Romney’s slipping into the presidency

[Conservative]

Monday Morning - Peggy Noonan's Blog - WSJ

We begin with the three words everyone writing about the election must say: Nobody knows anything. Everyone’s guessing. I spent Sunday morning in Washington with journalists and political hands, one of whom said she feels it’s Obama, the rest of whom said they don’t know. I think it’s Romney. I think he’s stealing in “like a thief with good tools,” in Walker Percy’s old words. While everyone is looking at the polls and the storm, Romney’s slipping into the presidency. He’s quietly rising, and he’s been rising for a while.

Romney’s crowds are building—28,000 in Morrisville, Pa., last night; 30,000 in West Chester, Ohio, Friday It isn’t only a triumph of advance planning: People came, they got through security and waited for hours in the cold. His rallies look like rallies now, not enactments. In some new way he’s caught his stride. He looks happy and grateful. His closing speech has been positive, future-looking, sweetly patriotic. His closing ads are sharp—the one about what’s going on at the rallies is moving.

And there is Obama, out there seeming tired and wan, showing up through sheer self discipline. A few weeks ago I saw the president and the governor at the Al Smith dinner, and both were beautiful specimens in their white ties and tails, and both worked the dais. But sitting there listening to the jokes and speeches, the archbishop of New York sitting between them, Obama looked like a young challenger—flinty, not so comfortable. He was distracted, and his smiles seemed forced. He looked like a man who’d just seen some bad internal polling. Romney? Expansive, hilarious, self-spoofing, with a few jokes of finely calibrated meanness that were just perfect for the crowd. He looked like a president. He looked like someone who’d just seen good internals.

Of all people, Obama would know if he is in trouble. When it comes to national presidential races, he is a finely tuned political instrument: He read the field perfectly in 2008. He would know if he’s losing now, and it would explain his joylessness on the stump. He is out there doing what he has to to fight the fight. But he’s still trying to fire up the base when he ought to be wooing the center and speaking their calm centrist talk. His crowds haven’t been big. His people have struggled to fill various venues. This must hurt the president after the trememdous, stupendous crowds of ’08. “Voting’s the best revenge”—revenge against who, and for what? This is not a man who feels himself on the verge of a grand victory. His campaign doesn’t seem president-sized. It is small and sad and lost, driven by formidable will and zero joy.

I suspect both Romney and Obama have a sense of what’s coming, and it’s part of why Romney looks so peaceful and Obama so roiled.

 

[konradv]

Slipping into oblivion according to Nate Silver.

 

[decker]

Monday Morning - Peggy Noonan's Blog - WSJ

We begin with the three words everyone writing about the election must say: Nobody knows anything. Everyone’s guessing. I spent Sunday morning in Washington with journalists and political hands, one of whom said she feels it’s Obama, the rest of whom said they don’t know. I think it’s Romney. I think he’s stealing in “like a thief with good tools,” in Walker Percy’s old words. While everyone is looking at the polls and the storm, Romney’s slipping into the presidency. He’s quietly rising, and he’s been rising for a while.

Romney’s crowds are building—28,000 in Morrisville, Pa., last night; 30,000 in West Chester, Ohio, Friday It isn’t only a triumph of advance planning: People came, they got through security and waited for hours in the cold. His rallies look like rallies now, not enactments. In some new way he’s caught his stride. He looks happy and grateful. His closing speech has been positive, future-looking, sweetly patriotic. His closing ads are sharp—the one about what’s going on at the rallies is moving.

Of all people, Obama would know if he is in trouble. When it comes to national presidential races, he is a finely tuned political instrument: He read the field perfectly in 2008. He would know if he’s losing now, and it would explain his joylessness on the stump. He is out there doing what he has to to fight the fight. But he’s still trying to fire up the base when he ought to be wooing the center and speaking their calm centrist talk. His crowds haven’t been big. His people have struggled to fill various venues. This must hurt the president after the trememdous, stupendous crowds of ’08. “Voting’s the best revenge”—revenge against who, and for what? This is not a man who feels himself on the verge of a grand victory. His campaign doesn’t seem president-sized. It is small and sad and lost, driven by formidable will and zero joy.

I suspect both Romney and Obama have a sense of what’s coming, and it’s part of why Romney looks so peaceful and Obama so roiled.

she seem pretty confident. hopefully she wrong

 

[Indofred]

Romney, if he slips into power, will also slip into your arses as he'll seriously fuck you if he gets to live in the white house.
Your jobs will be safe (as long as you are a Chinese citizen in a Chinese factory, in China) and you'll be assured of attending a lot of military funerals as Romney invades Iran to get their WMDs.

 

[decker]

Romney, if he slips into power, will also slip into your arses as he'll seriously fuck you if he gets to live in the white house.
Your jobs will be safe (as long as you are a Chinese citizen in a Chinese factory, in China) and you'll be assured of attending a lot of military funerals as Romney invades Iran to get their WMDs.

well hope does not turn into neo-con like bush invading every country he sees.

 

[TNHarley]

Romney, if he slips into power, will also slip into your arses as he'll seriously fuck you if he gets to live in the white house.
Your jobs will be safe (as long as you are a Chinese citizen in a Chinese factory, in China) and you'll be assured of attending a lot of military funerals as Romney invades Iran to get their WMDs.

Be real dude

 

[Indofred]

Romney, if he slips into power, will also slip into your arses as he'll seriously fuck you if he gets to live in the white house.
Your jobs will be safe (as long as you are a Chinese citizen in a Chinese factory, in China) and you'll be assured of attending a lot of military funerals as Romney invades Iran to get their WMDs.

Be real dude

I am real.
This self proclaimed defender of American's jobs has a really bad record.

Mitt Romney

Romney lies... a lot.

 

[JoeB131]

Not to worry, if he "slips" in after losing, the Secret Service will show him out.

 

[George Costanza]

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