Ringside with Team Romney: Five things to watch for at the debate
During prep sessions in Vermont this past month, Romney has worked tirelessly on the stylistic aspect of his presentation, and Romney’s advisers predict that the former Massachusetts governor will come across as both presidential and empathetic. Rather than fire off brusque retorts, as he often did during primary debates, Romney will take care “to speak in paragraphs about the economy,” a second aide says.
Romney confidants are eager to counteract his reputation for aloofness. They want Romney to forcefully elucidate how the president is disconnected from the unemployed. Romney is inclined to talk about his business experience, sources say, and he may share stories from the trail, especially anecdotes about the recession’s impact on families and small businesses…
Expect Romney to frame the election early on as a choice between “free enterprise” and a “stagnant” government-based economy, which is how Gillespie explained it. Undecided voters, Madden added, want to hear about vision more than politics, and Romney wants to be seen as the more presidential and serious candidate. “What are we going to do to make the case to them?” Madden asked. Romney, he said, is “prepared” to talk about the leaked Mother Jones video and other things, but he wants to fight Obama on the broader issue of the recession, which is where the campaign thinks the president is most vulnerable.
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Dirt McGirt on October 2, 2012 at 8:16 PM
I have it on good authority that Romney will come out dressed as a pink vajajay
faraway on October 2, 2012 at 8:16 PM
Which terms will be this election’s “lockbox” and “strategery”?
aunursa on October 2, 2012 at 8:25 PM
The critics be damned!!! Mitt will do great. Considering he would be following Bush as a Republicn if elected his grammar and diction will sound like sheer poetry in comparison. I think most women were so turned off by Bush that it is still evident in the polling numbers!!
sonnyspats1 on October 2, 2012 at 8:35 PM
Uh what? Women have broken democrat by 10-20pt margins LONG before Bush showed up. And Bush was a hell of a lot studlier than the squidlike Mittens or the pissy Obama.
Daikokuco on October 2, 2012 at 8:58 PM
I expect Romney to be asked to explain the 47 percent statement. He doesnt have to justify himself. There are missing segments to that tape, that I assume will appear as a Saturday Night surprise if Romney says enough to bear trap himself.
Romney doesnt need to offer a satisfactory defense to a moderator’s straw man. He s clever enough to know how to work the 47 into a real topic. The simplest exit is the counter attack … if you think I do not care about any particular Americans you are very mistaken.I care very very much … enough with the politics, lets save the nation…
If the moderator comes back ‘ so you dont care…’ then Romney comes back swinging at the idea he does not love his fellow americans… every man is special important and deserves the best nation for himself and his children etc
I posted this on the Pat Caddell thread:
entagor on October 2, 2012 at 11:53 PM