Ah, the Tom Dewey strategy.
Hey, it worked before, right?
Posted on 05/30/2012 3:58:19 PM PDT by Sneakyuser
...Romney aides believe that cooperating with Democrats and media figures who are demanding a Trump disavowal would most certainly lead to more calls for more disavowals of other figures in the future -- leaving Romney spending as much time apologizing for his supporters as campaigning for president.
... Has David Gregory, moderator of NBC's "Meet the Press," repudiated his colleague Al Sharpton, the MSNBC host with a decades-long record of incendiary statements and actions?
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Some choice. You've got a USDA Prime Socialist, versus a USDA Grade B Socialist.
Trust me, I pray that you are right, and that I am wrong. I'm almost certain at this point that Romney is going to win the election, but there is NO evidence that he's going to run the country like a Republican, let alone, as a conservative.
Frankly, the man's record in office reads like any liberal Democrat's, which is the only realistic way to predict how he'll behave in office in the future. I haven't seen one thing from his performance in public over the last six years that convinces me that he's changed his stripes, or that he's grown a conservative core. Not one.
You Romney supporters are now down to saying, "Well, I'd rather have a flip-flopping liberal in office, than an anti-American Marxist."
That's small comfort, given the times in which we live. It's tantamount to getting a new driver who continues to drive you toward the same cliff, but simply backs off the gas a bit while doing so. You're gonna die anyway, no matter which of them is at the wheel.
The point that I continue to try to make, is that it's our duty to RESIST this evil, no matter which of these elitist scumbags is elected.
“One thing that has occurred to me just now, is that they are going to have a very hard time playing the “stupid” card against Mitt...”
Yes, I had almost exactly the same thought myself just the other day.
They might try it, but it’s not going to work. Romney’s not a genius and he doesn’t seem to be really an intellectual, but it’s going to be a hard sell that someone who was that successful in business is s.t.u.p.i.d.
And no, he doesn’t come from poverty, but my impression is that he’s far wealthier than his father was. And if granddad was living in some Mormon commune in early 20th century Mexico my guess is he wasn’t rich at all.
Of course Obama can’t attack Romney from the right. I suppose they could try that too, but I can’t really see them going for it besides calling Romney a flip-flopper, but that would really be a case of pot/kettle/black.
I guess we can’t blame them, they’ve got no accomplishments to boast of, so they’ve got to try all these things. But either they are so stupid on their face (like the hair cut story) or so badly executed (like the company that closed 2 years AFTER Romney left Bain) that they just aren’t getting any traction with them.
And yes, I give Romney credit for punching back hard. Romney’s a mild mannered guy, but again, you don’t get that far in business without being very, very competitive and aggressive.
Yes, I think Myther plans to lash US conservatives to the car top along with the dog.
DOGS AGAINST ROMNEY. LOL.
I understand the point that you are making.
Obama is imploding. I think that the poorly done forged long form BC along with him claiming for 16 years in his official literary bio to have been born in Kenya is going to bite him. He is a habitual liar and more and more people are starting to realize it.
Obama has done such a poor job that the “white guilt” vote is probably going to evaporate.
How futile to pray "Deliver us from evil" and then turn around and invite evil into our living room!
And that's exactly what evil is demanding with both Obama AND Romney.
I will be able to say with a clear conscience, that I spent my precious vote elsewhere, NOT voting for either evil.
Ah, the Tom Dewey strategy.
Hey, it worked before, right?
Thanks for saying that. For what it's worth, I do understand where you're coming from, as well.
As you say, Obama is imploding, but that portends some frightening things for us all. He's owned by some of the most deadly serious corruptocrats on earth, and they intend to see their agenda pushed through to completion by him, come hell or high water. I have no doubt that they're putting the screws to him and his administration like nobody's business.
I also feel that Romney has at least an 'understanding' with these people, if not a contract signed in blood. Despite everything he's said on the campaign trail, he's delivered for the other side in actual deed. I don't trust him as far as I can throw him.
Still, there's no question that Obama is the most dangerous man to ever occupy the White House. He simply MUST be driven out of that office, or this country will be pushed to the brink of Armageddon by his second term agenda. I think the evidence is mounting that he won't prevail in November, but should he somehow manage to engineer his re-election, all bets are off. I think the country will instantly plunge into a civil war footing.
The whole scenario makes me sick to contemplate. I mean that sincerely.
This in no way a defense of McCain's miserable campaign, but Romney has a couple of advantages.
First, he has the opportunity to learn from McCain's failure.
Second, McCain was fighting a ghost. Obama presented as a blank slate and invited voters to write their own wishes on the slate. The mass media was culpable in permitting him to get away with this. This time around Obama has a track record. All the media can do is to try to change the subject, which has proved quite difficult, because most Americans are keenly aware of his history. All Romney has to do is keep going back to Obama's track record - a luxury unavailable to McCain.
We actually are on the same page. With 49.5% of American households now receiving some form of government aid... we are very close to some sort of real crisis point. I hope that with the cyclic nature of politics that the country will swing back in the right direction but there is no guarantee.
I live on a small airport surrounded by 116 homes. I live on the same side as the hangars and the office. There is a gate that closes after dark and signs that tell visitors that they must check in at the office before preceding to where we live. There are a dozen houses on our side of the runway and we know everyone.
Last night my wife took our dog out and when she got to the end of the driveway she shined her flashlight and there were two hooded figures standing silently in front of our neighbors house. They were young black men; they were not saying a word and they were dressed completely in black. They were so quiet and still that the dog didn’t even notice them. My wife turned around and came back inside.
She told me that she didn’t understand what they were doing there. I went to check on our neighbors, some of whom are elderly. We haven’t ever had any problems here but it made me wonder if things are going to start changing. We don’t live that far from subsidized housing. People in the area assume that people with small airplanes are rich. Are we getting close to the point that our neighborhood is going to start being victimized?
If they had attacked me and I successfully defended myself... would I be the next George Zimmerman?
The good folks still outnumber the bad in this country. I firmly believe that if push comes to shove, as it might well do, that the good folks will prevail.
It could get ugly along the way. What you said about your wife's encounter with the hooded black men in your neighborhood is a red flag that you've got to pay attention to. I hope the individual right of self defense is strong in your state. You may need to fall back on that soon.
If you don't already, I hope that you and your wife can get CCW permits, and arm yourselves for protection.
Best not to get overly optimistic about Mitt's testosterone levels.
We are military history buffs; we have a pretty good arsenal of mostly vintage weapons. We like to shoot and we both have current CCW permits. The problem is that even armed if the bad guy sneaks up on you unexpectedly you still have a life or death struggle on your hands and there is a pretty good chance that they will come out on top.
I'm no Romney fan, but you are nuts if you think Newt is fearless and has anything to teach anyone about backbone:
Newt didn’t just reach across the aisle with the Democrats. He walked across the aisle and sat on the couch with them!
LOL...I like Newt’s ideas but was totally put off with his whiney, crybaby, “everyone’s picking on me” campaign.
Pathetic
Talk to me, Ch.
Out of office, Newt, hustled his few think tanks in DC for funding, and among his contacts were some Democrats, the infamous Nancy Pelosi being one. Blew my mind, too. I didn’t like it either.
BUT, in office Newt Gingrich was hell on wheels and you surely know that as Speaker of the House, he was the intrument by which we took the House for the first time, after 40 years in the desert, when Democrats owned all three houses.
Come on man.
Since Newt crawled through glass for the Republican Party, there has been nothing accomplished that even begins to compare with what Newt delivered to us, under fire every step of the way. Newt’s historic success and the genius behind his “Contract with America” flushed out Republicans and actually had them doing there job back then, because he was a workaholic.
He left and they have been pudding ever since. He balanced the budget pulling the House purse strings and PO’d many Republican players getting that done.
They despise him because they couldn’t match him then, and they can’t match him now.
Nevermind his retirement years and marketing faux pauxs, in office this guy rocks.
Same here. Newt wasn’t all bad, made some great soundbites during the primaries, but he would have been a disaster as our nominee, especially with the Independent woman vote. I know many of our fellow Freepers worship the guy but lets face it, there are not enough male caucasians out there to elect him president. He would never have gotten much above 40% of the total vote.
Newtie is largely a self serving politician. He debates well though.
“Newtie is largely a self serving politician.” <<<
You betcha. And I liked, every. single. thing. Newtie served up and just how he served it. It benefited him and it benefited our party by historic proportion.
Always liked, (past tense) Newt...have followed him for a couple of decades but he was a pathetic campaigner. Totally lost me when he went after Romney and Bain Capital...stupid move.
Then his constant whining during the campaign was pathetic...”FOX is being mean to me”. He ran a terrible campaign and deserved to lose; plus, there is no way he would have beat Obozo. And don’t give me the “he would have beat Obozo in debate”; very few elections have been decided by debates.
Sorry, Newt is just where he should be...right where he put himself.
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