GOP’s October surprise?
Source reveals "Jimmy Carter Strategy" to make Obama seem weak on defense in campaign's final month
BY CRAIG UNGER
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.”
The source described the Republicans as chortling with glee that the Obama administration “definitely had intel” about the attack before it happened. “Intelligence can be graded in different ways,” he added, “and sometimes A and B don’t get connected. But [the Romney campaign] will try to paint it to look like Obama had advance knowledge of the attack and is weak on terrorism.”
He said they were jubilant about their new strategy and said they intended to portray Obama as a helpless, Jimmy Carter-like president and to equate the tragedy in Libya with President Carter’s failed attempt to rescue American hostages in Iran in 1980. “They are so excited about it,” he said. “Over and over again they talked about how it would be just like Jimmy Carter’s failed raid. They feel it is going to give them a last-minute landslide in the election.”
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http://www.salon.com/2012/10/01/gops_october_surprise/
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Hard to stomach that Republican operatives are thrilled and chortling about the deaths in Libya. If only more people would have been killed, then it could have really elevated their campaign! 
Yawn 
sick, sick, sick.
Can anybody imagine..................
What is meant by "positive intelligence that there was going to be a terrorist attack on the intelligence?"
If they plan like they talk, Obama has nothing to worry about...
A hero! 
--imm
Remember that the last "October Surprise" involved the Republicans conspiring with an enemy nation to foil our government's attempts to rescue Americans.
Perhaps we're not just talking about new information on Libya...maybe the Usual Suspects are aiding al-Qaeda to stage further attacks over the next month. If they keep happening, Obama would look weak indeed. And, while we may be talking about attacks on our diplomats overseas, can there be any doubt that there are those in the Romney circle who would gladly trade another 9/11 in exchange for regaining power?
conspiracy theories are a bunch of shit, however two or more conspiring is not a theory but an actual conspiracy...
therefore
Reagan was the one that bankrupt America and is generally considered one of the five worst presidents of all time by those voters who actually have a brain.
and the oddity that the best friend oddball son of Bush41 incapacitated Reagan early in his administration and Bush41 and the gang ended up with being the decider much like Cheney was in his sons administration
and people might start putting together how Bush41 wanted to be vice president after Spiro Agnew quit, and the funny thing is, Nixon thought so badly of Bush41 that he quickly thought of Gerald Ford not Bush41 and the very oddity of the thought that Watergate actually was to bring Nixon down and get the Bush's in power (and then there is deep throat .....
(and then the fact that the last person Reagan wanted as VP was that same person who ended up sabatoging Gerald Ford by blabbing the info to Walter Cronkite thereby elminiating that idea as Reagan thought Ford was the blabber.
I would seriously doubt Jebby wants to go there, wouldn't you?(and Jebby wants the nom in 2016).
BTW-as always I suggest one read Robert Parry about the 1980 election and the guns for hostage deal, and the delay of the hostage release-
and how George Herbert Walker Bush was actually the one who used the pardon of all the Bushies(and himself) from ever being prosecuted.
and again, nobody died on Jimmy Carter's watch,
and some say those helicopters were "SHREDDED" so to say like an office shredder machine
by American traitors wanting to make sure Jimmy failed, etc...
(though I myself am out of the conspiracy business, in the old days there were a bunch of those theories that would apply. And covered up...
that reminds me....
remember Ford's funeral
and how Bush41 went out of his way, unprovoked, to have to remind people what a great honoroable man Gerald Ford was on national tv during the eulogy?
and most people who are voting for Mitt hate Jimmy Carter
most people who are voting for Obama love Jimmy Carter
so using Jimmy as a foil will not gain Herr Mittens anything
as they have failed to gain any votes the last 3 1/2 years already doing that
It is amazing how much of a really, really BAD Person Mittens and his wife are.
There is not one thing to admire in this failed loser professionally and personally.
Now, if only we could find out who gave Mitt a BJ (because a good Morman's wife never would.)
(see Donny Osmond's interview with Howard Stern about a decade ago for reference)
republicanlibertariantea party people seem to get off on those sort of things
one of the reasons it will be so delicious when in 2017, Hillary45 starts her 8 years in office.
They (GOP) was probably responsible for the whole attack! That is how they work and is probably why they are broke!
