Soulster, do you ever wonder why they believe that their message is so weak that they have to resort to outright lies and distortions to try to win? For example, the $716 billion Medicare lie. Ryan had the same money taken out in his proposed budget and it only applied to unnecessary spending, but they tried to spin it as the president taking money out of Medicare and leaving seniors in a lurch. Another one was the welfare work requirement change. The president changed it because many governors, most of them Republican [[one former governor, name of Romney) asked to give them the leeway to run their welfare programs without it. He consented [[Bush and Clinton didn't) and they used it against him.

Your point about core values is 100% correct. Had they stuck with their message instead of trying to distort the president's accomplishments, they probably could have won. That wasn't good enough and our "sorry" president beat them. Who's sorry now?