Almost four months after losing his White House bid, Mitt Romney has said it: “it kills me not be in the White House.”
However, the former Massachusetts governor doesn’t blame it on anything else but his his campaign's failure to connect with minority voters.
“I lost my election because of my campaign," Romney said during an interview to “Fox News Sunday" – in his first television interview since his November defeat. "Not because of what anyone else did."
The former Massachusetts governor refused place blame on Christie, who some Republicans say gave Obama a last-minute lift in his embrace of the president in the wake of the storm.
It was Romney’s belief that his inability to win over black and Hispanic voters--and the damage done by those disastrous "47 percent" comments--ultimately caused his bid to go off the rails.
But when it came Ann Romney, she was more than happy to share the blame with someone else. “It was not just the campaign’s fault," Ann Romney said. "I believe it was the media's fault as well, in that he was not being given a fair shake--that people weren’t allowed to really see him for who he was. I’m happy to blame the media.”
"My husband has an enormous skill set in dealing with difficult issues and I totally believe at this moment, if Mitt were there in the office, that we would not be facing sequestration right now."
As for the juncture that has seized Washington’s attentions currently – the sequester—Mitt Romney pointed it as another of President Obama’s failures.
"He didn’t think the sequester would happen," he said. "It is happening. To date, what we’ve seen is the president out campaigning to the American people, doing rallies around the country, flying around the country and berating Republicans and blaming and pointing. Now, what does that do? That causes the Republicans to retrench and to put up a wall and to fight back.
"I'll look at what's happening right now, I wish I were there," he said. "It kills me not to be there, not to be in the White House doing what needs to be done."
