This is twice that the GOP leadership made wrong decisions and went nowhere. It’s time for the Rove-Bush-McClean clique to get kicked out of the GOP.
Even though I respect religious beliefs, based on the blogs I’ve seen and the grass root liberal postings on the internet, I see a few things that turned me off, and more than likely turned off enough others to change the election results:
1. Too much emphasis on religious beliefs - from the right
2. Too much focus on overturning Roe v Wade
3. No real counter-attack for the war on women. They fear that some of their feminine rights would be taken away, and there were no effective counter-arguments
4. Lilly-Ledbetter - no active counter-argument to the negative lies
5. So many lies about so many issues were propogated by the left, and were left unresponded.
6. Bain Capital. All we heard about were the people who got fired and that jobs were shipped overseas. There were never any contradictory arguments to these statements.
I’ve voted in every presidential election since 1968, and I learned this time, that although the internet is a good communication medium, it was also a terrible communication medium for this election. Facebook, Twitter... so many of the ads put out by the Republicans were never read by the opposition. There were not enough numbers presented in chart format.
My religious beliefs lead the way for me from McCain on, meaning I did not vote for Romney. Who are you going to nominate that is less religiously offensive, more supporting of abortion, less offensive to feminists etc etc than Romney?
I think we have achieved political escape velocity. You and I will probably never ever vote for the same guy in the future.
Absolutely true. The other problem, maybe as big as the absence of a sharp attack, is the fact that the Democrat strategy beneath the radar was to pound away at the idea that both parties are the same, and that maybe we should look into Mitt’s scary Mormonism. Between those subtle destructive messages, you had enough Paulbots and narrow-minded evangelicals to crush Mitt’s chances. The fact that so many millions stayed home rather than vote for a great candidate is maybe the most depressing news of all. Shame on them all! Bob
I first voted in 1972 for a guy who had already been my CIC. Go figure. I agree with all your points, 1 to 6, but not your contention that the internet was a terrible communication media. Unless your meaning was the Romney campaigns performance in that media, in which case you’re correct. In retrospect Romney needed to confront the distortions. I’m not sure his biggest mistake wasn’t failure to advocate his positions in a compact, easily communicated fashion. I’ve read his position papers, but the appeal of 9-9-9 sticks in my mind. Not the postition, it’s conveyance. Candidates have to successfully convey their positions in the context of the media/channels available to them.