A Mood of Gloom Afflicts the Romney Campaign
Source: New York Times
September 18, 2012, 7:34 PM1 Comment
A Mood of Gloom Afflicts the Romney Campaign
By MICHAEL BARBARO
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A palpably gloomy and openly frustrated mood has begun to envelop Mr. Romneys campaign for president. Well practiced in the art of lurching from public relations crisis to public relations crisis, his team seemed to reach its limit as it digested a ubiquitous set of video clips that showed their boss candidly describing nearly half of the countrys population as government-dependent victims, and saying that he would kick the ball down the road on the biggest foreign policy challenge of the past few decades, the Palestinian-Israeli peace process.
Grim-faced aides acknowledged that it was an unusually dark moment, made worse by the self-inflicted, seemingly avoidable nature of the wound. In low-volume, out-of-the-way conversations, they are now wondering whether victory is still possible and whether they are entering McCain-Palin ticket territory.
A flustered adviser, describing the mood, said that the campaign was turning into a vulgar, unprintable phrase.
Aides did little to hide their annoyance: on Tuesday night, a Romney aide cursed loudly as he tried to corral reporters into an impromptu news conference in Costa Mesa, Calif.
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Kingofalldems
(38,458 posts)Repubs always have tricks and plenty of money. Things are looking up though.
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renaissanceguy
(1,729 posts)Anything is possible with these crooks. We can't assume anything. We need to show up in masses!!
http://www.cafepress.com/liberalissues
avebury
(10,952 posts)I'd like to see Romney decimated so badly that there will be no political future for him and the Romney name will be too toxic for any of his sons to run for office.
Flatpicker
(894 posts)If Mitt loses, I think his families political future is over.
That tape and the internet's ability to not forget has changed the game. The republicans just haven't realized it yet.
Even if the MSM doesn't want to do so, we have the ability to report the lies and keep the public's memory refreshed on their actions.
frogmarch
(12,154 posts)even a smidgen.
ruffburr
(1,190 posts)geckosfeet
(9,644 posts)But I am still amazed and ashamed at how easily this pos duped so many MA voters.
sad sally
(2,627 posts)He rolls over, legs up in the air, and just when it appears he's dead, the snarls come out of his beady little mouth.
truthisfreedom
(23,148 posts)I was driving to a bar late night after the first snow of the year in Minneapolis. I happened upon an opossum on the road, a very large one, huge actually, and the first I'd ever seen in Minnesota. He'd been hit by a car and his rear legs were completely out of commission. I couldn't bear the thought of him being hit again, and I stopped my SUV and put on a pair of work gloves and stared at him for a moment. He looked placid enough, but fiery-eyed. I told him I was going to help him over the curb, but he could not bite me. He simply stared. I actually ended up pulling him by his front paws, which were perfectly mobile, over the curb and up onto the sidewalk. He didn't resist, fight, or snarl. I expected to see him there an hour later when I returned, but he was long gone... down a hill and across a wide expanse of woods I could see by streetlight. He had dragged himself using his front paws for much more than 300 yards to some invisible destination. I don't doubt that he's alive today.
lexw
(804 posts)OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)Now is not the time to let up.
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)tosh
(4,423 posts)Response to tosh (Reply #2)
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Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)blustermuck?
musterduck?
longship
(40,416 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Ricky Santorum wouldn't like that!
Grown2Hate
(2,012 posts)Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)waddirum
(979 posts)or a "dead fucking corpse"
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)TahitiNut
(71,611 posts)They've got a candidate that might have to join his money overseas before this is over. He's a nightmare of a candidate and a nightmare of a human being. He DOES, however, aptly represent the attitudes of his peer group -- Wall Street vulture capitalists -- to whom the sole vaue of any human being is how much their labors will enrich the wealthy. The facade was pierced and the TRUTH about their regard for others again revealed.
Indpndnt
(2,391 posts)Brilliant.
Journeyman
(15,036 posts)My money's on "clusterph*ck". . . since that's what the whole process has seemed like for the Republican Party this entire election cycle.
corkhead
(6,119 posts)I have a feeling I am going to be posting this video a lot in the next several weeks
chuckstevens
(1,201 posts)Now lets spread the gloom like an incoming storm across Washington DC to McConnell and Bohner's offices.
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)I'd love to curse 'em right back.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)tanyev
(42,564 posts)Thanks for the laugh.
frogmarch
(12,154 posts)Mitt's New Theme Song
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)from my volunteer day at our local campaign office. Shortly after I opened up today, we received a phone call asking if we had yard signs, buttons and/or bumper stickers (we do). Our caller had ripped the rmoney stickers off his car and thrown his yard signs away. He came in a couple of hours later and stayed about 30 minutes just getting it all off his chest. He was fed up; could no longer support rmoney; and simply no longer trusted him to do what was right.
Our convert has a son in Afghanistan; is fearful rmoney will start another war and is tired of the attacks on women. He was calm, reasonable, his complaints well thought out and easily articulated. After he left, I looked at my fellow volunteer and said 'Hard to believe he was a rethuglican'.
avebury
(10,952 posts)99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)because I KNOW for every one of these that we hear about, there
about probably a thousand happening we never hear about, maybe
more.
avebury
(10,952 posts)RKP5637
(67,111 posts)because he had an R attached to him.
MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)davidn3600
(6,342 posts)Romney is like a football team that fumbles the ball on every possession (news cycle). He can't get off defense.
Shitty Mitty
(138 posts)The Redskins have something to do with who wins the election... but yeah good comparison with the fumbles thing. Shitty Mitt just doesn't have that special look of a president.
Shae
(1,108 posts)Traditionally, on the game before election day, if the Redskins win, there is a Republican victory. A Steelers win means a Democratic victory.
jmowreader
(50,559 posts)The Panthers are the Mitt Romney of football.
MgtPA
(1,022 posts)in 2008?
I sure hope so!
hue
(4,949 posts)desertduck
(213 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Shitty Mitty
(138 posts)cuz he's a Mormon. Of course, I had to explain to the men what a Mormon was first.
fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)and those who were willing to carry water for sociopaths...
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)caseymoz
(5,763 posts). . . I would suspend the campaign. Keeping this going is just going to hurt other Republicans running for office.
However, I'm not a stupid, egotistical, power-hungry douche bag, so I know he'll keep it going for the duration. He'll lurch from one crisis to another, and the Repubs have tied themselves to this guy. Already, he's defined the issue of this election to be class warfare, something Repubs are guaranteed to lose.
The Repubs must be desperate now. He's putting the Senate out of reach, and working toward to lose the House.
Shitty Mitty
(138 posts)I ain't even gonna do the sarcasm thing
Kteachums
(331 posts)He said the Democrats had spent their money and the Republicans were holding onto their money and would end up spending it when it mattered. They have something planned. They will buy votes, rig where they can, etc. I don't trust them at all!
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)Shitty Mitty
(138 posts)n/t
renaissanceguy
(1,729 posts)Money will find its way into the campaign. I wouldn't buy it. This is a ploy to make Romney look like the underdog... you just watch!
http://www.cafepress.com/liberalissues
frogmarch
(12,154 posts)campaign has turned into a clusterf**k, huh?
ejbr
(5,856 posts)Jessy169
(602 posts)Romney was a high gain, high risk investment for them. They invested hundreds of millions, and all they got was DOOM and GLOOM.
I wonder if they'll go down that easy. Don't count on it.
Plaid Adder
(5,518 posts)I'm goin' with "shit show."
The Plaid Adder
LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)Insulting 47% of the American people will do that for ya!
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)McCain-Palin territory.
McCain at the end of the day was still considered honorable. Palin was considered amusing.
Your two, are neither honorable or amusing.
Snivelling and corrupt come to mind and I still am not coming up with words low enough to describe them.
PSPS
(13,601 posts)The thing is that, regardless of who was running for the GOP, they wouldn't be winning. The fact is that the country as a whole isn't buying what they're selling. A "better salesman" still won't be able to sell a platform of truly crazy policies beyond the ever-shrinking GOP base. Outside the south, their only constituency is billionaires, especially criminal ones who don't want to pay any taxes.
Jack Sprat
(2,500 posts)Aides did little to hide their annoyance: on Tuesday night, a Romney aide cursed loudly as he tried to corral reporters into an impromptu news conference in Costa Mesa, Calif.
Say it's so Joe
cstanleytech
(26,293 posts)jerseyjack
(1,361 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)Romney "waves over the reporters to video him carrying his grandchildren to the plane." Wow.. is this Leave it to Beaver, or a Presidential campaign??
And breathlessly yelling to reporters to check out the DRUDGE headline about a supposed tightening poll number? The reporters know what a useless POS Drudge is... as if that's going to get them excited.
And ooooh.. the aides going on twitter to snark about a video shot in 1998, as usual, taken out of context, gets them excited and happy again???
Seriously... Romney jokes that hes upset about not getting the cobbler. Wow... how endearing and personable.
WRH2
(87 posts)We need to burn their house to the ground ,We need a Dem house and a super majority in the Senate. And this time we need to prosecute the crooks. No more blanket immunity. Period.We need an arab spring here, in november
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)KoKo
(84,711 posts)for him. From the beginning he's been a disaster. I wonder if the guy even wants the job.
To think that this is the best the Repugs could do after the diaster of McCain-Palin. And even Bob Dole and Bush II were no prizes. They had to steal it to get Bush II in there.
They are a disaster...but, we should never underestimate the power of the money, the clueless right wingers,the MIC plus faulty voting machines to make this a hairline finish.
CoffeeCat
(24,411 posts)...start documenting this plane-crash campaign--and then write a book about it.
I would read it.
"Game Changer" which detailed the McCain/Palin campaign was riveting--albeit nauseating.
He's not going to win. Save yourselves.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)in reading the side stories on this link, they're still tryng to knock down the Obama convention bounce and give that rethug a chance at a close election. Such BS media in this country. SAD!!!
oldsarge54
(582 posts)Anyone notice that the Conservative Superpacs are now shifting their money to congressional races. We are not out of the woods yet. Darn it.
Flashmann
(2,140 posts)Couldn't happen to a better guy.....And probably wouldn't!!.....
nichomachus
(12,754 posts)I've only seen one -- and it is positively vile. And because they're an anonymous group, they can say anything without being held accountable for it.
Expect the airwaves to be flooded with these in the run-up to the election.
Did I mention that the ad was vile?
desertduck
(213 posts)Almost breathtakingly quick.