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GOP rep: Romney should have talked more about Solyndra
“I think the early exposure worked,” Stearns said, but then the issue was lost in the rest of the 2012 noise.
“The president somehow was able to sidestep [Solyndra], and Romney did not make it an issue,” Stearns said. “Just like Benghazi. Benghazi was a great issue for Romney, but he did not use it as well as I thought he could.”
Stearns wondered yesterday if perhaps Solyndra had a short shelf life as a political issue, that it was stale by Election Day.
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Romney should have talked to more young single women, Hispanics and Blacks about Capitalism.
DeathtotheSwiss on December 13, 2012 at 3:42 PM
and a million other things
Joey24007 on December 13, 2012 at 3:43 PM
“shelf life” is entirely fabricated. The nation focuses on whatever the people running media want to focus on. ATM we do not have an effective way to bring popular attention to an issue we find important. We have to find a way to change that.
alwaysfiredup on December 13, 2012 at 3:43 PM
i agree
Joey24007 on December 13, 2012 at 3:44 PM
And Fast and Furious, and Libya, and Obamacare…
The Notorious G.O.P on December 13, 2012 at 3:45 PM
Romney DID talk about Solyndra. He did that press conference in front of their former headquarters. He brought it up at rallies, in speeches, at the debates. What the hell else could he have done? If the press is so in the tank for Obama that they almost completely bury the story, Romney has no other option but to pay it lip service and then move on to other issues.
Doughboy on December 13, 2012 at 3:45 PM
Romney should have cheated better than the Democrats.
The Rogue Tomato on December 13, 2012 at 3:47 PM
Let the friggen hag die already.
Schadenfreude on December 13, 2012 at 3:48 PM
Obama is a celebrity president and a symbol against what the media and leftists have caricatured republicans and conservatives to be. Thus, Solyndra, F & F, and payola scandals in spades do not really matter to the ones who will take Obama over the Rs: “He is not like those evil republicans who will take away our BCPs.” or fill in the blank with what ever low information assertion that will fool you.
Vacuous celebrities usually have to have a spectacular fall before people say, “What were we thinking?” It is scary to think what kind of world on fire kind of moment it will take for come people to come to their senses about Obama.
mwbri on December 13, 2012 at 3:54 PM
Media, most all, combust, spontaneously and suffocate from what you eat. It’s Obma’s sh*t, not Beluga caviar.
If you’re married to the gov’t, give birth to cripples. Your incest deserves NO lest. YOU ruined the land and don’t deserve to work/live as you do.
Schadenfreude on December 13, 2012 at 3:57 PM
ShainS on December 13, 2012 at 4:01 PM
If Romney would have run as a true conservative he would have easily won.
Pablo Honey on December 13, 2012 at 4:01 PM
Woulda, coulda, shoulda don’t get the grass mowed.
Limerick on December 13, 2012 at 4:16 PM
Romney should have had a daughter. He also should have vacationed on Nantucket like the democrats do….that is what they said about him when he was governor here…he should not vacation in NH he should vacation on The Cape!
Romney was riding on a plane into Boston a few years back. Some people wanted his restaurant recommendations, he didn’t have one. Critics said he should have had a favorite restaurant.
It goes on and on. I wish he was the president, the current president has no clue about getting the economy going, growing the GDP, and doesn’t even think those things are good for us. Obama should hire some of the democrats from Bain, yes there are a lot of democrats at Bain, and give them free reign to fix things.
Fleuries on December 13, 2012 at 5:26 PM
Romney should have talked about Solyndra in the context of Obama’s policies have been failures and that aside from not fixing the mess he inherited from Bush, he perpetuated and aggravated it. Solyndra could have been an example of one of the countless Obama failures. But, he refused to try to make any such connections. Refused to make the case for why his policies would turn things around (or even a convincing case for what his policies would actually be). Now the GOP has no major platform (like a presidential campaign) to push a non-statist/free market agenda and we can only speculate on what could have been if Romney had run a half-way decent campaign and had any policy conviction. And to the extent that anyone in the GOP has a platform to reach the public, it is Boehner. Just shoot me now.
besser tot als rot on December 13, 2012 at 5:28 PM
As one of his more ardent supporters I have few criticisms of Romney. He had too much to do and not enough time to do it. And not enough support from conservatives.
That said, I think he should have gone after Obama on Benghazi hammer and tong and chapter and verse in the 3rd debate. But Romney’s biggest failing was not explaining that it wasn’t Bush’s failed economic policies that drove the economy into the ditch but the Democrat’s CRA chickens come home to roost. I assume he felt that defending Bush was too problematical – a bridge too far.
The Bush economy was much better than the Obama economy and Obama’s false narrative needs to be forcefully challenged for the next 4 years.
Basilsbest on December 13, 2012 at 5:33 PM
Yeah, he shoulda talked about Solyndra–merely for starters cuz there’s a whole bargeload of crap he coulda catapulted at the Dembeciles.
stukinIL4now on December 13, 2012 at 5:56 PM
Yep he should of hit Obama hard on Solyndra and other failed green energy projects but he failed to do so in the debates..big mistake
sadsushi on December 13, 2012 at 9:22 PM