Mitt Romney Blames the IRS and Hurricane Sandy for His Loss to Obama
More: Mitt Romney Blames the IRS and Hurricane Sandy for His Loss to Obama
Mitt Romney is still clinging to his skewed polls and claiming that if Hurricane Sandy wouldn’t have hit when it did, and he would have known about the IRS scandal, he would have won the election.
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Romney blamed Hurricane Sandy right along with the fact that his 47% comments were off the record for his defeat, “That was not a statement, if you will. It was taken off the record. Nonetheless, it did not reflect my views. I said it didn’t come out the way I wanted it to. But surely, that didn’t help me, and there were other things that didn’t help my campaign either. Obviously, a hurricane with a week to go before the election stalled our campaign.”
CNN’s Gloria Borger asked Romney if he blamed Chris Christie. The former presidential nominee answered by blaming the timing of Hurricane Sandy, “I wish the hurricane hadn’t have happened when it did because it gave the president a chance to be presidential and to be out showing sympathy for folks. That’s one of the advantages of incumbency. But, you know, you don’t look back and worry about each little thing and how could that have been different.”
Notice that Romney doesn’t say that he wishes that hurricane would have never hit, and people wouldn’t have lost their lives, loved ones, and property. Still as selfish as ever, Mitt Romney is most upset that Sandy struck during the homestretch of the presidential campaign. It never seems to occur to Romney that his inability to show compassion and sympathy for others is what really hurt him with voters.
