You can't really compare the two....
McCain was up against "Eloquent Rhetoric" in a time where ALL PEOPLE WANTED, was a change from what we had....with a little hope thrown in. We knew very little of this young man, but we knew that he "sounded" like what we wanted....
Romney is up against one of the weakest Presidential records I have seen in my close to 25 years of studying the political system, and it actually should be a slam dunk......he and his campaign haven't even made to half court, much less the free throw line....
Obama took HORRID ECONOMIC NUMBERS OF A BUSH ERA....AND ACTUALLY MADE THEM WORSE....anyone, with the right people running their campaign should be able to defeat that.....but probably not gonna happen. Oh well.....
The problem is Romney & the Republican party as a whole has been presented as another branch from the same tree of Bush. Regardless of what Obama did, nobody wants to go back to that.
I think in mosts eyes, what obama is doing may or may not be the answer; the early returns have been mixed at best.... but more trickledown certainly is not the answer. The only place the dollars seem to be trickling down to are the bonuses for the execs at firms which are laying off hundreds and thousands of people; the only place jobs seem to be trickling down to are areas outside of the United States.
Romney's biggest mistake was solely campaigning on the message that Obama has not been a competent mess cleaner-uppers, while forgetting to distance himself from the mess maker.
Class warfare, to be honest, is REAL. The radical right have personal problems with anybody on welfare, food stamps, etc, or who supports gay marriage or abortion, who have benefited from affirmative actions, etc. Similarly, the lower class hate on the upper class for seemingly using their wealth to their advantage.
I was a big O supporter in 2008, and I find myself now wondering why I should trust him, not his intentions, but his judgement in 2008 seemed quite off. Why should i believe him now? Serious question. My enthusiasm for O has plummeted.
Regardless, the republican party, somehow, has become known as the party of ignorance. The party of Lincoln, who want less government and greater rights, the party of realism and honesty...has became the party of ignorance.
It doesn't matter how the dems are doing, the current brand is simply toxic to most voters outside of the obvious red states. It's unreal the amount of damage the Tea Party & all the other right wing bigots do the partys mainstream appeal.
I like Scott Brown, but the whole native American thing is just so silly and irrelevant. A waste of time, a waste of breathe, and just plain immature. Don't even get me started on the whole birth certificate thing, or budget debacle.
This was going on way before Romney; his party screwed whoever the nominee was by acting so unprofessional ever since Obama took office.
The Republican party, to put it mildly, is in disarray. I think it will be a while before they return to prominence. There is a lot of political opportunity there, at the moment. They need a response to the Tea Party; a centrist faction of the party closer to their origin values. That would be overwhelmingly popular.
1st of two bad news for Romney...this clip, where the crowd chats RYAN, but refuses to CHANT ROMNEY.
