Quote: Related to what you mentioned in the 2nd paragraph,  I believe there's 3 key reasons why Mitt Romney lost the 2012 Presidential Election:

 

 1)   Massive voter fraud.  

 2 )  Romney predictably ran a very politically correct campaign and was on the defensive consistently.  

 3 )  The following ties into your comments.   The Romney Campaign and the establishment Republicans took for granted that the Conservative Republicans would vote for Romney.  While I reluctantly voted for Romney because the alternative of a ' 2nd term'  was a nightmare,  millions of Conservative Republicans didn't come out to vote.   Some voted for a 3rd party candidate.    Unless the 2016 Republican nominee and the key decision makers in the party try to reach out to the Conservative Republicans,   yet another uphill battle will unnecessarily take place.  

Show me evidence of mass voter fraud. I don't believe that for a second. 

 

Romney was an odd cat. I liked the idea of someone with business acumen but he just seemed so out of touch and condescending at times to me. What did him in for me personally was "corporations are people too my friend" I can't get behind someone who so clearly supports corporate interference in policy and legal corruption of elections.

 

I do agree with your last paragraph. The GOP is fractured completely. Not in it's broken, I mean that it's split between hardcore right, ever shrinking moderates and tea party plus others I might not be aware of. It does split the vote very clearly. I think the GOP would have a great chance of culling independents and bringing the party back to it's roots if it stopped pandering to the extreme right. 

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