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Subscribe to RSSThe New Yorker’s Cassidy notes of the Romney campaign: “Their rivals in Chicago set a trap for them, and they walked right into it. Rather than ignoring the ad, or dismissing it quickly and moving onto other topics less favorable to Obama, the Romney campaign decided to stand and fight on ground it cannot hope to win.” And: Out in Chicago, David Axelrod and his cronies must be swapping high fives all the way down Michigan Avenue. In Boston, meanwhile, Team Romney appears oblivious to the lessons of its own experience in the dark art of putting out underhanded attack ads.”
Courting Bloomberg… The New York Times: "In an election year when partisanship has burned white hot and the economy has sputtered, two presidential candidates who agree on very little, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, have reached a rare consensus: they are both determined to score the endorsement of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York, whose name is all but synonymous with Wall Street clout and nonpartisan politics. On Tuesday, Mr. Romney showed up at the mayor’s philanthropic foundation on the Upper East Side of Manhattan for a secret breakfast meeting. Over coffee and juice, Mr. Romney made clear that he was there to pick the mayor’s brain...Mr. Bloomberg, who has lent his reputation for common-sense government and his prowess for fund-raising to dozens of candidates from both parties over the past decade, feared that an endorsement in the 2008 race might have negative repercussions for the city he oversees. But as his mayoral term winds down, he has told advisers that he is willing to back a candidate this time around, touching off an intense competition for his support in the general election."
"Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, on the eve of suspending his roller coaster presidential bid, said that he will embrace Mitt Romney's candidacy Wednesday and is ready to campaign for his former rival," USA Today writes. "Gingrich said he doubts he'll ever make another bid for president. ‘I'm already 68 years old,’ he said. ‘I believe Mitt Romney will become president. I believe he will do well enough to be re-elected, and I do not think in 2020 I'll be a plausible candidate.’”
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Smart campaigns and smart candidates don't fall into traps. Romney and his staff made a decision to criticize the Obama ad just as they have, over many months, criticized every aspect of President Obama's foreign policy. Attacking an opponent's strength and trying to turn it into a weakness may have worked for Reagan, Bush and Bush but voters are wise to that ploy these days; social media has made the difference. Now Romney's staff claims "their rivals in Chicago set a trap and they walked right into it." Well, pass the sour grapes, please, because the Romney campaign should have just shut the heck up and moved on instead of whining about being tricked.
Just right Jody! If he falls for this during campaigning, what will happen should the worst happen and he moves into the executive mansion? If you had given me an issue, any issue during the Bush administration, it would be very easy to come up with the Bush policy before it was announced. His policies always represented the easiest path and usually the most offensive to Americans and the rest of the world. We could expect more of the same under a Romney administration. Fortunately, we won't have to go there.
President Obama is a thinking man, and can be unpredictable. Yesterday's announcement regarding Afghanistan proved once again that we have a problem solver in the White House, and he needs another ten years to clean up after Bush, but unfortunately he can have only four more years.
I agree Wayne, we need ten more years of a President Obama administration. It will be many years before we see another President as effective as President Obama.
The president is rightous and honorable. As the repubs no longer possess either of these attributes, they are unable to deal with reality in a balanced way. Dysfunctional and unamerican idiots everyone.
Jody,
It's not even just attacking the opponent's strengths; It's criticizing Obama for not being a strong leader, and when he is, the Repubs criticize him for being one.
John McCain goes on National TV to say:
Go f*ck yourself, McCain. How about acknoledging the fact that the mastermind of 9/11 FINALLY paid the price for killing Americans???
Where were you when Darth Cheney was saying that if you vote for a Democrat, you vote for Al Qaeda to attack the US?
Where were you when Bush hang his "Mission Accomplished" banner?
Where the f*ck were you, when you held a campaign rally on Sept. 11, 2007?
I am so sick of these hypocrites who keep telling us: DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO.
The hypocrisy of the right. I take great pleasure in watching the right paint themselves into a corner of their own making. Obama hands them the paint and brushes and off they go, then they cry "foul", no fair that we trapped ourselves.
Jody,
maybe I'm naive because I cannot comrehend how anyone can keep lying (especially on national TV) over, and over, and over. I know ALL politician's lie - it's a prereq. to be one but there is a point when it becomes obnoxious and insulting to the rest of us. We don't live in 1800s when what you knew is what someone told you. We live in 2012, where we have access to 99% of the information out there..don't they think we see things?
Wayne - I know a Democratic woman with tons of experience who will be perfect for 2016 and will continue on with excellent problem solving.
So maybe we can't have O for another 10 years....but we can continue his successful stride!
The Republicans have been denigrating the President since before his first inauguration. For four years we've been exposed to "Obama is a Muslim, Obama was born in Kenya, Obama is a celebrity, Obama doesn't love America."
It doesn't seem to occur to Republicans that the voting public is inured to the personal attack strategy, and the Republicans missed their opportunity to redeem themselves from the Bush years by focusing on helping the nation recover from the financial crisis. The Republican lead Congress is at historically low approval levels and Tea Party governors are enormously unpopular in their states. Media Pundits are focusing on the national scene, it seems to me, and ignoring what's going on in the states.
and many right wingers can't figure out why President Obama seems so "arrogant", as they put it. If you had to deal with the kenyan, muslim, communist BS daily, you would start to become aloof as well.
"W" bragged about his arrogance, and said in Texas, they call strutting, walking, or words to that effect. President Obama just does his job. He does get a chance for paybacks at the corespondent's dinner though, doesn't he?
I haven't read of any president since Lincoln who has been so abused by his adversaries. Lincoln was compared to various kinds of primates for instance, and so has this president. It is all about dehumanizing your enemy, and the righties have been very adept at this during the Obama presidency. Usually this kind of dehumanization has been reserved for warfare, but now it is in politics.
The president has, like Lincoln was, been silent about the barbaric criticism he has suffered. Like Lincoln, he has continued to do his job with style, persistence, and ability. When I read about Jackie Robinson, I get the same feeling. Robinson was a man chosen for his ability to play good baseball, but also because he knew how to suck it up when the fans screamed racial insults or worse at him, and let his work speak for him. President Obama has shown us the very same superior character traits that Abraham Lincoln and Jackie Robinson demonstrated. This man deserves ten more years, but he will get four more.
and likewise....the liberals have denigrated every Republican President that they can name. They have totally and completely trivialized the voices of Americans, who have the right to their opinions and the peaceful expression of those opinions through conservative groups like the Tea Party. And when all else fails, they criticize every single political official, duly elected and attempting to do the job that they were sent to do, but failing to be Democratic synchophants.
Romney's 2007 interview was very logical and showed a grasp of the subject. Bin Laden while the leader of Al Quid-ea was not the only member. We do need to concentrate our resources on fighting all of the Jihadists. Now that Bin Laden is dead, we cannot rest on our laurels.
Romney is right in critizing the ad as he would have ordered the raid on Bin Laden. Axelrod and the Obama campaign are just spreading their usual lies.
Bruce
You are going to stir up the crazies with truth. It confuses the libs and they can not grasp it.
Repubs wouldn't know the truth if it hit them in the A$$
Bruce and rukidding, you do remember back in 2002 you tea people Koch republicans had a chance to make that decision (you know going in and getting Bin Laden), you all had actionable intelligence that he was in tora bora but it was too big of a political risk for you tea people Koch republicans so you walked away. So don't come on here after the fact and tell us you and Romney would have done the same thing. Remember Bush said he wasn't at all concerned about Bin Laden in 2002. You tea people Koch republicans taking someone else's success and trying to make them your's is over the whole country is one to you lies and thievery.
It's easy to make your point when you take Romney out of context. But what about his comment that he would not jeopardize relations with Pakistan to get OBL. Our his comment that spending millions to pursue this one man was not worth it. Do we really want a green eye shade, schizophrenic, accountant running our foreign policy? On the one hand he's already said he won't cut the defense budget, but then on the other hand, he won't use the military we've already paid for. Unless of course it's in Iran. This guy needs to make up his mind.
Do you know what is cool about Romoney? Absolutely nothing!
Flip Romney has failed the Commander in Chief test. Move on...
rukidding - you know Bush would NEVER have gone after OBL - he palled around with their family - remember that little tidbit?
Romney is a out of touch fool! If Bush had got Osama they would still be cheering! By now they would have coins printed up with Bush on one side with a rifle and Osama on the other side laying down with his hand across his chest. Just ask the people in New York if was important to go after this man. I am very proud of my President. If he wants to bring this topic up he should be able to any where and at anytime!
OBAMA 2012
You see the problem with Romney and his campaign is that they ran on the negatives of President Obama, Romney brought nothing of value to the table. Except the fact that he is a "Vulture Capitalist", and resting on those laurels just doesn't sit well with anyone. Because once the reaserch is done on just exactly what Bain capital did in order to recieve monies. A horrible picture comes up about this company that strips bare a carcass of a business, then ships the remaining jobs overseas. And that isn't a pretty picture no matter how you look at it. And to boot a known flip-flopper when it comes to decissions that people have to depend on. Well there you have a snap-shot of the GOPs new flag-bearer. A flip-flopping "Vulture Capitalist" who hides his money in foreign offshore bank accounts.
Go figure, then go vote...
My dear Mr Gingrich, you were not a plausible candidate in 2012.
By the future actions & words, we'll see how much money Bloomberg collected from secret meeting exlax ETCH-A-SKETCH had with him, the SUPERPAC money that could be used to help the 99% American People pay for gasoline & food for their chikdren! And they want to win the election! What a WASTE TO THE 99% AMERICAN SOCIETY, NOTHING BUT TOTAL CORRUPTION by the Republican corporates & their political puppets!
99% American People, vote STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC, the lives you save WILL be YOURS & your CHILDREN!!!
Great, we will be alive, but we won't be able to afford to raise or educate our children...We won't be able to retire and be grandparents. We won't have homes, or cars, or savings. We won't be safe within our own borders, because our government doesn't want to monitor them...and we won't be able to exchange snappy repartee' with liberals, because the thought police will forbid the freedom of speech if it doesn't coincide with the government outlined reality. Yippeee Skippeee
Pretty much says it all: Wall street will continue to profit on the backs of the American taxpayers regardless of which one of these sellouts is elected. They both actually have more in COMMON with each other than they have in contrast of each other.
Meanwhile people argue why their sellout is better than the other just as planned...
No matter who he ends up endorsing - I have always liked Mayor Bloomberg.
I like his gun control stance and I loved the way he stood up for women when Komen was attacking Planned Parenthood.
Let the two candidates who are so feverishly courting the Mayor tell us which of his stances they concur with - or is it just the getting the vote part they embrace so completely.
i kinda like blomburg too also who every used the starwars refeacne used it well
Hey Zero - summer is almost here!
Bet you will be doing a lot of marching this summer.
I think you misunderstand the focus of the Komen objections....It was not the applications of moneys for causes that benefitted women, but rather that these funds were generated by volunteers, rank and file people who worked very hard thinking that the entire of the proceeds was to benefit breast cancer research. They did not want to lose credibility with the armies of people who contribute to breast cancer research because those same people might feel that their efforts were not used as promised, and taken under false pretense. The issue was with the funding being used for anything other than breast cancer research, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment/cure.
LOL at that headline. Admiral Ackbar tried to warn Mitt Romney, but it was too late. Then the Romney campaign fired Ackbar because his name sounded too Arabic.
Eric Edelman, one of Romney’s foreign policy advisers, is right when he says that “the comments by Governor Romney were taken out of context in a way that distorts their meaning.”
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Despicable that the Dems would stoop so low as to distort Willard's message.