And the GOP Learning Curve keeps getting steeper.... [View all]

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

There's some powerful denial going on within the GOP right now. From the Governors Conference.

"They spent all their time making Mitt Romney unacceptable and making him out to be someone who was untrustworthy and unacceptable to enough of the American people – and it worked," Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad said in an interview.

The fact that Romney wouldn't divulge his finances MADE him untrustworthy, Gov. Dumbass.

"We need to figure out what we did right and what we did wrong, how we can improve our tone, our message, our technology, our turnout – all the things that are required to win elections," Gov Bob McDonnell said.

No. What's required to win an election are policies that promote the interests of all Americans. Fucking over 99% of the country on behalf of the 1% will lose an election EVERY SINGLE TIME.

"His whole campaign was a fear-and-smear attack to make Romney unacceptable and to blame George Bush for anything that happened while Obama was president," Barbour said. "This was all personal: that Romney is a vulture capitalist who doesn't care about people like you, ships jobs overseas, is a quintessential plutocrat and is married to a known equestrian."

The Democrats barely mentioned Bush, and when they did it was to praise him. And the rest was basically telling the truth about Mitt Romney. Your policies suck, and so did your candidate.

"His campaign was largely about his biography and his experience," Jindal said. "But time and time again, biography and experience is not enough to win an election. You have to have a vision, you have to connect your policies to the aspirations of the American people. I don't think the campaign did that and as a result, this became a contest between personalities and – you know what? – Chicago won that."

Uh. Were we watching the same campaign? Romney scarcely mentioned his time as governor or his tenture at Bain Capital because it was political poison. Not our fault that your candidate has all the charisma of a used dishrag.

With this kind of political "Brain Trust" at their command, the Republican Party will be showing up in one of those "Where Are They Now?" articles in just a few short years. And what the hell ever DID happen to Milli Vanilli?