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The Tea Party represents average Americans.
Obama and friends have painted them as extremists. Called them ever despicable name in the book.
When the Tea Party first started out, it may have represented average Americans. I believe the more extreme right-wing have taken over the Tea Party, and your average American does not side with them. In fact, even many Republicans no longer agree with their radical policies.
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Liberals/leftists and others that call TP'ers despicable names are no more insolent than right wingers that call Obama despicable names. You will always have the extremes in both sides that go to the gutter to make a point, so to try and claim that one side is worse than the other is dishonest.
Mitt Romney was no Tea Party member....but Obama went to great lengths early on to smear him. I am personally connected to two sitatuations that were grossly misrepresented by Whore Stephanie Cutter in the campaign.
What was more annoying was that Romney let it happen. For some reason he didn't feel compelled to fight back.
No, Obama defined Romney before Romney took the time to define himself, just as Clinton defined Dole, Bush 43 defined Kerry, Bush 41 defined Dukakis...
This is an age-old thing in politics, and has nothing to to with smears.
Plus, the cards were never in Romney's hands to begin with: it is very hard to unseat an incumbent, it has only happened 5 times in the last 116 years, and in four of those five times, it was the Republican who was unseated:
Taft (R) - 1908
Hoover (R) - 1932
Ford (R) - 1976
Carter (D) - 1980
Bush, Sr. (R) - 1992
Unlike other people, I don't think that Romney ran a bad campaign. He ran a solid campaign, but against an incumbent who was decidedly better organized and who was able to bank a hell of a lot of money because he was unopposed in the primaries. In the data wars, the Obama team vastly outstripped the Romney campaign, which meant the identification and contacting of potential voters.
Not only that, composite polling all the way through 2011 and all the way through 2012 showed a very consistent Obama +4 weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly average over Romney in Ohio. In polling averages, Romney was never ahead in Ohio, not even once. That was the major warning sign that should never have been ignored by the Romney team.
I am personally of the opinion that Romney made a bad pick of Paul Ryan as his running mate, but that is just my opinion.
Don't forget, in electoral history, Romney still scored the 2nd highest amount of votes that a Republican ever got, right behind Bush 2004 - but it wasn't enough. Obama's Midwest firewall held and the cuban american vote in Florida swung WILDLY against Romney in Florida, and I mean, wildly. And I bet you know why. Yes, the crazy shit that Romney had to utter in order to get the nomination was exactly the stuff that was his poison pill in the GE.
And paybacks being hell, the Democrat who got his hands on the "47" tape, Jason Carter, Jimmy Carter's grandson, is running for the GA Senate seat, is likely to win the DEM nomination and very likely to pick-up this seat for the DEMS in 2014.