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Archae

(46,345 posts)
Tue Jan 8, 2013, 02:12 PM Jan 2013

Rinse Pringle knows what went wrong with the Romney campaign...

It should of been 4 years!

MADISON, Wis. —The Republican National Committee chairman told WISN 12 News reporter Kent Wainscott what he believes went wrong in the Mitt Romney presidential campaign.

"In a nine-month operation, which is basically what the Romney team put together and the RNC, I think they ran a great campaign -- a nine-month campaign. But the problem was the other side ran a four-year campaign, a pretty good four-year campaign," Reince Priebus said. "I think from all the conclusions you can draw from the campaign, I think the one that's pretty safe is, we need to be a four-year operation. We can't do a three-year buildup and a one-year campaign and then a tear-down."

Priebus said Barack Obama campaign demonstrated why campaigns have to be on the ground for four straight years.

Read more: http://www.wisn.com/politics/RNC-chairman-thinks-presidential-campaign-should-be-4-years/-/9373216/18052140/-/vblb4l/-/index.html#ixzz2HPNesAas

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Rinse Pringle knows what went wrong with the Romney campaign... (Original Post) Archae Jan 2013 OP
I heartily endorse this suggestion el_bryanto Jan 2013 #1
Or, you sucked. Gidney N Cloyd Jan 2013 #2
Translation: Send money now. Scuba Jan 2013 #3
Message auto-removed Name removed May 2013 #20
the stupid CatWoman Jan 2013 #4
Rmoney's been running since Politicalboi Jan 2013 #5
2002 by some counts rurallib Jan 2013 #16
keep blaming your campaigning and not your ideas and philosophy GOP. TeamPooka Jan 2013 #6
Yeah, we didn't get to know Romney well enough... immoderate Jan 2013 #7
You gotta love it ... 1StrongBlackMan Jan 2013 #8
Note to Rinsed Penis: You held the economy hostage for 4 years. KurtNYC Jan 2013 #9
Instead of 9 months of lies, lets do 4 years! neverforget Jan 2013 #10
Let me translate for those who can't seem to understand what point rancid was trying to make: Ikonoklast Jan 2013 #11
The problem is obvious: LeftinOH Jan 2013 #12
Or, you could just run somebody *better* than Scrooge McDuck. dawg Jan 2013 #13
Aaaaah. It's the TIME, not the IDEAS or the PEOPLE. HughBeaumont Jan 2013 #14
Of course Proud Liberal Dem Jan 2013 #15
He forgets his little Tea Party monster that was a 4 year campaign that backfired. nt stevenleser Jan 2013 #17
De Nile cbrer Jan 2013 #18
He likes the lakes. The trees are the right height. Initech Jan 2013 #19

el_bryanto

(11,804 posts)
1. I heartily endorse this suggestion
Tue Jan 8, 2013, 02:15 PM
Jan 2013

I think the republicans should plan on holding their nominating convention this year and give us three years to get to know their nominee.

Bryant

Response to Scuba (Reply #3)

TeamPooka

(24,254 posts)
6. keep blaming your campaigning and not your ideas and philosophy GOP.
Tue Jan 8, 2013, 02:17 PM
Jan 2013

that way we can keep winning for decades to come.

 

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)
8. You gotta love it ...
Tue Jan 8, 2013, 02:25 PM
Jan 2013

the right (and some here) has claimed President Obama has been in a 4 year campaign-mode ... Is that what they call actually going out a telling people how you are attempting to do what you campaigned on?

That's like a coach divulging his game-plan and you campaigning that his team is winning ... by working his game plan.

KurtNYC

(14,549 posts)
9. Note to Rinsed Penis: You held the economy hostage for 4 years.
Tue Jan 8, 2013, 02:27 PM
Jan 2013

The GOP set this up like a T-ball for Prince Romney but he struck out.

Rupert Murdoch in effect campaigns all the time for GOP candidates and certainly did his part during the 2008 to 2012 period. Here is his take:
http://thehill.com/blogs/twitter-room/other-news/235809-rupert-murdoch-romney-needs-to-hire-real-pros-to-beat-obama

And who could forget the Fox News moment of truth: "Why do we even do this show (if Romney is just going to screw it all up)?"

Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)
11. Let me translate for those who can't seem to understand what point rancid was trying to make:
Tue Jan 8, 2013, 02:32 PM
Jan 2013

"I am just another incompetent Republican toadstool that doesn't have a clue as to what's going on outside, but they still pay me."

LeftinOH

(5,358 posts)
12. The problem is obvious:
Tue Jan 8, 2013, 03:37 PM
Jan 2013

One of the lightbulbs in the ladies' tea parlor is burnt out... Fix that, and everything will be perfect!

HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)
14. Aaaaah. It's the TIME, not the IDEAS or the PEOPLE.
Tue Jan 8, 2013, 03:50 PM
Jan 2013

It's not about "Keeping those ants in line!", we just needed more time.

The light is shed.

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,437 posts)
15. Of course
Tue Jan 8, 2013, 03:52 PM
Jan 2013

Mitt's massive loss had nothing to do with him having no "ground game", essentially winning the nomination by default (even after having ran for POTUS for 5 years), him and his wife saying stupid, mean-spirited things about nearly half the people in the country and insulting most of the same kind of people on several occasions, believing in "skewed polls" that showed him winning the election despite a multitude of polls (mostly state ones) showing that he was not likely to win it, and trying to politicize a tragedy (Libya), not having any real plans or ideas for what to do if elected POTUS, and basically adopting Tea Party rhetoric for most of the campaign (despite probably not really believing in a lot of it but not having any real choice but to parrot it for the sake of the GOP's knuckledragging cult members).


the only brief *shining* moment for Mitt in the entire general election was his first debate with President Obama though, of course, that really only came about because he showed up and pretended to be somebody more moderate and *sensible* than the current Republican Party lets its nominees. Other than that, it was pretty much a wall-to-wall disaster for his campaign and the GOP in general. Despite all of the breathless pronouncements that the MSM made that the election was Romney's to lose, I NEVER saw it.

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