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Watch Team Obama Define and Destroy Mitt Romney In 30 Seconds
The most impressive thing about Obama adviser David Plouffe’s appearance on Meet The Press was that he was able to define and destroy Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney in 30 seconds.
Here is the video from NBC News:
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Transcript from Meet The Press:
MR. GREGORY: Let’s talk about what’s happening on the Republican side. Look at the Iowa polling, it gives you a snapshot of where this race is right now. And it is Herman Cain who’s on top at 23 percent, Mitt Romney at 22 percent. Who is the Republican most likely to challenge President Obama?
MR. PLOUFFE: I don’t think we have any idea. Now, the World Series just ended Friday night, but to use a baseball term, I mean, we, we maybe are in the first inning of this. So this is going to have a lot of twists and turns. And in Iowa, which, you know, we know a little something about, you know, what matters is, can you identify your supporters, can you get them to the caucus? And so there’s–the next 60 days is obviously going to be a fascinating period in politics. But the key thing is, David, no matter who we run against, they’re offering the same economic policies that led to the great recession, that led to destruction of middle-class security in incomes. And that’s going to be the fundamental question in front of us.
MR. GREGORY: Is Herman Cain for real as a candidate?
MR. PLOUFFE: You know, I really am not an expert in Republican primary politics. He, he seems to have tapped into something. What I find interesting is that Mitt Romney continues to have 75, 80 percent of his party looking somewhere else. And so it’ll be interesting to see if he can turn that around.
MR. GREGORY: Will he be a diminished candidate if he’s the nominee?
MR. PLOUFFE: Well, here’s–we’ll see what happens in the primary. I’d make, I’d make two points about him. One is he has no core. And, you know, every day almost it seems to be we find another issue. You know, he was supportive of doing things like a cap and trade agreement, now he doesn’t think that, you know, climate change is real. He was to the left of Ted Kennedy on gay rights issues, now he wants to amend the Constitution to prevent gay marriage. He was an extremely pro-choice governor, now he believes that life begins at conception and would ban Roe v. Wade. So you, you look at–issue after issue after issue, he’s moved all over the place. And I can tell you one thing, working a few steps down from the president, what you need in that office is conviction, you need to have a true compass, and you’ve got to be willing to make tough calls. And you get the sense with Mitt Romney that, you know, if he thought he–it was good to say the sky was green and the grass was blue to win an election, he’d say it.
Republicans may get excited when they see Mitt Romney running close to Barack Obama in potential 2012 head to head match ups, but what Plouffe was able to quickly and effortlessly do on Meet The Press today highlighted why Romney is far from the ideal candidate to take on Obama. If John McCain was riding the Straight Talk Express, Mitt Romney is helming the Double Talk Express. Romney’s penchant of telling any audience what they want to hear is his Achilles heel. It makes Romney look like what he is, a professional candidate who will say or do anything to get elected.
Romney has been able to hang close to Obama because he hasn’t been campaigned against. His fellow Republican candidates have not really gone after him in a big way yet, and if they did, it would be nothing compared to what the Obama campaign has in store for him. The flip-flopper accusation is hard enough for a candidate to shake without having the documented record of it that Romney does.
The Obama campaign has already started to define Romney as a coreless candidate whose words can’t be trusted. Romney is a political shape shifter with no personality, but what should be most troubling to Republicans is the relative ease with which Plouffe dispatched the frontrunner.
The biggest problem with Mitt Romney is that he appears to lack toughness. Most successful Democratic and Republican presidential candidates share a certain unshakable tough-as-nails core on the campaign trail. Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush had it. Barack Obama has it. Mitt Romney doesn’t.
Romney is the Republican John Kerry, and if Team Obama can dismantle him this easily in 2011, imagine what they will do to him in the fall of 2012.
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Anne
Oct. 30th, 2011 at 4:24 pm
You are dead on about Willard!! He is an unethical shape-shifter who will say and do whatever he thinks it takes for him to win the nomination. That said, none of the GOP candidates are worth voting for. The ones with the least traction are the most reasonable, and they don’t have a snowball’s chance of getting the nomination. Otherwise, it’s a cast of clowns, including Romney, with almost all of them trying to outdo each other in which one can appeal most to the most reactionary members of the GOP base.
SinghX
Oct. 30th, 2011 at 6:31 pm
Spot on, Anne…unethical shape shifter…perfect description!
akrnc
Oct. 30th, 2011 at 4:42 pm
If only the RWNJ’s vote in the primaries, which has tended to be true in past elections, it will be difficult for someone like Romney to win. Their disgust with Perry is also evident but if Herman Cain is leading in the polls and starts winning primaries, we may well see moderate Republicans voting in the primaries in numbers we have never seen before in order to prevent one of these RWNJ favorites, as in Cain, from winning the primary and blowing the general election. As an Independent who leans Democratic, I’d love to see Cain as the nominee although the history of suspicious election results(2000 & 2004)in the last two decades does make this a bit frightening.
bmule
Oct. 30th, 2011 at 6:01 pm
What David failed to acknowledge is the Mormon church, with more than 5 million members and more sympathetic supporters, they will rally the membership to get their man elected, for they will also do what they need to get him in, even if he lacks the true conservative mantle. That is his core. They are mostly republican.
Shiva (Moderator)
Oct. 30th, 2011 at 7:13 pm
But whats truly scary is Romney is today’s 2008 McCain. And McCain got the nod. McCain should never have had a chance in hell of winning the nomination but he came close to the presidency. It seems if you sell snake oil you at least come close
Reynardine
Oct. 30th, 2011 at 9:26 pm
Mitt reminds me of a chameleon crossing patterned wallpaper.
Rixar13
Oct. 30th, 2011 at 10:38 pm
“You know, he was supportive of doing things like a cap and trade agreement, now he doesn’t think that, you know, climate change is real. He was to the left of Ted Kennedy on gay rights issues, now he wants to amend the Constitution to prevent gay marriage. He was an extremely pro-choice governor, now he believes that life begins at conception and would ban Roe v. Wade. So you, you look at–issue after issue after issue, he’s moved all over the place. ”
Mitt Waffles on every issue…..
KatzKids
Oct. 31st, 2011 at 1:59 am
Never underestimate the power of the Mormons to get their guy elected. They have maintained their “stealth” agenda as opposed to the Dominionists who have been running theirs for years and now have brought it into the open.
Have you noticed all the Mormon ads on the internet, TV, magazines lately? They’re attempting to “normalize” their religion to disguise their true agenda, which is not that much different than the Dominionists. They flip flop in public as much as Mitt does. The first time I really noticed it was when they were trying to get the Olympics in SLC. They always advocated against liquor and had strict rules against it in all Mormon controlled cities & towns. Then they realized they’d never get the bid for the Olympics with their rules – so all of a sudden, all the restaurants in SLC had open bars. I know, I was there right after they changed the rules. They did the same with polygamy & acceptance of people of color. It was expedient for their purposes so they “changed.” They showed their true colors during the CA Proposition 8 fight to overturn gay marriage. They poured 8 million dollars into the overturn campaign. They received a lot of criticism for that, even from some of their membership so once again, they retreated back into their closet. But never doubt their agenda.
The average Mormon citizens seem to be good, loving people, but like the Dominionists, the hierarchy of the church holds all power & their agendas are secretive, corrosive and dangerous to the world in general. They’re strongly anti-gay, anti-women’s rights, racist, want a world theocracy with them as the ruling religion. No wonder the Dominionists (and all under the same banner)hate them so much. They’re the competition.
clarence swinney
Oct. 31st, 2011 at 12:18 pm
D REBUTTALS ARE SILLIES
Example–Nov 2009–R on msnbc “This President has highest deficits of any president” Obama had one month budget under his belt. One month.
D rebuttal was m u t e. Smoke came out my ears. It is typical.
Do not Democrats have Training Sessions of Staffers especially ones to go on TV??? They shame us. Do not they review their actions?
Numbers are simple on subjects as debt –deficit– spending– jobs– immigration—terrorism-
inequality—crime–housing–poverty–lies–wars–
Democrats created the Great Middle Class 1945 to 1980 Numbers are superb Republicans fought implementationS and diminished it since 1980 to gave us the current Great Depression.
Democrats have the numbers USE them
If you do not know them e-mail olduglymeanhonest cswinney2@triad.rr.
Room #106 Camp Butner NC Center For Mentally Disabled
Beautiful Deer all over campus.
Shiva (Moderator)
Oct. 31st, 2011 at 12:44 pm
that is a shame that I constantly talk about. If the Democrats could only grow a pair and talk. Talk about what is happening and what the Republicans are doing. Instead they act like they wont get reelected if they open their mouth. And I think it’s what kills the Democratic Party. Obama had to make up for a whole cadre of silent Democrats when he got elected. Which is one reason that I wouldn’t mind seeing the entire Senate and House of Representatives wiped clean and started over