I don't like Obama in the least; I think Obama is pretentious, saddling the country with obscene debt, etc. etc. youre usual run of the mill anti-obama points .So I'm not slanted against Romney. Plus I'm a moderate, from Massachusetts, and I like to consider all options in political races that I'll be voting in.
Anyhow, a couple years back Scott Brown got elected, and what a lot of people don't realize is that in MA it wasn't necessarily about the specter of Obama's health care, it was largely about Martha Coakley (Brown's opponent) running one of the worst campaigns in recent political memory. She didn't get out, she didn't advertise much, and she and her campaign managed the race like it was in the bag because she was the Democrat. Of course Scott Brown outworked her and ended up pulling out the victory. I thought at the time that I couldnt imagine someone running a worse major political campaign than her.
However I have come to think that Romneys campaign is even worse. Like Kerry a few years ago campaigning as this personalityless anti-Bush, Romney is just going out there and bashing Obama without any actual backbone to his message or campaign. Hes been playing defensive 90% of the time when he has issues that he can use to rally conservatives around him. I dont necessarily blame him for not pandering to the far right; even though they get a ton of the media coverage they are an extremely small portion of the electorate, and pandering to them would lose him the middle. But what baffles me is this constant stream of defensive statements hes been making, his apathetic campaigning, and his refusal to really dig in and start attacking a president that appeared to be quite vulnerable. At this point Im starting to wonder if Romney thinks he cant win, so hes not going to devote as many resources to what he knows will be a losing cause. I'm wondering if this is going to be a bloodbath a la Reagan's re-election, and Im genuinely curious as to what the hell Romney is doing. Youd barely even know there was a presidential race happening in less than 100 days with how apathetic his campaign has been run.
I was looking forward to having someone more moderate to vote for, instead I get the Obama pu-pu platter, or the Romney plain toast platter. Ugh. So any ideas on why hes running his campaign this shittily?
Anyhow, a couple years back Scott Brown got elected, and what a lot of people don't realize is that in MA it wasn't necessarily about the specter of Obama's health care, it was largely about Martha Coakley (Brown's opponent) running one of the worst campaigns in recent political memory. She didn't get out, she didn't advertise much, and she and her campaign managed the race like it was in the bag because she was the Democrat. Of course Scott Brown outworked her and ended up pulling out the victory. I thought at the time that I couldnt imagine someone running a worse major political campaign than her.
However I have come to think that Romneys campaign is even worse. Like Kerry a few years ago campaigning as this personalityless anti-Bush, Romney is just going out there and bashing Obama without any actual backbone to his message or campaign. Hes been playing defensive 90% of the time when he has issues that he can use to rally conservatives around him. I dont necessarily blame him for not pandering to the far right; even though they get a ton of the media coverage they are an extremely small portion of the electorate, and pandering to them would lose him the middle. But what baffles me is this constant stream of defensive statements hes been making, his apathetic campaigning, and his refusal to really dig in and start attacking a president that appeared to be quite vulnerable. At this point Im starting to wonder if Romney thinks he cant win, so hes not going to devote as many resources to what he knows will be a losing cause. I'm wondering if this is going to be a bloodbath a la Reagan's re-election, and Im genuinely curious as to what the hell Romney is doing. Youd barely even know there was a presidential race happening in less than 100 days with how apathetic his campaign has been run.
I was looking forward to having someone more moderate to vote for, instead I get the Obama pu-pu platter, or the Romney plain toast platter. Ugh. So any ideas on why hes running his campaign this shittily?
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