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Nice going Mitt
« on: November 09, 2012, 01:10:54 PM »
Staffers - some who worked for years - on Mitts campaign stay late into the night to see if Mitt won the election, only to walk out and find they can't get a cab because Mitt canceled the credit cards.  Good job at rewarding those that stood by you. 

Now I am sure someone will come on here and try to spin this in some way that excludes a moral and personal responsibility that he should have felt for their efforts and loyalty.

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Mitt Romney delayed conceding the 2012 election to President Barack Obama, even with the writing on the wall. Once he admitted defeat, however, his campaign went into shutdown mode, quickly dismantling and even canceling the credit cards of campaign aides late on election night.

NBC's Garrett Haake described the abrupt transition of the Romney campaign after the GOP nominee gave his brief concession speech:

    From the moment Mitt Romney stepped off stage Tuesday night, having just delivered a brief concession speech he wrote only that evening, the massive infrastructure surrounding his campaign quickly began to disassemble itself.

    Aides taking cabs home late that night got rude awakenings when they found the credit cards linked to the campaign no longer worked.

"Fiscally conservative," one Romney campaign staffer told NBC.

Although Romney's staffers' credit cards were canceled, there are still loose ends to tie up. Papers need to be filed with federal commissions and bills need to be paid, Forbes' Helaine Olen notes.

That staff also has to deal with the wrath of Romney donors, who allege they were disillusioned by the chances the Republican party had to win.

On Wednesday, Romney had a post-defeat breakfast with some of his wealthiest and most loyal donors. At the private gathering, the donors allegedly unloaded on Romney staff for its failed "junior varsity operation."

“Everybody feels like they were a bunch of well-meaning folks who were, to use a phrase that Governor Romney coined to describe his opponent, way in over their heads,” one member of the campaign’s national finance committee told the Washington Post's Philip Rucker. “Romney World will fade into the obscurity of a lot of losing campaigns.”


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Re: Nice going Mitt
« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2012, 01:28:13 PM »
romney stayed loyal to his people - INSTEAD of bringing in some washington DC experienced people - to get him elected.

his folks got him the nomination, but he needed heavyweights to beat obama.  He never got them.   Karl Rove and 10 guys just like him should have been in the room with Romney. 

He ran a governor campaign for president.  Didn't work.  Rupert Murdoch pointed out how piss poor romney's ad buys were - while Obama bought his ads 6 months in advance. 

Romney was in over his head, that article is right.  He should have gotten the most experienced people around him.

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Re: Nice going Mitt
« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2012, 01:39:23 PM »
considering what an inept campaign he ran one can only imagine what a train wreck his administration would have been


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Re: Nice going Mitt
« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2012, 02:36:29 PM »
considering what an inept campaign he ran one can only imagine what a train wreck his administration would have been



its tough to ague with you there. 

his complete SHOCK at losing meant he was just a little too insulated.  You have to know thy enemy.  He never bothered looking at 538.com?

Surely any good candidate would have known their track record and taken their numbers to heart as a possibility.  Obama was ready to lose.  didn't look like mitt was.

I am a little worried, in retrospect, about a candidate so removed from the truth for so long - about something so important to him.  He actually believed FOX news/entertainment, instead of realizing its there to reassure people.

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Re: Nice going Mitt
« Reply #4 on: November 09, 2012, 02:44:31 PM »
considering what an inept campaign he ran one can only imagine what a train wreck his administration would have been

Good point.

And for me, the fact that he was surrounded by ex-Bush sharks was very, very troubling.

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Re: Nice going Mitt
« Reply #5 on: November 09, 2012, 04:54:15 PM »
What a class act, I wonder why people didn't believe he had their best interest at heart?

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Re: Nice going Mitt
« Reply #6 on: November 09, 2012, 08:36:59 PM »
What a class act, I wonder why people didn't believe he had their best interest at heart?

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