What Romney needs to do in the debates

[BBCAmerica]

I wonder if Romney is rich enough to have his own dog handler? Someone to look after the pooch, at a $102,000 per year salary, paid for with other people's money?

Now that's living rich!

Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion on Obama family last year | The Daily Caller

Wonder how that will be..."perceived"?

Total Bullshit .

Link? Or is this the "Because I say so" retort we've all come to know and love?

Very nice kicks

 

[rightwinger]

I wonder if Romney is rich enough to have his own dog handler? Someone to look after the pooch, at a $102,000 per year salary, paid for with other people's money?

Now that's living rich!

Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion on Obama family last year | The Daily Caller

Wonder how that will be..."perceived"?

Total Bullshit .

Link? Or is this the "Because I say so" retort we've all come to know and love?

Your claim

Onus is on you to prove it. Note that your link proved nothing

 

[eflatminor]

Total Bullshit .

Link? Or is this the "Because I say so" retort we've all come to know and love?

Your claim

Onus is on you to prove it. Note that your link proved nothing

The salaries of the President's staff are a matter of public record.

But you keep your fingers in your ears while yelling "La, la, la, la!". We're used to that from you.

 

[rightwinger]

Link? Or is this the "Because I say so" retort we've all come to know and love?

Your claim

Onus is on you to prove it. Note that your link proved nothing

The salaries of the President's staff are a matter of public record.

But you keep your fingers in your ears while yelling "La, la, la, la!". We're used to that from you.

Its called the Executive Branch

To characterize the entire Branch as personal servants is more rightwing bullshit

 

[eflatminor]

Its called the Executive Branch

To characterize the entire Branch as personal servants is more rightwing bullshit

Of course, nobody has done that. But keep making shit up...it's your MO around here.

The guy whose job it is to look after the President's dog? THAT'S a personal servant!

Get over it, your guy is as out of touch as any other central planner wannabe.

 

[AquaAthena]

"What Romney needs to do in the debates"

He needs to convince the undecideds that he is a leader and can create jobs. He needs to come forth forcefully and provide details. And he must do this in the very first debate, in my opinion.

 

[rightwinger]

"What Romney needs to do in the debates"

He needs to convince the undecideds that he is a leader and can create jobs. He needs to come forth forcefully and provide details. And he must do this in the very first debate, in my opinion.

That is the key to the debates

Romney needs to connect with lunchpail Americans and convince them that he has a plan to help them. Supply side platitudes will not convince anyone. He needs to provide specifics on how he will help working Americans

Romney has an image of Daddy Warbucks looking out for his billionaire buddies. Unless he can connect to average Americans, he can't win

 

[Sallow]

Could you please point to President Obama's SPECIFIC ideas of how he will help working Americans...and why he hasn't done so in his first term?

Bet it has something to do with spending even more money we don't have...

1. Jobs bill.
2. Filibusters.

Next?

Right, spending even more money we don't have. Brilliant.

Moving goalposts?

And why do we have 300 billion dollars to spend on the Joint Strike Fighter..a plane that never materialized..but somehow cant for the life of us..spend money on bridges that are about fall?

 

[candycorn]

It is evident that the upcoming debates may be Romneys last chance to take the presidency. With the recent Obama surge in the polls, Romney needs to make the debates a gamechanger

It has been done in the past. Ronald Reagan came off as a likeable old man who the public could relate to on simple terms. Bill Clinton showed his spark in connecting with the voting public. For both, the debates were a gamechanger

Romney lacks the personality of either. The public is not going to warm up to him based on his inherent charm. Romney needs a quick knockout in the debates. He has to make his points in the first hour of the first debate. That is when the public makes its decision

Romney was perceived as a mega millionaire who is only interested in helping the rich and doesn't care about the struggles of working America. His 47% comments affirmed that. If Romney cannot connect with working Americans, he will lose.

His only chance is to throw the one percent under the bus and appeal directly to working America. He needs to propose specific...yes, SPECIFIC ideas of how he will help working Americans

Otherwise, his cadidacy is doomed

You're right on strategy; wrong on tactics.

The way to beat Obama is to come at him from the left actually. Appealing to the 99% won't work in the way Romney needs it to work. He has to appeal to fairness which is something that is too late to do for him.

If you're alive and you were in the vicinity of a TV set, you know what happened Monday night in Seattle. Green Bay was robbed by a ruled touchdown. The call was so unfair that the NFL settled a labor dispute with the actual referees days after. Americans realize that Romney was born on 3rd base and has lived for 50+ years thinking he hit a triple. They understand that some get a head start and others don't. That there is an advantage given to some that other do not get. Conscientious and socially aware people in this situation don't flaunt such advantages. Romney has so he won't be able to capitalize on the issue at hand

Fairness.

Americans respond to unfairness in drastic numbers. If Romney can some how talk about how unfair the situation Obama let stand is, he can make up some ground. We gave the banks and other institutions millions upon millions of dollars because they were too big to fail. Those same institutions are still too big to fail and nothing has been done. One of them, Bank of America, is planning to cut the jobs of 16,000 people--16,000 of the same people who paid the taxes to keep them afloat. By no measure can this be portrayed as "fair"

The question then quickly becomes what Romney would do to create a fair situation and he's a poor prophet for such a directive true but it is just about the only thing that could save the Governor's campaign outside of Obama doing something patently stupid--that isn't going to happen. We all know that.

 

[AmyNation]

He needs to go bold, to purpose something that will have people talking and help him snag the independents.

 

[rightwinger]

It is evident that the upcoming debates may be Romneys last chance to take the presidency. With the recent Obama surge in the polls, Romney needs to make the debates a gamechanger

It has been done in the past. Ronald Reagan came off as a likeable old man who the public could relate to on simple terms. Bill Clinton showed his spark in connecting with the voting public. For both, the debates were a gamechanger

Romney lacks the personality of either. The public is not going to warm up to him based on his inherent charm. Romney needs a quick knockout in the debates. He has to make his points in the first hour of the first debate. That is when the public makes its decision

Romney was perceived as a mega millionaire who is only interested in helping the rich and doesn't care about the struggles of working America. His 47% comments affirmed that. If Romney cannot connect with working Americans, he will lose.

His only chance is to throw the one percent under the bus and appeal directly to working America. He needs to propose specific...yes, SPECIFIC ideas of how he will help working Americans

Otherwise, his cadidacy is doomed

You're right on strategy; wrong on tactics.

The way to beat Obama is to come at him from the left actually. Appealing to the 99% won't work in the way Romney needs it to work. He has to appeal to fairness which is something that is too late to do for him.

If you're alive and you were in the vicinity of a TV set, you know what happened Monday night in Seattle. Green Bay was robbed by a ruled touchdown. The call was so unfair that the NFL settled a labor dispute with the actual referees days after. Americans realize that Romney was born on 3rd base and has lived for 50+ years thinking he hit a triple. They understand that some get a head start and others don't. That there is an advantage given to some that other do not get. Conscientious and socially aware people in this situation don't flaunt such advantages. Romney has so he won't be able to capitalize on the issue at hand

Fairness.

Americans respond to unfairness in drastic numbers. If Romney can some how talk about how unfair the situation Obama let stand is, he can make up some ground. We gave the banks and other institutions millions upon millions of dollars because they were too big to fail. Those same institutions are still too big to fail and nothing has been done. One of them, Bank of America, is planning to cut the jobs of 16,000 people--16,000 of the same people who paid the taxes to keep them afloat. By no measure can this be portrayed as "fair"

The question then quickly becomes what Romney would do to create a fair situation and he's a poor prophet for such a directive true but it is just about the only thing that could save the Governor's campaign outside of Obama doing something patently stupid--that isn't going to happen. We all know that.

Romney talking about fairness?

After ridiculing 47% of Americans?

 

[candycorn]

It is evident that the upcoming debates may be Romneys last chance to take the presidency. With the recent Obama surge in the polls, Romney needs to make the debates a gamechanger

It has been done in the past. Ronald Reagan came off as a likeable old man who the public could relate to on simple terms. Bill Clinton showed his spark in connecting with the voting public. For both, the debates were a gamechanger

Romney lacks the personality of either. The public is not going to warm up to him based on his inherent charm. Romney needs a quick knockout in the debates. He has to make his points in the first hour of the first debate. That is when the public makes its decision

Romney was perceived as a mega millionaire who is only interested in helping the rich and doesn't care about the struggles of working America. His 47% comments affirmed that. If Romney cannot connect with working Americans, he will lose.

His only chance is to throw the one percent under the bus and appeal directly to working America. He needs to propose specific...yes, SPECIFIC ideas of how he will help working Americans

Otherwise, his cadidacy is doomed

You're right on strategy; wrong on tactics.

The way to beat Obama is to come at him from the left actually. Appealing to the 99% won't work in the way Romney needs it to work. He has to appeal to fairness which is something that is too late to do for him.

If you're alive and you were in the vicinity of a TV set, you know what happened Monday night in Seattle. Green Bay was robbed by a ruled touchdown. The call was so unfair that the NFL settled a labor dispute with the actual referees days after. Americans realize that Romney was born on 3rd base and has lived for 50+ years thinking he hit a triple. They understand that some get a head start and others don't. That there is an advantage given to some that other do not get. Conscientious and socially aware people in this situation don't flaunt such advantages. Romney has so he won't be able to capitalize on the issue at hand

Fairness.

Americans respond to unfairness in drastic numbers. If Romney can some how talk about how unfair the situation Obama let stand is, he can make up some ground. We gave the banks and other institutions millions upon millions of dollars because they were too big to fail. Those same institutions are still too big to fail and nothing has been done. One of them, Bank of America, is planning to cut the jobs of 16,000 people--16,000 of the same people who paid the taxes to keep them afloat. By no measure can this be portrayed as "fair"

The question then quickly becomes what Romney would do to create a fair situation and he's a poor prophet for such a directive true but it is just about the only thing that could save the Governor's campaign outside of Obama doing something patently stupid--that isn't going to happen. We all know that.

Romney talking about fairness?

After ridiculing 47% of Americans?

Yeah, thats what I'm saying...it's going to ring hollow but it's basically the only thing that can turn the tide in his favor other than some sort of gaffe by the Obama campaign--and I mean a Palin type gaffe. We both know that isn't going to happen.

 

[Lakhota]

What Romney needs to do in the debates

His only hope is to embrace Bender.

 

[uscitizen]

The only way i can think of that Romney could make major points right now would be to promise to give back his salary and benefits as president if elected.
He sure does not need the money.

 

[AmyNation]

The only way i can think of that Romney could make major points right now would be to promise to give back his salary and benefits as president if elected.
He sure does not need the money.

Hmmm, that would be interesting.

 

[rightwinger]

The only way i can think of that Romney could make major points right now would be to promise to give back his salary and benefits as president if elected.
He sure does not need the money.

That would come off as insulting. $400 K is pocket change to Mitt

 

[EriktheRed]

What Romney needs to do in the debates

Hope President Obama keels over with a heart attack?

 

[AmyNation]

The only way i can think of that Romney could make major points right now would be to promise to give back his salary and benefits as president if elected.
He sure does not need the money.

That would come off as insulting. $400 K is pocket change to Mitt

Yeah maybe, it would probably harken back to the 10 thousand dollar bet gaffe.


However, it's not as if people don't know how rich Mitt is. Maybe the best thing he can do is stop trying to downplay his success and instead use it as a tool to win.

 

[candycorn]

The only way i can think of that Romney could make major points right now would be to promise to give back his salary and benefits as president if elected.
He sure does not need the money.

Wouldn't hurt.

 

[uscitizen]

The only way i can think of that Romney could make major points right now would be to promise to give back his salary and benefits as president if elected.
He sure does not need the money.

That would come off as insulting. $400 K is pocket change to Mitt

but the retirement and other bennies? And 1.6 mill for 4 years of "work"?

but it would be a smart political move for him.