Not even a peep about this speech on our local FOX affiliate news last night. Instead we had Obama ad nauseum and his 4 fund raisers in Texas. Romney needs to run this stuff in ads to get the any kind of attention in the LSM.
From what I've heard, Romney is hamstrung for the moment with respect to running ads. All the money he is raising now cannot be used until after the convention. There is only a certain amount a presidential candidate can spend (according to election rules) prior to a convention and Romney spent much of that during the primary season.
Obama is subject to same campaign rules but because he did not have a primary opponent, he did not have to spend any of it during the primary season and now that the GOP has a presumptive nominee, he can target all that money against Romney accordingly.
This is the reason Obama has been outspending Romney this summer, making it appear that Romney is not putting up a fight. Once the GOP convention is over, Romney will have access to the hundreds of millions of dollars that will be available to him at that time and then we'll see what happens.
You are correct. The reason the hits got so much attention by the LSM in the Republican primaries was because it was Republicans going after each other.
Now that he is going after Obama, there will be a wall of silence because it will raise questions they don’t want asked. Or will showcase Romney’s message.
Adds only do so much. It takes a lot of money to compete with the contribution in kind from the media. I don’t know if the conventional way of getting the message out is enough. I am not sure how to beat the media at their game. There must be a way, but I can’t think of anything.
The alternate media does a lot, but it is hard to break the message control of the LSM.
It is going to require some strategic creativity. I hope they are working on this. It is really about the message and how how it is smothered by design...