Posted on 09/23/2012 2:58:49 PM PDT by Bob Leibowitz
The Romney campaign and Republican National Committee have more money than God, too much to waste to continue doing things the way they've always done. Now is the time to step out in a way that not only gets his message out over the heads of the Obama media but also draws an enormous amount of attention. Now is the time to swing for the fences.
How? Spend a handful of those millions on hand to buy 30 minutes of simultaneous airtime on all three (or four or five) of the major broadcast networks. Do it now, before the debates. That will maximize the audience and the impact. It will change the dynamic of the debates and the relative standing of the candidates.
Romney is in a position to assume the leader's position in the campaign. The timing is perfect, as Mr. Obama has been stumbling through issues and events.
In one fell swoop, Mr. Romney can:
Get his message across to 40-50 million voters, unfiltered by the media; Propagate an impression of leadership; Suck all the attention in the world into his campaign, leaving his opponent with nothing to do for several days but carp an be negative; By selectively emphasizing the issues he'd most like to highlight, facilitate the echoing Internet buzz leading into the debates. Potentially set the agenda for the debates themselves.
This one act can have a far greater effect than all the 30- or 60 second commercials in the world. It has the potential for turning the entire election on its head.
It would seem every bit as forward-leaning as his selection of Paul Ryan. For an even larger impact, consider asking Mr Ryan to co-present.
In my opinion he needs to fire the yes men and start listening to conservatives who aren’t particularly in love with him.
Just saw he doesn’t have as much as money as thought,and he will not take any advice for campaign.He will lose.
Second that.
Run 24/7 an ad of the DNC delegates booing God and Obama’s own statements from 2008 and 2012 about cutting the deficit in half etc. Shows pics of cities and towns in disarray. Burning embassies in the Middle East on 9/11.
Show graphically and by pics on how unemployment among Blacks, Hispanics, youth, and college graduates are at all-time highs. And how those having jobs may lose them.
Yes, do both educate and inflame the electorate or lose.
Sack the chief campaign strategist and old Bush-guard folks like Ed Gillespie. These guys are utterly useless.
ala Ross Perot style complete with charts and a pointy stick. And include Paul Ryan in the presentation. What percent of voters fell for that in 1992 and 1996? Do it again but this time MAJOR party doing it.
Facts and figure. Math. Keep it Simple.
I’m betting a couple of the alphabet networks would refuse to air it, even at a price.
What happened to “you didn’t build that?” Do they think hitting it as hard as they did at the convention with no bounce meant it was the end of it ?
I agree with both of you. The other thing he needs to do is amend his election ad to show this image of Obama and Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev :
With these words blazoned on the screen: "This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility."
That image should be prominently featured in all ad campaigns.
I’m sorry, but I get annoyed by the fact that’s all they talk about. It’s played out.
I agree with you, Frankly I am very afraid that we will have another 4 years of Obama. If that happens we will have a different America. He even redesigned our flag for his campaign. So many don’t care. Sad.
Libya
Secret Service Sex Scandal
Solyndra
Keystone Pipeline
GM Bailout
Fast & Furious
Obamacare
Shovel Ready Jobs
Federal Deficit
Personally, if I even sense a 30 minute political ad coming my way I run as fast and as far as I can from it. Do people really sit through these?
You’re a Freeper, you’ve heard it a thousand times. The media never blasted it the way they have the 47% remark. A lot of people who weren’t tuned into the race before Labor Day have never heard it. They ought to bring it back in the run up to the debate because in many ways , it is the counter point to the 47%.
He needs to grow a pair and come out fighting.
ala Ross Perot style complete with charts and a pointy stick. And include Paul Ryan in the presentation.
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I think this is effin’ brilliant. Make it a half-hour “fireside” chat with Romney & Ryan volleying ideas back and forth, keeping it informal and interesting, having a little fun between the two of them, and EDUCATING voters. This would totally suck all the air out of Obama’s campaign!!!!
Romney campaign, are you listening???
must have worked in 1992. almost 20% for a third party candidate. practically unheard of. in Presidential politics. of course that was 20 years ago but now with smart touch screens and such IF done right, it would be watched and people could watch via phones and laptops too. maybe in october, probably too early now but soon, early voting is getting cranked up.
back then, the article claims thirty minutes of network time costs ranged from 150K to 700K. Wonder what that’d cost now.
Then in early October, Ross Perot went on the air with a set of cardboard graphics and 16.5 million people tuned in for what amounted to a 30-minute lecture. Since then, Mr. Perot’s paid political programs have consistently outdrawn many sit-coms. (On Friday night, a half-hour program in which Mr. Perot introduced his family attracted 10.5 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research.)
As with so many aspects of his campaign, Mr. Perot’s 30-minute commercials seem to defy decades’ worth of political experience.
I went to a gun show today in Indiana, which was attended by huge crowds. But I was disheartened to see that there were no signs urging patrons to vote for Romney, or at least signs stressing how Obama will be bad for our country. I remember in 2008 how many signs were posted throughout the gun show on how Obama would be a disaster for us.
I talked with some of the senior citizen gun owners there and many told me that they could not vote for either Romney or Obama and intended to stay home on election day. The NRA is ‘all in’ for this election but apparently it does not matter to these seniors. I was told such things as: “Romney will tax the middle class. Romney will cut our benefits - All of the usual Obama scare the seniors propaganda talking points, which are working even better now that Obama is using the line about how Romney does not care about the 47 percent.
Sadly, I fear that it does not look good for us voting Obama out office. There will be no going back after he is re-elected.
We're already into early voting ~ and it's still September, and I don't see any of that saturation.
Guess someone forgot to check on the voting schedule ~ then, I only watch one show on broadcast TV ~ WETA 26 Doctor Who!
We were down to two programs on Cable and just dropped it keeping the internet link and our landline.
My understanding is that less than half the country ever watch broadcast channels anymore whether as local broadcasts or on cable!
Guess somebody forgot to find out where the voters are these days.
One individual along the way noted that Democrat registrations were down since they'd pretty well exhausted their stock of unregistered Democrats just before the 2008 election. Republican registrations are not up to the numbers the Democrats have in any case, and there remain vast numbers of unregistred potential Republican voters. Still waiting on the Republican voter registration campaign ~ oh, too late!
Darn.
There are these folks who claim to be conservatives but they support Mitt and argue that we should vote for him anyway. They think our dispute with him has to do with his ideology ~ whatever that is ~ haven't heard much of it ~ I"m a tax cheat or something ~ yeah, that's it, his ideology is I cheat on my taxes and don't pay any.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
Nope the dispute isn't about ideology, or us tossing out the good to wait for the perfect ~ it's about weak campaigner, weaker campaign advisers, even weaker understanding of political theory regarding how you win elections.
It's almost too late, but time for Mitt to bring on the up and coming junior varsity ~ (Conservatives) ~ to play the last half this game. Last time they played, 2010, they had this fantastic victory over the Democrats at the federal and state levels and retook the House and have a Constitutional majority of the legislatures.
He could do worse eh!
Well, he's not likely to equal the 2010 race, but he does need a new team.
Bet he still thinks this race is easy.
Last thing they want is another unscripted event.
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