10 Attack Lines Romney Should Use in the Debates
The presidential debates, the first of which takes place tomorrow, will be the first chance for many voters to get a good look at Mitt Romney. The debates provide Romney with a rare opportunity to make his case to voters in a way that’s largely “unfiltered,” as Chris Christie politely put it in Sunday interviews. By unfiltered, of course, Christie meant free of the spin, selective editing, and bias by omission that the Obama-friendly media uses to suppress or distort the message of Republican politicians and conservative pundits.
Romney will be constrained by the debate format, by Obama’s filibustering and obfuscation, and perhaps by the biases of the moderators; it’s still his best chance to introduce some 60 million Americans to his beliefs and policy ideas on something approaching his own terms. Just as importantly, it’s his opportunity to acquaint voters with some of the scandals that have beset the Obama administration, and with some of the president’s most damaging blunders and revealing comments. Most of these are notorious among conservatives, though the media gatekeepers have done their best to ignore or minimize them.
What follows is a list of ten lines of attack that Romney should use when the opportunities present themselves. For good measure, at the end of each point is a line Romney could deliver.
1. Obama could not remember the size of the debt
The national debt is sure to come up. In addition to hammering Obama on the size of the debt itself, Romney should goad Obama about his appearance on David Letterman’s show, when he pretended not to be able to recall the figure. This line of attack will be even more effective if Romney can challenge Obama on his “forgetfulness” before the figure has been mentioned.
Killer line: “Can you tell us that number tonight, Mr. President?”
2. Europe
While on the subject of the economy, Romney can point to the chaos now enveloping Spain, Greece, and France. In France, under socialist President Francois Hollande the economy is teetering on the brink of recession, unemployment has reached its highest level in ten years, and wealthy individuals and businesses are fleeing punitive new tax rates of up to 75 percent. Romney can declare that this is what the future holds for America if it remains on its current course of ever-higher state spending and ballooning entitlements, and it’s not pretty: crushing austerity measures and riots. At home, Romney can point to the fate of California, run into the ground by a governing coalition of Democrats and big labor.
Killer line. “When your liberal friends say they’d like America to be more like France, is this what they have in mind?”
3. Energy policy
Romney should confront Obama with two soundbites on this subject that most Americans are unlikely to have heard, both from an interview he gave to the San Francisco Chronicle in 2008. Obama said that under his cap-and-trade plans, energy prices would “necessarily skyrocket,” and warned that if somebody wanted to build a coal power plant, “it will bankrupt them.” With gas prices rising, Romney might also mention that shortly before being appointed energy secretary, Steven Chu told the New York Times: “Somehow, we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”
Romney should point to the efforts of the Obama administration and its supporters in the environmental lobby to thwart efforts to create jobs and to make America energy independent: opposition to the Keystone pipeline and fracking; the moratorium on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. He should point to the wasting of billions of dollars on failed green energy projects. Foremost of these is Solyndra, and Romney should seize any opportunity to remind voters of that scandal, including the fact that the Solyndra investors who benefitted from Obama’s largesse included donors to his campaign.
Killer line: “You don’t make America energy-independent by wrecking the coal and gas industries, destroying thousands of jobs, and blowing billions of dollars on the pipe dreams of your Democrat cronies.”
The Question I’d Ask Mitt Romney: What are the main differences between your domestic and foreign policies and those of the last Republican president, George W. Bush?
Why? Bush ain’t running this year. If Bush == bad, then Obama == worse. So even taking your tack, going back to Bush would be better. And that certainly is true.
Romney picked Paul Ryan as his VP. Ryan was instrumental in the Bush budgets, so it is not unreasonable to assume that many of those budget priorities would be duplicated if Romney, in the unlikely event, were win the WH. This would be his opportunity to explain, in detail, how a repeat of those policies would result in a different outcome (other than the loss of 800,000 jobs a month at the end of Bush’s term). Or, it could be Romney’s opportunity to repudiate those policies and give us examples of how his will be different.
That dang awful Ryan Budget. How about that glorious Obama budget that received ZERO votes. What about the Biden budget? LOL!!!!
Romney’s team is full of Bushies – this is a very appropriate line of questioning. If there is a difference between Bush and Romney perhaps Romney should point it out.
There are substantial differences. Bush was a decent, well-meaning man, surrounded by his Daddies advsisors, who therefore made some bad mistakes.
Romney is a two-faced, lying, pandering hypocrite whose only consistency in his entire career has been to be a militant advocate for homosexuality.
Why is that the only issue on which he’s been consistent?
I’d ask The Wohn what are the differences between Him and Chavez.
The title says it all.
No, no. He serves a purpose. He can predict the questions that the MSM will ask. I think he didn’t phrase it quite as the moderator would though. That would be more “What are the main differences between your domestic and foreign policies and those failed policies of the last Republican president, George W. Bush?”
I’d only add that Romney should find an opportunity to say something like this:
The “Failed Policies of the Past”? The Failed Policies of whose past? Yours? It certainly looks that way to an awful lot of people.
So, do you have an answer to the question? Maybe you can give Rmoney a few tips … lol
(And I do employ words with a sexual meaning deliberately) … I am content.
The Pupae of Houseflies are of greater worth and value to the world than you.
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
That Buddha fella was one smart guy. Mebbe you should study him sometime, instead of Trolling sites like this.
You should give that passage to your tea party friends …
Tea Party…Bush…
Do you have any, you know, THOUGHTS in that head, or are you just blurting out words you dont like…
Hmm, lemme try that and see what it feels like:
Commies! Broccoli!….Liberal Media!…cold soup!
Meh, not doing much for me.
Kinda flat, unsatisfying….doesnt really DO anything to change the situation.
Maybe that’s why Liberals like you have nothing else to offer
Because you….have nothing…else.
Also, can you cite the text that the quote you attribute to Siddhartha Gautama is from, and is it translated from Pali or the original Sanskrit (big difference)? I ask because it just looks like you copy and pasted it from somewhere. The internet is full of garbage and is the very last place you should be looking for scholarly citations.
” The internet is full of garbage and is the very last place you should be looking for scholarly citations”
Yeah, we kep running into YOUR un-scholarly ignorance all the time…what a drag.
So, tell us Great Swami what is the source? I’m guessing you’re one of those tea party types that thinks all that learning and smarts is fur those librul elites and stuff. You want yur Murikkka back! WHAAAAAAA!
Cynical Wonder proves Orwell’s point, that it takes a very educated person to believe certain things.
The Europeans have been doing it Cynical’s way for 60+ years. Look at what is left of their birth rate, economies, welfare state, and individual self sufficiency. They are a hollowed out people who don’t think enough of their future to even procreate. They can’t even defend themselves anymore. Socialism has lobotomized them. Hell, the Greeks are now abandoning what few children they have to the streets as they search for dumpsters to eat from. France has been t!ts up since Mitterand. Sarkozy was just another statist helping to suffocate freedom and free enterprise. Hollande is just another Fabian with his hand on the tiller as he takes the ship into the rocks…again.
Facts and logic are inconvenient obstacles for these people.
Not me. So I Google quotes by him.
While you betray his teachings with your every thought, your every word, and your every deed.
One of us has greater cause to feel deeper shame than the other.
It is the content, not the vessel, that nourishes. Ponder on this, Asshopper.
(Can you source, “It is not wise to tip the vessel of knowledge”?)
CW: The Question I’d Ask Mitt Romney: What are the main differences between your domestic and foreign policies and those of the last Republican president, George W. Bush?
How I’d answer: Well, Bush’s chief concerns at the end of his term were economics and security. His security policies were continued by Mr. Obama, who kept on Secretary Gates in defense.. unprecedented, by the way. Mr. Obama’s National Security Adviser James Jones and Treasury Secretary Geithner had also served, although not at cabinet level, in the Bush administration.
So, I would propose a more complete break with Bush-Obama era policy than my opponent. I would not continue the war in Iraq, nor would I bail out Wall Street. I would also seek to end the profligate government spending, and the expansion of government authority, that is the hallmark of Bush-Obama policy.
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happy now?
Why don’t you and your buddy Oblamo man up and take some responsibility?
Good question. Answer: What I would do different than George Bush, domestically, and significantly more different than Barack Obama, is to limit government spending. Unlike Barack Obama, I define a reduction of spending as spending less money, not significantly more. On foreign matters, I suppose my policies would be closer to George Bush’s than to Barack Obama’s as I would not alienate our allies, and bow to, and show tremendous weakness to our enemies.
I’d say vision. No one has captured a national sense of this since the Cold War ended. As a nation, who are we and what are we? Are we a nation of freeloaders sucking off of the government teat, or are we a nation of Doers who astound the world by our efforts? Choose.
Allston,
I like the cut of your jib.
Present the attractive alternative while pointing out the mess he made worse ’cause it can’t be fixed fix with his urapeein socialism.
simplistic much? The world is not black and white. Allston can’t even see shades of gray. The world is actually very colorful. We will never be all ‘makers’ or all ‘takers’.
Simplistic not. You entirely miss the point.
Your expectations and goals define you, both as an individual and as a nation. In recent memory, what are our great national aspirations, our collective dreams? Being the first to purchase the newest iPhone? Closing down NASA? Obtaining the “magic” check from the government? Obamacare, for Gosh’ sake?!
But the nation really is a nation of freeloaders, Allston.
Beyond the 47% are the academic lounge lizards, the media whores, derivatives bankers, the “teachers”, the entertainers and sports figures, all of whom make a good buck, but suck nonetheless off the teat of non-productivity.
The productive sector, if it exists, is offshore. We’re all looters now.
Go Galt.
Interestingly, the general msm comparison on unemployment, between the US and Canada, shows about 1% higher unemployment for the US. However, if the same standards were used by the US to compute the stats, I would expect the US jobless rate to be about 15%. Its like comparing apples to aardvarks.
I believe this debate is only on domestic issues.
Romney will certainly be asked about the 47 percent. I hope he doesn’t back down or apologize. He must know it’s coming so I hope he’s ready with a good answer. I’d say something like -
The Obama Administration equates success with paying more taxes. I want the people now dependent on government to have every opportunity to become successful. Following Obama’s own reasoning I want to create more tax payers.
Either the second or third debate is on international issues. The article is referring to “The Debates”.
I hope Romney gets a chance to bring up Fast & Furious. People should be in prison for this program.
Doh!bammy can ask Romney about the 47% dole-icious ‘mericans sucking the life out of the USA ala Greece…and Romney can fire back with, “57 states with one to go”… and ask him ‘what’ America is he currently residing in?
Once upon a time, before the Fed diluted the $$ to hell and manipulated interest rates, a person could generate 4% risk free on a CD. Now that possibility does not exist. Either one buys a money market fund generating 0.0000001% interest or plays stock market roulette. People are quite rightly worried that they will not have enough money to live on when they get old. The last thing people want is to have their Medicare and Social Security tinkered with on top of this worry. They think the Republicans are going to screw them on M and SS the way Bernanke screwed them on their savings. The message Romney/Ryan need to harp on is this: It is not a choice between tweaking M and SS and leaving things the way they are. The choice is between tweaking them and RUNNING OUT OF MONEY. The Dems are presenting a false choice which needs to be revealed as a big lie.
***SIMPLE ROMNEY DEBATE STRATEGY***
GO FOR THE JUGULAR
REPEAT
GO FOR THE JUGULAR
Boo ya!
I sure as frack hope so.
The anus in chief needs a ‘turn your head and cough’ moment vetting.
Corzine and Holder alone should tank this administration but the corruption and rot are so widespread that even the Fed is engaged in printing money and currency manipulation to see Wonder Boy reelected.
Also The Wohn and His Consort spent 1.4 billions/4 years on entourage and vacations.
Also I believe that several swing states have Republican governors. Romney needs to point out that any improvement in these states is due to Republican governors. Do not allow Obama to take credit for improvement in any state with a Republican Governor.
“Can you tell us that number tonight, Mr. President?”
Killer scale: This one rates an 8, because many, average, hard-working Americans can’t comprehend $16 trillion. It won’t hit home to most of them until they have no job, their bank fails, grocery stores have no food, and they’re homeless.
“When your liberal friends say they’d like America to be more like France, is this what they have in mind?”
Killer scale: This one garners a 9, for the simple reason that most Americans don’t want to be like France, but there are some, e.g. Paul Krugman, Hollywood leftists, and urban liberals who do.
Killer line: “You don’t make America energy-independent by wrecking the coal and gas industries, destroying thousands of jobs, and blowing billions of dollars on the pipe dreams of your Democrat cronies.”
Killer scale: This one is a solid 10, because everyone, everyone, everyone understands high energy prices and how they affect the price of everything.
Killer line: “Just once, Mr. President, I’d like to hear you tell an audience of your multi-millionaire admirers in Hollywood that they’ve ‘made enough money’.”
Killer scale: This one’s a 9; it exposes Obama’s blatant and continuning hypocrisy.
“Your secretary of State once questioned whether you could deal with a crisis phone call at 3:00 a.m., and now we know the answer: the phone was off the hook, and there was a Do Not Disturb sign on the door.”
Killer scale: Another solid 10. Most reasonable Americans expect a President to go without sleep during a crisis, and a U.S. Ambassador in mortal danger, along with Embassy security personnel, is a crisis. Moreover, everyone can relate to images of ‘phone off the hook’ and a ‘Do Not Disturb’ sign.
“As president you swore to defend the First Amendment along with the rest of the Constitution, not to qualify it.”
Killer scale: This one garners a mere 7, because without saying how Obama qualifies the 1st Amendment (and we know he does), it’s meaningless to the average viewer.
“Your administration told Americans that if Congress passed your $700 billion stimulus, unemployment wouldn’t go above eight percent. They did pass it, and it’s never been below eight percent for 44 straight months.”
Killer scale: This is one is a 10+, a home run, a touchdown, a half-court buzzer-beater. 26 million unemployed Americans will understand this perfectly.
“From Poland to Israel, Mr. President, your administration has turned its back on America’s allies while appeasing countries whose interests are inimical to our own.”
Killer scale: A 6. Most people won’t know the meaning of ‘inimical.’ Needs a word change there.
“At least two Americans and hundreds of Mexican civilians are dead because of a gunrunning operation overseen at the highest levels of your Justice Department. Why won’t your administration tell us the truth?”
Killer scale: An 9. Gun-owning Americans will understand it, liberals will deplore it and the average voter wants questions answered.
“It’s Democrats who have written off millions of Americans by consigning them to a life on welfare, while still expecting them to turn out and vote for them every two years.”
Killer scale: An 8, because many on welfare are fine & dandy with voting themselves largesse from the treasury.
Rocky,
That there is some seriously right on target shooting. 10 rounds, all touching, center bull. Best one is “unemployment and stimulus”. God, I pray he has one like that teed up. Your right, and I’ll bet you’ll be able to hear your neighbors cheering.
Like I say somewhere below, I want to see Obumbles rattled. That one should do the job.
Is it November 6 yet?
Lol. All good ones, and this one would be really good immediately after one of UberMAO’s attacks on “the rich”
Killer line: “Just once, Mr. President, I’d like to hear you tell an audience of your multi-millionaire admirers in Hollywood that they’ve ‘made enough money’.”
Killer scale: This one’s a 9; it exposes Obama’s blatant and continuning hypocrisy.
Alternate foreign policy Killer: “Which of our allies in the Middle East trusts us? Which of our enemies in the Middle East fears us?”
Rock – GREAT stuff.
Good points Mike.
This 1st debate is the big one. If Romney handles it effectively, it’s his chance to go right around the media narrative. He has control of his own destiny, I hope he understands that.
Go to BattlegroundWatch.com for an excellent article on Romney’s debate prep, strategy and tactics. He apparently has an arsenal of zingers lined up. God knows it will be a target rich environment.
Romney needs to deftly handle the 47%, Romney Care, Bain Capital-Rich guy attacks and turn the subject back to the President’s dog poo mess on the carpet. That dog had some serious diarrhea. Time to call a professional cleaning service.
Additionally, he needs to paint an attractive alternative for voters, one that they know can be implemented to turn things around.
I would also love to see him rattle Obumbles, make him stammer, filibuster, or stare at the floor. Romney has to know Obama is going to lie and do it repeatedly. Here’s to effectively calling him out on each one.
Finally, Romney needs to be preprared for an Obama hail mary hands across the sea pledge attempt, a reach across the aisle for peace that will be made to force Romney into some sort of me too compliance. My bet is it will revolve around debt and taxes. Romney needs to decline to agree and point out Obama had his chance at that and screwed the pooch. Boles-Simpson=trash can to Obama. Don’t fall for it Romney; turn it right back on Odumdum.
If he does those things, the polls will start breaking his way about Saturday.
“If he does those things, the polls will start breaking his way about Saturday.”
Of course, then the polls will be the ultimate source on the state of the election, right. While I don’t anticipate that will be happening (Ohio is gone forever), it is amusing how you people operate. An example of mass Dissociative Disorder
You’d know.
By all means, keep believing.
Cynical,
I notice you don’t rely on facts to refute argument.
Riddle me this. Romer and your hero said that unemplyment would not go above 8% if stimulus passed. A Dem majority Congress passed it. Unemployment has not been below 8% since.
Looking for your facts. Show me the math.
What are you doing here, bigot? Can’t admit you voted for an incompetent, can you? The facts don’t lie. But he does. And he’s going on trial tomorrow— teleprompterless.
Just what is it about authoritarian Marxism and political corruption that you and your comrades are so enamored with?
Are you up for a cushy appointment or something?
I don’t give a rats hairy @$$ about the polls. Remember that the polls had carter winning, Mondale winning, etc. The truth of the matter is that conservatives are fired up and liberals are depressed.
Blacks will still vote for him. Those that go out to the polls at least. But don’t expect many of them since they are eing told by their preachers to sit this one out. In addition, blacks are seeing the brunt of the unemployment. They are in the teens for unemployment rate.
The Lame Stream Media are in lock step with Obama. It is giving false hope and his supporters will not come out figuring he is going to win so they don’t need to vote.
I look forward to 11/7/12 when Romney is shown to be the clear winner. The alphabet media will crap all over themselves. The hollywood “elite” will wail and gnash their teeth. And most of all Madonna will keep her clothes on. Just the thought of her stripping naked if Obama wins is enough to make most people vote Romeny.
BTW, in 2009 James Carville, one of the Democratic Party’s most savvy strategists, was predicting that the GOP is facing a tsunami of demographic change that will make it the minority party for the next 40 years.
While Carville’s new book, “40 More Years: How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation,” is bringing glee to Democrats, it was totally WRONG!!!
Carville, a key architect of Bill Clinton’s rise to the White House, says a 40-year era of Republican political dominance over Washington is coming to an abrupt end with Obama in the White House and fellow Democrats controlling Congress.
The pendulum now has swung and it’s the Democrats’ turn, he says.
And how did that work out? it took only 1 year for Republicans to take charge of the house and many governorships. The Democrats hadn’t been spanked that hard in a long time.
Of course the Republicans only hold the House but to hear the Senate and the President, they must be in charge because he can’t get anything done.
How do you like us now?????
– the questions directed. It won’t be a question followed by “Governor Romney, same question.” Each panelist will taffy-pull with the president, but attack Romney. His advisors ought to have known this when they agreed.
Forget all of those “Killer lines”, Romney needs only one and needs to repeat it constantly.
“Are you better off than you were four years ago?”
It applies to practically any topic he could be questioned on.
And what nobody has mentioned, or at least nobody has talked about much, has been the fact that, yes, 47% of the population, for WHATEVER reason, is NOT paying taxes, while the rest of the population is being taxed more to pay for them.
Well, the simple question is, what happens when you start having more people getting money than there are to support the people getting the money? You know what you have? You have Greece, or any of the other social-welfare states in Europe. And how’s that working out for them? Instead of improving the economy so more people would be eligible to pay taxes into the system, more and more people are taking money FROM the government. It really doesn’t matter why, whether they are on Social Security, retired, handicapped, whatever. This is pure math we’re talking about, and unless the plan is to suck all of the money out of the constantly decreasing number of people who do pay taxes, then we WILL eventually go broke.
So, before the liberals start whining about the poor, the handicapped, the elderly, or the one-legged albino with Down’s syndrome, WHATEVER, they still have to answer a simple question: Who is going to get stuck with the bill to pay for all of this? As for the “evil” 1%, even if we took ALL of their money, it wouldn’t even begin to pay our $16 TRILLION (and growing) debt. So, I ask you once again, who is going to pay for it? YOU WILL, all of you. Either that, or start learning Greek.
“And what nobody has mentioned, or at least nobody has talked about much, has been the fact that, yes, 47% of the population, for WHATEVER reason, is NOT paying taxes, while the rest of the population is being taxed more to pay for them.”
A complete lie. The 47% remark, if you understood the comment Romney made, was about those who “pay no income tax.” People who pay no income tax still pay taxes. They pay payroll tax, sales tax, and a variety of other taxes and fees. To argue they pay no tax is a lie.
The premise of your argument is false. It assumes a zero tax burden, when in fact many have a negative tax burden in excess of their payroll and sales taxes. By the way, you should try studying something worthwhile for a change. Might I guess you were one of those unlucky many who got a useless degree and were shocked when nobody would pay you to use it? Hmmmm…..
Cynical Wonder – you are the typical Liberal. It doesn’t matter how hard the facts hit you in the face, no matter how much our country gets hurt, you still spout the same gibberish and expect everyone to comply. Little by little people are opening their eyes and realizing that we have been suffering from the policies of one of the worse presidents this country has ever had (the very worse since Jimma, without a doubt!), and that he needs to go now. Obama is a liar, a loser, and does not want this country to excel at anything, but become part of some imagine “global society”. News for you, bubba; Not Going To Happen. The guy must go, and he will go. The american people don’t want to live from the government handouts, no matter what your ilk believes.
47% pay no federal taxes but want the government to take care of them. They want the 1% that they despise to pony up more and more money so the 47% that pay no federal taxes will continue to be taken care of. Sure they pay taxes when they buy stuff but they don’t pay federal taxes the way the 53% do.
When Obama says “my opponent wants to give tax breaks to the rich” Romney should answer. “You are correct. I also want to give them to the middle class. You see, your plans (like Obamacare) tax the middle class and I believe that when more people keep their money they will use it to invest in business and purchase goods. History shows us that as the tax burden goes down the amount of money taken in by the treasury increases. Of course, you having no business experience, I don’t expect you to understand.”
a distinction without a difference. Between the Earned Income Tax Credit, no payroll taxes if you don’t work, little sales tax if you use food stamps, little or no property tax, low-income exemptions on utliity taxes, etc. etc., there is very little in tax collected from the bottom 47%.
The evil of taxation without representation is present here: representation without taxation; the capacity to vote money for oneself from somebody else’s pocket. Nobody could do that even 100 years ago, because there wasn’t a #^$%# federal income tax, and because we hadn’t yet used the Constitution for toilet paper, in instituting a vast welfare state.
I wish the liberals would make up their minds about the “payroll tax.” Is it a tax, or is it a (quite unconstitutional) contribution to a required retirement plan / disability insurance / life ensurance? Since SS payouts are keyed to SS payments, the idea that the poor are taxed doesn’t wash. Frankly, I wish we could scrap the whole SS system.
If Obama wins a second term, I am going to take steps I’ve never taken before to keep as much of my assets as possible away from the rapacity of the government, and I’ll bet you can multiply me by 50 million.
There isn’t much evidence at all that Romney will go after obama about anything. Who knows why. They ain’t saying.
There is some chance that they have correctly calculated that they have the best chance to win by not offending the Liar’s butt boys in the media, but that seems remote.
Seems to me that they are ambivalent, at best, about winning. Maybe not Romney, but his McCain/Dole “advisors” seem real content with the status quo.
In any other year, I wouldn’t vote for Romney. Unfortunately, the country is kaput forever if the Liar wins.
If Romney does win, the next order of business will probably be evicting him and the rest of the status-quo Ruling Class Republicans. He’ll be better than the Liar, but after all, those are the people who allowed the marxists in the front door. That makes them little better than the marxists themselves.
weo,
If you’re right, Romney loses the election by 3-4 points.
I think your wrong.
Romney will be prepared and will surprise alot of people on Weds evening.
One of ‘em is going to be you.
I’ve been waiting to be surprised since Romney went nuclear on Gingrich, Perry, Cain, and Santorum. So far, nada. It’s McCain II, except without the occasional hint of McCain fire and the audacity of picking Palin.
Other than picking Paul Ryan, Romney has been a disaster as a candidate. Who knows what he stands for? He doesn’t even know. He has let the Liar pick him apart and every time he pips up and gets slapped down, he withdraws into his Rovian shell. And sadly, it looks to me that the Repuclican Losing Ruling Class picked Ryan in order to neuter him.
And don’t tell me I’m all negative, because it absolutely isn’t true. I’m one of the few who consistently says that when you step away from the horrific campaign, the raw data still says Romney should win. That is based not one iota on Romney’s pitiful “performance”, but on the simple facts that obama is going to lose millions of votes from his base because he is such a catastophe, and Romney will pick up millions because so many people are scared shitless by the marxist. Romney is essentially on the ballot as “other”.
Even if Romney gets all firebrandy in the debates, it won’t help him either. You can’t act like a scared teenage girl for 5 months and then in 5 or 10 1-minute sound-bites turn into Attila the Hun. It just won’t be believable. If it happens, the msm will rip him to shreds and he’ll go back into his shell. It’s a sad thing. Sad for the country mainly.
No, the only hope has NOTHING to do with Romney. The only hope is that the fear of god drives enough adults to the polls and that John Kasich has a plan to curb the voter fraud in Ohio.
I have to disagree. What we saw was a Romney who wasn’t afraid to get down and dirty and attack and never let up. I supported Santorum myself (after Cain was ousted) but I always respected Romney’s aggressive campaign. I have a real strong feeling he was smart enough to realize the earlier he fires his attacks the longer that Obama and the media will have to bury, misrepresent or simply ignore them. If he brings up these issues in August then by November most people will have forgotten it due to the media burying them. If he brings it up in the middle of the debate then it’s more high profile, closer to the election and harder to ignore.
Romney gets accused of not caring about some 47% figure.
How about Obama? He does not care about the people that he refuses to report on in the unemployment figures. All those invisible men and women.
Obama should explain how not reporting on them shows he has not written them off.
Barry didn’t care enough about Chris Stevens and the Benghazi embassy staff to provide them adequate protection from al Qaida.
How many points does he get for that?
What is better, more people onto food stamps or more people into good jobs with decent paychecks?
Obama cannot answer that without weasel words.
I like this quote, from another article here.
It needs to be reduced in size, but there’s a solid Zinger that will definitely hurt the Anointed Golfer in there:
“During my campaign for governor, I decided to spend a day every few weeks doing the jobs of other people in Massachusetts. Among other jobs, I cooked sausages at Fenway Park, worked on asphalt paving crew, stacked bales of hay on a farm, volunteered in an emergency room, served food at a nursing home, and worked as a child-care assistant. I’m often asked which was the hardest job – it’s child care, by a mile.”
“One day I gathered trash as a garbage collector. I stood on that little platform at the back of the truck, holding on as the driver navigated his way through the narrow streets of Boston. As we pulled up to traffic lights, I noticed that the shoppers and businesspeople who were standing only a few feet from me didn’t even see me. It was as if I was invisible. Perhaps it was because a lot of us don’t think garbage men are worthy of notice; I disagree – anyone who works that hard deserves our respect. – I wasn’t a particularly good garbage collector: at one point, after filling the trough at the back of the truck, I pulled the wrong hydraulic lever. Instead of pushing the load into the truck, I dumped it onto the street. Maybe the suits didn’t notice me, but the guys at the construction site sure did…”
“…a solid Zinger that will definitely hurt the Anointed Golfer”
Somebody needs to figure out how far 16 trillion golf balls would stretch. I love the idea of using golf balls in any analogy.
16 tril golf balls would stretch 20,000 + times around the earth’s equator
…. which would be a band of golfballs tightly packed one layer thick around the equator well over 800 yards wide..
does that help the visual?
Why not ask Precedent UberMAO whatever happened to the annual budget process? Why is it the government is spending ANY money(much less fiat dollars) without one?
Massive dereliction of duty there, which I would argue is an attack on the constitutional processes the government is supposed to follow under rules and laws created for the purpose.
defacto dictatorship is not a protection of the constitution. Continuing measures are smoke and mirrors to hide dereliction of duty.
Constitution? How QUAINT. lol
Solid list and arguments.
Also, how about the fact that the Obama administration’s actions and many of his own words show utter contempt and loathing for the American constitution and the founding principles of this nation:
“You didn’t build that”
“I actually believe in redistribution”…
http://christiansocialscience.com/
Romney needs to burn these quotes in everyone’s minds.
Keep hitting Obama with his own quotes!
“IF I didn’t do a good job the first 4 years, I do not deserve to be re-elected!”
That is a no-brainer! He has been a horrible President and anyone buying the
garbage he is selling, deserves the smell that comes from the White House!
Good one!
Romney should be running ads day and night quoting that video!
People are surprised at the Unholy alliance of Communists and Muslims. It happened before. To advance their causes they are using each other. For Islam the dream is an universal Caliphate. But the worldwide masses of communists, who are also atheists, should ask themselves, why are we involve in this bridge to nowhere ?. But like Einstein said, you can’t expect different results when repeating the same thing over and over and over.
I’d like to see Romney call him a complete failure in the debates or TV ad spots. I know that will upset George Will, a RINO columnist who thinks it would be terrible to tell the American public that they elected a president who has ran a failed economy, an overall failed domestic policy and a failed foreign policy.
cw: die slow you piece of garbage
Let your heart be not troubled.
Obama is about to be taking it on the chin.
The silent majority is screaming for blood. Landslide is in the air.
The Romney train not only is heading in the right direction, but the light at the end of Obama’s tunnel is the headlight of train Romney. Squish. The era of Obama is flat lining.
1) Do you renounce Islam?
2) Do you renounce the devil and all his works?
3) Why are you the first POTUS who was never baptised?
4) Are you going to be baptised before election day?
5) Oh, you have been baptised already? Any thing to back up your claim, such as witnesses, photos, certificates? Can you remeber the church or the priest?
6) Do you agree that the bedrock of our civilisation is the love we have for our Creator?
Here’s a good one”
Biden just mentioned that the Middle Class is in a hole. “Yes,” Romney should respond, “and <b?you dug it. But,” he should note, “most people understand that when you’ve dug yourself into that hole, you stop digging. Instead, you asked for a bigger shovel…“
Little did we know…
Burying the middle class was the only Shovel Ready Project.
How much ya wanna bet the questions being asked by the liberal hack media debate moderators have been ‘leaked’ to the obama campaign for the debate or at least the gist of the questions. And the softball questions being asked will most likely be framed to attack Romney.
Wouldn’t take that bet ever. Romney’s no McCain, but cry for your country, he’s damned one.
I can imagine a commercial where we see a stadium full of cash for clunkers that shows the federal outlays to buy wealth in order to destroy it. Then we watch the stadium morph into a demolition derby with the cars, cheered on by 16,000 fans. Like the Olympics, I can bring the government to solvency by making programs earn money instead of just spending it.
WEBMASTER: Heads-Up! Clicking on “View as Single Page” gets that result, BUT tha link “View as Single Page” does not go away and still works, even though the full page has opened.
I’d ask the boy wonder “How is it the birth certificate you presented as yours has been proven to be a manufactured document, how is it your selective service registration came to be altered, and how did you happen to have a social security number of a dead person from a state you have never lived or worked in?”
Next time Obama brings up the deficit he inherited, remind him that it is the same deficit that senator Obama voted for in 2007 and 2008.
Every spending increase, every debt limit increase in the Democrat congress was fine with him as senator.