Romney a Lock - You Can Put it On the Board YESSSS!!

There's too much wrong here to tease it all out, so it's just gonna get a blanket: Nope.

 

"I'm too insecure about my position to make a real point, but I want to feel cool."

 

Trust me when I tell you, no one has ever felt cool by making fun of you on the internet. I promise.

"I don't think Obama is a stronger candidate than Mitt Romney."

Barack Obama has never lost an election to a Republican, and, in fact, only ever lost one primary election. Mitt Romney has only ever won one election.

The rest is just a hodgepodge of bad premises, so I'll just point out where you're right: Campaign staff matters a lot, and racism is still a factor in American politics.

Speculating that Obama "should have won by a lot wider margin" in 2008 is borderline insanity. He won by a lot.

 

Barack Obama has never lost an election to a Republican, yes.

That's a pretty impressive soundbite, but it becomes a lot less impressive with even a passing familiarity with the facts it is based on.

Barack Obama has conducted two campaigns against Republicans.

In the first, his opponent disintegrated in a sex scandal mid-race, leaving a scrambling and inept Illinois Republican Party unable to find a credible replacement candidate. After being turned down by Mike Ditka, they settled for Al Sharpton (from the traditional and awful "See, we have a minority candidate too!" Republican playbook.)

In his second, he was running against the combination of the hollow shell of John McCain and the despised legacy of George Bush.

Congratulations to him on making a pair of 25-yard field goals, but he's going to need to show a bit more than that before I start crowing about his perfect percentage.

 

Oops, in the interest of fairness, I forgot to mention the two times he won Illinois legislature campaigns. He was a Democrat running in Chicago. One of those two times, the Republican opponent also finished below the Harold Washington party candidate.

So make that 4-for-4 on extra points.

 

I must have missed that Sharpton-Obama election. Must have been a doozy.

Let me see if I can speak your language.

You said: "I don't think Obama is a stronger candidate than Mitt Romney."

Objectively, backed by the data, Barack Obama is better at winning elections than Mitt Romney.

Objectively, backed by the data, Barack Obama is more popular with voters than Mitt Romney.

If there is some metric you're basing that statement on other than winning elections and being popular with voters, by all means, present it. Otherwise, just admit it was a silly statement and move along.

 

I think once I've mentally switched Al Sharpton and Alan Keyes, any other debatable points I've made become rather moot, because I don't really have a leg to stand on in debating them.

*taps out*

 

I'll admit, I chuckled.

Baby you can call me, you can call me Al...

 

They pushed someone who married money but vilify someone who earned it on his own.

 

Technically, the Presidential election is 51 separate contests. In 2008, Obama won Nevada, Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia and Indiana. He even picked up an electoral vote in Nebraska.
Not saying Romney's win in Massachusetts wasn't a nice piece of work - but you really can't compare the two until Romney wins all of those states and picks off Vermont or Rhode Island.

 

Yep, that's it exactly. Mitt Romney, self-made man. Father wasn't a governor, auto company CEO or presidential Cabinet member.

The big differences between Mitt and Kerry are that Mitt embodies the "born on third base and thinks he hit a triple" cliche, and his top priority is reducing the tax burden on his fellow rich folks.

 

Has Romney conceded the likability battle with Obama, or does he have ASD? One thing you never do on the trail is make a crack about someone's cooking.

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