Did Romney take a dive in 2012?

It sure looked like he wasn't trying very hard to win.  He should have been hitting the Benghazi angle really hard every day from the day that it happened until election day.  But he didn't really.

When he backed off, he was basically giving up a possible winning issue in the campaign.  This says at least two things

1. That he wasn't seriously interested in winning the election
2. Those who backed him weren't serious about winning either.

Who backed Romney?  The same kind of people who back Obama--- the super rich.  They like to sell the class warfare schtick in order to fool enough people into voting for them.  This is a clever ruse that keeps the heat off of them and keeps it on some other straw man who decides to play the fall guy--- like Romney.

You get guys like Rush Limbaugh who blame it on the "low-information-voters".  It's certainly true that not everybody is equally blessed with brainpower.  But it is up to those who do have the grey matter upstairs to spoonfeed the public if that is what it takes.  These guys decided to play it safe and peddle the "skewed polls" schtick, and consequently blew the best opportunity to win that election.  This loss was on THEM, not the low-info crowd.

As for me, I was bitching long and loud over the lack of seriousness in that campaign.  Not only in Romney, but in the commentariat.  Here are some examples from my posts back then:

• 9/15/12:  Colonel: Hillary Made Decision Not to Post Marines at Benghazi
• 9/21/12:  Obama, Clinton, in Ads Disavowing Anti Muslim Film
• 9/23/12:  What good are polls?
• 9/26/12:  Obama: "The Future Must Not Belong To Those Who Slander Islam"
• 9/26/12:  Why vote for Romney

These kind of posts were being made on a regular basis, yet I didn't see all that much from Romney nor the commentariat about the stuff there.  There's plenty to look at here in these posts alone, but nobody seems to think it was important enough.

Instead they were all focused in on polls and were shocked when Romney lost.  Perhaps, they shouldn't have been.  Given the rather poor showing by Romney, it was probably fortunate to not having been worse than what it was.

This will be categorized as a politics wtf post.  That category came into being after the election.  You really have to wonder wtf is going on here, but everybody just keeps going along like somehow it's going to be fixed by itself.

They are doing the same old stuff all over again.  The same thing is going to happen again unless you people wise up and wise up fast.