Sadly, the ABOs have to defend statements like this by twisting and spinning them so they seem a bit palatable by conservatives and even their own conservative principles.
At some point, 1010, Romney had better unleash on Obama what he unleashed on Gingrich, Perry, and Santorum
If he NEVER does, then what will you think?
Personally, I will think the fix was in all along, that beltway folks love each other and don’t really care who wins.
I’ve seen Newt on the news the last few nights, and I listen to him talk about the MidEast, about the economy, about anything, and he does it so clearly, so pointedly, and so to the throat at the Obama Administration, and I simply sigh.
So which is worse, a candidate who once couldn’t keep his hormones in check or a guy who seems to have taken a pacifist vow during the general election?
So there are only 41 DAYS left ‘til the election.
I view TV randomly, and I’ve not seen a single Romney ad here in my part of OHIO this week. I’ve seen at least half a dozen Obama ads, more than that probably.
We hear Romney’s husbanding his resources for a final assault. 41 DAYS out it isn’t important to set the plate for the first debate with hard-hitting ads. That’s not how he treated debates with Gingrich. Remember the releases about Gingrich’s failed marriages? Those shaped the battlefield prior to the Florida debates.
Now it’s Mr Nice Guy. OHIO, 1010, the Cincinnati market, the largest metropolitan statistical area in all of Ohio, and I’m seeing NOTHING. (Add Dayton, similar to Cincy in so many ways, and by far the most populous area in the state.)
So, being nice, Obama hasn’t raised taxes.
Gingrich, on the other hand, says of Obama, “He’s not a serious person. He attends only 39% of security briefings. On the day our embassy is attacked in Benghazi he goes to Las Vegas...”
And Romney says, “He didn’t raise taxes.”
I’m waiting for Romney Shock and Awe, but I’m afraid I’m gonna get “Nice and Easy”.
There is a concerted effort on the part of the LSM to assist the Obama campaign. A tactic once understood is no longer a tactic, unless there's a gullible FReeper on the receiving end.
Story after story report some Romney “gaffe” and surprise, surprise it's taken out of context or part of a smear campaign. How come we can catch it some times and fall for it other times?
This is the same lying media that hates and undermines our beliefs and values. Don't believe them. Savvy?
Good thoughts, as always, Chaplain.
What amazes me is the number of apparent Myth sycophants that have come out of the woodwork.
Myth Romney is not now, nor ever will be, a conservative. He is a northeast lib who is trying to tell us that he is one just because he stayed in a Holiday Inn Express last night. Well, this isn’t a TV commercial and his virtue is that he is, as JR put it, the last RINO standing.
These little gaffes, that Romney apologists like to explain away as media spin, show us what is really going on in his little liberal heart.
“I’m waiting for Romney Shock and Awe”
Which would alienate the faction of the 53% (some women and independents) who vote emotionally - votes he needs to win. Romney stirring sympathy for Obama by mounting a head-to-head attack is not a winning strategy with that group. If he panders unnecessarily to conservatives (who already understand the full implications of a second Obama term), he will alienate some independents. Others such as Gingrich and Sununu are deployed to wage the hard-hitting political assaults.
Rush may have had it right a year ago when he said the GOP-e was convinced Obama can't be beaten and so were going to focus on Congress this election. Therefore, their only job was to nominate a presidential candidate who will raise money for the GOP but otherwise get out of the way and won't offend the donors too much.
Their man, Romney, has given huge chunks of the money he's raised to the GOP which is why Obama is outspending him everywhere you look, including Ohio. I think they see their plan unfolding exactly how they designed it.