A new Gallup poll out today contains more bad news for the president: A solid majority prefers Mitt Romney on the economy.
By more than 2-1, 63%-29%, those surveyed say Romney’s background in business, including his tenure at the private equity firm Bain Capital, would cause him to make good decisions, not bad ones, in dealing with the nation’s economic problems over the next four years.
The findings raise questions about Obama’s strategy of targeting Bain’s record in outsourcing jobs and hammering Romney for refusing to commit to releasing more than two years of his tax returns. Instead, Americans seem focused on the economy, where disappointment with the fragile recovery and the 8.2% unemployment rate are costing the president.
It was such a smart move by such a smart president to spend millions of dollars in negative ads to rail against Mitt Romney’s business career. Most voters seem to be reacting to those ads with some variation of “Well at least Mitt Romney had a business career.” As one of our commenters noted earlier, Obama’s business career boiled down to protesting against businesses or trying to shut them down. That’s what community organizers do.
Obama won in 2008 basically because Axelrod and the others who had mentored Obama over the years knew they had to hide his and their beliefs as much as possible from the American people. Now they have no choice but to run on what they believe in order to fire up a dispirited base, which reacts like a dog to a bone to any demonizing of businessmen.
The problem is by ginning up the base, Obama is doing the exact opposite of what he should be doing to attract the low-attention swing voters, which is laying low/staying above the fray and letting others do his dirty work. Putting himself on record about how selfish business people are and reminding people that Mitt Romney’s a businessman during a time when most people’s business is bad comes across as an advertisement for the other guy, and even gets the point across to the swing voters that Mitt knows more about running a business than the guy in the White House.
The ad with Romney singing ‘America the Beautiful’ is so annoying that people turn down the volume and tune out the message.
Fail.
And Mitt? No more public singing, please.
I wonder if Obama even knows the words. Maybe this is a challenge to Obama to say or do at least one thing that is unquastionable patriotic.
Like the Pledge of Allegiance, we all know Obama doesn’t know that one.
Oh no this can’t be true. We have been told over and over that the Bain attacks were just killing Romney, that he might as well just forfeit and avoid the embarrassment of such a huge loss. And surely his “you didn’t build it, the proletariat did” speech just sealed Romney’s doom. And by the way, if Al Gore hadn’t invented the INTERNET, and Obama hadn’t built this site, where would you guys be anyway?
What I can’t wait to see is plan B. Now that Bain is causing his excellency the pain, is it back to his next best argument, Seamus the roof riding canine?
Nope. The next brilliant offensive is going to be a demand for Gov. Romney to pull down his pants on national television to prove he doesn’t wear that funny Mormon underwear.
I’d love to see Obama’s crew use the Seamus thing again, so Romney’s folks can bring up the Indonesian dog stew.
If a desparate Obama camp has to claim/admit Obama made the dog-eating thing up, then Romney gets to remind everyone about all the other things Obama made up, including Obama’s very own “born in Kenya” lie!
This would all be so delicious, wouldn’t it?
Only bigots like us would quote Obama’s exact words, after all we are too stupid to know what he really meant so the media and his handlers have to ‘splain it to us. Words don’t have any meaning in the age of Liberal new speak and double talk and composite characters filling the pages of fictional biographies. Whenever Obama goes off teleprompter he reveals his true self, his ideaology and idiocy. I hope he continues unscripted.