On Ed Show: Romney's October surprise will be to link Obama to Jimmy Carter.

[muntrv]

[spockeye]

1. Romney's October surprise

will be voter registration fraud.

[charlyvi]

2. Didn't they already try that?

With no success. How many voters remember the Carter years anyway?

[hedgehog]

3. I was newly married then, and I barely recall events -

I thought "where's the beef?" was Reagan's line. Mondale used it on Gary Hart during the primaries.

[charlyvi]

11. That was from an old Wendy's commercial.

This adorable little old lady with a raspy voice would go to get a burger and look in the bun, then say
"Where's the beef". Then she'd go to Wendy's. It was funny the first four thousand times, but then became pretty irritating.

[Gabi Hayes]

9. they're going to try to turn Benghazi into the hostage situation. CNN is playing right along, and,

according to Thom Hartmann, this is their latest tack, to ride this one for all it's worth, and to trumpet the 'dems weak on defense' meme for all it's worth

just watch:

http://www.salon.com/2012/10/01/gops_october_surprise/

According to a highly reliable source, as Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama prepare for the first presidential debate Wednesday night, top Republican operatives are primed to unleash a new two-pronged offensive that will attack Obama as weak on national security, and will be based, in part, on new intelligence information regarding the attacks in Libya that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens on Sept. 11.

The source, who has firsthand knowledge of private, high-level conversations in the Romney camp that took place in Washington, D.C., last week, said that at various times the GOP strategists referred to their new operation as the Jimmy Carter Strategy or the October Surprise.

He added that they planned to release what they hoped would be “a bombshell” that would make Libya and Obama’s foreign policy a major issue in the campaign. “My understanding is that they have come up with evidence that the Obama administration had positive intelligence that there was going to be a terrorist attack on the intelligence.”

[charlyvi]

14. Yeah. Ask Bin Laden how weak he is......oh, wait. n/t

[zbdent]

21. Well, according to Lyin' Ryan, Reagan got Gaddafi ...

Romney told him so ...

[hedgehog]

17. Can we start discussing whether Reagen and his buddies were engaged in

illegal meetings with the Iranians before he was elected and before he took office?

[charlyvi]

19. And how about those secret arms sales to Iran so we could funnel money to the Contras.

As I recall, the repubs thought that little deal was an act of unimpeachable patriotism. I wonder if the dead in Nicaragua felt the same way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Contra_Affair

[Gabi Hayes]

23. google this:

robert parry october surprise

[Lex]

4. Listen, if they HAD a surprise, they would've revealed it by now.

The ship has pretty much sailed for their campaign.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

5. Romney: "There you proceed afresh. No. There you continue anon. No. How did Ronnie say that?"

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

6. I couldn't think of a nicer compliment, but

is rMoney trying to play Reagan?


It won't work for him.

[C_U_L8R]

7. Some surprise

everybody knows that they'd try some tired old cliche tactic...
and sure enough, they are. Big whoop-dee-doo.

[NYC_SKP]

8. .....Romney's October Surprise.... ..... Is Gonna Be in His Pants!

I can't wait to see Freepers on Brown Alert!

[NBachers]

10. Then Obama can turn around and proudly claim Jimmy Carter for his own

[Maeve]

12. Look, guys...it's one thing to try to win the last war, but going back 32 years???

Dang, come into the 21st century already!!!!!
Romney is no Reagan and bin Laden is still dead.

[reformist2]

15. They are obsessed with Reagan. It's really getting sad.

[graham4anything]

13. Democrats and Obama voters like Jimmy, and Jimmy has been redeemed.

Jimmy haters already are Romney voters and if it wasn't for sabatoge and illegal doings,
Jimmy would have won re-election.

And its another back to the past for Romney, whereas Obama goes forward.

Alot of people actually remember- the first 1/2 of Jimmy's presidency was one of the best times in America in recent history. It was the last 1/2 where the problems started and Jimmy was close.

In actuality, had Ted Kennedy not run(of all the times for him not to run, 1980 was it) and I love Ted Kennedy, but it should have/could have been 1972, 1976, 1984, 1988, 1992 1996, etc. and not 1980.
The fracture in the party ended up hurting the most (though most dems will deny it).

But President Obama is not Jimmy Carter, John Kerry or Al Gore.
President Obama, besides being already one of the top 5 presidents of all time, is also singlehandedly the smartest politician president and is not Jimmy Carter.

The October / Nov. surprise will be how many more electoral votes President Obama gets in 2012(way way way over 300, maybe alot more)
(I still have hopes Obama ends up winning Texas this year and it is found the women's vote in Texas was so much higher than anyone thought.

[Akoto]

16. I'll admit, Romney saying something so nice would be surprising. n/t

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

18. If that's it. They're truly fucked. wHY NOT James Buchanan while they're at it.nt

[NYC Liberal]

22. How about Chester Arthur?

He was born in Canada, you know! It'd be perfect for Rmoney's base!

[GusFring]

20. Obama needs to question Romney's character if he does this.

[Generic Brad]

24. Perhaps Romney doesn't know what constitutes a surprise

They key to a successful surprise is to not announce what you are going to do before you do it. Doing that tends to eliminate they key element of a surprise.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

25. They're Related

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