Or, as GHWB so astutely put it: “You cannot be president of the United States if you don’t have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial and the Civil War and all that stuff. You can’t be. And we are blessed. So don’t feel sorry for — don’t cry for me, Argentina. Message: I care.”
Er, so you’re saying that all countries in the EU have perfomed equally well? You are piling ignorance on top of ignorance. Spain, whose fiscal policy is constrained, has an unemployment rate of 25.1 percent. Germany, which had a stimulus package (and a far milder shock) has an unemployment rate of 6.8%. Which explains why Germans resist loosening monetary policy… which in turn holds the whole Eurozone back. The key problem being a mismatch in labor costs and a repressed inflation rate which makes it hard to re-adjust real relative wages between the 2 countries.
Perhaps you should express your opinions with less confidence. I see a lot of factual errors.
And you see where that got him!
That makes quite a bit more sense than his not knowing roughly what it was.
I’m not sure it takes a brilliant mind to know that number wasn’t worth correcting Letterman on, though. Anyone with the IQ of a toaster would have known to avoid getting real specific on bad economic news when you’re the incumbent.
I’m curious if those pretending to profess that Obama “didn’t know” what the national debt figure was could kindly venture their best guesses as to his answer if he were somehow compelled to take a stab at it? Do you (pretend to) think he would go to his grave protesting, “I have NO IDEAAAAAAAA…”? Or do you think he would guess, “Uh, a nickel?” Or “'Bout million bucks, I think”? Tell me what you honestly (pretend to) think he would have answered, if he’d been compelled to.
The only time you’ll see the Romney campaign fulsomely praise the President? When they’re frantically trying to lower expectations for the debates: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/27/first-on-cnn-romney-memo-seeks-to-lower-debate-expectations/?hpt=hp_t1
I’m not sure how much lower my expectations could be:
"A Romney spokesman today said that Romney will enter the debate and immediately offer President Obama $100,000 to “just go away”. He then plans on answering every question with “on the advice of my lawyer, I decline to answer”.
Most hilarious part of that memo:
"While Governor Romney has the issues and the facts on his side, "
If I’ve seen an actual fact come out of Romney’s campaign, it’s long since died of loneliness.
A landslide victory makes a difference both on the mandate and on the effect it has downticket.
Ryan suffers from not being able to meet the high expectations people had of him. He may be OK in a town hall full of people who already agree with him but he seems to have trouble outside the echo chamber.
I don’t remember it that way. The party was pretty split.
I don’t remember it that way, it added credibility to Bush’s candidacy. He was supposed to be the adult in the room.
He wouldn’t be sprinting to the right if he had better numbers with hispanics.
Yeah I remember this. Tax cuts don’t need to be paid for (because they are intrinsically good) unless they are tax cuts for regular people. I thought it would come up in the campaign for sure.
You sure invading Saudi Arabia would have the desired effect? Because it seems to me that invading Iraq and Libya didn’t have those effects.
Romney needs to crush these debates in order to get back on track. Its not a matter of beating expectations anymore.
An interesting story from Politicothis morning about why Mittens is losing. It’s not biased polls, or his religion, or his running mate, or the lamestream media, or the uptick in the economy…it’s the fact that Romney really, really sucks at running for president.
Yep. I’ve thought this for a while. Romney is a moderately skilled politician at the state level- enough to win some elections (like Governor) but not all (like Senator). At the presidential level, Romney is like a pretty good Div. II Quarterback starting for the first time in the NFL.
“Moderately skilled” is unfair. He convinced Massachusetts voters to elect him governor and nearly got the same group of people to vote him over Ted Kennedy. What he can’t do is convince the Republican base and enough centrist voters to vote for him over a Democrat, and in the current state of the Republican party I think there are few to no politicians who could pull that off. Most of his screwups are the result of trying to please two completely different groups of people at the same time.
Although it’s a bit early for a post-mortem, I think Romney’s mistake was thinking all he had to do to win was state “I am not Barack Obama”. He believed what everybody in the Republican bubble takes as Gospel- that everybody in the US hates Obama and blames him for every national ill. It just isn’t so, he needed to define himself and his policies before Obama did it for him, and he failed to do so.
That’s been a major problem, yes. Of course the positions that Republicans have come to take as gospel are also not as popular as they think and that may be why Romney has been hesitant to get into some of that stuff.
Interesting article. I’m honestly kind of sympathetic to this:
I feel the same way: put me in charge, and I will get shit done. I know I can do the job; hell, if someone walked up to me and told me I was to be President next term, I’d be scared as hell but I think I could do it.
What I can’t do very well is convince others to actually put me in charge. Romney is having that kind of trouble hundredfold.
Campaigning for president is definitely a very different job from actually being president, which is really not a good thing for anybody.
Amen to that.
Ok. By moderately skilled, I meant he was in the top 1/3rd or so of politicians that run for office on the state level. In the absolute sense, of course he’s a good politician- maybe even a great politician. But at the Presidential level, in my opinion, he’s significantly below average.
To be fair, I can think of another Massachusetts governor who ran a dreadful, uninspiring campaign.
That may be true. I’ll point out here that even after his unsuccessful Senate run he strongly encouraged to run for governor in Massachusetts because people felt it would set him up for a future run at the White House and the current Republican governor was pressured not to run for re-election. One of the people doing the encouraging was George W. Bush, which may or may not make Romney look good.