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When an outspoken ally like Jennifer Rubin gets tough on a candidate she obviously likes, it should be a sign that the campaign needs to step up its game. In that light, Jennifer Rubin has offered several very pointed, but constructive, criticisms to the Romney team in recent days. Here’s the most recent, right on target.
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Reggie Love| 8.2.12 @ 12:09PM
Rubin,Kristol,Byron York and others need to get out of DC and New York. Most Americans are rejecting Obama,regardless of what polls says.
RCV| 8.2.12 @ 4:05PM
Keep telling yourself that, all the way up to November...
mike 3/505| 8.2.12 @ 12:14PM
She is a few degrees off course. Team Romney needs to ignore what the media wishes to talk about and instead keep on message about what Team Romney wants to talk about.
Media: "Governor! What about your gaffes?"
Team Romney: "Sorry, I don't consider speaking about the differences between violent repressive cultures and uplifting cultures focusing on Liberty, to be a gaffe." Next question.
mike 3/505| 8.2.12 @ 12:14PM
Edit Button Please
Quin Hillyer| 8.2.12 @ 12:19PM
I think that is exactly Rubin's point. They need to know HOW to get around the media narrative and get their own message out -- NOT do a better job EXPLAINING what the media wants them to bog them down in explanations about.
mike 3/505| 8.2.12 @ 12:39PM
quoin,
I didn't read it that way...but then again I'm just a dumb old Infantry Soldier, ergo, not too bright. :-)
mike 3/505| 8.2.12 @ 12:41PM
"quoin" Sorry ... Quin.
Edit Button, PLEASE!
aware| 8.3.12 @ 5:32AM
Try the preview option, like before you post. You're not getting an edit button.
Sjccoach| 8.2.12 @ 12:52PM
Only CINOs at the American Spectator would take anything written in the Washington Post by an alleged conservative seriously. No matter what Romney does the media will beat him up and praise Obama. Why waste time catering to the New York Times and Washington Post. They will still hate him and misreport anything he says or does.
JP| 8.2.12 @ 2:35PM
See the Gallup Polls of the Swing States (states that the President has been the most agrresive in campaigning that Mitt is nothing more than rich, white plutocrat). Mitt had better re-adjust his campaign. It wouldn't hurt him if he went on the offensive just a tad more than he has in the recent past.
Sjccoach| 8.2.12 @ 4:21PM
Gallup polls have always been skewed to the Democrat party. Whatever Gallup says shave at least five points from the Democrat and add them to the Republican.
Ken (Old Texican)| 8.2.12 @ 2:45PM
Maybe Romney needs to SIMPLIFY his message, ie:
"Duh, want a meaningful job with a future?
"Ya want your retirement secured?"
"Ya want your kids to live in liberty?"
"Yah want your kids to live as serfs?"
MRD| 8.2.12 @ 9:20PM
Is any of this a suprise? It was obvious that Obama wanted to run vs. Romney so as to portray him, as an uncaring plutocrat . A backround in venture capitol does not resonate with the average Joe making 50 grand a year. He can't engage on social issues because he does not care about them. ( Memo to those who do not think social issues are important, see the turn out at Chic Fil-A? ) This is Ms. Rubin's blind spot as well. She detests the kind of voter that expresses political views by eating a chicken sandwich at a Fast food joint. On some level the heart of this election is not just about economics. It is about freedom. It is about whether we are the kind of country in which the government can control your health care, can close your business if you say the wrong thing, whether it can coerce a religious believer to fund things they feel are immoral . It is about whether the President can choose to not enforce laws he dislikes. Is Obama President or is he a King? It is true that the economic effects of this leviathan government are bad, but the effects our constitutional framework are worse. Romney does not view the election this way. At some level he is comfortable with the Leviathan, he just will manage it better. This is a replay of 2008 when McCain ran essentially on personal biography and we were soon reduced to hoping he would pick an exciting running mate to shake things up. Romney too is running on his resume. This is not a good sign.
aware| 8.3.12 @ 5:38AM
Romney is going to screw conservatives big time. Worse than Bush the Lesser. Don't you ever get tired of being taken for granted and played for fools by the GOP?