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Friday, July 27, 2012

2012 The Romney Campaign Is Absolutely Ready for Tomorrow's Scandal, No Matter What It Is

Posted by Paul Constant on Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 3:51 PM

This has to be some kind of a campaign record: The Romney campaign is pre-fighting back over an imaginary Obama campaign "Saturday Surprise."

"We want to communicate to the world that we are ready for whatever they throw at us," a Romney adviser told BuzzFeed unsolicited. "After poor economic numbers today, we are preparing for them to throw out absurdities, distractions, and anything else they can to divert from the economy."

The Obama campaign responds:

“We’ve already announced what we’re doing this weekend, which is holding more than 4,700 organizational events across the nation mobilizing voters 100 days out from the election," said campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt. "This is dog-wagging that would make David Mamet blush – a campaign reacting to a rumor they invented to try to pivot from their diplodisaster”

The more I see the Romney campaign in action, the more I suspect they have no fucking clue what they're doing.

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Even if Obama throws it at them at 3 AM?

Posted by seatackled on July 27, 2012 at 3:55 PM

Diplo-disaster? What, did Romney get into a kerfluffle with the music producer?

Posted by Zebes

on July 27, 2012 at 4:02 PM

There must be a psychiatrist or an psychologist out there who is familiar enough with the DSM-IV to cobble together a preliminary diagnosis.

Posted by Sean Kinney

on July 27, 2012 at 4:09 PM

What "poor economic numbers today"?

http://money.cnn.com/2012/07/27/investin…

Posted by gawd on July 27, 2012 at 4:13 PM

Man, Romney is ALMOST making Herman Cain seem smooth.

Posted by bookworm on July 27, 2012 at 4:23 PM

And yet Mitt's going to win. Sigh.

Posted by sdstarr on July 27, 2012 at 4:29 PM

Romney has repeatedly stated that government should be run like a business; but he's apparently running his campaign as a side-show.

Posted by thatsnotright on July 27, 2012 at 5:45 PM

I think PT Barnum is his primary consultant.

Posted by The_Shaved_Bear on July 27, 2012 at 6:10 PM

Given the voter suppression and gerrymandering the state Rethuglicans have been busily engaging in since they took over in 2010, I'll be stunned if #6 is proven wrong and Obama walks away with a decisive victory.

Posted by mubhappy on July 27, 2012 at 6:11 PM

So it's been moved to Sunday right?

Posted by madcap on July 27, 2012 at 9:52 PM

The Obama campaign apparently doesn't understand that most people have no idea who David Mamet is. Messaging, people!!!

Posted by sarah70 on July 27, 2012 at 9:54 PM

It's okay if the Romney campaign reacts pre-emptively, because later on they can always retroactively cancel their pre-emption.

Posted by WFM on July 27, 2012 at 10:24 PM

11: "wagging the dog" is standard political parlance.

Posted by Jizzlobber on July 27, 2012 at 11:03 PM

@12 totally agree. Romney is such an accomplished contortionists and flip flopper he can move backward and forward in time simultaneously. A dangerous foe indeed.

Posted by Machiavelli was framed on July 27, 2012 at 11:19 PM

@13, thank you. But Kansas doesn't know or care, and the campaign should be speaking to Kansas, not to us. Dems unfortunately forget that, to our detriment.

Posted by sarah70 on July 28, 2012 at 12:00 AM

Because Kansas conservatives are totally reading Obama campaign memos.

Oh, and they all know who Saul Alinsky was, too, I'm sure of it.

Seriously, this is completely inside-the-beltway stuff. It's not like they dropped David Mamet's name in an Olympics TV ad or something.

Posted by madcap on July 28, 2012 at 1:01 AM

I nominate "Zebes" for the "awesomest" person ever award...

Posted by rowan redwing on July 28, 2012 at 3:38 AM

Looky here. Mitt's gonna be the next president, whether you like it or not. Not because anybody actually likes Mitt, understand. Everybody just hates Obama more. Deal with it.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on July 28, 2012 at 6:33 AM

@5280: "Hahahaha!"

Oh, wait, you were serious? Let me laugh at you even harder:"HA HA HA HA!"

Posted by Dr_Awesome on July 28, 2012 at 7:31 AM

5280: This level of propaganda is really beneath you. You've clearly got real talent - you should be writing material for Kim-Jong Un.

Posted by Pope Buck I on July 28, 2012 at 8:02 AM

@19,20: i think he's coming from a place of sadness, like @6.

if rmoney wins, it will be because the small sliver of "independent" duhmurkins who decide the presidency will interpret the complex intersection of EU finance crises, oil speculation, and Republican congressional obstruction and inaction that have stalled any recovery as merely Obama whinging.

Posted by Max Solomon on July 28, 2012 at 8:59 AM