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ProSense

(116,464 posts)
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 01:25 PM Sep 2012

The GOP freak-out starts to take shape

The GOP freak-out starts to take shape

By Steve Benen

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The Hill quoted a GOP strategist saying Team Romney has "the stench of a losing campaign."

Politico quoted Greg Strimple, who worked on John McCain's 2008 campaign, saying, "The problem is the campaign is now in a spiral and no one knows how to pull out." The same piece quoted a senior Republican who's also deeply involved in this cycle's campaign, who said, "As a candidate, (Romney) is just not going to improve." A Romney bundler added, &quot W)e're just ... imploding."

The New York Times reported that a "palpably gloomy and openly frustrated mood has begun to creep into Mr. Romney's campaign for president," and some Romney aides "are now wondering whether victory is still possible." A "flustered adviser, describing the mood, said that the campaign was turning into a vulgar, unprintable phrase."

The Daily Beast ran a piece from Mark McKinnon, a former Bush adviser, who wrote, "I honestly don't know what Romney can do to win support from the voters he needs to gain a majority. I thought the debates would be an opportunity, but he has dug his hole so deeply now, I don't know if he can pull himself out.... I loved Michelle Obama's line in her speech: 'A presidency reveals who you are.' So do campaigns. And mark me down as one Republican not happy with what is being revealed about Mitt Romney."

And the Huffington Post quoted a Republican consultant with deep experience on Capitol Hill and extensive contacts in the Romney campaign, who said, "There's a feeling of almost that this thing's in free fall."

- more -

http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/09/19/13965002-the-gop-freak-out-starts-to-take-shape

Add the Republican candidates/elected officials who are running away from Mitt: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021377423

No time for complacency. Republicans are writing their own epitaph. Now that they're all on record with their regrets, get out the vote and the last nail. Make them even more regretful. Donate and vote.


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The GOP freak-out starts to take shape (Original Post) ProSense Sep 2012 OP
"...a vulgar, unprintable phrase." eShirl Sep 2012 #1
That or FUBAR. hifiguy Sep 2012 #8
FUBAR was the first thing that popped in my head. nt emmadoggy Sep 2012 #21
Australian Rat Fuck? sarge43 Sep 2012 #13
"No time for complacency." Wait Wut Sep 2012 #2
This ^^^^a hundred times over. We mock them too soon at our peril. cr8tvlde Sep 2012 #11
Absolutely. Now is NOT the time to start ordering the champagne. DO NOT GET COMPLACENT!!! calimary Sep 2012 #25
Democrats need to throw gas on the fire..... Historic NY Sep 2012 #3
Keep the foot on the throat. Don't let up until it stops moving. bluerum Sep 2012 #4
LOL! n/t ProSense Sep 2012 #5
Don't stop then, either!! Bake Sep 2012 #7
brush all GOP congressional candidates with Romney paint. magical thyme Sep 2012 #6
Monty Python prophesied the Romney campaign hifiguy Sep 2012 #9
Mittens IS Oliver St John-Mollusc! mikeytherat Sep 2012 #24
Is a Romney Bundler like a Comcast Bundle? sarcasmo Sep 2012 #10
I think they meant bungler flamingdem Sep 2012 #12
Yes. Slow and unreliable. n/t VWolf Sep 2012 #14
No. With Comcast, you actually receive services for your outrageous fees. cr8tvlde Sep 2012 #15
_1 sarcasmo Sep 2012 #19
The knee jerk reaction from people like Rush to adopt the 47% line,... Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2012 #16
My guess is in desperation Romney will over-reach during the first debate sealing his fate. WI_DEM Sep 2012 #17
My thought exactly Aldo Leopold Sep 2012 #27
We MUST keep associating downticket races to the top of the ticket! eggplant Sep 2012 #18
Mittens should be hung around their necks hifiguy Sep 2012 #22
.... Submariner Sep 2012 #20
Donate and vote!!!! ruffburr Sep 2012 #23
Worth noting - this passage near the end: calimary Sep 2012 #26
Yes, we are winning the boxing match DonCoquixote Sep 2012 #28
I'll bet there's a lot of backroom talk about what kind of October surprise they can spring. Kablooie Sep 2012 #29
schadenfreude for breakfast! BootinUp Sep 2012 #30
 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
8. That or FUBAR.
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 03:31 PM
Sep 2012

Both seem highly appropriate.

"Goat rodeo" is printible, but it's definition is:

A situation that is hopelessly fucked up. The worst of three stages of goat-ness. First is the Goat Rope, defined else where.

Then there is the utilitarian Goat Fuck. This normally requires a serious amount of work to unfuck.

Lastly, there is the Goat Rodeo. The worst of the three, it is beyond even profanity. It describes a situation that involves many individuals screw ups, and implies that the fuck up is already well underway, meaning that there is no hope in stopping the mess. Usually said with a defeated tone."

The Rmoney campaign is all of the above.

sarge43

(28,939 posts)
13. Australian Rat Fuck?
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 03:40 PM
Sep 2012

Last edited Thu Sep 20, 2012, 06:14 AM - Edit history (1)

Current conditions: SNAFU with a 70% possibility of FUBAR storms?

Wait Wut

(8,492 posts)
2. "No time for complacency."
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 01:34 PM
Sep 2012

We are getting a bit too comfortable. We need to fight harder against these illegal voting restrictions while continuing to find ways to get people registered and to the voting booths.

A vote doesn't count unless it's counted.

cr8tvlde

(1,185 posts)
11. This ^^^^a hundred times over. We mock them too soon at our peril.
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 03:39 PM
Sep 2012

It emboldens a certain type and their dittohead followers. They do not have ethics that most civilized people are ruled by. Lizard brains and fear/dogwhistle/whatever messages that appeal to lizard brains.

It is not a fair, ethical fight. We do not have to stoop to their levels, but we must acknowledge and, like the adults in the room, take charge.

calimary

(80,699 posts)
25. Absolutely. Now is NOT the time to start ordering the champagne. DO NOT GET COMPLACENT!!!
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 04:09 PM
Sep 2012

We still don't have this thing won yet!

Save the champagne for what I hoe is the victory breakfast on the morning after!

Historic NY

(37,449 posts)
3. Democrats need to throw gas on the fire.....
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 01:52 PM
Sep 2012

to counter the spending spree Rmoney & his PACS are bring forward.

Bake

(21,977 posts)
7. Don't stop then, either!!
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 03:30 PM
Sep 2012

Remember the Halloween/Friday 13th/Jason movies? The monster keeps getting back up!

Let's not let that happen here!!

Bake

 

magical thyme

(14,881 posts)
6. brush all GOP congressional candidates with Romney paint.
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 03:29 PM
Sep 2012

Heck. Forget the brush. Just dump the paint can on them.

We need control of all branches to finally undo the damage wreaked by Bush.

mikeytherat

(6,829 posts)
24. Mittens IS Oliver St John-Mollusc!
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 04:08 PM
Sep 2012

His father was a cabinet minister, he's thought to be this year's outstanding twit, out of the gate he makes an immediate turn to the right, and in the end, he runs over himself.

mikey_the_rat

flamingdem

(39,304 posts)
12. I think they meant bungler
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 03:39 PM
Sep 2012

Mitt that is. Or something worse I won't write but it's said often by a cartoon character.

cr8tvlde

(1,185 posts)
15. No. With Comcast, you actually receive services for your outrageous fees.
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 03:41 PM
Sep 2012

I used to sell Comcast ... I can say that

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
16. The knee jerk reaction from people like Rush to adopt the 47% line,...
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 03:43 PM
Sep 2012

....is really causing a meltdown within the party. They have been dancing around the notion that Democrats are "The Party Of Welfare" and that was confirmed with the racists in their base who saw the black guy on their TV. It's one thing to HINT at it but to outright claim that EVERYBODY who voted for Obama the last time is a bunch of losers looking for a free ride off the government has got them in, as mentioned, "freak out" mode. This is only because of their lemming like urge to follow along conflicting with common sense.

Let's see which way it goes. I guarantee you, there will be a bunch that will adopt this 47% "fact" as gospel and act like they are superior to "those people".

Aldo Leopold

(685 posts)
27. My thought exactly
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 04:35 PM
Sep 2012

The first debate will be a massive over reach of a robo-maniacal self-fuck for Romney.

eggplant

(3,893 posts)
18. We MUST keep associating downticket races to the top of the ticket!
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 03:47 PM
Sep 2012

It's all going to be about the downticket races. GOTV!

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
22. Mittens should be hung around their necks
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 04:05 PM
Sep 2012

like a pallet of anchors. Arrgh, send 'em to Davy Jones' locker! (In honor of Talk Like A Pirate Day)

ruffburr

(1,190 posts)
23. Donate and vote!!!!
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 04:06 PM
Sep 2012

You are absolutely correct,No time for complacency, WE need to go for the jugular and end the GOP for a good long time em

calimary

(80,699 posts)
26. Worth noting - this passage near the end:
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 04:33 PM
Sep 2012

"Clearly, Romney is not where he wants or needs to be, but I'm rather amazed the panic is so widespread and public. President Obama's leading, but his advantage can best be described as modest, and Romney and his allies are sitting out a mountain of cash, which will finance "carpet bombing" that has not yet begun. There's just no need for this freak-out."


The advertising carpet bombing hasn't begun yet. And they're sitting on all this cash. Why? We need to figure out what they're up to.

DO NOT GET COMPLACENT!!!!

DonCoquixote

(13,615 posts)
28. Yes, we are winning the boxing match
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 06:06 PM
Sep 2012

but we need to watch out for the sniper in the stands, because we know the GOP has the will and money.

Kablooie

(18,571 posts)
29. I'll bet there's a lot of backroom talk about what kind of October surprise they can spring.
Thu Sep 20, 2012, 01:07 AM
Sep 2012

Maybe a nice dirty bomb in Chicago will shake things up.

... or maybe that's not the best idea.

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