It was that secret video, what finally done it.
There are no end of plausible explanations as to why Mitt Romney was so soundly trounced by Barrack Obama. Some say Romney lost because of demographics (by which they mean his alienating of minorities, women and the young), others say the whole campaign was blinded by their own self-serving media (a.k.a. 'epistemic closure'), some say Romney conned his big donors others claim it was Romney who was conned by his own consultants. The validity of many of those points underscores how it was not one single factor that sunk Romney.
But the power of that video must be accounted for.
While millions of ballots are, scandalously, still uncounted, Romney's total percentage of the popular vote is plummeting towards the 47% figure he so cruelly delineated in that private speech to his big donors. It will be a fitting finally tally in light of what was the key moment of the 2012 campaign; Romney laying bare the depth of his hatred for the very people he was seeking to lead. That tape revels so many of the losing facets of that campaign; the mass conning, the minority-bashing, the vulnerable-demonizing, the reality-defying and, of course, the vaulting hubris of Willard Romney.
That speech was the firewall. No matter the millions he spent on false advertising, no matter the roadblocks to voting his allies threw up, no matter the bait-and-switch trick he tried at the first debate, Romney could not make people forget how nakedly he had extolled class warfare. Once he'd revealed the truth to the American people, they knew he was not fit to serve and they were not going to let anything stop them from voting their interests.
When those results came in that showed districts with next-to-no Romney votes, unskewed Republicans cried 'fraud', and I just thought 'the 47% strike back!' I like to think a piece of that secret video was playing in the mind of tens of millions of voters when they stepped in the voting booth to sweep Mitt into the dustbin of history.
johnny ramone would have voted for him, and you would have too if you knew anything.
ReplyDeleteAnd Joey would have voted for Obama, so it's a wash even if I let members of the Ramones sway my vote.
DeleteI like to keep my music & my politics separate, but since you broach the subject......As much as I couldn't stand Romney, I still cannot figure out how the people of this country could vote for 4 more years of the an Obama presidency. The facts need to be facing that it isn't the 47% doing the hiring and as long as that is the case, when we have a president who tries to vilify and punish those that "have", those that "have not" will continue on that lovely path of suffrage.
ReplyDeleteNobody's doing any hiring jerkwad. I'm not going down the "lesser of two evils" road with you, but seriously, a vote for anyone else would only have helped that vicious conniving liar. I'm just relieved that enough people saw through his empty rhetoric insincere banter.
DeleteI'm with Petty, companies aren't hiring unless they have to, and when they do, they want part-timers working a maximum of 30 hours per week so they don't have to pay benefits. I voted for him, but I don't see how Obama's going to create millions of full time jobs, and Romney never would have created 12 million, as he claimed he would.
DeleteI don't see how the rich are being "punished" by paying their fair share of income tax. They're able to take advantage of far more tax breaks than the middle and working class. They're not going to lose any of their possessions or wealth by paying a slightly higher income tax rate. They got a tax break from Bush, if it were rescinded, they'd still be fine.
I think the 47% remark and the Hispanic remark in the same video were the final nails in the coffin, and may have swayed undecided voters to Obama. Thanks for telling the truth, Mitt.
Music and politics have always been entwined, in my opinion.
DeleteThe wealthiest 1-2% are not job creators, by any stretch of the imagination: without the 47%, i.e. "the middle class," and the demand they create, there can be no new jobs.
Corporate profits are at an all-time high, while wages are at an all-time low. Our economy cannot long sustain this disparity.
WoW!
ReplyDeleteThanks, MRML!
Great observations!
Tried to provide lots of links to keep things interesting!
DeleteDoesn't comrade obama donate all his riches to charity. He really does care about you and will be taking from those evil rich so you can live large. Smoke another one switch hands, keep dreaming.
ReplyDeleteSigh, even the trolls seem less interested now that their party has taken such a shellacking.
Deleteyeah, well, the only thing romney was wrong about was the 47% figure, it actually turned out to be just over 50%.
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