y***r
发帖数: 16594 | 1 很多原因，反正GOP是没问题的，有问题的是天，是地，是DEM。
WASHINGTON -- Republicans across the country were shellshocked as President
Barack Obama defeated Mitt Romney in Tuesday’s presidential election,
finishing the race with 332 electoral votes and winning every battleground
state except for North Carolina. The blame game began almost immediately, as
Republicans looked to determine how a vulnerable incumbent like Obama had
found a pathway to reelection.
The evidence behind the president’s victory points toward a stronger appeal
to middle-class Americans, one of the most formidable ground games in the
history of politics, and serious failures within the GOP to attract Latino
and women voters. But a faction of conservatives were having none of it --
offering up instead a series of explanations for their nominee’s loss,
rounded up below:
The media selectively reported Romney's gaffes.
In an op-ed posted to Fox News, Rich Noyes of the conservative Media
Research Center slammed the “media’s biased gaffe patrol” for only
magnifying every alleged Romney gaffe while failing to treat the president’
s missteps equally. “When Obama infamously declared, 'You didn’t build
that,' ABC, CBS, NBC didn’t report the politically damaging remark for four
days,” Noyes wrote. In contrast, the Republican National Committee pounced
on the remarks, selectively editing them for use in advertising, and even
building an entire convention theme around the out of context quote. In the
end, instead of turning on Obama, some voters reacted to the remarks by
saying the words in context made them feel more positive about the president.
Fact-checkers were biased.
Noyes, in his mostly bizarre reading of the GOP ticket’s loss, also took
aim at bias among the fact-checkers who essentially did their jobs and truth
-teamed the Romney campaign's factual misstatements. Noyes homed in on Paul
Ryan’s tale about the closure of a General Motors plant at the GOP
Convention -- widely criticized as misleading -- arguing the vice-
presidential nominee was “correct in all the details.” Noyes curiously
left out that Ryan later backpedaled on his own claim, or that on more than
one occasion, the Romney campaign was at times called out by its own
surrogates for engaging in dishonest attacks.
Hurricane Isaac hit the Tampa convention.
Christopher Ruddy at Newsmax bemoaned that Hurricane Isaac washed away the
first day of the GOP convention, and subsequently all of Romney’s
presidential aspirations. The storm “seriously disrupted the official
schedule,” he wrote, prompting Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Romney’s
heartfelt biographical video to be bumped from prime-time TV coverage. It
was up to the Romney campaign and the RNC to make the best use of their
condensed convention -- which, shortened to three days, was still the same
length as the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte. Instead of
keeping Rubio in a prime-time spot, they chose instead to allow Clint
Eastwood to walk onstage before a national TV audience and shout at an empty
chair.
Romney was too nice.
Ruddy offered another explanation as part of his reflection on what went
wrong: “Obama's ads were nasty, negative ones, while Romney's were of the
kinder, gentler, country-club Republican variety.” It’s true that the
Obama campaign hammered away at Romney’s business record, but it’s also
true that it was Romney who used his career in private enterprise as the
centerpiece of his candidacy. And based on data collected by OpenSecrets.org
, conservative outside groups spent over $74 million attacking the president
, as opposed to the $5.1 million liberals spent in attack ads targeting
Romney. The Romney campaign also falsely accused the president of ending the
work requirement in welfare and, in the final days leading up to the
election, implied in an ad that Chrysler was moving its Jeep production to
China under Obama’s watch. Amid the barrage of advertising that dominated
swing-state airwaves throughout the cycle, it’s safe to say that both sides
churned out plenty of negative attacks.
Hurricane Sandy and Chris Christie get the blame.
Even before Romney lost the election, his aides preemptively blamed a
potential loss on the storm that devastated parts of the East Coast. They
even quietly decried top Romney surrogate New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for
lavishing the president with praise over his response efforts. In the
aftermath of the election, conservatives appear to have gone from
disappointed in Christie to flat-out exiling him from the GOP establishment.
Robert Stacy McCain wrote in the American Spectator:
The list of fools who have brought this disaster upon us certainly also
will include New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, the gelatinous clown who (a)
hogged up a prime time spot at the Republican convention to sing his own
praises; (b) embraced Obama as the hero of Hurricane Sandy; and (c) then
refused to appear at campaign events in support of Romney's presidential
campaign. Good luck with the remainder of your political future, governor.
It is unlikely Republicans shall soon forget your perfidious betrayal.
But as Ezra Klein points out, the “Hurricane Sandy and Chris Christie won
Obama the election” theory is inherently flawed. Moreover, there is little
evidence to support the notion that Romney’s momentum was lost in the wake
of the hurricane. Most polling indicated he had lost it by the second
presidential debate.
Obama won by “suppressing the vote.”
GOP strategist Karl Rove, who was one of the first to pin Romney’s loss on
Hurricane Sandy, concluded that Obama actually “succeeded by suppressing
the vote” -- in other words, the president somehow prevented voters from
casting their ballots. Rove did not fully explain his claim, perhaps because
there is literally no evidence to support it, but instead insisted that the
Obama campaign engaged in the sort of character assassination from which
Romney never fully recovered. But the best was yet to come: Rove said the
Romney campaign did not adequately defend itself against the attacks on the
GOP nominee’s business record, prompting Rove’s super PAC to give it a
shot. “We don't do defense all that well,” Rove concluded, somehow failing
to mention that his two groups, American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS,
spent a combined $300 million on the 2012 race.
Romney wasn’t conservative enough.
This one was bound to happen. Romney, the once moderate Republican who
served as governor of Massachusetts, lost because he tried too hard to be a
centrist, some said. The effort by Romney to appeal to moderate-minded
Americans in an increasingly progressive society left some conservative
leaders so furious that they “vowed to wage a war to put the Tea Party in
charge of the Republican Party by the time it nominates its next
presidential candidate,” according to The Hill.
But the trajectory of Romney’s campaign tells an entirely different story:
The GOP nominee spent nearly 17 months walking away from the positions he
once held while presiding over blue state Massachusetts in a tireless bid to
win over the conservative base. It wasn’t until the final month of the
race, namely the first presidential debate, that Romney pivoted to the
center in a last-stage effort to court independent and undecided voters. If
anything, Romney’s attempt to appear centrist was too little too late for a
populace that smacked down Tea Party candidates on Election Day.
Americans are basically ignorant.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) said on Thursday that the president’s win was
decided by an uninformed electorate -- even though voters had more access to
information in 2012 than in any past election cycle. Johnson also neglected
to mention the record spending on the part of Republicans to disseminate
their message -- a message that ultimately lost out to that of Obama and his
Democratic allies.
Liberals bought the election.
The Free Beacon has a primer on super PAC spending from liberal-leaning
groups that helped propel the president to reelection. There’s even a handy
breakdown of individual donors, such as “misogynistic comedian” Bill
Maher and George Soros, founder of the “shadowy network of wealthy leftwing
donors” Democracy Alliance, who both donated over $1 million to pro-Obama
super PAC Priorities USA Action. The total amount of liberal super PAC
spending during the 2012 cycle, the Beacon concludes, is a staggering $200
million. But they left out one minor detail: that number was exceeded by
Karl Rove alone, whose groups American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS spent $
300 million on this election. The combined total for conservative outside
group spending? An estimated $715.9 million, according to the Center for
Responsive Politics.
Obama was backed by the 47 percent.
Following Tuesday’s result, retiring Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) channeled
Romney’s infamous comments that almost half the nation are government-
dependent “victims” who support Obama because they feel entitled to food,
health care and housing. “The majority dictates against the minority. So,
right now the majority are receiving a check,” Paul said. “That is why
people were sort of surprised with these conditions that this president can
get reelected.” Of course, exit polls show the president collected his
votes from a populace that found his policies more favorable toward the
middle class, and his election was boosted by turnout among Latinos, women
and youth. And Paul recently admitted to HuffPost’s Sam Stein that he
himself receives social security checks in the mail.
America’s white establishment is now a minority.
Bill O'Reilly took to Fox News to discuss the changing face of “traditional
America,” which was, according to O'Reilly, once home to a majority white
population. Obama’s reelection, he said, was a result of the Hispanic and
black vote comprised of individuals who “want stuff.” While it’s true
that Romney led the president among white voters by 20 points, the majority
of Obama’s total nationwide vote still came from white voters. | p**j
发帖数: 7063 | 2 GOP失败的原因是，一帮人把Romney选下去以后，才想起来Romney的反非法移民的政策
好来。你以后慢慢想起来的Romney的政策会越来越多。
President
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appeal
【在 y***r 的大作中提到】
: 很多原因，反正GOP是没问题的，有问题的是天，是地，是DEM。
: WASHINGTON -- Republicans across the country were shellshocked as President
: Barack Obama defeated Mitt Romney in Tuesday’s presidential election,
: finishing the race with 332 electoral votes and winning every battleground
: state except for North Carolina. The blame game began almost immediately, as
: Republicans looked to determine how a vulnerable incumbent like Obama had
: found a pathway to reelection.
: The evidence behind the president’s victory points toward a stronger appeal
: to middle-class Americans, one of the most formidable ground games in the
: history of politics, and serious failures within the GOP to attract Latino
| y***r
发帖数: 16594 | 3 没办法，极右的那些人不买moderate的帐, My way or high way. 可惜了高富帅的
Romeny。By the way, 我认为Romney说的self deportation，let Detroit go 完全正
确。
【在 p**j 的大作中提到】
: GOP失败的原因是，一帮人把Romney选下去以后，才想起来Romney的反非法移民的政策
: 好来。你以后慢慢想起来的Romney的政策会越来越多。
:
: President
: as
: appeal
| K******S
发帖数: 10109 | 4
【在 y***r 的大作中提到】
: 没办法，极右的那些人不买moderate的帐, My way or high way. 可惜了高富帅的
: Romeny。By the way, 我认为Romney说的self deportation，let Detroit go 完全正
: 确。
| h****i
发帖数: 1674 | 5 要是总做正确的选择
美国还不早就天顶星了
谁选择，谁承担。 世界是公平的 | t***s
发帖数: 300 | 6 GOP想赢有一个办法，取消妇女，老黑，劳模和所有DEM的选举权 |
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