Re: Elections 2012 -- Carrion My Wayward Son!
Ummm...no, not really. See the "O" has popularity to spare while Mittens is about as well liked as athletes foot fungus. The longer his unpopularity goes on the more it sinks in. Tell me Old PO'd, how confident ARE you in the Mittwit winning the White House. I'm always on the lookout for a good laugh, and the notion that Obama shouldn't run negative campaign ads was a real knee slapper. Lets see if you can give us an encore.
Fishy the reason why its an either/or proposition this year is that there is no viable 3rd party alternative. Ross Perot is not walking through that door. The choices are a certified nutball who made money publishing KKK material in a newsletter for years, or a guy who thinks the solution to the country's problems is for everybody to get baked with free drugs. Neither of these two has a chance so you will be dealing with Obama or Romney one way or the other. Might as well pick the one you're closest to policy wise.
I have no idea whether His Panderness will be re-elected or not. You have to say he's the favorite. He's the incumbent and he's got all those inner city judges just itching to keep the polls open past closing time so some more derelicts can vote for him. Just as long as everyone is aware of your muddled thinking here: A Bush I ad from '88 is BAD. An Obama ad from '12 (accusing Romney of responsibility for killing a guy's wife) is GOOD.
In the abstract, I have no complaints about the spot. It's up to Romney to respond. But there are some factual problems with it: the alleged victim of Romney's evil had her own insurance and took sick about six years after her husband's business shut down. How long is Romney responsible for her health? And is His Magnificentness responsible, in perpetuity, for the health care of all those employees of the GM dealerships that closed? And there is the pesky detail that evidently His Wonderfulness' campaign is lying about its relationship with the "victim" here. The campaign used this same guy, telling this same story, at a media conference call some months back. Now it's never heard of him.
I believe the internals of many of these "Romney is as popular as swine flu" polls tend to show Democrats are over sampled. Besides, His Hopeychangeyness IS personally popular, no question. He's had four years of generally sycophantic media coverage and he does seem to be a decent guy (with the exception of being a White Sox fan, for which there can be no forgiveness).
I'll explain this again, you were evidently texting when I ran through it earlier. The risk His Oneness (or any incumbent) runs in going negative is that he will drive his own negatives up, along with his opponant's. A guy running for re-election should be able to at least occasionally mention his "accomplishments". Instead it's: "I inherited this mess from Bush" and "Romney will kill your wife." It could certainly work. For sure, they'll keep it up unless and until polling shows it's not working. The risk there, of course, is at that point, it might be too late. I would never suggest a guy who promised us a "new tone" should not run negative ads. He's a Chicago pol, that's what they do. I merely suggest we shouldn't confuse this guy with Ralph Bunche.
