Posted on 08/19/2012 5:41:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A political maxim holds that you cant beat Somebody with Nobody. It largely explains why Mitt Romney was having trouble going head-to-head against President Obama.
The incumbent is a much more skillful and confident campaigner, and polls show many Americans like him, despite being unhappy with his policies and the countrys direction. Obama is definitely a Somebody and thats an advantage.
Romney, wooden and rich, was a fat target for the White Houses vicious personal attacks. Despite the presidents economic record, Romney was proving to be a Nobody among many voters, including independents and even some Republicans. He was on a path to defeat.
But a major transformation is happening before our eyes. Romneys selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate is reframing the race and setting new terms of engagement.
Suddenly, instead of Somebody vs. Nobody, the campaign is becoming Something vs. Nothing. Because of Ryans substantive agenda and ability to articulate it, the GOP ticket is now the Something running against the Democrats Nothing.
Part of that dynamic is Ryans age, which, at 42, is making Republicans the party of change and the future. Meanwhile, Dems, with their burdens of incumbency and the decision to stick with failed, unpopular policies, are becoming the party of the status quo. The Obama-Biden bumper sticker says Forward, but their fixation on Romneys taxes and his long-ago business career seem small and dated.
Biden especially, having morphed from gregarious and seasoned into demented and dangerous, is a vivid symbol of the tattered brand. The fact that the White House must keep insisting he remains on the ticket reflects a team on defense.
This remarkable development crystallized in just a week. The race now feels more like 2010, when the Tea Party swept out a generation of Democrats...
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Team Obama has made several bald-faced blunders----with ominous results:
<><> Spending $100 million on ads to bash Bain Capital---made no dent in Romney's numbers;
<><> Obama endorsed same-sex marriage which shot Romney's numbers into orbit.
<><> So wounded was the Obama camp on SSM, that Ohaha remained silent on the Chick-Fil-A incident.
<><> Obama's EO for backdoor amnesty to lawbreaking latinos is a resounding dud.
<><>Perry never recovered from the debate when he told Americans we "had no heart" b/c we opposed in-state tuition for illegals.
<><>Hillary lost a primary she should have easily won b/c she came out for drivers' licenses for illegals.
<><> Obama's punching out the Catholic Church on birth conrteol---and his disdain for religion in general---forecasts a huge defeat.
<><>Obama spat on millions of believers who will not tolerate politicos belittling and marginalizing their sacrosanct beliefs.
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SUGGESTED BUMPER STICKER----delivers the message with dynamite.
"Religion is the opiate of the masses."
NOTE: Some astute observers say Lenin's use of the phrase led to burying his political ambitions.
As for some sort of take over at the convention, Gingrich and Santorum have made appearances for Romney on the campaign trail. I have scene them myself! Being in Ohio we are CONSTANTLY being inundated with both Candidates surrogates. All the other candidates, except Ron Paul, have endorsed Romney. Even Sarah Palin and Rand Paul have endorsed Mitt Romney for POTUS. ALSO, a man of Mitt Romney's wealth and experience doesn't spend six years and tens of millions of dollars of his own money to become the Republican Nominee and than allow it to slip away after he fairly WON IT! It just will not happen! I assure you!
The organization ‘Jews and Christians Together’ is little more than a Mormon Hate group. I don't put allot of time into conspiracy theories as to what would happen with a Mormon President. A Mormon President couldn't be any worse than a Marxist President and that is what we are living through now.
This election and Romney's governance will be about the economy, budget, Obama care and entitlements. There is little else to talk about or worry about for now. Without economic growth and a reduction in unemployment and the Federal leviathan, all the social concerns will get worse.
Poverty breeds abortion, family conflict and many social ills. Look to the lower socioeconomic classes to see what is in store for all but the politically connected elites if O’Bumbler gets four more years of destruction as well as four more SCOTUS appointments. Romney may choose a less than conservative judge, but O’Bumbler is a proved Marxist who nominate unqualified Political Hacks to the bench, and our wonderful Republicans in the Senate NEVER vote against them much less fail to approve a Democrat Presidents judicial Nominees. That is a game only played by the Democrats.
I didn't vote for Romney, yet he is the Republican nominee, nothing is going to change that. He has become much more palatable with the pick of Ryan as VP and the willingness to talk real, important issues.
Please, join us in real World and push to oust the phony bologna O’Bumbler. Our future and that of our children and grand children depend upon removing O’Bumbler from office.
You should be a bit more careful about speaking for other people. I supported Newt in the primaries, but I think a Newt/Palin ticket would have lost big. Palin was successfully defined negatively by the media, and doing reality TV shows wasn't the way to change that image.
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