The Medical Examiner autopsying the Republican Party says the body isn't brown enough.
No doubt Romney was badly bruised by identity politics, but I'm not convinced it was a decisive blow. No, the Republican lost the national referendum because serious ideas were clumsily assembled, poorly delivered. Romney was outgunned by persistent shallow demonizing sound bites, accompanied by promises of instant gratification that he was unable -- or unwilling -- to neutralize.
Mitt Romney had no clue how to leverage beyond the managerial class his commanding edge in leadership and economic vision. He never connected with ordinary people. It is too easy to vilify struggling ordinary people for their infatuation with Obama's perceived empathy, yet Romney never answered the question everyone in peril so desperately wants addressed: "What will happen to me?"
Obama won by affecting the loyalty of a coalition of the dispossessed -- hopelessly imprisoned in a cruel cycle of poverty, crime, and joblessness from the inner cities of Baltimore and Philly to Cleveland and Detroit -- who were ignored by Romney and who continue to be nameless and faceless to Republican elites.
As a nation we are rapidly running out of gas, cash, and credit --but most damaging we are running low on attention span and comprehension. Yet engaging in intellectual discourse about the decline and fall of a debtor nation isn't foremost in the minds of the 23 million unemployed.
No doubt Romney was badly bruised by identity politics, but I'm not convinced it was a decisive blow. No, the Republican lost the national referendum because serious ideas were clumsily assembled, poorly delivered. Romney was outgunned by persistent shallow demonizing sound bites, accompanied by promises of instant gratification that he was unable -- or unwilling -- to neutralize.
Mitt Romney had no clue how to leverage beyond the managerial class his commanding edge in leadership and economic vision. He never connected with ordinary people. It is too easy to vilify struggling ordinary people for their infatuation with Obama's perceived empathy, yet Romney never answered the question everyone in peril so desperately wants addressed: "What will happen to me?"
Obama won by affecting the loyalty of a coalition of the dispossessed -- hopelessly imprisoned in a cruel cycle of poverty, crime, and joblessness from the inner cities of Baltimore and Philly to Cleveland and Detroit -- who were ignored by Romney and who continue to be nameless and faceless to Republican elites.
As a nation we are rapidly running out of gas, cash, and credit --but most damaging we are running low on attention span and comprehension. Yet engaging in intellectual discourse about the decline and fall of a debtor nation isn't foremost in the minds of the 23 million unemployed.
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