(In addition to being a liberal.)
Romney needs to hit back using humor. Needle Obama about his incompetence, his secrecy, etc. Romney’s surrogates need to get out there & fill-in the blanks for the Media. Take no prisoners. Put Obama’s people on the defensive.
He needs to pull out a gun and send ten of Obama’s guys to the morgue.
I get requests for money from Romney every week. I won’t send a time unless, and until, he pulls out the knife. He needs to slam Obama into oblivion before I will cough up financial support. And it needs to make me feel good and shake my fist and say YES!
Demanding Obama release all of his records will be a start Mr. Romney. DO IT, MEAN IT, and VIGOROUSLY PURSUE IT!
I am not holding my breath.
This psychobabble about Romney being Mr. Nice is idiotic to say the least. We are watching a replay of the same strategy used in the primaries when he bid his time while his opponents wasted their ammunition and then unleashed lethal targeted attacks that destroyed one flavor of the month after the other.
The bottom line is that it’s too early. Obama is burning through his cash while nobody is paying attention. There’s a recent Ras poll that says that half of the electorate doesn’t even know about the SCOTUS decision on Obamacare. Romney is better off going to Israel as planned to beef up his foreign policy credentials.
my assessment of Romney---and perhaps the ONLY redeeming factor he has---is that I think he is both ruthless and sneaky. And that's good. He will let surrogates attack Obama, while (wisely, I think) Romney avoids Newt-like specific "plans" and "programs" and sticks to broader themes of "new beginnings" and the like.
More important, Romney has to only stay even for 2 months, then when there is really not enough time for the media to mount a defense. Just keep up a steady pace, like Secretariat, until the final turn. Then pour it on!
At least that would my advice if I were advising him.
Mitt doesn’t need to draw blood. Zero is doing the blood letting himself.
Stick to the facts, obummer care, worst economy of our lifetime. Worst unemployment since the great depressiweon
Just hammer the dialog day after day, week after week. Facts, facts, and more facts!
We need focused simple and calm dialog explaining the facts and failures, pound the facts and leave dirty deeds to the left that invented those tactics.
Kill the independents with kindness.
I am still not convinced that Romney wants to become POTUS.
He reminds me too much of McClown who handed Obama the presidency.
When I think of Romney and McCain I see a big wooden horse filled with democrap troops.
A knife is back-up. These guys need to get serious
Why Romney is being Mr. Rogers.
I’ll tell you why (as I did in the Presidential Primaries): RINOS hate conservatives more than they hate socialists/liberals, their fellow ‘travelers’.
That’s WHY. CONSERVATIVES would actually reverse course, while RINOS and liberals are essentailly headed in the same direction (although on slightly different courses think of liberals heading east off the cliff, RINOS head north-east, Conservatives head West back from the cliff!
What knife?
I would like to see him issue his school records, draft records, passport records, social security application, and the like. He doesn’t have to accuse O of anything, just make his own public.
Romney will attack Obamugabe all in due time.
Right now it is called time biding. The election is very near in time for those of us who think and care about the preservation for our Republic. We constitute less than 30% of the electorate.
30% of the electorate doesn’t give a damn whether we have a Republic or a Dictatorship, as long as that dictator is a Democrat.
40% of the electorate is persuadable, and the vast vast majority of those people are still in summer mode. Most Joe Average Voter citizens do not start paying attention to the election until after Labor Day.
Romney isn’t hurting himself by his current pacing.
If this were October 10th and not July 10th and Romney wasn’t hitting Obamugabe, then I’d be worried.
Romney didn’t have any problem pulling a knife out to slice and dice Gingrich.........
If you wanted a knifefighter, you probably should have picked another candidate. And probably a different field.
The money gap is narrowing somewhat, but Obama will still be able to raise more money from Hollywood, the unions, etc. Obama is trying to define Romney now. It is a big gamble as he is committing a large portion of his resources setting up offices around the country and putting out his political ads. People like Karl Rove think he is making a big mistake, but it may be out of desperation given the various polls and the economy.
Romney has a choice to make. Go full bore now before the conventions and before the majority of the public is even paying attention. Usually, that begins after the conventions and Labor Day. Or does Romney husband his growing resources and use them more strategically. So far, Obama has seemingly gained little with his all out offensive.
I know there is plenty of pressure from some Reps and the media talking heads for Romney to strike back hard now. But how much does Romney want to commit to the fray now in terms of resources? Would that be playing into Obama's hands by using up scarce resources at a time when most people are not paying attention. Obama has approved gay marriage. He is unilaterally implementing the Dream Act to give over a million amnesty. Each week brings a new hand grenade to distract and divert attention away from Obama's record on jobs and the economy, the unsustainable national debt, and Obamacare.
If Obama is doing so well, why are a significant number of Dems skipping the convention in NC? How many Dems want Obama to appear with them on the campaign trail? Sorry, but I can't get too exercised by Romney's strategy at this point. November is a long way off.
John Wooden: "It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it."
and
“Be quick, but don’t hurry.”
Romney’s knife only works on conservatives, not fellow leftists.