Stalin Would Have Been Proud

Lucrum · Aug 7, 2012

Quote from AAAintheBeltway:

Romney needs a three-pronged strategy.

1. Hammer on the "failed Obama economy." It worked for Clinton against Bush 41, who was far superior to Obama. Every day Romney's campaign needs a sound bite highlighting Obama's economic failures. There is no shortage of things to choose from. Employment, the debt, the unfairness of the bailouts and their ultimate lack of success, Solyndra and other crony capitalism examples, the dangers of Obamacare, etc. I would also hammer on Obama's reprehensible class warfare rhetoric, ie "he has divided us when he proimised to bring us together."

2. Attack the media and highlight their lack of even handedness. It worked for Gingrich in the primaries and it can work now. He can't sound like he is whining, but Romney has to go to the voters and tell them they can't trust the media. A lot of this has to be done by surrogates. They can highlight such facts as the media's obsession with long-ago details of Romney's life with their utter lack of curiosity over Obama's suspicious past.

3. Highlight all the unanswered questions about Obama. Start probing into how those divorce records of his Senate opponents were magically unsealed. The Rezko real estate caper. Michelle's excellent no work job at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Her big raise that came when he got into the Senate. Did he apply to universities as a foreign student? Inquiring minds want to know.

Above all, they have to attack Obama as a radical who doesn't really get America and in fact finds much of our history as distasteful.

Sounds like a worthwhile plan. I'll be pleasantly surprised if Romney has the stones to implement anything like it though.

hughb · Aug 7, 2012

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lol. after four years of constant republican and fox news bashing dont you think that has been played out?
obama has already been president 4 years. hes hardly a radical. could there be a more milk toast leader? he can hardly bring himself to calling out the republicans who are set on destroying him.
i guess in your alternate reality obama is a radical.

Whether or not AAA thinks Obama is a radical or not is irrelevant. What does matter is a superPAC ad playing audio of Jerimiah Wright's "GODDAMN AMERICA" speech with a photo of Obama and Wright arm in arm. Attack ads work, and an ad like that would not only energize the Republican base, it could cost Obama a few of his supporters who are right now on the fence. Another attack ad of Michelle Obama's finally being proud of America is another arrow in the radical quiver the superPACs could shoot as well.

Lucrum · Aug 7, 2012

Quote from Free Thinker:

romney is caught in a lie....

And your messiah Obama lies constantly yet you have no problem with or even comment on it.

Free Thinker · Aug 7, 2012

Quote from Yannis:

You mean, force the man to prove his innocence, instead of the dirty liars Reid, Pelosi and instigator Obama to have to prove Romney's guilt. Is that fair according to our legal/social system and customs? If he did that, wouldn't the liberals call him weak?

man is there something wrong with you upstairs? you can say that with a straight face after what people like you birthers did to obama?

pspr · Aug 7, 2012

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If not the one from Hawaii, at least the real one from Kenya, right?

I honestly think he has one there since Hawaii doesn't require that you be born in Hawaii to get one. His Kenya birth records were sealed by the Kenyan government.

wjk · Aug 7, 2012

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so a person has to be poor to help the poor? want to think about that one a while?

I always hear that the rich get that way on the backs of the poor. I hear that a lot from the left. You want to think about that one for a while?

Most of the politicians on the left are as wealthy as those on the right. Did they get rich on the backs of the poor? I think they should prove otherwise.

Free Thinker · Aug 7, 2012

Quote from hughb:

Whether or not AAA thinks Obama is a radical or not is irrelevant. What does matter is a superPAC ad playing audio of Jerimiah Wright's "GODDAMN AMERICA" speech with a photo of Obama and Wright arm in arm. Attack ads work, and an ad like that would not only energize the Republican base, it could cost Obama a few of his supporters who are right now on the fence. Another attack ad of Michelle Obama's finally being proud of America is another arrow in the radical quiver the superPACs could shoot as well.

you guys have been running those for 4 years straight and obama is still leading. how is that working out for you.
maybe its time to start coming up with solutions to solve problems in america.

Free Thinker · Aug 7, 2012

Quote from wjk:

I always hear that the rich get that way on the backs of the poor. I hear that a lot from the left. You want to think about that one for a while?

Most of the politicians on the left are as wealthy as those on the right. Did they get rich on the backs of the poor? I think they should prove otherwise.

lol. rational thinking is not one of your strong points is it?

AAAintheBeltway · Aug 7, 2012

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you guys have been running those for 4 years straight and obama is still leading. how is that working out for you.
maybe its time to start coming up with solutions to solve problems in america.

No, the whole point is that McCain and the establishment republicans in general seemed to be terrified of calling Obama out. Even now they can't even criticze him for playing golf over 100 times while our economy circles the drain.

I also question that "Obama is leading." Anyone who has studied presidential elections knows he is in deep trouble. His approval rating is <50%, unemployment is at least 8%, he is not pulling in as much money as his opponent, economic sentiment polls are in the toilet, etc. Lots of red flags for an incumbent.

Finally, Romney doesn't have to come up with solutions. In fact, that's exactly the wrong strategy. He should make the election a referendum on Obama, not a choice between competing plans. He just needs for people to be comfortable with the idea of him running things, which they already are.

hughb · Aug 7, 2012

Quote from AAAintheBeltway:

No, the whole point is that McCain and the establishment republicans in general seemed to be terrified of calling Obama out. Even now they can't even criticze him for playing golf over 100 times while our economy circles the drain.

I also question that "Obama is leading." Anyone who has studied presidential elections knows he is in deep trouble. His approval rating is <50%, unemployment is at least 8%, he is not pulling in as much money as his opponent, economic sentiment polls are in the toilet, etc. Lots of red flags for an incumbent.

Finally, Romney doesn't have to come up with solutions. In fact, that's exactly the wrong strategy. He should make the election a referendum on Obama, not a choice between competing plans. He just needs for people to be comfortable with the idea of him running things, which they already are.

This is why I say if Romney attacks, he wins. If he doesn't, he loses. He doesn't even have to endorse the vicious attacks, he can just say it's a super PAC gone wild, (as long as the super PAC knows to keep running the ads).