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Hissyspit

(45,788 posts)
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 08:35 PM Sep 2012

A Mood of Gloom Afflicts the Romney Campaign

Source: New York Times

September 18, 2012, 7:34 PM1 Comment

A Mood of Gloom Afflicts the Romney Campaign

By MICHAEL BARBARO

- snip -

A palpably gloomy and openly frustrated mood has begun to envelop Mr. Romney’s campaign for president. Well practiced in the art of lurching from public relations crisis to public relations crisis, his team seemed to reach its limit as it digested a ubiquitous set of video clips that showed their boss candidly describing nearly half of the country’s population as government-dependent “victims,” and saying that he would “kick the ball down the road” on the biggest foreign policy challenge of the past few decades, the Palestinian-Israeli peace process.

Grim-faced aides acknowledged that it was an unusually dark moment, made worse by the self-inflicted, seemingly avoidable nature of the wound. In low-volume, out-of-the-way conversations, they are now wondering whether victory is still possible and whether they are entering McCain-Palin ticket territory.

A flustered adviser, describing the mood, said that the campaign was turning into a vulgar, unprintable phrase.

Aides did little to hide their annoyance: on Tuesday night, a Romney aide cursed loudly as he tried to corral reporters into an impromptu news conference in Costa Mesa, Calif.

Read more: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/a-mood-of-gloom-afflicts-the-romney-campaign/?smid=tw-thecaucus&seid=auto

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A Mood of Gloom Afflicts the Romney Campaign (Original Post) Hissyspit Sep 2012 OP
Let's fight for votes as if we are 10 points behind Kingofalldems Sep 2012 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author bupkus Sep 2012 #3
agreed Liberalynn Sep 2012 #5
Let's not forget 2000 & 2004... renaissanceguy Sep 2012 #64
Agreed! avebury Sep 2012 #16
That may already be happening Flatpicker Sep 2012 #73
Agreed! Let's not trust 'em frogmarch Sep 2012 #37
Right on keep up the pressure ruffburr Sep 2012 #43
Agreed. Never trust a dying dog. geckosfeet Sep 2012 #47
Rather than a dying dog, Mitt's more like a dying opossum sad sally Sep 2012 #60
You can't kill an opossum! I know this from personal experience! truthisfreedom Sep 2012 #69
Cool story. lexw Sep 2012 #76
Hell yes! OmahaBlueDog Sep 2012 #62
Agreed. n/t silvershadow Sep 2012 #63
I know that "vulgar, unprintable phrase" tosh Sep 2012 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author bupkus Sep 2012 #11
flusterluck? Arugula Latte Sep 2012 #14
I know that one from "Finnegan's Wake" longship Sep 2012 #21
Oooh, fancy book lernin! Arugula Latte Sep 2012 #59
Mulva? redwitch Sep 2012 #26
::opens window:: "DELORES!!!" Grown2Hate Sep 2012 #68
Buster's Truck? Voice for Peace Sep 2012 #49
I was going to guess "shit casserole" waddirum Sep 2012 #61
....or Jircle Cerk? TheCowsCameHome Sep 2012 #17
Clusterfuck .... hell, they'll have to work hard to make it as good as that. TahitiNut Sep 2012 #40
Now they're cursing out the same people they need to distribute their spin? Indpndnt Sep 2012 #4
". . . a vulgar, unprintable phrase". . . Journeyman Sep 2012 #6
Cartman said it best: corkhead Sep 2012 #7
Good! chuckstevens Sep 2012 #8
I'd love to get into that press pool... Earth_First Sep 2012 #9
Gloom isn't good enough by half. We need it to be a mood of stark terror. kestrel91316 Sep 2012 #10
I think Mitt's got a new theme song! tanyev Sep 2012 #12
Too funny! Window Sep 2012 #23
haha! Perfect! Gonna put it on Facbook. frogmarch Sep 2012 #35
I just came home xxqqqzme Sep 2012 #13
I hope that are thousand more like him out there. nt avebury Sep 2012 #18
I love these kinds of "anecdotal" moments 99th_Monkey Sep 2012 #30
I totally agree! nt avebury Sep 2012 #31
Hopefully many are waking up to the evilness they were endorsing simply RKP5637 Sep 2012 #28
Here come the resignations MichiganVote Sep 2012 #15
Let the bodies hit the floor... L0oniX Sep 2012 #33
And much of it is self-inflicted davidn3600 Sep 2012 #19
Speaking of football, if the Redskins beat the Panthers then Obama wins Shitty Mitty Sep 2012 #42
It's Redskins and Steelers Shae Sep 2012 #51
IOW Obama's a shoo-in jmowreader Sep 2012 #53
Does anyone know if there are any reporters embargoed with the campaign like those Game Change guys MgtPA Sep 2012 #20
Ye' ol' sayin': Give him enough rope & he'll hang himself!! Lol! hue Sep 2012 #22
Aaah! So glad you posted this quote. For the life of me, i couldn't remember it the other day desertduck Sep 2012 #79
All the gopers should stay home and not vote for this man. they don't like him.n/t hrmjustin Sep 2012 #24
I've gotten a couple of old racists to not vote for him Shitty Mitty Sep 2012 #44
awwwww.... poor poor sociopaths fascisthunter Sep 2012 #25
Never never stop 'till the job is finished! n/t RKP5637 Sep 2012 #27
McCain-Palin ticket territory ...it is! L0oniX Sep 2012 #29
If I were Romney now . . . caseymoz Sep 2012 #32
Shitty Mitty can't quit! Not while 47% of Americans are parasites! Shitty Mitty Sep 2012 #45
Donald Trump made an interesting comment tonight on Piers Morgan. Kteachums Sep 2012 #34
It ain't over till Rove sings. He's focusing on House & Senate now. nt Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2012 #39
I wish Donald Dump would quit acting like he knows shit about anything Shitty Mitty Sep 2012 #46
They won't let themselves lose the money game. renaissanceguy Sep 2012 #65
Love it! So, the Romney frogmarch Sep 2012 #36
Well, while this lasts.... ejbr Sep 2012 #38
If you think the Romney campaign is despressed, what about his financiers? Jessy169 Sep 2012 #41
Would that "vulgar, unprintable phrase" be 'clusterfuck'? Or maybe 'shit show'? Plaid Adder Sep 2012 #48
You Think? LovingA2andMI Sep 2012 #50
Romney staff, let me explain it to you this way. You'd have to climb up a lot to enter Fresh_Start Sep 2012 #52
"wondering whether victory is still possible" PSPS Sep 2012 #54
Ahhh, music to my ears Jack Sprat Sep 2012 #55
Someone should tell them that they already passed the McCain/Palin territory months ago. nt cstanleytech Sep 2012 #56
--- and the puke has 7 more weeks to fuck it up some more. jerseyjack Sep 2012 #57
If I might offer a bit of advice for the campaign staff: Arugula Latte Sep 2012 #58
what a bunch of fucking amateurs. progressivebydesign Sep 2012 #66
We need the house back WRH2 Sep 2012 #67
Kick nt Hissyspit Sep 2012 #70
Romney is such a terrible candiate...I worry that folks will begin to feel sorry KoKo Sep 2012 #71
Their best bet is to get their recorders rolling... CoffeeCat Sep 2012 #72
link heaven05 Sep 2012 #74
We are not out of the Woods Yet oldsarge54 Sep 2012 #75
Mood of Gloom Afflicts the Romney Campaign Flashmann Sep 2012 #77
And the Citizens United-inspired ads haven't kicked in yet nichomachus Sep 2012 #78
KARMA. You can't push hate & not have some retribution. This was just...so quick. desertduck Sep 2012 #80

Kingofalldems

(38,361 posts)
1. Let's fight for votes as if we are 10 points behind
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 08:37 PM
Sep 2012

Repubs always have tricks and plenty of money. Things are looking up though.

Response to Kingofalldems (Reply #1)

renaissanceguy

(1,729 posts)
64. Let's not forget 2000 & 2004...
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 11:36 PM
Sep 2012

Anything is possible with these crooks. We can't assume anything. We need to show up in masses!!



http://www.cafepress.com/liberalissues

avebury

(10,946 posts)
16. Agreed!
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 08:58 PM
Sep 2012

I'd like to see Romney decimated so badly that there will be no political future for him and the Romney name will be too toxic for any of his sons to run for office.

Flatpicker

(894 posts)
73. That may already be happening
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 01:00 PM
Sep 2012

If Mitt loses, I think his families political future is over.

That tape and the internet's ability to not forget has changed the game. The republicans just haven't realized it yet.

Even if the MSM doesn't want to do so, we have the ability to report the lies and keep the public's memory refreshed on their actions.

geckosfeet

(9,644 posts)
47. Agreed. Never trust a dying dog.
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 10:04 PM
Sep 2012

But I am still amazed and ashamed at how easily this pos duped so many MA voters.

sad sally

(2,627 posts)
60. Rather than a dying dog, Mitt's more like a dying opossum
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 11:10 PM
Sep 2012

He rolls over, legs up in the air, and just when it appears he's dead, the snarls come out of his beady little mouth.

truthisfreedom

(23,113 posts)
69. You can't kill an opossum! I know this from personal experience!
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 05:18 AM
Sep 2012

I was driving to a bar late night after the first snow of the year in Minneapolis. I happened upon an opossum on the road, a very large one, huge actually, and the first I'd ever seen in Minnesota. He'd been hit by a car and his rear legs were completely out of commission. I couldn't bear the thought of him being hit again, and I stopped my SUV and put on a pair of work gloves and stared at him for a moment. He looked placid enough, but fiery-eyed. I told him I was going to help him over the curb, but he could not bite me. He simply stared. I actually ended up pulling him by his front paws, which were perfectly mobile, over the curb and up onto the sidewalk. He didn't resist, fight, or snarl. I expected to see him there an hour later when I returned, but he was long gone... down a hill and across a wide expanse of woods I could see by streetlight. He had dragged himself using his front paws for much more than 300 yards to some invisible destination. I don't doubt that he's alive today.

Response to tosh (Reply #2)

TahitiNut

(71,611 posts)
40. Clusterfuck .... hell, they'll have to work hard to make it as good as that.
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 09:51 PM
Sep 2012

They've got a candidate that might have to join his money overseas before this is over. He's a nightmare of a candidate and a nightmare of a human being. He DOES, however, aptly represent the attitudes of his peer group -- Wall Street vulture capitalists -- to whom the sole vaue of any human being is how much their labors will enrich the wealthy. The facade was pierced and the TRUTH about their regard for others again revealed.

Journeyman

(15,001 posts)
6. ". . . a vulgar, unprintable phrase". . .
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 08:42 PM
Sep 2012

My money's on "clusterph*ck". . . since that's what the whole process has seemed like for the Republican Party this entire election cycle.

corkhead

(6,119 posts)
7. Cartman said it best:
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 08:43 PM
Sep 2012





I have a feeling I am going to be posting this video a lot in the next several weeks
 

chuckstevens

(1,201 posts)
8. Good!
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 08:44 PM
Sep 2012

Now lets spread the gloom like an incoming storm across Washington DC to McConnell and Bohner's offices.

xxqqqzme

(14,887 posts)
13. I just came home
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 08:53 PM
Sep 2012

from my volunteer day at our local campaign office. Shortly after I opened up today, we received a phone call asking if we had yard signs, buttons and/or bumper stickers (we do). Our caller had ripped the rmoney stickers off his car and thrown his yard signs away. He came in a couple of hours later and stayed about 30 minutes just getting it all off his chest. He was fed up; could no longer support rmoney; and simply no longer trusted him to do what was right.

Our convert has a son in Afghanistan; is fearful rmoney will start another war and is tired of the attacks on women. He was calm, reasonable, his complaints well thought out and easily articulated. After he left, I looked at my fellow volunteer and said 'Hard to believe he was a rethuglican'.

 

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
30. I love these kinds of "anecdotal" moments
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 09:33 PM
Sep 2012

because I KNOW for every one of these that we hear about, there
about probably a thousand happening we never hear about, maybe
more.

RKP5637

(67,030 posts)
28. Hopefully many are waking up to the evilness they were endorsing simply
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 09:30 PM
Sep 2012

because he had an R attached to him.

 

davidn3600

(6,342 posts)
19. And much of it is self-inflicted
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 09:05 PM
Sep 2012

Romney is like a football team that fumbles the ball on every possession (news cycle). He can't get off defense.

Shitty Mitty

(138 posts)
42. Speaking of football, if the Redskins beat the Panthers then Obama wins
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 09:59 PM
Sep 2012

The Redskins have something to do with who wins the election... but yeah good comparison with the fumbles thing. Shitty Mitt just doesn't have that special look of a president.

Shae

(1,108 posts)
51. It's Redskins and Steelers
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 10:20 PM
Sep 2012

Traditionally, on the game before election day, if the Redskins win, there is a Republican victory. A Steelers win means a Democratic victory.

MgtPA

(1,022 posts)
20. Does anyone know if there are any reporters embargoed with the campaign like those Game Change guys
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 09:06 PM
Sep 2012

in 2008?

I sure hope so!

Shitty Mitty

(138 posts)
44. I've gotten a couple of old racists to not vote for him
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 10:00 PM
Sep 2012

cuz he's a Mormon. Of course, I had to explain to the men what a Mormon was first.

caseymoz

(5,763 posts)
32. If I were Romney now . . .
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 09:36 PM
Sep 2012

. . . I would suspend the campaign. Keeping this going is just going to hurt other Republicans running for office.

However, I'm not a stupid, egotistical, power-hungry douche bag, so I know he'll keep it going for the duration. He'll lurch from one crisis to another, and the Repubs have tied themselves to this guy. Already, he's defined the issue of this election to be class warfare, something Repubs are guaranteed to lose.

The Repubs must be desperate now. He's putting the Senate out of reach, and working toward to lose the House.

Shitty Mitty

(138 posts)
45. Shitty Mitty can't quit! Not while 47% of Americans are parasites!
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 10:02 PM
Sep 2012

I ain't even gonna do the sarcasm thing

Kteachums

(331 posts)
34. Donald Trump made an interesting comment tonight on Piers Morgan.
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 09:39 PM
Sep 2012

He said the Democrats had spent their money and the Republicans were holding onto their money and would end up spending it when it mattered. They have something planned. They will buy votes, rig where they can, etc. I don't trust them at all!

renaissanceguy

(1,729 posts)
65. They won't let themselves lose the money game.
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 11:38 PM
Sep 2012

Money will find its way into the campaign. I wouldn't buy it. This is a ploy to make Romney look like the underdog... you just watch!


http://www.cafepress.com/liberalissues

Jessy169

(602 posts)
41. If you think the Romney campaign is despressed, what about his financiers?
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 09:53 PM
Sep 2012

Romney was a high gain, high risk investment for them. They invested hundreds of millions, and all they got was DOOM and GLOOM.

I wonder if they'll go down that easy. Don't count on it.

Plaid Adder

(5,518 posts)
48. Would that "vulgar, unprintable phrase" be 'clusterfuck'? Or maybe 'shit show'?
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 10:09 PM
Sep 2012

I'm goin' with "shit show."

The Plaid Adder

Fresh_Start

(11,330 posts)
52. Romney staff, let me explain it to you this way. You'd have to climb up a lot to enter
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 10:22 PM
Sep 2012

McCain-Palin territory.
McCain at the end of the day was still considered honorable. Palin was considered amusing.
Your two, are neither honorable or amusing.
Snivelling and corrupt come to mind and I still am not coming up with words low enough to describe them.

PSPS

(13,512 posts)
54. "wondering whether victory is still possible"
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 10:30 PM
Sep 2012
Grim-faced aides acknowledged that it was an unusually dark moment, made worse by the self-inflicted, seemingly avoidable nature of the wound. In low-volume, out-of-the-way conversations, they are now wondering whether victory is still possible and whether they are entering McCain-Palin ticket territory.

The thing is that, regardless of who was running for the GOP, they wouldn't be winning. The fact is that the country as a whole isn't buying what they're selling. A "better salesman" still won't be able to sell a platform of truly crazy policies beyond the ever-shrinking GOP base. Outside the south, their only constituency is billionaires, especially criminal ones who don't want to pay any taxes.
 

Jack Sprat

(2,500 posts)
55. Ahhh, music to my ears
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 10:30 PM
Sep 2012

Aides did little to hide their annoyance: on Tuesday night, a Romney aide cursed loudly as he tried to corral reporters into an impromptu news conference in Costa Mesa, Calif.


Say it's so Joe

progressivebydesign

(19,458 posts)
66. what a bunch of fucking amateurs.
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 11:59 PM
Sep 2012

Romney "waves over the reporters to video him carrying his grandchildren to the plane." Wow.. is this Leave it to Beaver, or a Presidential campaign??

And breathlessly yelling to reporters to check out the DRUDGE headline about a supposed tightening poll number? The reporters know what a useless POS Drudge is... as if that's going to get them excited.

And ooooh.. the aides going on twitter to snark about a video shot in 1998, as usual, taken out of context, gets them excited and happy again???

Seriously... Romney jokes that hes upset about not getting the cobbler. Wow... how endearing and personable.

WRH2

(87 posts)
67. We need the house back
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 12:01 AM
Sep 2012

We need to burn their house to the ground ,We need a Dem house and a super majority in the Senate. And this time we need to prosecute the crooks. No more blanket immunity. Period.We need an arab spring here, in november

KoKo

(84,711 posts)
71. Romney is such a terrible candiate...I worry that folks will begin to feel sorry
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 11:04 AM
Sep 2012

for him. From the beginning he's been a disaster. I wonder if the guy even wants the job.

To think that this is the best the Repugs could do after the diaster of McCain-Palin. And even Bob Dole and Bush II were no prizes. They had to steal it to get Bush II in there.

They are a disaster...but, we should never underestimate the power of the money, the clueless right wingers,the MIC plus faulty voting machines to make this a hairline finish.

CoffeeCat

(24,411 posts)
72. Their best bet is to get their recorders rolling...
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 11:56 AM
Sep 2012

...start documenting this plane-crash campaign--and then write a book about it.

I would read it.

"Game Changer" which detailed the McCain/Palin campaign was riveting--albeit nauseating.

He's not going to win. Save yourselves.

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
74. link
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 01:54 PM
Sep 2012

in reading the side stories on this link, they're still tryng to knock down the Obama convention bounce and give that rethug a chance at a close election. Such BS media in this country. SAD!!!

oldsarge54

(582 posts)
75. We are not out of the Woods Yet
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 02:09 PM
Sep 2012

Anyone notice that the Conservative Superpacs are now shifting their money to congressional races. We are not out of the woods yet. Darn it.

Flashmann

(2,140 posts)
77. Mood of Gloom Afflicts the Romney Campaign
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 02:15 PM
Sep 2012


Couldn't happen to a better guy.....And probably wouldn't!!.....

nichomachus

(12,754 posts)
78. And the Citizens United-inspired ads haven't kicked in yet
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 03:49 PM
Sep 2012

I've only seen one -- and it is positively vile. And because they're an anonymous group, they can say anything without being held accountable for it.

Expect the airwaves to be flooded with these in the run-up to the election.

Did I mention that the ad was vile?

desertduck

(213 posts)
80. KARMA. You can't push hate & not have some retribution. This was just...so quick.
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 05:16 PM
Sep 2012

Almost breathtakingly quick.

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