The fact that Mitt Romney lost in 2012 shows that the USA isn't interested in electing anyone competent (drugs, healthcare)

[Scratch33]

I think Mitt would've had a chance were it not for the unfortunate choice of running mate.

[Haakon]

Originally Posted by NJBest

I hope you don't always vote off of speculation.

It's what got Obama elected, he was even awarded (not earned) a Nobel based on speculation of what he might do. Too bad he accomplished nothing worth earning it, or the presidency.

Romney:

- Bad running mate
- Perceived as an elitist and only acted to bolster that image
- Insulted half the country
- RNC's braindead decision to try to run with the you didn't build that idiocy
- Wholly lacking in principle. He'd say literally anything if he thought it'd get him votes and people rightly saw him as a complete phony.

[BentBow]

Originally Posted by KonaldDuth

Mitt:

• Tall, handsome.
• Solid record as a leader and businessman.
• Absolutely ZERO dirt on his record. Worst thing the media could come up with was an old story about his family putting their dog on the top of their station wagon for a family road trip.

Sounds like the perfect candidate. Lost to Obama by a decent margin.

Obama:

• Not even eligible to be president (fraudelent birth certificate).
• Former pothead, cokehead.
• No meaningful experience.

Bush Jr:

• Former alcoholic, cokehead, overall party animal.
• Had no idea what he was doing (and mostly admitted it).

Bill Clinton:

• Former and current cokehead, drug smuggler, party animal.
• More time spent soliciting sexual favors from interns than doing presidential duties.
• Had orgies with enslaved teenage women in Central America.

Oh yea, and we're about to give the presidency to the trecherous wife of one of the above guys.

Progressive in as Progressive goes...

There is a damn good reason Mitt didn't get elected. He was an admitted Progressive, trying to play the roll of staunch Conservative. Conservative didn't buy the lie. They didn't buy it with McCain, either.
They barely bought it with Bush...twice.

There is going to have to be someone very conservative on the ballot, to get the silent majority out, to finally not have to pick the lesser of two evils, where they stay home.

2010 brought us some very Conservative players, and the silent majority, flocked to the polls.

[Utopian Slums]

Originally Posted by mm4

Poor judgement. Lack of empathy. The animal was so traumatized that they had to hose its crap off the roof when they pulled in to rest.

Mitt lacks maturity. He even played crybaby, working to squeeze tears out on camera in Massachusetts when confronted with the fact he wasn't eligible to run for state office in the Commonwealth of MA earlier in the 00s where he wasn't a resident:


It was on camera on local news broadcasts.

Then he tried the same thing again six years later in his first run for president:
Cry me a river, Mitt - The Boston Globe

Like Bushes, and Rubio, he's also a neocon. The electorate is fed up with neocons (aka leftist, Rockefeller Republicans), processed candidates. And they despise his progressive individual health insurance mandate, the so-called Massachusetts Health Care Reform law.

Voters rightly sent him back to Massachusetts to sulk.

Originally Posted by rorqual

Lol the 47% corporate raider..

But gotta give him props for Obamacare

Originally Posted by Floorist

Yawn.

Originally Posted by JAMS14

Once you revealed yourself as a birther the rest of your post was not worth the effort to read.

Originally Posted by JasonF

Romney:

- Bad running mate
- Perceived as an elitist and only acted to bolster that image
- Insulted half the country
- RNC's braindead decision to try to run with the you didn't build that idiocy
- Wholly lacking in principle. He'd say literally anything if he thought it'd get him votes and people rightly saw him as a complete phony.

^ All of this and more. America is not a business where you can just "fire" half of the country. That was his biggest qualification. His own state that he ran didn't even vote for him. That's a pretty strong testament to his leadership skills.

[RaymondChandlerLives]

Romney promised 6% unemployment by the end of his first term, which would have been a year from now:

Romney promises to bring unemployment down to 6% – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs

Current U3 rate: 5%

Republicans = aim low, and fail to deliver even that.

[slo1318]

Romney would have been great for the country. Obama is trying to hard to transform the country to something it has never been. Clinton is a dishonest psychopath and must be stopped.

[rorqual]

Originally Posted by slo1318

Romney would have been great for the country. Obama is trying to hard to transform the country to something it has never been. Clinton is a dishonest psychopath and must be stopped.

Romney would have great for the top 1% of the country

[slo1318]

Originally Posted by rorqual

Romney would have great for the top 1% of the country

Thats the narrative, but it would have been for everyone. Self reliance is the key to individual success! Not hand outs

[RaymondChandlerLives]

Originally Posted by rorqual

Romney would have great for the top 1% of the country

Yup. He was itching to give the 1% yet another juicy tax cut.

Romney

Republican economic principles are a bad joke that keeps on giving... to our wealthiest Americans.