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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

2012 Mitt Romney Is Going to Disappear Now

Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 12:10 PM

It's time for the disappearing act. I don't mean that nobody will see Mitt Romney between now and Election Day. With two weeks left, of course Romney is going to do a bunch of rallies and appear in TV commercials, but he's probably not going to do any interviews, according to Politico's James Hohmann:

The Romney campaign is not committing to granting any network interviews in the final two weeks of the campaign.

Romney is so awkward in interviews that the chances for a fuckup are huge. The campaign is dealing with this by hiding him in plain sight, away from any opportunity for spontaneity. It's a risky move, because the press gets pissed when they feel like a candidate is being kept from them, but the Romney campaign probably figures they can survive for fourteen days without feeling a dejected media's wrath. President Obama is already slated for two major interviews this week. We'll see if voters notice that Mitt Romney basically turned into a hologram after the last debate.

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He'd just be attacked by the 'liberal media.' And we know the media is liberal because the media tells us so.

Posted by Some Old Nobodaddy Logged In on October 23, 2012 at 12:39 PM

a big fuck up? you mean like if they ask him how he feels about an issue and he says something? yah, i can see why they're not letting him do interviews.

Posted by treefort on October 23, 2012 at 12:41 PM

Nobody outside of media junkies will notice. People will still see plenty of Romney in the form of rally coverage and press releases from the campaign, nobody's going to nitpick that he doesn't do interviews.

Posted by rejemy on October 23, 2012 at 12:44 PM

How many interviews (Stewart, Letterman and the girls on The View do not count) will B.O. be giving in the next two weeks?

Posted by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me on October 23, 2012 at 1:01 PM

@4 didn't read to the end of the post, huh?

Posted by shabadoo on October 23, 2012 at 1:07 PM

And that was the last anyone saw of the Mittromney. But they say you can still hear it, bumbling around, making stuff up. If you do happen to see his ghost, you can banish it for a while by asking it a bunch of hard questions.

Posted by MacCrocodile

on October 23, 2012 at 1:15 PM

@5,

Did you notice how many sentences there were in the post!?! How could he possibly be expected to endure that? And the words, my goodness! There must have been dozens & dozens of them!

Posted by mikethehammer on October 23, 2012 at 1:21 PM

He's taking lessons from Bobby Jindal, who doesn't speak to the media in Louisiana at all. He'll jump every time Fox News comes a'callin' though.

Posted by Sheryl on October 23, 2012 at 1:24 PM

@5
I assume that by "major interview" they mean that Candy is going to finish the blow job she started last week.

Posted by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me on October 23, 2012 at 1:24 PM

He hasn't disappeared yet. The dynamic duo will be fucking up traffic in Denver just in time for rush hour. And will anyone take note that their venue was built through FDR's New Deal, exactly the type of program these chuckleheads criticize?

Posted by catballou on October 23, 2012 at 1:47 PM

@9 Well, that's one more blow job than you'll be getting.

Posted by Backyard Bombardier on October 23, 2012 at 1:50 PM

Yeah, Rmoney's doubtless going to be losing lots of sleep over the worry that on the evening of November 5th, all those undecided voters will be thinking "I just don't feel good that Mitt hasn't been doing many unscripted interviews in the last week...Oooh, look Hawaii Five-Oh/Monday Night Football is on!!"

Posted by ScrawnyKayaker on October 23, 2012 at 2:03 PM