[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

National Review has endorsed Mitt Romney for the office of the presidency... not once, but TWICE.

Mona Charen has personally endorsed Mitt Romney for the office of the presidency.

Team Romney supporters angrily denouncing either NR, Charen or (most likely scenario) both as "Obama-loving, leftwing media shills" in 5... 4... 3... 2...

[Doogle]

...if you listened to Rush yesterday you would know what this is about.....*smiles*

[Ingtar]

The people he most needs to convince are the ones least likely to believe any change in his statements is sincere at this point. He has quite a challenge, of his own making, ahead of him.

[funfan]

Who does he make the case to the MSM who just lies
and twists his words. The media doesnt even follow him they will just black him out. I did not read the article
because what is the point. I will be voting for Romney anyway. Why did Mona and National Review endorse him for
in the first place they must have known what he was like
he is not a cheater like Obama who lies at the drop of the hat or Biden who is also a liar and Clinton well he is a liar too.

[funfan]

Who does he make the case to the MSM who just lies
and twists his words. The media doesnt even follow him they will just black him out. I did not read the article
because what is the point. I will be voting for Romney anyway. Why did Mona and National Review endorse him for
in the first place they must have known what he was like
he is not a cheater like Obama who lies at the drop of the hat or Biden who is also a liar and Clinton well he is a liar too.

[ryderann]

On the other hand, through his deeds, Obama has made his case very clear.

[fortheDeclaration]

Romney needs to show that he has a plan for recovery and that he intends to end Obamacare.

More doom and gloomers.

[aquila48]

He doesn’t need to make the case - THE CASE IS OBAMA.

[RC one]

the case seems pretty clear to me.

[Reddy]

Bfl

[RetSignman]

What ‘Moana’ needs to do is stop worshiping manipulated polls.

[Zhang Fei]

If Romney loses, I think the post-mortem will be that Romney didn't have the political skills to win the presidency, due to his inexperience in politics. He overpowered his GOP opponents in 2012 because (1) he spent more money than all the other candidates combined, thanks to business sector support and (2) he had one liberal opponent who dropped out early, whereas the conservatives stayed in till the end. If the trailing conservatives had made a pact to pull out a little earlier, there would have been a united front against Romney. I almost want to say that if there's a place for campaign finance limits through Federal funding, it's in the GOP nominating process, so that guys like Romney can't simply pummel his opponents into submission with unlimited amounts of money.

Look - I don't blame the losing conservatives for sticking it out until the last minute - many gave a year or more of their lives seeking the nomination. At the same time, I think the most experienced politicians are also the ones with the best political instincts, in the sense that they have a better feel* of what wins votes and what doesn't. Romney's single term as MA governor is nowhere near enough political experience to give him an understanding of how to win elections.

Even Obama had more political experience than Romney when he ran for the presidency. Despite being an arriviste from Hawaii who parachuted into Chicago politics, he managed to win an Illinois State Senate position against authentically black race hustlers, and then won a Democratic Senate primary against significant Democratic opposition, thereby catapulting him into federal office. All told, he spent 12 years in politics before running for the presidency. But in a sense, he's been running for the presidency all his life, with his book-length musings on the strategic and tactical aspects of getting political power. Bottom line is that Obama has sunk 20-30 years of his life figuring the practical ins and outs of winning elections. Romney has 4. In retrospect, it's not entirely surprising that he steamrolled Hillary Clinton *and* John McCain.

* The reason I use the word "feel" is because vote-winning strategies change. Goldwater's use of defense issues failed miserably, even though Kennedy's myth-making about the "missile gap" worked for him.

[LS]

Kent, you’ve been so far off on this it’s barely worth the comment, nd that’s too bad because usually you are sensible. Charen has been undercutting Romney for weeks.

[Puddleglum]

NRO = beltway prima donnas (with a very few exceptions).

The first debate will make or break Romney - it will be his one chance to bypass the media filter.

He should have chosen Condi Rice for VP to put the media in disarray for a precious few days that might have let him break out of the pre-defined narrative. Even then, even if he could put the opponent’s secondary in disarray, I wonder if he’d have a play to call.

[jmaroneps37]

Here are the facts: Barack Obama is NOT winning any group he lost in 2008, nor is he doing better with any group he won, not Jewish voters not Blacks not Hispanics not Young voters not women. At the very least Republican enthusiasm is 5 points above Democrat enthusiasm. Republican registration is at its all time high and Democrat registration is less than one point above its lowest point in history. Obama’s Catholic support is 27% which is half of what he got in 2008. His Jewish support is 59%.
NO DEMOCRAT has ever won a presidential race while losing the Catholic vote or getting less than 68% of the Jewish vote.

Charen is doing the Left’s bidding with crap like this.

[Daveinyork]

Romney/Ryan needs to turn that tax lie around, and hammer away at the fact that with trillion dollar deficits and a 16 trillion dollar debt, Obama will have to raise taxes on the middle class.

[Jim Noble]

Romney does not understand the moment, and there was never any chance that he would.

[Mase]

Mona Charen takes the msm bait hook, line and sinker. I thought she was smarter than that. Apparently not. The msm has created the meme that Romney's campaign is a total failure, because he's not up 10 points in polls weighting dems by more than 10 points, and conservatives across the country wet their pants in response. The msm gets what they want in spades. Not only is the msm jumping on Romney, so are conservatives - even after a tape of Romney surfaces where he makes a hard core conservative case for getting rid of Obama.

In 1980, at this same time, Carter had a solid lead in the polls. In 1988, at this same time, Dukakis held a 17 point lead, according to the msm crystal ball gazers. In 2004, John Kerry was going to be the next president. Stupid people believe stupid things. It's been going on for a long time. This is just more proof. STFU Mona.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Charen seems to wish Romney had the Reaganesque ability to talk over the heads of the MSM. But no Republican does, in these times - everything goes through The Filter. Romney is not good at making the little people feel better about themselves, though, and that could be his downfall if the little people decide they prefer the crumbling remains of Obama’s Hope to making hard and necessary changes.