Top Republicans say Romney didn't offer specifics
Source: PHILIP ELLIOTT | Associated Press
LAS VEGAS (AP) Top Republicans meeting for the first time since Election Day say the party lost its bid to unseat President Barack Obama because nominee Mitt Romney did not respond to criticism strongly enough or outline a specific agenda with a broad appeal.
In conversations at the Republican Governors Association confab in Las Vegas, a half dozen party leaders predicted the GOP will lose again if it keeps running the same playbook based on platitudes in place of detailed policies. Instead, they asserted, the party needs to learn the lessons from its loss, respect voters' savvy and put forward an agenda that appeals beyond the white, male voters who are its base.
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" President Obama's) whole campaign was a fear-and-smear attack to make Romney unacceptable and to blame George Bush for anything that happened while Obama was president," Barbour said. "This was all personal: that Romney is a vulture capitalist who doesn't care about people like you, ships jobs overseas, is a quintessential plutocrat and is married to a known equestrian."
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The Republican nominee didn't acknowledge any major missteps and said his team had run a superb campaign.
Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/top-republicans-romney-didnt-offer-specifics-080833236--election.html;_ylt=AjXPmpc_t_X0p85Wj0YEK7xtzwcF;_ylu=X3oDMTNnZ2FvOWE4BG1pdAMEcGtnAzBiNzMzNjE5LWQzYmUtMzZmNi1iYTI2LWFkNDljY2U0NmYzNQRwb3MDMwRzZWMDbG5fUG9saXRpY3NfZ2FsBHZlcgM
Still blaming the Obama camp for casting Romney in a negative light--even though that's the one thing Mitt seemed able to do quite handily himself.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)That phrase is awesome.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)their message will be the lipstick and pig routine. They'll have a plan and promises that they think, minorities, women and interested others want to hear. If they win , I guarantee, what they learned from mittshit this election cycle is how they can lie and then flip as soon as they get the office. Guaranteed!
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)I was thinking more along the lines of an appealing broad with a specific agenda.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)ashling
(25,771 posts)lots of stuff
actually, he's the one shoveling [strike through]shit [/strike through], er ... [strike through]stuff [/strike through],er ... malarkey
no_hypocrisy
(46,122 posts)I got so tired of hearing about a theoretical plan that I was sure didn't really exist.
JHB
(37,160 posts)...it just doesn't do what he tried to claim he intended to do.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)when pointing out lies and flaws is considered negative
lalalu
(1,663 posts)is all they have? Just throw in Jeb Bush to make it more pathetic.
speedoo
(11,229 posts)He has been very specific in pointing out many Romney mistakes. Both in this article and elsewhere.
lalalu
(1,663 posts)His policies are as rightwing as he can get.
SDjack
(1,448 posts)field of candidates before committing to making a run in 2016. Plus, the GOP may not have a base by then.
denvine
(802 posts)Everything he does is calculated to set him up as a national candidate. I don't think people are too happy with him in La.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)This was all personal: that Romney is a vulture capitalist who doesn't care about people like you, ships jobs overseas, is a quintessential plutocrat and is married to a known equestrian."\
All proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
Rob H.
(5,351 posts)They're acting as if the Obama camp was making those things up out of whole cloth when everything Barbour's bent out of shape about is true. The fact that Ann Romney was a "known equestrian" doesn't matter one whit to most people, either, but her attitudes toward others did. It also didn't help matters any that she said, "Its Mitts time. Its our turn now," among other things.
SDjack
(1,448 posts)Or, does she just hire-and-fire?
reformist2
(9,841 posts)Explain himself? Only the *little* people ever have to explain themselves...
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KansDem
(28,498 posts)You've summed up Romney's specifics rather nicely!
[font size="1"](would that be the "Blue Man Group?"
demwing
(16,916 posts)KansDem
(28,498 posts)Welcome to the club, TRs! I'll buy the first round!
petesan
(18 posts)Mitt Romney's message is:
I am going to take away Medicare from everybody under 55, I'm going to cut Medicaid for everybody but about a third, and I'm going to do that to finance a giant tax cut for me and my friends, and the reason I'm doing that is because half the country contribute nothing to the national endeavor.
With specifics like that, I can see why he'd be a little hesitant to trot them out.
proReality
(1,628 posts)How anyone can walk around without brains is beyond me, but they're living proof it's possible.
BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)and ran away from all that lovely trickle down conservatism that he pretended to love un order to get the nomination. But, hey, keep thinking that what you're selling isn't shit on a stick to most people.
DallasNE
(7,403 posts)Wasn't that Rick Perry that made that charge? Barbour should get his facts straight -- oops, he couldn't be a Republican if he did that. I will grant that it was voter savvy that saw through all of the lies Romney constantly made and the big one about Jeep moving all of there production to China turned out to be the straw that broke the camel's back with those savvy voters.
JHB
(37,160 posts)...from The People's Republic of Escape From New York.
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/762089/the_attack_on_romney's_vulture_capitalism%3A_has_newt_torn_a_rift_in_the_gop_universe
NICO9000
(970 posts)First he had his 57-point plan that nobody bothered to look at. By the debates, he boiled it down to five "points" though they can barely even be called bullet points, merely topic headings with nothing following them.
I am so glad this asshole has to take his marbles and go home. I've never seen such a liar run for president and I remember Nixon! The one thing I'll give Mittens is that I'm really impressed how he put not one red cent of his money into his campaign. That's a special talent in and of itself.
jerseyjack
(1,361 posts)FreeBC
(403 posts)The problem for republicans is they can't talk specifically about their plans because their plans are horrible. They need to pretend that they are the party of fiscal sanity without exposing the fact that their economic philosophies don't work. They need to try and sell lofty generalizations because the devil is in the details.
33Greeper
(188 posts)fugging tax returns, either.
mikeytherat
(6,829 posts)"This was all personal: that Romney is a vulture capitalist who doesn't care about people like you, ships jobs overseas..." All of these Bain "Mitt is a vulture capitalist" memes had been raised...by the GOP! You really should have watched the GOP primaries, Mr. Barbour - you could have witnessed amazing GOP unity. All of the candidates, except Romney, agreed on one thing - Mitt Romney is a dick and would mess up America if elected President. And Haley, you odious fuckstick, I dare you to Google "King of Bain" and watch the video. I double-dog, no, triple-dog dare you.
Yeah, that's what I thought, you coward.
mikey_the_rat
graegoyle
(532 posts)And if he had gone anywhere near the truth with specfics it would have been much worse for him.
Uben
(7,719 posts)Don't know why they're bitchin. They knew exactly what they had nominated. They just failed at selling the lie!
RC
(25,592 posts)"Mitt Romney did not respond to criticism strongly enough or outline a specific agenda with a broad appeal."
Put Todd Akin in charge of filling in the details with specifics about women issues. He was clear and out spoken this past election.
I hear he is looking for a job now anyway.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,350 posts)... without mentioning the word "vagina".
We will create more jobs, except jobs that deal with vaginas, or jobs for people who have a vagina.
We are all about health care, except where it involves vaginas.
etc, etc.
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)that "war on women" strategy didn't work out to well, did it?