Mitt Romney: GOP Primary Debates Were 'Nuts,' Networks 'Liberals Beating The Heck Out Of Us'

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63. Seems to me that Mittens ought to be placing the blame on Tagg.

The campaign went south quickly after he took over. Mitt, no doubt, would like to just walk over to Tagg and smack him in the face.

Seriously though, I thought throughout most of the campaign season, that Mitt didn't really care if he won the office. He made so little effort to appeal to the public that I couldn't see anyone voting for him. He said and did stupid things like insulting the crowd at the NAACP convention.
Then, after the first debate, when Romney morphed into Romney v.01, I was certain he would lose support (as I cannot stand a liar and feel certain that others hate them too). But, as we all know, the media ignored his prevarication and acted as if Romney had been anointed by his astounding performance.
As election day neared and finally on election night, while watching Rove meltdown on Fox, I feared that the fix was in and that that explained Romney's apparent lack of concern about his image earlier in the campaign.
I still think a planned "fix" was in the mix and partly explains why Romney thought he would win. Its possible, perhaps probable, that Romney didn't know about a fix and was just told he was doing well and a shoe-in for the job, or that he really did think Americans would overwhelmingly back/trust him over a man who had already been tested on the job.
Evidently many republicans accepted the same notion too, that enough of us who voted for Obama in the last election were so mad at him that we would vote republican. Or they believed that enough racists would climb out of the woodwork and vote against the black man, that any republican could win. Or something related to them having their heads up their asses way too far.
What they don't get is that we (or at least I) would never vote for the republican candidate just because I didn't like everything about the democratic one. Their ideas and values are repugnant to me.
Romney didn't win because people are seeing the light about republican politics, that when Republicans rule bad things happen to good people.