Is Romney Take A Dive and Throwing the Election?

[Tx4obama]

Is Romney Take A Dive and Throwing the Election?

As a clear picture of Paul Ryan comes into focus so has a question – at least in my mind. Is it possible that bright and early last Saturday morning Mitt Romney threw the 2012 presidential election?

That he may have lost his chance when he announced Paul Ryan as his running mate is rapidly becoming conventional wisdom among everyone except those who pushed the hardest for his selection. Pollsters and pundits are looking at Ryan’s potential impact on the vote of women, minorities, Catholics, and seniors and generally calling it from neutral to extremely negative. Women in particularly are unlikely to be wooed back to the party once it is known that Ryan’s views on sex, birth control, and women’s health are at least as prehistoric as Rick Santorum’s while seniors are not comfortable with his pronouncements on Medicare.

At the same time, it is hard to see what Ryan brings to the ticket beyond the possibility of winning Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes – a poor trade for the 29 in Florida he will probably cost it. Anybody-but-Obama already had the far right vote locked up and Ryan’s radical social conservatism does nothing to boost Romney’s appeal to moderate Republicans or independents.

So, did Romney appoint Ryan in order to lose? I know it sounds insane, especially as Mitt Romney, of all the people I have watched run for office, stands out for his willingness to do whatever it might take to get there. But that in a way makes my theory a little bit more credible. Love may have no fury like a woman scorned, but a close second goes to a shameless whore when the check bounces.

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Full article here: http://www.politicususa.com/romney-dive-throwing-election.html

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. It could be that Romney didn't pick him.

I understand the Koch Bros and the teapartiers wanted Ryan.

[Bassic]

6. This ^

I think that both he and the Party leadership would have preferred another choice, but were pressured into a Tea Party candidate for financing. They should have picked Rubio, though, he seems like slightly less of a nutso.

[monmouth]

2. The Paulites have been very quiet. I wonder what they have planned for Tampa...n/t

[plethoro]

3. That's what I think, too. Besides being what the MIC wanted,

it gives Romney an out when Obama defeats him.

[Democrats_win]

4. The Populist party of 1896 lost but its agenda moved forward.

Just think what the Romney/Ryan ticket might gain if much (or any) of their agenda is adopted. As progressives, we not only don't want the Romney/Ryan plan; instead, we want to move in the exact opposite direction to a world where the workers are treated fairly and the rich take what trickles up.

The working poor can no longer survive under the current economic equation.

[enough]

5. No. No. No. Please remember all the people in Pennsylvania, and I'm sure elsewhere

who have already been completely convinced that Obama is taking away their Medicare and trying to destroy America. I hear this all the time at the grocery store, gas station, etc. The well-targeted propaganda has been going on for three years now. There are businesses all over the place who have had anti-Obama signs in their windows for months and months, constantly changed and refreshed.

And this is suburban eastern PA, not the boonies.

I know I am repeating myself, but the mere fact that something is absurd or patently false does NOT mean that the majority of voters do not believe it.

I sincerely hope that this idea that the Republicans have set themselves up to lose will go away by the end of August. We are in a death-struggle here.