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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRomney team frets that Obama is ‘too cool’ for America
A pair of Romney advisers have dreamed up a novel attack strategy against President Obama, according to a post at BuzzFeed. At a panel hosted on Saturday by the Washington Post, high ranking campaign aides Eric Fehrnstrom and Peter Flaherty said that the problem with President Obama is that hes just too cool for America.
Fehrnstrom and Flaherty joined many conservatives in criticizing the president for his performance Monday night on Jimmy Fallons show Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to slow-jam the news, delivering a Barry White-meets-John F. Kennedy disquisition on corporate greed and its effects on student loan debt. Fehrnstrom said that jamming with Fallon and his house band The Roots undercuts the dignity of the presidents office and the seriousness with which the student loan crisis should be discussed.
I dont think thats something to slow jam about, he said.
Buzzfeed said that the presidents performance, like most of his talk show appearances, was marked by a hip sense of irony, mild sarcasm, and just a bit of swagger. The website went on to assert that Romneys aides know that their candidate could never pull off these kinds of warm, personable appearances and are therefore hoping that they can paint the president as the arrogant cool kid in school as opposed to Romneys ingenuous underdog.
Calling the average American voter more clunky than cool, the article says that the two powerful strategists are hoping to pitch their campaigns message is such a way as to make Romneys awkwardness endearing, and even relatable.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/28/romney-team-frets-that-obama-is-too-cool-for-america/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29
MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)Romney's strategists know how personable and appealing the President is and they know how wooden and unappealing Nitt is. They need to change that dynamic. Are they willing to use dog whistles to do it? Sure.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)GiftTastic can't sneeze without making "Uncle Moneybags" anecdotes and Scrooge McDuck "advice" while asserting an economic platform that amounts to "Bewsh 43 on Steroids". He's going to put people out of jobs before he even gets into office . . . . satirists and comedy writers, that is.
nobodyspecial
(2,286 posts)hoping to pitch their campaigns message is such a way as to make Romneys awkwardness endearing, and even relatable
Nobody is going to relate to $10,000 bets, car elevators, selling stock to pay for college or borrowing $20,000 from parents to start a business.
NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)At least, as terrible as Bush was and all else aside, the Bushisms were good for a laugh.
Arrogance and cluelessness about how most people live cannot be spun into something positive. They will simply have to try to deny it.
randome
(34,845 posts)The Koch Brothers will.
Arkana
(24,347 posts)Obama should spend more time insulting small-town bakeries and posing with black people while singing Baha Men songs.
Aristus
(66,371 posts)Mitt Romney is kind of hard to pain as an underdog...
dkf
(37,305 posts)Still laughing.
NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)It didn't go over well then.
Initech
(100,076 posts)"What is this?"
Stay boring my friends.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)It sure ain't gonna fly now.
Zookeeper
(6,536 posts)I'm totally OK with a "cool" guy for a change.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)I was watching MSNBC last week and I saw Haley Barbour talking to Andrea Mitchell. He was spouting this "cool" stuff. He must have just gotten his talking points faxed to him from the rnc.
GoCubsGo
(32,084 posts)Are you fucking kidding me? Sorry, but I can't relate to a multi-millionaire, who has five houses, horses that cost way more than my house, and throws thousands of people out of their jobs to line his own pockets even more. There is nothing "endearing" about this pompous turd.
P.S., I don't think the "average American voter" appreciates being called "clunky".
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)Nice try, though.