Free half billion$ in campaigning at a minimum as President, maybe up to $2billion. In addition you have thousands of appointees.

Bottom Line from WaPo:

our guy won so outside money didn’t work…this time, cause you know your guy is guilty of using that. Next time though, it’s back on!!

Rockshine on November 8, 2012 at 11:25 AM

Don’t listen to the idiots on FOX describing the natural fit of groups like Hispanics with the right wing.

They are supposed to be ambitious and more family oriented — that is true.

They also resent the Anglo culture and perhaps more troubling, find their skin tone to look more like the other Dem folks.

They are Catholic but support President Obama and the younger, more educated ones are highly secular and left in other areas. They like coolness and celebrities. They are being brainwashed into an entitled attitude with the pop culture and schools.

Unless we desert Arizona and practically open our borders, the Latinos are a tough sell. Just rolling over on hunting illegals will not do it. O was rotten in most ways but kept them! It was the other factors.

We need to take over the message in schools and entertainment fixtures in the Latino community.

And good luck with that.

libfreeordie on November 8, 2012 at 11:03 AM

You are proud of the Dimocrats for not taking corporate money?

It would have been nice if O had taken the McCain Feingold dollars (like O promised) to keep the money influence down.

But the Dems need to keep their focus on union backers, environmentalists various parasites that feed on gov’t largess and the reliable money from completely unknown sources.

Don’t celebrate too much as Karl Rove and his PAC will just morph and be more effective next time.

The WaPo is simply incorrect. Romney might have lost, but he won independents and closed the gender gap a bit. So, the groups that were targeted. it made a difference with.
The problem is that the wrong groups were targeted.
The big problem with Romney’s strategy seems to be that he miscalculated how people with a job and/or many of Obama’s base who simply have no interest in working or getting better paying jobs, would respond to the state of the economy. Those with a job were won over by social issues, and the poor (or the “Middle Class,” as Obama calls them) were won over by promises of more free stuff. And by focusing on something they did not care about, he never got through to them, while Obama forced those people to fear Mitt Romney.
milcus on November 8, 2012 at 11:07 AM

You are correct. What I have found is that many poor,lower class and even middle-class do not aspire for a better life. Instead, they want successful and wealthy people to be brought down. As long as they have the basics and a few toys to occupy their time and for pleasure, Internet, cell phone, big screen, eat out,go to a movie, they are fine with were they are at.

You are not going to reach the 93% of blacks who have been brainwashed in racism their entire lives.

You are not going to reach the 48% of the faux Catholics who go against their churches teachings. The decline of Catholicism is a sad,sad story in this country. Of course, a large portion of the remaining Catholics are Hispanic.

You may be able to reach 50% of the Hispanic (70% voted Obama) vote with the right people and proper messaging. There is hope there.

You may also be able to reach 20-25% of the single white women with the right people and message.

We may be outnumbered now, but we can still change that before it gets out of hand. It will just take outreach and messaging. I think it will also take a purging of most of the current republican leadership. Boehner and Mitchell have got to go.

The problem is that the wrong groups were targeted.

The big problem with Romney’s strategy seems to be that he miscalculated how people with a job and/or many of Obama’s base who simply have no interest in working or getting better paying jobs, would respond to the state of the economy. Those with a job were won over by social issues, and the poor (or the “Middle Class,” as Obama calls them) were won over by promises of more free stuff. And by focusing on something they did not care about, he never got through to them, while Obama forced those people to fear Mitt Romney.

I do, however, take MASSIVE glee in seeing Karl Rove’s Super PAC be a total and utter failure. Maybe corporatism isn’t going to take over this country, maybe we are moving towards a sense that capital doesn’t always make right, and doesn’t always get what it wants. Capital backed Mitt Romney and capital lost.

It’s non-stop war. They never stop burning our party to the ground and salting the earth. We stop and contemplate why that is while they never stop.

MarkT on November 8, 2012 at 10:33 AM

There’s a lot of “nothing to fear” squishes selling out to democrats.

If Romney won, do you think WaPo would have written the same article?

Think, people.

faraway on November 8, 2012 at 10:41 AM

If Romney won, it would be because sinister influences had guaranteed his election with contributions and PAC money.

On Hot Air’S favorite MSNBC show, Morning Joe, the guys were playing with the terrible condition of the Republican party like a cat with a cat nip ball.

The R’s did it to themselves.

The media had no part in it.

Then they slammed the ultra right talk shows and niche television shows which do not represent the mainstream. Right wing television personalities made millions, though, they said. No wonder the party is so messed up.

I wonder if they ever see that right wing folks are refugees from their own channel and the arcane insularity of the MSM?

A clutch of billionaires and privately held corporations fueled more than $1 billion in spending by super PACs and nonprofits,

Just proves a billion dollars spent putting lipstick on a RINO pig is not going to help getting it elected. Romney was Obama lite. That billion dollars would have gotten a hard hitting conservative governor elected over a failed POTUS worse than Jimmy Carter. The Pub establishment will never learn. Boehner and McConnell need to be replaced.

Did that pervert the election? Not really, according to a new analysis by the Washington Post.

Ed loves a good meme.

If Romney won, do you think WaPo would have written the same article?

Think, people.

What was $$$ per vote that Romney spent versus McCain?

It’s non-stop war. They never stop burning our party to the ground and salting the earth. We stop and contemplate why that is while they never stop.

The living constitution thing has become truth and their history classes and culture tell them America is bad and its history an exercize in oppression and imperialism.

Thomas Jefferson owned slaves ergo anything he said or did was bad.

Just a guess.

Ed Morrissey

We all got sore foreheads right now.

[facepalm]

The file said “koch”. I’ve changed it.

Ed Morrissey on November 8, 2012 at 10:24 AM

LOL, it’s been a long week for all of us.