Posted on 05/31/2012 12:21:51 PM PDT by kristinn
it intends to fight the guerilla warfare of a presidential campaign with a new aggressiveness and combativeness.
The first signal came in Boston, where top Obama adviser David Axelrod organized an anti-Romney event on the steps of the Massachusetts state house. The event, which Team Obama wanted to keep under wraps until shortly before it happened, was to feature remarks from Axelrod and Democratic state officeholders who would attack Romney's record as governor from 2003 to 2007. But it didn't work out as planned.
First, word of the event leaked last night, and the Romney campaign quickly scheduled an event of its own at the state house about an hour before Axelrod's. Then, when Democrats began speaking, a crowd of about 100 Romney workers, supporters, and volunteers showed up to chant, shout, and heckle the speakers every step of the way. The protesters shouted "Solyndra!" and "Where are the jobs?" and "Mitt, Mitt, Mitt!" while Democrats gamely attacked Romney's tenure as governor.
"I get tweets from some of these folks, so I feel close to them," Axelrod lamented at one point. At another, he said simply, "Look, this is the great pageant of democracy." In the end, the Obama event was overshadowed by the loud, aggressive Romney forces.
It was the kind of tactic that is usually repaid in kind on the campaign trail, and it seems likely -- certain, actually -- that Romney surrogates, and perhaps Mitt Romney himself, will soon face similar actions at their events. But Romney aides aren't worried, saying what they did was both payback and a message.
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Maybe the debates and how Newt pushed back at the media showed Team Romney what it takes to get the Red Meat cokking on Free Republic and other conservative sites.
At least (I hope he’s not going to fight “Marquis of Queensbury rules” like John (wothless than spit) McCain!
I think Romney is pretty much what Obama claimed to be in 2008, a non-ideological pragmatist who wants to run an honest, efficient administration that enables America to get back to business.
Obama was lying, of course, but I think that Romney is genuinely this. Now, in the process of getting along politically, Romney has adapted to different contexts, flip-flopped, and fudged his record. No doubt.
But Romney is the GOP nominee and either he or Obama will be the next President. I think those who claim to expect that a Romney first term will be worse for America than an Obama second term are either crazy or full of it.
I have heard these tales of what heroic things John McCain did long ago and far away.
Maybe they are true.
I have also seen with my own eyes John McCain’s political career.
It has been a disgrace.
I’m not impressed.
When he seriously starts talking about what kind of person Obama is, then I’ll be impressed.
Someone told me Romney has Mormon Ninja working for him in stealth mode.
I like it....but for the wrong reasons.
The Democrats/Obama need to have the fight taken to them. I applaud the Romney campaign for their pro-active campaign tactics and taking the initiative away from the Obama campaign.
Romney’s faithful have used these and even much more brutal tactics during the Republican primaries. Out of neccessity in my opinion.
Mitt is such a poor candidate based upon his personality (absolutely NO charisma), and on his record as a public sector executative (governed as a lberal) that without smeering his competition he’d be an also ran once more.
To prevail in this, or any other contest, Romney HAS to get down in the sty and sling mud. It’s the one thing he’s good at as a politician. The saving grace of that is that, against Obama’s smear machine, it’s exactly what will be required in 2012.
My feelings is that Obama knows he’s toast in November and must decide which way to go. Cheat? Turn dirty nasty? Accept his fate with grace of a leader? the first and second ways appear to be in line with his past political campaigns. As for the third Obama has neither grace nor is any sort of a leader.
“Anyone who ever voted for that whacked out commie beotch needs their voting privilege permanently revoked.”
You forget the “or else!”
We’ve got to learn to change our politicians as often as our underwear! The days of the career politician should be over! Citizen pols for me for now on!
The goal here is to win the election, not to get out our frustrations regarding Obama.
Obama and his enablers have pulled off a world-class scam, they have cashed in mightily, and they have severely harmed America, just as they planned to do.
This has been done.
The immediate goal here is to remove the cancerous tumor and then nurse the patient back to health. Broader discussions regarding the nature and the causes of the cancer can wait.
C'mon, if you can't mention the name, then don't even bother throwing it out there. The whole "I know somebody so I got the inside scoop" routine comes across as sort of lame - especially on an anonymous forum where nobody can ever call you out.
I like the tactic of sending Romney supporters to protest the Obama campaign events. Sure, it's going to trigger a like response from the Obama camp but consider that while Romney sends his mostly clean-cut protesters to the Obama events, the typical Obama supporters are going to be of the "Occupy" crowd variety - you know, dirty, smelly people who don't have jobs. It will be quite the contrast.
I'll take that trade-off!
Hot damn. FUJM
Refreshing, isn't it? I'm finding myself disliking Romney less and less as he shows himself to be a shrewd campaigner who apparantly actually wants to win this election.
He’ll be a god on planet Kolob for sure now!
I’ll have to give Willard credit.
I figured he would be McCainesque: savage conservative opponents, then handle Zero with kid gloves.
Instead, at least so far, he shows every indication that he will fight tooth and nail.
If Willard were to pick a VP candidate like DeMint, Mike Lee, Rand Paul, or some other solid conservative, I think my detest of Zero would let me overcome my gag reflex and vote for the Republican ticket.
If it’s someone like Doughnut Boy Chris Cristi or Pawlenty, all bets are off.
I can’t tell you any names....but they have told me, this and that........................
Planet Earth is real, planet Kolob is not.
I am not indifferent to Mitt's false religion, but so far as this election is concerned I am almost singularly focused on what happens here in America over the next very few years.
Four more like the last four and the whole American project will be in dire straits.
Sarah...
Exactly
The only way he will get my vote is if he mimics Obama’s “middle finger face scratch,” to Obama, in his face, in person.
I never expected this.
Further, I think the portrait of Mitt that has been painted by the Mitt haters here on FR is completely wrong.
Yes, he is somewhat unprincipled and cynical (and he belongs to a bizarre un-Christian church) but he is intelligent, hard-working and ambitious, and he has spent his life surrounded by and making strong connections with quality people.
Mitt Romney wants to be President and he has spent five solid years figuring out how to make that happen and putting together the organization to accomplish it.
I think the Mitt haters grossly underestimate him.
Mitt is much more focused on winning the election and then governing the country than he is on being a ghetto punk.
It's kind of a refreshing change, really.
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