Posted on 09/17/2012 6:10:05 AM PDT by upchuck
Mike Allen and Jim Vandehei reveal the disarray within the struggling Romney campaign: ”Stuart Stevens, Mitt Romney’s top strategist, knew his candidate’s convention speech needed a memorable mix of loft and grace if he was going to bound out of Tampa with an authentic chance to win... So Stevens, bypassing the speechwriting staff at the campaign’s Boston headquarters, assigned the sensitive task of drafting it to Peter Wehner, a veteran of the last three Republican White Houses and one of the party’s smarter wordsmiths. Not a word Wehner wrote was ever spoken. Stevens junked the entire thing, setting off a chaotic..., scramble that would produce an hour of prime-time problems for Romney.”
The bottom line of the Politico story: ”Romney associates are baffled that such a successful corporate leader has created a team with so few lines of authority or accountability.” Romney’s mishandling of the Middle East crisis was driven by desperation. ”Suddenly, the president was facing just the kind of externality that his team had been bracing for: a full-blown foreign-policy crisis less than eight weeks out from Election Day. And a campaign marked by stasis and even torpor was jolted to life as if by a pair of defibrillator paddles applied squarely to its solar plexus. Moments like this are not uncommon in presidential elections, and when they come, they tend to matter. For unlike the posturing and platitudes that constitute the bulk of what occurs on the campaign trail, big external events provide voters with something authentic and valuable: a real-time test of the temperament, character, and instincts of the men who would be commander-in-chief. And when it comes to the past week, the divergence between the resulting report cards could hardly be more stark…Here was America under attack, with four dead on foreign soil. [snip]
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If I didn’t know any better, looking at that list, I’d think there was a coordinated effort by the MSM to deflect analysis of Obama’s failed handling of the radical Islamists real crisis by making up a Mitt Romney faux crisis.
I want Romney to win this election.
I’d like to see him look like he wants to win.
I am no troll.
I bet barry odumbo wish his campaign was in such disarray. He would be up in the polls(real turnouts on this planet) and have a double digit lead with indies
Nice try but no cigar, fellas. It’s the 0bungle camp that’s scrambling. Heh heh heh.
I will have no problem voting for Romney. I can see through what the media is trying to do, but Romney is not handling them at all.
Exactly. Romney’s Obama's mishandling of the Middle East crisis was driven by desperation.
"The movie caused this, the movie caused this!"
The brutal assassination of Ambassador Stevens and associates on September 11th was simply an incomprehensible incident of "senseless violence"./s
Ah, yeah.
Does it matter even if it’s true? No... Obama’s going to lose by a landslide.
Are you twelve? Do yo believe everything you read? Use your own brain...
Are you twelve? Do you believe everything you read? Use your own brain...
If one does not take into account that the entire mainstreammedia complex is an extension of the Ob campaign, they woefully underestimate how organized his campaign is.
Romney has to compete with that.
People need to wake up and realize that the media is nothing more than a Democrat mouth piece. You saying that this is somehow Romney's fault and that he should somehow do something about it makes you part of the problem not the solution.
Lapping up Team Kenya’s dribble isn’t helpful either.
The Obama admin lets a consulate burn to the ground and loses a U.S. ambassador for 6 hours and you tell me it’s Romney that is disarray??? Only a drama queen or a dim bulb dem would think that.
Ignore these outlets all you want, they are what the voters read.
Romney had better figure out how to deal with them immediately.
There is no more time left for him to act reticent.
Time’s up.
He needs to take the lead now, after the Mideast crisis, while it is smoldering.
Now.
I completely agree. The time for sitting back and hoping for a surge of anti-0bama support is past. Either go on offense or plan on 0bamination II.
Ezra Klein, back to his old tricks of orchestrating a State Run Media message.
Propaganda at work......Romney is not our president..YET..but Barry Hussein Obama is and that is the man in disarray....whose foreign policy went up in smoke after it imploded last week in Egypt and Libya. Obama’s 60’s radical Clinton made a mess of things.
Insults will not fix the fact that many of Ob’s voters think like they are twelve and he knows it.
They think he’s going to fix everything for them and they belive everything they read in the headlines.
His campaign knows it.
I know everything we can know about what happened last week and the people I run into don’t have any knowledge. They are mumbling “it was the video”.
They don’t know Hillary was holding a party for the Libyans just a few days after they killed our ambassador, who is on Hillary’s staff.
They don’t know that Hillary should have been on the job at every moment managing the safety at the 20 embassies under revolt in the ensuing days.
I have to dig for this information.
People don’t want to dig for information and when they hear the truth, they don’t want to hear it.
Romney’s campaign shows no way of handling this.
“People need to wake up and realize that the media is nothing more than a Democrat mouth piece.”
Exactly right and if Romney pointed that out he would just get carpet bombed as a “whiner”.
Romney handled the reporters at the Jacksonville press conference and they went ahead with their obama campaign supplied narrative regardless.
If Romney can’t whip the presstitutes (D) at the debates he doesn’t deserve to be POTUS. The election is going to be close and all this hand ringing serves no purpose other than helping to get the kenyan reelected.
Romney is showing no leadership.
I think he can do a very good job as president and I sure would like to see him get in there.
He’s the one who called Ob a nice guy, and he’s the one who won’t get out in front of the media in this Mideast thing. I don’t know how to do it, but I can say he needs to do something now.
Our knowledge of how the media distorts, and are, ideed, an extension of the Ob campaign is jus tnot enough at this point that point was passed at the convention when the Romney campaign mention NOTHING about foreign policy nor the fact that we have troops overseas getting killed on a daily basis.
Nobdy here is lapping up anything.
A consulate burns to the ground on Sept 11 and the narrative is still that it was the movie.
Romney needs to articulate his foreign policy now.
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