Newt: Self-Deportation Comment ‘Fatal’ To Romney

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6. It is the delusion they like

They do enjoy deluding themselves with "failed candidates". They really like to think Romney had a chance and if it were not for a couple of personal failings, would now be President.

Not a single one of them ever had a serious shot. This was going to be a 4 to 5 percent losing race, with the possibility of going to a 7 to 9 percent loss if they had chosen worse. Romney did as well as they could have done.

The comments Newt brings up would have been blown off as mistakes except that they reinforced what the majority already believed to be true. The reason they did damage is because the majority was ready to believe this about any republican, and there it was in bold. The problem was and remains that people are still just as ready to believe it at the first sign. Republicans dug this hole and no one over there is backfilling it.