreach to help Hispanic voters understand that ours is the party of opportunity," Romney told CNN’s Jake Tapper of the lesson to be learned for GOP presidential campaigns of the future.
Romney lost the Hispanic vote by 40%, a loss seen to be in large part spurred by the perception of the Republican Party as antithetical to immigration reform.
"I think my position and the position of our party is not well understood at the Hispanic community," said Romney. "I want to see immigration reform. I said that during the campaign. I want to make sure we have a legal immigration system that brings, in my view, more people legally to our country. I'd like to do that."
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What an idiot. He could have won 70% of the Hispanic vote and still lost the election. I guess he missed this revelation during his post-election stupor. The more he talks the more we learn what a flawed candidate was put up against the Marxist.
The reason he lost was his failure to outreach to the republican party. We all thought he was the democrat.
Romney lost because he is a squish. The one thing that could have beaten Obama (opposition to Obamacare) the GOPe puts the worst possible candidate up against Obama.
Herman. Cain would have cleaned Obamas clock.
Hey, I’ve got an idea, let’s start taking advice from liberals.
Gov. Romney was the weakest possible candidate against Obama in particular.... for no other reason that Romneycare. He did attempt to explain that (state’s rights versus limited federalism, plus his promise to end Obamacare if elected President). But, it still was a very, very difficult sell ... a bit sophisticated for a mass audience, perhaps?
Even more fundamentally, perhaps, Romney did not do much with the key issues he had, issues millions of Americans were extremely concerned about... issues about Obama’s policies, attitudes, values, and yes basic identity too.
What kind of campaign is it that shies away from, barely even mentions, the opponent’s record in office?
This is even worse that McCain throwing his election by never questioning the lack of experience of his opponent in 2008.
I conclude that the R party has been deliberately “throwing” its election campaigns...
Obama and Democrats were able to frame Romney as an out of touch plutocrat. With the eager assistance of the mass media. This lead to millions of guys sitting out the election. They were never going to vote for JugEars but they took a pass on Romney too
Women decide elections. Also, throw in that white males stayed home in 2012.
The second group (which is growing larger and diluting the vote of the first group), not only wants but expects "special" stuff, namely free stuff paid for by the rest of us. They are led by La Raza, Maldef, the Democrat party and other brown KKK groups. Some of them may work hard until they find out it pays better to work the system like certain other better established ethnic groups whom it isn't polite to name.
IOW, they are always going to prefer a hard core Marxist like Obama over a soft-core socialist like Romney because they understand the Marxist will always give them more free stuff than the soft-core socialist.
It ain't rocket science and no amount of Hispandering by the soft-core socialist will ever change that.
Fixed it
It convinced me that the majority of the American voters are nothing more than sheeple on the national level who will do as they are told.
It was the equivalent of Lot offering his virgin daughters to the men of Sodom to protect the holy men in his household and the men of Sodom refused the offer.
I noticed that the day after the election the term “self deport” suddenly became politically incorrect.
I can think of at least TWO life-long Republicans who did the equivalent of "sitting out the election" not because of what the mass media did, but because of what ROMNEY did.
It's wrong to blame Romney's loss on the media. Romney lost because he was amoral, and morality is destiny. American conservatives are still a moral enough people to have rejected him even at the price of getting Obama as a consequence. Voting for Romney would have meant voting FOR homosexual outreach to children, voting FOR nationalized health care, voting FOR pro-abortion thinking, and voting FOR environmentalist tyranny. There was no such thing as voting "against."
That is why Romney lost -- on balance, Americans were too smart and too moral to vote FOR a candidate who would have acted against America's fiscal and moral interests.
Start with the fact that Obama got 10,000,000 less votes than the first time, but Romney couldn’t draw as many votes as McCain got. Nothing to do with Hispanics here. Just a lot of Republicans with RINO fatigue.
Ah, so the excrement sandwich was supposed to be hot, and open faced!!!
Yep - that would have made the menu so much more appealing!
vaudine
Romney was a lot less statist than Obama so I voted for him while you sat on your butt. Democrats will say (about you) objective achieved! They knew millions of guys like you would never vote for Obama so they got you all to do the next best thing
Stalin, Mao, Hitler all knew how valuable it is to have a state propaganda machine at their disposal. Obama and Democrats have the next best thing. A flunky media that dutifully spreads Democrat propaganda verbatim while withholding and distorting the Republican messaging. Democrat messaging always gets out....you know it when you hear 10 Democrat shitheads in media or Congress using the same buzzwords and buzz phrases about a certain political situation.
Dems are doing this right now on the 0-Care defunding and the raising of the debt limit. Using theatrical language such as calling Ted Cruz and his supporters anarchists and holding the American people hostage.
Media control is very important given how miseducated and sheeple like Americans are these days. It’s actually mind control. Democrats are conditioning Americans with constant repetition of buzz words and buzz phrases. These are like the sloganeering of the Russian commies in their heyday
...was running for president.
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