Just how much do people distrust Obama to do any better in a 2nd term? Mitt Romney is heading up the most baffling national campaign in memory and he’s still in the hunt.
Romney’s running against a failed President with a luggage carousel of baggage and has opted to ignore nearly all of it. He knew – or should have – that the media would be in the pocket of their love child Obama and didn’t create a plan to offset the bias. He’s allowed the Chicago Machine to trample his reputation and responds with barely a peep about the rampant corruption of the Obama administration. (Any regular commenter here could outline a devastating anti-Obama ad campaign on a napkin in about 4 minutes. Romney’s “team” hasn’t bothered.)
Is all this because of fear that independents will be tuned off? If so political idiots are calling the shots for Mitt Romney. The trashing of Kerry and Dukakis didn’t turn independents off Bush and Bush…it caused them to vote for both. Here’s what voters hate more than negative campaigns: Weenies who allow themselves to be destroyed without a fight.
The population now knows more about Romney’s past after 6 months than they do about Obama’s after 5 years. How did Mitt Romney allow this to happen? What’s the point of collecting 100 million dollars in August alone if it’s used to shower swing states with tepid ads featuring talking points they already know from glancing at Drudge headlines.
I always assumed this would be a competence campaign which would slightly favor Romney. What I didn’t expect is that Obama would batter Romney with such ease. Everyone saw the 2012 Obama campaign coming. Everyone except Mitt Romney. Obama would trash Romney from top to bottom. He’d make Romney an unacceptable alternative even though he’d failed on nearly all counts. It was Obama’s only shot. Everyone…let me repeat – EVERYONE – knew this was coming. Political Science freshman knew this was coming. Yet, here we are. Romney’s been defined as a rich, out of touch fool – a definition which is solidifying as I type. Mitt Romney’s campaign has yet to run a counter narrative about Obama for fear of alienating independents. Let me tell you something about independents: They want a reason to fire Obama. They’re desperate for one. It’s September 17th and they are almost done waiting for one. A collective shoulder shrug is coming. A gigantic: Oh well, I guess that insufferable Chicago waif will have to do. If Obama is reelected within a week a gigantic groan will emanate from the American masses as it sets in that the golfing narcissist will be on television for four more long years.
Here’s how the game has played out so far:
Obama campaign: Romney’s ruins lives and causes cancer.
Romney campaign: Obama is disappointing.
Guess who wins this fight? Roll your eyes in disgust at hatchet politics, but they work.
Politico posted a Romney “take down” piece today. The last tent pole of the Romney campaign to kick out is “competence” and they are swinging at it. Intended meme: Romney’s campaign is a mess. He’s a great manager? Ha! A leader? Double ha! He can’t even run a campaign! Expect the Politico piece to create plenty of ink this week about the Romney campaign’s infighting. He’s not even a competent manager! It’s the next piece in the ‘destroy Romney’ campaign by Axelrod and the media. A campaign that has been nearly perfect in execution from the birth control nonsense, to the alleged war on women, to the perfectly set up questions about Romney/Ryan’s national security cred just before embassies began to burn. Connect the dots. It’s a campaign that is working. No matter what lies we tell ourselves about the majesty of civil discourse vicious campaigns almost always work. Bullies bully until they are clocked.
The most baffling aspect of the weak Romney campaign is Romney himself. This man was a ruthless venture capitalist? Hard to imagine. He’s being punked by petty Chicago crooks. Daily.
Ignore ‘likability’ polls. They are useless. Romney is still in this race because the reality is – if one pushes the average voter – another Obama term is, in fact, a disheartening prospect. But no one pushes the average voter. The obvious job of the Romney campaign has always been to make Obama unacceptable. They’ve managed to avoid doing this simple task.
Being officially non-partisan in this race I’ll finish with this: For GOP supporters the most alarming aspect of the Politico piece, beyond the obvious pro-Obama ditch digging, is that nearly all of it rings true.
You are always so cheerful and uplifting. You should get a job working for the Suicide Hotline.
http://datechguyblog.com/2012/09/17/demoralized-as-hell-the-poll-the-media-isnt-talking-about-edition/
I’m here for you, myiq2xu.
Obama will have a second term because the American people are willing to be fooled more than they want the truth. And that includes some on this blog. Obama is better than Romney at fooling people.
The only thing that surprised me about the Romney campaign was when Romney used Solyndra for about fifteen seconds. Otherwise he’s been the candidate I said he’d be. Am I psychic? No. Once someone shows who they are, I don’t believe they’re going to be someone else. Deceivers deceive, liars lie, bullies bully, acquiescers acquiesce; and they tailor those behaviors to the same kind of people again and again. A seducer plays footsie with some and bullies others. We veer off every now and again with behavior aberrant to our real selves, we can hide our nature or distractions can hide them for us, but the truth of who we are remains and that’s the primary trajectory that directs the events of our lives. If we can tailor our strengths to a job, we succeed; if not, and we have a challenger who can, we fail. Mitt Romney can toss the working class under the bus without losing a wink of sleep, but without intervention he cannot smite the President of the United States no matter how easy the task looks to us.
Everyone is on the same team anyway in DC. There aren’t Democrats and Republican only haves and have nots. Painfully obvious ever since Pelosi took impeachment off the table when she would have had a direct shot at being POTUS if she had. It’s all a bad circus of distraction to keep us occupied so we don’t notice that they work just fine together on things like FISA and NDAA.
So right, DE. And the Dempublicans all know that Obama is the guy that can pull the ol’ okey-doke on Americans the best.
When Romney let the anniversary of our downgrade by Standard and Poor’s go by without a peep, I knew for sure that he wasn’t really trying to win. He’s not supposed to win.
The only wild card at this point is the Middle East stuff. It does seem that Team Obama is confused by what’s happening. And if you ever doubted the degree to which the American media is compromised, consider the fact that soon after Ambassador Stevens was killed, Obama went to Las Vegas for a fundraiser. The mainstream media didn’t find any problem with that whatsoever, but they are STILL wringing their hands over the statement that Mitt Romney made about the administration apologizing for the video that is supposedly causing all the uproar.
Who are you going to believe? The MSM or your lying eyes?
I am no political wonk, but even I know something smells when things are close in the polls in Ohio (hahaha), Florida (seriously? After this past week?), Nevada (20%+ real unemployment and a lot of military), and I could go on. About the only “swing” state that may not be a laugher for Romney is PA. Philadelphia has an awful lot of people.
The louder the MSM’s shrieking, the more new (desperate) memes, the more his media-fan-club tries to cover for Obama to the point of abusing any goodwill the main stream press may still have with the American public (and there’s not a lot left) – that shows you that not only is it time’s up for President Obama, but that Romney is in the lead in the polls.
Even here, most of us are so easily distracted from the fact the Mideast is on fire, and Americans have, and will be murdered, and raped….Who says the msm doesn’t lead us around by the nose ?
Beware of people who want to dangle pocket watches in front of you, and tell you you’re sleepy.
Bet y’all hadn’t heard that China the bully & Japan are edging toward war:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9548059/China-sends-1000-boats-armada-to-disputed-island-chain.html
I get my news feed exclusively from Breitbart nowadays. (What has the world come to?)
Latest poll from minitru / CBS:
RV — D+13 = BO +7
LV — D+6 = BO +3
The people conducting these polls are un-American fascists who deserve to be literally tarred & feathered.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/16/cbs-obama-leads-in-d-13-poll
R registration is now somewhere around +7.
I guess the media and the polls missed the 2010 election when Republicans picked up 63 seats. How did they manage that with 13% more Democrats voting?
Anon, where do you get that R +7 figure? Rasmussen places it at R +4 tops.
But even assuming a D/R tie, every one of these polls, when adjusted, places Romney ahead.
What happened was, Axelrod of Evil told all the pollsters that 2012 was going to look just like 2008, and all of them eagerly gobbled down that steamer — except Rasmussen & Gallup. Rasmussen can’t be budged, but the obamalonians had DoJ hit Gallup with a law suit.
Wow, Tamer! Exclusively from Breitbart?!? Even I haven’t gone that far.
Agreed on the “tarred and feathered” point.
I’ve been telling you for months that you’re not going to see that kind of fight. There are several reasons: 1) It’s not in Romney’s character and his character is part of his campaign selling point, 2) It wouldn’t help to mention stuff like Rev. Wright, Obama’s childhood in Indonesia, his college transcripts, etc; that’s because the broad middle is already convinced that’s dirty GOP politics and they would hear the same gray discomforting noise they heard in the 90s with the constant griping about Clinton, 3) It would hurt Romney’s campaign for the other two reasons.
Finally, on point #4, it would poison his presidency from the get go. It”s not just about winning for Romney; it never has been. He’s not that kind of any-means-necessary winner. It’s about winning and doing a great job as president, thus rebranding the GOP. He’s got his eyes on bigger things that the dipshit from Chicago, and he’s confident his plan can bring down the dipshit. And if he’s delivered before in the big ways he has, who are we minions out here to be calling into question his campaign strategy along with the press? There will be plenty of time for crowing should he lose.
Until then, IMHO, this kind of rhetoric is recklessly contributing to the noise machine trying to bring Romney down. That may not sit well, I realize, but it is my opinion and that’s what we do here: share our opinions.
Romney’s character is the biggest part of his problem.
Americans can sense he has no character because of the way the private equity business operates and he succeeded so spectacularly at it, but Romney sees nothing wrong with it so he doesn’t even try to reframe or distract from it. Also the dog on the roof story is the kind that sticks in the back of people’s minds. Oh, and Ann reads rich and snooty while Michelle reads middle class.
He’d go after Obama with both barrels if there were somebody above Obama who’d slap Romney on the back for doing so. But Obama’s the President and, to put it bluntly, Romney can’t stand up to Daddy figures. He can’t bear to, it goes against a lifetime of commitment. Obama, OTOH, relishes going after a privileged white guy who got everything Barry longed for but will never have. The debates will be interesting.
I’m sure the GOP is kicking themselves that Jeb Bush is sitting this election out.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81281.html
Citizens United has struck a deal with a dozen television stations to run its hour-long film featuring voters disaffected with President Barack Obama, sending the Republican critique of the incumbent into tens of millions of homes in the lead-up to Election Day, the group’s officials told POLITICO.
“The Hope and the Change” directed by Stephen Bannon, who made the Sarah Palin movie “The Undefeated,” was first unveiled last month and it aired during the Republican National Convention in Tampa.
The movie’s wide release — backed by a large advertising campaign behind it — was part of the goal of the Citizens United court case that was decided in 2010 by the U.S. Supreme Court and helped to dramatically alter the landscape for political donations by allowing the unfettered flow of corporate cash into campaigns.
“This movie — set to start airing on Tuesday and run through Nov. 6 on six cable and six broadcast networks — features forty Democratic and independent voters who backed Obama in 2008 and have since become disillusioned. Much of the film consists of the voters talking, with an overlay of world events over the last four years.
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The voters talk about what they had expected Obama to accomplish once in office, and why they had supported him. Bossie says the voters, who come from swing states such as Florida, Iowa, Colorado, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia, were picked from focus groups that were conducted by former Jimmy Carter adviser Pat Caddell.
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The movie will run in its 60-minute entirety in an agreement with six cable networks like HDNet Movies and FamilyNet, along with local stations in Louisiana, Colorado, Indiana, Hawaii and Louisiana. It will reach 130 million homes, according to Citizens United, coupled with advertising dollars about the movie on cable networks.
That will come on top of a flood of Mitt Romney campaign spending, and super PAC spending, in the final seven weeks of the race
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this is the only explanation I can come up with…that the Romney camp is holding back…because the media will pounce on any details and he does not want to give any “clues” to Obama pre-debates…and then the MR camp plans on do a full frontal assault lining up with the debates and the final stretch…
…it’s risky, but as you stay, MR is still in the hunt…
Good news, if true. Sounds too good to be true….keeping fingers crossed.
“Let me tell you something about independents: They want a reason to fire Obama. They’re desperate for one….. ”
Romney leads independents by 11%, even in highly skewed, Dem leaning polls. That doesn’t look like desperation to me.
The minds of all voters are pretty much set at this point. Turn-out is the key.
I’m an Independent. I already have a reason to fire him (see: economy). I suspect there are many more like me. Despite his lack of street fighting skills, I’m still voting for Romney.
For all the talk about voter enthusiasm, etc – the good thing about not being overly enthused about a candidate is that your decision is a result of reasoned logic and not an emotional outburst of blind support. Non-enthusiastic voters do not need to see a knockdown drag out fight to be convinced of their chosen candidate’s viability. We’ve already made our choice. We simply remain cool, detached and silent once we’ve made our mind up, cast our vote and then hope for the best. It’s actually very liberating.
Great stuff. I rely on commenters to balance me out on posts like this. I have no enthusiasm for Romney but would really like to see Obama sent packing. And I might add the media punished for it’s wild abdication of any sense of fairness.
interesting article over at Hillbuzz re: ‘The Think Squad’
BTW, Romney doesn’t give a fig about offending Independents. His problem is he hasn’t a clue how to reach them. He’s too far across the divide from even the remotest understanding of how to relate to the average American.
Sorry Im not posting in nested view…
Here is a link to “The Hope and The Change” website
http://www.thehopeandthechange.com/
To Tamerlane’s point, I think that voters minds are getting to the point where they are fixed, turnout is key.. Obama has to mobilize as much of the people that turned out for him in 2008 and keep them from staying home. Romney has to do the same, but also get as many undecideds and independents as he can. This movie might go some of the way into doing that.
I still think I have to give the slight edge to Romney just because he’s going into the home stretch with more money to spend than Obama, but if you asked me to tell you what the key message of Romney’s campaign is, I wouldn’t be able to tell you…it’s not even “I’m not Obama” so I agree with John’s sense of bafflement.
The key message of Obama’s campaign is and always has been Obama. Unfortunately that’s enough for a lot of people. For the people that’s not enough for, there is the propaganda of the MSM and skewed polling results to refer to.
To AB’s point about Romney not running a “win at all costs” campaign, I think OFA is definitely running that kind of campaign, so if Romney isn’t the advantage clearly goes OFA. That’s a no brainer. I don’t really buy into the whole Romney is a classy guy with lots of integrity thing, this is going to be a streetfight. At this point Mitt Romney should be watching the Alec Baldwin speech from GlenGarry GlennRoss every morning when he wakes up and again before he goes to sleep.
The debates will move the dial a little bit, but alot of people will forget by the time Nov 6 rolls around. Romney needs a “moment” like the whole “there you go again” thing from Reagan/Carter or the Bill Clinton playing saxaphone on Arsineo Hall thing, I’m not suggesting either of those, but Romney needs a moment that people can say “oh I get that guy, and I’d prefer him to Obama”.
Granted, to Anthony’s point I’m looking at this as unbiased as possible. I think that Obama, Biden, Romney and Ryan are all tools.. both literally and figuratively… so I don’t have a dog in the race, but I’d be happy if Obama gets shut down in Nov. To Zal’s point, people are easy to seduce and Obama is still that “bright and sparkly” thing to quite a few people. Romney’s got his brand advocates sure, but not in the numbers that Obama has.
It’s a little wierd that Romney has a bigger amount of money to spend, and is running against a Democrat with one of the most abysmal records ever, and he’s still not creating a compelling narrative in people’s minds. Like I said, I give him a slight advantage because he’s got truckloads of money… but there isn’t a Romney revolution happening out there that I can see.
I mean, honestly, is anyone running around saying “Hell yeah! Romney is THE MAN!”?
Seriously.
I have to say, the Hope and Change movie trailer looks really boring. I doubt it’s going to get much of an audience…or at least one sufficient to move the dial.
John, you say “baffling” like it’s a bad thing.
John, the link you give when you say that Romney is still in the hunt is to a national poll. The national popular vote isn’t going to determine the election — the number of electoral votes in the electoral college will, so it matters where the votes are and how many swing states Romney has compared to Obama, not how many total votes anyone gets. I can vote third party here in CA because my vote isn’t going to be enough to change the state’s overwhelming win for Obama in the least and the surplus of other Dem voters in CA will have no impact on the electoral college beyond putting CA in Obama’s column. My understanding from TPM is that Obama has never had less than the number of electoral college votes needed for reelection, pollwise, and that there isn’t much chance for Romney at all, especially since he got no bump from his convention or from adding Ryan. I just don’t see Romney “in the hunt” at all. You are a smart guy and understand this, so why stir up Romney-related hopes like this — it smacks of trolling your own column.
Sally, first off – I love the phrase “trolling my own column”. Seriously. Though I really do not understand the word “troll” in the context of blog comments. I think a troll is when a blog’s overwhelming sentiment is invaded by a contrarian or just a trouble maker. I dont care much if people around here have off the reservation opinions. But yes, I’m trolling my own column in the sense that I slam Romney in this piece and I also generally find Obama disgusting. I’m not on a side this time so…well…I’m not sure I can be a troll…My slight preference given the choices is that Romney win so the democrats came save themselves. Beyond that my loins are girded for either side winning.
For the purposes of the broad point I linked to a national Rass. poll – which is one of the few I trust even a little. Site Gallup if you like. BHO is up by 3 today. That’s a horserace. And I’d not take TPM as gospel on anything. They have an overt and rather childish agenda, to keep their kids on the Obama koolaid train. TPM’s map is shallow with only 3 states as toss ups. I don’t buy that. RCP is closer to the truth today – they have Obama with 237 ECV. I know ECV are what counts. Obama has an advantage to be sure but it’s hardly true that Romney “has no chance”. Obama’s lead in many states is small – and I’d guess a mile wide and an inch deep. Any number of events could switch things up in those places. Carter had a lead late in the game in 1980 – and got hammered. Obama would need to expand leads in swing states solidly for me to say Romney has no chance. My hunch now is that this race is Obama’s to lose. But if national polls have Romney within in striking and one has him ahead it’s fair to say Romney is very much in the race right now. Plus MR has money that McCain only dreamed of.
I’ve got a sense of where this is going but my “sense” is not scientific. It’s a gut check reaction to how the campaigns are being run based on a lifetime of watching campaigns.
Everyone at TPM are psychotic.
RCP includes every single poll, including many (PPP being worst offender) that are egregiously rigged for obama. Take out those rigged polls, or weight them properly, and MR & BO are very, very close in all of them.
This holds true for swing states polls, as well. On John’s last show, I cited a Survey USA poll of LV in Florida. A D+5 gave BO +4. Yet Florida turnout was only D+3 in 2008, and a D/R tie in 2010. Now, explain to me how more people in Florida lean Democratic now than they did in 2008, and I’ll believe that obama will win Florida. Otherwise, I’m assuming Romney will.
People in NY and Cal. sometimes lose sight of a whole ‘nother country that’s out there, teeming with people who wouldn’t know Prada from Payless…They’re the ones whose sons and daughters have been coming home in boxes for over ten years now, and whose homes are so underwater they are growing coral. . Don’t underestimate them.
And some people are prone to fantasy, making up in their own minds -pure fantasy that they actually believe is informed analysis- what people in other places think and assigning that as truth rather than the truthiness it is. Wanting something to be true does not make it true.
One of the things I love most about polls is people citing them as fact when the poll conforms to what they want and dismissing them as crazy when it doesn’t.
Here’s the truth. The American population is split down the middle. Divided in half. Half supports and defends This and half supports and defends That. Repeatedly. Consistently. It’s been evident in election after election, poll after poll, and, if you talk to lots of people, conversation after conversation.
People who support and defend Romney are as nuts and as much a part of the problem as those who support and defend Obama.
I’ve never differed with Zal, months ago calling this without joy for O. But, many in the Golden (as compared with the Sunshine) State also feel pain. It’s just that our districts/ demographics are so skewed Dem and that the media here hammer home GOP ‘racism’ in every two-bit demagogue’s soundbite that far fewer neighbors will swing to Mitt. At least we don’t get many ads. Sophie (as Connor43), you in Florida have more in common than many of our average Joes and Joses in California. We’ve been hammered by foreclosures, high un- and under-employment, and teaching college as I do near a VA hospital, we’re home to many vets (sometimes half of my class). As guest Paul opined optimistically here and on the radio last week, “retraining” helps, but my “trained” students scrabble for fewer jobs in tech and sales with folks twice their age. I noticed this at the movies, first time I saw one in a theatre this year ["The Master," speaking of flimflam by my hometown's charlatans]. It helps if the GI Bill pays vs. loans and grants, as these come harder to get in our financially “underwater” state. We face a ballot initiative to jack up the sales tax and–sort of–sock it to the rich to please the powerful teacher’s union and Gov. Moonbeam’s plan. His LA-SF bullet train or a football stadium
for LA built for and by millionaires with taxpayer dollars takes priority, apparently.
Except it’s not an LA to SF bullet train — it’s a Visalia to Merced boondoggle.
The only problem Obama has is people not voting. If people get up off their obese asses and vote, Obama’s got a second term.
It has nothing to do with how good or bad a President he’s been or how scummy Romney is. Nothing what so ever. It has to do with the same thing that compelled people to buy Palmolive because they liked Madge.
I agree. And the weather forecast. In WI we had unprecedented warm weather on election day in 2008, and people took that as a sign that God was smiling down on Obama. 2010, I can’t remember. But the Recall Walker effort occurred in the summer and it fell against the recallers. We were told by the local press, and the national press that Walker did not have a chance to beat it. But they weren’t paying attention to the numbers that mattered outside of the areas that leaned D (like Madison/Dane County). To whole counties who switched R for the first time in decades (like Dave Obey’s). And they relied upon college grads to vote for the recall, but apparently they voted R because of the economy.
It is hard to see how enough people are still in Fantasyland to drag O over the finish line, but I agree they are out there, If only O could demand good weather on Nov. 6 from Allah, who knows ? Maybe he has a direct line.
I don’t understand your logic, Zal. If “people” don’t get off their asses and vote for Obama it’s because they don’t actually want to vote for Obama. They are unmotivated, i.e., un-compelled: They have muted the Palmolive ad. TGFMB.
One thing for sure: we’re soaking in it, alright.
I expect ampted-up scare campaigns in the next weeks in an attempt to get voters excited and frightened enough to get up off their obese asses. Right now I’m not feeling any excitement or passion. Apathy and disilluion is the national mood. No Democrat I know is enthused about Obama, and I have a feeling not a few Republicans would have preferred some other candidate.
I went to a huge progressive event over the weekend, and was surprised by the lack of passion to get Obama re-elected. Didn’t see the sea of Obama t-shirts either, few 2012 bumper stickers. Strange indeed.
You’re probably right. Can hardly wait to see what they toss into the campaigns. Hope it’s entertaining.
Haven’t gone to any political events but I’ve seen no excitement for Obama either. Mostly what I see, among those who’ll vote Obama, is attacks on Romney. Hope has turned to Nope.
Oh, it is. Romney just slit his throat. Or rather, someone with a tape recorder did it for him.
He’s done.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/09/secret-video-romney-private-fundraiser
Why should his throat be slit over saying aloud what a lot of people already think ?
The majority of Americans do not agree that Americans “believe that they are victims,” Sophie, and they do, actually, “believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing …”
President Romney’s policies would assume we’re not entitled to health care or food? If “a lot of people already think” that, they’re Romney’s fellow multi millionaires who got theirs and want to pull up the ladder.
Oh good grief.I can’t believe anyone’s vote would be moved by that tape. As a matter of fact, those folks who are tired of their taxes going to “handouts” will be moved in the R direction. Personally, I’m a socialist at heart, and even I wasn’t horrified by that conversation. Romney speaks the bloody obvious: Those who believe they deserve government handouts will not vote for the Republican (notorious for being anti-”handout”) candidate. Newsflash!
As I said over at TCH, if Obama exerted as much effort to uncover terrorist plots to attack our embassies in the ME as he does sneaking into Romney’s “closed-door meetings” then last week wouldn’t have been such a disaster. Well, at least Obama has his priorities straight. /snark
I guess this really does prove that Obama couldn’t find necessary information with two hands and a flashlight. The Obama Propaganda Army is in danger of boring the Nation to
death. Seriously, this is not a scoop. It’s the anti-scoop. Clue to ObamaNation: go find something that’s actually inflammatory and don’t come out of your rooom till you do.
Zal, I disagree about Ann Romney and M.O., Poor diction and poorly chosen couture, don’t scream middle class, they scream noveau riche, in my book. The unpleasant demeanor just seals the deal.
Ann Romney is ladylike and wears clothes that actually fit, given the standard to which we have become accustomed, she is perfect.
I’m an Independent and will be voting for Romney without hesitation. It’s a no brainer.
It’s basic common sense for me. Romney—-successful his entire life and has shown great leadership qualities. I’m more than willing to give Romney the reins to our economy.
Obama—–Unsuccessful as President with no history of success or accomplishments in his past other than community organizer and voting present in his part-time Illinois State Senate position.
I’m tired of political punditry and second guessing what Romney should have done. He’s the best man for the job and I have no doubt whatsoever he will be our next President.
It comes down to 2 words- >Turn Out and believe me Republicans are far more pissed off than Dems and CAN’T WAIT to hand Oblamer his pink slip.
use a name or a handle, romn-bot.
actually, “believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing …”
No one wants to see urchins starving in the streets but ‘entitled’ ? Far too many families are having trouble putting food, which they actually pay for, on the table..When money is scarce, so is affection for ‘entitlements’.
Maybe I’m a softie, but I think everyone is entitled to health care, food, and housing. But maybe there are a few people out there who deserve disease, starvation, and exposure to the elements.
tamer, the problems arise when it comes to sorting the wheat from the chaff. Of course there are the truly needy, those with mental and physical disabilities, low intelligence, or no skills.
But trying to get assistance to them while wading through a mass of layabouts and cheats, is daunting at best.’
If you think Illegals with five or six children, who btw, puposely give birth to that many for increased benefits, deserve to stay here and receive a plethora of benefits most Americans will never get, that of course is your choice, and you should vote accordingly.
And all these huddled masses you mention add up to 47%? Where are your figures?