Romney made plenty of self-inflicted errors along the way but you can’t deny that a few individual big dollar doners extended the primaries and hurt Romney’s national campaign. Romeny was not my candidate but the bitter primaries went on long after it was apparent he was the only guy who could win.

lexhamfox on November 27, 2012 at 1:47 PM

If Romney were conservative, those donors would have given him the money.

lexhamfox on November 27, 2012 at 1:47 PM

The bitter primaries did not hurt Romney, except insofar as they revealed that Romney was more willing to use hardball tactics on conservatives than on Obama. that’s his problem.

They prepared the ground for the Obama campaign.

lexhamfox on November 27, 2012 at 12:11 PM

LOL
Any reason, any reason whatsoever that takes the blame off Romney for his failure. ANY REASON!

astonerii on November 27, 2012 at 12:16 PM

Romney made plenty of self-inflicted errors along the way but you can’t deny that a few individual big dollar doners extended the primaries and hurt Romney’s national campaign. Romeny was not my candidate but the bitter primaries went on long after it was apparent he was the only guy who could win.

yeap I’ll keep my republican card just to be able to vote in the primaries but I no longer consider myself a republician. The party that Reagan built is over. the GOPe have thrown away every principle the party of Reagan stood for. Social issues gone, strong military gone, federalism gone, now no new taxes gone. why in all that’s holy would anyone support the GOP party? Oh yeah they aren’t as bad as the dems. At this point I don’t care let the dems get the blame for the coming firestorm of economic issues and lower standard of living lower longevity also once obamacare fully kicks in.

Btw as far as your first point I truly believe Mitt didn’t attack Obama because he believed in almost every program Obama has proposed. He just thought he could implement and manage them better. When you are in agreement with almost 80-90% of your opposition’s programs ther eisn’t many ways to attack him. Now as far as attackign conservatives. that was easy for Mitt and his team because there was 80% of stuff they didn’t agree on. Large amount of ammo there for the Mitt team to attack on in their view
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unseen on November 27, 2012 at 1:11 PM

Any difference between the dems and GOP is slowly shrinking and eventually they’ll just be two sides of the coin.

I took Romney’s nonfight of Obama to be some kind of strategy. How do you outfight a street fighter when all you can do is fence?

You try to convince yourself of that. I’ll stick with winning as a end result.

kim roy on November 27, 2012 at 12:49 PM

Obviously the concept of sarcastic criticism escapes you.

Read it again.

NeoKong on November 27, 2012 at 1:07 PM

I’m sorry if I missed it; however, considering all the posts that have been remarkably similar AND quite serious I’ll say it was an easy mistake to make.

My apologies.

I don’t know, don’t have the time I use to have nor the interest. the GOpe and dems have morphed into the same freedom destroying party. I can’t really defend the GOp nor have any like for the dems but I typically catch the headlines and blog posts at hotair and if I see something that graps my interest I’ll comment on a topic for a bit time premitting.

unseen on November 27, 2012 at 1:04 PM

Fair enough. It really did go t!ts up this time. Hope life is treating you well and the time you don’t have is well spent!

Will keep an eye out for you regardless.

Not really, many of these large donors hedged their bets and donated to both sides, so that they’d have a sympathetic ear in Washington no matter who won.

UltimateBob on November 27, 2012 at 12:28 PM

hence the massive donor payoff bill working its way through Dc as we speak refered to the “fiscal cliff bill” the donors will get thier money back plus a large taxpayer funded return on investment. No the big players didn’t get played the taxpayer and avg voter got played like they do every election in at least the last 20 years. DC is a nest of crimnals pretending to be politicians. they need to burn down K-street and salt the earth so nothing grows there for 100 years.

unseen on November 27, 2012 at 12:41 PM

+1, although fiscal cliff bill will only be a down payment.

Yeah, a (powerful)candidate needs to be able to transcend an imperfect campaign.