He will lose but make millions.
Posted on 07/25/2012 2:55:17 PM PDT by xzins
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) criticized the Mitt Romney campaign on Wednesday, saying it had failed to help the presumptive GOP nominee connect with voters and define what he stood for.
Walker, appearing on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” said the Romney team had focused exclusively on making the race a referendum on Obama, but in the process had not properly presented its own candidate to the public.
“I think there’s a lot of caution,” Walker said. “I think the mistake that they’ve made is the feeling like it can just be a referendum on the president. It’s certainly a part of it for any incumbent, it’s got to be a referendum on, do you like or dislike, not just the president, but his policies … but there’s got to be something more. People don’t just vote somebody out, they’ve got to vote somebody in,” said Walker.
“In many ways they’ve pulled him back and just want it to be a referendum on the president,” Walker continued. “I don’t think that’s enough.”
The Romney campaign has steadfastly argued that Obama’s mishandling of the economy is the only issue in the election that matters, and has labeled most every other issue a “distraction.”
The Obama campaign has hit Romney, charging him with failing to provide more details about the policies he would enact if he is elected.
Some Republican strategists have argued that Romney’s decision to forgo policy details on many issues could harm his chances to aggressively define who he is and what he stands for.
Walker also criticized the Romney campaign for how the Obama campaign has been able to paint the former Massachusetts governor as socially awkward.
During the GOP primaries, Romney had a historically low favorability rating, and one of his ongoing weaknesses has been his inability to connect with voters on a personal level.
Walker said it was merely a perception pushed by Democrats, and that the Romney campaign needs to address it by putting Romney in the right kind of situations for him to succeed.
“When he was with Paul Ryan and I in Janesville a few weeks ago … on that bus tour, I thought he was great,” Walker said of Romney. “He relates to people well, relates to small-business owners well. I would like to see more of that.
“I think, maybe, get him in a bus, get him around swing states, and not let him out until Nov. 6,” Walker continued. “In fact, I would get rid of the podium, I’d give him a mic, get him right in the crowd, and defy all the stereotypes built about him in the media, because I think he can relate.”
Walker, a rising GOP star, earlier this year survived a recall election in Wisconsin that was initiated after he stripped public-sector unions of bargaining rights.
Polls in the crucial 2012 battleground show Obama with an edge over Romney. A WeAskAmerica poll released last month showed Obama edging his GOP rival by 49 percent to 42.
The Obama campaign has hit Romney, charging him with failing to provide more details about the policies he would enact if he is elected.
A valid criticism.
Also, here in Ohio, at least, he has been very, very slow to respond to Obama attack ads. Finally we're getting response, but Obama's been defining him for a month.
Finally, and it isn't mentioned in this article, but Romney should have blasted Obama for allowing military uniforms in gay pride parades.
They don't allow chaplains to wear military uniforms in pro-life parades, and if you remember the case of LTG Boykin who got extremely high level grief for being in uniform when speaking in churches.
To date....to my knowledge...Romney has been mum on the subject.
The Romney motto: "Start Slow and Power Down"
He will lose but make millions.
From a Machiavellian point of view, it makes eminent sense for Mitt to put the spotlight on Barack. Barack then duly digs his own grave and Mitt wins by default.
The Elite Republicn Party would prefer a Democrat day in and day out than a Conservative.
I think the real process in the one party system is for the mega-connected and mega-rich cronies to go the secret back room and flip a coin.
Then they see if anyone can keep them from having the coin-toss winner be successful in the election.
The call it “Toss the Vote”
Blah blah blah.
Go Mitt. :D
The approach that McCain took to Obama can’t fairly be likened to Romney’s. Romney actually criticizes Obama; McCain only offered up powder puffs.
Over and over, such discussions seem to collapse into discussions by the cognoscenti about how much Romney sucks and they’d never vote for him. Point understood, but it misses the issue of whether Romney will prevail with larger America. All signs are that Romney will, very much aided by Obama’s own foolish campaign activity.
Joe Biden is without doubt the smoothest liar and inventor of spur-of-the-moment statistics that I have ever witnessed.
When numbers come out that guy’s mouth, you should check your wallet.
But, give the devil his due: the guy is a superb liar.
Author of ObamaCARE to Sen. Kennedy:
“I may always be to the Left of you, Ted,
but I bet you $10,000 that my Legions for DeathPANELS and DeathCARE can
fool anyone and sell me as a “conservative” anytime
so that suckers' money flows.”
Perhaps the Hill (house organ) is confusing constructive suggestion with an opportunity to split the vote.
One of Romney’s stumbling blocks is the public financing for his campaign. Running in the red like Ubama isn’t his style. For some time now, Romney has been between the end of his primary funds and the start of his general election funds. With an unwilling media, it isn’t like he can just go out and say it and expect them to truthfully report it.
We will know a lot more about the direction of the Romney Campaign after the convention.
There is enough of a conspiracy theorist in me to think that the winner it determined by power brokers for the most part out of the public eye.
Since they have LibA versus LibB, they can’t lose this year, so my guess is that they’ll soon determine which route will get them more of what they want.
Again, a Machiavellian would probably see Mitt as more pliable. Barack is rigidly Marxist doctrinaire and would ultimately lose the economic-only conservatives’ votes. Mitt’s softer socialism will sell better.
But, the power brokers don’t know everything, and the tea parties throw them for loops sometimes. Mitt’s pliability may also prove a means by which he is restrained from the worst.
I hope Scott Walker listened to Romney’s speech to the VFW yesterday. It’s the first time I’ve heard any real passion from him and I was surprised. He’s actually my last choice and I expect to be disappointed by him. Yesterday though, listening to him I became convinced of at least one difference between him and the current president. He loves America.
Walker is an outstanding fellow and Wisconsin is lucky to have him- and to have KEPT him! I agree with him- Romney needs to mix it up with people in town halls.
Romney (rmoney? typo) is kind of a plutocrat, like Trump but less so. Probably not all that comfortable with town halls. Still we’ll see, maybe he will, or his veep presumptive will.
How about some anti-Obama stuff for a change.
Just saying.
All your Romney-bashing gets (real) old.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Walker is an ObamaBot getting paid to diss The Willard...
the Romney campaign needs to address it by putting Romney in the right kind of situations for him to succeed.
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Quick !!!
find Willie an Olympics to “save” by spending 50% more of the US taxpayers money...
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