Romney: "I've got a very effective campaign"

[All Along The Watchtower]

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In what universe does this man have anything resembling an "effective campaign"?

[LiberalJunkie]

LOL whatever you say mittens...

[Chaddyr23]

Yeah, it effectively went from a refrendum on Pres Obama to a refrendum on Mitt Romney

[NVGonzalez]

Keep thinking that way Willard. You indeed got an effective campaign.

[NHI]

Dear God...we're in trouble.

[Sasquatch]

Mitt don't change a thing.

[Fritz]

Dear God...we're in trouble.

You just figured that out now?

[Mister Twister]

Come on, what is he supposed to say? "My campaign is basically a circus"?

[NHI]

Dear God...we're in trouble.

You just figured that out now?

It sums up  what I've been feeling for weeks now.

[Zioneer]

Oh yes Mitt, you've got a great campaign.... For Barack Obama, that is.

[angus]

Dear God...we're in trouble.

LOL.  Yes, we're going to lose.  But seriously, he has had a pretty effective campaign.  They made it through a nasty, bruising primary season, and he's still within a few points of Obama.  Yes, he keeps on coming off as posh and out-of-touch.  There's very little you can do to spin "oh, hey, we love GM.  my wife owns a couple of Cadillacs" in a way that doesn't seem aristocratic.  It's just who he is.  His campaign, however, is doing about as well as they could be expected.  Unless they're going to lock him away somewhere, they have to expect to clean up after him constantly.  Obama will likely win, but on some level, you can't judge the campaign harshly for Romney's inability to not be Romney.

[Middle-aged Europe]

Comedy Goldmine!

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[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Dear God...we're in trouble.

LOL.  Yes, we're going to lose.  But seriously, he has had a pretty effective campaign.  They made it through a nasty, bruising primary season, and he's still within a few points of Obama.  Yes, he keeps on coming off as posh and out-of-touch.  There's very little you can do to spin "oh, hey, we love GM.  my wife owns a couple of Cadillacs" in a way that doesn't seem aristocratic.  It's just who he is.  His campaign, however, is doing about as well as they could be expected.  Unless they're going to lock him away somewhere, they have to expect to clean up after him constantly.  Obama will likely win, but on some level, you can't judge the campaign harshly for Romney's inability to not be Romney.

I disagree, except about the losing part. Romeny did not and does not have a competent campaign. They made it through primary season because their opponents were clowns and caricatures who mostly self-destructed, and because they had a truckload of money.

A competent campaign would include a candidate who was either reigned in, or kept ruthlessly to message. If the the plan always included letting Romney say whatever the hell he wanted, then they were incompetent from the start. He comes across as wooden anyway, telling him to never, ever, depart from scripted talking points couldn't possibly make him look any worse than the endless series of gaffes he's spit out regularly for the last year.

The campaign failed to even try to define their own candidate, and now a good chunk of the electorate thinks of "flip-flopping rich guy" and Mitt Romney as being equivalent. The only choice left is whether Obama is better or worse than an entitled weasel. The Romney campaign never confronted anything directly, from the tax questions, to Romneycare / Obamacare,  to their lack of any concrete proposals on taxes or foreign policy. Letting issues rot while the campaign weasels around them has hurt

When challenged, the Romney campaign abandoned virtually everything Romney has ever done. His religon, his Senate run, his time at Bain, his founding role and career at Bain Capital, his time as Governor; all of it is off the table. The only thing Romney appears to be running on is the years he's spent campaigning for President!

Even with a wooden and clueless representative of the "1%" as their nominee, this election should have been an easy win for the Republicans. Obama's only signature domestic accomplishment is viewed fairly negatively, he's failed to come even close to meeting the expectations of many of his supporters, the economy is widely perceived as being awful - this is not a positive environment for incumbent re-election.

And yet Romney and his campaign appear to be (barring a catastrophe completely out of their or Obama's control) headed straight for a loss, while dragging many down-ballot races along with them. While they may have occasionally made appropriate moves from some sort of residual reflex, I can't see them as anything but a failure.

[Mister Twister]

Dear God...we're in trouble.

LOL.  Yes, we're going to lose.  But seriously, he has had a pretty effective campaign.  They made it through a nasty, bruising primary season,

LOL! He struggled tp put away third-rate crazies and losers that made up the GOP primary. He had to outspend Santorum, what, 20:1 just to squeak by with a 1 point win in Ohio? Yeah, that's effective all right.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

To be fair, I don't think he explicitly stated for whom his campaign has been effective.

[Wisconsin+17]

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Polnut wins post of the day.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Between this and 'I love humor', Romney seriously needs a crash course in show-don't-tell. I'm told my university has a decent creative writing program, and it's in his ostensible state.

[Associate Justice PiT]

To be fair, I don't think he explicitly stated for whom his campaign has been effective.

     Romney could be a Democratic plant and he would still not manage to benefit them more than he is doing now. He is the consummate trainwreck candidate.

[You kip if you want to...]

Except for originally winning and then actually losing Iowa to a nobody, being the apparent frontrunner but not winning more than one primary until Super Tuesday, "I like firing people", Bain Capital, the 47%, "maybe", wanting Detroit bankrupt, being behind in the polls, having a snoozer of an RNC, having a snoozer of a convention speech, "I like trees at just the right height", being the nominee no one wants, picking a VP nobody wants, wanting to end medicare, "LET ME FINISH RICK", only winning because the preferred candidates like Chris Christie and Jeb Bush held out until 2016, offending the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the Mayor of London, telling everybody that corporations are people, "I don't care about the very poor", railing against a healthcare plan that he himself created, strapping his dog to the roof of his car, the messed up rally at that stadium that about 3 people went to, losing Ames, attacking Jon Huntsman for serving his country abroad, not condemning supporters for booing a gay soldier, "this is a very weird interview let's start over", liking Twilight and the offshore bank accounts, it's been a pretty effective campaign, yes.