Republican activists are incredulous: Why can’t Republican Mitt Romney seem to break open a tight race with President Barack Obama given the nation’s sluggish economy and conservative enthusiasm to beat the Democrat?
“He ought to be killing Obama, and he’s clearly not doing that,” said 32-year-old R.J. Robinson, one of the thousands of activists attending the annual Values Voters Summit this weekend. “He should be doing better.”
Added Mike Garner, a 27-year-old hawking “Reagan was right” buttons at the meeting: “If Romney loses this election, the party really needs to do some soul-searching.”
Their sentiments were echoed in interviews with more than a dozen GOP activists and social conservative leaders who attended the annual gathering focused on social and cultural issues and sponsored by the Family Research Council…
GOP activists to Romney: Why aren’t you winning?
These idiots have been living in a bubble where they’ve been fed a steady diet of anti-Obama propaganda by right-wing demagogues since 2007. It’s no surprise that, after being told day in and day out that Obama is incompetent when he’s not corrupt, that the GOP rank and file don’t understand why the President is now leading in five national polls on a variety of issues, including the economy. You can see the coming narrative to explain Mitt’s impending loss already taking shape: “Mitt wasn’t a true conservative.”
(via ryking)
