Romney In Reality Lost His Own Base

[Mike Evans]

And the Tea Party and far right has just spoken.lol

Mom goes to all their rallies

[Mike Evans]

If Republican gubners, would have spent time getting out their vote instead of trying to surpress the black vote, maybe Willard would have had a chance. All those racist did was energize Obama's base.

[Mom49of4]

Voter suppression was alive and well on both sides.

[ODENTON]

I don't think the GOP will ever understand or accept why they lost the election and are doomed to repeat it. The GOP has become a circus!


"The evidence behind the president’s victory points toward a stronger appeal to middle-class Americans, one of the most formidable ground games in the history of politics, and serious failures within the GOP to attract Latino and women voters. But a faction of conservatives were having none of it -- offering up instead a series of explanations for their nominee’s loss."

Excuses as to why Romney lost by the GOP:
The media selectively reported Romney's gaffes.
Fact-checkers were biased.
Hurricane Isaac hit the Tampa convention.
Romney was too nice.
Hurricane Sandy and Chris Christie get the blame.
Obama won by “suppressing the vote.”
Romney wasn’t conservative enough.
Americans are basically ignorant.
Liberals bought the election.
Obama was backed by the 47 percent.
America’s white establishment is now a minority.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...n_2099504.html

[EmDot]

Voter suppression was alive and well on both sides.

Uh, what did the left do to suppress votes?

[Mike Evans]

Uh, what did the left do to suppress votes?

Don't mind Mom, she is stuck in the fox news bubble.

[Mike Evans]

I don't think the GOP will ever understand or accept why they lost the election and are doomed to repeat it. The GOP has become a circus!


"The evidence behind the president’s victory points toward a stronger appeal to middle-class Americans, one of the most formidable ground games in the history of politics, and serious failures within the GOP to attract Latino and women voters. But a faction of conservatives were having none of it -- offering up instead a series of explanations for their nominee’s loss."

Excuses as to why Romney lost by the GOP:
The media selectively reported Romney's gaffes.
Fact-checkers were biased.
Hurricane Isaac hit the Tampa convention.
Romney was too nice.
Hurricane Sandy and Chris Christie get the blame.
Obama won by “suppressing the vote.”
Romney wasn’t conservative enough.
Americans are basically ignorant.
Liberals bought the election.
Obama was backed by the 47 percent.
America’s white establishment is now a minority.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...n_2099504.html

Karl Rowe told those donors Romney was a locked. He brought his chalk board to their meetings and suckered them out of 500 million dollars. The idiots fell for it.

[EmDot]

Pretty good article by Frank Rich (3 pages long)

Denial has poisoned the GOP and threatens the rest of the country too.

Mitt Romney . . . was always destined, win or lose, to be a transitory front man for a radical-right GOP intent on barreling full-speed down the Randian path laid out by its true 2012 standard-bearer, Paul Ryan. But as was said of another unsuccessful salesman who worked the New England territory, attention must be paid to Mitt as the door slams behind him in the aftermath of Barack Obama’s brilliant victory. Though Romney leaves no political heirs in his own party or elsewhere, he does leave a cultural legacy of sorts. He raised Truthiness to a level of chutzpah beyond Stephen Colbert’s fertile imagination, and on the grandest scale. That a presidential hopeful so cavalierly mendacious could get so close to the White House, winning some 48 percent of the popular vote, is no small accomplishment. The American weakness that Romney both apotheosized and exploited in achieving this feat—our post-fact syndrome where anyone on the public stage can make up anything and usually get away with it—won’t disappear with him. A slicker liar could have won, and still might.

[DaggerJohn]

Pretty good article by Frank Rich (3 pages long)

I'm not reading 3 pages of Frank Rich, but the paragraph you've quoted is opinion in the extreme (and rather pompously crafted--big surprise there). For every Frank Rich article you send me, I'll match it with 2 Michelle Malkin pieces more artfully written and more factually based.

[georjec2]

Just under 50%. He lost but do not pretend that there was a mandate for Obama and the Crats.

Obama's win was decisive. I thought we'd be up at 3:00 am wondering who won. Nope, I knew before midnight it was over for Romney. Although there were some on Fox News (Carl Rove) who were in complete denial even Fox News knew it was over for Romney before midnight.

[SalisburySage]

D____ and I understand they are still counting votes. It could very well go below 47%. And the electoral votes 332 to 206.

One of many clear messages was sent......teaparty extremism is not welcomed.

Apparently 47% of America is fine with the tea party. I don't call 47% to 53% a mandate. I call it a close election.

[jessup270]

I fully accept that the majority, for whatever reason, wanted Obama.

Now my question to the folks that voted for Obama.

If the economy is as bad as it is today, or even worse with higher unemployment, more foreclosures, will they accept that Obama has not performed well?

Perhaps even go so far as to blame Bush 8 years later?