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Related: About this forumPeggy Noonan: "It’s time to admit the Romney campaign is an incompetent one"
Its time to admit the Romney campaign is an incompetent one. Its not big, its not brave, its not thoughtfully tackling great issues.
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Peggy Noonan: "It’s time to admit the Romney campaign is an incompetent one" (Original Post)
TroyD
Sep 2012
OP
I wonder if he was too rich to worry about the campaign, or if he knew all along he would fail..
otherone
Sep 2012
#1
To be fair, the first week describes the candidate...it took a bit longer for the campaign
cr8tvlde
Sep 2012
#4
It's tackling people who feel somehow entitled to eat, and might need some
TwilightGardener
Sep 2012
#5
it is time to admit that the Republican Party is morally bankrupt, criminally negligent,
FSogol
Sep 2012
#8
Only his campaign is incompetent? No, Willard, himself, is grossly incompetent.
Indpndnt
Sep 2012
#9
otherone
(973 posts)1. I wonder if he was too rich to worry about the campaign, or if he knew all along he would fail..
central scrutinizer
(11,636 posts)2. no, it is time to admit the candidate is dangerous, sick asshole
so thank the goddess that the campaign is incompetent.
Skittles
(153,111 posts)3. Peggy darling, that time was the first week of his campaign
cr8tvlde
(1,185 posts)4. To be fair, the first week describes the candidate...it took a bit longer for the campaign
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)5. It's tackling people who feel somehow entitled to eat, and might need some
help doing that. So Mr. Bazillionaire is going to put those parasites in their place. Wait...is that not a "great issue"? Isn't that "big and brave", to pick on the bottom half of the country's earners?
bklyncowgirl
(7,960 posts)6. There's an old saying "A dead fish stinks from the head."
If his campaign is incompetent we know who to blame. That would be the great turn around artist, the guy who likes firing people, that captain of industry (in China that is) Mitt Romney.
Doctor Jack
(3,072 posts)7. Incompetent was a good description 6 months ago
Today it is more of an unmitigated disaster.
FSogol
(45,438 posts)8. it is time to admit that the Republican Party is morally bankrupt, criminally negligent,
and does not have America's best interests at heart.
Indpndnt
(2,391 posts)9. Only his campaign is incompetent? No, Willard, himself, is grossly incompetent.
And very, very twisted.
AnnieBW
(10,409 posts)10. Finally!
A Republican says something that I can agree with!
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)11. Peggy the end is here. Gathering all the "elders" of the party in a circle around him won't work.
You can't put lipstick on a pig.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)12. Incompetent campaign = future incompetent presidency.
Wounded Bear
(58,590 posts)13. Figgerred that out all by yourself, there, didja, Pegs?
Good journalists make stating the obvious interesting. You failed.
progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)14. It ain't the campaign, lady, it's the CANDIDATE. nt