Why Romney lost
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Why Romney lost
Speaking of pro football, did you ever watch the second half of a four-touchdown blowout, or a 10-0 game in baseball? You know, when the announcers start having long conversations about the steakhouse they ate dinner at, or some great old political player from 1953? What are an army of political commentators going to talk about between now and November? That time they got whomped upside the head back in Chicago in '68? Too bad they don't have September call-ups in politics -- it would be good to see if Chris Christie or Andrew Cuomo can hit a major-league curveball before they get a shot at playing every day next season, which is 2016.
What I'm trying to say is, it's over, people. The new swing-state polls that came out this morning are devastating for Mitt Romney, the political equivalent of fumbling on the 1-yeard-line and giving up a 90-yard touchdown on the last play of the half (like that could ever happen). The GOP is going to need a Miracle of the Meadowlands II-type event (like, a Spanish Civil War II...hey, could happen) to retake the White House.
So why did Romney lose? I'm not going to give you the full answer -- gotta save something to get through the next five weeks.
But after Tuesday, when the piece entitled "'What's Wrong With Pennsylvania?'" ran in the newspaper, I got ths voicemail. There's no way to verify (kind of like everything published here) but the man claimed to be a member of the Teamsters Union, exactly the kind of middle-class, blue-collar voter supposed to carry Romney to victory.
He said:
"When we saw his tax returns for 2011 and the guy made 14 million and didnt work one friggin day -- I thjink thats enough to turn off blue-collar people...I was at a covnvertion of Teamsters and that's all they talked about and thats a big goddarned thing to overcome -- how somebody makes 14 million without even working and we're skimping by, you know?"
In other words, what were the best minds of the GOP thinking when they pushed this guy? They would have been much better off nominating boring ol' Tim Pawlenty, with authentic blue-collar roots and a non-birther conservative. He probably wouldn't have won, but at least he wouldn't have embarassed the party.
And we would have never talked about rolling down the windows on a 747.
Trying to be an American in this day and age with so called journalists like Will Bunch is almost unbearable. He and his people have dissected every living voter bloc, from the gays to the blacks to the Latinos to women to blue collars and have determined, that according to their calculations it's all over.............. Can't these people get a real job????????— RufusG- Obama's victory will not mean much without control of congress.
Battle for congress needs to heat up!!!— Seed 
LOL, Rufus can't take it, he can't take it, lordy knows he just can't take it no more.- The only thing that I can't take is Will Bunch.— RufusG
- Oh grow up, you read him everyday. Take some personal responsibility for yourself.
- montani, Now that's real funny :-) — Seed
- "In other words, what were the best minds of the GOP thinking when they pushed this guy?" . . . . . Don't blame Ann Coulter. She nailed it.
- ==]] Trying to be an American in this day and age with so called journalists like Will Bunch is almost unbearable. [[==
Geez. I just went to the store to get more tissues from all this weeping in sympathy for Rufus - and found they're all out. I guess more people read Attytood than I thought.— Talking point sleuth - I guess this rules out Hillary Cliinton. She'd worth about $100 million, and has never worked a day in her life in the private sector.— Mr. Smith
- Polls this far out still are questionable as a predictive tool, Will - but we are certainly getting to the point where the will be. As it is right now, however, they are reflective of how poor a campaign Romney has run this far.
To be this far behind an incumbent with the economy this bad is pretty pathetic. And to think - only a short 8 years or so ago it was hard to believe how the Dems could pick such losers to run for the highest office in the land.— Talking point sleuth - Rufus, being a gambling man, check out Intrade today. Obama re-election chances are up to 75.6%. Romney shares have never been lower. Now's the time to buy.
- Since when are Teamster members the ones who are to carry the Romney vote? The Teamsters I work with are almost solidly union-first voters, and that's not a red vote.— sadim
- As we go off the fiscal cliff it is amazing that the MSM, filled with nothing but left wing sympathizers continue to back Obama. How can anyone who opposes Will's 'messiah' stand a chance?— RufusG
- With the same kind of silent majority turn-out that was seen on Chick Fil A appreciation day. — sadim
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