Posted on 06/22/2012 5:52:30 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
The Romney strategy the past eight weeks has been, in a small way, shrewd: have the candidate out there talking in a candidate-like manner, but don't let him say anything so interesting that it will take the cameras off Mr. Obama. The president is lurching from gaffe to mess, from bad news to worse. Don't get in his way as he harms himself.
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As for the president, his big campaign speech last week in Cleveland not only was roundly panned but was deeply revealing. In it—all 54 minutes of it—he attempted to make the case for his economic stewardship and his re-election.
What he revealed is that he doesn't know the case for his own re-election.
Politicians give 54-minute speeches when they don't know what they're trying to say but are sure the next sentence will tell them. So they keep talking. They keep saying sentences in the hope that meaning will finally emerge from one of them.
A 54-minute speech is not a sign of Fidel-like confidence, or a love for speaking. A 54-minute speech is a sign of desperation.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Hey! Peggy! We had a substantial candidate. You and your Liberal friends in the media told her to go back to Alaska.
I don't know about that. I just got a notice from the dems that sounds pretty enticing, and may lure me to the other side. I'm sure I won't be alone, as hundreds of thousands of other conservatives take this bait. Romeny is now toast. Here is their incredible offer:
"Having you join our 2012 effort is important to us. So we want to sweeten the deal.
By donating today, not only will you become a contributing member this year, but you'll also be automatically entered to be one of four Democrats we'll fly to Washington D.C. to meet our Chair, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, for lunch -- airfare and hotel are on us."
“Having you join our 2012 effort is important to us. So we want to sweeten the deal...”
...are you serious?
A date with Debbie Wasserman Schultz!
That's hard to resist!;-)
Peggy Noonan = Fredo Corleone.
You made your bed, Peggers,etc...
Second prize is lunch and dinner with Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
“Having you join our 2012 effort is important to us. So we want to sweeten the deal...”
...are you serious?
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I think I probably have puked.
Second prize is having TWO lunches with Debbie..ugghhhh...
Been true for a while, the more Obama speaks the worse he does.
Imho, one can review Obama’s speeches and they always have been glaringly radical/ ill informed. But the media and public just accepted that he was giving brilliant speeches.
His great “race” speech contained insane marxist assertions, he accused doctors of routinely performing uneccessary surgery on children, etc.
You do know, don’t you, that opposing 0bama is “racist”.
This is the main theme they’ll run on, behind the scenes.
DWS - “I’ve got my eye on you”.
He has within him the possibility to change the direction and tone of American foreign policy, which need changing; his rise will serve as a practical rebuke to the past five years, which need rebuking; his victory would provide a fresh start in a nation in which a fresh start would come as a national relief. He climbed steep stairs, born off the continent with no father to guide, a dreamy, abandoning mother, mixed race, no connections. He rose with guts and gifts. He is steady, calm, and, in terms of the execution of his political ascent, still the primary and almost only area in which his executive abilities can be discerned, he shows good judgment in terms of whom to hire and consult, what steps to take and moves to make. We witnessed from him this year something unique in American politics: He took down a political machine without raising his voice."
Obama and the Runaway Train, Peggy Noonan, 30OCT08
"I've got my eye on you. And you."
Her and Chelsea could be twins...hmmmmmm
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