2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I'm sorry, but I didn't like Ann Romney!! [View all]Texin
(2,590 posts)It's covered up with a veneer that doesn't flag until she feels defensive, but it's impossible for her to cover the entitled sense of remove that the ultra-wealthy maintain in their lives. Romney himself is that way, and I think this sense of not connecting with "regular folk" is because they not only didn't come from those roots, they had no sense of wanting to understand people who have get up and go to their often unsatisfying and unappreciated jobs day in and day out. It's this disconnect from what most Americans live that is primarily responsible for him not being able to mount a credible and successful campaign. They're not "us".
Rove has clearly lost his touch in taking the most cynical of candidates(and his wife) and marketing him to the American public as "a guy you'd most want to have a beer with." Did Rove or anyone else in the republican party even consider that this election cycle?