Posted on 03/10/2014 7:01:15 PM PDT by xzins
I agree. We had our chance to elect Romney last time. He won the primary. He was ready to go ... and what?
What?
He folded. We do not need someone who folds that way. We do not need someone all fired up to win the nomination, but then who doesnt appear to give a flying frog whether they win the election.
Romney and Mitch McConnell are very much alike. Both ran/run slash and burn take-no-prisoner campaigns against their primary opponents, (Fellow Republicans), and then are pussy-cats wanting to be stroked and petted when running against the Democrats.
The lesson I take from that is simple. They really aren’t Republicans-in-name-only they are democrats-hiding-in-plain-sight, DHIPS.
The same candidate who has (along with Mitt's machine) been sending me e-mails and letters despite my cutting of all ties to the GOP. Their being a "Mitten" drops my enthusiasm for any candidates by at least 50% before they are even out of the gate.
I remember those threads. But even more odd, I remember the threads during the 2012 elections, when Mitt Romney was running. He gave some good speeches and many, if not most, on FR suddenly loved him.
Romney is the reason the diabolical community organizer is in the White House.
His strategy failed.
He bet his election that he could move to the left and pick up enough liberals to offset any conservatives he would lose thinking that most would have no other choice.
So we heard about gay boyscouts, the “health” of the mother, gay adoption, gun control that he liked, enhanced “revenues and fees”, RomneyCare, and compromise.
The result of that: the liberals said no anyway, and he’d already run off the conservatives.
His grand strategy failed. The failure lies at the doorstep of the general who approved that strategy.
Voter fraud didn’t help him either.
It is all his fault. He was the general.
He was supposed to cover every base.
If the enemy sneaks into the camp, it is not the enemy’s fault. That is what enemies do....what a good general plans for them to do. He institutes “force protection”.
Romney failed in so many areas that it is time to simply admit he was a failure. His plan failed, his personality failed, his lack of forcefulness failed, his protection of his own election failed.
A general is supposed to cover all those bases. He did not measure up.
GTFO.
STFU.
NOOOO!!!
Romney got a lot of votes, he’d be stupid not to use that to try to grasp some relevancy for as long as he can, but he ain’t running again, he’s priming the pump so he can pass the torch to his son who will be the next Governor of Utah.
Something I noticed about the pattern of comments on thos site about the Bruce Campbell impersonator. The big problem most people here had with romney wasn’t that he was a rino, its that he lost. Which kind of backs up the sports mentality of the american public, where everything has to be reduced to the level of some retarded football game.
We have some exciting candidates I think this time.
Cruz and Rand Paul.
I really think Romney will be old news and not a factor.
So many were holding their noses and voting that his inept campaign and loss just sticks in their minds as one big cluster freep.
When they say “loss” they mean everything about the entire situation: bad campaign, bad candidate, etc.
Thanks, I was waiting for this.
IMO he picked Palin because he thought that she would HELP him lose and then it wouldn't be his fault in public view. Watching him campaign there was little doubt in my mind that he planned to lose.
There is still a certain segment of people who don't want a woman. I was surprised at how many people I know (who aren't stupid) told me that a woman can't win. Of course, now we all know that Her Heiness is a shoo-in.
I think it took McCain and his advisors totally by surprise that Palin excited so many people and she almost dragged that rat (kicking and screaming) over the finish line.
And he didn't contest it and neither did the RNC despite the obviousness of the fraud. That should tell us something.
Maybe they're just going to discuss the latest fashion trends in magic underwear.
I recall seing a recent poll on potential Republican Candidates and Romney had a two to one advantage over the nearest competitor. Does anybody out there remember which poll this was? It was quite recent.
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