Reminding me, once again, the ONLY thing good about Obama winning was Romney lost.

Should have said "THE MYTH of Obamacare was very attractive". At least to the ignorant and gullible.

Elections are decided on the margin. that is, a relatively small group, the NRA for example, can determine the outcome if they are dedicated enough.
There was a sub set of voters in 2012 who had kids just finishing college, but without employer provided health insurance. So the ´up to age 26´ coverage was really important to those parents, and their chillun. (In Pa., $6000 value with highmark blue shield.)
So to some degree, Romney is correct. But when the full impact of kenyacare comes crashing down, it will be apparent, even to that sub set of voters, that the law was bad.

If this is his take away, ugh...

It´s still the economy, folks.

Just look at the statements by Obama´s administration on how we are STILL inching our way along.
And this with the help of $5 trillion in deficit spending, and record low interest rates, lower dollar, and stock market at near record high from 2007.

Why isn´t the economy growing and people feeling like it is?
Can´t really get credit, or refinance a loan (unless you don´t really need it), 8%+ unemployment, massive amounts of under-employment, record-high gasoline prices, high taxes from local, state and counties adding-in extra, electricity prices climbing, and a current administration trying to regulate the economy that will only benefit the super-sized corporations.

Republicans would do well to concentrate on unleashing the U.S. energy resource use to help produce jobs, lower price of gasoline, lower prices of electricity, all which will create jobs and produce tax revenues that will support local, county and state governments.

Romney lost because he spurned the conservative base, which either did not turn out, or they only voted the downticket, intentionally not voting the head of the ballot, or voting third party.

It was always Romney´s to lose, and by golly, he pulled it off. Failure to inform translated into low-information voters going to the polls.

Attractive to those foolish enough to believe that they would get high quality healthcare and "millionaires and billionaires" were going to foot the bill.

Soon they will learn. . .

It was attractive to the Lo-Vo crowd. Sorta like free phones.

Perhaps it would then have been a good idea to devote considerable time to explaining why it really isn´t attractive.

Yes, but, Mr. Romney there were more of us who didn´t find it attractive and we were out voting that day as well. Can we say, "Voter Fraud"?

I voted for Romney. Very proud to have done so.
Those who did not and those with the sour grapes attitude are the problem .... period.
There was no other candidate more qualified.

I´m still amazed by the number of people who should have known better who truly believed that this monstrosity was going to furnish them with absolutely free top-quality health care.

O´Care was never intended to do anything but force upon us the single payer system. Obama said so himself, to Dennis Kucinich.

I would like Mitt Romney to be quite now.

It shows he still doesn´t have a clue. Probably the dems were right. He has no idea what being a middle class American is.

As #5 notes, "conservatives" decided they preferred Obama because Romney wasn´t conservative enough. How´s that working for ya?

Romney, as a result of his strict religious upbringing, was the perfect opponent for Obama.

Mitt knows that it is a sin (and should be a crime) to claim to know the hearts and minds and motives of others. Therefore he (in good conscience) could not call Barky the lying sack of poo that he is. So Mitt came off as the polite, rich kid, choir boy that he is.
It matters not that he is exactly the person of good conscience that we need.

#15 Why didn´t Romney do that in the primary?

Can we nominate a conservative next time?

All those people are going to be without insurance very soon. The death panels will solve the problem once and for all - at least for them.

Romney´s stupid comments are hurting the GOP.

Next year will there will be a lot of ´two´fers´ for the libs to celebrate.
Employees downsized from full to part time to avoid employers having to pay the skyrocking health care premiums. So less income, and no health care.

And it´s 5 6 7
so open up them pearly gates.
There ain´t no time
to wonder why
Whoopee!
We´re all gonna die.

Romney was the only GOP candidate that could not run Against ObamaCare.

Hey Mittless: All you had to say a couple of hundred times was the following:
1. He ain´t black.
2. He ain´t a lawyer and neither is Moochy.
3. All his revealed documents are false.
4. All 35 czars are communists and criminals.
5. Many of the low info voters would have passed.

He lost because the lies of the left were not countered by the truth. If Romney had called Obama a liar to his face he would have won.

And the point of this article is what?

Obamacare was not attractive to us. It was attractive to a great many people. Obama, himself, is unattractive to us but he had to be attractive to a lot of people because he won,whether by hook or by crook.

Romney ran conservative in the primaries, and then after dispatching the true conservatives, he started liking things in Obamacare.

THAT´s why the conservatives stayed home. Its unfortunate, but we could not take him at his word to get rid of Obamacare.

Obamacare is going to be the downfall of this nation in a few years´ time. Ameritopia is almost here, but as we all know, there is no such thing, only failure.

No society in the history of the world has ever taxed and spent its way into prosperity, and just because Obama is setting all this up, its not about to change.

We have not learned the lessons of history.

This is the lesson of history: Most humans are too stupid to comprehend the lessons of history.

In other words, ´´This time it´s different´´.

And this is why you lost. Conservatives don´t trust northeastern liberal repubs. You got beat like a tied up dog because you are a wuss.

Good grief. Except for a few posters, this thread gives me no hope for the future. If you don´t know what Romney said and meant, you are low-fo too.

Get a clue - you are never going to get the "perfect" candidate. Romney did better than any of our other candidates would have done. I refuse to be a Monday morning quarterback like so many of you "experts."