Jim Geraghty in yet another spitting contest with the Romneys?

November 7, 2007 in 2008, argument, campaign communications, campaign communiques, campaign literature, campaign management, election 2008, gaffs and pratfalls, GOP, incompetence, media, mitt romney, republicans, rhetoric, romney, strategy, stupidity, the dark soul of Mitt Romney, triumph of unreason
Tags: campaign spot, cretins, fools, idiots, immigration, jerks, jim geraghty, morons, negativity, NRO

“Your friendly neighborhood campaign spot correspondent, yesterday: ‘This reminds me of Romney’s constant touting of that state police program regarding illegal immigration as an accomplishment, even though his successor, Democrat Deval Patrick, rescinded it before it went into effect'”—writes Jim Geraghty in an NRO Campaign Spot post titled Team Romney Objects; I Object to Their Objection

Each time Romney cites it, I’m muttering to anyone in earshot, why are you doing this? Why?”

Romney campaign helper-money Kevin Madden then issues a hair-splitting instance of casuistry that Geraghty calls an “objection,” the text of which Geraghty provides etc., etc.

Yet again the Romneys get into a spitting contest with friend and ally, Jim Geraghty.

formerly shameless-Romney-sycophant Jim Geraghty of the formerly conservative NRO in flame-war with an inarticulate rube identified as a “friend of mitt”

Note to the Romneys: the man is trying to help you. Please believe us: you need all the help you can get.

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dr. g.d.

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Romney ponders Ross Perot

October 17, 2007 in 2008, campaign management, election, election 2008, GOP, mitt romney, rhetoric, romney, the dark soul of Mitt Romney, triumph of unreason
Tags: , campaign spot, Gilad Dotan, jim geraghty, Jonathan Singer, Madonna Lebling, Ross Perot, Washington Post

“Referring to his willingness to hold talks with hostile states, despite his skepticism that dictators will negotiate in good faith, Romney says, ‘Like H. Ross Perot used to say, “I’m all ears,”‘” writes the laconic Jim Geraghty in a Campaign Spot text-burst titled Romney’s Second Reference to Ross Perot in One Appearance

Others—as well as we ourselves—have noted the parallels between

Perot, the folksy and diminutive engineer who wanted to apply principles of problem solving familiar to engineers to Washington

and

Romney, the equity sector candidate, who wants to apply principles of problem solving familiar to capital managers to Washington etc., etc.

We have also noted the grandiosity, the narcissism, and the sense of messianic purpose that the two figures share(d).

We have also noted how similarly the two have organized and funded their campaigns.

We have also noted how Romney, like Perot before him, is rapidly evolving from a serious candidate into a spoiler, one whose purpose is to deny the Republicans a victory.

What interests us is that there is now evidence that Romney himself is pondering these things in his small, dark, cold, diamond-hard heart.

Madonna Lebling, in a Washington Post article titled Report to Show Romney Fortune’s Bigger Role:

… Romney’s candidacy has quietly morphed into one of the nation’s first hybrid campaigns for a major-party presidential nomination: one that is neither a traditional bid built on individual donations nor a self-funded effort such as those launched by billionaires Steve Forbes and Ross Perot …

Gilad Dotan, PhD, in a <Who is Willard Milton Romney> post titled Romney: GOP for sale; says US$20,000,000.00 is the price for a top-tier position:

… Romney has funded, staffed and organized his campaign akin to an independent candidate, e.g. Ross Perot. He operates largely independently of GOP sources of funding, organization, and support …

Jonathan Singer in a web log post titled Is Mitt Romney Running out of Money?

… Romney campaign isn’t exactly running a traditional campaign — seldom have we seen a presidential candidate, outside of a Ross Perot or a Steve Forbes, self-fund to the extent that Romney has …

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dr. g.d.

Geraghty of NRO: Romney “seems hell-bent on proving he’s a social conservative despite a less-than-ideal record.”

October 16, 2007 in 2008, campaign literature, election 2008, gaffs and pratfalls, GOP, incompetence, mitt romney, republicans, rhetoric, romney, strategy, stupidity, the dark soul of Mitt Romney
Tags: campaign spot, formerly conservative NRO, jim geraghty, John McCain, mr. fix-it, real republican, tom bevan

“Tom Bevan of RealClearPolitics believes that John McCain beat Mitt Romney in their fight this weekend over which candidate is a “real Republican,” writes the tame and tedious Jim Geraghty in an NRO Campaign Spot post titled Would Romney be better off running as ‘Mr. Fix-it?’

An adviser to one of Romney’s rivals told me this morning, as we were discussing the “Real Republican” fight of the weekend, that he doesn’t understand the Romney strategy: “I’m not a huge fan of what Romney did in Massachusetts, but it was successful enough to be the foundation of a his message: I’m Mr. Fix-It, I’m the the can-do, get-it-done governor” … etc., etc.

Our response: Snarf! Guffaw!—shouldn’t Romney try to fix his ailing campaign before he tries to sell himself as the fixer of nations? We will refuse to believe that Romney is anything other than completely incompetent until we hear him articulate a clear, compelling, and unequivocal message consistent with his life and values.

• Rubens on Romney: “Beware Candidates Trying to Purchase a Conservative Label”—NH Republicans “ought to heed the attacks” by other GOPers on Romney “by remembering the the last time a wealthy businessman spent millions of his own money in a campaign to re-define himself as a conservative”
• Berry: “to Mitt Romney, politics is just another product”

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dr. g.d.