They Dems will be left with a handful of options of how to go after Romney, none of which will be worth a damn.
TheGoblinKing on January 17, 2008 at 3:43 PM

This of course assumes that he wins the nomination.

Right now Huckabee is stealing his Washington outsider/change message, but Huck has no business experience so basically it comes down to him being from Arkansas.

If change is impossible, at least he can fight for your right to have change. He can do this because the book of Brian is a core part of the mormon religion.

Mitt is our best shot at victory and immigration reform.

http://www.culturism.us

This type of attack is so boring anymore. It’s juvenile and trite.

Are you so ugly yourself that you have to project this shallow view of attractive people?

And wasn’t that Teddy Kennedy by his side at the signing? Why, yes.

All this election needs is a dozen vikings and Graham Chapman and it would be a Monty Python Sketch.

Keljeck on January 17, 2008 at 1:05 PM

He11, we could get by with 6 vikings and some flying sheep.

TheGoblinKing on January 17, 2008 at 3:43 PM

Yeah, probably so.

And you’ve summed up pretty well why the guy is a manager and not a leader, why what he says is born of expediency and not of purpose, and why–while I suppose I’ll vote for him if he’s the nominee–I’m just never going to have any good feelings about this guy.

As I AM MrFixit, I have NOT authorized Mr. Romney to use my moniker or likess for his campaign….. especially since I prefer Fred! I demand a retraction…. (or maybe some more traction… for Fred!) =)

Entelechy on January 17, 2008 at 1:55 PM

Bless you dear Lady E !

In the business/marketing world, it’s called ‘positioning’. And it hit me while reading this that that is not only exactly what he’d do seeing as where he comes from, it’s EXACTLY what he’s doing. He’s positioning his ‘brand’ to challenge theirs on a point by point basis. It’s like them saying ‘what you need is a sports car!’ and him having already said and laid the groundwork to continue with ‘I’m a sports car too, lets race’.

And the genius of it all is we all know liberal policy is usually emotionally based and fiscally harmful, and they’re walking right into having to put their costly inefficient ‘fixes’ up against Romneys tight, efficient policies…and if it comes to that they CAN NOT WIN.

So in my mind, they won’t let it come to that. They’ll be reduced to saying ‘Romney is just continuing the policies of Bush blah blah blah’ and that is a great softball to hit out of the park, especially when Romneys policies likely WILL be different than Bush’s.

The Dems will be reduced to attacking Romney himself and refusing to substantively debate policy…and that won’t look good when he’s sitting there saying “Fine, you say you’re for change, so do I. Let’s compare for everyone to see”. It’s a very nasty and very hard to avoid gauntlet they’ll have to run to get out of having to put their crack-induced spendaholic feel-good crap under the microscope.

And if they DO go after Romney personally instead of engaging ideas, that can’t work EITHER because they guy is so damn clean it ain’t funny. If KENNEDY and his people couldn’t come up with one skeleton to bring out of his closet, there probably ain’t any skeletons in there. They can’t even pursue the dumb/evil/womanizer/gravitas/insert-random-slur angle because the guy personally is about as perfect as you can get, so is his family.

Sorry to be so verbose, I just think it’s fantastic what he’s doing, frickin razor sharp. They Dems will be left with a handful of options of how to go after Romney, none of which will be worth a damn.

Is all hope lost?
pullingmyhairout on January 17, 2008 at 1:11 PM

You tell me. Nice screen cap there.

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Here’s an idea:

Shall the Mittheads take the show from here? YES!!

The Fredheads have been dominating for way too long.

Warning! YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED!!

TheGoblinKing on January 17, 2008 at 1:29 PM

Interesting analysis!

Typhoon on January 17, 2008 at 2:03 PM

Okay fine. We can stipulate that Rudy did a miraculous job of turning around NYC.

That does not detract from Mitt’s brilliantly successful efforts in starting and turning around businesses, with rescuing the Olympics, and as with getting Massachusetts out of the fiscal hole it was in prior to his being elected Governor.

TheGoblinKing on January 17, 2008 at 1:29 PM

Slamming critique there! Bryan has the tie-in right: it’s all about the resume. But I’m a bit biased – I saw what he did first hand for the SLOC as I worked on the project personally setting up the networks and computers that ran traffic control. It was corrupt as the day is long, he fixed that and didn’t left them with a few dimes.

The difference is that Mitt has ACTUALLY made positive changes in the real world. What other candidate that has ever used that term had such success in his life prior to being POTUS? The bottom line is that Mitt is credible with the change message and no one else is.

Just not so.

The most complete turnaround I’ve seen in my lifetime is the turnaround Rudy accomplished as mayor of NYC.

Now you may not like Rudy for this or that reason, but that he did it is simply a fact.

And he did it using conservative principles to get it done. At least in the main. And, he did it not in the private sector where competence is expected, but in the public sector in New York, where it was unheard of.

The Olympics isn’t in the same league at all.

You know, all this “change” business reminds me of the Dawn of the Dead zombie spoof South Park did last year about homeless people.

There needs to be a mantra of all the candidates saying “change” spliced next to clips of the “zombies” saying “CHANNNNGE!!! Got any change, sir?”

Hawkins1701 on January 17, 2008 at 1:56 PM

Whoops: replace the word “mantra” with “montage”.

OhEssYouCowboys on January 17, 2008 at 1:43 PM

Agreed! Term limits on Congress would be a great start, followed up by term limits on Supreme Court justices. I sincerely doubt the founders envisioned picking a justice in his 50’s with the expectation that he would live another 30 years on the court.

There needs to be a mantra of all the candidates saying “change” spliced next to clips of the “zombies” saying “CHANNNNGE!!! Got any change, sir?”

thejackal, read latter part of the “marriage” item in headlines.

Change I’m in favor of …..

Removing every sitting congressman and senator, democrat and republican alike, and start anew.

With term limits.

fogw on January 17, 2008 at 1:38 PM

I want fogw for president!!!

Since his kind of change is not possible, at least not soon enough, I suggest that the entire nation go on a couch because its diagnosis is psychosis. The couch seems to be its only prescription, on both isles.

A few examples:

- Obama thinks he’s Reagan. RR says “Kid, grow up, work harder, actually do something, and earn my reputation and my legacy”.
- The Clintons think they are ‘Change’, until they need experience, then they are ‘Experience’, depending on the second, and the need.
- Romney can’t get away from being Clintonesque.
- Huckabee thinks he’s Jesus, on a bigger than himself mission.
- Fred can’t grasp what is there waiting for him to get a grip of.
- Edwards is just pretty.
- McCain is just himself, psychotic enough right there.
- Rudy…what happened to him, anyway?
- Paul, Kusinich, Bloomberg…narcissists, more/or less, as some of the others.