Posted on 09/16/2012 11:26:46 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
WASHINGTON - Republican activists are incredulous: Why can't Republican Mitt Romney seem to break open a tight race with President Barack Obama given the nation's sluggish economy and conservative enthusiasm to beat the Democrat?
"He ought to be killing Obama, and he's clearly not doing that," said 32-year-old R.J. Robinson, one of the thousands of activists attending the annual Values Voters Summit this weekend. "He should be doing better."
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Activists need to quit bitchin’ and start workin’.
Romney isn’t the dream candidate for anyone on the right, but he is bucket loads better than Obamugabe.
I’ve knocked on several doors and made a few phone calls already...and I’ll keep workin’.
This has two part. Or three actually.
First off, there is a lot of bias currently in polls. Rasmussen currently has Romney ahead by one (today).
Second off, there is still a lot of conservatives who are not motivated by Romney.
That makes my third point: GOOD JOB on the VP pick. Now Romney stand behind your VP. With conviction, and make him a co-equal.
Ryan is quite popular.
To tell the truth, outside of your influence group, you are not. A lot of us will vote for you because of who you oppose, but you’re just not very popular. Never have been.
Get Ryan out front and center. Now.
Anyhoo, Rasmussen is the only credible pollster now and he has Romney with a slight lead.
Ditto!
I'm on the Obama mailing list. Their get-out-the-vote machine is up and running.
I can give several reasons.
1. CNN
2. MSNBC
3. NY Times Company
4. Networks
If they did nothing more than tell the truth, Obama would have already been fitted with prison orange.
I’m going to keep saying this until it sticks. There is a coordinated and serious group of left wingers working in DC in liberal organizations that are, day after day, trawling our web sites and posting comments so conservatives become so demoralized that they stay home. This is an ongoing effort.
I have seen this first hand. Do NOT let it infect you.
I have to give Romney credit for attacking bozo on this foreign policy crisis. The media crucified him yet he stuck to his guns and it was good to hear one of his surrogates refer to the president as “amateur hour”. What’s more, it told us exactly who the RINOS were... the ones who spoke out against him.
Psych ops.
The real question the reporter should asking is...why is a sitting President so WEAK in the polls.
Never underestimate the power of large numbers of stupid people.
Cue the bedwetters! Summon the Freetards!
Unfortunately, you are completely correct.
“Activists to Romney: Why Aren’t You Beating Obama?”
There is little Romney can do. It’s not his fault. The past week all that has been report is 0bama and company is doing a skilled, masterful job at handling the crisis in the Middle East while Romney is being and opportunist and politicizing the whole thing. Nothing will change in the next month and a half either. All you will hear is 0bama- great, Romeny - bad.
I think Romney is doing a great job just keeping it an even race. He has insurmountable odds trying to overcome the information that gets out to the people. He’s not just running against 0bama, he’s running against the media.
The election will very close only. Fortunately there is a set 43% or so that will never consider voting for 0bama. Romney needs to lock down 7% more and focus on six states. I’m sure he will all the McCain states. He just needs to pull VA, NC, IN, OH, Fl and CO back into the fold and he wins. I believe he has already pulled IN and NC back and is close in bringing VA and FL back too. OH and CO are going to be tough though.
Sarah Palin proved all 4 of those points wrong when she brought us a victory in 2010. Gov Walker also overcame CNN, MSNBC, NY Times Company.
The liberal media didn’t just get invented after Romney had won the nomination.
Thank you for saying it. I see this as the biggest problem in this election. Unless we catch on fire and start screaming loud enough to drown out the msm, it will be hard to win.
That said, we can drown them out. We did it with the Tea Party and 2010 elections, we can do it now. Let's get it done!
Romney says a few really great things, then backs off going back to his milk toast unconvincing speeches.
Ryan does not back off and is on fire.
People do not elect vice presidents.
Romney wont win unless he sets himself on fire, and that is not likely to happen. He doesn’t have a history of conservatism and his sorta support for it now sounds hollow.
Oh please. The trolls are obvious.
Romney is almost invisible. He had a big chance with the predictable catastrophe in the Islamist Winter that Hillary! and Mugabe caused.
Instead he was muzzled, and the thugs are out shouting down anyone who criticizes.
Romney's trying to play nice, and not upset anyone. His whispering will result in nothing but contempt.
His whole life has been about avoiding conflict. Obama's has been about provoking it and then deflecting blame.
He's got only a thin thread of a chance. Somehow take two of the Midwestern states he's not winning in now: Pennsylvania and Iowa, and maybe Wisconsin or Colorado.
Absent that, it's Johnny McCain reading his weepy "my friends" speech.
I agree, though part of the problem is Romney is not a real conservative candidate.
That’s my point in escalating Ryan’s role in this.
Ryan needs to motivate the base. You did real good Romney with the selection of Ryan.
Continue that. Escalate that. Ryan is a very popular guy.
USE HIM.
well I’m not demoralized. I’m just waiting for Vote Day so I can vote.
So was Gov. Walker. So was Sarah Palin in 2010 when she brought us a victory. So were the republicans in 2002.
I think Romney is doing a great job just keeping it an even race.
You mean like Bush did against Al Gore. Wanna know who will win another post 2000 election fiasco? Take a look at the USSC now vs 2000.
Karl Rove said you have to add 3% to 5% because of democrat voter fraud.
Romney needs to do better.
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