Eleven Dimension Chess: The President Got Mitt to Declare Himself Radioactive

[ProSense]

Eleven Dimension Chess: The President Got Mitt to Declare Himself Radioactive

by Nashville fan

Obviously, there has been much discussion and analysis of the quandary Mitt Romney now finds himself in . . . but it occurred to me that the best part of this is actually not what Mitt Romney isn't saying, but what he is saying.

Mitt Romney's dogged determination that he was NOT associated with Bain Capital, the firm he founded and the entire basis of his business expertise, during the period starting after February 1999 and extending through 2002 is basically an admission on his part that the things that Bain Capital did during this period were bad.

And with that simple admission, he has ceded quite a bit of territory to President Obama.

He has denied himself the "attacking capitalism" line, because his actions are just screaming out that he is ashamed of what occurred. That there is something unusual about what occurred. That he is willing to risk his entire candidacy in a desperate attempt to escape association with what occurred. And in so doing, he has in effect, self-deported himself from the mainstream of America and made himself a pawn of the Obama campaign.

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Even the desperate attempts by the corporate media to dismiss and repair the Romney campaign's bungling attempts to explain away the unexplainable only serve to dig the whole deeper . . . and expose the empty, craven nature of the "news" that most folks no longer trust anyway.

The Obama campaign's release of two commercials this weekend which seemed to have almost anticipated Mr. Romney's whining and disingenuous responses even before he gave them are simply the cherry on top, or to keep with our 11 Dimension Chess Analogy . . .

Checkmate.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/15/1110222/-Eleven-Dimension-Chess-The-President-Got-Mitt-to-Declare-Himself-Radioactive

Krugman:

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And here’s the thing: Romney is running for president entirely on the basis of his business success...Once the Bain record becomes a liability instead of a strength, there’s nothing there.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/13/business-is-not-economics/

[reformist2]

1. Yep - Mitt is basically throwing post-1999 Bain managment under the bus!

[cilla4progress]

2. Anything to win!

[DCBob]

3. Romeny's "Bain record becomes a liability instead of a strength"

That clearly was the Obama campaign's strategy... and they executed it perfectly!

[ProSense]

10. Romney can't run away fast enough.

I mean, "retired retroactively"?

[lunatica]

4. Yup. Chess

[Motown_Johnny]

6. I have a 3D chess set and it doesn't look like that

it looks exactly like this

[lunatica]

8. Yours is definitely prettier

But I didn't want a picture of one that seemed to be an advertisement. My bad.

[Motown_Johnny]

5. Retroactive, Radioactive... Whatever!

[BumRushDaShow]

7. You know that is screaming for some photoshop lovin'

[cindyperry2010]

9. PLEASE

do it do it do it

[Motown_Johnny]

11. I downloaded GIMP today but have not figured it out yet

maybe in a couple of days

[Scurrilous]

12. K & R

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

13. But the fact that they have nothing to run on scares me because that's when they turn to...

GOD, GUNS, and GAYS...and "the coloreds."

Hate and fear help the Republican Party and these are strong baser human instincts.

I see that now Obama is beating Robme on the economy indicator, according to PEW. He has nothing else right now, but we all know that when Republicans become desperate, they turn to hate and fear tactics.

[flamingdem]

14. Radioactive and .. Retroactive! But caution

the "narrative" will be blurred shortly by the MSM etc.

[Avalux]

15. Karl Rove has got to be pissed as hell - this is his tactic, with one huge difference....

Obama is doing it with the truth, and not a a bunch of lies.