re: #109 Reverend Mother Ramallo

So could it be that so far, the failure of Mitt’s campaign is that it’s based on far too many assumptions about how people view Obama?
In other words, instead of making people look at him, Mitt has everyone looking at Obama, and in so doing, has made the scorched earth tactics of the R’s blazingly obvious to people who would not have otherwise payed attention.

Agree. Mitt doesn’t really want people looking at him anyway, his negatives are what they are for a reason. He has trouble connecting with people in any meaningful way or coming across as anything but a stuffed up, egotistical prick. He didn’t win the nomination because people genuinely liked him, or because he was a consistent conservative, or came off in the least bit as trust worthy. Instead he’s the nominee because he had the good fortune to run against a slate of candidates that were all (with the exception of Huntsman) even less likable than he was, who had piss poor ground games and were prone to tear each other down. Even then it took him an embarrassingly long time to lock in the nomination.

He’s running this narrow strategy now because he’s got nothing to fall back on. He’s got to go extremely negative in the debates against Obama, who is a master at cooly turning an opponents aggression against them. Romney has no specifics and is terrified of showing any because his policies can’t stand real world scrutiny, after a while even the most obtuse observer realizes they’re being lied to.