Mitt Romney Adds Barack Obama to His Ignore List

[4est_4est_Gump]

It's Romney's to Lose

By William Tucker on 4.13.12 @ 6:10AM
http://spectator.org/archives/2012/04/13/its-romneys-to-lose
His opponent will run a nasty campaign. He just needs to stay positive.

Call me crazy, but I think Mitt Romney has more than an even chance of winning this election against Barack Obama. If he plays things right -- and I'm pretty sure he will -- I think there's a very good possibility a surge of voter sentiment will put him into office.

Start with an analogy. In 1989, New York voters elected Manhattan Borough President David Dinkins as the city's first African-American mayor. Church bells rang, the newspapers sang hosannas, and everyone congratulated themselves on the wonderful act of tolerance that had put the journeyman Democratic politician into office.

Once things settled down, however, Dinkins’ administration proved to be less than inspirational. Like all Democrats everywhere, he had no sense of the value of money. He went on spending as if there were no tomorrow. As it happened, the country was falling into a recession and revenue was drying up. So he and Democratic Governor Mario Cuomo both responded by raising taxes, with the result that one of five jobs lost in the country were in the Empire State. By the end of his term, Dinkins was starting to tinker with one of New York's most sacred covenants -- the informal agreement that keeps property taxes very low for homeowners. With the city overwhelmed with crime, even successful middle class people were headed for the exits.

Then a motorcade of Orthodox Jews accidentally struck and killed a young black boy in Crown Heights. When African Americans rioted, Dinkins refused to send in the police for two days, saying the community should be allowed to "vent its rage." As a result, a gang of black boys vowing to "kill Jews" set upon a young rabbinical student and stabbed him to death. Needless to say, that cost Dinkins the support of much of New York's sizable Jewish population.

In short, after four years New Yorkers were wondering if electing Dinkins had been such a great idea. And so in a city where only 10 percent of the electorate is registered Republican, the people of New York closed their eyes and pulled the lever for a former Republican prosecutor named Rudy Giuliani as mayor. The rest is history. To this day there are die-hard liberals in New York who are reluctant to admit they voted for Giuliani in 1993, but that's why we have a secret ballot. Right up until the election Giuliani trailed in the polls and there was never any broad expectation that he might win. But he did.

And that, I suspect, it pretty much the way things could happen in this election. I wouldn't expect to see Romney piling up any lead in the polls. It's almost better that way. If people start expecting Romney to win they may have second thoughts or start feeling guilty about abandoning Obama. Changing leaders is a very big deal for Americans, especially when it's an incumbent who has only had one term in office. It's not something people want to talk about too much. That's the way things went when President Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter in 1980. Reagan never led in the polls. He was 25 points behind at this point in the campaign and still trailed going into the final week. Only after their first and only debate did the electorate start to swing toward him. The surge came only in the final three days and was never apparent to the public. Only Pad Cadell reading his daily polls saw it coming and grimly told Carter the situation had become hopeless. That's the way it could go this time as well. If people go into the polls still trying to make up their minds, they're very likely to say, "Oh, what the heck, let's give someone else a try."

So what should be the strategy for Romney's campaign? It's simple. Be positive. Obama is going to run a nasty, nasty campaign. What else can he do? He can't run on his record. People know he's been a failure and he probably knows it, too. So what else is there but to run an ugly, ugly campaign trying to brand Romney as "weird," "rich," "selfish," "uncaring," "a Social Darwinist" and whatever else come to mind. It's going to be downhill all the way.

All Romney has to do is ignore it.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

There is a nasty side to Obama that is eventually going to come out during this campaign. For him it is all very, very personal. All his life he's had it in for those guys like Romney who seem to fit so effortlessly into the establishment. When he was working for that law firm in Chicago, he wrote that he felt "like a spy behind enemy lines." After winning popular acclaim, it would seem he left all this behind. Yet here he is now, President of the United States, and those same establishment guys are coming around trying to undo all the wonderful work he has accomplished in creating a socially leveled, egalitarian, environmentally pure America.

At some point Obama is going to crack. He is going to do or say something very, very embarrassing that allows people to see beneath the veneer of "hope and change." When that happens, if Romney is still standing, unfazed by all the nastiness, buoyant, optimistic, ready to lead the country in a new direction, people are going to say, "What the heck, let's give this guy a chance."

That's all it will take to win the election.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

This made me laugh. "Conservatives" actually think that Romney has a shot.

I stand to rake in almost 2 grand at this point come election day. Funny thing is that none of the "Conservatives" here were willing to risk even a tiny wager that President Obama would win no matter the candidate put forward by their party. Although, their chances now at winning double or triple are gone.

Alligator mouths and Hummingbird asses..

 

[Whornado]

This made me laugh. "Conservatives" actually think that Romney has a shot.

I stand to rake in almost 2 grand at this point come election day. Funny thing is that none of the "Conservatives" here were willing to risk even a tiny wager that President Obama would win no matter the candidate put forward by their party. Although, their chances now at winning double or triple are gone.


Alligator mouths and Hummingbird asses..

I hope you plan to claim those winnings as income on your tax forms.

 

[Beco]

Who doesnt ignore Obama these days?

 

[phrodeau]

American politics is at the mercy of the Jewish vote? That needs to end ASAP.

 

[Liar]

If Romney is gonna run a positive campaign instead of a regular resentment and fear-based one, he might want to... you know... actually start doing that... any day now...

Just the other day he was towing the "Obama's gonna take away yer guns, and the proof is: he hasn't taken away yer guns....yet" line.

 

[unregistered]

 

[Comshaw]

It's Romney's to Lose

By William Tucker on 4.13.12 @ 6:10AM
http://spectator.org/archives/2012/04/13/its-romneys-to-lose
His opponent will run a nasty campaign. He just needs to stay positive.

Here, this might help...

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iXfRfdc1i18/Tv6AroswF1I/AAAAAAAACGU/MTy7860p-v4/s400/three_wishes.jpg


Comshaw

 

[sigh]

And what kind of campaign will the Democrats run? Puleeeze.

That's not relevant to Liar's post, vette. The point is, Romney is not running the positive campaign that AJ's blogger pretends he is. And he sure didn't run a positive campaign during the primaries either.

 

[RoryN]

Call me crazy, but I think Mitt Romney has more than an even chance of winning this election against Barack Obama.

I have yet to see any commentary from Right pundits which shows confidence in Romney being the next President. Any.

The first three words of this one places it firmly in the "we're behind the 8-ball" collection of severely-tempered optimism. Big collection.

 

[Liar]

And what kind of campaign will the Democrats run? Puleeeze.

I didn't say a damn thing about the Democrats. This thread is about Romney. Do try to pay attention.

For the record, yeah, the Dems are at least in part gonna ru8n a "at least we're not those guys" campaign. It's a pretty easy point to make these days.

 

[miles]

Don't put it past either party to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

 

[eyer]

I stand to rake in almost 2 grand at this point come election day.

The average yearly income of the world's people is somewhere less than 8 grand, and here you are, hollow chest full of pride while beating itself, boasting that you can "rake in" by gambling more than 25% of what the average person makes yearly...

...only a 1pcter could be so arrogantly brash compared to his fellow world citizens, and universally so wasteful with the financial resources folks less fortunate than you so desperately need.

The great majority of those folks being people of color...

...you racist piece of white sh!t.

And, also, recall that you proclaimed Obama will garner "much more" than the 61.1% LBJ did...

...how many "grand" did you wager on that side bet?

Friggin' blowfish...

 

[sigh]

Don't put it past either party to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

it's not often we agree, miles, but you're right about that

 

[unregistered]

 

[sigh]

Tell me, who's ever run a "positive" campaign? What is a positive campaign? Can you point too one?

Don't ask me. Ask AJ's blogger. He's the one living in that fantasy world. I think it's total bullshit.

 

[patient1]

Tell me, who's ever run a "positive" campaign? What is a positive campaign? Can you point too one?

The most positive Preidential campaign I can think of was the Reagan's re-election campaign with the
"It's Dawn in Reagan's America... " TV spots using the "From the wineries of Ernest and Julio Gallo " voice.

I remember my outrage at the time thinking "that's fine for the people that still have jobs..." and "What about the growth of the national debt?! What about your promise to promise to [ balance the budget by 1983, 1984 at the latest] ?!!!



You know what? I think Obama could pull it off with that approach, too.
Ignore the debt and unemployment, focus on how proud we are & how great we feel about our tolerence, diversity, equality, and concern for the underpriveledged, saving good old fashioned union jobs , green wind energy and the crowning accomplishment of healthcare.

Sure beats campaigning on peace and prosperity issues, because they raise some tough questions for Obama.

 

[sigh]

The most positive Preidential campaign I can think of was the Reagan's re-election campaign with the
"It's Dawn in Reagan's America... " TV spots using the "From the wineries of Ernest and Julio Gallo " voice.

I remember my outrage at the time thinking "that's fine for the people that still have jobs..." and "What about the growth of the national debt?! What about your promise to promise to [ balance the budget by 1983, 1984 at the latest] ?!!!



You know what? I think Obama could pull it off with that approach, too.
Ignore the debt and unemployment, focus on how proud we are & how great we feel about our tolerence, diversity, equality, and concern for the underpriveledged, saving good old fashioned union jobs , green wind energy and the crowning accomplishment of healthcare.

Sure beats campaigning on peace and prosperity issues, because they raise some tough questions for Obama.

maybe you're right, Mr Chey (I'd sure like to think so), but a lot has changed in the last 28 years

I think both sides will go for the throat

 

[Wrong Element]

This made me laugh. "Conservatives" actually think that Romney has a shot.

I stand to rake in almost 2 grand at this point come election day. Funny thing is that none of the "Conservatives" here were willing to risk even a tiny wager that President Obama would win no matter the candidate put forward by their party. Although, their chances now at winning double or triple are gone.

What's weird is that AJ is going to be posting this stuff on a daily basis for the next 7 months, while at the same time continuing to insist he's not actually going to vote for Romney.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

That's not relevant to Liar's post, vette. The point is, Romney is not running the positive campaign that AJ's blogger pretends he is. And he sure didn't run a positive campaign during the primaries either.

You failed reading 101.

The blogger says he should.



I disagree. I think he can get Obama to implode if he treats him like he did lil' Rickey...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

What's weird is that AJ is going to be posting this stuff on a daily basis for the next 7 months, while at the same time continuing to insist he's not actually going to vote for Romney.

I didn't vote for McCain.


I am voting for Obama. You people deserve more of that which you demand and who am I to stand in your way if you haven't figured it out after three long years of doodly squat and a fistful of high profile kill shots...

It's funny that interminable deficits and wars no longer matter and it's fun watching you attack the families of conservatives and their religion.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The most positive Preidential campaign I can think of was the Reagan's re-election campaign with the
"It's Dawn in Reagan's America... " TV spots using the "From the wineries of Ernest and Julio Gallo " voice.

I remember my outrage at the time thinking "that's fine for the people that still have jobs..." and "What about the growth of the national debt?! What about your promise to promise to [ balance the budget by 1983, 1984 at the latest] ?!!!



You know what? I think Obama could pull it off with that approach, too.
Ignore the debt and unemployment, focus on how proud we are & how great we feel about our tolerence, diversity, equality, and concern for the underpriveledged, saving good old fashioned union jobs , green wind energy and the crowning accomplishment of healthcare.

Sure beats campaigning on peace and prosperity issues, because they raise some tough questions for Obama.

He cannot do that, goes against everything that he is and believes in.

He's the one focused on the economies of groups; Mitt is the only one that can harken back to Kennedy (who never had to work a day in his life) and point out that a rising tide lifts all boats and that by concentrating on the national economy, one also concentrates on the economy of the unassailable victim, the nebulous penumbra of single working mom...



Barack wants to divide and then convince each group that he's the Captain of their "team," not the Captain of Industry.

There. I have become as nautical as Bill Ayers in Dreams of My Father!

 

[miles]

You failed reading 101.

The blogger says he should.



I disagree. I think he can get Obama to implode if he treats him like he did lil' Rickey...

If Obama continues with the same campaign strategy and advisors, they're totally fucked. The past few weeks have been some of the worst of his regime. The old guard media seems to be getting weary of their bullshit.

Here Wolf Blitzer bulldozes Democrat Strategist Susan Rosen. It was embarrassing and exposes liberals for who they really are.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

If Obama continues with the same campaign strategy and advisors, they're totally fucked. The past few weeks have been some of the worst of his regime. The old guard media seems to be getting weary of their bullshit.

I side with Donald Trump and have to strongly disagree. He heard the President's recent round of speeches and pronounced that a very compelling message; that Republicans had better get smart in a hurry and dump Ryan and any attempts at plans for the economy until after the election because they will only become class war ammunition (which is why we have seen no serious Democratic plan since the Stimulus).

There is more resentment in the nation that hope and President Obama will provide a list of enemies and oppressors that he is running against and as we see with a lot of posters, that is exactly where their thought processes end, Zimmerman shot Trayvon.