Romney/Ryan Lose 2012 Election Thread

[brandymac27]

Crap.....Dup posts. And a need to edit per Jumbo.

[Jumbo]

You're ok, o fiery one. Just join others in reading what I wrote and give it due consideration. Other than that, carry on. Everyone can still post whatever they want and totally ignore me. Just expect consequences.

[Jumbo]

ROT47% by Mitt Lucas! Freeloading Ewoks.

I first read of this stuff in LA Times:

ROMNEY GETS THE LAST GAFFE

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...-for-loss.html

So he casts about, looking for some other explanation, and he lands on one: “gifts” that, to sway voters, the Obama Administration handed out to the President’s key demographic groups—“especially the African-American community, the Hispanic community, and young people.”

“With regards to the young people, for instance, a forgiveness of college-loan interest, was a big gift,” he reportedly said during a conference call with his campaign’s national finance committee held this Wednesday afternoon. According to the New York Times’s Ashley Parker, he went on to explain:

Free contraceptives were very big with young college-aged women. And then, finally, Obamacare also made a difference for them, because as you know, anybody now twenty-six years of age and younger was now going to be part of their parents’ plan, and that was a big gift to young people. They turned out in large numbers, a larger share in this election even than in 2008….

You can imagine for somebody making $25,000 or $30,000 or $35,000 a year, being told you’re now going to get free health care, particularly if you don’t have it, getting free health care worth, what, $10,000 per family, in perpetuity, I mean, this is huge. Likewise with Hispanic voters, free health care was a big plus. But in addition with regards to Hispanic voters, the amnesty for children of illegals, the so-called Dream Act kids, was a huge plus for that voting group.

much more at link

[PeterMP]

ROT47% by Mitt Lucas! Freeloading Ewoks.

I first read of this stuff in LA Times:

ROMNEY GETS THE LAST GAFFE

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...-for-loss.html



much more at link

It is the same mind set as the 47% comment.

And right now, I think that mind set is a big impediment from Republicans winning elections.

[Rdskns2000]

Who is this Mitt Romney?

You know, losers need to shut up and go away. You were soundly rejected by not only a majority of Americans but by people in your own party. If you just got the same vote totals that Mccain did; you would've won.


Fade away and let a new generation rise to try to change the party and then win national elections.

[No Excuses]

He's a pathetic, small person. I'm really glad he didn't become President. I genuinely wouldn't mind if a sane Republican got elected. But Romney wanted to be President for all the wrong reasons. IMO the quality of the person matters. I liked and respected McCain and even liked W. Romney really annoyed me.

[RedskinsFan44]

Who is this Mitt Romney?

You know, losers need to shut up and go away. You were soundly rejected by not only a majority of Americans but by people in your own party. If you just got the same vote totals that Mccain did; you would've won.


Fade away and let a new generation rise to try to change the party and then win national elections.

Obama got 63,165,438 votes in 2012, He got 69,499,428 in 2008. Romney got 59,471,017 in 2012, McCain got 59,950,323 in 08. So while Romney did not pull as many votes ads McCain, he needed a substantial amount more than McCain got to win.

[AsburySkinsFan]

He's a pathetic, small person. I'm really glad he didn't become President. I genuinely wouldn't mind if a sane Republican got elected. But Romney wanted to be President for all the wrong reasons. IMO the quality of the person matters. I liked and respected McCain and even liked W. Romney really annoyed me.

47% and now "gifts", when he was just telling lies to get elected it was a whole lot easier to just think he was pandering, but now this, after the election, it is a whole lot easier to believe that this is the stuff he actually believes. Classic Randian Objectivism.

[Rdskns2000]

Obama got 63,165,438 votes in 2012, He got 69,499,428 in 2008. Romney got 59,471,017 in 2012, McCain got 59,950,323 in 08. So while Romney did not pull as many votes ads McCain, he needed a substantial amount more than McCain got to win.

Hmm, I stand corrected. I hadn't seen the final numbers.


Well, either way; Romney just needs to fade away.

[Jumbo]

Let my people go!

Romney chief strategist lauds white, wealthy and middle-class support

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/r...-election.html

Mitt Romney's former chief strategist Stuart Stevens in an op-ed published on Wednesday touted wealthy, middle-class and white voter support as several of the silver linings to Romney's loss on Nov. 6.


In a Washington Post editorial titled, "Mitt Romney: A good man. The right fight," Stevens wrote:

On Nov. 6, Romney carried the majority of every economic group except those with less than $50,000 a year in household income. That means he carried the majority of middle-class voters. While John McCain lost white voters younger than 30 by 10 points, Romney won those voters by seven points, a 17-point shift.

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more at link

[Larry]

Something kind of jumps out of that quote, to me.

every economic group except those with less than $50,000 a year in household income.

I'm looking at data from The Tax Foundation (which simply reports data from the IRS.)

Now, that quote talks about "household income", whereas the IRS data talks about tax returns, so there's a bit of an apples and oranges effect, here.

But the median tax return (not household) has an income of $33K. A tax return of $66K puts one in the top 25%.

Is the above quote really a lot different from saying that Romney won more than half of the vote, of the top 25%?

[Mad Mike]

More wingnut news from Texas and the use of the words 'Cede' and 'Union' Is it ok to use the term "jumped the shark" with them now.

Wait a minute, did this judge from Lubbock say this

Click the link for more

This is not an Onion article either. LKB, what is going on down there.

I found his email If any of you other "maggots" want to send him you regards. I know I did.

info@petermorrisonreport.com

I just read you comments about your desire for an "amicable divorce" from the US. Speaking as an educated, white "maggot", I'm all for it.

Please, by all means, put out the call for all of your idiot tea party friends from other states to join you. Just don't expect any federal funds for disaster relief the next time a hurricane comes knocking. No help with your border with Mexico and no US military support. Enjoy your third world county. And please, don't forget to write. Stupidity like yours is endlessly amusing.

J. Michael Washé

[Elessar78]

What if obama campaign hadn't been so organized and targeted the groups they needed? The popular vote had 4 million vote advantage for the Dems. Not a huge margin (like Reagan 54.5M to Mondale's 37.5M). Would we still be having this discussion?

[LadySkinsFan]

Woulda, coulda, shoulda. The election is over. The electorate has spoken, and the Republicans need to get with the program. If they don't, they'll get more of the lesson in 2014, regardless of gerrymandering.

[twa]

what's the program Dear Leader?