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Omaha Steve

(99,574 posts)
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 06:47 PM Sep 2012

Romney enters critical phase, will talk up economic plan

Source: REUTERS

By Steve Holland

BURLINGTON, Massachusetts

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney plans to talk up some specifics of his economic proposals as he enters a critical period of his campaign and tries to erase a small lead that President Barack Obama has built in the polls.

Romney's challenge is to keep it close until the campaign goes into its conclusive phase next month, when he and Obama met on October 3 for the first of three presidential debates that will dominate the final weeks leading up to the November 6 election.

In a race defined by the weakness of the U.S. economy, Romney needs to convince voters that they can trust him as the Obama campaign tries to raise doubts about the economic proposals he has offered, such as what government programs would he cut and how he would pay for a 20 percent across-the-board tax cut.

To that end, Romney advisers say the former Massachusetts governor plans this week to talk up the specifics of each of the five central points of his economic message: beefing up energy production and trade, improving education, cutting government spending and helping small businesses by, among other things, reducing regulations.

FULL story at link.



Read more: http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/09/16/us-usa-campaign-romney-idINBRE88C17C20120916

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Romney enters critical phase, will talk up economic plan (Original Post) Omaha Steve Sep 2012 OP
Critical phase? This could mean either of two things - TheCowsCameHome Sep 2012 #1
Or both. And then some. randome Sep 2012 #4
I've got a good economic proposal.. Release your tax returns you POS. tridim Sep 2012 #2
Releasing his tax and that of his running-mate musr be first! mazzarro Sep 2012 #20
Rmoney economic plan: TBF Sep 2012 #3
The Loser and The Liar Plan... SoapBox Sep 2012 #5
The L&L Plan CountAllVotes Sep 2012 #13
What,You Mean Romney Spokeswoman Tara Wall Didn't Explain It Well Enough DallasNE Sep 2012 #6
Well first... defacto7 Sep 2012 #15
He can't and won't provide specifics. subterranean Sep 2012 #7
Romney has an economic plan? Gman Sep 2012 #8
He's going to close loopholes and...uh...lower taxes and...uh... nolabear Sep 2012 #9
Romney engaged in a debate preparation session at a hotel on Sunday. R. Daneel Olivaw Sep 2012 #10
does your brother get the fact that the oil companies are going to sell the oil where.. olddad56 Sep 2012 #11
Yes, he gets it. That was part of my argument. R. Daneel Olivaw Sep 2012 #17
Tell me it isn't necessarily so oldsarge54 Sep 2012 #12
What? No more foreign policy fuck ups? nt cbrer Sep 2012 #14
Small Lead????????? busterbrown Sep 2012 #16
What plan? davidn3600 Sep 2012 #18
Shouldn't He Have Done That At The RNC Convention? TomCADem Sep 2012 #19
ATTENTION FACT CHECKERS ! mojo2012 Sep 2012 #21
Without disclosing more of his own tax returns? I want to see his personal tax plan. Overseas Sep 2012 #22

TheCowsCameHome

(40,168 posts)
1. Critical phase? This could mean either of two things -
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 06:51 PM
Sep 2012

His campaign is in critical condition,

or

He is going to be critical of everything in sight until election day.

or both............

mazzarro

(3,450 posts)
20. Releasing his tax and that of his running-mate musr be first!
Mon Sep 17, 2012, 05:43 AM
Sep 2012

The electorate should NOT allow his to get away with this nonsense - period!

DallasNE

(7,402 posts)
6. What,You Mean Romney Spokeswoman Tara Wall Didn't Explain It Well Enough
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 07:23 PM
Sep 2012

This quote is from Romney spokeswoman Tara Wall. "the campaign has laid out a number of specifics relative to the principles that will guide the policies of a Romney-Ryan ticket".

So, there you have it. A concise summary of the Romney budget. Now if you can tell me what it means you are a better person than me.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/09/10/820061/romney-loophole-energy-independence/

defacto7

(13,485 posts)
15. Well first...
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 10:19 PM
Sep 2012

we have their "policies"

then we have "principles that will guide" them.

Then we have a number of specifics.

and those specifics are "relative" to those principles.

Sounds like an interesting set of words that are relative to other words with principals that guide....


JUST GIVE US THE GOD DAMN POLICIES!

........................................................... you don't have any do you?

subterranean

(3,427 posts)
7. He can't and won't provide specifics.
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 07:34 PM
Sep 2012

There's a reason he and Ryan have been evasive whenever they're pressed for details of their economic plans. They know that if people knew what their actual plans were, they wouldn't like them. They also know their claims that tax cuts will lead to a balanced budget won't stand up to objective scrutiny. It is based purely on magical thinking.

 

R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts)
10. Romney engaged in a debate preparation session at a hotel on Sunday.
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 08:39 PM
Sep 2012

Last edited Sun Sep 16, 2012, 11:41 PM - Edit history (1)

Ii was there in the same hotel: The Burlington Marriott. There was a police presence there in and around the hotel.

We were having brunch for my mom's 82cnd birthday.


I was listening to my oldest brother talking about how we should just be able to drill everywhere in the USA to get us off Saudi Oil.

Him: "We need Romney to make sure that we can drill everywhere. Who cares if a few cows die along the way?"

Me: "It will be more than a few cows. It will be people with a lessened quality of life; especially since oil/gas doesn't give two hoots who they screw over as long as they get their $$. Just look at cleartop mountain mining.

Also you and I know that the refined product will go to the highest bidder and won't necessarily be used as an American-only resource. Drill baby drill is dead."

Him: "That's not true."

Me: "Really? If that wasn't true then why does the keystone pipeline need to go all the way to Texas; which has access to the ocean...where it can ship oil wherever it wants to? Why not build a refinery closer to the source of the oil extraction?

The answer isn't drill baby drill when the oil is just going to go to the highest bidder and off to whatever country they want the oil to go to."


I believe my brothers understand not to try and argue with me any more, but once and a while they realize I'm not just going to remain quiet when the say stupid shizzle.




olddad56

(5,732 posts)
11. does your brother get the fact that the oil companies are going to sell the oil where..
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 08:47 PM
Sep 2012

ever they want to. BP pumps it out of Alaska and sells in in China. How does that help your brother. But, I guess if he is voting for Rmoney, he is beyond hope.

 

R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts)
17. Yes, he gets it. That was part of my argument.
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 11:32 PM
Sep 2012

Drill baby drill does not equal oil and gas going to Americans. It will just go to the highest bidder.

I don't understand how he can not see that, not to getting out of Saudi oil concerns, but to the whole drill baby drill idea. That idea failed in 2008. It's not going to work in 2012.

I love my brother so when I hear him say these things it personally hurts.

oldsarge54

(582 posts)
12. Tell me it isn't necessarily so
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 09:21 PM
Sep 2012

Growing up, I was taught that communism was evil because the state planned economy starved their own citizens in order to get hard money by exporting wheat. The same was true of czarist Russia, and Prussia as well. One reason the Irish were starved during the Potato famine when they were exporting wheat to earn hard cash.

Besides one point, how is this evil being repeated in the US different, the people being harmed by the export of their country riches while they do without. The difference is that Russia, Soviet Russia, Prussia, and England were government control (Irish colony rules) while in the United States the government could do nothing about it, it was capitalism at work.

Mitt, do we really want the robber barons turned loose again, and allow the urban serfdom of 1900 to return?

busterbrown

(8,515 posts)
16. Small Lead?????????
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 10:26 PM
Sep 2012

I understand its far from over, however I wonder if the numbers were reversed
would Romney's lead be considered small?

 

davidn3600

(6,342 posts)
18. What plan?
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 11:38 PM
Sep 2012

Give more money for the rich to horde, and for major corporations to create more jobs in China, and then have the middle class and small businesses wait for it to trickle down?

TomCADem

(17,387 posts)
19. Shouldn't He Have Done That At The RNC Convention?
Mon Sep 17, 2012, 12:04 AM
Sep 2012

Indeed, hasn't he said that we would tell the American people what his plans are after the election?" I think his plans are simple actually:

1. Cut taxes for the rich.
2. Start war with Iran.
3. Blame war on growth of deficit.
4. Demands cuts in Medicare and Social Security to fix deficit caused by war.

mojo2012

(290 posts)
21. ATTENTION FACT CHECKERS !
Mon Sep 17, 2012, 08:39 AM
Sep 2012

Get ready, you'll be busy - Go Get 'EM ! Flood us with all the ammunition, as Annie would call it!

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