After an all-consuming election cycle, a series of things occur. Congratulations are earned by the winning campaign, the losing campaign reflects in painful hindsight and emotions among the workers of each campaign range from enthusiastic affirmation to frustrated weariness.
Along with many, I watched the graceful concession speech offered by the GOP nominee Mitt Romney. His words reminded us of the need to solve America’s serious economic woes and conveyed heartfelt appreciation to family, supporters and our country.
I also watched President Barack Obama continue to promise solutions rooting in the (patently unfair) notions of “fair share” and collective equality, while rhetoric demanding bipartisanship.
While the words on Obama’s teleprompter seemed to cover everything, Romney’s conciliatory remarks left something unspoken.
As someone who recruited numerous candidates on the local and state level to seek political office, ran too many campaigns to count over the last two decades and served as the face of a state party for a time, Tuesday’s election reminded me of valuable lesson that’s been proven true across time, election cycles, and wins and losses.