Perceptive and accurate, Erick, if painful to have to admit. The Romney campaign does have real flaws, and while the MSM is eagerly overhyping them, that doesn’t mean those flaws don’t exist.

Romney’s big chance to turn this around is in the debates, especially the first one. But I worry about Mitt’s debate prep, if Stu Stevens is handling that one, too.

Well, Boston once forced out a pretty good debate coach because he was becoming too famous. If only they could apply that standard to themselves. Stu Stevens needs to be kept in check, at least.
Isn’t there a Univision forum as well, by the way?

Looking at Mitt’s latest ad, it appears he may be listening to us. It focuses on three points in his plan for a stronger middle class. Hopefully this will be the start of a new phase of the campaign based on a bold vision of leadership and renewal, and contrasting it with Obama’s record. But they still have to buck up and do a lot more work.

Eric this shouldn’t be news to anyone. I have tried to get my friends and other conservatives to see and understand that Mitt Romney is too much of a flip-flopper and general Wimp. I have knwn since the begining of the push for Romney that he was the wrong candidate just like I knew McCain was in 2008. The Republican Party hasn’t just lost this election they have thrown the country under the proverbial Bus. What kind of Miracle does anyone think will happen in the next few weeks to put Romney on top. Romney has no Charisma. He doesn’t electrify. Our Candidate was not only going to have to win Republicans but also independents and worse of all they were going to have to beat the pollsters and the media. There was no way that Mr. Nice Guy Romney was going to be able to do that. It doesn’t matter what this plan is to safe America no one every heard him be passionate about it.

The Republicans might as well just stiop wasting money for a lost cause and Pray to God that there is still an America in 2016. I have been a republican all my life but no more. The Party has told me as a conservative I am not welcome. The Progressives are moving into the Party and pushing us out. maybe we are letting them but that is what is happening and this is the results of it. When the choice is between two liberals they wil tak the one already in office and that would be Obama. We either need new leaders or a New party. This is the time to start a new Party so as to be ready for the 20126 elections if we should be lucky enough to h=ave them.

this makes me sick to the stomach and one time that i pray to God that i am wrong about.

Telling hard truths =/= lecturing and scolding voters
The problem with Team Romney’s strategy is that they seem to think hitting Obama means hitting the people who voted for him. That’s false, and you comment seems to buy into that.
I’m sure Romney isn’t one of those fiery dads himself. :p
Instead, what about an image more suited to Reagan…. a straight-talking, but wise, experienced, and caring, grandfather? Difficult for Team Chicago to be attacking a nice, heart-warming grandpa, no matter how rich. We could tie that in with his record as a businessman and successful executive, and link it to his case for a change. Of course, Mitt looks a little too youthful. Might have worked better for Mac in 08. ^^

Sounds like the Romney campaign could use a good dose of Newt Gingrich.
And I wish the RNC would run that video shown at the convention of all the Hispanic political leaders, down here in South Texas. I don’t know if they know this since the RNC is out of touch with real voters, but there ARE Hispanic voters in my neck of the woods believe it or not. That message would be instantly embraced and, for the first time in their lives, they will vote Republican. I’ve been looking on YouTube and gop.com and can’t find it, That clip will positively activate the Hispanic community. Just a thought.

One other thing. I’m a cultural conservative. Economic/jobs are what matter this election. Romney’s stated he’s on the conservative side of the values issue.

Let us know when your balloon lands. 2010 is *not* a guide to 2012 likely voters – the conservative base was hugely p*ssed off at Obama, the Tea Party was crackling with the energy of new formation, and Obama’s base said – ‘meh – mid year – our guy already has the White House’ and stayed home.

Only one of those three is true for 2012, and if we’re depending on depressed dem turnout at 2010 levels, and the morons who haven’t yet made up their minds between freedom and socialism to rescue Romney, we’re hosed.

As per Eric, we’d lose today. If nothing changes, we’ll lose in November. QED.

Actually, not ‘contra Dick Morris’ anymore…. his latest article has a decidedly different tone. It goes without saying that I will do everything I can to help win this election but the depressing part isn’t the possibility of losing in itself… it is losing an election when so many of Obama’s policies are directly blowing up in his face. Even given a bad campaign, Romney should be crushing Obama right now.

After all this talk about what Romney is or isn’t doing, notice that Obama is doing well in an absolute sense.

Look at Obama’s approval rating. Those are polls that just ask if respondents approve of Obama’s performance as President, not whether they prefer him to Romney.

And right now, Obama’s approval rating is 49.4%–less than one point away from being a majority. 47.1% disapprove, meaning that only 3.5% of the voters are undecided about him at this point.

That doesn’t give Romney or any other challenger much room to work with.

If the voters approve of the incumbent, he stays in office. It doesn’t matter what the challenger does or doesn’t do.

We hear about all the money in the Romney campaign to have a huge final push: tick-tock-tick-tock.

Am I hearing a strangulated sound similar to McLame’s campaign in 2008? I have been waiting for the huge push, and get a protectionist ad bashing China more than it centers on the future, more than it centers on BIG BRObama’s disastrous policies.

Trade policy on China? Really? An ad about that?

Impossible-to-repay debt, inflation or deflation, and national bankruptcy are coming faster than ever before thanks to $1,000,000,000,000 + deficits per year. Where are those ads? (And lets use the number rather than the word “trillion” to shock people with all those zeroes.)

Maybe the campaign isn’t catching fire because People don’t like what Romney is selling.

Mitt Who?

You mean there is someone out there who is running for President? I mean, other than the Great Barack Obama? I just thought there was this incompetent boob of a gaffe-machine who bumbles around in the imperial wake of Our Great President, shooting from the lip and unable to muss up his coif.

At least, that’s the middling impression I’m left with after the Democrat-Media Complex defines the general terms. And, since this guy named Mitt isn’t countering that definition, I guess it stands.

There is a reason we conservatives did not support Mitt in the primaries. Not having a philosophical core –the place from which a fighting passion flows– turns out to be a real problem, eh?

But we shouldn’t worry, no? Remember: Mitt’s “electable”. Psshhhh.

The only thing I’m worried about is early voting.

I don’t think it is realistic to expect either candidate to win by a length, or even half a length, notwithstanding a major strategic move by R&R’s campaign. It’s going to be by a nose, and we’ll be biting our nails until every state reports in on Tuesday night. In the meantime, I will continue to do whatever I can to cancel out votes for Obama: by getting voters on board with me, or at least telling the squishies who voted for BHO in ’08 there’s a 100% chance of rain on November 6th, and the lines are a mile long at the polling stations.

100% right on the message Erick. They should be hammering Obama, and yet they are afraid to. What a disgrace he had no qualms about smashing Gingrich, but cowers at the thought of going after the marxist.

You can’t say Romney is losing when it’s this close. The consistency in the rasmussen polls tell us this thing is a dead heat. However, given the democrat cheat factor, a tie probably does mean an Obama win.

Another thing, anecdotally, but why is it I see Obama commercials on national TV, but have yet to see a Romney ad?

The real issue isn’t that Romney might lose, it’s that Obama might win. Nearly half our country voting for a marxist. Decades of voting for big government republicans are coming home to roost. So is cowering in fear of the media and refusing to expose the left wingers for what they are.

Cameron is no fellow Conservative… Romney was telling the truth. And on CNN…

Anyone who watched Romney’s campaign against Ted Kennedy in 1994 had to have real concern about the outcome of a Romney & Obama campaign. Romney was never our most electable candidate. An international event, a debate stumble by Obama/Biden or some unforeseen event could still tip this election in Romney’s favor. But, that said, the way this race is playing out is not surprising to anyone who watched Romney’s campaigns for the last 18 years.

Been to a rally? They are hammering Obama.

Seen that on CNN? Nope.

Maybe Erick could ask his colleagues over at CNN why we never see ANY coverage of the campaign stops by R & R.

I understand what you are saying and may totally agree with you, but you can not deny that the polls are skewed by a huge margin. What do you make of the graph below

Alrighty then…let’s just jump on that media narrative that the Romney campaign is fractured, hasn’t done a good job (except in the areas they have done a good job), hasn’t gotten HIS message across, blah blah blah. Knock it off. I couldn’t read all this negative stuff and no, I do not have my head in the sand, nor to I pay attention to much of what the media is saying. If one watches CNN and MSNBC that one will walk away thinking, why yes the messiah will still be president in 2013. To pick stories from their biased narratives and continue them onto conservative websites does Romney no good. To site columnists, journalists, talking heads, pundits, etc as how you got to your reasoning just increases the talk against Romney. Let the man run his own canpaign and do your part to help him. I know most of your will read and agree with Erick’s piece, I just happen to disagree but I do not know any important political people to bend my ear about Romney, I don’t even know specific columnists to give me their experienced take on Romney.
I do know this…I will do all I can to help Romney get elected. I have written two emails to his campaign with “suggestions” from a very grassroots lady, I talk with everyone who wants to listen, and or debate, about Romney and why I like him. I let people know I supported Romney ahead of the great minds on their televisions and that deep down in his heart, Romney is an American and believes as I do regarding our greatness as a country. Instead of all the “armchair general attitude some are now taking on, how about writing about the positives. Contact some conservatives in the media and make your suggestions about giving the MSNBC and CNN a pass in regards to continuing their narrative. Get on some liberal websites and attempt to debate (I know this one is hard, liberals resort to name calling almost immediately). Talk with your neighbors, friends, associates about Mitt’s positives. Come up with something better than “anything is better than Obama”. If you can’;t find a reason other than that to support Romney why then yes, continue bad mouthing his campaign and help sink this election.
We don’t need Erick to be our cheerleader and I know he has written many time positiviely about Romney in the past. Please, enough other media this morning is concentrated on this same theme. Let’s not jump onto their negative go-cart. It started up big time when George Will said “if the republicans can’t win this election…”
but I’ve never thought George Will was all that Conservative and all his statement did was start this landslide of Romney is in trouble. I prefer to believe that Romney will recognize a problem if it exists and take care of it.
Sorry to be in disagreement, but something is going on in the background in our media on both sides that is very ugly. You can write about the truth when you are using facts! When you write with heresay as your evidence, that just might turn out to be a pile of bologna.

Wait….what happened over the weekend that I missed? Did Obama suddenly open up a 20 point lead? Let me check that really quickly here. Nope. RCP has them neck and neck still and Obama below 50% in all polls. This means, were the election held today, Romney would win. I don’t know how else to interpret that and I don’t know how else to interpret this article other than nervous ninny hand wringing. Reagan was down in the polls until the very LAST debate. I’ll be willing to bet, if we go back and look at the conservative thought leadership of that day, we’d find that there were nervous ninnies back then too wringing their hands and peeing themselves as Eric has done here. The plain truth is, this election is and always has been in the hands of the American electorate and, truly in the hands of the silent majority who has chosen to be silent no more. If I had read an article like this discussing the fact that the NC constitutional amendment vote was in question this year, I still would have voted. Ask me that same question 8 years ago, perhaps not. You need to put more faith, more emphasis, and more effort behind the real movers and shakers in this election and less worry in the nominee or his staff. I am not voting for his staff. I’m voting for him. I’m fired up and I’m ready to vote Obama OUT. If you don’t have the courage of your convictions, perhaps you should consider handing the reigns of this publication over to someone with enough testicular fortitude to carry the message without worrying about jinned up polls rigged to shape opinion rather than reflect it.

I have been reading through these poet and it is bone chilling
the people that still don’t get it that Romney is not the right choice of the
Party unless the Party is moving left. I
talked about Romney not having Charisma and was attacked saying we aren’t
electing a Rock Star but the problem is that is exactly what Obama is. People that are voting for Obama are not
voting because they think he is the best President they really don’t have a close. They are flocking to him because he says what
they want to hear, he says in a way they want to hear it and they really don’t
know anything about the country, the constitution and hell I would be willing
to bet that at least two out of ten of them can’t find DC on a map.

The question you have to ask yourself is why are you voting
for Romney? Is the answer because you
really and truly think he has the right plan for America, or is it that you
always vote Republican or is it that you just don’t like Obama? The “Inconvenient Truth” about the Republican
Party is that ever since Reagan left office and starting with George H W Bush
we have not had a candidate to vote for.
We have only had a candidate to vote against. In 1988 Bush won the Presidency off the heels
and work of Reagan. Anyone that knew
Bush knew he did not get along with Reagan and did not like his policies but
people still did not want a Dukakis and the possible return of the Carter years
and so many people didn’t realize how Liberal Bush was. This really sank home when Bush announced the
“Thousand Points of Light”. That pretty
much solidified it for the independents and conservative Democrats that had
supported Reagan.

Since that time We have not had a true conservative
candidate. There Was Bob Dole, G W Bush
and then that most liberal of all Republican candidates McCain. Not a winner in
the Bunch except GW Bush pulled it off by accident and that was it.

For some unknown reason to me no candidate wants to be
another Reagan. They don’t even
try. Reagan not only knew about how to
make an economy run he knew how to make the American people believe in themselves.
He apologized to no one and he was a leader right out of the box.

Over the years the conservatives have been slowly forced out
of the Party. Michael Steele out right
told us we weren’t wanted in his Party. He came up with the Big Tent nonsense
that went absolutely nowhere and then attacked Rush Limbaugh head-on insulting
what little conservatives he hadn’t up until then. What this does is make many conservatives
just sit at home. The subliminal thought is that if you have to vote for a
liberal the one in power is as good as another. Don’t try to tell me this is BS
or dreaming because I work very hard in my district to get people to vote and
figure out why they aren’t.

Fellow conservatives I know you want this very badly but we
lost the election last year in the Primaries when we allowed the conservative
candidates to be demonized and pushed out of the race. Even at that time the Obama campaign was
wishing and hoping to run against Romney.
He was the weakest against the President of them all and they knew
it.

One other problem I have brought up here is that only 10% of
the people have a clue about foreign Police or economics etc. 90% of the people vote for Rock Stars and we don’t
have one.

We need a clearer contrast, still.

I agree that the polls are probably not as skewed as we want to think. I am not surprised that, despite the utter failure of the Obama administration, that independents and moderate Democrats are not overly excited about Mitt Romney; the Republican voters never got excited about Romney until all other candidates–Cain, Santorum, Perry, Gingrich, Bachmann–got momentum or leads and then faded as their respective flaws were exposed. Only then did Republican voters coalesce behind Romney as a candidate.
I am hoping that the general election follows the same pattern as the Republican primaries. Independent and moderate Democrat voters may not get fired up by a Romney campaign, but, after any realistic look at the alternative, decide he is clearly the better choice. Of course, it would be nice if he had a campaign that did a better job of highlighting Romney’s superiority over Obama to speed up that process.

Go to the Romney Campaign website and read his plan it is spelled out clearly. Then write a blog telling people what Romeny/Ryan will do. I did one last week and will continue to hammer it every week until election day.

This is the elephant in the room that hardly ever even gets addressed, even here. We have a bolshevik in the white house, an extremist muslim sympathizer, and yet he stands a good chance to get re-elected. America is sick at its core.

Only an act of God can save us from what is on the horizon.

Yes, it is true, polls are oversampling Democrats by a huge margin. The NYT/CBS poll released Friday had Obama winning by 3. But, Romney was winning Independents by 11%! You tell me how that is possible without a huge skew in Democrats being polled. A similar result occurred with a CNN poll. Obama up by 5 or 6 yet losing independents by 15%. I mean, come on. Does nobody look at poll internals when throwing out the ROMNEY IS DOOMED headlines?

Gallup’s 7 day tracking poll has shown Obama losing 1% every day since Wednesday. He was +7 on Wednesday, he was +3 yesterday. Since it’s a 7 days tracking poll, that means the polling on Friday and Sat most likely showed the race tied or possibly even Romney ahead. Where is the mention of this on Red State or any other Conservative blogs? Never mentioned.

I’ll be the first to say the Romney campaign has left me less that thrilled. Does it need improvement? You bet. Is the race over? Not by a long shot.

If he can’t,,or won’t control his message,,,or his people,,and keeps sticking his foot
in his mouth,if he can’t run his own campaign,We are supposed to trust him running the country??,,And dealing with leaders on the world stage??

One hundred percent agree with Erick on this post. I watched Romney’s MTP interview two weeks ago and found myself screaming at the TV, “you can’t even name one lousy loophole you’d close!” The one bright moment was when he was his campaign bus, and he explained concisely why the stock market was rising in the face of a stagnant economy. If only he would answer questions like that all the time. Ryan, appears to have been muzzled, except this week, when he made some spot-on comments about Obama’s Mid-East debacle.

Romney can do the job and he’s up to it. But somehow, his campaign, except for the 1-2 week bounce after selecting Ryan, has gone nowhere. WaPo has a story, Politico, Weekly Standard’s been on his case for weeks, PowerLine etc. Everyone sees the problems, but Romney, himself. People are looking for a leader who can assure them that he has solutions to the problems we are facing and communicate a vision of what America will be under his leadership. Romney has not done that, and in this election year, with so much at stake….. it’s terribly frustrating, and depressing to think we’ll have four more years of Obama.

If that happens, Romney’s going to need the Caymans, to escape to from everyone’s wrath.

When you don’t like the poll results you can always find a way to ignore it. Blame the poll for your bad, failing candidate.

An MSNBC host laughing at the right? Get out!

It’s definitely “doom and gloom” today. And IMO, it isn’t helping us one bit to win this election.

I wish our side did approach it with a greater influence on activism. If we did, we would actually have a much greater chance to not only win this election but also begin to turn things around.

There’s plenty of work to be done! What’s needed most right now is leadership in getting it done.

I hope you bubble has air holes. State races or midterm elections are not predictive of presidential elections.
Also, you have to look at 2008 exit polls and ask, how can Mitt make those different to a degree that he is up at least up 1% nationally when all votes are counted. That would almost insure the electoral college win.
It’s safe to assume that African Americans will vote 95% for Obama and that their turnout will be decent at the minimum. Due to demographic changes Hispanic voters (note polling showing O ahead in Florida even among Cubans, due to younger Cubans) are up slightly every presidential election every year. Also note age groups. Mcain did best the older the voter was, as is typical with republicans since conservatism is high in that group. In the last four years, as usual, something else was high in that group, the death rate. Many Mcain voters are dead while 14-17 year olds in the 2008 election are eligible. Their turnout will be low but they will vote overwhelmingly for O, like it or not.
Mitt is not only fighting O, he is also fighting the demographics of a changing country.
Chick-Fil-A I will not consider as a serious argument. It simply was another one week story that detracted from the economy, so that surely helped.

Letting Ryan take the lead (at least behind the scenes) isn’t a bad idea – his messaging is great when they’re not trying to contain him. But let’s not wring our hands – let’s go on offense and do everything we can to make the case, and fill in any deficiencies we may perceive in the campaign ourselves. We are wasting time with this angst – full steam ahead! We’ve gotten so much fuel to work with just this past week.
I think Romney was great last week – and his speech in VA was wonderful. We can fight on both fronts – economic and national security. While I would give anything to have never had last week’s tragedy occur, we must use it to point out the disastrous foreign policy of Obama. It is vital for our own security to make people understand the danger in which this administration has placed us!

You’re counting chickens that haven’t hatched yet, are you?

The demographics for voting groups vary. You can’t just paint them all with a broad brush. I can tell you for a fact that there is evidence here in NC that a larger group of voters in both black and Hispanic communities will vote for Romney…much more so than the Dems would like have to known at this point.

You are correct. Go with Lyin’ Ryan!! His voucher program will win big.

Heck, how do you lose when you’ve got a sub-3hours marathoner running for you?

it is “throes” not “throws.” A “death throe” is what a dying animal experiences. A “death throw” is what you are experiencing right now.

Let them laugh! Hard-core liberals ideologues are going to seek to discredit those of us on the right, particularly Conservatives, in any way that they can. That’s part of their effort to “control the narrative”.

But in doing so, they are also underestimating us. Make no mistake about it…regardless of the little kerfuffles that may go on from day to day, Conservatives will be there at the voting booth come Nov. 6th. And we’ll bringing other voters with us!!!

Paid troll trolling.

If the people will only vote for a Rock Star, then we might as well through in the towel, burn the Constitution, and eliminate all pretense of a representative democracy. If it take a Rock Star to win the presidency then our country is already gone.

Go ahead and laugh, yanika. The polls have been distorted by oversampling. There’s no doubt about that. For the current time, they portray Obama as winning.

The only “poll” that counts is the one taken on Nov. 6th. And Romney is going to win that one.

Ready or not, he’s what we have. It’s either Romney or Obama. Take your choice.

I choose Romney.

Lot of trolls on today.

Rasmussen is to polling as Romney is to facts.

It’s over. Throw in the towel. Obama will win 56 states after these latest polls:
CO: Obama +1 (Denver Post, released Friday)
MI: Obama +2 http://www.realclearpolitics.com/docs/2012/FMWB_MI_0916.pdf

There is now way Romney can come back from this avalanches of bad news.

Oh goody, a learned person. Pray tell what exact loopholes he’s going to unburden us of? Mortgage deductions?

While you’re at it, see if you can make his numbers balance without the use of division by zero.

How many at that rally? 5? 12?

Explain how CNN has Obama winning by 6 while Romney leads independents by 15%. Or how NYT/CBS has Obama winning by 3 while losing independents by 11%. I’m really curious to know how this works out.

Nothing fails like prayer. And guess what? America will still be here in 2016. Just in time for Hillary to come in for an eight year stint.

Then how do you explain the huge Dem leaning of these polls? They are predicting even greater Dem turnout than in 2008 while every other article is stating how Dems are a lot less enthused than in the last presidential election.

Romney put both of his Gucci clad feet in his mouth in the UK and there’s no other way of viewing or spinning that.

“Can do” what? Borrow some more government money for some struggling company to choke on or to save the Olympics?

I feel pretty good when Obamabot idiots disagree with me.

Are you “anatomically correct”, Bobby-Dear ? Do you have any plastic brains in your PVC Skull?
People buy what Barry is selling all day long and it’s for a reason.
Reason being they have never been taught to think critically and objectively , and gettin’ freebies ‘n’ stuff is more important than 6 weeks/6 months/6 years from now.
Mitt’s got all kinds of saleable goods. His advertiser and some of the help need to hit the streets.
Granted, He got off-message,strying from what ails us, domestically.
But with The Attention span of many in America being 2 weeks, and it’s:
” …What’d you say, again…? “

What evidence?
Are you suggesting that the demographics that have been changing for many decades now are no longer doing that. Mitt will likely carry NC. Obama does not need NC to win so argument limited to NC is not persuasive.

“Obama wants a planned economy run by hand outs to public employee unions
with stimulus money that The Fed prints. There is a contrast in how to
jump the economy if Romney would only use it.”

And you, of course, have proof of this lie.

Ever heard of Solyndra? Or how about that multi-trillion dollar loan Obama took from the Chinese to fund his “fundamental transformation of America”?

Mods: some clean up is required…the trolls have overrun this thread once they read Erick’s twitter feed. Perhaps, Erick’s intent was to highlight that in general liberals lack rudimentary reading comprehension skills.

I to like calm and no antics but vivid learning information put honestly to the uninformed is not an antic, except to the liberal press. He needs to forget about what the press will say because they will attack him even if he says the sky is blue. Staying positive doesn’t include being so bland about everything no one knows where you stand.

Sure we can trust the media and their polls. It is not as if their are colluding in figuring out what questions to ask Romney, for example, on the Libyan consulate attack.

The Republican Establishment got their man nominated. Romney is a moderate, aka Rino, who is running a moderate race ala John McCain. Once again the Republican Establishment has nominated someone who will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Maybe a Romney loss will bring down the Republican party and it will be replaced by a truly consevative party.

It’s a repeat of Obama. Obama says he’ll support the middle class, Romney say he’ll support the middle class. It’s a he said, he said commercial. This does not inform it only confuses.

Dude/dudette, where have you been? Just about everyone who knows how to differentiate between various forms of socio-economic policy is well aware of the fact that Obama has a preference for socialism, including centralized planning and state-managed capitalistic endeavors, over free-market capitalism.

tnfriendofcoal101368 • 4 minutes ago • parent
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yep, Democrats should hold their nose; Obama stinks to high heaven.
Well,,,you guys keep talking about personhood,,,abortion,,,and add in a little votersuppression,,,and you are all set

To the insiders Romney has on his team it’s politics as usual. They just don’t know how to do it differently.

Yeah if you love Obama – imagine how you are going to love a 6-3 court of Kagan’s and Sotomayor’s for 30 years.

just like you troll with your babble on other sites,,,,spare me your insight
and wisdom,,,save it for here,,

I don’t take it as bias even though my pick was Newt to. Romney is the nominee I want him to win, I will vote for him that doesn’t mean he couldn’t use some help. His team is out of touch with the reality of today. Their living in past campaigns where your running against a Democrat supported by half the country. This is not the case in this election. We have a sociopath as president and even though they need to be smart about it they need to learn how to get the message of danger across to the uninformed and stupid among us. So far they haven’t done it.

The Street {Discus Avenue} we’ve moved to seems to be littered with these folks.
Like forced busing , we weren’t given much of a choice .
He is Conservative but doesn’t like those he ‘hangs’ with. What in tarnation are you here for then?
I’ll give you $5 .00 if you just go. It was O K for your ‘other relatives’………..
I hear “The Nation Boulevard” has openings galore, and they’re on sale…….

That “Obama 2008″ bumper sticker is a little faded, huh? And by the way, where is Biden? Back in the straightjacket?

So, just because a vision for America is spelled out to us in black and white, this is supposed to mean that those of us who have both the determination and conviction that would allow us to protect and preserve this nation as the founded intended should do…what exactly? Whine about the lack of expressed vision? Or continue to fight for what we believe in?

One quibble catbird. The house has been burning for a long time. GWB fanned the flames voraciously, making Romney’s job that much more difficult.
Romney can’t win as a more articulate, more business savvy GWB. He should level with the nation, explain our peril in detail. But he, like most republicans, is treating this as just another campaign cycle.
Ultimately, you may be right. Perhaps it cannot be saved. But if conservatives don’t even have the balls for a political fight, God forbid, how could they ever win a real fight for their liberty? If we aren’t willing to fight for our liberty, we don’t deserve it.

Yes, unfortunately. The ad is not bad, claiming that MAObama could have saved American jobs “seven times” in various deals, but did not.

Romney will “get tough on China” etc. Well, fine, but…

How about getting tough on the budget, on tax reduction and reform, on unelected and out-of-control bureaucrats, etc.?

And be at least a little specific about those reductions and reforms!

Romney cannot break though the MSM roadblock until the debates.
Until then he’s just preaching to his choir. Most of America has no
idea what’s going on and when they hear the unvarnished truth about
Obama’s presidency, they will view Romney’s solutions much more
favorably. High gas prices, high unemployment, the MidEast in flames,
the dark cloud of higher taxes from the expiration of the Bush tax cuts,
plus the damage of ObamaCare on American business and our health
care system is more than enough to make them see the light as to what
needs to be done. These are issues that Obama cannot hide from.
Firing an incumbent president is never easy, but when the American
people realize Ronmey is not the devil the democrats and the media like
to portray him as, they will have no trouble giving Obama the heave ho.

We know…Moe and streiff reaked some havoc on those Kos kids. It’s sad really; they actually think it’s cool….not sad and pathetic

Rush is correctly noting today that the vast majority of polling vastly oversample Dems in their results, one in particular that is +13 Dems. I think I’ll stick with Rush, Dick Morris, and Rasmussen and not buy into the eeyorism that is rampant on our side of the aisle. Take a deep breath, folks, and get some perspective.

If the polls are to believed at this point in the campaign season (which I doubt) the wisdom of H.L. Mencken is about to become an axiom. The famed American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, critic of American life and culture, and a scholar of American English once remarked “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American
public”. This was affirmed in the 2008 elections and could become axiomatic in the 2012 presidential elections if Obama is returned to office.

After all, what rational person could re-elect a man whose economic policies are in tatters as we suffer the worst unemployment conditions since the Great Depression; the storming of our embassies all over the Middle East, Africa, and parts of Asia; the murder of our ambassador to Libya, 3 of his staff, and the burning of our consulate in Benghazi; the waste of taxpayer money on a poorly conceived energy policy; the collapse of world respect for the United States; a $5+ trillion deficit and a record setting $16 trillion national debt; 23 million citizens unemployed, underemployed, or just given up looking for work; 46.7 million people on food stamps (another record); the greatly devalued dollar that is resulting in much higher costs for oil products including gasoline and diesel; and a determined effort to avoid correcting our dependence on foreign oil by increased drilling off our coasts and the construction of the XL Keystone pipeline? I’m sure you can add several items to this list of the failures of the Obama presidency.
Those who continue to support this president are very dependent on government subsidies, are confirmed socialists, or have lost contact with reality. Although, Mitt Romney may not be your ideal choice for POTUS, he is, infinitely, better than Barack Obama and his record of failures and destruction of the American Dream.

What is telling to me, at least, is that in all of these polls, biased weighting aside, one thing is consistent: Romney is leading independents by a 10-15% margin.

Someone is honestly going to tell me that Obama can win the election when he’s losing independents in a landslide? Really? How do those numbers work?

Why start with the 2008 exit polls? Why not start with the 2010 exit polls?

Heck, I’ll even grant you 2006 or 2004 exit polls, since both 2008 and 2010 were wave elections.

If you think that 2012 exit polls will in any way resemble the 2008 exit polls, you delude yourself. On the other hand, one can make at least a reasonable argument that 2012 will resemble 2010: it is the most contemporaneous poll, interim elections have maintained 2010 results, and primary results have maintained Tea Party demographic enthusiasm.

I’m going to tire very quickly of such doom-and-gloom hand-wringing at RedState. Instead of this nonsense about the Romney campaign, even if you believe it to be true, why not focus on positive impact we can have, such as the many winnable Senate races that can (finally) let us kick Dirty Harry out as Senate Leader?

an already BANNED troll.

Do you have a point? Who cares if Rick Santorum would have been better. He’s not the nominee. Get over it.

And that’s the thing: all non-Rasmussen polls are using a sampling model that meets or exceeds the Democrat advantage of 2008. That’s why I give them zero credibility. They’re nothing more than using polls to push a narrative, writ large.

Romney had better jam this thing in gear, sew up the base and start acting like a constitional conservative (heavy on the acting). I am no fan but 4 more years of the lop-eared Marxist will finish us.

None of them were rock stars.

And I stand by my comments. We should not be in the business of trying to nominate rock stars. History is littered with the corpses of those who have followed rock stars.

If we are to the point where only rock stars can be elected, then we have already lost the battle.

You never were worth a damn Erickson. Republicans ignored your sage advice and nominated a candidate you never liked and you have been whining ever since. You want Romney to lose so you can claim you were right all along. You have even stooped to sticking up for CNN, the Obama house organ. Why don’t you go on Morning Joe and complete your transition to the other side because you are certainly not an asset to the right.

85% of conservatives support Romney according to Rasmussen? Approx 1 in 7 don’t? This should be close to 99% if we weren’t so busy snipping at Romney. Conservatives need to get there butts on board to defeat this garbage president. We can’t be at 85% and expect to win when Liberals are 91% for Obama. Read here:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

Really. Were ya queasy about that strategy? It’s a miracle it worked, considering Democrats have had control of the Congress for the entire economic downturn. Seriously, whatever they pay you, they are getting ripped off so badly. You are just dumber than a box of rocks.

I just want to know how the people, after this weeks events and Obama inclusion of the Muslim Brotherhood inside our security network, his use of American troops and money to help them expand in the Middle East, have not been seen what is called treason in his actions?

That may well be the single biggest factor here. I know that when pressed people will fall back on the tried and true. *Reality check* – according to the trending seen in recent polls, the ‘same-old-same-old’ will not cut it and it’s time for a change. The Romney campaign needs to step up their game and if there’s some fire needed, the campaign staff should *not* be the only ones adding the fuel. It is up to (once again) We*The*People!

Folks, we are at a crossroads in this country. Griping and moping will not close the deal. I’ve heard a lot of the same grips in every election going back to 1976. Stay focused, stay the course and believe in your heart we will win.

Was Mr. Romney my first choice? No.
Is he now our candidate? Yes.
AND the second answer trumps the first (and BTW – my vote in the primary has NO bearing at all on the upcoming general election). Everyone here (with the exception of the trolls from DKos) wants to fire
the current occupant and get some R and R in the Oval Office and I plan
to vote that way come Nov 6.

So, unless I have read it incorrectly, Erick is not prophesying a defeat so much a clarion call for a concise and clear message from the Romney campaign – one that we can be easily repeated without a notebook full of prepared texts. If that means a little housecleaning, so be it.

Our nation needs ‘R and R’ in 2012!

Good article. This is how this lib sees it: there’s one way of saying Democrat (market socialist) but at least four ways of saying Republican (religious right, libertarian, neoconservative, fiscal conservative). A big reason why Obama’s got an edge is because he only has to preach one message to his base and a slightly modified tune on the campaign trail. Romney’s got to deal with at least four different pitches to Republicans, and then pitch yet another noticeably different message to undecideds on the trail. No wonder Romney’s twisted himself into rhetorical pretzels. He can’t appease the battling factions in his party, let alone present a coherent front on the stump.

Republicans need to get their ideological house in order if they want to take back the presidency. The longer GOP infighting goes on, the farther Republicans stand from the White House.

Kudos to you for speaking your mind. But I would encourage you not to leave. We need different viewpoints and positive, happy warriors to fight the Left. Don’t judge EE or RS on this one diary either. People make mistakes and IMHO, the tone of this diary was a big one. Constructive criticism is valuable, destructive criticism is not. Good grief, Rubin’s piece was more measured and she is from the Wapo and no friend to Conservatives.

We all know the media is as dishonest as they come. Expect them to get worse as it gets closer to the election.

Indeed. Wanna point out the zero-votes budgets, the 30 bills blocked in the Senate, the botched debt deal, Bowles-Simpson?

WHO knows exactly what Gov Romney and Rep Ryan stand for? Tax cuts…for whom (WHAT are your tax payments, Gov.)? Less regulation (for banks??). More military spending (against Russia??).

Erick I saw this earlier and did not have time to respond. The simple truth is that you are gravely mistaken. You sir are wrong. I’m tired, so very very tired of people being unwilling to look underneath all the polls and all the media.

The latest political trend’s poll by Rasmussen show the highest self identification as Republicans since they started polling that question. 37.x percent. The Democrats at 33.1. Rasmussen’s cover page is that party identification changes very slowly. Last month it changed the most in the history of their sampling over 4%. Don’t you get it? The electorate has woken. The trend is forming. If the election were held on the day that you wrote this, Obama would lose. Period. Heck he might lose by a massive number of electoral votes.

Yes we need to work or tails off, but I am so tired of the notion that if Romney doesn’t do this or that he loses. The middle east is on fire and the administration is about to be exposed as lying about their incompetence. Despite the market numbers and QE3 (really QE4) everyone understands that we never left the recession and it is about to get much worse.

I usually think of conservatives as people who are in touch with the regular people. You seem caught in a bubble. When you have Obama in low single digits in states he won by 14 to 16 or more points. How in Gods name don’t you think that translates to the swing states?

The adults will control this election. THe kids are either disappointed and staying home, or angry and voting for Romney. The adults are voting for Romney, as are white’s between the ages of 18-29, as are white women wether married or not. Obama has lost about 1/3 of his Jewish vote and similar margins among hispanics.

Republican grassroots are fired up. Look was Romney my guy? Nope. But I am an ABO guy, and as of tomorrow I’m working full time until the election to elect Romney and Ryan and the most conservative slate out of my state as is possible. Are you staying home on 11/6 because the Republican ticket did not trumpet your issues? I’ll guess not. Neither is any part of the base. The key is the middle and Romney is running anywhere from 8-18 point ahead with independents.

fun,There is a market for yard signs and bumper stickers in Michigan and none to be had! I hope someone from R-R reds this! Get to work ,guys, all that inspiring sign advertising down the tubes. And the clock is ticking.

If we want Romney to win this thing we need honest analysis of what’s going on when things aren’t going well… most of us agree Romney is in a bit of a self-imposed rut right now, and I think Erick gave a pretty good overview as to why… hopefully for all of us Mitt is listening now and will get his act together.

Rasumussen has Romney up by 2 points in nationwide polling. Up until the convention, Obama’s approval rating was 46 or 47% which is closely correlated to the final popular vote–meaning he’d lose. Note, however, that after the convention Gallup has O’s approval rating at 50%.
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