No Gifts For Romney. The People Have Them All.

Republicans must learn to accept that they're not perfect, and that when they lose, it's because they played a losing hand. Mitt Romney thinks he lost because Obama gave irresistible gifts-donations to certain programs-favoring women, Latinos, blacks,  and the lazy poor, which blindly led them to give Obama a return gift-another four years. In other words, Obama won by bribery.  First, neither Romney or other Republicans seem to realize how insulting that is to these groups, and how it reveals  their deep-seated contempt. To Romney and those who think like him, these are stupid people who can't think beyond their own self interests. Actually, if this were true, they would be Republicans.

Romney lost because he had a focused message but not a focused plan, outside of winning. Romney lost because he developed a personality too late for it to make a difference. Romney lost because he started out drinking overheated Tea Party tea, and ended up sipping tea-flavored bottled water. He would've added beer to the mix, you know, to bond with the sweaty guys, but he's a Mormon and doesn't drink. Romney lost because Obama's team outflanked his team. While Romneys' team thought they had the superior product and all they had to do was sell it-they changed the label too many times. Meanwhile, Obama's team checked the realities of the game, the whole game, and played it out brilliantly. That's why Romney lost. He played it as if he were superior to the people and that the people were stupid, and you could sell them any snake oil if you just kept pitching it. If you just kept repeating the same message, even one that contradicted the message of the week before, if you just kept repeating it, Romney thought, it would lull the stupid masses into a kind of trance and he would win. It didn't work. Nobody was as stupid as those thinking they had a winning strategy based on Romney's potentate's prejudice.