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Special Report
Romney’s Tom Dewey Moment
Obamacare tax confusion a warning sign: the peril of playing it safe.
(Page 3 of 5)
He would — and did — play it safe. And lost the White House in a spectacular upset.
And what unsettling similarity in the thus far unfolding 2012 campaign reminds of Dewey?
In biographer Smith’s words of the Dewey play it safe strategy:
So there it was: a neat combination of personal preference, bad memories, political necessity, and genuine statesmanship, wrapped up in the unanimous support of trusted advisers and state party leaders.”
The “bad memories” of course, revolved around the Oklahoma City speech.
Stop.
“Bad memories.”
What constitutes “bad memories” for the Romney campaign?
Exactly. Two things quite specifically: Romneycare and the “flip-flopper” business.
The Governor was hammered again and again and again on these two issues during the primaries, doubtless producing a reflexive, Dewey-like sensitivity on both. As the WSJ noted in its July 5th editorial on Romney’s tax screw-up response to the Court, cited above:
Why make such an unforced error? Because it fits with Mr. Romney’s fear of being labeled a flip-flopper, as if that is worse than confusing voters about the tax and health-care issues. Mr. Romney favored the individual mandate as part of his reform in Massachusetts, and as we’ve said from the beginning of his candidacy his failure to admit that mistake makes him less able to carry the anti-Obamacare case to voters.
But the game has changed — changed Big Time — because of the Supreme Court decision. The failure of the Romney campaign not to understand that it has changed to their advantage could be, if not corrected, a considerable Dewey-style mistake.
What Chief Justice Roberts did — and we’re speaking here not in a constitutional sense but a political sense — is infuriate the conservative base of the GOP. All those people who were just Mild About Mitt.
Now they are flocking — unasked — to the Governor’s side. As was well reported, the Romney campaign was abruptly flooded with some $4.6 million in campaign contributions from voters apoplectic over the Supreme Court’s decision.
All of which is to say — Romney sensitivities notwithstanding — the story is no longer that Mitt Romney can’t carry the health care message. The political landscape has changed dramatically. Now?
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Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com.
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MelvinNC| 7.6.12 @ 6:24AM
I wonder if the Romney Wonks ever read our musings on the Republican Candidate for President of these United States? If they did and even if old Mitt himself partook a few glances our way I would have but one simple phrase to tell him.
"! STOP BEING A PUSSY MITT !"
TLP| 7.6.12 @ 7:33AM
That's really the only way he can lose. By PUSSYING OUT. Like Reagan, he needs to Focus his Attention on just a few things.
If I could get 5 Minutes, I would say: Copy Reagan. Run on Rebuilding our Military Readiness. Run on a Drill Everywhere Policy to put Millions of Americans back to work, NOW.
Run on Throwing the Muslim Apologists out of NASA, and putting American Astronauts, and American Greatness, back in to Space. Announce the Restart of The Constellation Rocket Program, and a New Spacecraft, ASAP.
Run on Scrapping every Job Killing Regulation, put on the Books, by a person that this THING couldn't get Confirmed, even by a Senate controlled by his own Party - Cass Sunstein.
Promise to Reign in the outta control EPA. Put an Energy Guy, at Energy. And someone with a set of NARDS, at Interior.
And, vow to SCRAP the NLRB, altogether.
Remind people that when you do the right things, everything else will fall in to place.
Jobs.
Freedom FROM the Government.
Pride in the Country, as opposed to the DISDAIN that is on constant display by everyone, and their Wives, in this America Hating Administration.
You cannot be afraid to be called a word.
That's what Roberts did, and the inevitable consequences of his Cowardice and Betrayal, will follow him to his Grave, and beyond.
Man Up, pretty boy.
"Help us, Obywan Kenobi. You're our only hope."
That's, pretty much, where we are, if you Fck this up.
Purp| 7.6.12 @ 11:54AM
Rombot ain't got it in him. He's a wimp, letting his wife and surrogates do battle for him. What a pussy. No one likes him, no one knows what to believe, what he believes. How can you get excited about such a pinhead?
Add to that, he can't answer for Bain unethical practices, Swiss bank accounts, Romneycare and Cayman Islands tax evasion - it all adds up to the worst Republican candidate to run against Obama. Perhaps the worst Republican Presidential nominee since Dewey. How discouraging. But maybe his magic underpants can help? Mormonism, ya know.
Brookschwarzenegro | 7.6.12 @ 12:27PM
Romney doesn't even hold a candle to Dewey.
As they used to say at my alma mater:
"Alvin Lee can't hold Eric Clapton's jockstrap!"
Parker| 7.7.12 @ 8:16AM
Anyone who said, "Alvin Lee can't hold Eric Clapton's jockstrap!" didn't know the difference between variations of playing the, "blues," and playing Americana rock. So, with that being said, Romney is indeed a putz. Why Americans continue to be led like sheep to the slaughter I cannot say. Then again, why Americans think modern 'country' music is 'country' music may explain your previous comment.
George True| 7.6.12 @ 1:10PM
Even the squishiest RINO would be several orders of magnitude better that the Marxist criminal Obama who you worship.
Furthermore, absolutely everything that you spout about Romney is patently false. You are an obfuscator, a con man, and liar, just like your false god Obama, and all of your murdering, plundering leftist fellow travelers. Go away, troll.
Brookschwarzenegro | 7.6.12 @ 1:57PM
"Even the squishiest RINO would be several orders of magnitude better that the Marxist criminal Obama who you worship."
If you mean me, I do not worship Obama; am quite happy though, and relieved:
a) the last decade is over.
b) Bush is no longer president.
c) McCain was not elected in '08.
Am always thankful for small favors.
George True| 7.6.12 @ 2:31PM
My above comment was directed at Perp, but if the shoe fits you too, then by all means wear it.
TLP| 7.6.12 @ 5:30PM
Brooks is a FLAMER.
I'm just sayin.
TLP| 7.7.12 @ 9:16AM
Wow.
Talk about a Guilty Concience.
I'm shocked that 10 or 12 other people didn't respond, as well.
Purp| 7.6.12 @ 3:56PM
No.
Oldefarte| 7.8.12 @ 4:07PM
Better than being a DOMESTIC TERRORIST!!!!
spike59| 7.9.12 @ 6:21AM
he can't answer for Bain unethical practices
============================
because there were no unethical practices for which to answer: if ObaMao handled the economy as well as Bain handled the companies that came to them for help (75% of the companies-already in free-fall to begin with, were turned around and became successful), unemployment would be sub-4%...
Boar Hunter| 7.6.12 @ 12:54PM
It's so nice that the Republican establishment can count on your vote.
Much as the democrats do with the black vote, for years now the republican party has taken the conservative vote for granted and like an abused woman, you continue to prove them right.
To use your own phrase, you bitch like a little girl at how pathetic your choice is and then vote "your color" like the blacks.
The republicans stood by and watched as Obama, drunk with power, ran naked down main street, throwing bags of our money to his friends for three straight years and said nothing. When Obama spit into the face of the blindfolded lady because he could, the republicans turned their heads and walked away.
As long as the cowards in the republican party can depend on the vote of weak and immoral men they will never be held accountable to do what's right.
It seems that, like that woman in a physically abusive relationship, you will keep hanging onto and hoping that things will change. I have simply chosen to find another way.
Like the abusive husband you are so emotionally attached to, as long as the republicans can depend on your vote, no matter what, then nothing is going to change.
Let me ask Timmy, when is the last time you heard a republican say something you could be proud of?
When was the last time the republicans stood up and fought for anything? You have to fight to win Tim.
Quartermaster| 7.6.12 @ 1:02PM
And Dewey, like Mittens, did not fight. With the Demonrats you must fight like your life depends on it, because in reality it does.
TLP| 7.6.12 @ 5:32PM
That's my plan.
What's yours, genius?
TLP| 7.6.12 @ 5:35PM
I don't disagree with you.
But, we've only got TWO CHOICES.
Not Three, and not Four.
TWO.
Like I said - What's your Paln
TLP| 7.7.12 @ 9:18AM
I need a Vacation.
Brookschwarzenegro | 7.8.12 @ 6:37PM
You need to stop play-acting Frank Burns:
"Margaret, where do you think this portrait of J. Edgar Hoover ought to go on the wall?"
Occam's Tool| 7.9.12 @ 10:19PM
Mitt needs to develop FANGS and go after that rat bastard.
Robert| 7.6.12 @ 6:36AM
Apples and oranges (btw, where are you, Appleby...usually first in line here?). Truman was an American and a patriot...not a scheming, lying, elitist, double-crossing Chicago thug-Marxist operative. Truman didn't add trillions ( no one knows quite how many yet with Obamacare until the bill comes due) to the debt. Truman didn't have an Eric (with)Holder running guns from the Justice(!) Department. Truman didn't tank the economy with every regulatory means possible from a rogue EPA, HHS, and use of every other alphabet soup agency to further the dismemberment of the American economy.
Truman didn't spend his first overseas trip apologizing to the NAZIs and their partners, the Islam Grand Mufti, for winning the war, nor for American exceptionalism.
Obama, you're no Truman!
spike59| 7.6.12 @ 6:53AM
well, he DOES throw like a Truman...Bess Truman, that is
Purp| 7.6.12 @ 11:55AM
Truman dropped the Atom Bomb on Japan.
Louis Jenkins| 7.7.12 @ 9:51AM
And Roosevelt wouldn't? Until you read what Japan had in reserve this is a wasted argument.
CJW| 7.7.12 @ 11:49AM
Actually Truman dropped two A bombs on Japan which ended the war and saved one million American casualties, according to estimates of the planned invasion of Japan.
You have a problem with that, Obamaboy?
Purp| 7.7.12 @ 5:13PM
Nope. Obama would have dropped 10 bombs if he had to. Bush couldn't find Japan on the map.
Louis Jenkins| 7.8.12 @ 12:51PM
Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha....
Oldefarte| 7.8.12 @ 4:06PM
Yeah he's dropped bombs all over the USA economically. He woundn't drop bombs in the middle east since he might disturb his friends ARAB SPRING!!!!!!!!!!!
Brookschwarzenegro | 7.8.12 @ 6:39PM
I wish Berlin had been nuked.
Occam's Tool| 7.9.12 @ 10:22PM
Well, Purp, he's got chances to hit Iran and...silence. Obama wouldn't have bombed Japan---he would have been extending his hand out to Japan in peace while they murdered Americans while BOWING to the Emperor---after all, he already became the 1st American President to bow to the Emperor.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 7.6.12 @ 6:39AM
Actually I think the problem revolves around the fact that Romney understands achievement, but does not understand the desire of the left to have America fail.
Romney needs to realize he's up against domestic terrorists and that's just what Obama and Holder and the rest of their merry troup are in every sense of the concept.
TLP| 7.6.12 @ 7:58AM
And, just like that, you hit it right on the head.
He really doesn't understand the HATRED that this man has for WHITE AMERICA.
And, that's what it is. He's perfectly happy in the Ghettos of Detroit, or Baltimore, or Cleveland, Philly, or Chicago.
Not only are they his Peeps, but their Rampant Ignorance, their Racist Views on EVERYTHING - (If you do good in School, you're ACTING WHITE) - and their 60 Years of being "Conditioned" by White Liberalism, in to believing that everybody somehow OWES THEM a living, keeps them Stupid, Unemployable, and forever chained to the Wall of the Liberal Plantation, where they are easily Controlled.
"Good Boy. Sit. Roll over. Beg. Now, go out and Vote."
Like CHRIST said to his Disciples, before sending them out to spread the Gospel - "Men shall know you by the company you keep."
Indeed.
It's time for our side to stand up on our hind legs, and POINT OUT the obvious America Hating Associations of this man, and ask - What kind of person runs around with these kinds of people?
And, if that gets you called a Name?
Suck it up, and keep moving.
George S| 7.6.12 @ 11:27AM
No, the problem revolves around what Rick Santorum prophetically saw a couple of months ago: losing the high ground on the health care issue. If Romney has to reflexively pull his punches, he will lose. Just like Dewey, Dole and John McCain.
Purp| 7.6.12 @ 11:58AM
Billie, billie - "Let's hope Obama fails ... " - Rush Limbaugh. Now, he might as well have said "Let's hope America fails ..." ...
Obama has said nothing like that.
RonRonDoRon| 7.6.12 @ 12:07PM
Only in the mind of the left is "Let's hope Obama fails" equivalent to "Let's hope America fails." Many people sincerely believe that the Obama presidency has been bad for the country, and that a second term would be even worse.
Boar Hunter| 7.6.12 @ 12:55PM
Yip Yip Yap Yap
George True| 7.6.12 @ 1:28PM
Limbaugh was crystal clear that he was saying he hoped Obama would fail in implementing his agenda, which is Marxist/Socialist to the core. And you, Purp-troll, are a liar and a con artist for trying to twist what someone said into the exact opposite of what they actually said.
Purp| 7.6.12 @ 6:17PM
And, please explain in detail how when a President fails, it doesn't hurt America and Americans?
Oh, brilliant boy, tell me true, how does playing your little semantic games create jobs?
You know damn well, if America is hurting the Republicans believe they can win in November. Maybe with anyone other than Rombot - but OMG, he can't even be in the driver's seat when riding a jet ski. Mama "Dressage" Romney had to drive him around on his Lakefront Estate. He couldn't lower himself to anything but being chauffeured.
We all know the economy is weak, that's not new news - what's Rombot's plan? "I'm not Obama", "I know where jobs come from and where they go" - yeah, he does, to China.
CJW| 7.6.12 @ 7:39PM
Obamaboy,
It is simple. Obama's policies hurt America. Therefore if Obama's policies fail then that is good for America.
Got it?
Romney spends his own money for vacation. O and Michele spend our money to vacation in Spain, Hawaii, dates in Manhattan, etc.
And remember how Michele got a raise from $100,000 to $350,000 as the "community relations attorney" for a Chicago hospital that received a big Obama sponsored grant, again our tax money? So we paid Michele $250,000 for what?
Think of how many starving children we could have fed with the "raise," and vacations.
Purp| 7.7.12 @ 5:22PM
Got it... let millions of Americans suffer, so you can say Obama failed.
All presidents spend our money on vacation, dope.
Let's see, Rombot makes 22 million/year. 14% taxes. Now if we made him pay 39% like most rich ones should, think how many fighter jets we could buy with THAT pile of cash. He's a snake and America knows. it.
Louis Jenkins| 7.8.12 @ 12:53PM
O my gosh, people, Purp says we need to spend money on fighter jets!! And dope too!!
Oldefarte| 7.8.12 @ 4:02PM
Yeah Bush vacationed in Crawford, Texas AT HIS OWN EXPENSE.....course he wasn't a freeloading historical welfare recipient either. Reagan went to his ranch in California, and Clinton never vacationed [ie Monicagate], Nixon went to his San Clemente home. Why doesn't ya boy go to his Resko funded house in Chicago instead????????
Occam's Tool| 7.9.12 @ 10:22PM
Obama fails because he is an idiot with no understanding of economics.
Oldefarte| 7.8.12 @ 4:04PM
Not only does he say "nothing" but he also does nothing due to ineptness!!!!!!
spike59| 7.9.12 @ 6:24AM
No, moron-hoping ObaMao fails means hoping America succeeds; if that incompetent putz was hell-bent to destroy the economy and the nation, there's little more he'd need do than he has already done
Appleby| 7.6.12 @ 6:42AM
Romney, like several angry trolls who hang out here, believes that we MUST vote for him, and therefore he isn't taking even normal, ordinary pains such as he'd take when wooing another company to engulf and devour (yes, I have been through that scene).
Good going, those of you who thought he was The One. Better hope that he figures out which way the parade is headed and jumps in front of it before November. What was that about "fooling some of the people all of the time"?
CJW| 7.6.12 @ 8:08AM
You do not have to vote for Romney.
You made it clear you are just too good to vote to beat Obama and you helped to elect Jimmy Carther.
Stay in Canada and vote for the socialists that ruined Canada.
Boar Hunter| 7.6.12 @ 1:03PM
CJW;
We know we don't have to vote for Romney thanks!
You and the other abused women like TLP can keep voting for the republicans that are allowing the socialists to ruin America.
CJW| 7.6.12 @ 3:08PM
BH
You can join your soulmates Purp and Brooks to help elect Obama, then you can continue your useless bitching about socialism. Idiot..
JmsA| 7.8.12 @ 12:26PM
Vote for Obama, or better yet, stay home again and don't vote. And while you're at it, get your head out of the boar's ass; it's clouding your thinking. Romney, whether you like it or not, is the nominee. No matter how much you bitch and groan, it will not change.
TLP| 7.6.12 @ 8:25AM
Again.
How the Fck do you get to Vote - DOWN HERE - when you Live - UP THERE?
And, how about YOU, being "Stupid all of the time"?
Stop talking Bullsh*t, and tell all of us Dummies, who YOU are gonna vote for, and what our other Choice is, if we don't vote for Romney.
C'mon you stupid old bag.
Tell everybody why you're so smart, and why ANYONE should listen to you?
(You don't even live here.)
Obviously, all of the Medications you're on, have convinced you that you have a better grasp of things, from your Shack, up in Dullsville. So spill it. Let's hear it, straight from the Horse's Ass.
What should we do to defeat The Muslim?
Nobody needs Idiots, trying stir things up with the simpler among us, with dreams of being above it all, and better than the rest, if they follow you, and Piss Away their Votes, and with them, any chance that this Country will survive, as it was set up by our Founding Fathers.
Appleby| 7.6.12 @ 6:39PM
A person does not lose her American citizenship by living in a country other than America. Just because you have never been farther from home than the gas station, don't assume the rest of us are just as stupid as you are. (My father said that "stupid" is militant ignorance, and I agree.)
I am sure that in the days of Christian Martyrdom, you would be out there, trollikins, urging everyone to put that incense on the Emperor's altar and live to fight another day. You clearly don't understand the meaning of Principles. Yours are evidently for sale to anybody with an (r) after his name. I supported Rick Santorum and worked hard for him. When he dropped out, so did I. Perhaps next time someone will run who actually wants to work for my vote.
TLP| 7.7.12 @ 9:33AM
I understand "Principles".
Do YOU understand National Suicide?
Cause that's what you're advocating.
And, you gotta lotta nerve, lecturing me, from your little Shack in The middle of nowhere, in ANOTHER COUNTRY.
Put your Money where your Mouth is, and get your Holier Than Thou wrinkled up old ass, down here, where the rest of us will have to live with the CONSEQUENCES of your Vaunted Principles.
We can't AFFORD your sense of Purity.
We have to LIVE with the Sh*t that this MFer is preparing to do to us.
Unlike a certain old Cow, who spouts her Crap, safe, in some other Country, far away from the Madness.
I'm sending you a copy of Final Exit.
READ IT!
Dai Alanye | 7.6.12 @ 11:33AM
Romney, as his political record indicates, is a loser, and his campaign is based on the hope that Obama will prove to be a bigger loser in the eyes of voters.
Yeah, I'd call that running a prevent defense. He needs more offense.
Purp| 7.6.12 @ 12:00PM
Appleby - He's a Corporate CEO. He's entitled to the Presidency. It's his turn. He will show Daddy how it's done. Just do what he says, he can't be bothered to fight, that's for the "little people".
George True| 7.6.12 @ 1:35PM
It is your Marxist fellow travelers who feel entitled to that which they have not earned, simply because they exist. You and your ilk are the ultimate parasites. And you call Romney entitled? You are truly living in your own little Bizarro World.
Purp| 7.6.12 @ 6:20PM
Saying it, doesn't make it true, George.
Nothing you describe me as is anywhere near the truth - too bad for you.
You're just a misguided little man that can't question the morality or veracity of your right wing dogma.
spike59| 7.9.12 @ 6:27AM
no, purp, he's described you, right down to your rainbow-painted toenails...a socialist leech
Boar Hunter| 7.6.12 @ 1:01PM
Don't worry Appleby, you are not alone. I understand that according to polling data there are 25% of conservatives who won't vote for the spineless coward either. The libs that foisted him on us know it and they are very afraid.
I personally want Obama to win again. I believe that is the only way we will see any change.
Based on all the illegal, unethical crap Obama has already done, I cannot imagine what it might be, but maybe Obama will finally do something so outlandish that even Romney might say something disparaging about him.
irish19| 7.6.12 @ 1:17PM
Really? You really want to give him the chance to appoint a couple more Sotomayors or Kagans to SCOTUS? That is the main reason to vote for Romney and as many down-ticket conservatives as you can.
As has been pointed out innumerable times, it has taken a couple of generations to dig the hole this deep. While electing Romney does not get us out of the hole, it does satisfy the first rule of holes: when you're at the bottom of one, stop digging. Staying home in a fit of pique and allowing zero to get another four years is the same as being at the bottom of the hole and yelling for some explosives.
CJW| 7.6.12 @ 3:11PM
BH
You are no conservative.
You want Obama to win to ruin our country worse than he has already done.
What, 15 trillion debt not enought for you? 10% unemployment too low? More border agents like Brian Terry dead?
Move to Canada with Appleby and Canuckstani.
JmsA| 7.8.12 @ 12:35PM
You bitch against Obama, yet you want him to remain in power. Time to take your head out of the boar's ass, wouldn't you say? You're a defeatist. Millions and millions voted for Romney because no viable "conservative" alternative availed himself/herself. You might think you're more conservative than most here, but you're not. Simply put: Anyone who would countenance four more years of Obama, it's not only not conservative, but a moron. Speaking of the latter, are you also a paulbot? Just asking?
JmsA| 7.8.12 @ 12:39PM
In case anyone wonders, the post above was directed at BH, and the rest of the "perfect" conservative keyboard warriors trolling about. The losers who stayed home the last time around and helped thus elect the Marxist in Chief.
spike59| 7.9.12 @ 6:28AM
'I personally want Obama to win again. I believe that is the only way we will see any change'
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you forgot to add 'hope'...Leftard troll
spike59| 7.6.12 @ 6:51AM
McCain followed the "Tom Dewey" approach; 'friendsh, we can come togesher wishout being dishagreeable'...nice strategy for, say, a spelling bee; but NOT when you're up against the Chicago Machine/Union Thugocracy-i don't think Mitt's going to play that crap; he's already hit ObaMao harder than McCain ever did. you don't get to become a CEO by holding hands and singing 'kumbayah'
Dai Alanye | 7.6.12 @ 11:35AM
Optimism, thy name is spike.
irish19| 7.6.12 @ 1:18PM
Gotta hope he's right, though.
rightasrain| 7.6.12 @ 7:02AM
Presidents have to be able to focus on more than one issue at a time. Romney's emphasis on the economy is important but he cannot ignore foreign policy and other gifts that come his way such as the Obamacare decision. He's just not a natural politician and is so afraid of making a mistake that it frustrates even his strongest supporters.
Hardcard| 7.6.12 @ 7:11AM
Remember the Maine ! or is it Remember McCain !!
Sh*t or get off the pot mitt.
Purp| 7.6.12 @ 12:02PM
Too bad his wife isn't running - she's seems much more likable, political, a fighter. But, alas, she never worked, so he'll just have to keep hiding behind her.
George True| 7.6.12 @ 1:43PM
Your false god Obama never had a real job and never worked a day in his entire life. He has been sucking at the public teat his entire adult life. He had his way paid for him through college and law school, even though he did nothing to earn such a free ride. He is the ultimate deadbeat, freeloader, and parasite...and yet you criticize Ann Romney? Up is down and down is up in Purp-World.
Purp| 7.6.12 @ 6:23PM
Who said anything about Obama? Can't defend Rombot or Mrs. Rombot, is that it? Okay, I get it. But Rombot don't get the Presidency, sorry, he's a wimp, unethical, plastic Mormon man that nobody likes. Oh, but he does have magic underpants.
Oldefarte| 7.8.12 @ 3:57PM
No you boy was brought about because the Marxist Marshall got into his momma's "underpants"!!!!!
spike59| 7.9.12 @ 6:31AM
ummmmm...dumba$$...it's ObaMao who's running...seems to me that you can't find anything positive to say about your Obamessiah's dimal record; same trouble his campaign is having
TLP| 7.6.12 @ 5:40PM
So, she's a lot like you.
c. j. acworth| 7.6.12 @ 7:41AM
"He fears his fate too much, or else his gain is small, who dares not put it to the touch, to win.... or lose it all."
The name of the Prussian general who offered that toast escapes me at the moment, but it captures, I think, the essence of Mr. Lords' essay, and why I will live in fear every day between now and November. I will not give up hope, however. Remember that just a couple of weeks ago it was Obama who was making all the stupid mistakes and getting his butt kicked by Team Mitt (the private sector is doing fine?) There is time and a real possibility of a win, but yes, the Stupid Party has got to get agressive and stay on the attack every second.
c. j. acworth| 7.6.12 @ 8:01AM
Oops. I remember now. The general was James Grahm, Earl of Montrose, not a Prussian. The quote is known as Montroses' Toast.
TLP| 7.6.12 @ 8:42AM
I wouldn't worry.
Things will happen the way God has planned them.
Go out and Vote, and hope for the best.
As an Old Texican, so aptly put it, the other day: "In a coupla Months we'll find out if we DESERVE to live in a Free Country, any more."
Indeed.
I still have Faith that the Narccissism that Boils inside the Creature in the White House, will be his final Undoing. November is still a ways away, and last I looked, EVERYTHING was continuing together WORSE, which will only cause him to do MORE of the things that he has already done, and which have put us where we are, in the 1st place.
I'm guessing that, by October?
He'll climb to the top of the Washington Monument, where he'll then proceed to Shoot an Arrow, in to the Heavens, at GOD.
We have seen his kind, before.
Unfortunately.
We have also seen how these episodes ALWAYS end.
Al Adab| 7.6.12 @ 11:23AM
Mr. Lord correctly points out that since the days of Dewey, the republican party has stood for accomodation with and acceptance of the administraitve social-welfare state. Instead of standing for liberty, the sovereignty of the individual and limited government, the party accepts statism as legitimate. The long line from Dewey through Ford, Dole, McCain also includes such notables as George Romney, Nelson Rockefeller, and the current ostensible nominee. This is simply once again the road to failure.
Instead of accepting the legitim,acy of welfarism and statism, of the central control of the economy and of large paternalistic government, we should remember the words which gave rise to the Conservative Movement: "Do not speak to me af making government more efficient, for I intend to reduce its size." That is why the GOP mainline has opposed the Conservative Movement from its inception. Quite simply those who fail to stand for something, stand for n0thing. Those who fear to offend waft with the breeze.
William L. Gensert| 7.6.12 @ 7:46AM
I agree entirely with Mr. Lord.
Mitt Romney needs to get in Barack Obama's face. For our President with a compliant press and a multitude of minions, confronting the Republican candidate directly is not a necessity. Scurrilous sycophants will act in his stead as proxies with accusations and personal attacks. Mitt has no such luxury. He must transform himself into a latter-day Patton and "attack, attack, attack!"
Read more of my article: http://www.americanthinker.com.....z1zqGRGJ1C
MelvinNC| 7.6.12 @ 8:36AM
"Romney, plain and simple. Run your campaign like you did Bain Capital." Like others have said get in the boy wonder's face and show him what a real man can to. Put your finger in his chest and knock barrack of his game and keep jamming your finger in his chest to the point that Barrack Obama will regret the day he ever heard of Mitt Romney and stop pushing junior on election day and then turn him around by his coattails and kick his narrow and Michelle's big azz out of the White House.
Romney you got to be hungry. You either want the job or you don't. Obama isn't going to hand it to you. You got to biatch slap Obama and take it away from him.
TLP| 7.6.12 @ 8:50AM
Listen to Melvin.
Melvin gets it.
Boar Hunter| 7.6.12 @ 1:18PM
LOL, You are absolutely right. Melvin gets it!
Romney...not so much. If Romney got it, if he showed any indication of even knowing where to find out where to get it, I would vote for him.
Romney will never get it. He is being advised by the same people who still can't figure out why McCain lost.
Spineless coward, he owns no core belief on anything.
His own people complimented him on being a political etch-a-sketch. Yeah! Vote for Romney! He will say anything because he does not believe in anything he says!
TLP| 7.6.12 @ 5:43PM
And, what is the Alternative?
Four more years of a man that HAMAS believes is THE DELIVEROR?
Wake Up!
Warrior| 7.6.12 @ 9:01PM
BH: He's running this like a business. Execs show their cards when maximum gain can be expected. Politicians run around in daily new cycles. I'm no fan of Romney but it's better to vote and hope he does the right thing than assisting the Marxist to another term.
Cobalt| 7.6.12 @ 8:45AM
Krauthammer says Romney is behind Obama 9 points in Ohio, and can't win the election without Ohio.
http://www.realclearpolitics.c....._well.html
TLP| 7.6.12 @ 8:58AM
Ignore the Polls.
Carted led Reagan, right up till the End.
Real Clear Politics, and Charles Krauthammer, are the Last Places anyone should look to, for any kind of Pulse of the Country.
I find it hard to believe that the State that voted for Kasich, and is doing a lot better than they were doing BEFORE Kasich, is going for The Muslim.
Ohio is a Coal State, and one that can clearly see the difference between Republican Ohio and Wisconsin, and Democrat Michigan, Illinois, California, and this Country, under Obama Rule.
As will all of the States.
Al Adab| 7.6.12 @ 11:26AM
In '08 the el3ectoral vote count was 365 to 173. IN has flipped to the GOP but it will still require the addition of FL, NC, VA and Ohio to approach the magic 270 needed. That assumes no change in any McCain state. Without those states, the GOP will once again fail.
Dai Alanye | 7.6.12 @ 11:43AM
Drop the "coal state" idea. The "coal vote" is unimportant in Ohio, swamped by the "farm vote," the "industrial worker vote," the "home school vote," the "public worker vote," and the "welfare recipient vote," among many others.
It's ridiculous and ignorant to think that the issue of coal will swing any significant number of votes in Ohio.
TLP| 7.6.12 @ 5:56PM
Okay, so how are the Farmers, and the Industrial Workers, and the Home Schoolers doing, under President No Jobs?
How are the Unions doing, minus the Oil, and Gas Industries?
How are they better off WITHOUT the XL Pipeline, Drilling in the Gulf, and Drilling in Alaska, off the Atlantic Coast, and the Pacific Coast?
How many Union Pipe Fitters, Drivers, and Welders are outta jobs because of President No Jobs?
What's the REAL UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS for Blacks, and their teenage kids?
How many Blacks are losing their Homes, Businesses, and their Jobs, under President No Jobs?
Ohio is doing much better under the Guidance of Governor Kasich, as is Wisconsin, under Governor Walker, as is New Jersey, under Governor Christie.
Mark my words. Ohio, North Carolina, Florida, Wisconsin, and Michigan, have had enough. Of President No Jobs.
Mark my words.
Robert| 7.6.12 @ 9:11AM
Where is this poll? I see the RCP poll today (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/oh/ohio_romney_vs_obama-1860.html) showing Romney behind Obama by 2.6 pts...within the margin of error. Note that this poll was taken on 6/25, 5 days before SCOTUS' Obamacare ruling screwed Americans out of untold trillions of their kids' and grandkids' future earnings.
Obama is toast in Ohio. "It's the economy, stupid!"
Truncheon| 7.6.12 @ 8:59AM
Pffft. I guess this string of articles demonstrates that even Conservative venues collude on storylines so as to create an awareness that may or may not comport to reality.
I've never been a big fan of Mitt Romney, but please. I really don't see that stating the obvious ... we think this ruling was utterly bogus however now we must deal with Obamatax as a tax ... was some big stumble.
Maybe the "repeat it until it's true" tactic prevails with a majority, but it isn't resonating with me.
Anthony| 7.6.12 @ 9:13AM
As I said at another blog today, if you blow this election Romney, kiss the Republican Party good bye.
You RINOs will be holding hands with Obozo & his merry Marxists to keep the barbarians (us) from storming the gates and burning D.C. down to the ground.
Fair warning Mittens, grow some BALLS, or get used to tar and feathers.
George S| 7.6.12 @ 11:41AM
If Romney loses the election, kiss the United States, its constitution, and its republican form of state governments goodbye as -- starting in 2016 -- every future president will become the equivalent of a PBS telephone solicitor, spending his waking hours trying to figure out where to borrow money to keep the monstrous welfare state running.
Purp| 7.6.12 @ 12:41PM
A little melodramatic, don't you think?
Boar Hunter| 7.6.12 @ 1:07PM
Yip?
irish19| 7.6.12 @ 1:23PM
Not at all. Math is tough that way, and numbers don't give a rat's heinie about your feelings.
Purp| 7.6.12 @ 6:24PM
Well, we survive Bush, and he's the bottom of the barrel ... anybody is survivable after him.
spike59| 7.9.12 @ 6:32AM
after we 'survived bush', we tipped the barrel...and ObaMao came slithering out from underneath
George True| 7.6.12 @ 1:52PM
The unfunded mandates are currently over $110 trillion dollars, not including Obamacare. The fed will continue quantitative easing to infinity, effectively shifting all the tens of trillions of debt to all of us by debasing the currency. Them is the cold hard facts. Call it 'melodramatic' if you like, but it will fleece your savings and pick your pocket just as surely as it will ours.
Purp| 7.6.12 @ 6:26PM
So, what's your solution? Romney? Puhlease ...
Increase military spending and cut taxes, cut taxes, cut taxes.
Uh, see any long term change there with that plan, Chuckles?
Oldefarte| 7.8.12 @ 3:54PM
No not 'cut taxes', but instead CUT GOVERNMENTAL EXPENSES. Ya boy's unionized incompetitents are headed for unemployment status and will be relieved of their overpaid payroll status and their over blown benefits packages!!!!!!!!
Occam's Tool| 7.9.12 @ 10:31PM
Hmm...interesting to note that total government income was higher under Reagan than Carter, with lower tax rates. But Purp doesn't understand that if X=3Y, then .28X >.7Y (maximum tax rates under Carter and Reagan for the multipliers, and use the DOW average at the end of Carter's term (Y) and the end of Reagan's term (X) as Proxies for GDP---the actual numbers favor Reagan much more).
Algebra hurts, don't it.
TLP| 7.6.12 @ 6:08PM
Even if he SUCKS as a Candidate?
If you hate what the Marxist Muslim, Putin Loving/I'mahandajob Butt boy, Ccksckr, what's the problem?
You want President CCKSCKR gone?
You pull the lever for the other guy.
"Romney's not perfect,"
NO SHIT.
There has only been one man who was perfect, and they Crucified HIM.
Quit all of your BITCHIN, and do the right thing.
WTF is wrong with you people?
Rene591| 7.6.12 @ 9:24AM
Romney is the epitome of playing it safe. and undisclosed donors is not exactly transparent. need to move away from the repub party . or as Scott Ramussen called them and the dems the ruling party. the definition of insanity to support either one
spike59| 7.9.12 @ 6:35AM
here's the deal:
there is only ONE way to get rid of ObaMao...JUST ONE-and that is to vote for Romney in November; anything else helps ObaMao
Louis Jenkins| 7.6.12 @ 9:30AM
Naturally we see an article that claims Romney is not doing enough. It's July, the primaries are finished, and we have our candidate whether we like him or not. Yes, Romney is slow on the uptake, and his commercial that shows the Won claiming that the "middle class is doing fine" has been shown many times past it's usefulness. Time to move to another classic mistake and drive home the point, and another, and another. You've only got so much time Romney, make the most of it. Playing patticake like McCain did will not win the election. The American public wants to see a fighter, a leader, a man who will mix it up. Queensbury rules anyone?
Purp| 7.6.12 @ 12:42PM
You got the wrong man. He's a CEO, and delegates to others to do the dirty work. That's his biggest problem, and it's fatal.
Boar Hunter| 7.6.12 @ 1:07PM
Yap Yap Yap Yap
Louis Jenkins| 7.6.12 @ 1:48PM
Obama turned down some offers to arm wrestle last week didn't he?
Drunken Sailor| 7.6.12 @ 1:52PM
"delegates to others to do the dirty work".
That has to be the funniest post to date. Put the name Obama in front of that and it would perfectly describe him! The only thing Obama has "personally" done is give the go ahead to get Osama. Even then he has to sleep on a obvious decision for 16 hours. Go ahead, name anything else he did himself.
Obamacare, not hardly, ask Harry and Nancy.
Close Gitmo, Oops still open
Fix the economy, Oops again, job growth isn't even keeping up with the population growth
Save the auto industry, Industry no, Unions yes. Ask Ford.
Improve his golf game. OK, you got me on that one.
Purp| 7.6.12 @ 6:30PM
For most Presidents, getting Bin Laden would have been sufficient.
But, yes, HE saved the Auto Industry - please ask Ford's CEO. Or are you lying again?
And, he has now created more net jobs since becoming President than Bush did in 8 years. You can look up the numbers yourself. Millions were lost the last few months of Bubble-headed's last term.
He didn't create Gitmo. He didn't create the crash.
But he will crush Rombot.
CJW| 7.6.12 @ 7:44PM
Obamaboy
O did not save anything.
The American auto industry includes Ford, Toyota, Honda, BMW, Mazda, Subaru, and others who have plants here, and did not take any of our tax money.
Obama helped the UAW at GM hoping for their votes. GM still had to file for bankrupcty, and will probably be gone, or restructured, in the future.
Unemployment at 10% under O, and you believe he has created jobs?
The only job O has created is your job as a paid troll.
Oldefarte| 7.8.12 @ 3:50PM
You LIE almost as much as ya boy. Tell the truth and go blog with your friends at the NYT!!
Louis Jenkins| 7.7.12 @ 9:55AM
And yesterday, in Ohio, after he met a woman who owned a cafe, who, by the way, happened to adore him, the woman went into cardiac arrest and died. Now that's a fighter.
Louis Jenkins| 7.7.12 @ 9:58AM
And Obama is the president, and he doesn't? Obama rolls up his sleeves and gets his hands dirty? Obama bends his back? What an idiot.
Oldefarte| 7.8.12 @ 3:51PM
He solves problems, unlike ya boy who play golf on the taxpayers' dime!!!!!!!!
spike59| 7.9.12 @ 6:37AM
dumbass, what do you think the President does? he's the freaking CEO of the Executive Branch
Oldefarte| 7.6.12 @ 11:21AM
JC, IT'S THE DEMOCRATS, STUPIDS! Ever heard of Obama, Reid, Schumer, Pilosi, Waters, Jackson, Durbin, etc? Can't find any material worthy of an editorial about them instead? What are you people being paid by Howard Dean and the DNC perhaps? Dewey moment? How about a Jesse Jackson Jr moment instead? What about how Democrats are socialically ruining this country, and if Romney and Republicans aren't able to takeover in January, this country will die in three years? How about.....????????
davelnaf| 7.6.12 @ 11:23AM
The extra anxiety in this instance is warranted; Romney should not be playing it safe with O. Four more years of this Manchurian Candidate and this country is kaput.
But the comparison to 1948 is a little bit of a stretch. While what passed for the MSM back then was not totally in the tank for the dems it collectively sort of favored them. Today’s abject subservience of the MSM to O is such that every moronic comment of his is edited, ignored, or allowed to pass without comment. Romney can say something perfectly sensible about free enterprise and the entrepreneurial spirit and it gets an edited hack job by the flacks at MSNBC. Yet O’s little pony walk is fine because walking that way is really cool or even better—had Bush done anything similar just once MSM flacks would have had a collective orgasm just before laughing themselves to death.
Romney should not be playing it safe this election year and this means going after O and his contemporary versions of FDR’s lies.
Who Knows?| 7.6.12 @ 12:10PM
What is THE defining characteristic of Romney?
Mr. Perfect.
Why, he looks presidential, has a beautiful and winning wife, never drank or otherwise acted less than a great gentleman, sans of course the time he pulled a prank as a kid.
What’s wrong with such types?
When one does good things, there is always the question of whether they’re doing it to garner a personal reward by being a “good boy”, or whether it’s because they realize doing good is good, in itself. What one does in private, and all that.
Also, isn’t it obvious that Mitt is a very well trained Mormon “monkey”, or “dog”, a la Pavlov? That is, from the earliest age, he was buried in a parental and community environment that used carrots and sticks to mold his self-image---ergo, Mr. Nice Guy Romney.
Perhaps, then, the fatal flaw for him, is the wrenching, “dark night of the soul” difficulty he has been facing---the inability to admit he made a mistake: why, if I was less than perfect, or a flip flopper, who would believe me on anything else?
It always gets down to Narcissus. In this case, Romney has to observe, understand, and transcend his rigidity, and realize the election is NOT about HIM.
It’s not about the WHO, but about WHAT he will do!
What’s vital is GETTING ELECTED!
Purp| 7.6.12 @ 12:51PM
Swiss bank accounts, sleazy Bain deals, Cayman Islands tax evasion, Romneycare, 14% taxes paid on $22 million, car elevators, Jet skis, wimp, CEO entitlement arrogance - he's done, lost, gone.
Boar Hunter| 7.6.12 @ 1:08PM
Yip Yap Yip Yap
Oldefarte| 7.6.12 @ 1:16PM
'....Newsmax.....With unemployment mired at 8.2 percent, President Barack Obama’s re-election bid seems much more distant.Payroll added an anemic 80,000 jobs for June, and the unemployment rate remaining unchanged. Economists predicted a 100,000 jobs gain, according to a Bloomberg report. Not counting government employment, the private picture looks grim — 84, 000 jobs were added — the lowest amount in 10 months. The president needs to track a steady upward trend economic improvement; a picture of stagnation and erratic down trends worsen his chances dramatically......'
Purp| 7.6.12 @ 6:32PM
Newsmax? right-wing rag, 'nuf said.
But I guess you're thrilled, huh? F*k America and Americans, we want to replace Obama at all costs.
Oldefarte| 7.8.12 @ 3:48PM
You last phrase says it all....can't wait till November !!!!!!!!!
George True| 7.6.12 @ 2:20PM
Let's see here, Perp: Hundreds of millions of dollars donated by foreign nationals, primarily arabs, because Obama purposely disabled the donor verification on his website. Illegally running guns to Mexican drug cartels so he could falsely claim that most of the guns the cartels have are coming from here, thus enabling legislation to restrict gun sales. Illegal real estate deals with a now convicted slum lord and money launderer. v
Vacations to Spain and France every few months that cost us many millions of dollars each time. Never had a real job in his entire life, sucking at the public teat his whole life. The ultimate entitlement mentality from a lifetime of indoctrination in Marxism. The ultimate wimp, who votes present on any tough decision, who couldn't even make the decision to pull the trigger on Bin Ladin (his subordinates had to do it).
Jet skis??? Are you insane? Just about anybody could afford to rent a jet ski for a weekend. If being on a jet ski makes someone 'out of touch', then I guess every beer swilling Billie Bob who likes to go the the lake on the weekend is also 'out of touch' with himself.
What idiotic rantings you make here. Everything is the opposite of reality in Perp-world.
Drunken Sailor| 7.6.12 @ 2:46PM
Don't mind Purp. He is still looking on Obama's website for his economic plan. It's big on tooting his own horn, short on specifics.
All sizzle, no steak.
http://www.barackobama.com/record/economy
Purp| 7.6.12 @ 6:42PM
Wow, I know, anti-gun legislation is in every Obama speech and policy, huh? Idiot.
Illegal? In this country, we are innocent until proven guilty ... where are you from?
Jet skis, elitist, flip-flopper, tee-totaler, never drank a beer in his life. He is a privileged rich brat that thinks he's entitled, it's his turn, and he'll one up Daddy, who failed. He enjoys firing people, like any CEO. He's for the mandate, then he's against the mandate. He's pro-choice then, he's anti-abortion. He's pro-gay, then he's anti-gay. He's pro 1%, then he's pro 99%.
Do you really know where this guy stands on ANYTHING?
Rant, maybe, but that's how lots and lots of people see Rombot.
But he's not Obama, and that's all that matters, right? Maybe to the far right-wingers, but not the majority.
Why isn't RobMe far, far, far ahead of Obama? Hmmmmm?
CJW| 7.6.12 @ 7:48PM
Obamaboy
Are you talking about the Clinton pardons, Rezko land deal to Obama, Michelle's $350,000 job paid by us, Obama can't reach home plate on a throw (probably like you), and leaking all our secrets to the NY Times?
Rest easy, you have your job as a paid troll until November 8
Oldefarte| 7.8.12 @ 3:45PM
Wright, Ayers, golfing while economy tanks, taxpayer-funded trips to Hawaii & Paris; F&F; non-issuance of oil drilling permits; etc.....!!!!!
spike59| 7.9.12 @ 6:38AM
....so, i'm supposed to be more concerned with what Romney does with HIS money than with what ObaMao does with MINE???
jdondet| 7.6.12 @ 12:18PM
Mr. Lord:
I hate to say it but there is more than a bit of truth in your article. No two campaigns are identical to each other. I do not know if it is yet right to compare this campaign to Dewey’s 1948 campaign. However, you do point out a very important point, ‘things ain’t right in mudville.’
The Romney campaign seemed to have Obama back on his heels. Then one could say out of desperation Obama by edict proclaims amnesty for illegal aliens. Where was Romney? Then two massively bad Supreme Court decisions and two tepid almost useless responses by the Romney camp, how can you draw a contrast with Obama by playing it safe?
For an outsider looking in I would say the momentum is back with Obama and Romney is looking as an also ran.
kingsmill| 7.6.12 @ 12:32PM
Several points regarding Willard Dewey:
1) Tom Dewey was a nationally popular figure beginning in the 30's due to his crusade against organized crime as NY DA. The Democrats actually believed he would be a strong candidate. Mitt isn't personally popular and isn't even likable;
2) Dewey had a very strong record as Governor of New York, he was an effective political executive. Willard has a mediocre record as Gov of MA and is associated with the most unpopular domestic issue in a generation.
Willard is a much weaker candidate than Dewey. He has one thing going for him, BHO is an incompetent ideologue who hates America. Truman was a hyper partisan, but not an ideologue and a patriot.
Purp| 7.6.12 @ 12:54PM
Willard is a very weak candidate, who can't even beat Obama.
Oldefarte| 7.6.12 @ 1:17PM
'....Newsmax.....With unemployment mired at 8.2 percent, President Barack Obama’s re-election bid seems much more distant.Payroll added an anemic 80,000 jobs for June, and the unemployment rate remaining unchanged. Economists predicted a 100,000 jobs gain, according to a Bloomberg report. Not counting government employment, the private picture looks grim — 84, 000 jobs were added — the lowest amount in 10 months. The president needs to track a steady upward trend economic improvement; a picture of stagnation and erratic down trends worsen his chances dramatically......'
Purp| 7.6.12 @ 6:44PM
Rombot should be far, far ahead of Obama, right? Why isn't the CEO-Outsourcer-in-Chief man winning hands down? Hmmmm?
Oldefarte| 7.8.12 @ 3:43PM
Polls showed Carter and Reagan tied until just before the election, when Regan won by a landslide. Polled respondents don't want to appear RACIST!!!!!!!!
Tom Kyba| 7.6.12 @ 1:24PM
For Pete's sake Purp, what's with the OWS fixation on Romney and his money? On the one hand, he's the wimp who can't man up enough to do anything useful, then he's the epitome of every villianous richpig socking away his ill-earned loot in Swiss bank accounts. So is he a hopeless schmo, or is he the devil incarnate?
Tom Kyba| 7.6.12 @ 1:43PM
And for the other conservatives here whining about TLP while he is obviously trying to get you to keep your eyes on the ball, congratulations. It's early July and already you're all strolling down McCain Lane. "Now now, TLP you're being too nasty, we must be civilized and speak quietly so as not to disturb"....who the hell is it that you're all afraid of upsetting anyway. Some mythological undecideds who are surfing these sites only to find the attitudes here too shrill for them and hence they will decide to vote liberal? Please. I'm from Canada so I don't have a vote, but it's pretty obvious to anyone not drinking Obama juice that your country is the only hope left for true freedom. There are enough self-satisfied soft-socialist democracies around with people squeaking by and calculating how much the government will take care of them, and in the meantime sneering at the U.S. as being loud and crude, imperialist etc. And hey, think of all the smug leftists up here and in Europe who won't have anyone to blame for every problem on earth if the U.S. becomes like them.
MelvinNC| 7.6.12 @ 2:49PM
Why thank you Tom, you may not be a citizen, but your opinion is appreciated and noted. I am a retired Marine from another age, but we had a Gunny that always said this phrase, "We don't have to train to be miserable, we already know how to do that."
I suppose one could say that this phrase applies to the now, because we have been miserable since 2008 and we have continue to train in being miserable.
Conspiratorially speaking, I would guess the Socialists and the Progressives are using attrition to grind us down till we cry, "Uncle." Through the ages our enemies have underestimated the American people.
This applies to the now, we haven't reached that point yet, when the Conservative masses rise up and push or......fight back. When will that point come, I don't know, or I don't know if anyone knows but when it does it will be a catalyst that will explode with all that pent up energy that has been building even before 2008.
Americans are a feisty bunch, and it takes a while for us to come to a boil, but it's coming mark my words it's coming.
WhiteBikerTrash| 7.6.12 @ 2:00PM
The Republican party has once again given us a chance to vote for the lesser of two evils. Republican ruling class or Progressive Statist class. Both have the same goal. For Mitt, if Obama wins his goal is forwarded. So we have a win win situation for our ruling class! Until we break the ruling classes hold of the two party system we are doomed to enslavement!
valleyforge| 7.6.12 @ 2:43PM
Or, Romney is acting like Bill Clinton in 1992 by focusing almost exclusively on the economy. Worked for him. Unemployment never reached 8% in 1992 and the recession had ended 20 months before the election but Bush still lost.
The saying in politics is never get in the way of your opponent inflicting damage on himself. But I won't begrudge Romney adding some commentary as Obama flames out.
Purp| 7.6.12 @ 6:44PM
Uh, Willard is NO Clinton ...
Oldefarte| 7.8.12 @ 3:40PM
But Obama is a Carter!!!
WardR| 7.6.12 @ 3:45PM
Thank you, Mr. Lord. I remember the campaign of 1948 -- all that's required is to live long enough -- and I think you have it dead on. Romney has two major disadvantages that Dewey didn't have so many years ago. First, in 1948 the Democrat party was split with Wallace on the left and the Dixiecrats on the right. Second, Dewey was not looking at a unified MSM the way Romney is. The New York Herald Tribune and the Chicago Tribune were two Republican-oriented major newspapers. Cato concluded every speech with the line, "Carthage must be destroyed." So too in 2012, Obama must be politically destroyed.
Cobalt| 7.6.12 @ 7:04PM
Speaking of jet skis.......
Romney and his son once used their jet skis to save a family of six, and their dog from drowning.
There is another interesting story about a Massachusetts politician and water. In 2010 Senator John Kerry docked his new $7,000,000 yacht in Rhode Island, so he could avoid paying $500,000 in Massachusetts taxes.
How much ketchup must be sold to pay for a $7,000,000 yacht?
Kingofthenet| 7.6.12 @ 8:11PM
You would be surprised how many products/lines Heinz makes, it's a lot more than ketchup.
spike59| 7.9.12 @ 4:54PM
you'd be surprised how little anyone actually cares
MK48| 7.8.12 @ 11:15AM
She let him buy it...............
Occam's Tool| 7.9.12 @ 10:33PM
And, of course, he CLOSED DOWN BAIN to rescue a PARTNER'S KID. I like Romney as a human being. Admirable man.
Cobalt| 7.6.12 @ 9:10PM
No, I really wouldn't. I was just being facetious.
Heinz does $10 billion or so a year, worldwide, and has many house brands. They have over 50% of the U.S. ketchup market, and still make the best ketchup you can buy. However, Heinz 57 Sauce is the best thing they make.
MK48| 7.8.12 @ 11:19AM
Colbalt........you sound like someone that would put 57 & ketchup on your steak.......you must be a women.
spike59| 7.9.12 @ 6:41AM
isn't 57 just ketchup mixed with real steak sauce?
personally, if the steak's done right, sauce just ruins it
ReaganConservative4ever| 7.7.12 @ 1:25AM
We tried to warn the Republican voters in the primaries about this dilema and conflict with Mr Mass progressive Republicrat Obama-lite RINO Romney as the GOP candidate against Obama himself. And that the best candidate that was running for the Nomination and office of President, and the most intelligent Reagan conservative, and the most aggressive ardent opponent against Obama would be Newt, or even Santorum, who would destroy Obama in any campaign, let alone in any debate..
When will people ever learn.. Now we are in very situation that we warned about would happen with Romney..
If Romney happens to win the election this 6 Nov., it is not because Romney is so good as the best opposition candidate we have against Obama, it will be because Obama is so bad.
Louis Jenkins| 7.7.12 @ 10:07AM
RC4ever:
You are entirely correct. Obama has to be the worst president ever (and is). There is a lot at stake here and the underdog Romney isn't the best in this race.
WallyG| 7.7.12 @ 11:21AM
Romney hit all his Republican challengers hard and did the most damage to the Conservative candidates with the most vicious attacks. But, with Obama, it's as if we were watching 2008 all over again with a tepid, limp, washed up old guy named McCain do battle. Meanwhile, that loudmouthed done nothing, perpetual campaigner and vacationing golfer took timne out from his party to blast Romney on Romneycare! And unless Mitt starts blasting away at that big smiley face of Obama and wipes that smug look off his face with facts about all of Obama's massive failures and heaping debts and no coherent plans to do what needs to be done, that thin skinned twerp will be President again
Cobalt| 7.7.12 @ 11:25AM
What should, or will, Romney say about this?
Obama/Eminent Domain/Mortgages
http://www.americanthinker.com.....gages.html
WallyG| 7.7.12 @ 12:33PM
There's a disturbing consistency in the GOP Presidential nominations. While we all wanted a conservative, the GOP elites did all they could to discredit conservatives and we got "smeared" with Romney as the "choice" no matter what serious misgivings we had about his ability to really run a hard campaign against a devout, committed, unrepentent Marxist. And herre we are, wondering, as we did during those long months, just what was the GOP thinking? We wondered what the GOP was thinking after the 2010 elections as well. It didn't seem to matter that we handed them huge victories, they chose to go with the flow of the sit and wait, go along to get along bunch. Maybe, it's true after all, we really don't get who we want, we get who the insiders give us!
vigilant| 7.7.12 @ 8:59PM
WallyG, yes, there is a disturbing consistency to the GOP nominations. Almost like the elites of both parties are basically like-minded and simply offer us gullible rubes the illusion that we actually have a choice....naw, I'll just take another sip of KoolAid and wipe that silly thought from my mind.
Toinfinityandbeyond| 7.8.12 @ 12:12AM
Mitt Romney is done.
ReaganConservative4ever| 7.8.12 @ 2:02AM
Romney as the presumptive GOP Nominee, if he wins the election, it will not be because Romney is so good, and he isn't, let alone isn't a conservative at all who inspires the American people like Ronald Reagan was and did, but if he will wins the election, it will because Obama is so bad. That is not the way to win, and will not inspire the American people.
spike59| 7.9.12 @ 4:53PM
you can sit in the corner, play with your navel, and whine about style points-all that matters is that ObaMao is run out of town...like the man said, 'better an ugly win than a pretty loss'
MK48| 7.8.12 @ 11:33AM
RC4ever.....who gives a sh*t about "not the way to win" I am an American Vet and learned long ago that WINNING is the only thing that matters.....and how do you do that ask General Patton, you make the other dumb SOB die. I say take no prisoners vote them all out of office.
Want to know what would inspire me........Horse-Drawn Caisson.
Cobalt| 7.8.12 @ 12:00PM
No. I'm a man who puts ketchup on hamburgers, but not on french fries, and I put 57 sauce on steaks. I'd rather have a good hamburger than a steak, anytime.
spike59| 7.9.12 @ 4:51PM
I put 57 sauce on steaks
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hmmmm...i guess your 'partner' doesn't know how to cook a decent steak???
Cobalt| 7.8.12 @ 12:48PM
Romney will have to be very tough in the next four months, do very well in the debates, and will have to guard against what is still to come.
At some point, Obama's sycophantic main-stream media will try to use Romneys faith against him. The media will broach the subject of polygamy in the Morman church, the basic tenets of the church, etc. in an effort to indirectly tarnish Romney and his family. This plus the race card, will make for a very dirty next four months of the campaign.
Mike Daly | 7.8.12 @ 3:16PM
You leave out that the Tea Party has become such a force that Romney won't have much choice but to go against centralized health-care - the idea that he's somehow damaged because of Romneycare isn't quite right.
PHILLIPBERNAL| 7.8.12 @ 8:40PM
The illustrious Mormon android, Governor Romney, will not repeal Obamacare. He is merely a disingenuous windbag full of hot air. He will say anything to achieve the capstone of his ambitions, the presidency. Many others know this as do I. I will not in good conscience vote for this person. I book-marked this page and will revisit it on Election Day if should happen to win.
spike59| 7.9.12 @ 4:49PM
I will not in good conscience vote for this person.
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Obama is ever so grateful for your assistance, moron
PHILLIPBERNAL| 7.10.12 @ 6:36PM
Spike59,
I have followed politics since I was a teen. I believed that if I voted for the "Republican" that I was being a good citizen and doing my civic duty. The only vote which actually panned out was for Ronald Reagan, and he was under withering attack from the libs and RINOs from the day he announced his candidacy until the day he died. But he was also a man of conviction. He was one of a kind. A vote for Romney will only mean another tickmark on the final election day tally and maybe he will win, but Romney will only maintain the status quo and keep us headed for the cliff. Romney is not a savior. Regards Obama, I must give him credit for being the only President I can remember, besides President Reagan, who kept his campaign promises. Obama has transformed America just as he promised (just in the wrong direction). We can survive an Obama, even for another term. We can not survive the tens of millions of fools who vote for such men. My vote for another candidate may just help Obama get a second term. However, he will overplay his hand so much that decent Americans and the states, I hope and pray, will finally "rise-up", assert their rights under the Constitution, tell the federal gov't to f**k off , and we can get back to a republic that we had prior to 1900. Regardless of what happens Spike, I do not put my faith in these men. I do what I want, achieve my goals, and woe be to him who gets in my way.