Betruger wrote:So it occurred to me, and maybe I missed it being said already - if this guy's the worst (+-1), how does an entire major party in the greatest country on the planet not find a single better alternative, and what does that say about Republicans.
That is one theory about what happened. I happen to have a very different theory. Mitt Romney was a FAR BETTER choice than Barack Obama. By every measure, Romney is the superior in intellect, experience, temperament and accomplishment to Obama. (as is pretty much anyone including the local dog catcher.)
But politics has only a tenuous grasp on reality. In politics, perception is the only thing that matters. How is perception shaped? Well people form perceptions based on what they see, and in this case specially regarding what they are able to see.
Well were do people get their information? Most get it from television. What did we see on Television? We saw a constant tear down of Romney by all the news and entertainment services, and we saw a constant coverup of Obama's many fiascoes and also constant expressions of praise and respect by those same news and entertainment services.
You see, Obama gets his positive Campaign commercials for free. They are a gift to him from the New York and Los Angeles based Liberal Democrat Union members who run the news and entertainment services.
Romney had to pay for his, and even that wasn't enough to counteract all the snide mockery and propaganda from the Democrats who control what gets on television. We heard about Romney's Dog on his roof, we heard about how he gave a kid a hair cut back in high school, we heard about "binders full of women", and we heard about his Taxes, and allegations of tax cheating, and pretty much any other derogatory thing about him that the Democrat reporters could find to accuse him of.
We saw
Candy Crowley deliberately LIE to save Obama from Romney getting the better of him in the debate by pointing out that he was lying.
We saw every news and entertainment outlet work in Unison to attack and diminish not just Romney, but every Republican candidate that they could find with some potential awkward statement or possible dirt.
The bottom line is this. The Liberal Democrats who work in the media deliberately used their positions of influence to mislead the American people into voting for the fool instead of the competent man. As more and more of our population has become brain dead stupid, the task has simply gotten easier with each passing year.
The sane and responsible can simply no longer hold back the tide of the silly and insane, especially with the connivance of the media systems set to deliberately mislead them.
So it isn't a question of the Republican party not putting forth a good candidate. It wouldn't matter who was put forth, the Democrat media system would have worked very vigorously to cut off him off at the knees, and it is only once in awhile that someone like Ronald Reagan can come along and render them ineffective through the sheer power of his wit and charm.
‘What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.’
— Lord Melbourne —