Dear Republicans,
First, let me begin by congratulating you on running your succesful campaigns. You've retained your control of the House. You won a couple of seats in the Senate. Your bid for the White House was unsuccessful. I'm not sure you would call last night a success but hopefully you will learn from your mistakes and put forth a better effort in the next election.
This is actually why I am writing. I have to tell you: You picked a bad nominee. A lot of people in the Northeast knew that. Mitt Romney just wasn't the guy. Oh sure, he had some good ideas but the man's image was just off-putting. Mitt Romney was trying to save us from Barack Obama. We didn't want to be saved. We wanted a better option. Obama sailed into the White House because the nation was tired of George W. Bush and the rest of your party. Iraq was a mess, to say the least. The economy deteriorated. Americans, as a whole, were upset. John McCain, God bless him, didn't have a chance.
President Obama should have had a simple game plan in his first term: Don't screw up. Do the bare minimum and things will be fine. Talk about having your ducks in a row. Democrats control both houses. Americans from sea to shining sea love the new President and he hadn't done anything yet. Heck, the world even gave him the Nobel Peace Prize, for God's sake. He had been President for how long? Eight months? ObamaCare was slammed through the halls of Congress and down the throats of Americans. Some liked it. A lot didn't.
Fast forward to 2012. The economic recovery is anemic. Unemployment is high. People are upset. Hope? Change? Where?
Here is where Governor Romney dropped the ball. Americans wanted someone who would come in and lead the nation out of the troubles that have plagued it for so long. We didn't want to see some smug face smiling at the throngs of supporters whooping it up when the rally speech du jour predictably degenerated into a laundry list of flaws of the President. We all knew his flaws. We've been living with them for the past four years.
Governor Romney thought he was our Knight in Shining Armor. He thought he would ride into Washington, save us from the evil perils of President Obama, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, et al. The truth is, for all the times we are rolling our eyes and tried to control our urges to throw something at the television, we got the same sensations seeing the likes of John Boehner, Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan.
In short, my friends, you allowed Governor Romney to overplay his hand. You overestimated your nominee's role and image and underestimated the frustration and disdain of your fellow Americans.
As we all know, time is short and it won't be long until the Mid-Term Elections come rolling around. Here is some advice: Shut up and put up. Stop talking about Political Hardball and masking it with challenging the President and the rest of the Democrats to, "reach across the aisle." Work together. avoid that fiscal cliff and your work and cooperation will be rewarded in the next election.
I know. I know. I'm a Liberal. I'm an Obama Apologist and I'm only justifying the acts and failures of the President and the rest of the Democrats in Congress. The truth is, I'm really a fed up American who is tired of hearing Republicans slam President Obama just 'cuz.
And I really didn't want to vote for Mitt Romney.
Your friend and fellow American,
Greg
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