What follows is a lengthy excerpt from DickMorris.Com email newsletter. Some of you may have seen this if you are signed into his newsletters. For those who haven't I re-posting so you can see the logic behind why Dick Morris says Mitt Romney will be our next President! Please read on...
"• It bet the farm on negative ads in swing states.
It didn't realize that Mitt's convention speech and the three debates would give
him the chance to live down the charges and demonstrate -- through facts and his
demeanor -- that they were baseless.
• Obama had no Plan B if the
negatives didn't work. He never really laid in a convincing defense of his
record, except to recall the mess that he inherited and to try to make people
believe things were better. He had no vision for his second term, except more of
same. He never moved to the center -- the shift that reelected Bill
Clinton.
• Obama drew his list of swing states too narrowly. He did not
contemplate that he would be forced to defend Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan
or Minnesota and squandered his money contesting unwinnable states like North
Carolina. When Romney bypassed Obama's "firewall" states (like the Germans did
the French Maginot Line in World War II), the president had not laid in the
necessary prophylactic irradiation of negative ads, and three of the states
embraced Romney.
• By focusing on the negative, Obama sacrificed first
his personal popularity and then his dignity and presidentiality. No longer was
he the hope and the change. He became nothing more than a nasty partisan,
throwing epithets at his rival. A president does not let himself be quoted as
saying that his opponent is a "bullsh--ter" or that voting is the best
"revenge." Even his dress was wrong. Instead of appearing in a dark suit, he
dressed in an open-neck white shirt, trying to be everyman but succeeding only
in not looking like a president.
• Since he offered nothing more than a
negative campaign and a grab-bag of special-interest pleadings for single women,
unions, college kids and minorities, Obama failed to inspire the turnout that he
needed. Against Santorum and Gingrich, Obama could have made the case that their
prospective presidencies were sufficiently dangerous that liberals and Democrats
must rush to the polls to stop them. But against the congenial Romney, the
warnings rang hollow.
• In the first debate, Obama was terrible. We'll
likely find out what his excuses are after the polls close. Did he have the flu?
Was it the altitude? Had he, as Bob Woodward suggested, just received a dose of
bad news? Why did he appear distracted?
• Obama should have gotten the
facts out quickly about Benghazi rather than let them drip, drip, drip out over
six weeks. He could then have handled the crisis and won points for
determination and toughness. Instead, to the very end, he looked like he was
covering up the fact of a terrorist attack. Because he was.
• After
Sandy, Obama visited New Jersey and surveyed the damage with Gov. Chris Christie
(R). He should have stayed on the storm, superintending relief efforts, urging
FEMA on, absorbing the lessons of Bush's failure to cope well with Katrina.
Instead, he returned to the partisan wars and the strident speeches in swing
states.
None of this should take away from Romney's brilliant campaign.
By staying on the economy and not being tempted into side issues like Libya,
Mitt kept the focus where it needed to be and never let up. His campaign's foray
into Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Wisconsin was vital to his chances of victory.
More about what Mitt did right in my post-election column on Thursday. But for
now, let's celebrate the new president we are about to elect."
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