GOP lawmakers say Romney campaign needs to change course

[highplainsdem]

Source: The Hill

Republican lawmakers are grumbling about the direction of Mitt Romney’s campaign and say he needs to change course.

The complaints come as polls show that Romney lost ground on President Obama following the party’s respective conventions in Tampa, Fla. and Charlotte, N.C.

The GOP members say Romney must do a better job of communicating to voters what to expect of him, either by making a bold pledge akin to George H.W. Bush’s 1988 “no new taxes” promise or fleshing policy proposals with more details.

“Papa Bush was down after the Democratic convention in 1988, people worried he couldn’t come back and then he made his ‘read my lips, no new taxes’ pledge,” said one senator who requested anonymity.

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Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/249685-republican-lawmakers-say-romney-campaign-needs-to-change-course

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Lots of griping by unnamed GOP lawmakers who spoke on background "to avoid publicly criticizing their party’s nominee."

The Romney campaign had no comment on the story.

[Atman]

1. Comedy gold.

So how did GHWB's "No new taxes" pledge work out for him? Sounds like the GOP leadership wants Mittens to just double-down on the lying.

[progressivebydesign]

3. True. Guess they want him to play to his strengths. n/t

[progressivebydesign]

2. When on a sinking ship, the size and color of the buckets, matters little. n/t

[olddad56]

24. sort of like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

it isn't going to matter. The only thing that can help Rmoney is a rigged election.

[lumpy]

29. Oh yeah, so true.

Picking fly shit out of the fly shit.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. If it did change course, where the hell would it go?

Mittens is a piss-poor sailor. He can't hold a course at all because he has no compass.

In any case, it's too late.

Mittens, you and your party of hate and general ineptitude are about to hit the iceberg. Let's hope the whole sorry lot of you sink without a trace.

[Bjorn Against]

5. I love how they cite Bush's famous broken pledge as an example of how Romney could come back

These people embrace the fact that lies work for them and lying has now become their key campaign strategy. I am surprised they would be so open about it though, Bush's "no new taxes" pledge is one of the most famous broken promises of all time and a smart party would want to distance themselves from it not openly embrace it.

[Jackpine Radical]

10. No fair

thinking things through. That's a slimy Progressive tactic that no self-respecting Teabagger would countenance.

[defacto7]

14. That is ironic..

But if the subject is tactics it doesn't matter. Tactics for some has nothing to do with reality unfortunately.

[jsr]

6. No, Stay The Course.

Mitt is doing great.

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. Those deck chairs are just fine where they are.

No need to rearrange anything, Capt. Smith.

[oldhippydude]

8. how could he possibly loose

The complaints come as polls show that Romney lost ground on President Obama following the party’s respective conventions in Tampa, Fla. and Charlotte, N.C.

compare the conventions Repubs dead cat... Dems over the moon..

the man is incapable of making a "game change" every time he tries he ends up shooting himself in foot... keep trying Willard, i stocked up on popcorn..

[Cha]

20. And, I bet the gops were sooo Ecstatic

when they got Clint Eastwood!

Wonder if Clint's gotten any communication from TPTB since then?

[Anarcho-Socialist]

9. Yeah I know, GOTV, it's not over till it's over etc

But I think the GOP believes that Romney has lost the election and their message to him is "save our asses downticket and don't drag us down with you."

[bluestateguy]

11. This is what happens when you are behind

Daily quotes appear in the newspaper, some anonymous some named, from people in your own party bad-mouthing your campaign and nitpicking the way you are doing things.

I remember the Concernocrats bad mouthing the Kerry campaign at about this time in 2004.

[BeyondGeography]

12. See Snoopy in the tank and his boyfriend Willie Horton

was what Poppy came up with.

Take the low road, Mitt. We know you can do it.

[Bluenorthwest]

13. HW Bush said 'Read my lips no new taxes' AT the GOP convention...

that ship has sailed. Of course, the Unnamed Senator knows that.

[SoapBox]

15. And which GOP would this be? The Old Man Party or the KKKoch Bagger Party/

Mittens, you are a mess!

(and I'm gonna mention this, that I just saw...showing in the Video/Multimedia Forum: "Wrong Direction's "Disclosure"&quot
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101758175#post1

You've got to watch....Mittens, Disclose!

[oldsarge54]

16. Republicans or Tea Party

Was it the Republicans in Congress, or the semi-independent Tea Party caucus that were making these demands?

[underpants]

17. They got out of their playbook - internal struggle is not their game

they get a product early and start selling it.

They -yes THEM - have forgotten Reagan's 11th Commandment Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican

[Bossy Monkey]

18. GOP lawmakers? Where did they find any of those?

Obstructionist GOP members of the legislature? Yeah, there are a lot of those.

[Cha]

19. Yeah, Start With Releasing his DAMN TAX RETURNS!

[Amonester]

21. AND his 'hidden' plans to cut tax exemptions for the middle-class AFTER the elections.

Since he wants to give $250,000 MORE tax cuts to his pals 1 percenters.

Ooooh, they soooo need them they'll starve to death if they don't get them!

[Jennicut]

22. Poppy Bush's pledge came back to haunt him since he ended up raising taxes in the end.

So that was a stupid point by a moronic Repub Senator.

I think Mittens's campaign is hurting because he himself has no real soul or direction or passion. He is a robot spitting out things, he is as Jon Huntsman called him "a perfectly lubricated weather vane".

[jmowreader]

23. What they really mean...

"Mitt, we know your campaign is about ready to go over the cliff and we can't help you...so could you at least let us out of the car now, and just nail the gas once we shut the door?"

[davidpdx]

25. Que footage of the Titanic going down

and Photoshop "S.S. Romney" on the side.

[drm604]

26. How do you change direction when your driver's incompetent

and you've already gone over the cliff?

[cstanleytech]

27. Heres an idea for a new course, how about the course of honesty?

Stop the lying, corruption and deceit.
Stop screwing over the majority of us in favor of the 1%.
Of course they wont do any of that because then they would have to admit they screwed up and ask for forgiveness which they are completely unwilling to do.

[lumpy]

28. GOP Congressmen are more than a little bit late with their advice to Romney.

They have been in the their do-nothing mode for so long they have forgotten how to do anything at all.

[tanyev]

30. Yes! Further right, Mitt!

Make it so.