Posted on 10/30/2012 7:42:12 PM PDT by trekdown
It was all going so perfectly for President Barack Obama.
He had painted his opponent, former Gov. Mitt Romney, as an out-of-touch rich guy with elevators for his wife's multiple Cadillacs and bank accounts throughout the Caribbean. Romney had no plan—or at least none he was willing to discuss with voters. He was bellicose and callow on foreign policy. And The Groups—women, Hispanics, African-Americans, union members, public employees— were lined up so solidly behind the president he absolutely could not lose.
And then, on October 3 at about 9:04 p.m., Romney took to the stage in Denver and reset the campaign. He was not out of touch at all. He made sense. He had solid ideas, a sense of hope. He connected. He laughed. He seemed confident. The president looked down at his notes. He came across as not wanting to be there. He offered little reason to give him another term...
We have seen several “Obama post motem” pieces the last few days. The media seems to be slowing letting it out, that Obama is losing. Hopefully 168 hours from now, Obama will be giving his concession speech.
That they’re playing CYA by bringing out the knives.
I don’t think most people will be amused with their last minute conversion. The bias has been blatant for so long.
Michael Barone is probably the most honest and balanced person and when he said it was over in 2008 I scoffed, but he was right and I figure he is right in 2012.
They just don't realize it yet.
The news business isn't about stating opinions; it's about the timely delivery of trustworthy information. Once you lose the trust, you can never get it back. The legend they helped David Axelrod and Co. create has been revealed as an empty chair.
yesterday, NPR had a piece on how President Romney will govern and conduct himself...
Agreed. Barone is about the best in the business.
This nonsense about his popularity was a silly piece of media fiction.
It’s called sucking up to the next President. They want to ensure they get access, interviews, and invites.
From the article: “If Romney ultimately becomes the 45th president of the United States, the political set will be talking about Obama’s flawed campaign strategy for decades. He had a disastrous Plan A—and no Plan B.”
Hopefully 168 hours from now, Obama will be giving his concession speech.
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Hopefully. But 168 + 24 or 48 or 72 ... is a better bet. Need to consult with the lawyers. Plus why give that Romney person the satisfaction of an an election night concession. What would Michelle think?
They’ll try again if Romney gets elected, it’s all just a matter of time, only this time to try and make his policy ideas as president look bad. However, the question is only a matter of how long they have to hold back their fists to really look legit.
I do believe Romney’s rise is almost 90% due to the flatfootedness of Obama and his team, after his lousy debate performance. So much weirdness has ensued... from Biden grinning like a hyena to jaw-dropping ads comparing voting for Obama to first-time sex. It’s started creeping out the electorate, even the mushy middle-of-the-road types who were initially going to go with him. And more people are just suddenly seeing Obama for what he is, as opposed to the carefully calculated ‘infallable messianic myth’ the media had constructed of him.
Romney has definately improved, in a well-oiled machine sort of way. He’s avoided the kind of dumb statements he was occasionally making during the primaries last year that made him seem so aloof. But I still credit Obama’s faltering more than anything for Romney’s rise.
Romney raised the curtain and there stood der Führer, nekkid!! .. HA!
The really pathetic part is that most of the Freepers are either very psychic in having predicted this long ago, or the MSM has become completely predictable in every way possible.
Unfortunately for the planet, the second is the case.
OK, then, let's agree they suck.
Just hope Romney remembers who brung him to the party.
I blame more his obviously bad job performance, the crappy economy, and his inability to argue how his next term will be different due to no plans to do anything different. Nit that the strategy was good, and especially that the debates and his team’s spinning of them weren’t important. It’s just that his early lead came about because no one was paying attention back then.
As it is, Romney's debate performances plus his speeches have turned me from a "Vote against Obama" voter to a full-fledged romney supporter.
Here’s the deal. You win the Presidency in 2008, and spend all of 2009 and 2010...on jobs, budget cutting within the federal government, tax reform, and rebuilding the economy. Your party takes great numbers out of the November 2010 election and comes right back....looking great and the economy is actually showing positive signs.
Then you sign up to do a little bit of immigration reform, find five things to improve healthcare in America which amounts to 175 pages of legislative paperwork that you can read in one afternoon, and then agree to a Republican proposal over energy.
You’d walk into 2012 and re-win the Presidency easily. But he couldn’t do it....he had a totally different game-plan, which was set up to fail.
I’d like to think so. But it was just so insane to contemplate that just a few short weeks ago, Obama was once again getting a 50% approval rating... after four years of staggering ineptitude and a blatantly anti-American agenda.
As for Romney, watching him the past few weeks, it is noticeable how much he’s improved, in terms of polish and sticking to his themes. But trying my best to even set aside all my qualms regarding his record, he still strikes me as yet another in the endless vein of slick-talking “professional” politicians that I instinctively recoil from. Luckily, that is something I don’t think the mushy middle seems to mind.
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