[BarnacleCenturion]

LMAO, Obama is a joke. $100 million spent in TV ads and his poll numbers have gone nowhere. If this is the price he has to pay just to stay afloat he ain't gonna make it.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The emperor has no... anything.

[tsowellfan]

“Barry, a well spoken black man, was able to get elected to a state office, oddly because he looked for fraud in his opponents voter registrations and got his opponent disqualified from running.”

[Venturer]

I have seen a couple of these ads, and they are either outright lies or exagerrations.

He can’t win with crap like what I have seen.

[Shady]

We are seeing ever third spot here in NE PA...The belief that if you tell a lie often enough people will think it’s the truth, does not and will not resonate well. The coal miners out of work, related industry suffering, the only gleam of light ANYWHERE in America is happening here with Nat Gas Fracking, and King Bozo Osmosis would LOVE to shut it down...

[SoFloFreeper]

Yeah, seriously, this seems to be pretty frantic imo. Look, it is SUMMER TIME for goodness sake.

Only freaks like us are paying attention to politics. Obamugabe is spending millions to hit people and what’re the people doing? Trying to enjoy SOME of their summer despite the miserable economy.

And by the way, most people don’t blame Romney for the economy. They blame Obamugabe.

[NormsRevenge]

Desperation sets in early when you have no record to run on..

Can you say ‘McGovern/Carter’ Part III, chilrun,? Good, I knew you could.

[txrefugee]

“Defining” (ie. destroying) the competition is how Obama has won all his elections. It’s the Chicago way. Only the most ignorant voters would fall for this tactic, but then, that is the Democrat base.

[Tallguy]

LMAO, Obama is a joke. $100 million spent in TV ads and his poll numbers have gone nowhere.

Anchors have a lot of inertia. That's what the Obama re-elect campaign is, a giant boat anchor.

[Right Wing Assault]

Obama will run attack ads with no major problems. The MSM will tell us when he runs major lies, but they will not follow through with the usual relentless, top-of-the-news, daily pounding the Repubs would get.

But Romney, now that he has started to fight, will be accused of “negative campaigning.”

[CaptainMorgantown]

Romney needs to geer up his ads to counter this, especially in swing states like Ohio. The massive early advertisements defining his opponent was one of the key things that Clinton did in 96. By the time the fall campaign rolls around, both sides will be all over the airwaves and it will be hard to move the poll numbers either way over the last few months.

Romney didn’t hesitate to go very negative, very early against his conservative opponents and he needs to use his warchest now to go after Obama aggressively over the summer. For the most part, Romney is doing well in polls in swing states, but the numbers I’ve seen in a couple Ohio polls lately are frightening - showing Obama with close to a 10 point lead there. A republican simply cannot with without Ohio. Obama knows this and has visited Ohio over and over again.

I cannot believe that I’m to the point of wanting Romney to win this badly - but the alternative is so much worse.

[CaptainMorgantown]

Romney needs to geer up his ads to counter this, especially in swing states like Ohio. The massive early advertisements defining his opponent was one of the key things that Clinton did in 96. By the time the fall campaign rolls around, both sides will be all over the airwaves and it will be hard to move the poll numbers either way over the last few months.

Romney didn’t hesitate to go very negative, very early against his conservative opponents and he needs to use his warchest now to go after Obama aggressively over the summer. For the most part, Romney is doing well in polls in swing states, but the numbers I’ve seen in a couple Ohio polls lately are frightening - showing Obama with close to a 10 point lead there. A republican simply cannot with without Ohio. Obama knows this and has visited Ohio over and over again.

I cannot believe that I’m to the point of wanting Romney to win this badly - but the alternative is so much worse.

[CaptainMorgantown]

Romney needs to geer up his ads to counter this, especially in swing states like Ohio. The massive early advertisements defining his opponent was one of the key things that Clinton did in 96. By the time the fall campaign rolls around, both sides will be all over the airwaves and it will be hard to move the poll numbers either way over the last few months.

Romney didn’t hesitate to go very negative, very early against his conservative opponents and he needs to use his warchest now to go after Obama aggressively over the summer. For the most part, Romney is doing well in polls in swing states, but the numbers I’ve seen in a couple Ohio polls lately are frightening - showing Obama with close to a 10 point lead there. A republican simply cannot with without Ohio. Obama knows this and has visited Ohio over and over again.

I cannot believe that I’m to the point of wanting Romney to win this badly - but the alternative is so much worse.

[nathanbedford]

We are now past the Fourth of July and running up to the convention. Obama is attempting to steal the march on Romney by defining him through negative ads. So far he is having success, but limited success.

I have no doubt that Romney has been busy raising money, organizing, planning the convention, and fixing on a vice presidential running mate. All of these are absolutely vital and necessary but I cannot believe that with his recent successes in raising money Romney cannot spare some resources to effectively combat Obama's negative ads, at least in the swing states.

I believe that is always cheaper to persuade then it is to un-persuade and Romney is courting the danger of being defined by Obama. It is always easier to persuade than un-persuade because the ego of the voter becomes involved once he has stated his position.

I agree with the posters who point out that Obama has not been able to gain a significant success with these ads but it might be that Obama's whole strategy is merely to stay close enough to make an October surprise effective. It goes without saying that if he can stay close enough the Democrats can steal it.

I want this election to be an utter repudiation of Obama. I'm afraid that Romney is not interested in conducting a crusade, he wants to conduct a campaign. I believe Obama must be repudiated in order to protect the conservative brand against the demographic wave which will be breaking against us in 2016 and 2020, not to mention the by-elections between now and 2020.

We must demonstrate the terrible state Obama has put the nation in. We must utterly destroy the myth that this is George Bush's economy, we must definitively label the threat of Islamism, we must remake our international alliances, we must protect our military and we must make secure our military position in space.

Above all, we must indict and convict Obama of his Marxism, his black liberation anti-Americanism, his lies and his deceits. We must prove that the condition of the country is the direct and proximate result of Obama's ideology.

Romney is not interested in my crusade he is interested in the limited purpose of winning a campaign. In this, if I have rightly apprehended the man, he reminds me too much of George Bush whose mother, incidentally, in another thread is quoted as praising the father-son like intimacy between Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush.

The only safe and long-lasting campaign strategy is to morally destroy Barak Hussein Obama -advice freely given to John McCain in 2008 which was blithely ignored to his regret.

[q_an_a]

that is the idea that is sinking in to the MSM amd the libitards...yahoo

[relictele]

more than one-fifth of the president’s ad spending has been in Ohio

THIS is why the media keep skewing their polls and declaring this or that state to be 'in play.' TV, radio and newspapers lapping up the campaign dollars.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Obama Spending on Attack Ads Soars

Stonewalling by wire service journalism of the fact that the POTUS is lying through his teeth: Priceless.

[Gene Eric]

The squall of the degenerate Marxist.

[bert]

I was in Cleveland this week and it seemed the Outsourcing commercial was on pretty much non stop.

Good thing I guess. In one week I saw only two Obama/biden bumpers stickers

[Gabrial]

There is a huge billboard on I35 northbound between Austin and Dallas that has a picture of the First Gay President on it and the following words:

“BANKRUPT AMERICA
YES WE CAN”

[CountryClassSF]

And what’s Willard’s response? “Obama’s a nice guy” or “That’s just not true.”

No fighting back, no aggression. This guy reminds me so much of Bob Dole, in both stature/mannerisms and campaign style.

The Romney people really need to step it up if they want to win. We don’t win against Chicago thug politics by playing defense!