Adviser: Romney "shellshocked" by loss (Limbaugh, vote, Democrats)
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There were not "Nuns on a Bus" crisscrossing the country for nothing in protest of the budget that would have come to pass. Why are you pretending that you have not been aware of this?
I am a sympathetic and empathetic person and my first instinct is to have the compassion you speak of, but then I remember that Romney was willing to implement policies to pander to the fringe nuts that ultimately would have hurt average Americans and I struggle with that bit of compassion I might have for him.
Oh--I'm with you his needing to lose and lose big--don't doubt that. I think Romney is a liar and the tea party scares me to death. I'm not trying to criticize you either. I just figure the guy lost, so it's pointless to keep kicking him when he's already down. It's over, thank God.
The fact that Romney was blindsided by this result says a lot about the echo chamber the Right sealed themselves inside of this election. The outcome should not have been a surprise to such a well-funded, supposedly well-organized campaign.
To be fair, Obama got his arse handed to him in the (first two, at least) debates because the media never challenged him. Both candidates were in bubbles of a sort. The difference is that the media' supposed to be fair. It isn't.
Oh--I'm with you his needing to lose and lose big--don't doubt that. I think Romney is a liar and the tea party scares me to death. I'm not trying to criticize you either. I just figure the guy lost, so it's pointless to keep kicking him when he's already down. It's over, thank God.
Romney ran an ad in Ohio that he knew was an outright LIE in attempt to intentionally decieve voters (among numerous lies and half-truths). He deserves every kick he gets.
There were not "Nuns on a Bus" crisscrossing the country for nothing in protest of the budget that would have come to pass. Why are you pretending that you have not been aware of this?
Not pretending. I don't read your sources. I doubt you read mine. In any case, your sources and mine are opinionated. Anyways, Obama won and Romney lost.
Romney ran an ad in Ohio that he knew was an outright LIE in attempt to intentionally decieve voters (among numerous lies and half-truths). He deserves every kick he gets.
You have to have thick skin to run for any office, but you practically need steel armor to run for president, because attacks on your character are going to part of it. You choose to run, so you choose to put yourself through that, but it never feels good to lose, especially when you didn't see it coming. I read somewhere that they had an entire elaborate election night celebration ready to go, complete with fireworks. Ouch.
What utterly gets lost in the heat of battle is that both candidates are only human.
The fact that Romney was blindsided by this result says a lot about the echo chamber the Right sealed themselves inside of this election. The outcome should not have been a surprise to such a well-funded, supposedly well-organized campaign.
It's dangerous when you're a "true believer" and you honestly don't think you can be wrong. Politics is all about compromise, and you're going to be very disappointed if you think you're always going to get your way, or you think you can't lose, because the other side thinks that they're right as well. You'd think Romney would have had some people on his staff who were more "hacks" than ideologues--campaign pros who aren't invested emotionally, and who can look at the numbers objectively and tell him the truth. That's what scares me about the R party right now--it's like they live in a fantasy world where they never talk to anyone but themselves.
surprise surprise....Mitt shows again that he is out of touch with mainstream America. For all of the disdain right-wingers have for "entitlements" ; its poetic justice that the one who felt most "entitled" to the presidency got his clocks cleaned on election day.
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