Well, if you've got to vacation with 30 family members this week, who has time for this inconsequential stuff? Anyone who posts have the jet ski photo?
It will be hard to lose to Obama this time around, but I think Romney has found a way to do it.
Looks like its gonna be up to the Swiftboat types to drag him over the finish line.
Link, please.
From Romney’s campaign website:
Health Care:
“Mitt’s Plan
On his first day in office, Mitt Romney will issue an executive order that paves the way for the federal government to issue Obamacare waivers to all fifty states. He will then work with Congress to repeal the full legislation as quickly as possible.”
That’s his position on the matter. Other than hone his messaging about the difference between the needs of MA and the US, not sure what else we want him to do.
Mitt Romney: Use when lying and looting aren’t quite enough to bring conservatives into the fold.
It doesn't take Plouffe or Axelrod or even Carville to write the script on this one. Romney is quite simply "neutered" on the topic. The healthcare issue may fire up the masses, but it is a non-starter for Romney.
Mr. RomneyCARE should resign and save America,
but it is all about HIM, HIM, HIM, HIM, HIM, and Soros.
This, along with McConnell’s statement tells me all I need to know on what to expect from a Romney presidency.
(shrug)
Romney is still the same old cowardly milquetoast he’s always been. Is it possible that anybody is surprised?
It reminds me of the Bob Dole campaign in 1996. A Clinton appointee judge made a horrible ruling that let a couple of dug dealers go free. The case made national headlines temporarilly and the dole campaign pounced on it. Pointing out what terrible judges the Clinton administration was putting on the bench.
The Clinton campaign responded, pointing out how Dole, as leader of the senate, went out of his way to help fast track the nomination of this judge, among many others that Clinton wanted. And that if Dole didn’t like them, he was in the position to prevent their nominations going anywhere.
That completely shut up Dole and his people on clintons judicial nominees for the remainder of the campaign.
Attacking ObamaCare is simple in a way that really would not reflect on Romney:
1- the way the Democrats passed it, it steals freedom from citizens
2- it is a huge obstacle to fixing the economy
3- Democrats over the years intentionally broke healthcare so they could take it over
Bad economy, high unemployment, unbridled debt.
Anything else is a distraction.
If we just agree with the democrats than we won't have these bi-partisan conflicts anymore!
Of course, he caved. He’s nothing but Obama-lite. His RomneyCare is nothing but ObamaCare-lite. Sure, thanks to the not so grand old party.
Regardless, WE need to work to take back the Presidency AND the Congress, otherwise NOTHING will get done. Instead of eating our own, why not ELECT our own?
A big-city, California, lawyer went duck hunting in rural Colorado. He shot
and dropped a bird, but it fell into a farmer's field on the other side of a
fence. As the lawyer climbed over the fence, an elderly farmer drove up on
his tractor and asked him what he was doing. The litigator responded, "I
shot a duck and it fell into this field,and now I'm going to retrieve it."
The old farmer replied, "This is my property, and you are not coming over
here."
The indignant lawyer said, "I am one of the best trial attorneys in the U.S.
and, if you don't let me get that duck, I'll sue you and take everything you
own."The old farmer smiled and said, "Apparently, you don't know how we do
things in Colorado. We settle small disagreements like this with the
Colorado Three-Kick Rule." The lawyer asked, "What is the Colorado
Three-Kick Rule?" The Farmer replied, "Well, first I kick you three times
and then you kick me three times, and so on, back and forth, until someone
gives up." The attorney quickly thought about the proposed contest and
decided that he could easily take the old codger. He agreed to abide by the
local custom.
The old farmer slowly climbed down from the tractor and walked up to the
city feller. His first kick planted the toe of his heavy work boot into the
lawyer's groin and dropped him to his knees. His second kick nearly wiped
the man's nose off his face. The barrister was flat on his belly when the
farmer's third kick to a kidney nearly caused him to give up. The lawyer
summoned every bit of his will and managed to get to his feet and said,
"Okay, you old coot! Now, it's my turn!"
The old farmer smiled and said, "No, I give up. You can have the duck!"
People want Romney to go on the offensive now, not understanding that no offensive can be sustained forever, and issues have a tendency to peter out quickly in election years. If Mittens is keeping his powder dry, waiting to see the whites of their eyes, esp given Obamas massive fundraising advantage then no problem (he still needs to jab and counterpunch, tho). I’ll start being critical if I don’t see a sustained effort from the Convention forward.