OK, look, I'm done with the election. It's over. Romney lost. Time to move on.
Most of us who follow politics understand the reasons and have a pretty good idea of why he's going home and the Obama's are staying in the White House. Short version: They let the left define the election issues.
It was a masterful job of distraction aided and abetted by a complicit media (hey, "60 Minutes", you have NO credibility anymore). Period.
Guess what those issues weren't? The winning issues: Jobs. Economy. Debt. Deficit. ObamaCare. Benghazi. Fast and Furious.
Result? Lost.
Lesson: Don't let your opposition define the issues. A lesson as old as politics. Romney's campaign blew it. It allowed the left to make it about "lady parts", abortion, contraception, Bain Capital, class warfare and racism. They made being successful something of which to be ashamed. And, of course, a couple of idiot GOP candidates at state level who came off like jackasses talking about "legitimate rape", etc. who made it even worse (because the complicit media made their stupidity national stories — unlike jobs, the economy, debt, ObamaCare, Benghazi and Fast and Furious.).
And that scared the usual suspects enough to turn out and vote (ye olde and reliable low information voters in swing states who scare easily) and dampened GOP turnout (didn't even get the number out that McCain got for heaven sake).
That's the election in a nutshell.
So?
So, now we put that behind us and deal with the inevitable aftermath.
~McQ
