Wealthy Old White Men Play the Blame Game

Wealthy Old White Men Playing
"The Blame Game"

The measure of the man is often how he handles defeat. Romney's delayed concession speech was not near that of John McCain's speech four years earlier, but then we could give him the benefit of the doubt since, for some reason in spite of the polls, he did not consider that he would lose. However, the next day after he had had time to consider his defeat, he was anything but gracious in that he blamed everyone but himself.

And, since then Republicans are offering all sorts of explanations (excuses) to explain the defeat, but never admitting that a majority of the voters chose President Obama rather than Governor Romney. Of course, the media and the fact-checker were out to get them. And they blamed the hurricanes, Isaac in Tampa, and Sandy on the East coast. Even more bizarre was Karl Rove who blamed the Obama campaign for using a standard GOP tactic -- suppressing the vote. (Karl, of course,  could not explain this charge in the face of the statistics). And finally a Wisconsin Republican suggested that Obama won because Americans are basically stupid.

Face it, the GOP seems incapable of handling defeat gracefully.

I might humbly suggest to Mitt that the real reason he  lost were the things he and his supporters said and did:

1) Mitt refused to let the American people view most of his federal tax returns.
2) Mitt said he didn't care about 47% of the voters because they were moochers.
3) The GOP Convention featured Clint Eastwood talking to an empty chair. (Has anyone told him there was no one in the chair?)
4) Rush Limbaugh called a co-ed a "slut," and the only thing Mitt disagreed with was the language.
5) Mitt insisted Jeep was going to move American jobs to China although the executives denied it.
6) Mitt supported keeping the Bush tax cuts for himself and the other inordinately wealthy fat cats.
7) In a prime-time speech at the GOP Convention Paul Ryan lied so often he had to spend the rest of the campaign backtracking.
8) Mitt adopted the joke about "self-deportation" as his immigration policy.
9) Mitt and his family stashed money in Switzerland and the Cayman Islands.
10) Mitt and Paul suggested that good wives should be home doing laundry.
11) Mitt continued to support an extremist candidate who spoke of "legitimate rape."
12) Mitt wrote an editorial advising us to allow the Detroit Auto Companies to go bankrupt.
13) Mitt's domestic policy was a rewrite of George W. Bush's. (I guess he thought we would forget that that policy led to the Great Recession.)
14) As for foreign policy, Mitt indicated he agreed with everything President Obama was doing.
15) Mitt changed his mind on at least 30 major issues in order to get the GOP nomination.
16) Mitt wanted to eliminate federal disaster relief and leave that job to the states or private contractors.
17) Mitt had "binders of women," but could not remember even one name.
18) In spite of fact-checkers pointing out their mendacity, Mitt and Paul continued to say Obamacare  "robbed" Medicare of $ 716 million (On the other hand Paul Ryan failed to mention what his proposed budget would do to Medicare.)
19) Wanting to cut student loans, Mitt suggested students borrow money from their parents. (You're right, he lives a totally different universe.)
20) And finally in his infamous "47% Talk," Mitt mentioned that he was hoping for an event such as the Iran Hostage Crisis that he would be able to exploit like Reagan had done years earlier to defeat Jimmy Carter.

That's enough. I choose to stop this list. If after all of these lies, miscues and gaffes, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, and the "Wealthy Old Men and Their Dependents" who make up the GOP  choose to blame anyone but themselves, it is quite obvious that United States of America dodged a dangerous bullet on November 6, 2012.