…begins.
A lot of people have been wondering when he’s going to start fighting back against the Obama campaign lies and smears that have been going on all summer. He’s apparently been keeping his powder dry, and in the post-debate environment, I think these will have a devastating effect on the undecideds.
Those are great ads. And like the article says…saying that he’s borrowing it and THEN wasting it is very powerful.
Simple and powerful.
Landslide.
I hope you’re right, but I’m not going to get over confident. After all, the American electorate was stupid enough to elect Obama once before.
Ain’t that the truth. Fixing that will be a huge generational job. We need to absolutely and totally destroy the elements in our country that have so miseducated and misinformed so many people.
Andrew Klavan has a very good article out which says that the MSM is creating a fantasy election in the same way they’ve created a fantasy Presidential term (e.g. no real coverage of Fast and Furious or the recent Libya attacks, or the debt/deficit, or unemployment), …..and in the same way they’ve created a fantasy man (Nobel Prize having done nothing, the cool, articulate guy…the genius….).
It’s all of a piece. Fantasy comes crashing down at some point and I’m seeing the start of Glenn R.’s Preference Cascade.
Another devastating ad.
Yes that’s a great ad too.
I never would have seen it, though, had you not posted the link. But that might be because I live in Massachusetts
I hope it’s playing where it counts.
Not being a political campaign strategist, what I’m about to say might be total garbage. But I’ve always wondered:
If your campaign strategy is to destroy the other guy, you want to do that early (though not TOO early) so that the virus has time to set.
On the other hand if you want people to think highly of your skills and experience, you better hold that off until later in the election cycle (but not TOO late) so that people are left with a good feeling about you as they enter the booth.
The timing of those two strategies is, of course, critical. If the other guy is trying to destroy you then you can’t wait too long before you start your feel-good campaign.
It ought to be clear to most level-headed observers that the Romney team is not stupid and that they have a plan. Doesn’t mean the plan guarantees success. But I think a lot of the complaints from the Right about the campaign being clueless are wrong.
And then, of course, the outcome of the election is not decided strictly by either candidate’s plan……
The cheerful thing about the debate performance, to me, is not so much that Mr. Romney had a favorable debate performance.
The optimistic thing is that Mr. Romney and his supporting people are able to decide on a plan and have the work ethic and discipline to act on that plan and bring that plan to action.
The story told over at National Review Online is that ever since the Convention, and in parallel with all of the speech making and campaigning one has to do, Romney and his staff and political allies were doing debate prep.
I mean, wow! Forget about debating points and who is right or wrong about Medicare finances. We need to elect this guy President and then turn him loose on first the Iranians and then some militant factions on the remainder of the Middle East, and then send some gentle suggestions to China and Russia.
Romney does have potential but the mess is bigger than him. I hope he has a big broom.
Ken,
I don’t think the mess is very big at all – conceptually, it’s easily fixed economically.
But NOT easily fixed politically.
I think any one of us could work out a decent strategy to fix the economy if we had uber-power and didn’t have to work with Congress. It’s not that hard. Cut spending drastically, cut taxes, slash regulations, sit back, get popcorn, watch the economy roar to life.
I completely agree.
However, until we can trust this country to not elect someone both unqualified and ideologically so foreign to the American spirit we have a problem.
OTOH, we can fix the economy, but the window is closing.
But really, I do completely agree. The wolves may not eat us, but they’re out there.