Posted on 07/03/2012 9:20:04 AM PDT by Bigtigermike
It's becoming clear that Romney has decided to focus on the economy at the expense of everything else, even issues that could play to his political benefit. He's avoided criticizing the administration's handling of the botched Fast and Furious operation, even as it threatens to become a serious vulnerability for the president. He's been silent in responding to Obama's immigration executive order, not wanting to offend receptive Hispanics or appear like a flip-flopper.
He appears more likely to tap a safe, bland running mate like Ohio Sen. Rob Portman or former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty who won't do him any harm but won't benefit him much either. If the economy continues to sputter, that safe strategy might be enough. If not, his options are limited.
In football, there's a well-worn cliché about the prevent defense (a scheme utilized when a team holds a big lead over its opponent): It prevents teams from winning games. In politics, Mitt Romney is testing that proposition as far as he can.
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I’m afraid McPain Part 2 is what the uninformed Republican primary voters want even if they fail to show up at the polls.
As if this nobody author and his forgettable blurb is the final word on the gameplan for this campaign. There wil ba attacks on obamacare just wait.
Besides, what is Romney to say? If he says its a tax he agrees with the liberal wing of the Court. If he says its a penalty he agrees with Scalia, Thomas and obama.
No matter what he says someone is going to find fault with it.
The Establishment did not expect Romney to win from the beginning. They have made plans accordingly. To them, it matters not, really.
Romney or Obama will win but differ on nothing, so far, and now Romney is silent, gone underground, has lost Rupert Murdoch’s interest for his lack of sound and fury, and now McConnell states that Obamacare will be hard to overturn. LOL! To this we add photos of Myth and Ann on ski do’s, and we have a coronation.....er, convention..., coming up.
Our last hurrah this cycle without a break through. I would happily now vote for Uncle Nutty! Ron Paul! ABR. I am flame proof on that opinion by now, given the Romney peril.
Michelle Bachmann warned us that we can’t give up this issue, or was it Santorum?? Probably both. But the powers that be pushed Romney on us anyway so Obama would be in the clear. The House refused to defund it, Boehnor and Cantor complicit. McConnell and every republican in the Senate refused to deny unanimous consents that would have slowed its passage and then went along with Reid’s desire to pass it on Christmas Eve. At every turn, we have been betrayed by our own leaders, and Romney and his camp seem to be going along. Just great!
Oh, good grief. We have pounded King Barack for not creating jobs in favor of everything else from obamacare to amnesty. Now we’re going to pound on Romney for not focusing on obamacare instead of creating jobs?
And Mitch [Obama's Bitch] McConnell is now out there backpedaling on his "tough" statement that as Senate majority leader he'd work tirelessly to repeal OC.
This is so Effin' disgusting, I feel like taking the rest of the day off and going to the range. Put a 100 rounds through the AR15..and the Marlin 30/30...and the Savage 350. Ah hell, I'll just shoot everything.
Every time I read this crap, I somehow kill another $50 to $100 in ammo at the range. I'm gonna have to cut the food budget soon
Pawlenty is as exhiting as watching grass grow. Portman also but at least he is right on the issues.
I hope this guy Romney knows what he is doing, but I am beginning to worry. Especially as Murdoch said AMATEURS are running his campaign.
By the way, WHERE ARE those Romney boosters on this forum? They were all over the place before the primaries were finished. Guess they went the way of the Bushbots.
I can't imagine why. 'Obam-ney Care'
Maybe Romney sees an attack on Obamacare to be an attack on him. His message of “I will repeal and replace Obamacare on my first day in office”, besides being impossible, led to questions of “replace with what, exactly?”, and he’d be unwilling to reveal that.
So he sees the safer path as avoiding that trap.
He’s very, very cautious. And timid. And shy. Not aggressive, or possibly passive-aggressive.
Looking back on Romney’s record,just what in it would lead someone to believe that he actually disagrees with the kenyan about anything? Obomneycare? Economics? what else is Obomneycare but the biggest throttling of the free market in American history is, in fact, the Health Care Act about which Romney doesn’t wish to argue. Romney is a socialist, just like Obama but he will be nicer about it. We have crossed the line into inevitable totalitarian socialism when we run two socialists against each other for president and think we are going to change anything or restore anything. The big difference between them, beyond Romney’s personableness, is that Romney can get socialist measures past a Republican Congress a little easier than the kenyan can.
Bush I never went on offense. In his first run he didn’t need to; he just needed to let people think he was Reagan redux. In his second run I kept waiting for him to bring out the big guns and he even kept his penknife in his pocket. He never went on offense or even tried to defend much. McCain, well he spent more time defending the kenyan than he did asserting any reasons to vote for McCain. Dole thought of himself entirely in the third person and so did the electorate. Ford was just lackadaisical about running. That is what being a Republican IS. The Gop is a gentlemen’s club that dabbles in politics.
Not everyone here is campaigning for Obama's re-election, although no one can match the Mitt-haters for derangement and obsession.
“Time to rename the GOP the BOP— Ball-less Old Party...”
or keep it “G” and use “Gonads”
Insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome.
Romney keeps reminding me of why I’m voting for Virgil Goode in 2012.
With RomneyBOTs, it is ALWAYS about the victim Romney.
He is so weak. He is so persecuted. The poor little Mormon.
WHAT THE HECK ABOUT AMERICANS?
WHERE IS THE POS ROMNEY THIS WEEK?
FAST AND FURIOUS? Romney says: crickets.
OBAMACARE? Romney supports ObamaCARE/RomneyCARE.
ROMNEY HATES AMERICANS.
ROMNEYBOTS HATE AMERICANS.
I’m not happy with Mitt, but next to Obama he looks like The Lone Ranger.
” He’s avoided criticizing the administration’s handling of the botched Fast and Furious operation, even as it threatens to become a serious vulnerability for the president. He’s been silent in responding to Obama’s immigration executive order, not wanting to offend receptive Hispanics or appear like a flip-flopper. “
It doesn’t look to me that Romney is going to fight at all, which means he will probably lose.
” He’s avoided criticizing the administration’s handling of the botched Fast and Furious operation, even as it threatens to become a serious vulnerability for the president. He’s been silent in responding to Obama’s immigration executive order, not wanting to offend receptive Hispanics or appear like a flip-flopper. “
It doesn’t look to me that Romney is going to fight at all, which means he will probably lose.
McCain 2008, redux.
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