This time last year, the Republicans were expected to seize control of the Senate and pose a real threat to President Barack Obama’s re-election efforts even with a band of misfit candidates. Unfortunately for the Grand Old Party, numerous gaffes and one too many kooks on the ballot soiled those plans. The Republican Party doesn’t seem to know what exactly went wrong with them, but fret not, here’s NewsOne’s breakdown.
1. Mitt Romney Says He Likes to Fire People
Before he secured the Republican nomination by essentially outspending and smearing his competition, Mitt Romney openly noted how he “likes being able to fire people” in January. His primary rivals pounced on the comment, and as a result, Romney told the Wall Street Journal that he would “try and be a little more careful in what I say.”
2. Adviser Calls Romney ‘The Etch-A-Sketch Candidate’
When your candidate is accused of being an unscrupulous character, it doesn’t make much sense to go on national TV and lend credence to the sentiment. Romney senior adviser Eric Fehrnstrom did just that when discussing Romney on CNN, in which he said, “Everything changes. It’s like Etch A Sketch. You can shake it up, and we start all over again.”
3. Romney Chooses Paul Ryan as VP
Romney choosing the Wisconsin congressman as his running mate was sold as a “bold” choice that showed the Republican presidential nominee was interested in “big” ideas and a genuine shift toward staunch conservative principles.
Actually, all Paul Ryan’s selection as VP did was scare old people in Florida who were mortified of his plan to gut Social Security and Medicare.
And if you saw Ryan’s performance in the vice presidential debate with Vice President Joe Biden, you learned that the purported “great intellectual” is the dunce to Sarah Palin’s cap.
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