"Get ready for a rollicking 10 weeks."

[babylonsister]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/08/birtherpalooza_here_we_come.php?ref=fpblg

Birtherpalooza, Here We Come
Josh Marshall
August 26, 2012, 4:12 PM


Reading between the lines in this new New York Times story, it looks like Romney’s birther joke was no accident.

Mitt Romney is heading into his nominating convention with his advisers convinced he needs a more combative footing against President Obama in order to appeal to white, working-class voters and to persuade them that he is the best answer to their economic frustrations.

And this …

But in a marked change, Mr. Romney has added a harder edge to a message that for most of this year was focused on his business and job-creation credentials, injecting volatile cultural themes into the race. {emphasis added}

In truth, this shouldn’t surprise us. The still terrible state of the economy simply hasn’t been enough to put Romney into the lead, not even with the decelerating job growth which began early in the year.

So it’s time for ‘volatile cultural themes’, euphemistic appeals to racial fears, ‘just havin’ fun’ cracks about Obama’s purported foreign birth, bogus claims about policy moves by a shiftless welfare-lovin’ Obama.

Get ready for a rollicking 10 weeks.

[Drunken Irishman]

1. McCain tried this...it backfired. I bet it'll backfire this go around.

I hope it does. I think it will. I think Romney is biting off more than he can chew on this one.

[babylonsister]

2. From your lips...but it was proved the last time around

there are a lot more of us than there are of racists. The PACs are scary, but hopefully thinking people who start to pay attention will be appalled.

[Motown_Johnny]

3. Swing voters get sick of this crap pretty quickly, plus Rmoney's like ability is upside down.

It could easily hurt him more than it helps him.

He already has the racist vote.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

4. I think people are concerned that their Medicare will be ripped away from them

the VA will disappear under Romney/Ryan