Comments on: Why Romney lost, millionth version (the patrician vs. the common man)

By: Parker

Parker — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 05:07:35 +0000

By now, its all yada, yada, yada. Romney lost because 50.01 % failed to accept or realize that continuing on the BHO-progressive course is the road ro ruin. A plague of locust upon those who knew BHO was a villian and failed to vote against his nihilistic agenda. A plague of locusts and the immediate sacrifice of your first born child on all who voted for BHO despite the plainnfully obvious fascist agenda of BHO. Reap what you sow.

How many times do we, right or left, have to hear this message?

http://tinyurl.com/bnvjvyf

“You’re messing around with my life so I bought my lead. You even mess with my children
and you’re screamin’ at my wife, baby get off my back, if you wanna get outta here alive.”

My only wish is that I could be in my 30s or 40s and not my 60s when it all comes down to dust; which appears to be the road down which the can is kicked. 20 or 30 years ago I would have been far more effective than today. Still, we do what we can do despite all odds.

By: Tesh

Tesh — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 16:57:08 +0000

If Romney lost because of “image”, that’s a highly negative commentary on the press, who is in charge of images, and the populace, who votes on image rather than substance. Romney’s share of the fault is miniscule.

By: J.J. formerly Jimmy J.

J.J. formerly Jimmy J. — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 05:47:01 +0000

Eris Guy said, “Gales of riotous laughter. Romney had to run on his record: show me his long record of opposition to the EUSSA.”

I looked at Obama’s record. I looked at Romney’s record. It was no contest. Romney knows more about how businesses operate and how to remove the government hurdles placed in their way. Obama knows nothing about business and has done nothing to create a better climate for business – just the opposite. Romney would have approved the Keystone XL, restrained the EPA, and would not have constantly demonized business and wealth creation. In addition, Romney would have at least listened to conservative ideas. Obama has proven he is all out for redistribution. He doesn’t listen to anything from our side – just the opposite. His offer to solve the fiscal cliff is laughable. The worst Republican candidate you can imagine (and I can imagine a lot worse than Romney) would be light years better than Obama.

There is no Republican candidate out there who can meet the purity tests of libertarians or conservatives at the same time. Thus, we have to support anyone who can be influenced by those of us who want less spending, smaller government, and a stronger economy. We have no possibility of influencing Obama. None! Not voting for Romney was a vote for Obama.

By: Oblio

Oblio — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 02:10:52 +0000

A fine guy, but he didn’t play to win.

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 02:00:07 +0000

Perhaps voting for the candidate who seems to care most is done by those who feel insecure and vulnerable.
Thus, the more of them, the better for the candidate of the caring party.
Clearly results–see Detroit–are irrelevant.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 01:57:39 +0000

Romney lost because he was a poor candidate. He was unable to articulate conservative positions on issues beyond a few boilerplate slogans, which he repeated like a mantra. I suspect this is because he doesn’t really understand conservative positions, but whatever. Many voters, including me, saw that, were Romney elected, the post-election Romney would be almost indistinguishable from Obama. I think many saw Romney as being in this election in order to augment his own “personal glory” and not because he cares (at all) about this country. As a candidate, he was a disaster. The first in a long string of disasters unless some serious house cleaning is done in the GOP.

By: thomass

thomass — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 21:59:30 +0000

Conservatives said that? Wow.

Maybe reading here caused it but I had it backwards. Seemed like a good guy but maybe not conservative enough. Still voted for him since I know O hates me.

By: Don Carlos

Don Carlos — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 21:45:14 +0000

At the risk of being boring, I remind you the Fiscal Cliff was legislated by both houses of the Congress and signed into law by Hussein. They are having problems wriggling off the hook on which they impaled themselves (and us, their wretched constituents).
So let’s go over the cliff, say I, if that is the only way to reduce our wasteful and promiscuous gummint, and reduce involuntary redistribution.

By: J.J. formerly Jimmy J.

J.J. formerly Jimmy J. — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 21:25:00 +0000

Oldflyer said, “In my Navy years, I experienced many styles of leadership. I do not recall any leader that I really respected being a glad hand with the troops.”

Yep, because they’re not elected. To fraternize with your subordinates is to lose the ability to give orders even-handedly. To be looked on as cool by those who work for you, will only help during the easy going. When the chips are down, coollness doesn’t really matter. As we have seen over and over with Obama.

There are so many low/no information voters out there that have no idea the fabric of our nation is being unraveled. To them the world is all about who is on American Idol, The Voice, or the latest movie/TV celebrity’s high jinks. I am almost hoping we go over the fiscal cliff. That might act as a wake up call for millions when they suddenly see their FICA and withholding go up and massive job losses dominate the news. I really don’t want to see it, but maybe it’s the slap in the face this country needs.

By: holmes

holmes — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 18:04:10 +0000

I think it’s more basic than that. There was a post on it on Instapundit, but I can’t find it at the moment. Basically, the whole thing is a popularity contest now and has been for some time. Who is cooler? Who would you rather have dinner with? Understanding the common man is just a part of it, or at least it sounds like a better reason to put forward than, “He’s just not appealing” which in our time is boiled down to “coolness.” Reagan was cooler than McGovern. Clinton was cooler than Bush Sr. Bush Jr was cooler than Gore and Kerry.

Rubio is cooler than Hillary, Jindal is not. Ryan is tough to figure, but I’m not sure if he’s cooler than Rubio. That’s basically the analysis people need to undertake. The only time it wouldn’t matter is if we hit some sort of crisis and people wake up, but by then it’s actually too late. So, coolness will rule the day in our stupid and superficial culture. Sorry, but true.