GOP Campaign Consultants Badly Hurt Mitt Romney's Campaign

Cure Socialism ^ | November 6, 2012 | Jonathon Moseley

[Moseley]

Mitt Romney failed to convince the voters that he would be better than Barack Obama -- because he never tried. Simply saying that Obama didn't improve the economy is not a logical argument. Voters are smart enough to ask the other side of the question: Would you, Mitt Romney, be any better? Yes, Obama has been a disappointment. But does it logically follow that Mitt Romney is necessarily a better choice?

Unfortunately, Romney’s Presidential campaign (meaning the campaign consultants who usually ruin the Republican Party) ran a campaign on the strategy of saying nothing more than

•“Him bad! Me no him!”

A year ago Mitt Romney had tons of money and knew that the economy would be the #1 issue and would decide the election, if properly played.

So it is great that only a few days before the election 673 economists endorse Mitt Romney’s economic plan.

But why wouldn’t a campaign with plenty of money put that in motion up 8 to 10 MONTHS ago?

Mitt Romney has never tackled the most crucial question of the entire election:

“Sure, Barack Obama has not fixed the economy, but should we take a chance on you the Republican and the risk that you mght make things WORSE?”

If you are a voter who is hurting, you’re not happy with your life under Obama. But can you take a chance on the economy getting even worse if Republican policies would cause a re-run of the 2008 economic crash.

Cheerleaders for the establshment Repulicans fail to understand:

If you are a voter struggling with this economy, you survived (almost) one economic crash. You cannot afford to risk another economic crash. So if there is even the slightest chance that Republican policies might cause another crash, a rational voter would choose a bad Obama over a “worse” Romney (as they might perceive it).

Republican political gurus have run away from the issue, because they always run away from every issue and have the spines of wet linguni, for the last 4 years.

Well, now that negligence and cowardice is coming home to roost.

Republican gurus allowed Democrats to get away with bald-faced lies about what caused the Democrat-inspired economic crash in 2007 and 2008. EXIT POLLS RIGHT NOW are showing that a majority of those showing up to vote blame the bad economy on George Bush. That is very bad news for Romney, because it gives a clue to WHO is turning up to vote.

I have been in those meetings with self-proclaimed campaign experts when they wring their hands and squirm in their seats and wet their pants over the prospect of EXPLAINING something decisively and forcefully to the voters, countering Democrat lies, and taking a stand on anything. They think they are brilliant and clever by saying absolutely nothing of substance in a campaign.

While Mitt Romney has dramatically over-performed early expectations of him as a perceived establishment Republican, his actual campaign apparatus has struggled under the albatross of traditional Republican mistakes.

[Moseley]

But Mitt was an infinitely better candidate than McCain, Bush and Dole.

Yes, that's true. But Romney's campaign was still run and dominated by the same disastrously incompetent campaign consultants and self-proclaimed experts who have run the GOP into the ground for many many years.

Mitt Romney was better than his campaign. But his campaign was a dead weight that Romney had to drag around.

Romney turned out to be pretty good. His campaign was terrible. In other words, his campaign consisted of the same old establishment hacks who couldn't run a campaign for dog catcher and win.

[Moseley]

Bravo, driftless2: You are right. Republican establishment types aim to MANIPULATE the electorate including by pandering, trying to fool them, etc. A good conservative candidte aims to EDUCATE, INFORM and PERSUADE the electorate.

[Chgogal]

The GOP campaign consultants are girlie men who never ever went for the jugular.

Obama did and won.

Feels good doesn’t it?

[Chgogal]

BTTT

You have jackass Freepers who still blame Bush for everything. Eff them and the GOP girlie men consultants never went for Obama’s jugular. Obama went for theirs and they NEVER EVER responded in kind.

Oh and eff my fellow dummycrats. I’m just going to sit back and watch and the downgrades happen, the deficit grows and grows and unemployment reaches 20%.

[jpsb]

"You have jackass Freepers who still blame Bush"

Obama ran against Bush in 2008 and won. Obama ran against Bush in 2012 and won. You do the math.

[Chgogal]

Ok JackAss Freeper, side with Obama jerk.

Eff off!

[jpsb]

Like wise, but the fact remains that Bush killed conservatism in the USA. Bush also killed the Republican party. When ever I try to convince someone to vote GOP, the first thing I hear is “Bush”. Obama is Bush’s legacy. The GOP can not defeat an anti-American Marxist in a terrible economy and the reason is Bush.

[Chgogal]

And your reply should be Obama as a community organizer was suing banks under the CRA forcing banks to give mortgages to people who could not afford them. Freddie and Fannie were run by the democrats (rahmbo ran it for a year or two). Big banks insured the forced bad mortgages via AIG. AIG repackaged them sold them over and over again. Dummycrat Frank was a big backer of Freddie and Fannie for decades. That was the big failure that was blamed on Bush.

You can also compare Bush/Enron vs. Obama/Goldman Sacs or Obama/MF Global. Enron's Jeff Skilling is in jail. Who from the Big Banks is in jail under Obama. What about MF Global and Jon Corzine, one of Obama’s bundler? They effing stole $1 billion for customer accounts!!!!

And you are telling me that all this is Bush's fault? It just tells me that the GOP and Freepers don't know how to go for the jugular.

[Chgogal]

Do you ever ask the “someone” why Obama has not signed a budget in over 3 years?

Do you point out that Obama’s budgets were so poorly thought out that not one Senator every voted for them? Not one!

Do you ask them how they fell about the $22 Trillion deficit that will be accumulated under Obama because THEY voted for him?

If they have a bigger and better house than you have, do you ask them when you can move in, because it would be fair and you are a true believer in social justice?