Posted on 08/10/2012 10:43:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Unfortunately for Romney, he’s never defined himself. He’s flip-flopped so many times no one, including I suspect most ABOs, can tell you where he truly stands. On anything.
If someone else defines Romney for him, all I can say is that the candidate is so bad he deserves it. He’s got work to do.
“...thanks to a hundred thousand votes in Ohio and some trusty Diebold machines.”
Oh right, I forgot that part.
This was a dreadful article and I usually like this guy’s stuff. He’s supposed to be one of us!
Now, maybe he was just being sarcastic, but as we all know it is hard to be sarcastic in print, much easier verbally.
And I’m also very tired of the implication that the Swift Boaters’ charges were smears. Kerry rose to fame by slandering his fellow service members. He had brass bound gall to show up in the guise of some old war hero “reporting for duty”. He always wanted to have things both ways, that’s why the “I voted for it before I voted against it” gaffe really hurt him.
It is one thing to tell the truth about someone, quite another to tell blatant lies like the dems are doing to Romney. I really, really, really don’t want them to be successful. Can you imagine what will happen to the next candidate if attacks like “you didn’t pay taxes for 10 years” and “you are responsible for the death of that woman” are successful?
It’s Obama who’s been defined by the manner in which he’s attempted to define his opponent. His minions are tying themselves in knots trying to fight off the backlash.
We are supposed to believe that the majority of those who will decide this election won’t begin to listen for some time now, yet they’re listening enough to conclude one of the candidates is responsible for the death of a woman who died of cancer?
The Democrats and the media attempted to “define” each and every Republican who ran in the mid-terms, and look what happened.
The whole article is bull.
Kerry’s response or non response to Swift Boat probably would not have affected things either way.His belated response did wha an early response would have done- brought up more testimony and more evidence against him. If the charges are false you refute them forcefully once, echo it briefly once or wice and go on to atack, of better, do what Reagan did. You put forward three +- BIG things you intend to accomplish and hammer on them without much responding to attacks, except humorously. But first, you have to have big things you want to accomplish and have to know how to put the goals into a few forceful words with occasional explanations for side play. Romney has no understanding of that sort of thing at all. He is more of an accountant who wants to get the details right, whatever might be the big picture.
He is facing an incredibly weak opponent this time.
Obama is facing a man whose only political successes are ones that his supporters despise, that go against his party, that most resemble Obama, and that he is now supposed to be against.
The GOP nominated an empty suit with a pocket full of money. Conservatives weren't able to raise enough 'free $peech'.
“thanks to a hundred thousand votes in Ohio and some trusty Diebold machines.
Stopped reading right there.”
You and me both.
Feh.
Talk about spot-on and not a letter wasted!
That really should have had a (barf alert) tag.
Thus all the "rich guy" attacks from the WH.
Romney is fighting back hard.
The fiercest part of the battle to define Romney will continue until the Convention. Then Romney gets the bully pulpit for a few hours so he can define himself.
Sure hope someone is saving these articles to review on 11/7. :-)
Sadly, with half the population on the government dole it is over now for Romney and us.
Newsmax
Obama Widens Lead Over Romney as Smear Tactics Take Hold
Friday, August 10, 2012 11:06 AM
By: Henry J. Reske
The Obama campaign’s unrelenting and discredited assault on GOP challenger Mitt Romney over his taxes and business career are taking a toll on the former Massachusetts governor’s standing with voters.
Three national polls released in the last two days show President Barack Obama opening up a seven to nine point lead.
A new Fox News poll shows Obama ahead 49 to 40 percent, the biggest spread since Romney secured the Republican nomination. A CNN/ORC International poll shows that among registered voters, Obama leads Romney 52 percent to 45 percent and an Reuters/Ipsos poll also has Obama up by 7, 49 to 42.
Once I hit the old Diebold Conspiracy Theory I stopped reading.
The Left has not defined you until the entire country is laughing at the parody pantomime you on Saturday Night Live.
The only war we, yes, WE the voters, are responsible for losing is the psychological war of the media w/ us, which tells us this is an election between an incumbent and a challenger, like any other past election. We all know it is not and the media knows it is not, but they are winning in convincing us that it is. In which case the fraud of this obamination, this shambles of a presidency, is wiped clean and the two candidates are put on par and let the “campaign” begin anew, at which point media has a clear path to victory for their composite charlatan by character assassination of the challenger.
Can’t you all see that?
This is like no election in the past and WE MUST reject the notion that it is. All the phony polls are all about that same narrative, same psychological warfare. The media’s main goal is, at a minimum, to raise up the composite charlatan on par w/ the challenger. He is not, no matter who the challenger to obamanation is, and we should never be bamboozled into believing that it is. We should never accept the media fantasy that this is any old run-of-the-mill, status quo election. We must reject the very notion of this fraud. obama is the devil and he must stand on that legacy and record. And on that legacy he has nowhere to run but the fires of damnation, God willing. Let’s make that clear at every turn in these difficult months ahead. obama will not and cannot be president again and the media better get that stupid notion out of their head — or change their candidate asap before they all go down w/ him.
It is a travesty, that this not a Christian empty suit won the nomination. Rick Santorum would have been a much better pick. We know what his values are. He doesn’t say things and change his mind 5 seconds later. He obviously loves his wife and his family and he keeps his promises.
Would Paul Ryan do it? I think so...
No candidate ever puts out in detail how he intends to go about implementing his programs and for good reason. The opposition will pick apart the details and turn a positive idea into a negative. This is the exact reason the media wants Romney to be more specific and he is smart to hold back on the details for now.
Remember Nixon and his “secret plan” to end the war” Now I certainly don't agree with the way we basically ran out of VN but during the campaign polls were heavily against further or ongoing involvement and Nixon played off that.
Deficits, jobs and the economy are today's top priorities and ALL polling I have seen shows Romney ahead in the ability to deal with them.
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