Mitt Romney is the king of blind ambition. It may be bad form to kick a guy when he's down, but this is an important moment of self reflection for the Republican party. Romney's "transition website" was released to the public yesterday showing us an alternate world where Romney became the president-elect Tuesday night. Shiver.
The website in itself isn't so offensive as the notion itself. Romney was truly unprepared to lose, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. The Right truly fooled itself for the last few weeks, believing victory was the only option. Romney is rumored to have only prepared a victory speech. Concession wasn't an option.
Until it was. The fact is Romney wasn't "narrowly beaten." He was shellacked. The entire Republican party was shellacked. On his website he said:
I'm excited about our prospects as a nation. My priority is putting people back to work in America.
Guess what: Americans didn't buy it. As a resident of Massachusetts I can unequivocally say that Mitt the governor wasn't the same person as Mitt the presidential candidate. Maybe if he'd stuck with his core (or even had one), he would have done better. But the American people saw through him and that's what makes me so proud of this country.
Tuesday night was a huge victory for love. Same-sex marriage referendums were on the ballot in Maine, Maryland, Washington, and Minnesota. So far it did well in three of them and Washington was looking good. Amazing. It was a huge victory for women and minorities and everyone who makes this country such an amazing melting pot.
It wasn't a victory for the Mitt Romneys of the world. And whether you know it or not, that's a good thing for all of us. This country needs to evolve. It needs to change. Open minds are a beautiful thing. Acceptance and rainbow colors are what makes countries strong. That's where we are headed.
Old Mr. Rich Blind Ambition had to go. His victory website is a sad testament to a presidency that would have put us back in 1950. But Americans saw through his anti-choice, anti-gay, anti-poor rhetoric. They saw him for the opportunistic cynic that he really is, a man who set his sights on the presidency and didn't care what he had to say to get there.
America saw through that. His loss is proof that this country is great and that democracy works, and his "victory website"? Is like a sad relic from 1952. If they'd had the Internet.
Do you understand why Mitt lost?
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Biased much cafemom? Geeze.
The election is over, so why try to further divide people?
@NunyaBizness you obviously listen to the people around you and can't list one just one lie Romney was caught in. I would gather you probably didn't watch the debates and turned the channel when the political commercials came on. Did you even read up on Romney and what he believes and what he wanted to do for this country? I would gather you've never given a candidate outside of being a Democrat a chance. You're a prime example why some of the worst presidents have made it to office...I'm not for one or the other when it comes to Democrat or Republican I go with the person I believe will do our country the best. And Romney would've looked at our country like a business which as of right now is what it needs...
Whilie Obama will continue to give and give and give...what happens when there's nothing left to give?? Just like parents you have to eventually let your kids or jobless go out on their own and be independent...if you still live at home with your parents or are not a parent yourself you will not understand this...but as a parent and middle class wife of a blue collar worker I believe Romney would've done the best for our country putting his "beliefs" aside. Do you think you should be passed over for a job because you do or don't believe in something? Will that at all change the company if you believed in not wearing socks or believed in same-sex marriage?? I think not...so the fact that Romney gets passed over for his beliefs on "rights" when our country is more or less in a state of crisis is ludacris...sorry to burst your bubble
The only thing this election proved is that Obama is a better campaigner and this country is more divided than ever. I think Obama supporters should save their gloating for a year from now. If Obama fulfills his promises, if he pulls us out of the financial doom that is coming, if he reaches across the aisle and works with the other side then you'll have a reason to gloat. He can no longer blame Bush for everything so now is his chance...the proof is in the pudding.