What we are seeing now on the political landscape is a growing consensus among opinion makers and average voters that Mitt Romney cannot win the election. It is not true. He can, in fact, still win. The election is, in fact, exceeding close. But the Romney campaign is a victim of a perception it itself has helped foster. Like John McCain before him, Romney seems more at ease punching other Republicans than his Democrat opponent. The public is picking up on this and perceive him unwilling or unable to fight for victory. The public is, mentally, beginning to grow weary of this campaign and Romney must work to change perception if he is to win
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Mitt Romney can win. He needs to hone his message. He needs to focus on the failings of this administration. But there is time and he can win
What delusional crap. There are seven weeks left in the campaign and because we’re talking about politics here, anything can happen. So yes, Romney can still win…but it won’t have anything to do with honing his message. The main reason polls indicate that Romney is losing ground on Obama has to do exactly with the message he and Ryan are pushing – the Republican message.
That’s the message that speaks of things like…
- repealing the Affordable Care Act and ensuring that 50 million Americans remain uninsured
- privatizing Social Security
- turning Medicare into a voucher program
- cutting taxes on the wealthy at the expense of the middle class
- deregulating Wall Street…again
- a foreign policy that is likely to get the U.S. involved in yet another war
- oppressive immigration policies
- a war on women and a return to pre Roe v. Wade legislation
- a Tea Party mindset that has poisoned any hope of compromise and a bipartisan approach to governance
If Romney hones that message any better than he has, then there is NO chance of victory in November for Republicans. The only reason Romney still has a fighting chance in this election is because of the bit of success he and Republicans have had in hiding their true intent . Lies, deceit, voter suppression and a willing conservative media does wonders in masking the truth from low-information voters.
Why has Romney not been specific about policy? Easy. Because he knows that should the American electorate ever become fully aware of what Republicans really have in mind for them, this election would have been over months ago.
Surprisingly, people like Erickson and other conservatives still don’t get it. They honestly believe that if people really understood what it is that Republicans have in store for them, and given the Obama record over the last four years, a Republican victory would be a lock.
Dumb…and so wrong.
There is no denying that Romney is a horrible, awkward candidate but the reason he can be categorized as so is not because he’s not articulating the conservative message as well as Erickson would like him to. It is because Romney cannot hide the conservative message as well as some other candidate might have done. The video that came out of Romney disparaging half of the population was a serious blow to Republican hopes only because it revealed the party’s true feelings toward the poor, the middle class and every American struggling in difficult times. It revealed that the Republican party is the party of intolerance and divisiveness and, most of all, it revealed that the Republican party truly is the party of the rich, the bigots, the crazies and no one else. Not the poor. Not the middle class. Not women. Not the young. Not the old. Not minorities.
The problem is not Romney. The problem is an entire Republican party that has lost its way.
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Wrong, Mario. Erickson is right. There is nothing wrong with conservative policies that are the only way we’ll ever get this nation moving again. We cannot afford Obamacare and we cannot afford a Medicare system that is bankrupting us. Only conservatives understand that freeing up small businesses by deregulation is the way to create jobs.
If Romney can get that message out in the next 7 weeks and make Americans understand that we need to make hard choices, he’ll win and we can start fixing this country from the inside out.
Hi Delmar, Before you wax too eloquent about how conservative policies can save America, which is otherwise doomed, take a look across the pond. Austerity is working wonders for Greece and Spain isn’t it? Why the unemployment rate in Spain is only 25%.
Now go to Google and search for “the mistake of 1937.” Read it carefully and imagine that if the same illogical solution the republicans want to implement is put in place by a victorious Romney-Ryan Administration it will go down in history as the mistake of 2013.
Now, read some of the philosophy of George Santayana, especially his quote about how those who don’t read history are doomed to repeat it.
Obama-Biden in November!!!!
So right Charlie Sommers.
delmar, how can you be sure that Romney is a conservative? He won’t tell us what his plan is, if he actually has a plan to get America out of the economic ditch that conservatives drove us into, unless GWB wasn’t a conservative either?
Why would we vote for someone who will surround himself by many of those same ideologues who got us into this mess,and the same philosophy once more trying to make an unworkable idea work? That would be insanity, wouldn’t it?
SPOT ON.
As you may have heard, I make hundreds of voter calls…
Some people tune out when I try to describe the Right’s age-old agenda…disbelieving, they find my message “extreme”…I’ll have to work on framing, but the content won’t change. It appears they don’t put it into context…don’t connect the dots over the years. Add to that the fact that the GOP of old is responsible for some good social policy, like Reagan’s survivor benefits.
What annoys me the most are the young people who must be living under a rock somewhere…tuned in to their own brand of social media fluff. My only hope is that they’re double majors in Math/Science and have been studying SO HARD, they forgot to listen til now. To them I offer Bill: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv0ryYJY-UM
and plead with them to get their act together.
One point we must not forget, and a theme I hear repeated in the angst of voters, is the R Govs who may yet commit the real “voter fraud” in counting the ballots. Thankfully, I hear the Administration is armed with lawyers.
“True” the Vote…along with all the voter misinformation published and passed along as truth by the unsuspecting public, creates another hurdle.
I want to believe this is the beginning of a period of voter participation (along with that persistent hope for a progressive era)…that the populace is pissed enough to hold them accountable…that our democracy will be shared by more and more attentive citizens. That they’ll never miss another off-year election season…my latent optimism is showing but I know that the more suppression of all sizes and colors is trotted out, they angrier and more determined some voters become…may that response grow to a groundswell!!!
Lastly, it would seem that if we deny the extreme right wing-nuts, then the reverse is true. In the back of my thoughts is the “nagger” that, as a Progressive, I may be sorry about what I wished for…and worked my butt off for in this election…namely, the “Grand” Bargain…another ironic misnomer. As more and more economists and thinkers bring forth plans and remedies, Simpson-Bowles, Rivlin-Dimenici and the like look like Corporatist’s wet dreams. May Nancy Pelosi’s plans come true (Wednesday, September 26 –
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49195722/ns/msnbc-rachel_maddow_show), may Scott Brown and staff continue the war woops (racist pig) and may the populist swell toward a complete Democratic majority unfold before our very eyes this November.
Then, the REAL work begins.
Your argument is to compare the greatest economy the world has ever known with the economies of dipshit countries like Greece and Spain? As far as arguments go, that’s a non-starter.
Delmar,
You take 8 years of Bush incompetence blended with an unexpected world wide depression which made the feds borrow another 6 trillion plus millions unemployed and you call that the greatest econonmy in the world. It took wise decision making to bring us where we are today and tax breaks to the rich and corporations is not the way to go. Obama and Geitner did a great job and I want them to continue going forward to reduce the deficit and balance the budget.
Obama/Biden for November !
What is it about Repugs that they can so easily forget what the Bush administration did to the economy,so they want to repeat the same failed polices.Are they so brain dead that they will keep pushing the same ball up the hill till it rolls down the other side and than start to push the same ball back up etc. etc. etc. etc, etc, etc,ETC. So pathetic
Dear Delmar, “Your argument is to compare the greatest economy the world has ever known with the economies of dipshit countries like Greece and Spain? As far as arguments go, that’s a non-starter.”
Showing respect for others in the world doesn’t seem to be part of the Republican agenda. I would love to live in the greatest country in the world and under the leadership of Barack Obama that might be achieved.
Remember, FDR didn’t turn the economy around overnight when he was POTUS, It took three terms and a World War before that goal was achieved. Let’s give Obama a little more time, at least as much time as we gave his predecessor to screw it up so badly.
Obama-Biden in November
The only way Mitt Romney can win is for President Obama to really screw up, and I just don’t see that happening.
We Democrats have known for the longest that it would only take a while for the voters who aren’t all that involved in politics and didn’t know what kind of jerk Romney is before, to finally see him in a true light, thanks to the video Mother Jones dredged up.
Now Republicans don’t even want to believe the polls showing Romney behind by several points, even though even a Fox News poll shows him behind. They have chosen the way of dislusion instead of facts. It’s the way they treat everything nowadays, from global warming to rape (Todd Atkin).
I would say this is going to be a good election for the Democrats and they should be able to keep the Senate and maybe even maybe even a filibuster-proof majority. I’m not sure about the House, even though Nancy Pelosi is trying to be positive about it; that’s a really steep climb. Still, I’m sure we’re going to see another 4 years for Obama. It’s become a cake walk for his reelection.
delmar says:
Then why are Romney / Ryan and the rest of the GOP continually comparing our economy to that of Greece – that Obama is taking us down the same path to ruin as they claim?
I guess that’s a comparison until it’s not.
You see that’s the problem with the GOP and Romney / Ryan – they’re so all over the map trying to be all things to all people, they end up circling around until they’re in a 180 position with a previous position. It’s so confusing, no one who thinks rationally can understand it.
As for Medicare and Obamacare — have you any idea as to the root causes of why Medicare is in trouble? Or why Obamacare was necessary?
Let me make it simple for you — FOR PROFIT MEDICINE — that has so driven up the price trying to keep their corporate Wall Street masters / investors happy, that the public can no longer afford the cost of health care or insurance to pay for it – the 20% cap on profits will reduce the increases in premium, but the premiums increases will continue. They were increasing at 11-14% per year before Obamacare, now it’s a 3% increase.
Add to that the fraudsters in the system — and I don’t mean the patients defrauding the system, but the professionals and non-professionally licensed owners of these facilities. Just ask me – I spend my days investigating their fraud.
All the screaming about how bad these programs are come from the right — but not a single thought to address the root problem. They don’t want to fix the root problem – that would mean too many of their fat cat buddies would lose out — Medicare Advantage (where the $716 BILLION was moved from to close the donut hole and provide non-co-pay care to seniors for preventative care) isn’t costing seniors, it’s costing the private companies profits. That’s what the GOP is crying about.
If they can’t figure out that the root problem in health care is the cost of delivery, then they don’t have a single idea that will solve the problem. Obamacare at least begins to address the problem and puts some curbs in the system that will force the industry to become more efficient (yes, Obamacare is still a for profit plan, not socialism).
What you don’t get is the GOP’s definition of “small business” is a company that makes somewhere above $500 million. Here’s an article that offers some insight in US News: GOP Exploits Small Business for Political Gain
Some excerpts:
You want an example of non regulation – of what “free enterprise” was capable of BEFORE the EPA was created – look up the Cuyahoga River Fire.
Wake up Delmar and smell the coffee before it’s too late.