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.
LOL, because you so easily contradict your stated principles with feats of hackery and idiocy. "Hey I'll vote for a murderous puppet of the rich, that'll make things better!"— RG
LOL, I must be an oligarchy puppet too then. So much for your class warfare strawman.- After four years, the best MSL can say is "he's not Romney". Just dripping with wealth envy. Typical faux intellectual.— RG
"...because hes your beet hope at punishing the wealthy."
What don't you understand about 'taxes have to go up for everyone'? Why are you so obsessed with protecting the wealthiest Americans from paying Clinton-era tax rates? What don't you understand about wealth being concentrated in the hands of a relative few? How is that not redistribution of wealth? Who do you think benefited the most from the Bush tax Cuts which are about to expire? Where are all the jobs that from the "job creators"?— wokmaster- So you supported the bail outs too? The ones you whine about and consider extortion? Yeah, you're lacking principles and intelligence.— RG
- Nah, I'm a class warrior, remember? Or am I an oligarchy tool? You can't accept there's a middle ground can you? That rich and poor both are in this together? You need class war, not me RG.
- MSL votes for extortonist murderer's because "they're not Romney". But don't dare judge him. Can't make this stuff up.— RG
- "MSL votes for extortonist murderer's because "they're not Romney"."
Who is the extortionist murderer you're talking about?— wokmaster - The middle ground where you accept murder, willingly give money to extortionists, then try to tax some of it back to be spent by puppets? I don't want to be in your class, sounds moronic and evil. Enjoy!— RG
- I'll be enjoying Romney's concession speech, that's for sure. I'll be one happy evil moron, while you sulk that Johnson got 1% for all your talk about principles.
- I forgot to say that Obama is nothing but a Chicago thug. In Chicago you either attack your opponent or you succumb to your opponent's attacks. It has nothing to do with 'hope and change', or 'forward' it's all about winning.......... How gross!!!!! Even MSL would get sick if he knew how Obama really operated.— RufusG
- What you call the middle ground is a sick joke. Ignoring the abuses of your government while begging for handouts scraps after nodding in approval while politicians handed rich incompetent morons a whole bunch of cash.— RG
- And the sickest joke is that for all your principles, you'll still pay your taxes to the evil empire, but feel good because you uphold your convictions in the painless comfort of a voting booth.
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