September 24, 2012

Shhhh....Mitt Romney Is An Awesome Guy But Don't Tell Anyone
— DrewM

Let's just kept this between us ok? Whatever you do, don't tell any swing voters about this. And for God's sake, don't let the women folk know about this stuff.

[Former Romney deputy chief of staff Renee] Fry said, "From the personal side, after government, in 2008, I had a massive (noncancerous) brain tumor and nearly died. I can tell you one of the first phone calls I got was from Governor Romney."

"I was a little medicated at the time and I was telling him, it just wasn't fair. In his very reassuring voice, he said, 'Whatever I can do to help, I will be there for you,' " she said.

Lindstrom, who had young children when she served with Romney, said the governor told her: "Family comes first."

"To have a boss say, 'We'll have mistakes but they'll be our mistakes,' was very empowering," she said.

Herzfelder said: "I see this man up there that I know has this great strength, this great warmth. His actions really speak to the kind of man he is."

Gillespie recalled how Romney called her every night, for 10 straight nights, when her father was in a coma after heart surgery.

And she told one more story. The day she moved to Massachusetts, the moving company didn't get all her furniture inside the house. The governor called and asked her how things were going. She said furniture was still on the driveway.

"I'll get the boys," Romney told her.

It's great that these women are doing interviews and all but I have one question....WHERE THE HELL ARE THE DAMN ADS?

I keep hearing about all this money and the big blitz. What the hell are we waiting for?

Modesty is a commendable trait...most of the time. You don't have to be Obama and insert your imagined awesomeness into every sentence but it seems there are a few stops along the way between Mitt's let's not talk about this and Obama's narcissism.

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1 First.

Posted by: grease monkey at September 24, 2012 08:40 AM (VSWPU)

2 1) they are running a poor campaign and need to get their heads out of their asses? OR 2) the internal polls are so bad for obama and so good for Romney, that Romney knows exactly what he is doing.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 24, 2012 08:41 AM (oSFWF)

3 I have been writing the Romney team EVERY DAY asking  the same dman question. I live in NC and all I see are Romney ads that mimic a bowl of oatmeal cooling on my grandma's formica table top...

Posted by: Janetoo at September 24, 2012 08:41 AM (PROOX)

4 It's great that these women are doing interviews and all but I have one question....WHERE THE HELL ARE THE DAMN ADS? I keep hearing about all this money and the big blitz. What the hell are we waiting for? __________________ Ohio Morons--answer please!

Posted by: tasker at September 24, 2012 08:41 AM (r2PLg)

5 Ohio morons what are you seeing? Colorado, NV, VA, Iowa, NH report! Report!!

Posted by: tasker at September 24, 2012 08:42 AM (r2PLg)

6 Barky still sucks!

Posted by: Killerdog at September 24, 2012 08:42 AM (rmcnG)

7 "I'll get the boys," Romney told her. "I'll get Michelle," Obama would have said. No, on second thought, I can't imagine him offering to help anyone.

Posted by: t-bird at September 24, 2012 08:43 AM (FcR7P)

8 I live in NC and all I see are Romney ads that mimic a bowl of oatmeal cooling on my grandma's formica table top... I live in NC as well and I'm seeing a decent amount of Romney ads. I will say there's an Obama ad on that nearly made me drop an F bomb in front of my mother in which Obama appears to be making the claim that things are better than they were 4 years ago. All the rage. All of it.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD is on Team Alice at September 24, 2012 08:44 AM (VtjlW)

9 3 I have been writing the Romney team EVERY DAY asking the same dman question. I live in NC and all I see are Romney ads that mimic a bowl of oatmeal cooling on my grandma's formica table top... Posted by: Janetoo at September 24, 2012 12:41 PM (PROOX) ______________ Supposedly according to ad tracker widget there are campaign ads in Charlotte about the week of Sept. 10-16--except you really cannot tell which campaign is spending....

Posted by: tasker at September 24, 2012 08:44 AM (r2PLg)

10 Would also be nice if they touted Governor Romney had the most women in cabinet positions of any Governor in the country.. every single year he was in office.

Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at September 24, 2012 08:44 AM (DGIjM)

11 2) the internal polls are so bad for obama and so good for Romney, that Romney knows exactly what he is doing.

Based on lifelong track records, I know where I'd put my money.

Posted by: pep at September 24, 2012 08:44 AM (YXmuI)

12

You know what annoys me?   That this pandering is even necessary.   I hate that there are stupid women out there who need to be told, "See?  Romney's not a bad guy.  He's not a big, angry misogynist armed with a     bloody    wire coat hanger    who wipes his ass with the 19th amendment after shitting on     a copy of     Roe vs. Wade."      


WAKE UP, women!   Quit acting like spoiled little princesses in your ivory tower      who must be coddled and catered to    like Daisy-fucking-Buchanan!     Actually start thinking for yourselves for a change.     Some of us have already done it, and guess what?   I'm still alive!  

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/b][/i][/u] at September 24, 2012 08:45 AM (4df7R)

13 I live in NC as well and I'm seeing a decent amount of Romney ads. I will say there's an Obama ad on that nearly made me drop an F bomb in front of my mother in which Obama appears to be making the claim that things are better than they were 4 years ago. All the rage. All of it. Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD is on Team Alice at September 24, 2012 12:44 PM (VtjlW) ___________________ Thanks. Shit so NC is still in play.

Posted by: tasker at September 24, 2012 08:45 AM (r2PLg)

14 I live in NH and its mostly Obama ads with a few anti-Obama super PAC ads. I don't think Romney has the money. I think those gaudy numbers we were seeing were summarized totals for him and the RNC and not available for ads like we thought.

Posted by: Tbag at September 24, 2012 08:45 AM (UjSt7)

15 From the personal side, after government, in 2008, I had a massive (noncancerous) brain tumor and nearly died. You sure didn't help our health care costs...

Posted by: Barqi O'bama at September 24, 2012 08:45 AM (FcR7P)

16 The DC market, which includes No. VA is being bombed with both JEF and Mittens ads. I am sure that they are being targeted to VA because MD is not in play.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at September 24, 2012 08:45 AM (jucos)

17 I live in NH and its mostly Obama ads with a few anti-Obama super PAC ads. ____________ Damn it! I'm off to go look to see if the flipping ad tracker has updated and give some of the deets of where the money is going when I get back.

Posted by: tasker at September 24, 2012 08:47 AM (r2PLg)

18 The ads are coming!

Like an unrelenting torrent of hammer fists they will bludgeon and pound on Obama.

Or at least I hope they do.


Posted by: General Woundwort at September 24, 2012 08:47 AM (06lNq)

19 I dont see any ads in Indiana but tomorrow I am going to Ohio for Romney/Ryan rally.. I cant wait to see the crowd size.

Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at September 24, 2012 08:47 AM (DGIjM)

20 Aaannnddd . . . . Drew deletes Dave's post with authoritah!

Posted by: Beavis and Butt-Head at September 24, 2012 08:48 AM (gA69l)

21 You have to have some TV, but I think I'd rather pay people to knock on doors and man call centers then piss most of it away on TV.  Limited radio is pretty good.

Posted by: lowandslow at September 24, 2012 08:48 AM (GZitp)

22 I'm in NH, too, and I've seen an uptick in pro-Romney ads, but still a steady slew of Obama ads.  I had to mute the commercials three or four times yesterday while I was watching the Dallas/Tampa Bay game because that JEF kept hawking himself on my TV screen like a cheap tranny hooker.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/b][/i][/u] at September 24, 2012 08:49 AM (4df7R)

23

And something on the world spinning out of control while the White House perfects furiously spinning outrageous talking points.  Clearly spiking the football on Bin Laden was premature.  Suddenly we've got al Qaeda countries and numerous branches suspected of killing Americans.  But the Obamoids just can't stop mentioning the video.  It's too easy and neat and they fundamentally don't care about sacrificing some people and our most fundamental freedom to a howling mob. 

 

Worst of all, that only makes it worse and increases the demands of the Islamists, clerics, and jihadis.  To advertise like the State Department did in Pakistan could be viewed, by someone with knowledge of the region, religion, and culture, as an attempt to fan the flames through provocatively displayed weakness.  Just the exact wrong thing to do.  At what point can we ascribe malice when it's the same exact mistake over and over?   

Posted by: Beagle at September 24, 2012 08:49 AM (sOtz/)

24 The poll thread has been "disappeared"

I think there's a UN conspiracy behind this!

Posted by: Dale Gribble at September 24, 2012 08:49 AM (wwsoB)

25 7 "I'll get the boys," Romney told her.

"I'll get Michelle," Obama would have said. No, on second thought, I can't imagine him offering to help anyone.

Posted by: t-bird at September 24, 2012 12:43 PM (FcR7P)


"The furniture is still on the driveway."


Obama:  "Damn....that's a shame.  Well, I gotta go, bye."

Posted by: Tami at September 24, 2012 08:50 AM (X6akg)

26 Colorado, NV, VA, Iowa, NH report! Report!!


Mitt is kicking ass in the NH Battle of the Yard Signs.


I just emailed a fellow Masshole who has been co-ordinating the cross border invasion in one of the NH field offices.

Posted by: fluffy, masshole at September 24, 2012 08:50 AM (z9HTb)

27 Yep, where are the ads?

I hate to say it, but this is the emo stuff the libs eat up.

Women will cry hearing these stories.  Real tears.

Posted by: hammer time at September 24, 2012 08:50 AM (LpQbZ)

28 24 The poll thread has been "disappeared" I think there's a UN conspiracy behind this! Posted by: Dale Gribble ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Open up your eye's, man!

Posted by: Countrysquire at September 24, 2012 08:50 AM (QB3JR)

29 I was in Indiana for three weeks and I didn't see a single ad.

I have family in Colorado, NJ and NY and they haven't seen any ads either.

Where are the ads???

Posted by: General Woundwort at September 24, 2012 08:50 AM (06lNq)

30 @20 It disintegwated!

Posted by: Elmer Fudd at September 24, 2012 08:50 AM (mw0FO)

31 I live in Ohio. Starting Saturday, I noticed an obvious increase in Romney ads on TV. I don't remember which stations I saw them on, but there were more Romney ads over the weekend than there had been the previous week.

Posted by: JenWestin at September 24, 2012 08:51 AM (Du+x/)

32 Meanwhile back at the ranch, the plebs are restless ...

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% of Likely U.S. Voters feel that the recent embassy protests largely have been planned in advance. Just 23% think they were spontaneous reactions to the anti-Islamic video. Nineteen percent (19%) are not sure.

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at September 24, 2012 08:51 AM (e8kgV)

33 I live in Chicago and we're.....screwed

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 24, 2012 08:51 AM (1Jaio)

34 We admire Drew's penchant for "disappearing" news detrimental to Our Leader

Posted by: The MBM at September 24, 2012 08:51 AM (wwsoB)

35 I think there's a UN conspiracy behind this!

Posted by: Dale Gribble at September 24, 2012 12:49 PM (wwsoB)



It's the joooos.  Why wasn't Romney screaming about this three weeks ago!?

Posted by: Reality Checkers at September 24, 2012 08:51 AM (/YJYi)

36 Wait til the news sinks in that, in this nuclear age, Romney nearly blew up the world with his premature remarks about the Libyan embassy.

Posted by: Zachary at September 24, 2012 08:52 AM (bN5ZU)

37 29 I was in Indiana for three weeks and I didn't see a single ad. I have family in Colorado, NJ and NY and they haven't seen any ads either. Where are the ads??? Posted by: General Woundwort at September 24, 2012 12:50 PM (06lNq) Romney doesnt need to spend a dime in Indiana. And NY and NJ are a waste of money. But.. I am surprised at Colorado... are you sure there are no ads in Colorado?

Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at September 24, 2012 08:52 AM (DGIjM)

38 He gets knocked down! But he gets up again! No, you're never going to keep him down!

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD is on Team Alice at September 24, 2012 08:53 AM (VtjlW)

39 Well, I have Republicans calling me every day, thanking me for waking up the Romney campaign...

Posted by: Piggy Noone at September 24, 2012 08:54 AM (WGmy2)

40 There was a poll thread?  Damn, I miss the good stuff.

It's annoying if you are living in an area getting bombarded by Obama ads (like me), but it appears that Romney is running ads where he needs them.  States that are comfortably in his column, he doesn't waste money there.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at September 24, 2012 08:54 AM (o7GQh)

41 It's sorta funny. Mitt Romney is taking his role as 'generic Republican' very literally. I guess Mitt thinks his best chances of winning is by simply being Not Obama.

Posted by: soothsayer at September 24, 2012 08:54 AM (jUytm)

42 I'm in Virginia Beach. Ads are about 50-50. They play all the time. Romneys China ad is the one I see the most.

Posted by: VBJonny at September 24, 2012 08:54 AM (tS2LO)

43 I guess Dave questioned Dear Leader . . .

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 24, 2012 08:54 AM (kFnmp)

44 35 We admire Drew's penchant for "disappearing" news detrimental to Our Leader

Posted by: The MBM at September 24, 2012 12:51 PM

I really have to admire a man like that

Posted by: Josef Stalin at September 24, 2012 08:54 AM (wwsoB)

45 I live in Chicago and we're.....screwed

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 24, 2012 12:51 PM (1Jaio)

 

 

 

I feel your pain!

Posted by: runningrn who lives in Seattle at September 24, 2012 08:55 AM (WGmy2)

46 But.. I am surprised at Colorado... are you sure there are no ads in Colorado?

  I'm a Californian so I'm blessed with no ads.. That being said, how many of you watch regular alphabet stations? I never do. Only discovery, Nat. Geo etc.I did read that Romney had a crowd of over 7000 people for a rally in Co. yesterday so he's drawing crowds...

Posted by: the pink not panicking about one poll formerly known as the hobbit Donna at September 24, 2012 08:55 AM (W2Z3C)

47 http://preview.tinyurl.com/9c7bwka

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at September 24, 2012 08:55 AM (bxiXv)

48 I live in a place called Clemenzaville USA. And I see nothing but trouble ahead and trouble behind. And you JQ Public, thought a year ago we would not get fooled again..Here we go with the biggest  repeat con "energy independence"and the second story from Fairy Tales of Biblical Proportions , balanced budget.

Posted by: Clemenza at September 24, 2012 08:55 AM (Q8Pu5)

49 It hasn't updated still doing the week of - Sept 10-16. 19.6 million spent that week . Breakdown per city as best as I can tell: Orlando Florida: 1 million. Charlotte NC:1 million. Washington DC: 2.1 million Denver, CO : 1.5 million Las Vegas NV: 1.2 million Cleveland OH: 1.2 million Columbus OH: 757,900 Des Moines, Iowa: 283,960 Cedar Rapids, Iowa: 231,440 Davenport IA-IL : 395,270 Madison, WI: 150,620 Milwaukee, WI : 296,690

Posted by: tasker at September 24, 2012 08:56 AM (r2PLg)

50 Mitt = tortoise
TFG = hare

Posted by: Joe Mama at September 24, 2012 08:56 AM (4vR2P)

51 WAKE UP, women! Quit acting like spoiled little princesses Now, much as I hate to cross a fellow 'ette, but I do not plan on giving up being treated like the royalty that I am. Of course, it would be nice if someone else besides me (and Mommy) did the spoiling.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD is on Team Alice at September 24, 2012 08:56 AM (VtjlW)

52

@37  Zachary

Indeed.  It's like the modern version of the Molotov-Ribbentrop agreement, except just a press conference of a candidate who was noting the president and embassy were clueless, cavalier about defending our most cherished freedoms, and not paying attention.

 

I wonder how Romney will escalate the war in Syria over the coming weeks?    

Posted by: Beagle at September 24, 2012 08:56 AM (sOtz/)

53 @38

They have said they haven't seen any ads maybe it's the part of Colorado (Denver) I don't know.

I think NJ is potentially winnable. Maybe a single commercial buy here or there?

But aren't they sitting on a mountain of money?

Posted by: General Woundwort at September 24, 2012 08:56 AM (06lNq)

54 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: steevy at September 24, 2012 08:56 AM (6o4Fb)

55 Plus women can rest assure that Mitt Romney will sleep in the wet spot and hold you all night long. So, there's that.

Posted by: joncelli at September 24, 2012 08:56 AM (RD7QR)

56 President Barack Obama told a Wisconsin rally, “I don’t want to spend all our time blaming somebody else – blaming unions or blaming immigrants or blaming gay people or blaming some other group for our trouble.” [...] No right, you blame President Bush right? That's how you roll

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 24, 2012 08:57 AM (oSFWF)

57 This Ricochet post says that ads have a short-lived effect, so you want to save your big ad buys for the last couple of weeks.

http://ricochet.com/main-feed/Obama-is-Wasting-His-Campaign-Funds-and-Romney-Too

Posted by: Waterhouse at September 24, 2012 08:57 AM (Xhd59)

58 @47...I did read that Romney had a crowd of over 7000 people for a rally in Co. yesterday so he's drawing crowds... Posted by: the pink not panicking about one poll formerly known as the hobbit Donna at September 24, 2012 12:55 PM (W2Z3C) here is the picture.... it was in Denver. http://tinyurl.com/8txe6cw

Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at September 24, 2012 08:57 AM (DGIjM)

59

Mitt is kicking ass in the NH Battle of the Yard Signs.


 

This is 100% accurate.   TONS of Romney and Romney/Ryan signs; far fewer Obama or Obama/Biden signs,   even in lefty strongholds.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/b][/i][/u] at September 24, 2012 08:57 AM (4df7R)

60 I'm Bill Kurtis. September 24, 2012. A post appears on a popular, smart military blog, and then just as quickly as it appeared, it vanishes... without a trace. Was foul play involved? Some say the government... covered it up. Join us on Investigative Reports for the case of The Ace In The Memory Hole. I'm Bill Kurtis.

Posted by: I'm Bill Kurtis at September 24, 2012 08:57 AM (mw0FO)

61 Now that a 3rd of households have a DVR. Are TV ads as effective as they once were?

Posted by: Buzzsaw at September 24, 2012 08:57 AM (tf9Ne)

62 Can't stand SCFoaMF, so...

Top Ten Reasons To Dislike Mitt Romney:
 
1. Drop-dead, collar-ad handsome with gracious, statesmanlike aura. Looks like every central casting's #1 choice for Commander-in-Chief.
 
2. Been married to ONE woman his entire life, and has been faithful to her, including through her bouts with breast cancer and MS.
 
3. No scandals or skeletons in his closet. (How boring is that?)
 
4. Can't speak in a fake, southern, "black preacher voice" when necessary.
 
5. Highly intelligent. Graduated cum laude from both Harvard   Law   School  and  Harvard  Business  School ...and by the way, his academic records are NOT sealed.
 
6. Doesn't smoke or drink alcohol, and has never done drugs, not even in the counter-culture age when he went to college. Too square for today's America ?
 
7. Represents an America  of "yesterday", where people believed in God, went to Church, didn't screw around, worked hard, and became a SUCCESS!
 
8. Has a family of five great sons....and none of them have police records or are in drug rehab. But of course, they were raised by a stay-at-home mom, and that "choice" deserves  America 's scorn.
 
9. Oh yes.....he's a MORMON. We need to be very afraid of that very strange religion that teaches its members to be clean-living, patriotic, fiscally conservative, charitable, self-reliant, and honest.
 
10. And one more point.....pundits say because of his wealth, he can't relate to ordinary Americans. I guess that's because he made that money HIMSELF.....as opposed to marrying it or inheriting it from Dad.
 
Apparently, he didn't understand that actually working at a job and earning your own money made you un-relatable to Americans.
 
My goodness, it's a bizzaro world, isn't it?

Posted by: sickinmass at September 24, 2012 08:58 AM (CFi9O)

63 Yep, haven't seen a single ad in Texas that wasn't nationally run. One of the (million) things that I love about Texas is that it's simple to tell party affiliation on the campaign signs posted everywhere. 'Republican' is mentioned once or more on every GOP candidate's signs. 'Democrat' is NEVER listed on their opponent's signs.

Posted by: Countrysquire at September 24, 2012 08:59 AM (QB3JR)

64 31 I live in Ohio. Starting Saturday, I noticed an obvious increase in Romney ads on TV. I don't remember which stations I saw them on, but there were more Romney ads over the weekend than there had been the previous week. Posted by: JenWestin at September 24, 2012 12:51 PM (Du+x/) _______________ Thanks. That also coincides with the bus tour by the Romney campaign in Ohio--I think that is where they are this week then they head t Denver. Can't remember the exact dates. Really don't know where Obama, or Biden are appearing.

Posted by: tasker at September 24, 2012 08:59 AM (r2PLg)

65 So, is the poll thread going back up or...how does this work?

Posted by: Rich at September 24, 2012 08:59 AM (TOgQZ)

66 @50

Are those ad buys?

Why the fuck are they spending almost twice the amount of money in DC, D FUCKING C as any other place?

Are you shitting me???

Posted by: General Woundwort at September 24, 2012 09:00 AM (06lNq)

67

@57

Unions aren't the problem.  Unfunded union pensions negotiated between Democrats and those who put them in office, absent any taxpayer representation, are the problem.  

Posted by: Beagle at September 24, 2012 09:00 AM (sOtz/)

68 I live in N.H., a supposedly swing state, and haven't seen one Romney ad. What the hell is going on?

Posted by: GuyfromNH at September 24, 2012 09:00 AM (YOe1f)

69 Really don't know where Obama,   is appearing.

  The View...

Posted by: the pink not panicking about one poll formerly known as the hobbit Donna at September 24, 2012 09:00 AM (W2Z3C)

70 "The furniture's in the driveway."

Since it's not Ikea, you didn't build that.

Posted by: Kcarab Hussein Amabo at September 24, 2012 09:00 AM (B/yDO)

71 Now, much as I hate to cross a fellow 'ette, but I do not plan on giving up being treated like the royalty that I am. Of course, it would be nice if someone else besides me (and Mommy) did the spoiling.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD is on Team Alice at September 24, 2012 12:56 PM (VtjlW)

 

Well, you're DIFFERENT, AtC,  may light shine upon you and your glossy   stompy boots forevermore.  *bow*

 

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/b][/i][/u] at September 24, 2012 09:01 AM (4df7R)

72 Join us on Investigative Reports for the case of The Ace In The Memory Hole. Chemtrails, man. Chemtrails.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD is on Team Alice at September 24, 2012 09:01 AM (VtjlW)

73 66 So, is the poll thread going back up or...how does this work? Posted by: Rich ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Oh, it'll be posted again. Likely twice...

Posted by: Countrysquire at September 24, 2012 09:01 AM (QB3JR)

74 DC = Virginia

Posted by: tofer732 at September 24, 2012 09:01 AM (2zM0P)

75 We have three or four TFG-tards on our block.
No Romney signs whatsoever.

The rest are libertarian or conservative, with a sniper's mentality: best to remain unseen by the "opposition".

Posted by: Joe Mama at September 24, 2012 09:01 AM (4vR2P)

76 I know Cindy Gillespie.  She worked with my husband for a Georgia Congressman (Democrat) in the 1980s.  She headed government affairs for the Atlanta Olympic committee in 1996 and then got the same gig with the Salt Lake City committee, before Romney arrived.  She liked working for Romney so much that she followed him to Massachusetts when he was elected Governor.  Pretty amazing for a Southern Baptist Democrat to end up working for a Massachusetts Mormon Republican!  It speaks volumes of Romney's integrity, leadership, and treatment of employees. 

Posted by: rockmom at September 24, 2012 09:01 AM (aBlZ1)

77 70 Really don't know where Obama, is appearing. The View... Posted by: the pink not panicking about one poll formerly known as the hobbit Donna at September 24, 2012 01:00 PM (W2Z3C) __________________ Oh, gawd....yelch!

Posted by: tasker at September 24, 2012 09:01 AM (r2PLg)

78 Yup.  Live in the media market for a swing state and all I see are Obama ads (very regularly) and a few pro-Romney Super-Pac ads.

I have no idea what they're waiting for, since we heard all about the money they were raising for the general campaign.  Maybe they blew it all on hats or something. 


Posted by: Coldstream at September 24, 2012 09:02 AM (qrCKL)

79 I would imagine the really big ad buys will be in the last month or even less.Didn't we go over the fact that many people don't pay attention until the debates start?(if than)

Posted by: steevy at September 24, 2012 09:02 AM (6o4Fb)

80 Ohio morons what are you seeing? Posted by: tasker at September 24, 2012 12:42 PM (r2PLg) I'm not the best person to answer the question because I don't watch TV but I'm not hearing shit from Romney on the radio and not seeing signage anywhere. I'm in Central Ohio and I figured I would have heard or seen SOMETHING by now.

Posted by: ErikW at September 24, 2012 09:02 AM (WK5bC)

81 64 Yep, haven't seen a single ad in Texas that wasn't nationally run. One of the (million) things that I love about Texas is that it's simple to tell party affiliation on the campaign signs posted everywhere. 'Republican' is mentioned once or more on every GOP candidate's signs. 'Democrat' is NEVER listed on their opponent's signs. Posted by: Countrysquire at September 24, 2012 12:59 PM (QB3JR) Same here. Democrats dont say they are democrats. Not listed anywhere... not on signs, websites or ads. Always the same... " I will work with both parties.. I am so... moderately moderate...."

Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at September 24, 2012 09:02 AM (DGIjM)

82 Energy independence(or nearly so) IS an obtainable goal.

Posted by: steevy at September 24, 2012 09:02 AM (6o4Fb)

83 I live in Denver, and I'm not seeing any ads.  Seen a few road signs on I-25 but thats it.

Posted by: beerlologist at September 24, 2012 09:03 AM (CdhVC)

84

Most of what I watch anymore is DVRed episodes of "World's Dumbest..." on TruTV, and    Obama is running ads there with feverish abandon.   The Clinton ad was popular for a good month;   now    it's diversifying a bit.    He's definitely going after the Honey Boo Boo     crowd.      

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/b][/i][/u] at September 24, 2012 09:03 AM (4df7R)

85 My goodness, it's a bizzaro world, isn't it? Posted by: sickinmass at September 24, 2012 12:58 PM (CFi9O) We really need to crowdsource our own comedy show - web-based, because even Fox can only manage Red Eye. We couldn't get on the networks for the same reason that PBS gets raging hate mail if a 95% pro-AGW show interviews a skeptic - leftists scream like we'd insulted Mohammed if they see an alternate point of view.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at September 24, 2012 09:03 AM (bxiXv)

86 Chemtrails, man. Chemtrails.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD is on Team Alice at September 24, 2012 01:01 PM (VtjlW)


Vinegar spray is your friend.


http://tinyurl.com/95uau2f

Posted by: Luap Nor at September 24, 2012 09:03 AM (/YJYi)

87 Here in NH, party affiliation is NEVER mentioned on signs.   It used to be, but not anymore.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/b][/i][/u] at September 24, 2012 09:04 AM (4df7R)

88 63 . . .  My goodness, it's a bizzaro world, isn't it?
*
*
Goodbye!

We have been in Bizarro World for long time now.

Me must go now.  Hello!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 24, 2012 09:04 AM (exvgC)

89 I'm seeing Oblama ads on TV down here. Yes, mute button is getting a workout.  I am not seeing the proliferation of Oblama bumper stickers and yard signs though.  Seeing Mitt bumper stickers.  Not seeing many yard signs at all actually.  I'm in central Florida.

Posted by: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain at September 24, 2012 09:04 AM (bj+Nc)

90 This is just in – NC poll by Civitas: O 49 – R 45. http://www.nccivitas.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/September-Crosstabs-2.pdf

Posted by: Romneylosesbig at September 24, 2012 09:05 AM (ltZ2R)

91 Television ads are kind of 20th century, Drew. Do they work? Yes, but they are expensive and not as effective as personal, one-on-one contact. When you go to your GOP headquarters, you will see people making telephone calls. They are using poll-tested and personally tailored messages to each individual gettable voters, based on deep data mining. Tremendously cost-effective and tremendously effective. Ad buys serve to lend legitimacy to a campaign. They are the digital equivalent of people standing at the corner holding candidate signs. They do not turn out the vote. In other words, don't worry about it!

Posted by: Truman North socks Ezra Klein at September 24, 2012 09:05 AM (7ubsC)

92 I'm not the best person to answer the question because I don't watch TV but I'm not hearing shit from Romney on the radio and not seeing signage anywhere. I'm in Central Ohio and I figured I would have heard or seen SOMETHING by now. Posted by: ErikW at September 24, 2012 01:02 PM (WK5bC) _____________________ Thanks. Hopefully--soon--they ramp up. Who is your Representative?

Posted by: tasker at September 24, 2012 09:05 AM (r2PLg)

93 This is the sort of thing the PACs need to take up. Rodney's team wants to focus on the economy, fine - a PAC needs to focus on women and minority issues, another on Romney leadership, another on Obama failed leadership. It's what their money is for.

Posted by: Sweetbriar at September 24, 2012 09:05 AM (U0KZ+)

94 I've been hearing the "NH is NOT better off after four years of Obama" ad on the radio a lot. 

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/b][/i][/u] at September 24, 2012 09:07 AM (4df7R)

95 Ugh sock

Posted by: Truman North, iPhone battery low at September 24, 2012 09:08 AM (7ubsC)

96 51Mitt = tortoise
TFG = hare whatever tortoises eat.

Posted by: Joe Mama at September 24, 2012 12:56 PM (4vR2P)

Posted by: Cicero Kid at September 24, 2012 09:08 AM (UzWTF)

97 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable tyrant.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at September 24, 2012 09:08 AM (8y9MW)

98 92 This is just in – NC poll by Civitas: O 49 – R 45.

http://www.nccivitas.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/September-Crosstabs-2.pdf

Posted by: Romneylosesbig at September 24, 2012 01:05 PM (ltZ2R)



And they only had to make it D+12 to get SCOAMF up by 4!  Is that the best you got?

Posted by: Adam at September 24, 2012 09:08 AM (/YJYi)

99 Ads are nice, ground games are better. I know where I would be spending my cash if I wanted to actually win not just put out assloads of ads. RNC Touts Ground Game http://tinyurl.com/9etucy6 The RNC and Romney team have already made 2 million more voter contacts than McCain did during the entire election. They can talk volunteers all they want but the truth is building a ground game from scratch to take on The One requires a ton of cash.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 24, 2012 09:09 AM (TMB3S)

100 98 - that would be vegetables, so very appropriate.

Posted by: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain at September 24, 2012 09:09 AM (bj+Nc)

101 Who is your Representative? Posted by: tasker at September 24, 2012 01:05 PM (r2PLg) Pat Tiberi, 12th District. He has Governor John Kasich's old office.

Posted by: ErikW at September 24, 2012 09:09 AM (WK5bC)

102 Did anyone watch Mitt on 60 Minutes? I read a couple of positive tweets, but most of the blogs seem to be about how badly Obama did without saying anything about Mitt.

Posted by: Y-not at September 24, 2012 09:09 AM (5H6zj)

103 Well, you're DIFFERENT, AtC, I am a Special Snowflake, it's true.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD is on Team Alice at September 24, 2012 09:10 AM (VtjlW)

104 A Mormon (and many other denominations) is taught that to brag, or even talk much about your good deeds means that 'you have your reward' (see N.T).  I get the feeling that his father, worried about raising a rich boy with character, hammered pretty hard on that principle.  I was raised the same way, and I know that if I saw a TV ad with someone telling of my good deeds, I would squirm with discomfort and even shame. I think quite a few morons would feel the same. It's too bad, because we need people to know who he really is.  But if he did it differently he wouldn't be who he is.  Or something really deep like that.

Posted by: Pentangle at September 24, 2012 09:10 AM (9c1dz)

105 FWIW, the 12th, which is mostly NE Central Ohio is VERY conservative.

Posted by: ErikW at September 24, 2012 09:10 AM (WK5bC)

106 whatever tortoises eat.

Apparently plants.

This is cute as hell.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Feeding_Tortoise.jpg

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ had holes punched in her head this morning at September 24, 2012 09:10 AM (/kI1Q)

107 There are a lot of ads in Iowa, both Romney and Obama. Obama is running more. That coincides with his multiple visits to a state with 6 EV.

I still can't figure out why he comes here, instead of Michigan, when there's a lot more votes there.

Posted by: Jay in Ames at September 24, 2012 09:11 AM (i2Lsf)

108 The hell with "Where are the Ads at"
I have been trying to get 12 Romney lawn signs for neighbors here in the Peoples Republic of Baltimore.
And to be honest with you, I am having a little bit of a hard time coming up with "Only $15.00 each, with free shipping".
So, after three e-mail and phone efforts to try to persuade the Romney campaign of the benefit of getting free advertisements along all four perimeters of TWO major polling places, I get nothing but crickets.

 

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 24, 2012 09:11 AM (6f6mJ)

109 106

I watched it and thought Mitt was really good.

Surprisingly, Scott Pelley did a good job. Tough, but fair, and allowed Romney to talk in-depth about economics.

Obama was the SCOAMF you'd expect without the TOTUS

Posted by: The Q at September 24, 2012 09:11 AM (B/yDO)

110 Daily Caller, September 24: President Barack Obama has quietly cancelled a politically risky plan to meet this week with Egypt’s new Islamist president. The plan was cancelled amid a wave of riots and attacks in Arab countries that have damaged Obama’s campaign-trail claim to foreign policy competence. In 2011, Obama had “bilateral” meetings with 13 Arab and world leaders during the annual U.S. summit. This year, amid the foreign policy meltdown, his schedule shows no so-called bilats” with any foreign leaders. The cancelled visit with Morsi was mentioned in a Sept. 23 New York Times article about Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, an Islamist who now governs the Arab region’s most important country. Despite critical 2011 support from Obama for the revolt that removed Hosni Mubarak, Morsi is now demanding restrictions on U.S. free speech that is critical of Islam, demanding more U.S. support for the anti-Israeli Islamist governments in Gaza and the West Bank, and more financial aid to help the cash-strapped Egyptian government buy food and fuel for its population of 82 million people....

Posted by: steevy at September 24, 2012 09:12 AM (6o4Fb)

111 Some form of early voting has started in 32 states today.... You cannot hold your fire until October.....

Posted by: izoneguy at September 24, 2012 09:12 AM (oKH8p)

112 Did DiT's thread with the Rasmussen poll disappear so the head eeyore could say "he's LOOOOSINGGG, he needs to listen to MEEEEE"

Posted by: kbdabear at September 24, 2012 09:12 AM (wwsoB)

113 A Few Good Mensch

Posted by: Dr. Varno at September 24, 2012 09:12 AM (SPYN3)

114 I think he's keeping this on the DL for two reasons.

The first, as Drew alludes, is modesty. For "mainstream" Christians (so I'll assume it's the same with Mormons) being a good person is not something to be bragged about.  You're just supposed to do it and expect no recognition.

The second, though, is that Mitt Romney wants this election to be about The Economy, not with which guy you'd rather have a beer.  So rather than bringing this stuff up, he keeps hammering on The Economy.

In a way, folks like Drew (yes, Drew, you're one of them) are just looking for something to gripe about.  If he were talking about this stuff, they'd be saying, "We don't care how good a guy he is, we want to know how he'll fix the economy!"

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at September 24, 2012 09:12 AM (8y9MW)

115 Just was talking to an engineer who seems to be an intelligent guy (based on his engineering work). I had an old florescent bulb on my desk and the conversation went to what a pain it it to get rid of them. At one point he inferred that the Tea Party is the problem. Head Desk

What kinda retard makes that connection to the Tea Party?

Posted by: Buzzsaw at September 24, 2012 09:12 AM (tf9Ne)

116 Pat Tiberi, 12th District. He has Governor John Kasich's old office. Posted by: ErikW at September 24, 2012 01:09 PM (WK5bC) ___________________ Thanks. In 2000 I lived in the FL panhandle--the national campaign came to give speeches but there was absolutely nothing on the ground for signage along the roads, etc. I always felt that was on Joe Scarborough--his office could have done something--and we all know how close it was...

Posted by: tasker at September 24, 2012 09:13 AM (r2PLg)

117 I don't know how powerful an ad it would be to have any candidate touted as being a good friend to his friends and former staffers. It's not that it isn't admirable, but I would hope someone's friends would say they are loyal, helpful, etc. As loathsome as I find Obama, I have no doubt he could roll out a similar set of stories about how wonderful he is.

Posted by: Y-not at September 24, 2012 09:13 AM (5H6zj)

118

The ads are all over here in Central Florida Drew...it is funny all I hear from every whiny comservative is where are the ads...ARE YOU GIVING MONEY??? or just sitting at your little computer doing nothing but running your mouth???  You know what I have seen several ads from Romney here and you know what all the ads that conservatives want would cost billion or more..so few people have any idea how expensive it is to run ads.  Romney has new ad out today over College Kids...where is the comment Drew?  He has another one out today about China?  where is the comment??  In places like Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin..China is a big deal.  Have any of you seen the new Ad from Romney with College Kids and those that voted for Obama in 2008??  It is a great ad..

 

Yet as usual here comes the usual conservative questions...WHERE ARE THE DAMN ADS???  Well send some money Drew and help out instead of complaining.  I am sick and tired of this non-stop assault on Mitt no matter what he does!! God put up or shut up!!  So many people here do not give ONE DIME in money yet have an unlimited idea on what others should do with theirs...Sounds like Conservative Liberalism to me!

 

If you live in a swing state you will see ads and in certain areas...if you do not you will not!! And just because you do not see them does not mean they are not running!! Here in Central Florida the ads are non-stop with many from Romney and Superpacs....

 

 

Posted by: bluerose75 at September 24, 2012 09:13 AM (HDcKc)

119 Where are all the ads? I don't know. Maybe someone on the campaign has read their Clancy. Hyperwar. I hope so. I also hope that Mitt truly is all we hope he is. But I gotta tell ya, it's truly hard for me to trust any of these folks. I've seen too many "conservatives" do nothing but "compromise" us further to the left over the course of my life.

Posted by: teej says go K-State at September 24, 2012 09:14 AM (HEWhR)

120 ...there's an Obama ad on that nearly made me drop an F bomb in front of my mother in which Obama appears to be making the claim that things are better than they were 4 years ago. All the rage. All of it. Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD is on Team Alice at September 24, 2012 12:44 PM

Saw the same Osama Obama ad here in MA (which probably means NH and VT got it as well). "Obama created eleventy bazillion jobs!!11!! while Rmoney is planning to cut taxes on his obscenely rich pals."

The only Romney ads I've seen are from PACs, and they are weak sauce indeed. They claim Choom Boy "isn't telling the truth" about the eleventy bazillion jobs. Pathetic.

I hope the dumb shits running Romney's campaign wake up and realize the voters they are trying to reach aren't surfing YooToob. It'd damn near October, and the time for laying a few rounds across the Traitor-in-Chief's bow is getting short.

Who the hell is running this campaign? Poppin' Fresh?

Posted by: MrScribbler at September 24, 2012 09:14 AM (ZgX/g)

121 Thanks. In 2000 I lived in the FL panhandle--the national campaign came to give speeches but there was absolutely nothing on the ground for signage along the roads, etc.

I always felt that was on Joe Scarborough--his office could have done something--and we all know how close it was... Posted by: tasker at September 24, 2012 01:13 PM

Joe "Real Man of Conservatism" Scarborough covertly helping the leftists? Usually it's overt

Posted by: kbdabear at September 24, 2012 09:15 AM (wwsoB)

122 I've been hearing the "NH is NOT better off after four years of Obama" ad on the radio a lot.


Heard it twice, broadcast from a Boston station, WRKO. They have a pretty clear signal north of Concord, at least on I-93.

Posted by: fluffy at September 24, 2012 09:16 AM (z9HTb)

123 There was a steady stream of ads playing in VA yesterday. I would say maybe 5 to 1 for Romney.

Posted by: RWC at September 24, 2012 09:16 AM (fWAjv)

124

People may doubt your words, but they will not doubt your actions.

 

How it can be this close between an admitted failure, and an obvious successful go-getter is something I cannot figure out.

 

I think, at this point, Romney should use real terminology to tell the truth.

 

Contrast success to failure.

 

Romney is successful in his endeavors. Obama is not.

Posted by: Invictus at September 24, 2012 09:16 AM (OQpzc)

125

>>I have been trying to get 12 Romney lawn signs for neighbors here in the Peoples Republic of Baltimore.
And to be honest with you, I am having a little bit of a hard time coming up with "Only $15.00 each, with free shipping".
So, after three e-mail and phone efforts to try to persuade the Romney campaign of the benefit of getting free advertisements along all four perimeters of TWO major polling places, I get nothing but crickets.

 

Damn.

 

I got a Jindal for Gov. lawn sign last year by answering my phone and saying "okay". Couple days later someone in a truck put it on my lawn.

 

Posted by: Mama AJ at September 24, 2012 09:16 AM (SUKHu)

126 I had an old florescent bulb on my desk and the conversation went to what a pain it it to get rid of them.

Throw them in the yards of houses with Obama signs.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ had holes punched in her head this morning at September 24, 2012 09:16 AM (/kI1Q)

127 Did anyone watch Mitt on 60 Minutes?

I don't watch 60 Minutes.  It would mess up their rationing of one minute per viewer.

That said, I read the Romney transcript.  It seems like he did fairly well.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at September 24, 2012 09:16 AM (8y9MW)

128 Israeli envoy to the United Nations walked out of AhmadinejadÂ’s address to UN General Assembly this morning. Ron Prosor, top legal aide, left the hall without hearing Iranian leaderÂ’s address. The US officials stayed put. They wouldnÂ’t walk out even after Ahmadinejad denied IsraelÂ’s existence.

Posted by: steevy at September 24, 2012 09:16 AM (6o4Fb)

129 Civitas, a supposed Republican polling group, puts out a North Carolina poll showing Obama leading by 4, with a Dem +12 sample.  2008 was D+11, and 2004 was R+1. 

Posted by: tofer732 at September 24, 2012 09:16 AM (2zM0P)

130 I personally like Mitt Romney. But even if I DIDN'T, he'd STILLl get my vote by default seeing how Obama is from Kenya.

Posted by: Mannard at September 24, 2012 09:17 AM (B7KrU)

131 In regards to signs in Ohio, in my area an ordinance prevents political signs from being displayed more than 30 days prior to an election. The first week of October is when you'll see the signs popping up around here. FWIW, I went to a Romney victory center last week and they were out of signs. I was told they can't keep up with demand. I went back today and got the next-to-last sign they had.

Posted by: JenWestin at September 24, 2012 09:17 AM (Du+x/)

132 Yeah, well, Obama's brother George who lives in a box couldn't get $1000 from Obama, the most compassionate man in the word, in order to get his child, Obama's niece, an operation.  And nobody knows that either.  So, it all equals out.

Posted by: WalrusRex at September 24, 2012 09:17 AM (Hx5uv)

133 [Former Romney deputy chief of staff Renee] Fry said, "From the personal side, after government, in 2008, I had a massive (noncancerous) brain tumor and nearly died. I can tell you one of the first phone calls I got was from Governor Romney."

Imagine if the call came from Jugears.  He would have suggested that she make his campaign a beneficiary under her will.

Posted by: Cicero at September 24, 2012 09:18 AM (QKKT0)

134 >>>This is just in

Trolls think we won't actually check the poll for oversampling.


It such a bitter perfume, the quiet stink of desperation. Like myrrh used in a tomb, an odor of despair. You trolls have been so good keeping every thread stoked with that incense these last few days. So desperately lashing to and fro. It has been a lot of fun to watch.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular! With Full Stomping Power! at September 24, 2012 09:18 AM (0q2P7)

135 Aside from that, I have been thinking lately about the influence (or lack thereof) of hearing personal stories about candidates from people I know or slightly know. For example, Truman North clearly loathes Bielat. I'm sure he has his reasons, but it's so personal sounding at this point that I just discount it. (Nothing against TN, that's just where I'm at about it.) A couple of weeks ago I had a several hour long conversation with a trial lawyer who is pretty rich and powerful and hangs with lots of famous people and pols. He related various stories about people, including McCain whom he hated on a personal level. And he wound up voting for Obama. So here's a smart guy, a guy who is going to vote for Romney this time, who let his hatred for McCain steer him into a dumb vote last time. I've had several people from around here who know Romney and his family well give me testimonials about him. None of those testimonials change my opinion about him -- they also don't change how I plan to vote (for Romney, obviously). So I guess to me I just don't see the value in cutting an ad about this sort of thing. I mean, I think it had its place in the convention and can help motivate the base to feel better about voting for him (and maybe working for him and giving to his campaign), but I just wonder who votes based on this sort of thing.

Posted by: Y-not at September 24, 2012 09:18 AM (5H6zj)

136 yeah, an ad paid for by romney stating "I AM A NICE GUY" will win over the hearts and minds of the american public once and for all.

Posted by: Jon at September 24, 2012 09:18 AM (t1NLo)

137 I'll just give my anecdotal sign evidence stuff. Live in an apartment complex directly next to a very wealthy, jewish area in Bexley, Ohio (basically part of Columbus). From what I can tell in this, let's say 10-15 block area, there are two signs. One for Romney, and one for Obama and that's it.

Posted by: Rich at September 24, 2012 09:19 AM (TOgQZ)

138 Are those ad buys?

Why the fuck are they spending almost twice the amount of money in DC, D FUCKING C as any other place?

Are you shitting me???


NoVa. Chill.

Posted by: fluffy at September 24, 2012 09:19 AM (z9HTb)

139 I also thought Romney did well in his 60 Minutes interview. He didn't allow Pelley to frame questions, whereas Obama got away with not answering questions to Kroft. And they were softballs, compared to the questions Romney got.

He did quite well with the taxes questions, and it being already taxed once.

Posted by: Jay in Ames at September 24, 2012 09:20 AM (i2Lsf)

140 "The furniture is still on the driveway."
Obama: "Damn....that's a shame. Well, I gotta go, bye."

Posted by: Tami at September 24, 2012 12:50 PM (X6akg)


We'll discuss at the next ACORN meeting.

Posted by: I Won at September 24, 2012 09:20 AM (PcoXF)

141

Romney has no charisma. That is not likely to change.

 

He is, however, entirely awesome at succeeding at turning shit into gold.

 

Sell that.

Posted by: Invictus at September 24, 2012 09:20 AM (OQpzc)

142 Heh, I go off the study the crosstabs on the Rasmussen poll and now the thread is gone.

Posted by: Gordon undead Ramsay at September 24, 2012 09:20 AM (9HhTH)

143

Civitas, a supposed Republican polling group, puts out a North Carolina poll showing Obama leading by 4, with a Dem +12 sample. 2008 was D+11, and 2004 was R+1.

 

---------

 

I've got it. They are trying to fool Democrats into believing North Carolina is a toss-up state so they can waste some money there!!

Posted by: Rich at September 24, 2012 09:21 AM (TOgQZ)

144 I have a small peeni!  But I still like to rub it all over my Obama HOPE poster!

Posted by: Jon at September 24, 2012 09:21 AM (/YJYi)

145 "I was a little medicated at the time and I was telling him, it just wasn't fair. In his very reassuring voice, he said, 'Whatever I can do to help, I will be there for you,' " she said.

Lindstrom, who had young children when she served with Romney, said the governor told her: "Family comes first."

"To have a boss say, 'We'll have mistakes but they'll be our mistakes,' was very empowering," she said.

Can you imagine Obama doing this?

Clinton (either one?)

Kerry? ( * snicker * )

Didn't think so.

Is there anyone at the national level in the Democratic Party who isn't a narcissistic twat?

Posted by: OregonMuse at September 24, 2012 09:22 AM (xm1A1)

146

 

Adverising is worthless. I've been posting here about how wonderful and intelligent I am, and yet you all still think I'm a lying, trolling douchebag.

 

Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Posted by: Jon at September 24, 2012 09:22 AM (ggRof)

147 Re lawn signs. I remember how frustrating it was in 08 and 04 to get signs. Around here, quite a few folks have homemade signs up. Most of them are posted inside picture windows so they don't melt in the rain.

Posted by: Y-not at September 24, 2012 09:23 AM (5H6zj)

148 Here is Colorado, I'm seeing a Baravalanch of Obama ads with the occasional Romney ad thrown in.

Posted by: WalrusRex at September 24, 2012 09:23 AM (Hx5uv)

149 Tim Kaine is a republican I swear!

Posted by: Jon at September 24, 2012 09:23 AM (/YJYi)

150 What a sneaky bastard Romney is! He obviously planned his behavior toward this woman so that several years later he could leak the story through one of his proxy Jews in the media.

Posted by: Brian (Dildo) Ross at September 24, 2012 09:24 AM (2b4yb)

151 @146 I'm Bill Kurtis. Our team is still investigating this. Evidence points to a shot from the grassy knoll. I'm Bill Kurtis.

Posted by: I'm Bill Kurtis at September 24, 2012 09:24 AM (mw0FO)

152 Boy, Piggy Noonan is really becoming desperate for attention - or is it just plane ole self-aggrandizing? Um, no, Peggy, shut up.

Posted by: attention whore at September 24, 2012 09:24 AM (LpQbZ)

153

I don't watch prime time TV so can't help much. During the Broncos game yesterday there were some Romney ads, but it seemed like there were many more Obama ads. Though it might just seem that way  because Obama ads are incredibly annoying to an American. 

Posted by: Meremortal at September 24, 2012 09:24 AM (1Y+hH)

154

At Buzzfeed, via Gabe on Twitter:

 

>>As the State Department's story about what happened in Benghazi crumbles, Clinton's personal spokesperson, Philippe Reines, loses his temper. “Have a good day. And by good day I mean Fuck Off.”

 

Directed at BuzzFeed's reporter.

Posted by: Mama AJ at September 24, 2012 09:24 AM (SUKHu)

155 Two trolls one thread?

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!

THIS IS ALL YOU'VE GOT LEFT!!!!

POSTING HERE!??!

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular! With Full Stomping Power! at September 24, 2012 09:24 AM (0q2P7)

156 @Y-not 121

" As loathsome as I find Obama, I have no doubt he could roll out a similar set of stories about how wonderful he is."

Note sure I actually agree there.  The press greeted O as the second coming, they are begging for stories as banal as, 'I lifted the end of this coffee table so the hostess could retrieve her earring...'.  We'd be hearing about his heavy lifting as though it required personal sacrifice and an extension of time, money and energy.  But there's nothing.  Just vague sort of, 'He seems like a good father..." stuff.

Posted by: Mama Beanerschnitzel at September 24, 2012 09:24 AM (8d63Z)

157 I would like to see some Romney ads on TNT, USA, and ESPN -- especially the first two. I have not seen any. He needs to be implanted in the minds of older folks who watch Law & Order reruns.

Posted by: Y-not at September 24, 2012 09:24 AM (5H6zj)

158 "Is there anyone at the national level in the Democratic Party who isn't a narcissistic twat?"

John McCain

Posted by: The Q at September 24, 2012 09:24 AM (B/yDO)

159 My hope is that Bambi's campaign is shooting its wad early while Mitt's campaign is thinking about baseball. So to speak. You know what I mean.

Posted by: joncelli at September 24, 2012 09:24 AM (RD7QR)

160 You guys are slightly missing the tactic with the ads... 1) Obama is mismanaging his cash and blowing it too fast, Romney is going at an even keel of 1m per day. 2) Romneys internals likely show that Obama is wrecking himself with the recent foreign policy disaster. It's important to stop and realize how the last 10 days of newspaper headlines have gone. Each morning a bunch of swing voters (who statistically subscribe to the daily newspaper, but at a rate of 4-1 actively distrust the media) have now heard about Obama mismanagement of this thing. No spin in the world convinces people (4-1 again) that this is about an Internet video. 3) the debates haven't yet taken place.

Posted by: Hopeless at September 24, 2012 09:24 AM (cRzgp)

161 I have to go with "Romney's strategy is to keep it close until the end of the Third Quarter, and then go full out."  The Fourth Quarter begins with the first debate.  Internet, cable TV and social media have telescoped (compressed?) The campaign to the point where the September of 2008 is the October of 2012. 

Romney knows what he is doing.  He really does.  Except, maybe the part about zero alcohol.  I'm supposed to watch Obama and Biden debate fully sober?  Come. On.  Everyone has their breaking point...

Posted by: @ParisParamus at September 24, 2012 09:25 AM (ewNNb)

162 After I donated another $100 to Romney yesterday, I emailed his campaign and asked them why they don't air ads in Iowa.  No response yet.  I haven't seen a Romney ad in my part of Iowa since the RNC.

Romney is getting hammered by Obama here.

Posted by: Marmo at September 24, 2012 09:25 AM (QW+AD)

163 Has everyone noticed that there are a plethora of similar stories re: Mitt's compassionate/private actions and nobody can dig up a single instance where Obama was less than a dick?

Posted by: fartist at September 24, 2012 09:26 AM (NPTNl)

164

Oh, for the record, I have seen mostly Obama ads while fast forwarding through the commercials.

 

This is in the ARK-LA-TX area.

Posted by: Mama AJ at September 24, 2012 09:26 AM (SUKHu)

165 this place is going to be downright surreal after the election. i can see why you'd hold out hope that romney's going to win, and i can see you still supporting him and voting for him. but to be dead-set certain romney's going to win? delusional. you'll see.

Posted by: Jon at September 24, 2012 09:26 AM (t1NLo)

166 "NoVa. Chill."

Posted by: fluffy at September 24, 2012 01:19 PM (z9HTb)

Maps: they're amazing things!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 24, 2012 09:26 AM (2b4yb)

167 Colorado, NV, VA, Iowa, NH report! Report!! Posted by: tasker at September 24, 2012 12:42 PM (r2PLg) I don't watch much broadcast TV, but most of the political commercials I've seen have been about the Heller-Berkeley senate race. Seen lots of Romney stuff on youtube... but little to no presence on TV I don't care how great you voter contact list is, a hell of a lot of people make up their minds and vote based on TV commercials...

Posted by: The Political Hat at September 24, 2012 09:26 AM (XvHmy)

168 My 157 refers to Colorado, sorry.

Posted by: Meremortal at September 24, 2012 09:26 AM (1Y+hH)

169 1) they are running a poor campaign and need to get their heads out of their asses?
OR
2) the internal polls are so bad for obama and so good for Romney, that Romney knows exactly what he is doing.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 24, 2012 12:41 PM
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I tend toward "eeyore" and I'm not soaping up anyone's back yet but I'm going with number 2.

Posted by: Time Travelling Flaneur at September 24, 2012 09:26 AM (ay6+/)

170 Daddy  brags  all  the  time.  We  are  all  tired  of  it.  It's  embarassing.

Posted by: Malia in DC at September 24, 2012 09:27 AM (EJ6V1)

171

Just wondering.  For all you  people that are pissed because Romney hasn't been running ads in a particular state, are you going to vote for the SCOAMT if you don't see as many as you'd like?

 

And if you're still going to vote for Romney, how many people have you talked to about the reasons in that choice.  This election is really more about how we, as individuals, spread the conservative message  as it is a candidate's ad buys.

 

Plus, I think that the vast majority, polls be damned, have already made up their minds.  Ads or no ads.

Posted by: Soona at September 24, 2012 09:27 AM (75nO9)

172 The next 40 days or so will not just be a Romney cascade, but an avalanche. You didn't build that. Catholic/Christians being forced against their religion. Obama claiming he can use the welfare recipients for his personal political goals. Apologizing for free speech, our Constitution. And, higher taxes via Obamacare, esp towards the Middle Class. These are all American no-no's.

Posted by: avalanche at September 24, 2012 09:28 AM (LpQbZ)

173 >>>It's too bad, because we need people to know who he really is. But if he did it differently he wouldn't be who he is. Or something really deep like that.


His full Name is: Willard Mitt Romney He was Born: March 12, 1947 and is 65 years old.
 
His Father: George W. Romney, former Governor of the State of Michigan.
 
He was raised in  Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
 
He is Married to Ann Romney since 1969; they five children.
 
Education: B.A. from  Brigham Young University, J.D. and M.B.A. from  Harvard  University.
 
Religion: Mormon - The  Church  of  Jesus Christ  of the Latter-Day Saints.
 
Working Background: After high school, he spent 30 months in  France  as a Mormon missionary.
 
After going to both  Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School simultaneously, he passed the Michigan bar exam, but never worked as an attorney.
 
In 1984, he co-founded Bain Capital a private equity investment firm, one of the largest such firms in the United States .
 
In 1994, he ran for Senator of  Massachusetts and lost to Ted Kennedy.
*spit*
 
He was President and CEO of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.
 
In 2002, he was elected Governor of the State of Massachusetts where he eliminated a 1.5 billion deficit.
 
Some Interesting Facts about Romney:
 
Bain Capital, starting with one small office supply store in  Massachusetts , turned it into Staples; now over 2,000 stores employing 90,000 people.
 
Bain Capital also worked to perform the same kinds of business miracles again and again, with companies like Domino's, Sealy, Brookstone, Weather Channel, Burger King, Warner Music Group, Dollarama, Home Depot Supply and many others.
 
He was an unpaid volunteer campaign worker for his dad's gubernatorial campaign 1 year.
 
He was an unpaid intern in his dad's governor's office for eight years.
 
He was an unpaid bishop and state president of his church for ten years.
 
He was an unpaid President of the Salt Lake Olympic Committee for three years.
 
He took no salary and was the unpaid Governor of Massachusetts for four years.
 
He gave his entire inheritance from his father to charity.
 
Mitt Romney is one of the wealthiest self-made men in our country but has given more back to its citizens in terms of money, service and time than most men.
 
And in 2011 Mitt Romney gave over $4 million to charity, almost 19% of his income.... Just for comparison purposes, Obama gave 1% and Joe Biden gave $300 or .0013%.
 
Mitt Romney is Trustworthy:
 
He will show us his birth certificate.
 
He will show us his high school and college transcripts.
 
He will show us his social security card.
 
He will show us his law degree.
 
He will show us his draft notice.
 
He will show us his medical records.
 
He will show us he has nothing to hide.
 
Mitt Romney's background, experience and trustworthiness show him to be a great leader and an excellent citizen for President of the  United States .
 
You may think that Romney may not be the best representative the Republicans could have selected.
 
At least I know what religion he is, and that he won't desecrate the flag, bow down to foreign powers, or practice fiscal irresponsibility.
 
I know he has the ability to turn this financial debacle that the current regime has gotten us into. We won't like all the things necessary to recover from this debt, but someone with Romney's background can do it.
 
But, on the minus side, he never was a "Community Organizer", never took drugs or smoked pot, never got drunk, did not associate with communists or terrorists, nor did he attend a church whose pastor called for God to damn the US .

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Posted by: sickinmass at September 24, 2012 09:28 AM (CFi9O)

174

 

and i know all about delusional.

 

ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Posted by: Jon at September 24, 2012 09:29 AM (ggRof)

175 Read it and weep: http://tinyurl.com/8fa5ato

Posted by: Jon at September 24, 2012 09:29 AM (t1NLo)

176 " As loathsome as I find Obama, I have no doubt he could roll out a similar set of stories about how wonderful he is." ----- Note sure I actually agree there. ------ Sure he could. They could lie. He doesn't need to do it because (1) our side has conceded that he is a "good husband and father" and (2) the press is carrying his water. I think Obama is a horrible excuse for a human being. I think everything he is done is motivated out of self-promotion and manipulation. But to folks on the receiving end of his nice gestures, it feels good and they would praise him for it. Moreover, I think Romney has/does do things out of good intentions and Christian charity. I don't doubt that. But we are down to limited bandwidth right now. Ads about acts of kindness performed by Mitt, particularly when they involve people from his inner circle or community, strike me as weak because they can be excused as self-serving. Better to let his wife convey that aspect of Mitt's character and let Mitt focus on how he is going to govern effectively. Just my two cents.

Posted by: Y-not at September 24, 2012 09:29 AM (5H6zj)

177 Ohio morons what are you seeing?

Colorado, NV, VA, Iowa, NH report! Report!!

Posted by: tasker at September 24, 2012 12:42 PM (r2PLg)



There have been a shitload of ads by both Romney and the JEF in NE Ohio.  Romney's have included one with a guy talking about how Willard helped him locate his missing daughter; that one was run about 2 months ago and rarely is played now.  I'm wondering how ErikW's county voted in 2008; there were a ton of counties that slattered the JEF by over 70% and that was with Palin trying to drag the senile McRINO to victory.  I'm thinking that Romney's people are concentrating on the urban blue hells.

Posted by: Captain Hate (more dagny and less curious) at September 24, 2012 09:29 AM (1Gvde)

178 Posted by: Jon at September 24, 2012 01:26 PM (t1NLo)

I would withhold judgment until, you know, after the election. Although if you are curious, head into the archives for the same time four years ago and see how accurate most people were. Unlike many on the Left, we tend to see reality, rather than hopes and dreams.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 24, 2012 09:29 AM (2b4yb)

179 "...but to be dead-set certain romney's going to win? delusional. you'll see."

Posted by: Jon at September 24, 2012 01:26 PM (t1NLo)

 

_____ _____ ______ ______ ______ ________ _______ _______ _____ __

 

I would think you'd prefer that way, so what's your problem,  busybody?

 

 

Posted by: Meremortal at September 24, 2012 09:30 AM (1Y+hH)

180 I'll tell you exactly where all the Romney TV adds are going: Blipverts!

Posted by: Network 23 at September 24, 2012 09:30 AM (XvHmy)

181 Like Donna, I live in California.  I've seen three signs for Romney, all in the same yard.  I thought, "Wonder how long those'll be there."  Two days later all three were gone.  Either the people got death threats and took them down or the were kiped by some "tolerance for all" liar-loving douche-bag fucker. 

Posted by: joanne thinks the Romney plane is circling at September 24, 2012 09:30 AM (VNFBf)

182 >>Here is Colorado, I'm seeing a Baravalanch of Obama ads with the occasional Romney ad thrown in. And yet the state is all tied up after Barry took it by 9 points in '08. Romney has got a shit load of cash and he is spending it in a way that has the national race all tied up despite the msm hammering him daily while blowing Obama and concerned conservatives everywhere acting like 12 year old girls. The RNC announced today that they have made 3 times more phone calls and 5 times more door knocks in Colorado than was done in '08. Don't get into a land war in Asia and don't get into a door knocking game with a Mormon. Mormons own the door knocking game. I'm pretty sure Romney will get his message out.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 24, 2012 09:31 AM (TMB3S)

183 People will forget the deluge of Obama ads. It is what they see and hear just before that may influence them. When they finally start paying attention. With that said, it is the ever increasing grocery and gas bills, and the possibility of their electric getting turned off due to long term unemployment, and zero money in retirement accounts that will decide this vote. Not because Obama thinks Romney's taxes are important. No one thinks that.

Posted by: avalanche at September 24, 2012 09:32 AM (LpQbZ)

184 Is there anyone at the national level in the Democratic Party who isn't a narcissistic twat? Posted by: OregonMuse at September 24, 2012 01:22 PM (xm1A1) I have helped several of my tribe move their tee pees.

Posted by: Lizzie 'wipes with leaves' Warren at September 24, 2012 09:32 AM (DGIjM)

185 and i know all about delusional.

ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Posted by: Jon at September 24, 2012 01:29 PM (ggRof)

 

 

Whatever floats yer boat, Jan.

Posted by: joanne thinks the Romney plane is circling at September 24, 2012 09:32 AM (VNFBf)

186 Jon believes in counting his chickens before they hatch.  And ridiculing anyone who won't count with him.

Posted by: WalrusRex at September 24, 2012 09:32 AM (Hx5uv)

187 Obama was a great guy at Harvard! He once even volunteered to drop off Elizabeth Warren's legal licensing check at the Post Office. But then he got high...

Posted by: Lincolntf at September 24, 2012 09:32 AM (HethX)

188

-139

A few weeks ago, the topic of Mitt Romney somehow erupted in my "guild" chat in an online game I play (FFXIV).  One of the people there made the charge that Romney was just a rich a$$hole.  That pretty much sums up one of the issues that Romney has to deal with in the election - too many people think that he's a rich, out of touch guy who would probably wash his hands after coming within ten feet of someone who only had a five digit salary.  The cure for that sort of thing is to get out the stories of Romney that illustrate just how charitable the guy is, both with his money, and with his personal time.

I understand why Romney doesn't like to talk about them (it's a cultural thing, and I'm part of the same culture), but the news media has managed to get his charitable donations out in the open with the stories about Romney's just-released tax returns.  I'm actually surprised that one of the PACs hasn't made a warm-fuzzy ad that interviews someone that Romney personally helped.  Romney may not like to talk about it, but that doesn't mean that someone else can't do it.  It would also make a hilarious SNL skit - vote for Romney, and he'll personally show up on your doorstep with his five sons to help you move your stuff.  It would be better than the recent skit they had the featured Romney accidentally insulting an armless man.  I guess SNL forgot that was Biden's schtick (iirc, four years ago Biden told a guy in a wheelchair to stand up).

 

Posted by: junior at September 24, 2012 09:32 AM (UWFpX)

189 Hehehehehe  I think D+12 for North Carolina is a perfectly believable turnout hehehehehehe

Posted by: Jon at September 24, 2012 09:33 AM (/YJYi)

190 I don't watch much broadcast TV, but most of the political commercials I've seen have been about the Heller-Berkeley senate race. ________________ Berkeley--man she gives me the willies.

Posted by: tasker at September 24, 2012 09:33 AM (r2PLg)

191 This is in the ARK-LA-TX area.

IOW - Obama is wasting his money.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at September 24, 2012 09:33 AM (8y9MW)

192 Keep that fucking Jon away from me, please.

Posted by: The Chicken at September 24, 2012 09:33 AM (1Y+hH)

193 There is a Prius with a Romney/Ryan bumper sticker that I often see on my commute. And I see plenty of pick-em-ups with Obama and Union stickers. Seems like choice of vehicle is not that good of an indicator.

Posted by: Chris M at September 24, 2012 09:33 AM (b3vSq)

194 "I'll tell you exactly where all the Romney TV adds are going: Blipverts!"

Vote Romney! C-C-Catch the Wave!

Posted by: Max at September 24, 2012 09:34 AM (T3KlW)

195 >>>but to be dead-set certain

Oh, with the willingness and ability of Democrats to break laws to win, I'm never sure. What I am absolutely sure of, is if you were actually comfortably leading this race, your sorry pathetic ass wouldn't be here. Every post you make is the ultimate testament to, not only are we winning, but your side knows it.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular! With Full Stomping Power! at September 24, 2012 09:34 AM (0q2P7)

196 Colorado: Obama 51%, Romney 45% (Public Policy Polling) Florida: Obama 50%, Romney 45% (American Research Group) Iowa: Obama 51%, Romney 44% (American Research Group) Michigan: Obama 54%, Romney 42% (Rasmussen) North Carolina: Obama 49%, Romney 45% (Civitas) Nevada: Obama 51%, Romney 44% (American Research Group) Wisconsin: Obama 53%, Romney 41% (We Ask America)

Posted by: Jon at September 24, 2012 09:36 AM (t1NLo)

197 and don't get into a door knocking game with a Mormon. Mormons own the door knocking game.

Mind. Blown.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ had holes punched in her head this morning at September 24, 2012 09:36 AM (/kI1Q)

198 Here chicky chicky....

Posted by: Jon Juan at September 24, 2012 09:36 AM (1Y+hH)

199 Just face it: Romney is a Satan worshipper. Any religion that places yourself on the same level as God himself, as Mormonism does when it says you can become an actual God after death, is Satan worship. All the charity of the Mormon church is just for show. I wouldn't be surprised if Romney's inexplicable behavior and constant lying are because of direct secret orders he is getting from the church hiearchy. Maybe they're telling him he's going to miss out on all the unlimited sex in the afterlife unless he does this or that devilish action on earth.

Posted by: Reality Check at September 24, 2012 09:36 AM (ELEDJ)

200 I fear that the Romney is focusing to narrowly on targeting individual voters, and letting the MSM and Obama control the "water cooler" narrative. This will not end well...

Posted by: The Political Hat at September 24, 2012 09:37 AM (XvHmy)

201

Jon, honestly man no one cares about anything you actually put in your post. We see your name and immediately set to humiliating you, because, frankly, that's what you deserve. You might as well just type random letters when you arrive and stop wasting time.

Posted by: Rich at September 24, 2012 09:38 AM (TOgQZ)

202

175 Just wondering. For all you people that are pissed because Romney hasn't been running ads in a particular state, are you going to vote for the SCOAMT if you don't see as many as you'd like?
-- -- -- -- --
Duh.  Of course not, but in battleground states you would think Romney would be trying to convince undecided voters, wouldn't you?

Posted by: Marmo at September 24, 2012 09:38 AM (QW+AD)

203 Just face it: Romney is a Satan worshipper. Any religion that places yourself on the same level as God himself, as Mormonism does when it says you can become an actual God after death, is Satan worship. Posted by: Reality Check at September 24, 2012 01:36 PM (ELEDJ) So what does that make Obama, who palces himself above any and all gods?

Posted by: The Political Hat at September 24, 2012 09:39 AM (XvHmy)

204 Ads are important to give reinforcement to any water cooler chat that conservatives are doing with swing voters, imho. So I don't understand this chiding I'm seeing from some folks when some of us point out we think their should be more ad buys.

Posted by: Y-not at September 24, 2012 09:39 AM (5H6zj)

205

You ARE worried, aren't you Jon?

 

 

Prepare for defeat, Jon.

Posted by: Meremortal at September 24, 2012 09:39 AM (1Y+hH)

206 hahahahaha Colorado: Obama 51%, Romney 45% (Public Policy Polling) Florida: Obama 50%, Romney 45% (American Research Group) Iowa: Obama 51%, Romney 44% (American Research Group) Michigan: Obama 54%, Romney 42% (Rasmussen) North Carolina: Obama 49%, Romney 45% (Civitas) Nevada: Obama 51%, Romney 44% (American Research Group) Wisconsin: Obama 53%, Romney 41% (We Ask America)

Posted by: Jon at September 24, 2012 09:40 AM (t1NLo)

207 Doesn't pasting the same thing over and over constitute spam?

Posted by: Y-not at September 24, 2012 09:41 AM (5H6zj)

208 People will forget the deluge of Obama ads.

It is what they see and hear just before that may influence them. When they finally start paying attention.

With that said, it is the ever increasing grocery and gas bills, and the possibility of their electric getting turned off due to long term unemployment, and zero money in retirement accounts that will decide this vote.

Not because Obama thinks Romney's taxes are important. No one thinks that.

Posted by: avalanche at September 24, 2012 01:32 PM (LpQbZ)

 

 

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For the last 3+ years we've been seeing Baraka's visage and listening to his whistling "s's"  endlessly every day.  Always saying  in his own way that he's  "The One".  People are sick of looking at  and listening to him, especially right after they've filled the gas tank or bought their groceries.  He's become the background noise in everyone's life.  People aren't paying attention to his ads.

Posted by: Soona at September 24, 2012 09:41 AM (75nO9)

209

Now spamming the blog..that's a good way to get some vacation time boss.

Posted by: Rich at September 24, 2012 09:41 AM (TOgQZ)

210 Posted by: Jon at September 24, 2012 01:36 PM (t1NLo) ---------- Keep believing those shit polls bud. The humiliating ass stomping on Nov. 6 is going to make me smile for a looooooong time. Talk about rubbing salt in the wound. It's going to be fun.

Posted by: RWC at September 24, 2012 09:44 AM (fWAjv)

211 I am not "dead certain" that Romney will win.  I hope he wins.  The polls showing Obama ahead appear to be propaganda, pure and simple.

If Obama wins, I will do what I did last time; wonder what the Hell just happened and have an even lower opinion of my fellow citizens subjects.  It's the end of the republic.

Posted by: Bart who lurks with SMOD 2012 and is Master of his domain at September 24, 2012 09:44 AM (he2LC)

212 I live in Columbus and we are being overwhelmed with ads. Mostly Obama ads, though. Every Mitt ad has 2 O ads following. Our news talking heads are all slobbery when O comes to town, but we hear maybe a minute of Romney in the state. I'm thinking O is really scared because we are seeing so many of his ads. My father is an 86 yr old WWII vet and he is fired up to vote for Mitt. He swears at the tv when O shows up.

Posted by: megthered at September 24, 2012 09:45 AM (iR4Dg)

213 Posted by: Reality Check at September 24, 2012 01:36 PM (ELEDJ)

That's it.  It's those d*mn Mormons and their devilish ways telling Mitt Romney to... um... be a really good guy, in point of fact. 

How dare he... um... give 30% of his income to charitable organizations?
How dare he... um... be a generally decent guy and support his employees far beyond what normal employers do.

That Devil Worshiper!

Go get your shine-box, Nazi Apologist troll.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at September 24, 2012 09:45 AM (8y9MW)

214 No I can't.

http://tinyurl.com/czs9kex

Posted by: Bart who lurks with SMOD 2012 and is Master of his domain at September 24, 2012 09:46 AM (he2LC)

215 >>So I don't understand this chiding I'm seeing from some folks when some of us point out we think their should be more ad buys. How many more? In Colorado springs, for example, Romney has more than doubled the number of ads McCain had in '08 over the same time period. Should he do 5 times as much? The intertubes are full of myths including the statement that Romney isn't putting out a shit load of ads.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 24, 2012 09:47 AM (TMB3S)

216 That ginger at the end just stole my soul.


Posted by: Bart who lurks with SMOD 2012 and is Master of his domain at September 24, 2012 09:47 AM (he2LC)

217 He's become the background noise in everyone's life. People aren't paying attention to his ads. ------ Tuning out ads about the incumbent is one thing. Forming an impression of the challenger through his ads, especially when the challenger is getting beaten up in the press, is another. I think Mitt can wait too long to become a known, comfortable quantity to swing voters.

Posted by: Y-not at September 24, 2012 09:47 AM (5H6zj)

218 DaFuq?!? Win lunch with Pelosi and Gore? Are you in?

Posted by: RWC at September 24, 2012 09:48 AM (fWAjv)

219

Mitt Romney waxed my car!

Posted by: imp at September 24, 2012 09:49 AM (UaxA0)

220 "Sure he could. They could lie."
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In that case, I don't suppose we disagree.  I'll even agree that 'I'm nice in my personal life' ads would probably be pointless.  Libs think the only good deeds are those done by compulsion and government funding.  Still, I think having that info in the atmosphere generally is good--ie., being mentioned in articles and blogs and whatnot.  It knocks down some of the Evil Corporate Tycoon cartoon which might help with the squishy undecideds...who don't read articles or blogs...ugh.  I'm chasing my tail here.

But I really don't think Obama has any of those stories. (I know, I know, that's not your point.) If he had any (ANY) they'd be inflated like a Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade blimp.

Posted by: Mama Beanerschnitzel at September 24, 2012 09:50 AM (8d63Z)

221 Posted by: Jon at September 24, 2012 01:40 PM (t1NLo) Care to post the internal? D/R/I? M/F? Age breakdown? Please, do tell...

Posted by: The Political Hat at September 24, 2012 09:50 AM (XvHmy)

222 the ads are coming man, relax. Timing is going to be HUGE in this. You don't want to give them any time to adjust or rebut anything. Keep them rocked back on their heels.

Posted by: Derpman at September 24, 2012 09:52 AM (6VzqY)

223 I think Mitt can wait too long to become a known, comfortable quantity to swing voters.

Posted by: Y-not at September 24, 2012 01:47 PM (5H6zj)

 

 

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I'm tired of talking about these so-called swing voters.  I  really do think that 90% of the people who are actually planning on voting already know who's going to get their vote.   All these suck-ass polls be damned.

Posted by: Soona at September 24, 2012 09:53 AM (75nO9)

224 Karl Rove and his crew need to get on the stick too. Wake up!

Posted by: Fresh at September 24, 2012 09:57 AM (O7ksG)

225 I'm tired of talking about these so-called swing voters. I really do think that 90% of the people who are actually planning on voting already know who's going to get their vote. All these suck-ass polls be damned. Exactly. So if Romney was correct (he was) that Obama has 47% of the vote locked up by being the Dem and Romney gets about 46% for being the Rep, whats the point of putting out endless ads? Your chance of meeting an undecided voter at the water cooler are less than 10%. Targeting those people with direct touch is a hell of a lot more effective than running ad number 6,594,489,309.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 24, 2012 09:58 AM (TMB3S)

226 This is why I've shifted from being a lukewarm Romney supporter to a nearly rabid Romney supporter. He is a good man.

Watching the cretins and moral imbeciles in the media attack him, on behalf of the vain, hateful, corrupt idiot in the White House, has engendered in me a tremendous wrath against the entire liberal/media gang of cowardly thugs.

If they manage to swing this election by their lies, their hateful mockery, and their vicious insults, I am giving up on democracy. American constitutional democracy will no longer exist. If they manage to turn America into a Zimbabwe writ large, under the thumb of a strongman and his party apparat, then I will feel justified in abandoning democracy myself.

It will be time to start attacking those media toadies, Democrat donors, and party hacks. Personal attacks, blackmail, photos of their kids leaving school, midnight phone calls. Show them that their evil, thoughtless actions have real consequences.

If they succeed in destroying a good man who is our last chance to save America, then we have to destroy them.

Posted by: Trimegistus at September 24, 2012 10:02 AM (N/bno)

227 Re:  Yard signs.  Romney campaign isn't buying them in states they either know they have already won or lost.  Our signs here (Texas) were bought by the county GOP and local women's clubs.  They were contracted to the printer by the Texas GOP County Chairmen's association.  I would suggest asking your county chairman if there are any available locally.

Posted by: SouthCounty at September 24, 2012 10:03 AM (PfjdQ)

228 I live in Westwood, CA -- a hotbed of liberals so maybe my observations don't count -- and CA doesn't really count.  But I remember in 2008 there were lots of lawn signs for Obama.  I have seen none this year -- none.  Also other than old fading 2008 bumper stickers, I see few 2012 ones.  Maybe this shows the lower enthusiasm of Dems this year.  And I have seen more Romney bumper stickers than I ever saw for McCain.

Posted by: Alix at September 24, 2012 10:04 AM (0VSVJ)

229

Desperation by TFG camp equals massive amounts of ad buys which equal massive amounts of MONEY.  I can see the Romney camp just waiting for the opportune moment to release the kraaken.  Just ask Newt.  He knows the kraaken.

Posted by: joanne thinks the Romney plane is circling at September 24, 2012 10:04 AM (VNFBf)

230 Oh, yeah, I forgot to add in my previous comment about the Romney signs being stolen, I live in a 99.9% Democrat city in California and I see NO Obama signs anywhere.

Posted by: joanne thinks the Romney plane is circling at September 24, 2012 10:08 AM (VNFBf)

231

He said in a hush tone reminiscient of Rosebud.

Billboards. 

They are commericals that never end. People talk about them to each other if they are done well.  One billboard I'd have is a list of Obama quotes for the uninformed or to give a Democrat an excuse to vote for Romney.   

Posted by: polynikes at September 24, 2012 10:11 AM (m2CN7)

232

"I'll get the boys."

 

I don't know why, but that made me tear up.

 

Posted by: LASue at September 24, 2012 10:13 AM (pWeX5)

233 Found the perfect woman for any available 'rons.... http://tinyurl.com/d6xfnsg

Posted by: RWC at September 24, 2012 10:14 AM (fWAjv)

234 No-one can hide it anymore we know itÂ’s not imagining
Even the skeptics are unsure when they stop to think
People are not worth their life now they are obsolete
WeÂ’re dying to be invaded and put the blame on something concrete

Waiting for the U-FOs waiting for the U-FOs
We are waiting for the U-FOs we know that theyÂ’re there

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at September 24, 2012 10:30 AM (e8kgV)

235 FYI- to this thing called "Jon". I noticed yesterday at WZ that the trolls came out of the woodwork like cockroaches on the poll threads. It was not stop, "Looky! Looky!" and blah, blah. Most people by now notice the trends dude. It does not work. Just saying. Bonus- you are losing. LOL! You had better be sharpening your resume because after President Romney takes over, you will have to get a job, no more freebies! _______ As to the female voters needing to hear this story about Mitt, I think we got this during the RNC. While this story is great, the one about the Boy Scout, and the young baby, those were even better. GB interviewed several people who also has wonderful things to say about Mitt. It would be great if a PAC ran ads with these people to help the touchy-feely womenzy voters, but for the rest of the female voting blocks, it seems the Security Moms have left the Obama building. The same can be said for Econ, or Kitchen Table Moms. Anti-Obamacare Moms made up their minds long ago. So, I have no idea which female groups other than the 18-24 group who supports Dear Leader. Here is another thing, with our without ads touting "he cares about real people", just viewing the two candidates is a dead give away. There is no warmth coming from Evil Overlord. His body language with that tilting of the head, the nose up, and the inability to speak from his heart about our military says it all. People want to go on and on about how Mitt does not connect, but I disagree. Look at how he acts with Ann. Does Obama act that way with Mooch? I do not think so. Mitt was really touched by Paul Ryan's first outing after being named VP. Mitt does seem to connect with those coming out to hear him. Ads might help, they certainly could not hurt, but most of the womenzes here do not believe it is necessary. Of course we were ABO going way back to January of 2009. LOL!

Posted by: freeus at September 24, 2012 10:33 AM (caDgg)

236 BTW the Romney campaign is up with the stories of these women on the website and a blog.  They are going on the road to speak for Romney.  They will get earned media in local newscasts and newspapers, which will be better than TV ads that people turn off or skip on their DVR. 

Posted by: rockmom at September 24, 2012 10:44 AM (NYnoe)

237 +1 to Rockmom I think that is the best idea. People all over tv saying they are fed up with the ads, and not wanting to hear them. The only place I might run a PAC ad with these women in them would be PA since they seem to be so up and down in these polls. Maybe CO as well.

Posted by: freeus at September 24, 2012 10:58 AM (caDgg)

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It's axiomatic that the more you dig into a politician's life, the more dirt you dig up.  But as you dig into this guy's life, it just makes you look at your own life, and ask, "Why can't I be more like that?"

 

Maybe he's not really a politician, or something.

 

Seriously, dudes!  On the one hand, we have a president whose most remarkable characteristic is his lack of accomplishment.  Even the two book he wrote were ghost-written, and of his three major accomplishments in office two were riding Bush's coattails (Iraq, which involved his breaking a campaign promise, and OBL) and the other (ObamaCare) is such an unmitigated disaster that he doesn't exactly brag about it, and he lost the House over it.

 

On the other hand, the challenger has legendary accomplishments with business, non-profits, and government alike. A turnaround expert at the time we need one the most.  Plus, one hell of a human being.

 

Why is this even close?  It can only be the media, which is NOT BIASED.  It is WAY beyond bias - it is at full-blown propaganda mode, up to and including outright slander.

 

Posted by: Optimizer at September 24, 2012 11:03 AM (As94z)

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It is hard to get through the wall of lies that started right after 2008.  And much of it from our own side.  Much of it from Republicans, like Erick Ericksen and Michelle Malkin.

When "Republicans" aren't for Romney... the pundants, what do they think will happen?   The media campaign to drive up his negatives works.  The public isn't going to believe his enemies, but when his friends say the same or similar stuff... then they believe it all.

We are being beaten by our own side.  That undercover tape wasn't taken by a Democrat, and a Democrat didn't give it to Jimmy Carter's grandson.  Republican's did this to Romney.  One of the Anybody But Romney's who held a grudge...

I think Romney will win.  Because he is the best there is, the best human being that has ever run. 

One article I read today pointed out that Romney has given at least 50 million dollars to charity over the past 20 years.

What kind of man gives money away like that?  This fact alone should make people think.

That 4 million isn't a one time thing.  It is a way of life.  It is the mark of a truly exceptional human being.  And he wants to use his skill fixing our government.

And he is met with anger from both sides.

 

 

Posted by: Shauna at September 24, 2012 05:18 PM (SUQOI)

240 ..but you see, this is the problem...mitt doesn't tell anyone about who he really is.. it's like he thinks he's being noble or something... instead, he's just nobley losing the election to a belicose wannabe imposter who is more then happy to brag brag and even make stuff up... but what does romney do? oh...nothing. he's fucking wimp who is going to lose this election for the good people of the u.s. out of some stupid middle class frat boy version of good manners...and taking the so-called "higher road" of not "dignifying" the lies with a response... it's ridiculous... and it is EXACTLY what i thought mitt would do...

...lose the election because he's too god damned flippin NICE... thanks, mitt, no really, thanks A LOT...on behalf of generations of young people that will have to suffer through the mess that is gong to be created by this psychopath in the white house...thanks...

Posted by: mistress overdone at September 24, 2012 05:35 PM (2/oBD)

241 27 Colorado, NV, VA, Iowa, NH report! Report!!


I went to the Pueblo ralley after my night shift.  Lots of folks, so many that I was worried if all the Republicans were here on a Monday morn, who was running Pueblo!?  Two protesters.  Spoke to one who said Romney was a robot and we need to get rid of corporations.  This is why I fear Obama winning, it means the majority of Americans can now participate in Special Olympics.

Mitt gives a good stump speech, better than McLame according to those who attended  McLame rallies in 08.

Posted by: Evan Maughan at September 24, 2012 08:10 PM (HfgZR)

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