Comments on: Reelection Watch: October 6, 2012

By: dawolf

dawolf — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 12:16:02 +0000

@dc "I missed one other matter of substance which Romney admitted to. He wants to kill Big Bird."

Bin Laden is dead, and Big Bird is alive.

By: Armchair Warlord

Armchair Warlord — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 00:11:26 +0000

Romney gave a major foreign policy address today, where he said that he would continue to do everything that Obama is doing. Apparently with a white guy in charge this would no longer constitute “leading from behind.”

By: Chris Rich

Chris Rich — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 23:19:27 +0000

There is a regular growing genre of Romney’s fulla shit video art. That one is going viral fast.

This one is like that dummy clip.
http://youtu.be/SQUmnAiz_4E

By: dcpetterson

dcpetterson — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 21:36:58 +0000

Excellent, Chris. Showing some of Romney's very clear reversals on important issues.

By: Chris Rich

Chris Rich — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:49:47 +0000

Here’s a debate http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPgfzknYd20&feature=player_embedded

By: dcpetterson

dcpetterson — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:46:28 +0000

I missed one other matter of substance which Romney admitted to. He wants to kill Big Bird.

There is a reason Republicans want to talk about style instead of substance.

By: Chris Rich

Chris Rich — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:15:29 +0000

The GOP is a marketing party. Style is everything and masking substance is essential.
You have to stoke the disgruntled, mainly the Angry White Guy circuit and help feed their conviction that their diminished lot is caused by meddling and not by demographic shifts.
The interesting discovery will be how much the electorate has changed after four years of protracted recession. What if many of the glib assumptions driving the GOP pitch machine were predicated on a fatter, happier and shallower electorate, pre 2008 and the whole aim now is to just improve pitch delivery?
What if four years of recession have made the electorate more observant and alert than in those fatter happier time when shallowness was a more affordable luxury?

By: dcpetterson

dcpetterson — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:53:17 +0000

It's interesting that the coverage of how "well" Romney did in the debate, and how "poorly" Obama did, is all about style. Have we heard anything about how Romney plans to balance the budget, or create jobs, or improve education? Anything about new ideas or what the tax structure will look like if Romney puts his hands on it?

Not a word about anything substantive. We hear instead about Romney seeming energetic and Obama seeming listless (that's not how I saw it, but that is what we're hearing). The questions about Romney's substance that existed before the debate still exist today. In fact, the questions have gotten worse, because Romney denied virtually all of the hints at substance he's made so far.

The one substantive thing we got out of the debate is something people are not talking about -- Romney would dismantle Medicare and substitute for it an annual insurance discount coupon, which will decay in value over time. He admitted that. This isn't going to play well among seniors.

And that's the reason Romney gives no direct answers. None of his actual programs will play well with the public. For the people who paid attention, that much was also clear last Wednesday.

So it isn't any wonder wonder that the breathless Republican cheerleaders are talking about style rather than substance. Substance would tank Romney.

By: Chris Rich

Chris Rich — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 14:20:03 +0000

Here's Kunstler.

By: Chris Rich

Chris Rich — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 10:19:11 +0000

Straight from the playbook of Pyrrhus himself while Obama was channeling Belisarius.