Posted on 09/28/2012 1:35:34 PM PDT by madprof98
That, apparently, is the long-held view of Mitt’s men — not and not just about the forthcoming debates, but about the whole campaign.
I have this from the lips of Sam Coates, the deputy political editor of the London Times, who was on BBC Radio 4′s Broadcasting House last Sunday participating in one of those panels of pundits-looking-at-the-press. Everyone agreed that, according to the polls, the U.S. election was finally over and that Obama would be back for four more years. All the newspapers all said so. “It feels,” said Coates, “that the incumbent is pulling away.”
Coates said the assumption of a Romney defeat fit his own view of the Republicans surrounding Mitt, a pessimism he saw back when Romney was in London eating his foot while talking about the Olympics. “His aides were there,” he said, “and they were telling some of our political advisers that, really, they weren’t that optimistic about their guy’s chances. They’re pretty resigned to it not going well, and it’s interesting to see that people are already moving away from his campaign.”
Does this seem plausible? Coates is a normally careful reporter. So does it seem that the coterie of mostly cautious Republicans surrounding Mitt are just going through the motions, they way they did for Dole and McCain? Does it seem, as it does from the Euro side of the Atlantic, that Mitt’s Republicans are embarrassed by their base — by “the vision thing” — and sometimes even by their VP nominee? If that’s true, then maybe all those odd polls reported by Katrina are true, too. After all, for two terms in the state of Kansas, where almost every voter is a Republican, voters routinely chose Sebelius, a left-wing extremist, over GOP candidates well-marinated in “moderation.” Nobody wants to vote for the reasonable chap running as functionary-in-chief.
In fact, what Americans seem to want is more polarization, not less. Those Republicans who try to campaign by galvanizing and leading their base, instead of ignoring and avoiding it, must be feeling now the way Romney’s dour aides have apparently felt all along — “pretty resigned,” minus the pretty. This is true in Senate races, too, and especially with influential PACs. In Michigan, where conservative Pete Hoekstra was running neck-and-neck with liberal Debbie Stabenow, the super PACs quit early and went elsewhere. As one source well-placed in the Hoekstra campaign told me, “We feel like the Rodney Dangerfield of Senate races.”
Scott Walker, the conservative Wisconsin Republican who defeated an all-out, union-run recall effort in a Democratic state, seemed to speak for many of the unwashed, according to the Independent:
It is no accident that Mr Romney hopes to close the book on his latest embarrassments with a bus tour in Ohio. It may also be telling that the tour will be opened by his running mate, Paul Ryan. Mr Ryan, who will address supporters in Lima, Ohio, today, is increasingly being seen as the more effective campaigner. Scott Walker, the Governor of Wisconsin, said as much when he praised Mr Ryan and said he hadn’t seen the “kind of passion I know that Paul has transferred over to our nominee”.Like other Republican luminaries, Mr Walker is no longer shy in offering his counsel to Mr Romney. “I want to see fire in the belly,” he declared, demanding evidence that the nominee is “lit up and ready to go”. He added: “I think you got to get off the heels and get out and charge forward.”
Fire in the belly? Lit up and ready to go? Mitt? Like a Glo-Stick on a bus, maybe.
Mittens has no fire in his belly(unless he’s running against conservatives in the primaries).
There are so many ways to attack Zero, but he chooses not to.
I still predict that about two weeks before the election, he will turn hard right to attempt to ensure conservatives will
get out and vote. Will it work? Who knows.
Me either but what I do know is that in any war, there are always the weak and feckless types that at the slightest sign of adversity, start either cozying up to the enemy or going into a variation of Stockholm Syndrome.
Sounds like their game plan is working - make the Right depressed and have them give up because “it’s already over”. Don’t let them get to you with the BS.
Funny to see NR complain about the GOP-e that they themselves are card carrying members of.
The UK media shows Romney as a right-wing nutter buffoon... even the TELEGRAPH seems to do so, you can tell from the people who leave messages at the TELEGRAPH blogs
I would like to see an utter repudiation of 0bama along the lines of 1980, or better.
I recall many (including Rush) say obama and the LSM would pull out all the stops to demoralize us. That’s what I remember and that’s what’s happening.
I have one word for both you and Dennis Boyle:
“NUTS!”
-proudly quoting General Anthony McAuliffe, responding to the German ultimatum to surrender at the Battle of the Bulge
Most of us here opposed Romney in the primaries. Our candidates didn't win. Now the primaries are over.
Surprizingly, Romney shifted more conservative after the primaries, first time we've ever seen that in our lifetimes, perhaps the first time it ever happened.
Right now, Romney is ahead by about 10%, and the trend is against Obama. That upward curve will be almost vertical by the first week in November.
By Nov 6, Romney is going to win the popular vote by about 59% to 39%, and the electoral vote will look like 1980 or 1984. Obama will lose Illinois, along with the rest of the midwestern states, and will be lucky to finish with just DC, NY, and CA.
I just don't know why you Obama supporters are hanging out on FR, other than to spread your commie propaganda.
Heck, it was predicted for more than a year before the nomination. There are those who saw this coming four years ago.
“by Dennis Boyles” no it’s ‘Denis Boyle’
Obviously French...
Welcome visitor from the future. May we also have the winning Super Lotto numbers from that time period?
You seem happy to be spreading this CRAP.
Doper research on
Your AstroTurf next time .
The author of this hit piece is a Ex Pat living in
France !
He is a lib and a French living elite !
He quotes the London Times , a
Left wing rag which trashes Romney non stop !
Obama and Axelrod appreciated your work today
It may be that I’m wrong and Obama will win.
But I am so disappointed that so many people on this site actually think the media has suddenly started reporting the truth 40 days before a Presidential election. Good grief. Come buy a bridge from me.
You’ve been here long enough to know that posting this article would result in a 100* personal attacks, and the highly original invitations to “go back to DU”, yes?
If my “handlers” were telling any media they thought I was going to lose I would fire their butts yesterday.
Seriously, if you people spreading defeatism and gloom cost us this election I will blame YOU for the loss of my liberty to my dying day.
If you can’t lead, get the hell out of the way and for God’s sake Shut Up!
I think the ground game of the Dems is to saturate the ground with negative expectations ahead of the debates. They just aren’t breaking into the 50 per cent territory they would like to be at with Obama. The Dems fear that Mitt will cream Obama in the debates as there is so much to cream him with. If, however, they are able to get it into peoples’ heads that Mitt is the foregone loser, then the people who need to watch the debates won’t watch them and America’s destruction will be assured. We’ll have voted our own destruction into being!
NRO is part of the “We have to be nice and civil and never lower ouraleves to do the things Democrats do” crowd.
They have created this mess. So Mitt hasn’t got a fire in his belly? Neither does anybody at NRO!
My take on this is that with all this "it's all over but the shouting," being reported, while it may demoralize some Republicans/Conservatives, they are much more energized and will (for the most part) ignore this BS (as we are smart enough to realize the corrupt, biased, MSM is doing this on purpose) turn out to vote.
On the other hand, I suggest that if they keep this up and the Ijits in the RAT Party keep seeing this reported, they are apt to think they don't have to bother to vote as it's "in the bag!"
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