[Vision2020] Romney's Week from Hell

[Tom Hansen]

Well said, Nick.

As Walter "Brownie" McGhee said back in '67, "It all comes down to . . .

. . . 'Love, Truth, and Confidence'"
http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Love_Truth_and_Confidence.mp3
 

Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .

"Moscow Cares"
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Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students.  The college students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."

- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)
 

On Sep 19, 2012, at 11:27 AM, Nicholas Gier <ngier006 at gmail.com> wrote:

> WASHINGTON  (Huff Post, 9/19)– Republicans could use a bit of advice from an unlikely source right now: Obama adviser David Plouffe, who in 2010 told Democrats worried about the mid-term elections, "No bed-wetting."
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> Now it's Republicans who are frightened. Mitt Romney's recent troubles have created a sense of gloom, and a good dose of doom, in the Grand Old Party.
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> "I think there is a broad and growing feeling now, among Republicans, that this thing is slipping out of Romney’s hands," wrote the Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan, in a "come to Jesus," in-your-facecolumn posted on Tuesday night.
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> Noonan is correct.
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> After going from a Democratic convention that gave President Barack Obama a bump, to Romney's bumbling handling of Middle East unrest, to a story about campaign infighting, and now with the release of a secretly taped video of Romney, numerous Republicans said there is now a sense of siege.
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> "There's a feeling of almost that this thing's in free fall," said a Republican consultant with deep experience on Capitol Hill and extensive contacts in the Romney campaign. "When campaigns spend an enormous amount of time trying to figure out why they're broken, I don't know if they ever come back," said this Republican, who like others who spoke about their frustration, did not want to be identified.
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> Another operative who has worked for the Republican Party on many national congressional campaigns was blunt about his feelings.
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> "I'm pretty discouraged. The thing is, [Democrats] ran Jimmy Carter, and we answered with Thomas Dewey," he said, referring to the Republican politician who lost presidential elections in 1944 and 1948. "And it didn't have to be that way."
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> Another operative working on congressional races warned that in key swing states, Romney's support in internal polling is well below that of GOP candidates in districts where the presidential nominee has to get big support to have a chance at winning. "He's just well under all our other guys," this Republican said. "I'm very concerned."
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> A fourth operative with experience in Republican presidential campaigns, who talks to those on the Romney campaign but is not working for them, said, "There is a lot of unease within the campaign itself and within the Republican Party and the conservative movement about the state of the campaign.
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> "I think they feel like they can't really catch a break, that this whole thing's been a much steeper hill than it should have been," he said.
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> Matt Lewis, a conservative blogger for the Daily Caller, said of the sentiments in Noonan's column, in which she pleaded with Republican bosses to intervene in Romney's campaign: "This isn't bed-wetting."
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> "Mitt Romney should take some of Peggy Noonan's sincere advice," Lewis wrote on Twitter.
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> Partly out of necessity, there is a determination among those at Romney headquarters in Boston, as well as among those in the party invested in their cause, that they are going to forge ahead and that there is still a lot of time until Nov. 6.
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> Furthermore, there is a tendency in campaigns that face the scrutiny that only exists in a presidential race to develop a bunker mentality that makes it hard to receive legitimate critiques. Presidential campaigns get so much criticism that a certain amount of immunity is necessary.
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> But if Romney's situation is as dire as some Republicans say, his campaign's resistance to scoldings from the cheap seats could be a self-inflicted wound.
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