Posted on 10/20/2012 5:41:16 PM PDT by chessplayer
So the other morning a reader e-mails me a picture of a handful of women demonstrating outside the headquarters of the Ohio Republican party — in what we expert analysts round about this point in the quadrennial election cycle like to call the critical battleground of the Buckeye State. The women each wore two giant pieces of cardboard, front and back. Ah, I thought, a timely protest. These activists understand that, with Obama’s flatline economy drifting inexorably to a $20 trillion federal debt, we’ll soon be living in cardboard shacks in shantytowns in the parking lot of the bankrupt Solyndra factory. Or it’s what they’ll be using for the x-ray plates at your local hospital once the Obamacare rationing kicks in. Or maybe it’s the perfect visual metaphor for the flimsiness of U.S.-government security at its Middle Eastern embassies before the “Death to the Great Satan!” crowd punched through the compound like so much soggy cardboard.
But no. The women were chanting “Equal rights, not binders,” and they were protesting the following remarks by Mitt Romney at the presidential debate:
“And so we took a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to become members of our cabinet. I went to a number of women’s groups and said, ‘Can you help us find folks?’ And they brought us whole binders full of women.”
Yes!!!!!!! With one bound, Obama was unbound! Romney had just made the worst presidential-debate gaffe since Gerald Ford declared there was no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe. In the previous weeks, Obama had attempted to have a serious conversation with the citizenry, as befits the electoral process of a mature republic. He had raised the critical questions of our time — free contraceptives for middle-aged coeds, the outrageous right-wing Muppophobic assault on Big Bird — but the public had failed to bite. Now, in one fatal error, Romney had handed him the winning issue: binders!
Some of the "experts," as you probably know, think that Romney did well by not saying warmongerish things at the debate. If I had to predict what will happen I would say one of the following:
1) It will stay razor close until election day
2) Some unexpected event will occur (war, scandal, stock market crash, apparently good economic news, major gaffe on one side or another, etc.), and that will knock everything off course. If it's bad for Romney the media will pile on. If it's bad for Obama it would have to be something so compelling that the media can't ignore it.
3) Romney continues to gain slowly and wins
4) The Romney bounce from the first debate poops out and Obama slowly regains the lead
Frankly, so do I...
I think that's normal for him.
” “I will be held accountable,” Obama said. “I’ve got four years and … A year form now, I think people are going to see that we’re starting to make some progress, but there’s still going to be some pain out there … If I don’t have this done in three years, then there’s going to be a one-term proposition.””
Why no TV ad like this ?
The wrong people are running this gig.
Yes he can. And my take on it is that it won’t involve some jilted woman. On the other hand...
Near the end he was actually having some facial twitches. You had to pay attention closely, but this guy was melting down. One wonders what he would have been doing after just 15 more minutes.
You don’t have to tell me more...
Isn’t that the truth! Good one.
Some (probably not the RNC itself) group should run ads in Virginia about Obama telling defense contractors not to notify workers (which they are legally required to do) that layoffs are scheduled after the election. Maybe they already did that, I am not in Va.
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