So, a lot of people (including me) saw that one coming. I just never imagined that the GOP secret chiefs were so vain that they would end up taking their own propaganda as truth. At some point they lost the distinction between math, and the math they were doing to make their candidate feel better. Mitt Romney didn’t help his cause any himself, in fact he almost single-handedly won the election for Obama back in 2011, with his campaign tactics in the primaries. By perpetually locking the second (or briefly first) place candidate in a series of negative ads, America was pretty well versed in every negative aspect of Mitt Romney long before Obama had run a single ad. Of course, Romney also ran the most secretive political campaign in history, with the bulk of his policy offerings consisting of, as Stephen Colbert put it, “you’ll find out later.”
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Some thoughts on the election
So, a lot of people (including me) saw that one coming. I just never imagined that the GOP secret chiefs were so vain that they would end up taking their own propaganda as truth. At some point they lost the distinction between math, and the math they were doing to make their candidate feel better. Mitt Romney didn’t help his cause any himself, in fact he almost single-handedly won the election for Obama back in 2011, with his campaign tactics in the primaries. By perpetually locking the second (or briefly first) place candidate in a series of negative ads, America was pretty well versed in every negative aspect of Mitt Romney long before Obama had run a single ad. Of course, Romney also ran the most secretive political campaign in history, with the bulk of his policy offerings consisting of, as Stephen Colbert put it, “you’ll find out later.”
A moment of candor about Mitt Romney
Honesty is something that is largely absent from today’s political discourse, but to a seasoned observer certain truths become fairly obvious. The first of which, that arose in 2007, but became painfully obvious in 2011, was that the Republican Party has a Mitt Romney problem. Now, I live in Colorado, so I had little previous exposure to Mitt Romney, other than the fact that he was oddly unpersonable for a major political candidate. After learning more about him, it became obvious why he succeeded as a Massachussets governor. He was an unbearably snobbish upper class puritan who’s only real values are money, class, and power; and who would say anything or support anything he thought would increase his status in one of those three areas. Unfortunately, this type of behavior doesn’t particularly play well across the country, and it certainly didn’t hurt Romney that he has a fuckton of cash and ran in one of the most heavily Republican leaning election years in modern history (2002).
Rare Steaks and Oil Painting 