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Ryan and Romney message FAIL
There is an interesting finding in the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. Apparently, the Republican attacks against President Obama based on his “you didn’t build that” line have been a dud. From NBC News:
The poll – which was conducted Sept. 26-30 – comes after intense scrutiny and TV-ad attacks on Romney’s “47 percent” comment, in which he said that percentage of Americans don’t pay income taxes, are dependent on government, and believe that they are victims.
After hearing a full description of that comment, 45 percent of registered voters said it gave them a more negative impression of the GOP presidential nominee, versus 23 percent who had a more positive view.
By contrast, when the same respondents were read a full description of Obama’s “You didn’t build that” line – comments Republicans seized on to portray the president as anti-business – 36 percent had a positive reaction and 32 percent had a negative reaction.
Not only have Republicans spent millions on ads based around this attack, they also made it the entire theme of their national convention. That was basically millions of dollars worth of “free media” they decided to use to advance a message that didn’t resonate. Time that could have been better used on a convention theme which could have produced a bounce for Romney.
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The Gang Who Couldn’t Shoot Straight. Oops.
They bring new meaning to ‘lying sack of shit’.
When you boil it all down, it’s really simple, losers can’t win. The GOP knew Romney wasa a loser. They just coudn’t DO anything about it. He WAS their BEST candidate.
I love it when bad things happen to bad people.
It didn’t work because most people do understand that we are interdependent. And Tea Party “ressentiment” is predicated less on the fact that these balding white guys made their riches all by themselves (hard work, grumble, etcetera) than that THEY DIDN’T, that they never got rich as the American lie promised, and are kind P.O.’d at the idea that some person of color is the reason that they couldn’t, racist rationale for the BIG DECLINE that they anxiously embrace.
In truth what wealth they DO HAVE is predicated on robbing the labor and resources of people across the planet for a century and a half, racist project that Obama makes the perfect Trojan front man for, but hell–most liberals don’t know that either. And truth to tell, they’re getting a little skittish about the crumbling of that project themselves. Which is why they’ll plump for a little drone-bombing, and discover it feels KINDA GOOD to root for militarism and scream bloodthirstily when we KILL Osama. (Take that, conservative guys!)
We have met the enemy.
Huh. I wonder why it failed. I mean, we know from countless previous experiences that it’s not particularly relevant that it was bullshit. So why did it flop?
Because we know the 1% stole it and the underpaid, over worked, and slave labor actually built everything.
Uh given the numbers of Mormons below the poverty rate who still tithe despite getting freaking help from the Feds and the Mormons we should be running ads in freakin Utah.
Dude you will be at FDL during the debate right?
As Stephen Colbert told Teri Gross, political comedy
his showdoesn’t work unless it’s based on an underlying truth.The enemy is a bunch of parasites who needed the bank bailout to stay rich We bailed them out now they want more tax cuts because they can’t stay rich unless we help them.
Exactly. And with a “serious” media that’s increasingly determined to censor the truth without even having to be told to do so, Colbert shows that the only way sometimes to give people the truth is in the guise of humor.