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Reporters Put Romney on the Couch [Anderson? Anderson? OMG]
The Atlantic Wire ^ | ELSPETH REEVE

Posted on 10/28/2011 9:24:58 PM PDT by delacoert

Edited on 10/29/2011 12:54:09 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Conservative voters don't like Mitt Romney because he seems insufficiently committed to their ideals, but reporters like that he offers them an opportunity to play psychologist.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlanticwire.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: tank; tanked; tanking; tankyou; tankyouverymuch
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To: CW_Conservative

For a politician, Dukakis was a class act.


21 posted on 10/28/2011 10:21:07 PM PDT by Jonty30
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To: delacoert
http://www.politico.com/playbook/
""SNEAK PEEK -- GEORGE WILL SLAMS MITT – Sunday’s column:

“Romney, supposedly the Republican most electable next November, is a recidivist reviser of his principles who is not only becoming less electable, he might damage GOP chances of capturing the Senate: Republican successes down the ticket will depend on the energies of the tea party and other conservatives, who will be deflated by a nominee whose blurry profile in caution communicates only calculated trimming. Republicans may have found their Michael Dukakis, a technocratic Massachusetts governor who takes his bearings from ‘data’ ... Has conservatism come so far, surmounting so many obstacles, to settle, at a moment of economic crisis, for THIS?”"

22 posted on 10/28/2011 10:51:28 PM PDT by iowamark (Rick Perry says I'm heartless.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Remiss is the press’s middle name, chum.

I thought it was the title for a divorcee.

≤|B^)

23 posted on 10/28/2011 11:25:41 PM PDT by Erasmus (I love "The Raven," but then what do I know? I'm just a poetaster.)
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To: Jonty30
For a politician, Dukakis was a class act.

If he had just stayed out of that tank.
24 posted on 10/29/2011 12:50:03 AM PDT by mkjessup (Is Herman Cain the best conservative candidate? If you say "no", then tell me who IS!!)
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To: RobbyS
They’ve never played the game.

Mitt does play it well...

25 posted on 10/29/2011 3:27:06 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: newzjunkey
He doesn't read as a "leader," as someone who could handle a 9/11.

I'd HATE to have to say "DUH!" here, so I'll merely point out that the LAST time, he couldn't even maintain a 'lead' over that staunch Republican CONSERVATIVE, John McCain.

26 posted on 10/29/2011 3:29:14 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: CW_Conservative
I think that was Michael Dukakis and I believe there are better things to do than laugh at Republican candidates along with the idiot media.

Like what?

27 posted on 10/29/2011 3:33:32 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: dfwgator

amen


28 posted on 10/29/2011 3:34:15 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: mkjessup

Romney is going to have his tanking moment soon...


29 posted on 10/29/2011 3:36:53 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: delacoert
Romney should have run against Obama in their Democrat primaries.

He would have gotten much more respect running properly as a Democrat.

30 posted on 10/29/2011 3:56:58 AM PDT by meadsjn
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To: Windflier

LOL fooled me to...


31 posted on 10/29/2011 4:56:24 AM PDT by goat granny
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To: mkjessup

Dukakis also blew the question about rape during the democrat debates. Don’t remember the exact wording but I think, Dukakis was asked a question about what would he do if his wife was the one being raped/killed...It was in reference to the death penalty I think...He came across as a block of ice and wouldn’t change his mind on the death penalty even if it was his family....The tank came after that I think..but he sunk quick in the way he answered the question....I wish I could remember it all in context...


32 posted on 10/29/2011 5:01:34 AM PDT by goat granny
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To: delacoert

Conservatives, who actually give politics some thought, don’t like Romney because of the principles he espoused in the past, and because of his facility for isolating or abandoning principles. Certain principles were brought to bear in the creation of Romneycare and in the strong advocacy of “a woman’s right to choose.” Yet Romneycare is quarantined in a special case as he says it’s inapplicable to a federal program; while the pro-abort position is simply abandoned with no explanation or insight offered.

To us, the man’s clearly a hypocrite and a liar, on the make for the office of president.

Then there’s the average citizen who does not give politics so much thought, and some give it none. When they don’t like Romney, I believe it’s a simple matter of noticing how bodysnatcherly serene and benevolent he appears, and how he smiles as if all’s well. ALL IS NOT WELL. Everybody knows it. Thus he strikes many people as condescending, phony, unctuous, and possibly a little weird.


33 posted on 10/29/2011 5:56:10 AM PDT by Lady Lucky (Somebody please hit the reset button on the American experiment.)
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To: Elsie

“They’ve never played the game.
Mitt does play it well... “

He does? Is that why the only election he’s ever won was the 2002 Mass gov race in a year where there was a strong GOP tide nationally?

This guy’s been running for POTUS for 5 years and still can’t get over 25% in the polls. When the first votes are cast, I suspect this “inevitability” meme he’s been peddling will come crashing down pretty quick.

Sure, he’ll probably win New Hampshire, Michigan and Nevada but once we get to the South he’ll get wiped out like he did in 2008. No way a majority of southern Evangelicals and other conservatives are gonna vote for that plastic phony technocrat.


34 posted on 10/29/2011 6:00:50 AM PDT by lquist1
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To: lquist1
Romney even walks like a dork, watch him the next time he walks out on stage, he doesn't move his arms when he walks, he looks like a scared kindergartner.
35 posted on 10/29/2011 6:23:19 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Cain 2012!)
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To: Graybeard58

That Huntsman is a hater...

MormonDudee(MormonDude’s lill sis)


36 posted on 10/29/2011 8:00:55 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: lquist1

This guy’s been running for POTUS for 5 years
___________________________________________

This guy’s been running for POTUS for most of his life...

Daddy George groomed little Willie Mitty from boyhood to be president...


37 posted on 10/29/2011 8:04:03 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Lady Lucky

noticing how bodysnatcherly serene and benevolent he appears,
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They are probably waiting for Romneys next melt down...


38 posted on 10/29/2011 8:06:47 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: lquist1

PLAYing the game is not necessarily WINning the game!


39 posted on 10/29/2011 7:18:20 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Lady Lucky
When they don’t like Romney, I believe it’s a simple matter of noticing how bodysnatcherly serene and benevolent he appears, and how he smiles as if all’s well.


40 posted on 10/29/2011 7:20:05 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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