Mitt Romney's certainly come in for his share of flack lately, from both fellow GOPers and the press. But could any Republican candidate have succeeded this year, given the party's far-right lurch?
An MSNBC panel on Hardball agreed Monday that Romney's problem may not be his own, but may instead be due to the fact that the party he nominally leads is alienating key demographics.
"We're getting to the point where battery acid is more popular than the Republican Party," The Grio's Joy-Ann Reid told host Chris Matthews.
"African-Americans don't want to hear about voter ID stuff that they read as directed at them. Latinos don't like the sound of the party, the way the party talks about immigration, using terms like 'illegals,' and young voters increasingly feel like they can't relate to the party," she added.
"The problem is the actual party itself has moved off of center right and they've gone too far right, and not enough people identify with that," said Reid.
GOP lawmakers, meanwhile, see the "fun house mirror" of Fox News and conservative radio. "They think they are the majority" opinion when they're not, she added.
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i know a lot of republikans. they tell me romney will win. i tell them he's down in the polls. they say " you can't believe the polls. dick morris on fox keeps telling them that so now thefun house mirror is real to them. and they think the entire country is conservative. they are completely delusional.
Most people are quite aware of what Fox News is and are wise to it. I watch Fox News for the comedy of it. They pretend to be so "balanced" all the while demonstrating their imbalance.
I know far too many people who take everything Fox says for Gospel and they get very very angry when I disagree with them. If you think "most people are quite aware of what Fox News is" then you are the delusional one. It's scary how irrational all these people are, and how they utterly ignore facts and logic. There is nothing comical about that.
I don't associate much with the low information voters inside that Republican bubble. Perhaps I should have stated: Among the more educated, Fox News has become less effective as a propaganda tool for Republicans.
Well I, for one, am not ready to start doing any happy dances yet. I hope you are right and the majority of this country still care about all the people who live here but I am not certain. I just hope that I am not in the center left bubble thinking that people agree with me on civil rights, women's rights, immigration and other issues. I am starting to see a few Akin signs going up around me and I live within the confines of the fence that Republicans built around St. Louis to quarantine all the Democrats (i.e. St Louis now is one Congressional District so we canot contaminate the districts around us and possibly get a few more Democrats in the House.) That said, we are about 80% democrat and Republicans do not even bother to stick a toe in the City when running for statewide office. Why are there Akin signs in my neighborhood? I am concerned.
I think a majority of people cares about the right things, but many of them will not vote for one reason or another. And that is the problem! If they did, the new GOP would be history very quickly.
Of course it's the party! That's what happens when you oppose women's rights, the so called "illegals", the lgbtq community and then, on top of that, justify that kind of hate, bigotry, and ignorance in the name of God. That kind of mentality isn't only battery acid, it holds us back from expanding our ideas to become better as a nation and as a species.
Nope. Mitt is apparently as dumb as a post.
Exhibit one: when the cabin of his wife's plane filled with smoke, Mitt said, it's too bad you can't just open the windows on a plane to let in the oxygen...
Exhibit two: he thought that the U of Utah scientists had actually solved 'the problem of cold fusion'
Exhibit three: just about everything he says.
This was probably the most spot-on analysis I've read yet. Particularly the "fun house mirror" comment. Conservatives these days seem to live in a bubble. No wonder they believe there is tons of illegal voting going on. Everything they see or hear confirms their far-out positions. They can't even imagine that intelligent ordinary people may think otherwise.
@Jim - At least you REMEMBER the third point:) Unlike Mitt!
Well look, Mitt still has the southern states in his favor, the same people he labeled as the 47% who look for handouts from the government. I can't comprehend why these people keep voting like sheep, what is their motive, why are they always just being led by the nose of the GOP? Maybe they think all Democrats are evil, and someday soon they will come to take our guns away. I'm thinking the Kinks, " Brainwashed" from the Arthur album could apply to these people.
From where I'm sitting I see two men competing for the same job. One is smart, and the other one isn't. It doesn't get any easier this :~)