Back in August of 2011, Politico ran a piece about how Team Obama expected Mitt Romney to be the GOP presidential nominee. This was Obama’s victory plan:
“Unless things change and Obama can run on accomplishments, he will have to kill Romney.”
The onslaught would have two aspects. The first is personal: Obama’s reelection campaign will portray the public Romney as inauthentic, unprincipled and, in a word used repeatedly by Obama’s advisers in about a dozen interviews, “weird.”
“First, they’ve got to like you, and there’s not a lot to like about Mitt Romney,” said Chicago Democratic consultant Pete Giangreco, who worked on Obama’s 2008 campaign. “There’s no way to hide this guy and hide his innate phoniness.”
As the plan went forth into the heart of the 2012 campaign, a slogan was developed that nicely summed up Team Obama’s efforts to “kill Romney.”
That slogan was: “Mitt Romney. Not One of Us.”
The plan and the slogan worked even better than expected, especially when Romney himself helped bring the narrative to life.
Here is a “Not One of Us” Obama ad that ran in Ohio.
Then this little ad circulated around the web. (Notice how Romney looks like that big mean boss you always hated.)
We all know how the story ends. With the help of the mainstream media, the” kill” was accomplished.
Then, shortly after the election, photos started emerging showing how an unemployed Romney really was “one of us.”
Romney pumps his own gas! (No guys in white gloves helping him.)
Romney eats pizza. (That says “average Joe” more than anything.)
He hugs his wife while making breakfast! (Mitt and Ann have true love 24/7.)
Mitt and Ann go to the movies! (When unemployed you have more time.)
And even though he lost the election, Romney still went to Disneyland!
So now for those Romney supporters still grieving over his defeat by the CEO of the “kill Romney” team, one question comes to mind — what took Romney so long to “be like us”?
Only Romney himself knows the answer.
Meanwhile, 47.8 million Romney voters will suffer through the next four years as we hear the bankrupt people of Greece chanting, “Be like us.”
“So now for those Romney supporters still grieving over his defeat by the CEO of the “kill Romney” team, one question comes to mind — what took Romney so long to “Be like us?”’
Simple answer: he couldn’t. The Democrat campaign painted him as “the other” early on, so there was nothing he could do to fight it. The media either ignored these “cutesy” stories (not news-worthy) or they were spun as “Romney’s tone-deaf attempts to connect to average American” by claiming it was false before letting people judge for themselves. Or using the “no true scotsman” argument by claiming that real average American’s can’t afford Disney land or to go to the movies, etc.
If you spent a lot of time with liberal/Progressive people, you learn that the cultural demonizing of Republicans and conservatives has gotten to the point they refuse to believe a guy like Romney could be “like us”.
The reality is that regressives are the ones not like “us”. They’ve been demonizing America for decades.
Isn’t it about time we started punching back twice as hard?
Alinskyites will do what Alinskyites will Do. Remembering a “Progressive” teacher back in the 70′s trying to stuff this tripe down our throats. Nothing’s changed.
Simple answer: he couldn’t. The Democrat campaign painted him as “the other” early on, so there was nothing he could do to fight it. The media either ignored these “cutesy” stories (not news-worthy) or they were spun as “Romney’s tone-deaf attempts to connect to average American” by claiming it was false before letting people judge for themselves. Or using the “no true scotsman” argument by claiming that real average American’s can’t afford Disney land or to go to the movies, etc.
That was so much what I was going to say I decided we should see it twice.
What we really need is for Roger Ailes to buy the New York Times.
You left out the photo of Romney going to McDonald’s. I suspect that Romney was one of us all along, but the media wouldn’t print those pictures of him.
Is Mitt Romney “one of us”? Hell no! He’s way better, at least compared to me. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I never saved a family from drowning; threw all my resources into rescuing a missing girl, and succeeded; raised FIVE sterling, upstanding young family men (my kids are still struggling against life and temptation); and most of all, chose to sacrifice my time, peace, and reputation, not to gratify some thirst for power, but to stand in the breach when my country was in danger. So he lost what would have been for him the most thankless job in the world (due to Our Betters in the media/academic doucheoisie), but his honor stands intact as an example to us all.
Yes, he’s certainly not like “one of us”, and even more;
He’s not like “one of them” – the MSM/academe/progressives.
And we didn’t elect him – more the pity.
“And we didn’t elect him – more the pity.”
We might have, with all the fraud taking place. Allen West was reelected, too, but since no one will investigate we’ll never know for sure.
Well said. I’d say he’s a little bit better than most of us. He’s modest, maybe too modest in election times. He has five kids and loves his first wife. You forgot the story about the playground, one of my favorites. He has values and Christian virtues. He might have made a great president. The media would have had harder times because he is not vain and might not have needed their flirtations. They might have known that.
doucheoisie?!?!?!? Priceless!
Copy that !…….And, another thing: why do we keep referring to them as “progressive” and “liberal”. That’s the image they like to give themselves, no part true, but the heading for their false narratives! Let’s call them something else, maybe “Progoisie” or “Libtardists”. A renaming contest for “Progos” and “Libteeds”? Let’s have one, then stick to the results — create a new “meme” framing the most backward and fascistoid “true believers” since the Dark Ages!
The term I prefer for leftists is douchebags.
I also like shitbirds.
Well said!
I never donated a few million to charity. And even if I had over $100 million, I’m not sure I’d be nearly as generous as him.
Yes, he should be an example, so let’s make sure we make him one. Tell your kids and grandkids what a fine man he is. Tell them about the little things he did for others without seeking headlines. Read Kipling’s If to them, and tell them how Mitt followed his own path with honor. We have burdened the next generation with debt and we haven’t given the me me, me generation much in the way of personal values. It’s about time we start to do the latter.
I think this is a great idea. Tell your children and grandchildren that the exceptional nation is as blind today as to miss a fine and decent character for president. And we here in Europe missed him as well with the exception of 10-20%. Since then I know that I belong to a minority who still understands values, a small bunch of people with conservative and real liberal values, a small group with an uncorrupted mind.
Contrast it with Obama who became rich by being a politician. That point should have been driven home hard. Obama is a millionaire who made his cash through political featherbedding.
@werewife, that was the most awesome defense of Romney I have seen so far. Bless you !!
I would love to meet him in Disneyland. The guy you saw today is not the guy you saw in the campaign. He was completely polished in the campaign. He said the right things (most of the time, excluding the 47% remark) and he did it well, but not quite enough in the 2nd and 3rd debates, which was a turkey.
Team Obama ran a nasty campaign. They made the campaign personal. It was personal destruction. That’s why I was surprised at the turnout. The 51% that voted for Obama had a personal stake in him winning. Romney wanted to win to fix the country and economy and people didn’t care enough. People wanted their things. It seems like wanting jobs and saving businesses isn’t what the public wanted.
Was John Kerry “like us”? Discuss.
Is the Pope muslim?
No he was always better than us. He served in Vietnam doncha know. Pass the ketchup.
Making your money banging old rich women is a liberal’s wet dream so for them I think he is better.
Mitt Romney was the best candidate that either party has run in well over 100 years. Obama, on the other hand, …..
Don’t blame me. I voted for Mitt.
p.s. Congratulations, Mitt on getting your life back – you were too good for the job.
I began to really like Mitt Romney as the time went on and would agree with you he certainly was the most honorable man to have come along in a long long time. The fraud in the White House has all the things we have always looked down on in previous presidential candidates. Just one thing, would any white guy have been able to be president after admitting he was stoned much of his younger years and possibly now, or using harder drugs. Clinton was shouted down for trying to smoke dope (but he didn’t inhale). Clearly the color of Obama’s skin allowed people to overlook all his faults to put him in office. Some of us saw through that from the beginning. At a traveling George Washington exhibit in STL they listed all the qualities the prominent men desired in their country’s leader such as George Washington. Check the list, Mitt had all and Obama has none.
Best candidate in 100 years? Please tell me that you’re in your 20s or 30s.
I hope he is too – but you have to admit that the past couple of decades have been “it’s his turn” rather than “may the best man win.” I’m STILL not sure how Reagan got the nomination. Maybe because he was erm… a Hollywood actor?
I think they underestimated him just a bit. (The RNC, not the Dems.)
P.S. I’m fairly convinced that the RNC actually wants to lose.
I noticed two of those post-election Romney photos were being used for mockery. The first photo above of his wife dragging him to see the “Twilight” finale and the second photo of him pumping gas, with the “I just rolled of the couch” look, which is strange because these are two everyman scenarios that 95% of population can identify with. I think the anti-Romney people are already reminiscing about the fun they had mocking him during the campaign and miss him now because all they have to look forward to are four years of misery and they know it.
No — they still felt the compulsion to destroy him.
Thats from the liberal psychosis…
Steve
I assume that this is a “rhetorical question” type of piece, presented mostly to stimulate comments for pjmedia.
I find your comment amusing since it was a reader who suggested the topic and then I was asked by Bryan Preston to take it on.
Is there a contradiction here I’m not seeing?
“Is there a contradiction here I’m not seeing?”
Paul, responding to a reader’s request does not automatically translate into a high traffic piece. But it is good business, in any business, to respond to customer requests.
Charlie Martin @2: “What we really need is for Roger Ailes to buy the New York Times.”
A better idea. Have Tina Brown take over the NYT.
What amazes me is the viscous and loathsome comments that these “Everyman” moments often produce. In what kind of twisted mind is it necessary to continue to vilify the guy to the point of denying his own humanity? The election is over, he is not coming back. There is no need to continue to play the smear games. The most frightening thing to me is that many people seem to have internalized the hate. They cannot turn it off. It is not a thoughtful reaction, but instead a reflex. It demonstrates the power of the media in relentlessly teaching the Obama followers their talking points. Now that the talking points have been internalized, that are apparently not easy to exorcise. What a sad state of affairs, having to live with such people and deal with them, here and there, on a daily basis.
“…having to live with such people and deal with them…”
And having to pay for them.
“Gooble Gobble, We accept him! We accept him! One of us! One of us!”
Romney is an exceptionally decent moral man who possesses the skill set this country needed most at this time. It’s the idiots in this country who are not “one of us” anymore.
I’ve never been more stunned, shocked, and saddened at an election loss in my lifetime. I truly and firmly believed the great silent masses had had enough of the Obama nonsense and would vote Romney in big.
That’s not saying Romney was some savior or some magic pill. It’s just that he represented seriousness and the beginning of the work necessary to steer our Titanic from the iceberg. He is just a man, a good man–and that is what we desparately needed and tossed aside–not some pie-in-the-sky media pipedream hellbent on foolishness.
My sentiments exactly. You live in the Northeast, Brad? Maybe we could get together, as the song goes, and commiserate.
Ha! Stuck in the Peoples Republic of Maryland, but at least I’m in Anne Arundel County, which carries some semblence of sanity.
We agree!
“I’ve never been more stunned, shocked, and saddened at an election loss in my lifetime.”
…let me guess…..you are white right?
Get it through your ignorant and MSNBC mindset that it has nothing to do with color ,but has to do with content of character,like MLK said
Another racist Democrat
What does skin color have to do with anything. It’s competence and integrity that should matter. Our illustrious POTUS lacks both.
Romney is not one of them.
He’s one of the shrinking group of vilified, old white guys who pay the majority of the bill for the “gimme-dat” society we have become.
Great “handle” !
There was a recent article in PJM suggesting that Romney didn’t win because people perceived that he didn’t have everything to lose. In other words, that he had too much of a life outside of politics, and so, voters–those who might have voted but didn’t—simply didn’t trust him because he was self-made outside of politics. They didn’t trust him because he served in public office and never took money for it? They didn’t trust him because he was TOO perfect? Maybe that was it. He made them feel bad about themselves.
I read that piece and I seriously doubt that thesis. I think most people are just stupid.
I saw it coming!
We in California had a choice too: one was a 30 year pol, a former governor who had legalized unionization for state employees (with the nightmare that’s become), stopped building freeways, and appointed a Chief Justice who reversed 69 consecutive death penalty cases. Endorsed by the Unions, and leaving Oakland broke and in chaos after terms as its mayor, he was Choice One.
Choice Two was a billionaire businesswoman who made a fortune running Ebay.
Coverage by the Los Angeles Times dealt not of the states’s debt, pensions or taxes, but about the businesswoman’s decision to fire her former maid when it was revealed the maid was illegal.
Guess who we elected? (Hint: we now have a tax increase, and a 90 billion dollar bullet train we can’t afford)
It seems we have replaced the national anthem with that schlocky 1970′s song by Morris Albert, “Feelings” … your comment illustrates how our leaders are now being selected based upon …
… feelings … nothing more than … feelings …
And, it is a train to nowhere. California is FUBAR.
I read a question in 2008 that spelled the issue out about as clearly as possible. The question was, “Is America a good enough country to deserve as fine a man as Mitt Romney as a presidential candidate?”
I think that question has now been firmly answered in the negative. My disgust and loathing for the left in America has no bounds. They are no longer my countrymen and I see them as traitors. I wish them every evil imaginable and rejoice in the fact that their own actions will insure those evils come to them posthaste. They deserve every last bitter drop of the cup of gall they have distilled for themselves.
yeah…whatever. Right back at you, asshole.
Hey, OWS Forever!
Shouldn’t you be behind some barricade. destroying a public park, raping women, and defecating in their food?
Mac,
Be patient. There time will come maybe next yr.
Don’t! Think of Stalin – they can turn into killers if things don’t work out as planned. Be Christian and try to inform them when they are uninformed or bias. Be reasonable. Turn some around to sense. Take Mitt as a shining example. He was attacked and didn’t counterattack. He stayed dignified and discussed things soberly. Make it clear to some people that the candidate was weakened by smear campaigns. Make it clear to them that this shouldn’t be American style. When your guys came over to Normandy in 1944 and got hold of the Germans they treated them decently. The Russians raped their women and daughters, the Americans behaved in a more dignified way. The prisoners of the Americans came home, the prisoners of the Russians often died. You were the most decent folks on the Earth besides the British. You need decent elections too with sober discussion and pros and cons and without smear campaigns.
Kubler-Ross stage II.
So, I voted for Romney. And I spoke out in church strongly in favor of voting (hint, hint, wink, wink, nudge, nudge, nothing for the IRS to see here, move along now). I’m a Tea Party conservative with economic libertarian leanings.
Give that, Romney losing is may turn out to be the best option. Why? Because if Romney had won, the Republican establishment RINOs would have PWN’ed America so far in to the future it would be pathetic. We would be forced to eat a parade of moderate, big-government, big-business enabling Richie Riches for the rest of our lives.
The Republican Party needs to morph into the Conservative Party or it needs to die. Dead. Morto. Finito. No mas. One or the other. Either that or let the house burn down. To the ground.
Yes, the man is decent. Yes, he’s a human being. So sorry he got our clocks cleaned. But I want real change or I’m taking my marbles and going home to my doomsday prepper shipping container buried in the ground. If the joint ain’t rockin’ don’t come knockin’.
Romney couldn’t get the ‘regular man’ message past the MSM, who are the spearpoint for the Democratic Party. And yes, this IS partly George Bush’s fault. For eight years GWB never lifted a finger to defend himself against them.
May I suggest one thing? This crucial correction would gain victory for Romney even tho all other problems remain unsolved. Romney need not attempt more himself, what persona he did achieve (a decent patrician knight, on a fine horse, with impressive armor) was enough for him to do. Romney’s task would be love America, and be the prudent adult who holds down spending so the economy can grow.
Romney’s big failure was in excluding us from his quest, and also leaving the quest unexplained to outside voters. After you go thru all the other reasons, this caused his loss. And how might Romney include us, and in so doing take voters away from Obama? Republicans needed to continue discussion of issues made large in the primaries. First, lightning rod Rick Santorum should continually traverse the country until voting day, explaining Obamacare and campaigning against it. On November 7 the citizens woke up and realized they forgot to vote against Obamacare. They were lulled into Obama versus Romney. Important policy campaigns should be on the road before and separate from Romney’s presidential bid. Newt Gingrich should have been the Issues MVP on Energy Independence and Economic Recovery, campaigning nationally against Dodd-Frank and bad finance, for fracking and natural gas, against Democrat’s soviet-style control but shouting good news that Americans are free to make prosperity grow.
Yes, Romney ran his campaign and he lost for us, for every reason we talk about including vote fraud. Even so, if the GOP and/or conservatives kept Santorum and Gingrich and the Republican Team on the road, campaigning against Obamacare and for a free American economy, then Romney wins the election. Someone should have informed swing voters that Obama enabled American deaths in Benghazi. We have both principles and ideas- and they should be used publicly.
Romney and the GOP failed to run as a team on offense and lost when loss is deadly harmful and not to be excused. Let me point out the Democrats DID use a team approach with Bill Clinton’s strong points lent to Obama by association, and of course robust team play by the vast media empires. The Team Concept won against Mitt Romney, who did not include anyone, not really even Paul Ryan, in his team. We must bring the fight to our opponents, politicians and MSM alike. If we compete as a team, then our team will beat their team and the nation will win for itself.
How come that “Not one of us” wasn’t pegged as racist or at least bigoted? It plays on the religious card that voters were already primed for by the attacks on his religion from many in the GOP, and it suggested that doing well in business is a disqualifier for high office. Being a rich Democrat is OK, though, even if you inherit or marry into your money. Obama did even less to deserve his millions, having been tapped by the Dem powers that be, with no experience or qualifications, but his looks and smooth manner. Get someone to ghost write your memoirs. It never hurt anybody else. JFK won a Pulitzer that way.
OK, it’s just sour grapes, but it’s not as though I’m belittling the office, only the means used to destroy Romney. It’s been made clear now that Americans don’t want leaders who encourage the work ethic, thrift, and real accomplishment.
Anyone who supported BO should be banned from using the term wimp to describe anyone but BO. Period.
Please don’t misread my post- I wanted Romney for President. My opinion’s similar to werewife, Dany, askeptic, Timmy, Vox, JC, Brad, and demandarecount. I don’t want Romney different from who he is- but I prayed for Republicans to understand they need every member of the team- both offense and defense- to campaign against our enemies and somehow elect Mitt as President. Romney’s skillset for President is much stronger than his skillset for candidate.
The establishment and RINOs didn’t want conservatives in and Mitt didn’t understand that he needed us desperately. There could have been continuous presidential campaigning for Mitt, with other people headlining, to defeat Obamacare, for energy independence and prosperity, for national security, and against over-spending and ruinous national debt.
America would have listened to a bigger campaign.
I still think taking over the Republican Party brand name (while marginalizing the rent-seeking establishment) is our most effective path. But we have to make it clear we are a team, and these are the ideas we believe.
Re: Romney’s skillset for President is much stronger than his skillset for candidate.
Great comment, and I agree with it all, but especially with the above. Romney appeared ill suited to the slinging of the bull that greases the skids for dealing effectively with the unfriendly media. Convincing, but insincere glad handing, along with burying the questioner in a sea of irrelevant words, also not his style.
“I don’t want Romney different from who he is- but I prayed for Republicans to understand they need every member of the team- both offense and defense- to campaign against our enemies and somehow elect Mitt as President.”
Maybe instead of praying you should have been actively working to produce the results you want?
Kubler-Ross Stage II-How can this happen to me? Who is to blame?
Aw come on, Lance deBoil, I had no access to Romney,or an establishment pro Romney would obey, or a billionaire PACman, or a reverenced RINO. My reach and ability to make this essential change of strategy occur in Romney/Republicans rested on my persuading him by the awesome light of my ideas he read in pre-election comments in PJM and RCP. So I attend some tea party meetings where I live in Oklahoma. Wrote a check. Prayed. Yes, appearances say I didn’t gain my goal.
Maybe it was me singlehandedly convincing my state to vote two-to-one for Romney. What’s your crappy point, Lance deBoil? Where’s the helpfulness in the crappy little slogan you keep repeating? If you ever get to a next stage in life it’ll be when you start to grow up. Tell us what you did to save the world. Sheesh.
Zorro-Rides is right: The GOP needs to stand for something, and not just be opposed to Obama. For free enterprise, low taxes, balanced budgets, a restoration of manufacturing and restraint of the regulators. And a very strong defense. And for individuals, and not just businesses.
Instead, the Beltway GOP was and probably still is drunk on pork, and was asleep at the switch when debt,pensions and tuition have spiraled out of control. They could have really connected with voters on tuition, pensions and unions strikes like that now in process at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Instead, they spent inordinate efforts to prevent gays from getting married. But that has not enabled them to gain any traction in California or nationally, and is wrong anyway. It may be a religious objection, but its illegal on its face. Being the party of denying freedoms to people is never a long term winner.
The GOP needs to get out of DC and into the country: like Reagan did before he went to DC.
And by the way, would it kill the GOP to burnish the brand by producing a youtube video of republican acomplishments?
Karl Rove has also been a problem for the republicans. He is a highly intelligent, but he divides rather than unites, and does not appear to stand FOR anything. He is a wedge issue man, not an inspiration.
There are also many decent democrats who would vote GOP is given enough of a reason: instead of bidding with benefits as Bush did, how about bidding for more freedom and less tax?
Why not give renters a tax break like owners? Why not cap tuition increases to some percent of inflation? Lets make the colleges choose between pensions and angry citizens; between “ethnic studies “departments and mainstream degrees. Why not move to amend the EPA Act to rein in the EPA’s extensions of jurisdiction that are killing a lot of jobs? Let the democrats justify the delta smelt over thousands of farm workers.
I mean really, I’d rather have a Republican president but millions out there need a better reason to vote GOP than they are being given.
Good list, Narwhal. Republicans need to stand for the basics of freedom, stand strong and tell it loud. Keep the brand but absolutely stop imitating the Democratic Party. Yes, give better reasons to vote Republican. No one was ever inspired by democrat-lite.
Couple of points though. Personally speaking I say a state may allow two people to enter into domestic unions with the same sorts of responsibilities and benefits as the law puts on married men and women, and invent a word to describe it. A man and woman may enter into ‘marriage’, and that word won’t be available for two men or two women. You could say it’s separation of church and state. Seeing how the term ‘gay’ has replaced ‘homosexual’, I’m recommending ‘cheerful’ as the gay word for legal same-sex domestic union. Let’s hope the IRS doesn’t return the ‘cheerful penalty’ to the tax tables.
Another thing- the high cost of college is caused by government, like a pusher, pushing easy debt onto middle class youth. The recipient of largess isn’t middle class kids with college hours and the debt to prove it. The recipients of the liberals’ money fountain are the liberal administrators and faculty of Big Education. The kids and parents who sign loans are cannon fodder that pays for the intelligentsia’s self-esteem. Government money doesn’t make college education more available to more people, it makes it artificially expensive. The former students are in debt to fedgov, not to the college they attended. Creepy.
The libs couldn’t let Mitt win. If he had won he would have been a daily reminder to them of what lowlifes they have become. Scraping the bottom of the barrel, buying votes with birth control and condoms, shouting racism at every turn. They are incapable of ideal greater than themselves and resort to lies, obfuscating and propaganda to do whatever they have to, to retain power.
The demonization will continue. Have they let up on George Bush? Are they still attacking Sarah Palin?
The point of this constant vilification is to destroy anyone who opposes them, both personally and financially. The goal is to keep any effective potential GOP candidate from running. Mitch Daniels didn’t run because he didn’t want to see his family destroyed.
Until we address this with the outrage and fury these tactics deserve, this will continue.
– ought to start a PAC to thwart Christie’s run.
I think Romney was a very good man, and a very competant executive, who unfortunately was a poor candidate. Obama unfortunately was a very good candidate, while being a poor man and an incompetant executive. It fits our age, when the Kardassians are cultural icons, image over substance.
I now wonder if america still has what it takes to remain a great country. The rot might be unrecoverable. Our only chance for salvation might be another Reagan, who had both image and substance, a very rare combination.
Oh brother, shoulda, coulda, woulda….blaming the “lame stream media” for hijacking Romney’s message, yada yada yada. Look, here is the FACT that you are all afraid of. Your bitch, Romney could not get the job done, plain and simple. Here’s another fact, the VAST majority of my Left and Progressive friends hate Obama. They cannot stand him. He is NOT radical enough. He is responsible for more drone assassinations and collateral damage then any other republican, he is pretty much continuing Bush’s policies, as far as they are concerned, and MOST progressives either DIDN’T VOTE or they voted Green Party, or Working Families Party, or whatever third party alternative could be had. It was NOT the Left or radical fringe that supported Obama (they didn’t. trust me), but Middle America, Asians and Latinos. This is the uncomfortable truth that you don’t want to face. America, the REAL america, hates you people, and they do not want your candidates. So you can stop blaming the Left or “Regressives” (that’s cute, actually) for you problems.
What an awful and childish comment,whether you are left or not. A true progressive with nothing but ignorance and hate . You would have fit in well with Robespierre as he sent everyone to the guillotine
uh…whats childish about pointing out that most true self-identifying progressives/leftists do NOT like Obama, and did not vote for him? Obama’s nickname is Bush Lite in most Left circles and the more radical elements considered him the “lesser of two evils”. Many advocated voting third party or abstaining. So I’m not that eloquent a writer, but please tell me whats so “childish” about pointing that out? About pointing out that it was actually MODERATE america that supported Obama- much to your chagrin, no doubt.
Romney got 59.1 million votes. Why did Myra write “47.8 million”?
Romney has always been like many of us. He loves this country and works hard unlike barack morsi, the nations largest welfare recepient
A major factor Romney’s defeat were social conservatives who spewed vile hatred at him in the primaries and then didn’t turn out in numbers for the election. Republicans lost this election.
Nominating nut cases masquerading as tea party fiscal conservatives didn’t help the GOP’s reputation either.
Thank you for being such an eagle eye.
Romney won 47.8% of the vote NOT 47.8 million votes.
You are correct in stating Romney won 59.1 million votes.
Obama won 51% of the vote and 62.6 million votes.
So, here we are duped by the left into thinking the rich guy was less American than the Communist. Thanks for the nice photo essay, but it doesn’t begin to fix the damage done to Romney and all Americans by the outcome of this election.
It’s close to certain that Mr. Romney had 59 million qualified to vote Americans vote for him, it’s NOT clear at all if Obama had that many. I think the Obama vote totals include a few million votes by those either ineligible to vote, or who voted twice. Minority rules when the minority is willing and able to cheat to win.
This story and the comments are breaking my heart!
werewife, media/academic “doucheoisie” ? Spot on. Stealing it, k? Plus, I needed that laugh, thx.
Roger, we could always refer to the conforming monolith that is the left as proglodytes… Or d’you think’d be an insult to troglodytes?
Vox clams said: p.s. Congratulations, Mitt on getting your life back – you were too good for the job —-
Amen to that! So true, the toxic media and the Harry Reid led senate would have made it terribly hard for Romney to govern and would have shamelessly vilified him.
Still. It would have been great for America, and’d have lifted my spirits, to have had a grown-up in Washington.
Pray America. Pray,
Pray America, Pray, lest we become THE prey.
If something were to come of those symbolic petitions for secession, wouldn’t it be fitting to elect Romney President of the new Free Protesting States of America?
Myra, it was my buddy Dave who picked up on the vote total typo. He let me know after I posted the quote on my Facebook.
….do you mean that Romney would win if it wasn’t the negative ads or would Romney have won if Obama and clowns didn’t use voter fraud.
really one needs to address the corruption and criminal activity of the democrat party and especially the DoJ. all the electrons wasted in these blogs is not helping.
UNTIL THE CONSERVATIVES ATTACK THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM WHICH IS THE CORRUPTION (AND I INCLUDE THE SPEAKER OF THE CONGRESS AND MOST OF THE GOP) THEN NOTHING WILL CHANGE.
looking forward does anyone think that obama will not change the constitution to say in power?
give me examples of voter fraud this past election.
you lazy retarded liberal.
it is available if you want to find it, since you don’t I have no expectation you would believe it anyway. and you are not the person I try to engage in discussion as I stated above you are a retarded liberal. I use this reply to you a troll to further the discussion with people who visit this site that don”t have the heads in their or obamas’ as$
good day to you fool!
Typical response from a chimpanzee. For how long were you flinging your poo at the computer screen, Gen. Monkey Malaise?
Nice comment yourself, except he’s right dumazz.
Mitt Romney’s problem wasn’t that he wasn’t a “regular guy”.
Mitt Romney’s problem was that he wasn’t a real Republican.
Here’s an idea: draft Mitt Romney to run the 2016 campaign like he did the Olympics etc. He’s a great manager, and he does have some relevant and recent experience.
Hey, aren’t you one of the idiots who told us — often via smarmy attacks on Sarah Palin — that Romney was only one who could beat Obama and the only possible choice of sensible and enlightened people?
And you are one of those idiots who actually believe Sarah Palin would have done better. Romney received 48.7% of the vote. What would Palin have earned?
The demographics are shifting against any GOP presidential candidate. The primary process really hurt Romney and he did not run a great campaign against the most amazing campaign machine in the history of the world.