R.I.P., Mitt Romney - by Robert Shrum

[kpete]

R.I.P., Mitt Romney
by Robert Shrum Nov 2, 2012 3:20 PM EDT

Mitt made multiple mistakes that will lead to his defeat on Tuesday. Some of them date all the way back to 2008.

The campaign has come down to a race between Mitt’s media and Mitt’s mistakes—and the mistakes are winning.

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I think I know who’s going to win when I hear the bloviating Rush Limbaugh denounces Christie as “a Greek column” for Obama’s reelection. And you can measure the desperation of the Romney Campaign not only in his sudden apparition in Pennsylvania—if he can’t make it in Ohio, he has to try somewhere else—but in the race-baiting of the bumptious John Sununu, Romney’s co-chair, who attributed Colin Powell’s endorsement of the President to the fact that they’re both African-Americans.

Whether this was intentional or a mistake, it was plainly shameful. And as I have argued before, it was a mistake for Mitt’s strategists to invest so much in the wallpaper of late advertising while neglecting field organization—where Obama has a deep-rooted and potentially decisive edge.

Finally, Romney made some unavoidable mistakes embedded in the DNA of today’s GOP. He assumed, correctly, that in the primaries he had to pander on social issues to the religious right— and on immigration to a party that has become the modern incarnation of nativism. He can plead in mitigation that he had no choice—and if that is so, look for another Republican defeat in 2016. On Nov. 7, Romney may be asking himself: What does it profit a Mitt to gain a nomination and lose his chance to make history in the White House?

Still, the fault is not just in his party but in himself. The Romney campaign has been a trail of missteps—and the Obama managers masterfully took advantage of this and took control of the race. So let’s thank Mitt for making his own mistakes. As we may have noticed, he’s very good at it. Romney—R.I.P.





http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/02/r-i-p-mitt-romney.html

[doc03]

1. Lets hope he just goes away and doesn't hang around like that

miserable old fuck Mccain.

[JB126]

2. Thanks for the chuckle

I'm sick of Pappy McCain... he's a pile of cranky old dust. Time for him to retire to one of his 9 houses and scream at the neighbor kids.

[cheezmaka]

3. R.I.P. Mitt...

Nov. 6, 2012.

[tritsofme]

4. And no one knows more about losing presidential campaigns than Bob Shrum!

Mitt's goose is cooked!

[WillyT]

5. K & R !!!

[xfundy]

6. Didn't Rancid Rush call Christie "FAT?"

All the vids I've seen posted with Rush's BS don't show the actual video, but the pics from when Al Franken shamed him into losing weight. I have seen a few pics of him, still with the phallic cigar* in his pig-hole, but he's in no position to complain about another's weight.



*Yes, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, but sometimes, it means Rush wants to get some more boner pills and go back to that island where children are "rented out" by the hour to child molesters.

[upi402]

7. Not even the propaganda media can convince people Mitt isn't full of crap

[-LOKI -BAD FOR YA]

8. the only problem i fear is their are five robme clones,waiting to forfill the robme Prophecy n\t

[bluestate10]

9. I saw for the first time tonight, closeup video of Mitt at one of his "victory rallies".

Mitt looked like a dead man walking. The sign of defeat was all over his face.

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. 22 consecutive political ads on TV!

Are there any Ohioans left who can bear to watch TV? That's the 'swing state hell' Jon Stewart was talking about.