Posted on 07/05/2012 2:13:46 PM PDT by Kaslin
From the same CBS News /interview that Allahpundit highlighted yesterday, Mitt’s wife Ann Romney added a few interesting tidbits to the conversation:
Ann Romney: Obama's whole campaign strategy is "let's kill this guy"
Firstly, I think Mrs. Romney has it exactly right on Obama’s core campaign strategy:
“I feel like all he’s doing is saying, ‘Let’s kill this guy,” she said, seated next to her husband… “And I feel like that’s not really a very good campaign policy. …
In August, some Democratic strategists let leak to the press that Obama’s top aides were looking at a massive character takedown of Romney in light of a deterring economy; “kill Romney” was a phrase used by one. “That was their memo that came out from their campaign,” Ann Romney said. “And it’s like, ‘not when I’m next to him you better not.”
With the economy oscillating somewhere between mildly demoralizing and positively terrible, Obama can’t run on his vast record of broken promises. The ObamaCare-Tax ruling certainly didn’t do him any favors as far as giving him leeway to tout his achievements, so it’s all “evil profit-seeking Bain Capital did this” and “as Massachusetts governor, Mitt Romney did that” — they’re definitely playing up the cheap populism on his swing-state bus tour today and Friday. (The bus tour is titled “Betting on America.” Translation: Mitt Romney outsourced jobs!)
Secondly, a little hint at what might be going on in the vice presidential vetting, perhaps?
Mitt Romney’s wife says her husband is thinking about picking a woman to be on his ticket this fall.
Ann Romney says in an interview, “We’ve been looking at that and I love that option as well.” …
The former Massachusetts governor, who was joined by his wife for the interview, declined to describe the status of the vice presidential search, saying “that’s something I’m keeping close with my team.”
Hmmm: An honest-to-goodness clue, or just another red herring in the Veep-speculation du jour? Sen. Kelly Ayotte, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, and Gov. Susana Martinez would be my guesses — Ayotte and McMorris Rodgers have been especially staunch surrogates for Romney in the campaign so far. But of course, only Team Romney really knows who’s on the list, and I’m sure they’re “considering” and seriously vetting at least a few people, so a lady may very well be an option as much as anyone else right now.
YES!!!!! ha ha
I am not serious, but have a delicious time imagining Mrs. James Carville as the choice.
I like Sarah Palin, alot, but she’s polarizing particularly to the cross over voters.
Same goes for Liz Cheney and I really like her as well.
imvho, this isn’t the time to bring on some more “change.”
I realize you weren’t here at the time, but during the 2008 campaign, the only time Senator McCain had a prayer of beating then Senator Obama was between his choosing Governor Palin as his running mate and his suspending his campaign to rush back and “fix” the economic crash that Mr. Soros ginned up to insure that the Democrats would win. Gov. Palin didn’t fail Sen. McCain, he did that all by himself. As to your other examples, Vice President Mondale never had a prayer against President Reagan, no matter who his second banana might’ve been, and Hillary was up against the Chicago machine, Howard Dean and the DNC, the Kennedy family, the Congressional Black Caucus, the racialist/civil rights machine, the media, massive white guilt, the hard left and academia. She never had a chance.
All these white guys that keep getting talked about are just a smoke screen. Romney will pick a minority and or a woman.
Ann can look at this option all she wants but her hubby will never pick a woman. A woman, no matter whom she is, would steal the limelight he wants all to himself.
I don’t believe either of the Car viles are sincere. I think it’s all an act with them. They make a nice living with the act.
Sure. Running Hillary against Obama worked so well for the Democrats. [More than a little irony and sarcasm there.] Bipartisan, so-called progressive tactics are the cause of the collapse and probable civil unrest (probable understatement) in front of us. But go right on ahead. Show us peasants who’s boss. Impose more pathological social desires of the idle debt/revenue sturgeons on us.
But would Romney let Palin run her own show or would she be handcuffed the way that McCain handcuffed her the first time? Besides, wasn’t it Romney’s people who sabotaged Palin’s reputation to the press at every opportunity?
Why has no one mentioned Jim DeMint? DeMint endorsed Romney early in the last two campaigns, and would bring a lot of people in the south who are reticent to vote for a Mormon and a liberal. And he engages the enemy very well, he pulls no punches.
McCain lost. Palin didn’t.That's right. And I'm pretty sure Palin won't run this time unless she gets to run as herself, not some RINO's handmaiden.
Excellent post #44.
Good to see your comment as the first one in the thread because that my first thought, too. My second thought was, “Doesn’t she have some cookies to go bake or something?”
Ayotte is a pretty reliable conservative, but definitely not ready for prime time.
Agreed. Laura’s Bush’s “conservatives are sexist for opposing Harriet Mier’s nomination” was typical of the obnoxious blather of First Ladies. Thankfully that shrew has been out of the news for quite some time.
There you go -- that's a great idea!
Sharpen the campaign profile, sharpen the "economic-conservative" message ("no Southern knuckle-draggers in this tent -- and that means you, Newt!"), and add some regional balance to the ticket.
Should work like a champ!
Hey, hey -- let's not get sarcastic there, buddy! Remember, Tom Dewey almost pulled it off in 1948, and Gerry Ford almost caught Jimmy Carter in 1976!
Let's give economic conservatism a chance, okay? Okay! "Me, too!"
Maybe Ann Romney just feels strongly that somebody on this team is gonna have to grow a pair!
Sarah Palin wears so many Romney swords and knitting needles and hatpins stuck through her, that she looks like a pincushion ..... most of them stuck in her back.
Don't think she'd entertain a Romney feeler ... except to chop it off.
She would tear Biden a new one in each and EVERY debate!
She'd reduce him to a whimpering pile of steaming Ken-L Ration.
That's too tough on Laura Bush, who has usually been a very class act and is really the best of the crop since .... well, let's say Nancy Reagan. That one comment was atypical of her and probably reflects her unguarded blurting out of some of Dubya's disappointment at his failure to secure a reward for a loyalist follower. He let his loyalty downward get the better of him with that nomination, and Laura let her candor and her loyalty to her husband get the better of her. But she doesn't usually do that.
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