http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/11/09/mitt-romneys-campaign-really-believed-he-was-going-to-win-right-up-until-he-lost Comments On: Mitt Romney's Campaign Really Believed He Was Going to Win, Right Up Until He Lost by Paul Constant en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Fri, 24 May 2013 09:45:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
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Posted by seatackled]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:38:58 -0800 The Stranger Posted by lawgeek]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:23:55 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Vancouverite]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:05:28 -0800 The Stranger
I'm not sure what you mean by "counterexample" anyway. Do you mean any effective president was first elected in his 60s? How about Eisenhower? Or is 62 too close to being in his 50s?
Posted by Matt from Denver]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:44:17 -0800 The Stranger Posted by happy time]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:25:39 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Fnarf]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:48:16 -0800 The Stranger
@ 39, I doubt he called and did that. More likely someone, in a fit of "fiscal conservatism" that the quoted aide cited, instructed the bank to terminate the credit cards at 12:01am, November 7, without remembering that most people would still consider that time to be "Election Night," not the day after. This was probably done way back when the account was first set up years ago.
Posted by Matt from Denver]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:09:14 -0800 The Stranger
Sorry you object to my paraphrasing of your observation, but I think it's fair. If you automatically say someone is too old for office, then being too old is something wrong. In my opinion, that's not an automatic.

I do agree about these specific candidates, though. Hilary Clinton looks exhausted all the time.
Posted by Matt from Denver]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:03:29 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Dougsf]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:54:53 -0800 The Stranger
Nixon was a career politician. Romney's political expertise was a joke before the election, and that was before he went down in flames. He won't be coming back.
Posted by keshmeshi]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:53:53 -0800 The Stranger
Cancelling the credit cards (something he must have done immediate after or immediately before conceding) sounds so true to form. All those aides who - although misguided - worked tirelessly for him pouring their hearts and souls into his campaign. And he wouldn't pay for their ride home. It's not as if the coffers were empty either.

What a dick.
Posted by Bauhaus I]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:34:07 -0800 The Stranger http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/1…

Commentary is extremely conservative, mind you.

This is going to be a huge story in coming weeks. Someone's going to get a terrific book out of it -- if the protagonists aren't all in Boston Harbor wearing cement overshoes by then.

Another name: Dan Centinello, Romney's Deputy Political Director. Commentary is saying ORCA was Centinello's baby, and in fact he was the sole point of contact, unable to delegate even simple user questions from around the country.

Conservatives mistrust government because they are incompetent and assume everyone else is too.
Posted by Fnarf]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:32:46 -0800 The Stranger
But SOMEONE had to have managed that project, and created those videos, and written those forms that neglected to mention the need for a Poll-Watcher's Certificate. It was truly a fuck-up of historic proportions, and I'm expecting to see Republicans with pitchforks and torches in the streets looking for them, and not much caring if they get some bystanders too.

Reading about the poor guy who can't print out his last-minute 60-page PDF because his printer is out of magenta (even though the doc is black and white) is priceless. We've all been there, bub. This time it sucks to be you.
Posted by Fnarf]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:26:02 -0800 The Stranger
Fresh candidates point to the future; old candidates point to the past.

Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren are too old, too. Just watch. Hillary's going to be older than Reagan in '16. Biden's going to be 73. Democrats need to get real.
Posted by Fnarf]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:07:54 -0800 The Stranger
@ 32, while they are capable of that, they also have to be able to commit evil acts while in office. Frankly, I just don't think they can pull that off anymore. Issues that favor the Dems are at the forefront now. If nothing else, the GOP will learn that they can't try passing the kinds of laws that went through Congress and state houses in the most recent session. "Getting smart" means "getting realistic," which is the opposite of "hiding our evil ways and then springing them once we're elected."

@ 34, nothing wrong with people in their early to mid 60's, especially with the medicine we have today. Nobody voted against Romney because they thought he was too old. (But yes, he is going to be too old in 2016, never mind 2020 or 2024. Neither nominee in 2016 will have been born before 1952.)
Posted by Matt from Denver]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:45:24 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Fnarf]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 10:47:43 -0800 The Stranger Posted by sperifera]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 10:43:07 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Margaret L.]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 10:30:26 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Pope Peabrain]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 10:27:15 -0800 The Stranger
Now imagine if he'd won, and was applying the techniques of Orca to running the country.
Posted by Fnarf]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 10:18:12 -0800 The Stranger
It's kind of like the tech bubble recapitulated. I still encounter this exact same kind of thing all the time online, like when I'm trying to figure out how to enter a particular code on a Microsoft website, or find something at Dell Premier. NO, I DON'T WANT TO WATCH A VIDEO, just gimme a goddamn link.
Posted by Fnarf]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 10:15:38 -0800 The Stranger
That this Rmoney monster even made it as far as he did still leaves me just shaking my head at some of my fellow Americans... All those pictures of White People with the Sadz.. Jesus! People! The world has changed, America has changed - get with the program already!!!

As I was watching Obama make his victory speech Tuesday night, and watching the camera pan the diverse crowd, it occured to me: Obama's crowd is The World, this is what The World looks like, not Rmoney's crowd of Old Sad Whites. We are just beginning to see our country reflect ever more truly what The World actually looks like - America being the most diverse country in the world, we're actually The World in micro-cosm ... And the Old Sad Whites are just gonna have to hang up that rugged individualist "John Wayne fantasy" they've been obsessively clinging to since forever....
Posted by merry]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 09:53:54 -0800 The Stranger
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Posted by Grrr]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 09:45:19 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Pope Peabrain]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 09:31:34 -0800 The Stranger
@ 23, I always pegged* him as (and accused him directly of) being a paid Romney campaign shill. I encounter them every election cycle on the blogs, and they always disappear, never to return when the election is over. Trolls (who do it of their own volition) usually hide out when they've lost, but sometimes they come back. Shills are gone for good.

* not that kind of pegging, perverts.
Posted by Matt from Denver]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 09:26:06 -0800 The Stranger