How Does Mitt Romney Win When the Whole World Knows He is a Liar?
- Sophia Angeliqueposted 12 years ago
0 - Sophia Angeliqueposted 12 years ago0
I can go with that one! Trouble Man. I guess it troubles me as a woman as well.
We can only hope
Anyway, as for your contention that Romney is going to win, the only polls suggesting a Romney win are known for being biased toward Republicans. The Gallup poll merely takes the results from four sections of the country and then averages them. It's easy to be up 6 points when you have a 22 point lead in one part of the country and are losing by 2-6 in the rest.
Check out fivethirtyeight.com. I just hope it isn't too much science and facts and logic for you
because usa needs liar in current scenario!!!!!!!!!!!....obama sold dreams ,though didnt lie because he was inexperienced and actually believed in those dreams...now liar would be better than fantasy man... at least liar knows what he is selling
- Sophia Angeliqueposted 12 years ago0
Americans, by and large, are extremely insular. They (we) have limited knowledge of the rest of the world or the politics or economics of individual nations or regions/zones.
They get all they need to know about other cultures from their usual news sources (which is to say, very limited and biased).
As a result, the typical American voting for Romney (and this is not to say that those who participate here are "typical") believes that Obama has been on an "apology tour" and has somehow weakened America's position in the world.
Americans have a very short attention span. We apparently have a short memory, too.
In 2008 Bush's policies were widely rejected. Eight years was more than enough.
We were weary of war -- two wars. Which we, as a nation, were not invested in or asked to sacrifice for (unless you had a son, daughter, mother, father, husband, wife, sister, brother, etc. in the military).
It was "over there" and we didn't see it.
We dutifully believed what our government told us about 9/11 and invading Iraq. If we didn't "Support Our Troops" with bumperstickers, we were accused of being unpatriotic.
Then, the economy crashed. It crashed big and hard.
None of us will ever know how bad it could have been, but from what I read, it would have been WORSE than the Great Depression.
Remember, Obama charmed his way in with a message of HOPE in 2008.
Somehow, I suspect he selected that campaign theme BEFORE the economy tanked. He made promises he never should have (5% unemployment? Really?).
Coming in, he had no idea how brutal things would get.
He severely underestimated the power of McConnell et al in Congress in blocking him.
But of course he can't run for a second term on "It could have been worse" and/or "It would have been better if Congress weren't buttheads."
Romney et al are right. Obama has NOT laid out an explicit plan of what he will do in his second term. I think he's learned that there are way too many things outside of his control (including the rest of the world).
I see it over and over. People honestly cannot name one positive thing Obama has done in 4 years. Whatever he has done has been minimized, or vilified as taking the country in the "wrong direction."
His administration has been singularly AWFUL at self-promotion or communication. It pains me as a marketer to see, but there it is.
As a result, the Limbaughs of the world are defining his administration for him.
Their modus operandi is to whip people up with fear and loathing.
Don't forget, too, that America functions best with a big, bad, scary nemesis.
Since we don't have a Cold War or a declared War on Terror to rally around, here's a novel idea! How about we rally against the nigger Muslim communist president?
Don't kid yourself that that's not reality.
But back to the economy:
Now, Americans are suffering. Things have not turned around fast enough or well enough. They don't understand -- nor do they care to understand -- the complex and interwoven factors that have kept our economy from rebounding. They believe what they're told. That gas prices were $1.89 under Bush (they actually went over $4 per gallon) and that today's high gas prices are ALL OBAMA'S FAULT. His stimulus FAILED. His regulations are killing jobs. He has tripled the deficit in 4 years.
Obamacare is a government takeover of healthcare AND it robs seniors of $716 billion in Medicare benefits.
(Not for anything, but it makes no sense for a president whose goal is to get as many Americans as possible covered with health insurance to take it away from Americans who already have it (seniors) to give to other Americans!!)
The government doesn't create jobs, the private sector creates jobs.
Or, the government isn't doing enough to create jobs.
Any way you look at it Obama's wrong.
And that's just on the domestic side. Forget any comprehension of how a global economy works or America's role/contribution to same.
So here's where Americans are now:
They want relief.
They want a scapegoat, and that's Obama.
They want a new, shiny messiah who will magically wave his wand and make things better. Not unlike (but they will never admit this) they just did in 2008 WITH Obama!
Americans are attracted to Romney BECAUSE he is a gazillionaire. He is the American Dream personified. And he LOOKS presidential (the non-racists here will jump on me for this, I know).
I truly believe that on some subconsious -- or even conscious -- level, Americans believe that with Romney in office, they will somehow share in his riches. He's rich so they will be, too.
They believe that because he knows how to turn around companies (they don't pay attention to the tactics used by Bain) he knows how to create jobs and he WILL create jobs.
Romney will return us to the mythical days of Reagan.
On the foreign policy front, someone (and I won't get into my conspiracy theories on this) has conveniently created a giant distraction with the Libya thing.
Rs tried to make a similar distraction with the AZ/Mexico border, but it didn't take.
Regardless, they now have Libya and that is the one and only foreign policy issue on most Americans' radar screens this week!
Well, except for Iran's nuclear capabilities and whether we are BFF with Israel or whether we see strategic value in maintaining relations with Palestine, too.
The Israel FIrsters and the anti-Muslim crazies (Michele Bachmann et al) are keeping quiet for now.
The Arab Spring is ancient history. The extreme volatility across the Middle East and Northern Africa -- way too complicated for Joe the Plumber and his ilk.
I've even heard some say that things were better with the likes of Quadhaffi in control. Now we don't know if we should support the new goverments or the rebels.
Yeah. It's messy, complicated, and a moving target.
Americans can't handle that.
You're either with us or against us. Your cowboy hat is either white or black.
Foreign policy comes down to which candidate represents a STRONGER America.
They still believe right is might.
More military, more saber rattling will put our "enemies" in their place, by God!
They want to believe that.
They don't want to know the details of what Obama's really done around the world, the delicate negotiations (including with China).
They're disenchanted.
Obama is the G4 and they want the G5.
What they don't seem to get is that Romney is G2. Things have moved way beyond his outdated (Bushian) model that didn't work the first time.
They see the curtain, but they choose not to pull it back to reveal that the great and powerful Oz is a scammer. WHen you take off the smirking Romney mask, it's Bush underneath.
But it's been 4 years already. Come on.Obama has CLEARLY failed!
At the same time, it's only been 2 years since the tea party steamrolled into Congress.
But already they're out of favor, too.
I worry that as a nation we can no longer delay gratification for more than 2 seconds.
We cannot distinguish between politics and entertainment.
Is this the presidential election? Or American Idol?
I'm not sure if the Reddit folks will accept "Because we think we're voting on American Idol, that's why!" as an answer.
But you're welcome to try!
MM, This is why you are my new hero! Get on that soap box girl, and tell it like it IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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