Mort Zuckerman: Romney Can Still Overcome Obama’s Dishonesty and Divisiveness
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, September 22, 2012, 2:34 PM
US News and World Report editor-in-chief Mort Zuckerman offered a few pointers to the Romney-Ryan ticket today.
Zuckerman, a former Obama supporter, doesn’t have much use for the president today.
Zuckerman even said supporting Obama was a mistake.
Here’s his latest:
Romney Can Still Overcome Obama’s Dishonest, Divisive Campaign
He can get by his ’47 percent’ problem and beat Obama by outlining how he will get America back to workThe problem for Mitt Romney right now is that he has put his entire candidacy at risk to the point where he may not even qualify for the dismissive equation of Barack Obama that Marco Rubio formulated for the Republican faithful: “Our problem is not that he’s a bad person. Our problem is that he’s a bad president.” Is Romney also “not a bad person, just a bad candidate”? With his “47 percent” remarks at a Republican fundraiser in May, he has given his opponent evidence to initiate a new line of attack.
Voters can forgive a candidate who stumbles in the heat of an election, trapped by “gotcha” questions from journalists, being quoted out of context in cunning TV attack commercials, and in the Twitter age, failing to appreciate that nothing that is said is secret anymore. We all know the game, and Romney has demonstrated that he is not perfect at this game.
The same can be said of President Obama. As a candidate, he ran a brilliantly smooth and targeted campaign four years ago, but even he misspoke, as they say, in what he thought was a private meeting of San Francisco liberals. When the polls suggested he wasn’t appealing to rural voters, his response was to blame them for not seeing how different he was from the likes of Bill Clinton and George Bush, who had let them down. “You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them,” he said. “It’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustration.”
This week, Jay Carney, the White House spokesman, dismissed the condescension as something from the mythic past, not to be compared to the furor over Romney’s “47 percent” remark. Yet even now, fully armored and protected by four years of 24/7 press scrutiny and an army of verbal bodyguards, the president stumbles. “You didn’t build that” still rankles the millions of taxpayers who have concluded that in making their way they’ve not had much help from the government and a lot of hindrance…
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JDflorida commented:
Paul Ryan just finished speaking in a town hall format at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. It was standing room only, an inspirational speech, and numerous standing ovations.
To those that think Obama is going to win re-election, think again. Romney/Ryan will bring it home.
Mahdi Al-Dajjal commented:
Uhmmmm, the stated “… fully armored and protected by four years of 24/7 press scrutiny and an army of verbal bodyguards”, should read: “….fully armored and protected FROM four years of 24/7 press scrutiny BY an army of verbal bodyguards”.
Thank you.
sandy commented:
According to Dick Morris, Romney is leading. Dems are being oversampled by using the 2008 model when many more black and hispanics voted then do in an ordinary election. By using a combination of the 2004 and 2008 models which Rasmussen does you get a clearer picture of Romney winning in 2012.
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Romney Can Still Overcome Obama’s Dishonest, Divisive Campaign
He can get by his ’47 percent’ problem and beat Obama by outlining how he will get America back to work
We don’t need advice from longtime Dems. More flack to keep motivated Republicans from turning up at the polls.
sandy commented:
JD Florida Amen!!!
SoLongSong commented:
I’ll second that AMEN.
donh commented:
This is KEY….There is no real gaffe , gotcha or ” FUROR ” over anything Romney has said ….just big media tweeting agitation points to drill into the public’s head by relentless repetative united front of media talking heads . Say it often and everywhere enough and you fabricate an appearance of outrage that some weak and stupid minded people will believe its true….The media is trying to manipulate public into thinking Romney is making terrible mistakes……Romney is running a very fine campaign !
” You didn’t build that ” was a REAL look inside Obama that genuinely angered a lot of people….47% is a Van Jones fabricated ” gotcha ” agitation gimmic coordinated in advance with network media . The faux cries of OUTRAGE are just bad acting of a basketball player who purposefully falls to the hard wood floor in hopes of drawing a foul.
WE NEED TO EXPRESS MORE CONFIDENCE IN OUR CADIDATES !
Don’t let the media psy ops war succeed in establishing false perceptions.
dittogirl commented:
The press and all of the skewed polls are doing the job, but thanks to the internet (thanks Al Gore) we know that it is not that close, and the Republicans and Conservatives and Independents are ready to stand in long lines to vote this Resident OUT!
Like Carter and Dukasis, both were ahead in the polls jacked up by a press that all need to be fired, the Resident is going to lose too. Another thing we have going for us is that the left are lazy, and not so thrilled with Zero anymore.
Bring on November! We have waited a long time to get rid of the biggest boil on the fanny of humanity.
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Mad Hatter commented:
If Mort Zuckerman has turned on Obama, then you know it has gotten bad. Just think how many more Zuckerman’s are out there that we haven’t heard about since the Alinsky Media doesn’t want the public to hear from them.
dittogirl commented:
http://www.unskewedpolls.com
gman commented:
Shut up Zuckerman, we don’t listen to your advice. You voted for Obama…your a clueless idiot.
dba vagabond trader commented:
sthu Zuck, you voted for the p.o.s. and look what happened. I for one have no use for these traitors who present themselves as my superiors.
FCK OFF!
Rhonda commented:
If Romney is losing and he knows it and doesn’t call on Sarah he is a fool. Sarah lights up the base like no one else.
Red commented:
“Is Romney also “not a bad person, just a bad candidate”? With his “47 percent” remarks at a Republican fundraiser in May, he has given his opponent evidence to initiate a new line of attack.”
High praise indeed. Are you throwing him under the bus already? Can’t wait until after the debates eh?
Edward Cropper commented:
Mort Suckerman doesn’t have a clue about the every day American who will be the ones that bring it home for Mitt. Polls are useless unless their is tremendous gap between the candidates. These self appointed experts and pontificators are a bore.
Disappointment Fatigue commented:
Most of the country is suffering this terrible malady.
Freedom Fighter commented:
GOD forgive me..but I loathe him..I really do..I despise Holder for getting that Border agent and all those Hispanics killed. I hate them for all the GULF shore oil riggers who lost their jobs, I loathe him actions for giving shout outs when 13 of our young soldiers were gunned down (one was pregnant) again he does nothing..I loathe his actions for not defending IRANIAN young people screaming begging for our help..he could have changed the world but he did nothing…I hate the fact that he treated the Isarel Prime minister with such rudeness ..I loathe him for shutting down POLANDS defense shields on their anninversary of FREEDOM and …I loathe him for stealing $720 billion from medicare and ALL the constant lies–BUT I despise him the worst for the needless KILLING of our wonderful ambassador and the brave young Navy Seals…. those are our BOYS our children Americans they were slaughter by 100 terrorists and AGAIN he does NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!! They suffered and bodies dragged through the street and they apolgize for their murders???? WTF???? GO TO HELL you traitor! Rice, Clinton and Jarrett you sick, SICK POS!–this was a AXELrod set up-stop the internet or something but CONGRESS does nothing, nothing for what he/she has done! He has brought America to her knees with shame..and our Congress meekly does NOTHING! They should be having interviews, talking to the press filing charges for IMPEACHMENT he took an OATH to defend Americans.they ALL MUST be FIRED!! FIRE them all! They must go to prison! were are the investigations of the DOJ, State Department doesn’t anyone have any guts anymore?
JoyO commented:
I agree with Romney’s 47% comment and I am a middle class American who was born into poverty in Appalachia. My family never accepted welfare although we qualified for it. We just did without — a concept that the generations educated after the 1960′s would never understand. I believe Benjamin Franklin was right when he said the poor must be made uncomfortable with being poor. I have seen too many people become dependent on the Government. It does not matter what color one is, what nationality, what religion, etc. — welfare and other “social justice programs” creates a dependency that ensures a life of poverty. Of course, that makes all Democrat politicians happy because these programs are how they buy their votes and enslave their voters!
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