Posted on 09/18/2012 9:26:08 AM PDT by ken5050
Listening to the MSM and the Dems attempt to roll up Romney's campaign over his comments about the 47%, it's starting to resemble the same playbook that was used to beat Allen in VA senate race. Anyone else remember "macaca," and how Allen was never able to get beyond it?
If he lets it become that moment, it could be. He has a golden opportunity (as Rush is explaining) and has in essence forced himself to step up his attack on the DNC machine, but IMO he better get on it. 0bamas’ latest speeches are by far the stupidest instances of projection yet, but this is a concept that is hard to explain to drones.
And even if this doesn't stick and Mitt refuses to apologize to the 47% welfare animals, the Puppetmaster-controlled Media will twist whatever words Mitt says next and try to make macaca out of them. Repeat as necessary until the damage proves fatal.
More like Romney’s “clinging to guns” moment.
I know it played favorable to me.
What he said should be obvious to everyone.
There are a lot of people hearing this 47% for the first time. The media carping on it means even more will hear it. And they’ll be stunned and angry, and wonder why they never heard this before.
Focus on 0bama’s track record. Forget about the noise from the 0bama shills in the media. They are just following the DNC script to demonize their opponent. Won’t work. 0bama has a horrible economic and foreign policy record, not to mention that he has turned NASA into Muslim outreach, the auto bailout was a UAW bailout to the tune of about $26 billion, the stimuli were more union payouts, “green energy” doesn’t work and shouldn’t get taxpayer billions. Forget about class warfare as that is in the Dem playbook. Republicans don’t see class, especially when looking at 0bama. Fight on the record and the economy.
The MSM sure are trying!
Every so-called gaffe can be turned to a candidate’s advantage if he has good enough speechwriters.
Instead of apologizing or offering weak defenses for poorly chosen words, which only push a candidate’s foot further into his mouth, good speechwriters can exploit a candidate’s post-gaffe moment in the spotlight to get his message across more strongly than ever and to many more people.
Mitt Romney should be using his current moment of maximum media exposure to warn prospective voters that a 47-percent government-dependency rate, if unchecked, will lead to Greek-like bankruptcy with no country large enough to bail us out. So we must have a new president or face catastrophe.
But are Mitt and his speechwriters sounding such warnings? No. To paraphrase America’s leading school reformer of the moment who’s standing his ground in Chicago, Never let a macaca moment go to waste. Unfortunately, Mitt doesn’t get it.
"Mister Romney went on to allow the building to burn to the ground."
That occurred during the convention with the words: "Repeal and replace..."
That might have cost an additional percentage of the "base" to say "WTF" and decide to stay at home.
Probably there was already a substantial percent that had already decided to stay home and live with the consequences.
Make no mistake, the amerikan serfs (the 47%) have already decided that "red is better than dead"....Moreover, it's beginning to look like it will be the moslem shade of "red"...
First, let me vent. Mitt should resign over these over the top comments. I mean the RNC should even hold the money they were going to give him. And if Mitt ends up dead do not go looking for Karl Rove. Sound familiar?
Ok.. Mitt should keep talking, make the statement, let the press get after him and then go on TV and make a statement almost every day, looking Presidential, upstaging Obama and at the same time getting his ideas out there.
Mitt told the absolute truth.
We all know who Obama’s people are: the ones with the EBT cards that they use everywhere, not just the supermarket, but also fast food places and liquor stores.
The unmarried ghetto moms with 5-6 mouths to feed, getting their kids fed for free at school...yes, breakfast, lunch and supper.
The “students” who go to hide out at college for 5-6 years mooching off the taxpayers for tuition, room, board AND SNAP (food stamps for those of you in Rio Linda.)
etc. etc. etc.
Moochers, grifters, freeloaders!!!
Tell it like it is, Mitt!
Newt WHO?
That guy should crawl quietly into oblivion. He had his chance, and he blew it.
This is the MSM’s BS moment.
Allen screwed up his response to “macaca”, allowing it to be a continuing story. Or more directly, his stupid campaign manager screwed up the initial response.
Romney’s mistake is to believe that ANY voter is unreachable. He’s right about their circumstances, but you shouldn’t write anybody off. Maybe we can save some from dependence.
He didn’t drop out. And he only lost by less than 10,000 votes. And what really killed him was 3 weeks of whether he ever said the n-word, and an unprovable story about a deer head stuffed in a mailbox.
But it all started because he couldn’t explain why he called the guy “macaca”, and because his campaign started with a dismissive response that made no sense. That opened the gate for the media to pretend there was something that had to be looked at — was Allen racist.
Although I still maintain that in the end, the reason Allen lost (remember, it was less than 10,000 votes) was because his campaign attacked Webb for some perverted imagery in a book Webb wrote — a book that military folks highly regarded, and therefore perceived the attack as an attack on their own morality.
It was a great attack for 3rd-party people to make to swing the women vote, but when the campaign adopted it officially, it turned off military people. As did Allen’s campaign trying to attack Webb as being sexist when he was a military man in the 70s and 80s.
Still, he only lost by a few thousand votes.
You forgot several........the gay vote, the single women’s vote, the Hispanic vote, the college student who has a student loan vote, the union vote and let’s not forget the Muslim vote....(I don’t understand the Jews and Muslims supporting the same candidate, but it’s a strange world)
Everyone I have talked to believe they are in the 53%. This includes 2 on SS and 1 retired Vet. They know exactly who Romney was talking about. Those bottomfeeders, the takers who have never given and have no intention of ever giving back.
This is a winning issue as long as our message is clear.
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