2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHas the Romney campaign done ANYTHING right since he wrapped up the Republican nomination?
I swear it has been one long comedy of bad decisions, stupid statements and unforced errors.
livetohike
(22,165 posts)they have all been poor ones. Perhaps this is the way he operated as a "successful businessman", but it isn't going to work as leader of a nation. I think he's finished.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)Oh yeah, they jammed the airwaves with negative shit about all the other crappy repuke candidates and bought the nomination. I guess, in their terms, that defines $ucce$$.
MFM008
(19,820 posts)Cosmocat
(14,574 posts)IF this had had been a D, who did what he did last night ...
END game, media would universally pile on and the candidate would get Howard Deaned.
But, this has been posted, literally, dozens of times now.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,438 posts)is about the only "smart" thing he's done so far and I'm not saying that he was a smart pick because I like Paul Ryan or think that his budgetary policies are good (far from it) but at least to the right-wing base of the party, Ryan was the most sensible choice and he's certainly no Sarah Palin and has some substantive experience in government (though, admittedly, that's a rather low bar). Everything else has been pretty disastrous for Mitt, however.