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Well, it's coming from their own ranks now. So it's not the left that's misinterpreting or bashing them...it's coming from within. Hopefully this starts to seep into the thick skulls of the radical RW fundies of the GOP.
Byron York reports on the bewilderment of Romney supporters:
It isnt Mr. Sweeneys fault that he believed this, or at least not entirely. He trusted conservative media and conservative pundits not to mislead him, and they let him down badly. There really was a difference this year between the standard loyalist whistling-past-the-graveyard that one sees in every election and a full-out effort among quite a few in the conservative media to deceive Romneys supporters about the prospects of success. Its one thing not to want to be defeatist or to give ones side reasons to doubt its success, and quite another to be boldly announcing that major, overwhelming success is just around the corner when there is no good reason to expect it. I sympathize with people who supported Romney for good, principled reasons, because they were being lied to throughout the year. First, Romney lied to them that they could trust him, and then Romneys boosters in conservative media lied to them by painting them a rosy portrait of the political landscape that they had to know was almost certainly wrong.
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Source: Republicans Failed to Understand Their Opponent | The American Conservative
Byron York reports on the bewilderment of Romney supporters:
I am shocked, I am blown away, said Joe Sweeney, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I thought I had a pretty good pulse on this stuff. I thought there was a trend that was going on underground.
It isnt Mr. Sweeneys fault that he believed this, or at least not entirely. He trusted conservative media and conservative pundits not to mislead him, and they let him down badly. There really was a difference this year between the standard loyalist whistling-past-the-graveyard that one sees in every election and a full-out effort among quite a few in the conservative media to deceive Romneys supporters about the prospects of success. Its one thing not to want to be defeatist or to give ones side reasons to doubt its success, and quite another to be boldly announcing that major, overwhelming success is just around the corner when there is no good reason to expect it. I sympathize with people who supported Romney for good, principled reasons, because they were being lied to throughout the year. First, Romney lied to them that they could trust him, and then Romneys boosters in conservative media lied to them by painting them a rosy portrait of the political landscape that they had to know was almost certainly wrong.
...Read More...
Source: Republicans Failed to Understand Their Opponent | The American Conservative