As I write this, President Obama has won re-election and Mitt Romney has been crushed.
President Obama's victory in the Electoral College can only be described as a landslide-- either 330 to 206 or 303 to 235, depending on the results in Florida, where the voting will not be stopped this time by the Gang of Five Republican justices of the Supreme Court, as they did in 2000, in order to throw the election to one of their buddies.
So, in light of all the Monday-morning quarterbacking I saw on CNN, I can offer several reasons why Mitt Romney suffered such a humiliating defeat:
1. Romney was a tax cheat. He didn't just cheat on his personal income taxes, Bain Capital cheated, too.
Americans hate tax cheats.
2. Romney was a hypocrite. If Romney had retained and reiterated the centrist and socially progressive potitions and policies he had endorsesd as Governor of Massachusetts [health care for all, women's reproductive rights, etc] , he might have won the election. But he first flip-flopped to the extreme right by parrotting the fanatical views that are consistently rejected by a majority of the American people, and then he flip-flopped again in the closing days of the campaign to return to the center. But it didn't work because We the People saw that Mitt Romney was a hypocrite.
Americans hate hypocrites.
3. President Obama won an overwhelming percentage of the votes of young, single women of all races and religions. Why? Because those young women knew correctly that Mitt Romeny would not only attempt to take away the reproductive rights that women have today, he would be certain to appoint one or even two more fanatical right-wing, anti-woman justices to the Supreme Court, who would not only repeal Roe v. Wade but attempt to curtail women's access to contraception as well.
American women hate men who wage war on their reproductive rights.
4. I was watching the Romney campaign headquarters as his supporters glumly awaited his concession speech--and vented their spleen by booing a hapless Candy Crowley--and happened to notice a gigantic banner furled out above the stage. It read: Believe in America. But I would have added a corollary. I would have amended the banner to read: Believe in America, But Put Your Money in the Cayman Islands.
Americans hate people who are so unpatriotic they stash millions and millions of dollars in offshore tax havens.
Jagor
President Obama's victory in the Electoral College can only be described as a landslide-- either 330 to 206 or 303 to 235, depending on the results in Florida, where the voting will not be stopped this time by the Gang of Five Republican justices of the Supreme Court, as they did in 2000, in order to throw the election to one of their buddies.
So, in light of all the Monday-morning quarterbacking I saw on CNN, I can offer several reasons why Mitt Romney suffered such a humiliating defeat:
1. Romney was a tax cheat. He didn't just cheat on his personal income taxes, Bain Capital cheated, too.
Americans hate tax cheats.
2. Romney was a hypocrite. If Romney had retained and reiterated the centrist and socially progressive potitions and policies he had endorsesd as Governor of Massachusetts [health care for all, women's reproductive rights, etc] , he might have won the election. But he first flip-flopped to the extreme right by parrotting the fanatical views that are consistently rejected by a majority of the American people, and then he flip-flopped again in the closing days of the campaign to return to the center. But it didn't work because We the People saw that Mitt Romney was a hypocrite.
Americans hate hypocrites.
3. President Obama won an overwhelming percentage of the votes of young, single women of all races and religions. Why? Because those young women knew correctly that Mitt Romeny would not only attempt to take away the reproductive rights that women have today, he would be certain to appoint one or even two more fanatical right-wing, anti-woman justices to the Supreme Court, who would not only repeal Roe v. Wade but attempt to curtail women's access to contraception as well.
American women hate men who wage war on their reproductive rights.
4. I was watching the Romney campaign headquarters as his supporters glumly awaited his concession speech--and vented their spleen by booing a hapless Candy Crowley--and happened to notice a gigantic banner furled out above the stage. It read: Believe in America. But I would have added a corollary. I would have amended the banner to read: Believe in America, But Put Your Money in the Cayman Islands.
Americans hate people who are so unpatriotic they stash millions and millions of dollars in offshore tax havens.
Jagor
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