Romney Team Decides Its Strategy Isn't Working

The good ship Romney has sprung a leak, but pundits are divided on how close it is to sinking.

[imgleft:31stsuko] abcnews.go.com/images/Politics/gty_mitt_..._jt_120916_wblog.jpg [/imgleft:31stsuko]POLITICO’s report Sunday about the missteps inside Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign touched off a flood of commentary among conservatives and in the blogosphere on Monday - everything from there’s no cause for alarm to a loss of faith in a GOP nominee who seems destined for defeated.

While divided on top strategist Stuart Stevens’ responsibility for the bungling, most commentators agreed the bombshell story reflected poorly on Romney’s management skills - and on his staffers’ loyalty.

“When the Politico is running stories like this followed by Stevens says he will shift strategy but all is hunky-dory, what you have going on is a campaign sensing disaster and the rats fleeing the ship,” RedState’s Erick Erickson wrote.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81296.html

So, here's what we have today:


ROMNEY CAMP: VOTERS WANT 'MORE SPECIFICS' ON TAX PLAN
Adviser: We Are Losing The Tax Battle

PAUL RYAN: WE WON'T TELL YOU
No New Info On Loopholes...

Right-Wing Media In Disarray
A week steeped in right-wing media reveals a Republican Party far more despairing than the lamestream knows.

Six pages, but worth the read...

The reason you hear Rushbo, Hannity, and Beck-i-poo going totally zonkers about the "liberal takeover" is that they KNOW what Coulter knew months ago... You're going to lose. And I'll donate the first $100 for a one-way ticket out for any right-winger that wants to leave. We already know that Rush reneged on his promise to go to Costa Rica... So, I'll offer it now...

archer wrote:

CinnamonGirl wrote:
Lj, if you were running for president it would be a strategy of name calling.

Sorry CG, but I just don't see LJ running as a Republican.

Okay Archer, good one. You got me on that one.

CNN's Don Lemon: Mitt Romney's Libya Response Was 'Rush To Judgement And Then Lying To Cover It Up' (VIDEO)

CNN's Don Lemon tore into Mitt Romney over the weekend, skewering the candidate's response to the deadly attack in Libya.

The Romney campaign has been fiercely criticized for hitting out at the White House's response to the attack, which killed four American diplomats. Lemon echoed the criticism of pundits and politicians on "CNN Newsroom," when he blasted Romney's response as "a rush to judgement and then lying to cover it up."

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He took issue with the timing as well as the accuracy of Romney's remarks. "Clinton's statement in no way apologizes or sympathizes with the attackers," Lemon declared. "Anyone who tells you it did is lying. If you believe that it did, you are misguided."

He said that after Romney doubled down on his statement, his surrogates went on TV and proceeded to blame the media for "their own mistake." Lemon played a clip of his recent interview with Romney surrogate Richard Williamson. The guest had laughed off one of Lemon's questions, which he called "silly."

"How could a man in a campaign who throws around the word "patriot" so often, get this one so wrong?" Lemon asked.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/1 ... _ref=media

'Rush To Judgement And Then Lying To Cover It Up' ... Pretty much sums it up...

Mitt Romney Video: Barack Obama Voters 'Dependent On Government' (VIDEO)

WASHINGTON -- "There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what…These are people who pay no income tax.," Mitt Romney told a closed-door gathering of about 30 major donors earlier this year, according to video of the event that has surfaced on the Internet.

The person who uploaded a series of potentially inflammatory videos from the fundraiser has claimed authorship of them in an email exchange with The Huffington Post. The source said he or she wishes to remain anonymous for professional reasons and to avoid a lawsuit. The videos, which have created a buzz on the Internet, were blurred and at times blacked out to obscure the location of the filming, the source said.

"I have obviously degraded the quality to attempt to camo the location," said the clandestine filmmaker. The original, which has not been posted in full, is very high quality, the source said.

The source has given the full video to Mother Jones' David Corn, the source said.

The videos capture Romney speaking loosely about Obama supporters, immigrants, privilege and a host of other controversial issues. The candidate seems unguarded and displays the sense of humor that is often mentioned by those close to him, but is so rarely on public display.

The Romney campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/1 ... 29455.html

(I'll bet they didn't respond to a "request for comment.")

Can I get an "AMEN!" from the usual teabaggers!?!?


And another video:

In addition, the video is notable for Romney's recounting of conditions he saw at the factory. By his own telling, he seemed satisfied when the factory owner told him the barbed wire was to keep job-seekers out, not to keep workers in. Romney may have been referring to conditions at Global Tech Appliances Inc., a Chinese manufacturer, in which Bain Capital invested, that was fined $2.65 million for ripping off a deep-fat fryer design, according to Boston Globe reporter Matt Viser.

And as for the "manufactured narrative" that he created his own way in life:

"Everything that Ann and I have, we earned the old-fashioned way."

Romney's parents did pay for his boarding school, his college, his graduate school and his first home.

He got closer to the truth in another clip. "There's a perception that all of you were born with a silver spoon. You know, you never had to earn anything and so forth," Romney said to the donors. "Frankly, I was born with a silver spoon."

Romney: If I Were Mexican, 'I'd Have A Better Shot At Winning This. I mean, I say that jokingly," he adds, "but it would be helpful to be Latino."

Convinced that the economy alone won't allow them to to win the presidential election, Mitt Romney's campaign has in recent weeks made halting attempts to highlight President Barack Obama's supposed weakness on foreign policy.

But in a closed-door fundraiser with donors that occurred at least three weeks ago, Romney apparently conceded that Americans "are not concentrated at all" on international hot spots like China, Russia, and Iran.

Isn't it swell of Mitt-the-Twit to presume what "Americans are worried about." Almost like one of those incessant John Boehner sentences that begins, "What the Amercian people want is......" No, John, it's NOT "what the American people want"... It's what the GOTP want for themselves.

Here was Romney raw and unplugged—sort of unscripted. With this crowd of fellow millionaires, he apparently felt free to utter what he really believes and would never dare say out in the open. He displayed a high degree of disgust for nearly half of his fellow citizens, lumping all Obama voters into a mass of shiftless moochers who don't contribute much, if anything, to society, and he indicated that he viewed the election as a battle between strivers (such as himself and the donors before him) and parasitic free-riders who lack character, fortitude, and initiative. Yet Romney explained to his patrons that he could not speak such harsh words about Obama in public, lest he insult those independent voters who sided with Obama in 2008 and whom he desperately needs in this election. These were sentiments not to be shared with the voters; it was inside information, available only to the select few who had paid for the privilege of experiencing the real Romney.

Wanna see the good-parts for yourself?
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/201 ... fundraiser
Nah...I didn't think so... Watching the words come from his own mouth is probably more than you can bear....

Don't you just love those candid, off-the-cuff remarks.... (Admittedly, sort of like "turning to God, guns & religion"...)

But consider this...Obama will lose voters. Many Republicans and independents will go back to the GOP. Where will Barack make up those votes? He can't get more black voters. McCain got 46%. Think Romney will get less than that? And will Politico's hack job articles change one vote?

Obama doesn't have to "make up" voters...

The only demographic that Gov NumbNuts has locked up are the "old angry white males"... He's already lost women, Hispanics, LGBT, Blacks, Seniors, and everybody else. You got NUTHIN'... That's why the projections for the Electoral College are running 313 to 206... (And it only takes 270...)

Romney has been shown to be the elitist PoS that he is... And this is going to finally do him in.

We no longer have to rely on "Politico's hack articles"... We have a whole video--IN RMONEY'S OWN WORDS--that show his contempt for 47% of the population.... He's dead meat.