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Communists, Cop-Killers, and Cocaine: Why the Washington Post Focuses on Romney Instead

Let's Focus on Undocumented Fifty Year Old Events Because Otherwise We'll Have To Talk About The Economy

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  May 10th, 2012 at 11:33 AM  | 

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Now this is just silly. The Washington Post can’t be bothered to worry about Barack Obama’s college years, college transcripts, communist friends, cocaine use, or cop-killing plotters in whose living room he first launched his major political career, but they can get in the really way back machine to 1965 and Mitt Romney’s high school years.

Mitt Romney cut a hippy’s hair at his preparatory high school. A day after Barack Obama caved on gay marriage, the Washington Post “coincidentally” says Mitt Romney cut the hair of a boy who “was perpetually teased for his nonconformity and presumed homosexuality.”

Let’s leave out the fact that the kid who got his haircut was subsequently thrown out of school for smoking one cigarette, but we’re to believe that the assailants of his hair, witnessed by many, were ignored. Oh, and the guy who got is hair cut never, ever, ever mentioned it, including to family, and died in 2004 so it can’t be verified. But a handful of students who now probably support Barack Obama have a crystal clear memory of events from 50 years ago. The people who were adults at the time of the incident and still alive have no memory of it, but remember Romney and said he was never a disciplinary problem.

N*gg*rhead rock, anybody?

After four years of ignoring Barack Obama’s bullying of religious groups and others from inside the White House, it’s fair game to go after Mitt Romney as a supposed high school bully.

I guess we won’t hear the left whining any more when we mention Barack Obama eating a dog since, as they are quick to point out, he was a kid when it happened.

We have now had more in depth examination of Mitt Romney by the Gang of 500 than of Barack Obama.

We do not really know much about Barack Obama’s constituent record in the Illinois Legislature.

We still don’t know his college transcripts.

We still don’t know what exactly he did for ACORN in his community organizing time.

We still don’t know all the details about the depth of the cocaine use Barack Obama admitted to in his book. Likewise, we know very little about his drug use in high school beyond just a few lines of reporting from 2007.

We know very little, outside of his own autobiographical spin, about how he overcame his rage at white people — something he wrote about, but again, as a politician in an autobiography.

We still don’t know about just how many communists Barack Obama chose to surround himself with.

We still know very little about Barack Obama’s ties to Bill Ayers and the media sure hates to talk about Barack Obama getting his major political start in Bill Ayers’ living room.

But the press is perfectly happy to go back several decades to tell us every salacious detail about Mitt Romney the teenager.

This reminds me of 1992 all over again. The George H. W. Bush team wanted to go focus on Bill Clinton the draft dodger from Vietnam because they couldn’t fight on the economy. Unlike 1992, Barack Obama has the media doing it for him.

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  • jaykali

    The good news is that these dumb lines of attack open up Obama for attacks as well. Let’s say Fox runs a story ab Obama doing Cocaine in high school. Racists!! Racists!! would be the cry. Now we have a long story on Romney’s activities in high school we can say well gee I wonder what Obama was doing when HE was 16 years old. Let’s investigate. Romney was giving ‘noogees’ and Obama was ____ – fill in the blank. Let’s see who nets out better.

  • salemst

    Erick, Is Obama so desperate to deflect from the awful economy he inherited which he made into a Depression to conjure this hair ball of a story?

    What kind of an immature dweeb do we actually have in the White House? Did he take another kid’s toy in Kindergarten? Some of the greatest people I know had “spotty” childhoods obviously learning through their mistakes growing up. But the idea of Mitt as a bully somehow is tantamount to Bill Maher having been respectful as a youth.

  • MF

    WaPo or the Dem handlers had this story for a while and were waiting for just the right time to use it. Today was the perfect time, right after Obama had announced that he was supporting gay marriage. Instead of negative attention on Obama for his position, time to put negative attention on Romney for his supposed bullying of a supposed gay person. In other words, make Obama look like an insightful, caring person, and Romney an ugly bully for his stance against gay marriage and all things gay.

    Oh, and Obama’s announcement was also timed to occur right after the NC amendment passed, because that took the sting out of the landslide victory for conservatives.

    Everything they do is calculated. They are brilliant. And truly evil.

  • wintermute

    the day after Obama tells everybody something everybody pretty much already knew the washington post comes out with a story how romney cut a dude’s hair in high school against his will trying to make it look like he led some pogrom against homosexuals. give me a freaking break. I did some pretty dumb things when i was 17 too, doesn’t make me a homophobe.

    The bias here is just incredibly astounding. We cant look at Obama in college, but hey lets check out Romney 40 freaking years ago. Mitt Romney, will cut the budget and give you a free haircut too!

  • wintermute

    its entirely orchestrated.

  • stumpy

    we have been warned about. This is the Obama campaign’s (and their handlers, the media’s) way of taking the focus off the economy. They want the discussion to be about stupid, nitpicked, non-issues about Romney rather than Obama’s handling of the economy and expasion of federal power.

    Romney needs to use Bill Clinton pivot tactic. Just basically ignore this crap and bring it right back to the economy every time it comes up. Unfortunately the average American swing voter doesn’t care about Obama’s past, whether it is his drug use, terrorist associations, academic record, community organizing, etc. If they did, he never would have been elected in the first place. We don’t know much, but what we do know throws up red flags all over the place. I believe Romney shouldn’t attack Obama’s past in great detail to counter, he should steer back to the economy. It is good for RedState, Eric and other conservative people/groups to bring this up, but the main focus needs to be on the economy. A brief mention of Obama’s past to counter, then right back to the economy.

    The squishies will not be paying attention to the details. Romney needs to keep the economy the focus, so that it is the tidbit they pick up not that Obama has bad associations and did drugs.

  • earlywirgit

    I am absolutely loving this, and believe me when I say that it’s been a while since I could enjoy anything political! The Left is so bereft of any positive thing at all that they can point to regarding Obama’s socialist regime of 3-1/2 years, that they are grasping at anything at all about Romney to try to discredit him.

    I laugh because the Left also believes that the American people are stupid enough to believe anything they come up with, but that is just not the case. Every obscure canard that they ‘uncover’ will drive the approval rating of O’bummer lower and lower.

    Congress hasn’t had the cojones to impeach and remove the imposter and traitor, so the American people are having to roll up their sleeves and do it for themselves. Please, please let the frantic idiots on the Left continue their desperate witch hunt to find even more absurd information!

  • cacharlie

    The 2012 election is shaping up to be all about whether current adults are sick enough yet of perpetual adolescents holding court and preening before their imagined subjects.

    Considering how many kids I’ve seen grow up fast because their parents never bothered to mature, I’m betting that Romney will be the more appealing choice this time for former starry-eyed Obama fans.

  • westcoastpatriette

    so he can eviscerate the conniving press as only he can do. He is the absolute best at confronting the underhanded tactics of the Marxist press who will continue to try to sleaze Obama into the White House for another term. Come on, Newt.

  • philhoganjr

    How about every Republican/Conservative politician/candidate/etc stops talking to outfits like the Washington Post, New York Times, CBS News, NBC News, MSNBC, etc? Zero tolerance. Seriously.

    What does the Right possibly stand to gain by fraternizing with the liberal media? Their respect? Their adoration? Are Republican politicians that insecure that they need to be liked by a third estate that completely despises them? Have we learned nothing from John McCain’s 2008 candidacy? Or the myriad of other politicians who go or have gone that route?

    Wise up, conservatives.. The gang of 500 is EVERYTHING. Attacking their credibility by shouting “liberal bias” isn’t good enough anymore. Not even close. The mainstream media still sets the table. They still control the narrative. For now. Until that changes, conservatives need to take it to the next level. Make the Gang of 500 the story. Use the tactics that liberals have used to stay relevant all these years. Boycott networks, newspapers, etc. Pressure advertisers, companies, executives. Organize marches. Demand firings. Be relentless. Stand together. Stay on message. Play by the exact rules that liberals themselves set and play by. Follow the liberal playbook to a tee.

    And don’t freaking stop until the playing field is level.

    Zero tolerance.

  • johnt

    Romney campaign to implode.
    Not to worry, this is aimed at the cretins, degenerates, the homicidally intentioned & zoo inmates who form the backbone, or anus, of the Democrat party. A good day to scan the leftist blogs and witness human nature at it’s ugliest. Not that it’s very much different from other days.

  • justperhaps45

    The guy probably had chewing gum caught in his hair and Romney was just helping.

    He was, no doubt, getting prejudically low grades due to his non-conformist doo and again Romney was just helping.

  • Repair_Man_Jack

    It was !WAR! on women.

  • ThePoliticalHat

    His plan is to convince gay, non-white, and female individuals that Romney will oppress them, not only with “heteronormative,” “anglonormative,” and “andronormative” values, but in the case of the Washington Post story, literal violence.

    That is what Obama is all about: replacing the “moral impurity” of strait-ness, white-ness, and male-ness with his utopian visions.

    This will not end well.

  • rightlane1111

    CONSTITUTION AND ALL :-)

  • westcoastpatriette

    but Romney needs to hire someone who knows how to go for the jugular to expose the press.

  • http://www.thehayride.com MacAoidh

    …go to the WaPo website and do a search for stories about Frank Marshall Davis.

    Or don’t bother, because here’s what you’ll find.

  • http://www.thehayride.com MacAoidh

    …”y’know, there are lots of people who will talk about knowing me when I was a kid. My life isn’t a secret. Most folks, I think, liked me, but some didn’t, and sure – I was a rambunctious kid at times and did some things I might regret a little.

    “I’m interested to hear more about the president’s life. All I know is that he ate a dog once and had a lot of Pakistani friends at Occidental and that his grandmother was scared of black people, or something. Can we learn a bit more?”

  • CarolT

    I read toady that Obama has lost Hollywood, he came out with the support for it yesterday to coincide with the Clooney fundraiser tonight. Norman Lear wasn’t going to give anything but now maxed out at $80,000.

  • Repair_Man_Jack

    ****Considering how many kids I?ve seen grow up fast because their parents never bothered to mature, I?m betting that Romney will be the more appealing choice this time for former starry-eyed Obama fans.

    From your lips to God’s ears!

  • willhen50

    Obama makes the announcement he supports same sex marriage and he Biden got married by the Justice Kagen at the same time makes the statement Michelle is his sister.

  • celador2

    Ah, an alert on a media coverage topic! I can see which way this campaign is headed, right down shameless media spin alley. We voters have an opportunity to examine and analyze the coverage and content of campaign topics and those who cover the topics and candidates.

    What is the headline, the main point, what is the narrative or storyline? What is in foreground and what is in background of a report or book? Who is the good guy? LOL

    Character matters and where someone was then forms them now, right? Selective clips form opinions and the press-DNC mouthpieces have their knives out again only this time to clip blurbs and insert into the presidential narrative negative stories about Mitt Romney just as they created a sugar coated Barack Obama mosaic. .

    I never read Obama’s autobiographies but I feel as if I had. I read so many bits and pieces of them clipped and inserted in long news stories that I feel I know Obama as Obama wants to be known, This self serving auto- biography would see a boost in sales after 2008.

    The press incredibly have used the autobiograpical aocounts as a primary source, which is fine.

    But they also used his books about himself as their only and final source for candidate Barack Obama’ biography in covering the presidential eelction 2008 to the present. That is not fine.

    They, the free press still present an unvetted INCUMBENTcandidate for US president, Barack Obama to the voting public in Obama’s own words and using Obama’s narrative.

    The last time I checked the presidential election is also about the incumbent’s record and his need to defend why a term two.Thats the job of reporters and papers.

    But WaPo and other shameless alley spinners insist on highlightling and amplifiying young Romney’s classroom behavior to form a narrative biolgraphical in tone but politcal in timing. .In this devious misleading way they undermine Romney’s right to challenge an Obama second term.

    .

    Cel

  • blakemoney

    Maybe it’s about time America had a candidate who isn’t always doing the PC things in life. Yeah, so he cut off some homosexual kid’s hair. He didn’t beat him up. It was hazing and nothing more. How anyone can say that this incident, and putting his dog on the roof of his car, has anything to do with Romney’s character, is a big stretch. These were incidents that happened long before he was running for president. When he was a young Mormon man, still finding his way in the world.

    Frankly, this Obama economy is so bad that we could use a bully in the white house. Someone who knows how to wield power and knows how to win. Romney’s success with Bain Capital is a perfect example. As Charlie Sheen says….Winning!

    Look, I feel bad that this kid got his hair cut against his will. But entering the elite prep school world is a choice this kid made, and I”m sure the benefits of attending far outweigh anything negative from that one experience. I actually got expelled from my school for beating up a New England WASP. He was an upper, I was a lower, and he didn’t like the shape of my nose–implying that I might not be “American.” (My nose just happened to be broken from years of wrestling.) He tried a little hazing, and he just picked on the wrong guy. He got a nose just like mine for his trouble.

    But I don’t hold it against him anymore. It was the way things were back in the day. The strong survive. If I’d seen Mitt Romney picking on a homosexual like that, I would have stood up to him. Not everyone can make that choice, though. Childish, sure? But also a long time ago. Sounds like Mitt doesn’t even remember it anymore. There’s a lot of things I’d like to forget from my past.

  • http://conservativemormonmom.blogspot.com ew88

    Keep “The Vetting of Barack Obama” alive!

  • Oldpatriot

    Good grief! The left really is scraping the bottom of the barrel. I would be willing to bet everyone who has read your story here did something as a kid that they are not too proud of. But to go back that far and bring this up as an election year topic is so ridiculous as to be laughable. Any fence sitters in this election cycle who would use this a wedge against Romney I would not want on my side anyway. I would take my chances and basically laugh at any correspondent that brought this topic up for discussion.

  • celador2

    Thank you for expressing outrage at the WaPo hit job!

    Sarah Palin knows a lot about energy. As governor of Alaska she had worked in the field and had several plans to share with the American public. Energy is a vital concern for America and its production drives the conservative base with passion and mission.
    Energy was the topic Palin naively thought Kate Couric would explore with her in an interview.

    Energy production divides Republicans and Democrats. Examining views on mining, drilling EPA is necessary. In depth focus on energy needs in an interview is valid.

    Sarah was ready, thinking that her strong points, her expeprience and ideas, would be amplified and brought to the foreground for voters to see. Afterall Sarah was VP nominee and the public was entitled to see her from all directions.

    The interview was a public service in name only. Katie Couric mutilated that interview with non relevant gottcha points but showed what a determined Soviet style Tass and Pravda type reporter could do with a candidate for office. But we saw little of Palin’s strong points and background and nothing on her full experience with energy.

    I could care less what Palin reads in deciding to vote. Many people learn by talking and visitng sites, interacting. And DOING through trial and error not reading. Palin knows whom to tap. So does Romney.

    We must not let the media like WaPo define and form public perceptions of Romney as they have Obama and tried to do with Palin.

    .

  • littlehouse18

    there is no way anyone even knew the other kid was gay. In fact, the kid himself probably didn’t know it, IF he even was gay.

    How convenient that the guy is dead now and can’t give an account of this. We all know that Dems use dead people in many ways.

  • littlehouse18

    ..

  • celador2

    The economy is a dead mainstream issue now as wedge issues seem to be the preferred topics of press and Obama campaign. The press keep the challenger on the defensive and never vet the man making a case for reelection.

    What kind of a republic is this anyway?
    Does not the public have a right to know about the incumbent– his issues, record and biography?

    They went after Bush on drug use.

    Cel

  • http://pocketchangeproductions.net/ anotherindyfilmguy

    which will hOpefully prove suicidally counterproductive…

    Giving Romney the Palin treatment after how they exposed themselves to most of the Public that they are fanatically in the tank for the dems with the Palin treatment is really an excellent game plan for losing an election.

    Going after someone with 30 year olds second hand stories will just raise more questions about the lack of vetting of the O that has continued even after his election…

    Idea for Romney campaign:
    Put out a commercial to this effect – “according to so and so thirty years ago Romney was a meanie or was in some way a politically incorrect alpha male whom others felt intimidated by… yet we still don’t know a thing about the real Obama growing up beyond what he’s said in his own self serving memoirs – where’s the real double standard in America today?” etc…

  • MF

    It’s also yet another attempt to get us to talk about anything but the economy.

  • RightforwardUSA

    I read the WaPo article carefully, very carefully. The people who provided this information were a cross-section politically: Republicans and Democrats. If this is in fact true, which I must believe it to be as Governor Romney apologized for it (otherwise, why would he bother?) then it is a disturbing and frankly horrible action. It speaks to Mr Romney’s tolerance for lifestyles other than his own, at the time. He was not punished (and knowing Cranbrook no matter who his father was, had this been reported there would have been serious ramifications) which is really unfortunate. He may have had to talk to people who thought very differently than he did and he might have grown up a bit (a lot). I can only assume that raising five sons has matured him greatly and that he does regret this deeply. I can imagine how he would have felt if one of his sons were so attacked.

    I am only surprised by the knee-jerk response to this. Why can’t a reasoned response be, “we’ve all done stupid things, probably hurtful things, but we didn’t repeat them (putting aside Seamus for the moment) and we emerge better for them? I would have a great deal of respect for Mr Romney if he took an effort to reach out to the kids who are being bullied and help assure them that “it will get better.”

  • amethyst210

    Good plan!

  • amethyst210

    Good comment. The thought of Bill Maher being respectful of anything at any time in his life definitely brings on a LOL.

  • amethyst210

    I like this idea! If anyone could handle those making these kinds of comments it would be Newt. Terrific idea!

    I like your scripture reference, too.

  • kmpesq

    Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you the October surprise, prematurely sprung in May.

    This is pure conjecture on my part, but I believe that, in his convention speech, Obama was going to come out in favor of same sex marriage (SSM). Then, during the following six weeks, the focus would not be on the economy, but on the issue of SSM with Romney being against it. Then, the Washington Post was going to drop this story with the other lapdog media types focusing on his firing people at Bain, not caring about the “very poor,” Wall Street corporatist stuff. This, of course, would all be designed to paint Romney as a horrible bully and he would have very little time to respond.

    On paper, its a brilliant plan that still may work. However, the “brilliant” Joe Biden opened his big, fat mouth and let the cat out of the bag, forcing Obama to express the position we all knew he had. At that point, there’s no reason for the WaPo to hold on to the story. So thank you Vice President Biden, for completely ruining one of Axelrod & Co.’s October surprise. Your ineptitude once again has provided a service to our country.

  • amethyst210

    And that would be Newt Gingrich! He has a way with words that could get the job done.

  • johnt

    Already I’m getting that sick feeling in my stomach. Could George have played it for laughs, or at least snickers? Could he have pointed out the WaPo’s flacking, petty, and asked is this the best they can do? Could he have pointed out the utter and total blank on The O’s background? He is provided with a target bigger than one could wish for and what does he do? He apologizes.
    Does he have the detritus left over from the McCain bunch on his staff?
    Where’s the balls ??

  • blakemoney

    I was hoping he could spin this Democrat Swiftboating in a lighthearted way. I thought he didn’t remember it, but the witnesses were probably too many and too credible to pretend it didn’t happen.

    But if Mitt said something like, “It was a childish prank, but mark my words, I’m going to give corporate tax rates a haircut, too. And then I’m going to clip gas prices at the pump!” Something like that would refocus attention on the economy in a joking way. Or say, “I’m sorry about that haircut thing back when I was young. If so and so were alive today, I would have loved to have him up to the White House for a beer and let bygones be bygones.”

  • acat

    I think you’re right, this was timed for the Dem Convention, and I’m glad it’s out early and can flame out.

    Thing is, I think the Dems expected it to fail…. NC shifted purple, elected Bev Perdue (D-idiot) and Obama … so it made sense to release a “Hey, we’re just following the lead” pro-gay-marriage thing. The idea that “States should decide” makes more sense in this light as well.

    I think that, by releasing this now, they’re trying to keep their pro-gay activists quieted down, and are hoping that Romney will make an unforced error (and piss off the religious right) … it’s really about the best play they have left…

    Mew

  • funwithknives

    comprehensive skills, but the article clearly states ‘…mostly Democrats, with one former Repub. chair, now independent….

    What was that ‘careful’ thing that you were doing…?

  • Flagstaff

    he answered a knock on the door to find Todd Palin standing there, with or without a chain saw.

    His cleaning bill would definitely go up, even if all Todd did was say, “Howdy.”

  • Flagstaff

    plenty of practice. He ought to be good.

    Seriously, this is the kind of attack that’s hard to deflect or reverse. For some reason, people just viscerally dislike a bully and a rich snot more than they dislike a cocaine user who hasn’t been proven to be a dealer. This could really hurt Mitt’s likability scores and inexplicably help Obama’s, which have started to drop recently. If you think about it,”likability” is the best thing Obama has going for him right now, because it makes his followers and the “undecideds” accept much of what he says without question.

    Factually, this should be a non-story, but in the real world it can hurt bad. And the story by the MSM is always going to be led with the anti-Mitt spin, not with anything negative about Obi Won.

    We should be made to understand that after the incident the two boys settled their differences and became friends, or at least that Mitt apologized to him before graduation.

    We would have liked to send my son to Cranbrook but saved the money for college.

  • drsheilahere

    I can’t wait for the day when I never have to hear the word Obama again; when my Iphone doesn’t spell it automatically; when spell check says it is not a real word. I pray for the day when we have a president who loves America, isn’t selling us out to the Russians, who isn’t stealing every last dime from the taxpayer that can possibly be purloined. I wait for the day when George Clooney is not considered Obama’s aide-de-camp on matters political. And, when the correspondents dinner is cancelled as bribery.

    The ‘etch a sketch’ comment would be clever if it wasn’t the thing Obama uses to make his decisions.

    “#Obama’s Arrogance Toward America. It’s Most Unbecoming.”
    http://www.drsheilaherenow.net/obamas-arrogance-toward-america-its-most-unbecoming/

  • johnt

    Does anybody wonder why the slut left press goes with this as their opening salvo? I mean, High School? I visited Huff Po today, the bed wetting is of earthquake proportions. Possible this is not their early shot, but their best, in terms of Scandal. Rather like the 25 year old “Bush got a DUI” thing years ago, but more so.
    To come, “Romney refuses to floss teeth”.
    Go for the juglar George!

  • runner12

    This happened 50 years ago and people change from highschool to adulthood. But that is really not the main point.

    The main point is the media’s absolute hypocrisy. As Erick said, where are Obama’s college transcripts? Why did he associate with a known terrorist? What did he do at Acorn? What did he do in highschool, college, etc?

    The WaPo just opened up a hornet’s nest for themselves. They forget they no longer have absolute power. The New Media will find these things out about Obama, Breitbart has already started. You can bet that what they find will pale in comparison to Romney’s alleged “hair-cutting” episode.

  • 882bart

    and speech writer. The press needs to be kicked in the nuts over and over and over again, as THEY ARE THE PROBLEM………

  • quesadilla

    Obama may have inherited an awful economy, but that has not stopped him from making it more heinous, especially by creating outlandishly high debt for our nation. He’s a monster in a person-suit, a sociopath, and he must be stopped from reigning over the United States for another four-plus years, at any cost. Hitler the Second must be relieved of the Oval Office!

  • kopen

    Guess the white house under Romney won’t be giving “Free stimuluses” but line up for “Free” haircuts ..The kid who got the first one probably got rid of his lice too!

  • goodgovernance

    Who know how to kneecap opponents. Their strategy to define Romney is just beginning, too. We’ll be seeing a lot more (and perhaps even more outrageous?) tidbits about Romney and his past as November draws closer.

    The drip, drip, drip of all this will eventually take its toll on Romney, unless he can define himself as a personality first. Yes, he’s got to keep a laser-like focus on the economy. But do any of us really think the MSM will let him do that? He’s got to get adroit at deflecting the attack and pivoting back to the message, but as part of that he needs for people to understand who he really is. Ann can help in this regard, but he’s got to do it himself, too.

  • Repair_Man_Jack

    Their story has already been debunked. If they continue to blatantly lie, and if we continue to call them on it publically, they will lose so much credibility that they will all be as laughable as Chris Matthews by this November. Cheer up, Eyore!

  • commonsenseobserver

    If Obama and the MSM can successfully paint Romney as out-of-touch, rich, arrogant, violent, bigoted, unprincipled, erratic and radical all at the same time, it won’t just be Romney who will be in trouble, House Republicans will go down in flames too.

    I agree that Romney must start to clarify and define his character and personality.

    I think Romney should have fewer speeches, and more casual and friendly interviews. These should allow him to rebut the left’s attacks while reiterating his message and bringing out his true personality.

  • goodgovernance

    He should go on Fox (best chance of getting a fair shake), maybe even hold interviews in his house with Ann, talk about his dad, his faith (because the Dems are going to go after that too if he doesn’t talk about it) his career, and how those all shaped his values.

  • commonsenseobserver

    Did you catch that, boys? :P

    Yeah, I think Fox would be good, and it’d be excellent if Ann were involved.

  • gwbramhall

    I think EE has it right to call him on his college and
    early political history which got no attention the first
    time around. This definitely opens that window and
    they cannot say he’d be unfair or is desperate.

    Let’s hope the Romney campaign has the guts the
    McCain campaign never had to go after these issues
    aggressively.

  • MF

    going on Fox isn’t going to help much. Every media outlet aside from Fox and the conservative ones (notice I didn’t lump Fox in as conservative, because they aren’t) will ignore anything on Fox, unless it’s damaging to the conservatives or Romney (again, Romney is not among the conservatives).

  • commonsenseobserver

    Filtering through twitter and the blogs, and through the people who watch Fox, of course.

    It’d certainly help if conservatives themselves were reassured about Romney’s character, too.

  • Common_Cents

    Where is the media on that? Why aren’t they finding her and trotting her out showing how her life is ruined?

    Oh yeah, the propaganda media is part of obama’s campaign team, why would they do something like that?

    or was the “plump, dark”, Coretta a composite?

    excerpt from his book:

    ?Coretta has a boyfriend! Coretta has a boyfriend!?

    The chants grew louder as a few more kids circled us.

    ?She?s not my g-girlfriend,? I stammered. I looked to Coretta for some assistance, but she just stood there looking down at the ground. ?Coretta?s got a boyfriend! Why don?t you kiss her, mister boyfriend??

    ?I?m not her boyfriend!? I shouted. I ran up to Coretta and gave her a slight shove; she staggered back and looked up at me, but still said nothing. ?Leave me alone!? I shouted again. And suddenly Coretta was running, faster and faster, until she disappeared from sight. Appreciative laughs rose around me. Then the bell rang, and the teachers appeared to round us back into class.