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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have been disappointed in the Republicans this
round. Thought there would be a heck-of-a-fight. Never thought Romney would keep
punching himself in the nose until he was TKO'ed.....He has the same puppet
masters as GWBush. Is he just too rich, arrogant, and recalcitrant to be
managed? Or just too dang dumb to shut up? At any rate, he is alienting the
fiscal conservatives, annoying the religious right (flip-flopping darn Mormon),
alienting the poor, people of color, the middle class, the elderly, the
disabled, veterans, and everyone who cares about equity, the
environment, or world opinion.....Seems to be just about everyone but the
uber-rich!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Good for us "godless liberal elitists". Since we
can't get our own "act" together, it's fabulous that the other "acting troup" is
so underprepared----Romney can't remember his own lines, let alone the party
line. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It's true: the rich ARE
different...................</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Debi R-S</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=ngier006@gmail.com href="mailto:ngier006@gmail.com">Nicholas Gier</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, September 19, 2012 1:27
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Romney's Week from
Hell</DIV>
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<P
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(Huff Post, 9/19)– Republicans could use a bit of advice from an
unlikely source right now: Obama adviser David Plouffe, who in 2010 <A
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href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/22/AR2010012204216.html"
target=_hplink>told Democrats</A> worried about the mid-term elections,
"No bed-wetting."</P>
<P
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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.</P>
<P
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think there is a broad and growing feeling now, among Republicans, that this
thing is slipping out of Romney’s hands," wrote <EM
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Wall Street Journal's</EM> Peggy Noonan, in a "come to Jesus,"
in-your-face<A
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href="http://blogs.wsj.com/peggynoonan/2012/09/18/time-for-an-intervention/?mod=e2tw"
target=_hplink>column posted on Tuesday night</A>.</P>
<P
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is correct.</P>
<P
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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.</P>
<P
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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.</P>
<P
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operative who has worked for the Republican Party on many national
congressional campaigns was blunt about his feelings.</P>
<P
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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."</P>
<P
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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."</P>
<P
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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.</P>
<P
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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.</P>
<P
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Lewis, a conservative blogger for the Daily Caller, <A
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href="https://twitter.com/mattklewis/status/248232799050530816"
target=_hplink>said</A> 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."</P>
<P
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Romney should take some of Peggy Noonan's sincere advice," Lewis wrote on
Twitter.</P>
<P
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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.</P>
<P
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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.</P>
<P
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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.</P>
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