People hate the truth, true.
And did the GOP learn from the mistake, that you can't tell half of the country to go **** themselves? No, no they did not.
Pointing out that people with no skin in the game will vote themselves bigger entitlements is not telling anyone to gofuck themselves.
That's not how the American public took his remarks. I believe that video cost him the election. It's possible that he may have lost anyway, but my feeling is that he lost due to the damaging video.
Bullshit.
He lost because Obama moved quickly to define him as a rich white guy. He lost because the press played that up. He lost because of enormous turnout in inner city black areas in key states. He lost because his advisors kept him on a tight leash and never allowed him to shine through (he is actually a warm, funny, and compassionate guy) And he lost because he wasnt a conservative so a lot of conservatives stayed home.
But libs cant thnk beyond one factor and always look for the easy explanations.
Conservatives came out in DROVES in 2004 for Bush, Jr.
Romney only got 1.1 million less votes in 2012 than Bush, Jr. in 2004, and even had he gotten as many votes as 43, he would have still lost to Obama, who beat him by 5 million votes.
So, this old red herring that "Conservatives stayed home" is just bunk.
More moderates and Liberals exist in the USA than you think. Well, assuming that you can even think.
Obama won because he waged the better campaign and because Romney was forced to say all sorts of crazy shit to give the "base" enough red meat to win the primaries - red meat that then became his poison pill in the GE. And exactly that will happen in 2016.
The problem is not with Romney, it is with your party, which lives 50 years in the past and hates minorities.
Your second problem is that it is not the "Obama coalition", not just a two-time occurrence only because of Obama's personality. It is the new Democratic coalition and it is going to be here a long, long time.
You are shitting your pants because never before in our history since polling of this intensity have we seen a Democratic candidate this far ahead in so many independent-from-each-other-polls. Republicans have been used to seeing the Elephant slightly ahead, not the Donkey way, way, way ahead. 350 polls already, 1,400 matchups, Hillary way, way ahead, without ever losing her lead.
Clinton is ahead of Paul, Cruz, Walker, Carson, Christie and Trump by double-digits nationally and in the key battlegrounds where it counts. She is consistently ahead of them, over and over and over again.
Clinton is ahead of Bush and Rubio by single digits, mostly +4 and above, in national polling and in the battlegrounds where it counts.
Hillary is making Louisiana, Kentucky, Arkansas, Kansas (yes, Kansas), Arizona, Georgia and probably South Dakota quite competitive. Should those states become battlegrounds, and some of them will become battlegrounds, then the GOP will be forced to release funds to try to retain those core GOP states. I can't wait to see the first polling from Indiana; I bet that is going to be very, very enlightening.
And there is not even one single blue-wall state, for instance, New Jersey, where the GOP is even making the slightest dent in the Democratic column.
In the meantime, Clinton is demonstrably ahead in Virginia, which is slowly but surely being cemented into the Democratic column, and North Carolina is a tossup. North Carolina, a state that the GOP should already be putting away.
And these numbers have been like this for more than two years now. Now that the GOP candidates have declared, these numbers have also barely budged.
Same pattern as for Obama in 2011, only much, much more to the advantage of the Democratic Party.
Soon, these Blue Wall will permanently be above 270 and practically unbreakable. And it will be the GOP's own fault for this, for being so short-sighted.
Don't say no one told you the warning signs.