Romney Calls Out TV Debate Networks in Explaining Loss
After losing the presidential election last week, Mitt Romney is out spinning why he failed to unseat Barack Obama. In addition to Romney calling out Obama policies like the DREAM Act and Obamacare that benefited Hispanics, as ABC News notes, he also criticized the TV networks that hosted primary debates, specifically CNN and NBC.
According to audio from a call Romney held with donors on Wednesday, ABC News reports he suggested for the next election cycle the GOP should “agree that we’re gonna do, you know, I don’t know, eight debates, and we’re gonna, we’re gonna do one a month, and we’re gonna pick stations that are reasonable, it’s not all gonna be done by CNN and NBC, alright, I mean we’re gonna try and guide this process so that it’s designed to showcase the best of our people as opposed to showcasing liberals beating the heck out of us.”
Romney also criticized the large number of primary debates, saying donors should pressure the party to limit the primary process in 2016. “We had 20 Republican debates, that was absolutely nuts, it opened us up to gaffes and to material that could be used against us in the general, and we were fighting these debates for a year, and the incumbent president just sat back and laughed.”
A shorter primary process with fewer three-ring circus-style debates? I think that’s something both parties can finally agree on.
Scott commented:
Perhaps if the moderates of the group didn't try to pander to the extremes, they could survive a general election. It's hard to trust someone who hangs far right for nearly a year only to become moderate the final 3 months. When politicians do that, they're obviously lying to someone, and all integrity is lost. Of course, if candidates don't tell the extreme base what they want to hear up front, they'll probably never get to the general. Kind of sad.
Marianne commented:
I love how these GOP guys blame others for things they say, themselves, in context.
In context, is important. Situations where people chop video or audio and literally try to make anyone look bad is fraud. But so many GOP members said so many crazy things at length, like Romney talking with the small audience about "47%" and those rape/abortion comment-makers on the state and fed congressional side, wow.
Thank you for showing us who you are GOP sociopaths: narcissists, hypocrites, chronic liars. What a shame. Sent me - a conservative leaning moderate back to the Dems. And the country is better for it. I feel safer with President Obama than I did with President Bush or candidate Romney. Romney's blatant lying could be seen all over net video - how is the party not trumpeting this? How is this anyone's fault but his???
Pete from NJ commented:
It's amazing that Romney still isn't taking responsibility for his loss. The primaries will always provide the competition with amunition. Does anyone remember the term "voodoo economics"?
This just proves that we the people made the right choice.
Ron Paul commented:
How about offering better candidates next time with specifics for our country, and you'd only need 4 debates to get down to 2 decent candidates. Give us a better choice; both were not good choices.
Scott Gilbert commented:
Romney has all sorts of excuses why he lost, but the real reason is that the majority of the people who aren't hard core Republicans or Democrats (AKA Undecided) remembered why our country is in the condition it's in, and realized that going back to that again would be "fool me twice".