Romney Retrospect: How Did He Lose?

Okay, it's Dec 8th, two days only since "the speech". Some people might say: "We've got to wait and see." Okay, you wait. I been done seen, and I'm going to give a postmortem

The basic problem was that he was a rotten candidate. Republican primary voters want a conservative candidate, not a liberal who says conservative things. Liberal is bad enough. Liberal plus liar is defeat.

It is done. Sob Sob Sob.

And yet a lot of conservative pundits supported him? It's hard to understand. Is there some particular stupidity virus that infects the set within the set that talks to itself to itself?

One would suppose so... It's just not clear what it is.

I've heard so often: "My, he is just so handsome and presidential..." Do you realize those are adult conservatives who are saying this?

And I've heard: "But he has such a splendid family" & "Every Mormon I've ever met is just a totally kind, moral, caring, wonderful human being." --Anytime you hear anybody say "every" you know they're lying through their teeth; and if they're not lying then six million Mormons are fit to be President of the United States.

"But he's made so much money!" Good for him, and he's spending it.

So there you have it. He's swoony good looking, he feeds his cat, and he's rich, the pundits entire argument as to why he should be my president.

Sorry girls and guys, I want a president who's a conservative, or at least not a liar.

And this was the whole challenge of the speech, to convince people like me that he's not Teddy Kennedy selling me a used car with the odometer rolled back. Instead he spent a whole speech declaring that, yes, by golly, American has religious liberty, and that yes, by golly that was a good sort of thing and that yes, he was all in favor... as long as no one used any of that "religious" stuff when he cast his vote, because, by golly, would be against the law! and against the Constitution! and a religious test! and just generally was not what good people would do.

My.

And those who would have him be President gave him a pass and said it was a great speech.

Conservatives do not need such "intellectual" leaders.

But how is it possible that so many such "leaders" came to drink this guy's cool aide? Actually, I doubt it's that many. This is called "elitism", "manipulation" and "control of the masses". Liberals do it all the time. And now we have some few Republicans doing the same. They've picked your candidate and if you disagree you're a bigot. --I say, beat them with a stick.

But first beat Romney.