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Romneys campaign bus adorned with the words Conservative. Businessman. Leader today repeatedly honked at and took several laps around a group of Obama supporters before a campaign speech to be given by President Obama in Cleveland today, according to a tweet by CBS White House correspondent Mark Knoller.
Romney even moved his speech up to precede Obamas speech. Obama is set to address the event at 1:45 p.m. ET, while Romney moved his planned 1:50 p.m. speech up to 1:30 p.m., getting a head start on the president.
This isnt the first time the Romney team has antagonized Obama campaign events. In Massachusetts last month, Romney supporters greeted Obama senior adviser David Axelrod at a campaign event by shouting and blowing bubbles at those in attendance.
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Josh Marshall's advice...
Anger Management
Today is the day of the dueling mega-speeches on the presidential campaign trail. And reporters waiting around the venue of President Obamas event were greeted by a Romney campaign bus circling the venue and volubly honking its horn, something youd expect a rival wrestling team to do to disrupt the other teams pep talk. On its face it seems somewhere between juvenile and just weird. But this is actually a core part of the Romney camps election strategy.
... A few weeks ago the Romney camp sent staffers to disrupt a press conference that Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod held in Boston to trash Romney. And that came just after the Romney camp darkly hinted that the Obama team had been conspiring to disrupt or block the event it held in front of the shuttered doors of Solyndra.
It all sounds kind of weird and erratic. But its not. Or at least its not accidental.
The Romney camp has made a straightforward calculation that it can make up with appeals to the conservative id the ground it cant ever make up convincing anyone that Romney is really a right-wing ideologue.
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...this is simply another illustration of the bitch slap politics which rumbles beneath so much of presidential politics... But the animus against President Obama isnt just tied to his positions. Theres a deeply rooted sense on the right that Obama has been protected, coddled that no one has really taken it to him in a down and dirty way. This is whats behind the talk that he never got vetted back in 2008. And if you remember back in the primary debates, there was a recurring theme of which contender was the guy who could really bring the full primal scream mojo to Obama at the debates. Not so much even which guy could beat Obama but which would have the cajones ... to hit him with the full socialist-African-terrorist-lovin-debt-meister smackdown that would somehow just leave a shattered Obama grasping blindly for his teleprompter.
The Romney folks know that pretty much nobody not the Republican base or really anyone else is going to be convinced that the candidate is a down-the-line conservative. But he can appeal to them by playing the bad ass card, getting in Obamas grill, disrespecting him. Not in highly public ways and not the candidate himself that could be damaging. But in slightly out of the way ways, the sort of stuff that really committed political types do see.
In other words, expect to see a lot more of this. And in purely practical terms, if it can be segregated from the stuff the broad middle of the electorate sees, its smart politics.
As I said in another thread, some Obama supporters need to make some signs like, "Democrats, cleaning up Republican messes since 1933", "Obama, 4 More Years!" and "You're needed at a Romney event. He's missing his audience!" and do a Tienanmenn Square" in front of the Romney bus or surround the Romneybots and chant "Democrats, cleaning up Republican messes since 1933", "Obama, 4 More Years!"
What do you think?
dionysus
(26,467 posts)Larkspur
(12,804 posts)Agreed, but Dems are in a "damned if we do, damned if we don't" situation.
If we don't do anything, the MSM rolls over us and hints we're "weak". If we do, it will be filmed by a thousand repig camera-phones & there'll be lawsuits & the MSM will paint it as "pure terrorism by the evil libruls!".
Maybe just blocking the bus(ses) with bodies is the right thing to do.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Or eggs.
Spazito
(50,429 posts)less than that of my grandsons, ages 10 and 12. Unbelievable.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)with these empty slogans.
"Buy the new Mitt product. Convenient, breezy, and now 100% policy free!"
bongbong
(5,436 posts)Everybody should bring an Etch-A-Sketch & hold them up en-masse when the repigs try their anti-American crap.
Old and In the Way
(37,540 posts)on a platform of no idea solutions, what's left to do? Disrupt and lie about your opponent. This is a desperate Party running a completely out-of-touch candidate who can't articulate why he runs or what he'll do. Good luck with that in November.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)This is the Party of James OKeefe, pundits who shout down their opponents, election fraud, the backwards B girl, congressional obstruction, shouting "you lie" at the SOTU address...
This is all they got. They dont believe that government works, so they are incapable of a plan for a working government. All they have is an agenda- taking power so they can reward their friends.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)They really are pre-adolescents.
It would be really cool if he had one of those horns that plays Dixie.
6 posted on Thursday June 14 11:45:08 2012 by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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should have been blaring the theme to Shaft as well.
8 posted on Thursday June 14 11:45:44 2012 by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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I loved this comments (but replace the pig and goat sounds with sheep):
They should get a horn that plays God Bless America that will piss the obamas off Or any other patriot song out there.
Star Wars Theme for the Wookie???? or just Goat and Pig noises ?
If I was on that bus Id be tee-teeing in my pants Id be laughing soooooo hard! LOL!
20 posted on Thursday June 14 11:55:02 2012 by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Wings cannot be redistributed, they can only be broken. ~ Oleg Atbashian (People's Cube))
RadiationTherapy
(5,818 posts)Weirdos.
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)But, it's okay to make thinly veiled racist comments. Go figure.
RadiationTherapy
(5,818 posts)and their humble functions.
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)I read your subject line and busted out laughing. My boss is looking at me funny.
Zalatix
(8,994 posts)We coulda used some of that with these idiot Republicans.
LOL, just kidding, folks.
flamingdem
(39,316 posts)for being lame idiots
AC_Mem
(1,979 posts)Bring it RobotMan.
I cannot WAIT for the debates - President is going to shred this fake. We have seen Romney when he is off-script, he falls apart and makes big messes for his people to clean up. It won't matter how well they prep him, the President is going to have fun with him and RomBot is going to fall apart.
lol - I can imagine the President thinking about the debates.... smiling....
I will be stuck like glue to the tv - with my local OFA supporters, cheering on President Obama!
Shine on,
Annette