A
strategy is emerging against Mitt Romney that is being conducted on several fronts
– in the media, through the speeches of surrogates, even from the White House
itself. It is a strategy I
wholeheartedly approve of and that is to break Mitt Romney down not by vicious
personal attacks, not by policy differences (Mitt Romney has been on five sides
of every issue – I’m not sure if anybody knows where Mitt Romney stands anymore
on anything) but by personal ridicule.
By telling the truth about Mitt Romney, he ceases to be a person people
take even a little bit seriously and consequently becomes someone people laugh
at. I think this is far worse than being
hated.
It
started with Romney’s gaffes during the Republican primary – the 10,000 bet, we
can’t have illegals, I like firing people, I’m not concerned about the very poor. A lot of these gaffes gave the impression of
Romney as a let them eat cake plutocrat out of touch like Marie Antoinette.
Then
there was the general weirdness – the dog on the car roof, trees are the right
height etc.
This
is not to mention Romney’s flip flops-too many to catalog here but basically on
important issue he has held at least three positions and he has often gone back
to prior positions and then changed yet again.
John McCain and Mike Huckabee hammered him on this in 2008 Republican
primaries and it was very effective.
This has kind of died away recently but will come up again I’m sure in
the campaign ahead.
Add
in Romney’s Mormonism….As an Atheist, I believe all religions are basically
crazy but Mormonism is like Scientology without the spaceships. I recently read a book about Joseph Smith,
the creator of Mormonism and he was basically the David Koresh of his day-A man
who used his position as a prophet to scam sex with a variety of women
including underage ones (Yes he was a pedophile like Warren Jeffers). Like L Ron Hubbard, he created a religion to
sucker people, to further his own ends. Romney
being a Mormon is a fair subject to bring up and I think one that most people rightly will
view negatively.
The
final ingredient is the story that was published today alleging that when he was in
high school Romney was a bully who picked on two possibly gay students. The comparison coming a day after Obama’s
statement on supporting gay marriage is inevitable and I believe was planned.
In
the end, Romney doesn’t come off so much as a hated figure (like Nixon for
example) but as a ridiculous one – weird, uncomfortable, unintentionally funny,
not to be taken serious in any way. When
they stop attacking you and/or arguing with you and start laughing at you, that’s
when you’ve really lost the battle.
Bill
Clinton did something similar to Bob Dole in 1996 but he didn’t have to mention
Dole so much-Instead, he made Newt Gingrich into a combination fool/boogeyman
and it worked.
The
bottom line is even though I no longer support President Obama and am still
looking around for a third party to get behind, his re-election chances are
looking good.
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