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The Spectacle Blog
Mitt Romney is out with two new ads. The first is pitiful, pablum. Watch it for yourself. It just sounds like nothing but gaudy political promises, eminently predictable, without substance. Mush.
The second ad is better, but only because it uses simple statistics to make the point about Barack Obama’s failures. Too bad they can’t make as good an ad about why to vote FOR Romney as they do about why to vote AGAINST Obama.
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C. Vernon Crisler | 9.17.12 @ 10:20AM
Well, what do you expect when it comes to Romney. It's the bland leading the bland.
JimH| 9.17.12 @ 12:57PM
I like it. Maybe grand Funk will let him use Were an American Bland.
Sjccoach| 9.17.12 @ 11:10AM
Romney is a moderate, aka RINO, running a moderate campaign ala John McCain. Once again the Republicans have nominated someone who will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Mike G| 9.17.12 @ 12:07PM
Yes, a waste of money. Once again, Romney isn't giving people reasons to vote FOR Romney, all he's saying is that he's not Obama. That isn't going to win an election.
Ken (Old Texican)| 9.17.12 @ 12:11PM
Quin,
just one simple pair of terms: "macro" vs. Micro".
Do you happen to know the name and number (or e-mai)
All of the Romney adds I have seen focus on "macro" issues.
How about a simple add where Romney looks squarely into the camera and says something like,
"My job one is to create a job opportunity for you that can lead to a meaningful career. I know how to that and have proven it. Thank you."
MRD| 9.17.12 @ 2:54PM
It is very tough for a conservative to run purely as a technocrat to "fix" the economy. After all as a conservative I do not think the President "runs" the economy, What I want the government to do is a few simple things to let the free market operate and the "economy" sort of takes care of itself. What scares me about Obama is not that he "does not know how" to run the economy, but that at a fundamental level he believes in a softly tyrannical state that has no trouble harrasing Gallup because it does not like its poll results, or forcing the Catholic Church to pay for things it considers sinful, or to pass executive orders nullifying dully enacted laws like Welfare Reform. Obamacare with its army of bearuocrats who will make life and death decisions over what health care we get in the USA is yet another sign. This is what the Tea Party understood. It is what was understood by the other Republican candidates, whether it was Santorum, Newt or even on some level Ron Paul. Romney is not running this kind of campaign nor can he, because he just does not see the issues this way.
JD| 9.17.12 @ 5:38PM
To suggest that a president will "fix" something implies that said president will enact active government policies to manage the economy. In other words, the conversation demands a liberal answer. That's why liberals love to ask "how will you fix the economy", and want conservatives to speak on those terms. As in many other areas, the Left needs to control the terms of the conversation, and works very aggressively to do so.
The proper answer from the Right is that in lieu of active "fixes", we propose to remove the causes of problems. A liberal is one who would fix a clogged pipe by installing a second pipe. We remove the clog in the first pipe. That clog is liberal economic policies. By eliminating them, we eliminate their adverse consequences, including the housing bubble and the proliferation of bad debt.
If we clearly illustrate how a specific liberal policy caused problems, then we can win on a promise to eliminate it.
Ken (Old Texican)| 9.17.12 @ 2:59PM
Quin,
AM I THE ONLY ONE AWAKE AROUND HERE?
I gather that there are some sixty some odd allied warships now cruising around in the Person Gulf doing war-games.
Among them are three entire carrier strike forces of 90 planes each.
They are supposed to be there another ten days or so.
Quin...THE PERSION GULF IS LITTLE.
We are one "pilot error " from daring Iran into a full fledged conventional war.
Check your world atlas for a map of the Gulf.
RCV| 9.17.12 @ 5:18PM
With the Canadians ordering their embassy staff out, it sounds like the Israelis may be about to do something.
Oldefarte| 9.17.12 @ 8:21PM
I don;t believe in ads, which are a waster of peoples' intelligences. Want "ads", then contemplate the entire ME inflamed with Muslim ANIMALS killing, looting and burning; the worthless excuse for Chicago school teachers picketing and dragging school children into their filthy activities instead of teaching them; the incompetence of a so-termed POTUS who plays golf and hold political fundraisers in Vegas instead of deali ng with our exploding deficit, the ME turmoil or the Chicago waste of taxpayers' property taxes paid to teachers. To hell with the"ads", instead people/citizens/voters of this nation need to get the excrement out of their ignorant eyeballs and see what is happening around them!!!!!!!!!!!
Fiscal| 9.18.12 @ 12:15AM
The problem is that Romney doesn't have a plan and knows his budget numbers don't ad up. Therefore, he can't be specific enough to be "for" anything. Unfortunately, he is driven by pure ambition rather than a true desire to make this country better. His "vision" of America is a collection of Republican talking points from the past rather than objectives for the future. We all know he is a technocrat and not a visionary leader. Ironically, no other Republican candidate had a real plan either.
However, Obama has a plan with healthcare, foreign policy, education, and other liberal causes. Most of us disagree with that plan because it is irresponsible from budget perspective. Therefore, it is easy to argue against something that exists but hard to argue for something that doesn't.
Interestingly enough, Bush had a vision of bringing Democracy to the world but left us with neverending wars and a collapsed economy.
Fiscal| 9.18.12 @ 12:23AM
Another thought... Romney needs to be honest with the American people rather than pandering to them. For example, he says that he will reform Medicare by offering private accounts -- but that will be a choice! In addition, he criticizes Obama for reducing the Medicare budget! What???? If you offer people a choice and restore the 700 billion that Obama took out, the Medicare budget will be worse, not better as we all know that people will choose what pays them the most. The "profitable" people will opt out and the "expensive" people will stay with the old plan. (That's called "market dynamics"). Since the "profitable" people will no longer contribute to the Medicare pool, our deficit will be worse, not better. Thus, why can't Romney just give us a real plan on reducing Medicare as we all know that needs to be done?