Posted on 02/02/2012 4:55:20 AM PST by iowamark
Let me just tell you, I don't think this connection bit even is being discussed in the way you're talking about it. I don't think it's connection from audience to Mitt. I think the people talking about it say that he doesn't connect, and it's because of that parody, "I believe in millions of Americans who believe in an America where millions of Americans love America." I know all about connecting with people. And the problem, it's not that you don't connect, not that his supporters don't, it's that he doesn't really connect with them. The people who say that, Erin, let me just tell you, I don't mean to hurt your feelings, what they're saying when they say that is that he's not genuine. The people who say that and believe it, nothing to do with Mormon, it is that they just don't think he's genuine, that he doesn't believe the stuff he's saying.
He's saying it because he's trying to convince people that he's conservative because he's really not one. That's the rub, that's what I hear from people. Pure and simple. You asked. You asked. And one thing I will never do is run for the hills from a question. I love the questions. Thanks, Erin, very much, for the call. I appreciate it. (interruption) What do you mean it's not an intangible? The whole notion of whether people are genuine or not matters. It matters and it's not something you can teach somebody to do. You either connect with an audience or not. Nixon was never able to, until 1968. Roger Ailes did put him in a circle in the round format on TV where the audience totally, Nixon answering questions, going back and forth, turning circles, standing up and that was Nixon's rebirth.
In 1968 he did an appearance -- I remember watching it -- and it was the time in his life that people thought he'd ever really connected and given them some of who he really is. It is an intangible. It's hard to say what that is, when you want to define connecting with somebody in a mass sense. You know when you meet surface people in your private life, in your personal life. You know when you meet somebody that you don't think is telling you who they really are, phonies. You know 'em right off the bat. That's all that's being talked about here. And in politics criticism often gets vicious, 'cause to a lot of people, the election is ball game. It's not about what the Republican establishment thinks in terms of whose turn it is.
People's lives are at stake here, they think. Their futures, their kids' futures. They're not gonna happily vote for somebody who they don't think really gets that. If they think somebody's just telling them that they agree with them and understand it and feel it when they don't, it's gonna be a tough sell. It's going to be a real tough sell. Obama connected to young people, Grant Park, yeah, he connected. But he connected on superficial stuff. He connected on platitudes. He was able to convince people. When he said he was gonna lower the sea levels, the crowd that that mattered to thought that he really meant that he was going to do it and could. That's the connection. He didn't connect with me 'cause I know it's a bunch of crap. It's harder to connect with conservatives, 'cause it's not an emotional connection that we look for. And when you try to connect with people with emotion, when that's not what the game is, that comes across as even more of an effort to connect, and it isn't going to work.
She admitted that she’s a Mormon. She was smart and omitted that fact until later on in the call, but she consumed 20 minutes of Rush’s show to blather on and on about Mitt.
I’m sorry, but I tuned out during this time. I’m tired of the Mormon Mittbots running this conversation. Mitt’s going to keep us going on the same path, and I’m fed up with it.
Time for change or time for chains. You choose.
Romney got 94% of the Utah Mormon vote in their '08 primary. Religion before everything.
This continued “I don’t have time to listen” and having the “Today Show” on in the backround every morning for the news is precisely why we’re in the mess we’re in. People have got to open their eyes and try to learn something other than the propaganda on the MSM!! Use some damn common sense for crying out loud. Stop making religion the factor. I’m Methodist and I don’t adore every Methodist that walks down the street! Mormonism is a cult! Harry Reid’s a mormon and should be in a jail cell!
I knew that was coming as soon as I heard she was from SLC. Another Romney zombie.
It's harder to connect with conservatives, 'cause it's not an emotional connection that we look for. And when you try to connect with people with emotion, when that's not what the game is, that comes across as even more of an effort to connect, and it isn't going to work.
Thats is enough for me.
Newt needs to hammer that day and night.
..identity politics from the planet Kolob...
I knew she was a Mormon as soon as it said SLC.
Rush was very gracious. I would’ve told her to get the hell off my phone long before he did.
If one cannot explain what a conservative is you probably are not one. Mitt has no core principles and is the “The King of platitudes and talking points on the GOP side. This election will be a battle for the “King Of Platitudes and Talking Points” instead of issues. Obama is the King of Kings in this regard, and Mitt will have a hard time exposing the emperor with no clothes because he has the same problem.
AND she started a sentence with "Me and..."
She was either a plant or a poser.
—This is Erin, Salt Lake City.—
I paused right there to apply some context to her whole attitude.
When I became a Christian in 1981, I was appalled to find out that many of the members of my new church were Carter supporters. I thought, “Jeez! Aren’t you guys conservatives?” Then I remembered, Carter was the “Christian” candidate. I literally remember that moment like I remember where I was when I heard the first space shuttle crashed.
Politics and religion make interesting bedfellows. It’s why I’m a fan of only one theocracy: The one coming when Jesus is the King.
—She was smart and omitted that fact until later on in the call—
HAHAHA! A rabid young Mitt Romney supporter with three kids and lives in Salt Lake City? As soon as I saw the word “Salt”, I KNEW she was a Mormon. That is when the whole thing became clear to me.
—This continued “I don’t have time to listen” and having the “Today Show” on in the backround every morning for the news is precisely why we’re in the mess we’re in.—
Exactly. I dumped TV in the mid-1990’s. I now feel like a Jew in mid-1930’s Germany asking my fellow Germans, “ARE YOU PEOPLE FRICKIN’ INSANE!”
Sorry about the yelling... :-)
“Young Adult Author Doesn’t Get Why Mitt’s Not “The One” for Conservatives”
Judging by the crap young adult authors churn out these days
*cough*(Twilight)*cough*
I can see why there is confusion by this person.
“She admitted that she’s a Mormon. She was smart and omitted that fact until later on in the call, but she consumed 20 minutes of Rush’s show to blather on and on about Mitt.”
EXACTLY. I noticed that too.
“And I’m a Mormon, okay ...”
The discussion should have started and ended right there.
Mitt was endorsed by the Bushes.
Bush I was involved in the UN Area 21 scam. The Bushes are one-worlder globalists who love Muslims.
Mitt was also endorsed by a menagerie of establishment losers: Rove, Perrino, Dole, Christ, McCain, etc, etc.
Nuff said.
Romney is a mormon. She is a mormon. She is supporting Romney because he is lds, its that simple.
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