Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.” - Paulo Coelho
Posted on 10/21/2012 7:26:42 PM PDT by cdchik123
Mitt Romney has a clear-eyed and self-aware view of his chances in the final debate Monday, according to top advisers: It will be almost impossible to win, since the debate is focused exclusively on foreign policy, a strength for President Barack Obama.
This view isn’t merely about expectations-setting. Romney’s top advisers authentically worry that the swing voters they need to woo care little about foreign affairs right now. And, even if they did, the differences between the two men on many of the highest-profile issues — ending the Afghan war and the bloodshed in Syria — are too slight to draw sharp distinctions.
Even if Romney does bring his A game, Obama joked last week about his debate strategy for winning the showdown in Florida: “Spoiler alert: We got bin Laden.” It’s not a joke that he said it, or that he uses that conquest to maximum political advantage in debates and speeches to show strength and achievement.
The Romney campaign sees this debate – to be moderated by Bob Schieffer on Monday night in Boca Raton, Fla. — as the last chance to move the needle in any significant way in the swing states that will decide the election. Aides head into it more confident about winning the race than they did before the first presidential debate, but believing Obama is slightly better positioned in the states that will dictate the outcome. The hope inside the campaign is that Romney will emerge in no worse position, advisers said.
“The debates have not so much fundamentally changed the race as they have returned it to where it was before the Democratic convention,” said Vin Weber, the Romney campaign’s special adviser on policy.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Yeah, Obama really is STRONG in foreign policy. </sarc>
Comedy gold. This writer should be working for Letterman - he needs the help. :)
When ojackass claimes he got Bin Laden, Romney ought to point out the seals go him, obummer just happened to be sitting in the chair when it happened.
ROFL Zero? Foreign Policy strength? Bowing to foreign dignitaries, Apologizing for the first amendment. Setting the world on fire? embarrassing our friends. Toasting the Queen hahaha. Zero is a laughing stock around the globe. Promising Medvevev he can help Russia after the elections. Hating BiBi. the list would take all night. lol
Comedy gold. This writer should be working for Letterman - he needs the help. :)
Why does it always take TWO liberals to write an article? Even with two people, they still always come across as sounding retarded. Foreign policy is Soetoro’s strength? ROTFL! He bows down to every foreigner he see for Pete’s sake! That’s a hell of a long way from, “Walk softly but carry a big stick”.
Yeah, I was unable to read past that one-liner joke.
What planet do these guys live on?
I may give the edge to Obama over an imbecile. ...Naah.
Planet Politico who are cast offs from planet Spewsweek.
Anyone who thinks that Politico is in any way objective or unbiased, needs a brain-scan immediately.
These people rank among the absolute worst of Obama’s media shills.
It is almost impossible for Romney TO LOSE. How deluded can you get to believe The Disaster has strength in foreign affairs? He would have been finished off last debate but for Crowley who allowed him to slither off the hook and lie for another week.
But the jig is up in any case.
Uranus
Romney should just pick it up right there and finish his statement. Candybar won't be there to stop him.
Let incontinent Bob just sit there with his tongue in his mouth...dumbfounded.
Politico is and has always been a mouthpiece for Axlerod and his ilk - nothing more.
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.” - Paulo Coelho
He got bin Laden. Now go and get al-Qaeda.
Are you sure this wasn’t from The Onion????
By Jim Vandelhei & Mike Allen...... stopped reading right there.
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