Nov 15th 2012, 4:49:10
This is far, far too simplistic for the reality-based community. That's code for Democrat - because Republicans don't bother with fact in anything they do.
The assertion that the "urban" vote was somehow responsible for the Romney/Ryan ticket’s loss is, quite simply, absurd. For one thing, such an argument cannot explain the success of Obama/Biden in states such as Florida, Virginia, Iowa, Colorado, or Nevada, none of which have what could fairly be called major urban areas.
For another, it’s a clearly phony argument once you give it even a moment of thought. It's Ryan's next statement which revealed the actual reason why Republicans lost. "I don’t think we lost it on those budget issues, especially on Medicare — we clearly didn’t lose it on those issues," he said. No, actually, Paul: You don't want to have to admit that you lost on the field of ideas.
Instead, he's forced to make a phony argument about "urban" voters who were never going to vote for a Republican anyway.
Even though I disagree with him on many issues, President Obama did not campaign on giving free stuff to people no matter how much conservatives want to tell themselves that he did. What the President did do quite effectively is appeal to a wide variety of interest groups by giving them the impression that he actually cared about the problems they were dealing with. This is something that Romney never seemed to be able to do.
The assertion that the "urban" vote was somehow responsible for the Romney/Ryan ticket’s loss is, quite simply, absurd. For one thing, such an argument cannot explain the success of Obama/Biden in states such as Florida, Virginia, Iowa, Colorado, or Nevada, none of which have what could fairly be called major urban areas.
For another, it’s a clearly phony argument once you give it even a moment of thought. It's Ryan's next statement which revealed the actual reason why Republicans lost. "I don’t think we lost it on those budget issues, especially on Medicare — we clearly didn’t lose it on those issues," he said. No, actually, Paul: You don't want to have to admit that you lost on the field of ideas.
Instead, he's forced to make a phony argument about "urban" voters who were never going to vote for a Republican anyway.
Even though I disagree with him on many issues, President Obama did not campaign on giving free stuff to people no matter how much conservatives want to tell themselves that he did. What the President did do quite effectively is appeal to a wide variety of interest groups by giving them the impression that he actually cared about the problems they were dealing with. This is something that Romney never seemed to be able to do.