ClydeR
09-28-2011, 10:46 AM
Great explanation by Jonathan V. Last that Romney has no real core constituency, that he continually loses elections, that he claims that each of the losses was a "success" for varying reasons and that, in fact, has little prospect of beating Obama in 2012...
(3) It’s funny that Romney’s line of attack on Perry seems to be that Perry is a “career politician” because he’s been in elective office since 1984. Well, Mitt Romney would have been a career politician too, if only voters would have let him. He’s been running since 1994. His real gripe about Perry is actually, “Hey, that guy wins all the time! No fair!”
(4) Each of Romney’s previous electoral “successes” came with him occupying a different political space:
More... (http://jonathanlast.com/2011/08/29/romneys-core-constituency/)
Read the whole thing. It's really good. As a matter of fact, just sign up for that blog and read it every day from now until the Republican primary is over. There will be pop tests. The author is pretty funny, like this line from another post.
This is vintage Romney–bald-faced political positioning done with utterly transparent insincerity. You can see the processors whirring as the logic board does the calculations.
Perry commands support from “conservatives” and “Tea Party.”
“Conservatives” and “Tea Party” have pushed RomneyBot 4000 to second place in polls.
Chances of victory for RomneyBot 4000 while in second place: .28746322017.
Must add new candidate to split “conservative” and “Tea Party” support.
Palin 1.0 commanded intense support from “conservatives” and “Tea Party.”
Will engage developers to push Palin 2.0 module into campaign model.
Perry support will halve.
RomneyBot 4000 becomes frontrunner again.
Victory assured.
He’s like a particularly humorless Dalek, with Just For Men hair. (The fly-away look he’s been rocking must have focus-grouped really well.)
More... (http://jonathanlast.com/2011/09/22/romneybot-4000-install-palin-2-0-update/)
(3) It’s funny that Romney’s line of attack on Perry seems to be that Perry is a “career politician” because he’s been in elective office since 1984. Well, Mitt Romney would have been a career politician too, if only voters would have let him. He’s been running since 1994. His real gripe about Perry is actually, “Hey, that guy wins all the time! No fair!”
(4) Each of Romney’s previous electoral “successes” came with him occupying a different political space:
More... (http://jonathanlast.com/2011/08/29/romneys-core-constituency/)
Read the whole thing. It's really good. As a matter of fact, just sign up for that blog and read it every day from now until the Republican primary is over. There will be pop tests. The author is pretty funny, like this line from another post.
This is vintage Romney–bald-faced political positioning done with utterly transparent insincerity. You can see the processors whirring as the logic board does the calculations.
Perry commands support from “conservatives” and “Tea Party.”
“Conservatives” and “Tea Party” have pushed RomneyBot 4000 to second place in polls.
Chances of victory for RomneyBot 4000 while in second place: .28746322017.
Must add new candidate to split “conservative” and “Tea Party” support.
Palin 1.0 commanded intense support from “conservatives” and “Tea Party.”
Will engage developers to push Palin 2.0 module into campaign model.
Perry support will halve.
RomneyBot 4000 becomes frontrunner again.
Victory assured.
He’s like a particularly humorless Dalek, with Just For Men hair. (The fly-away look he’s been rocking must have focus-grouped really well.)
More... (http://jonathanlast.com/2011/09/22/romneybot-4000-install-palin-2-0-update/)