Romney: My campaign doesn't need a turnaround

[DonViejo]

Source: CBS

-snip-

Pelley's interview with Romney is part of a 60 Minutes focus on the 2012 presidential campaign. President Obama will also appear on 60 Minutes Sunday in a separate interview with Steve Kroft.

A transcript of the excerpt follows:

Scott Pelley: You are slipping in the polls at this moment. A lot of Republicans are concerned about this campaign. You bill yourself as a turnaround artist. How are you going to turn this campaign around?

Mitt Romney: Well, actually, we're tied in the polls. We're all within the margin of error. We bounce aroun -- week to week-- day to day. There are some days we're up. There are some days we're down. We go forward with my message, that this is a time to reinvigorate the American economy, not by expanding government and raising taxes on people, but instead by making sure government encourages entrepreneurship and innovation and gets the private sector hiring again.

Scott Pelley: Governor, I appreciate your message very much. But that wasn't precisely the question. You're the CEO of this campaign. A lot of Republicans would like to know, a lot of your donors would like to know, how do you turn this thing around? You've got a little more than six weeks. What do you do?

Mitt Romney: Well, it doesn't need a turnaround. We've got a campaign which is tied with an incumbent president to the United States.

Scott Pelley: Well-- as you know, a lot of people were concerned about the video of the fundraiser in which you talked about the 47 percent of the American people who don't pay taxes. Peggy Noonan, a very well-known conservative columnist, said that it was an example of this campaign being incompetent. And I wonder if any of that criticism gets through to you and whether you're concerned about it at all, whether--

Mitt Romney: Well, that's not--

Scott Pelley: --the concerns of Republicans--

Mitt Romney: That's not...that's not the campaign. That was me, right? I-- that's not a campaign.

Scott Pelley: You are the campaign--

Mitt Romney: I've got a very effective campaign. It's doing a very good job. But not everything I say is elegant. And I want to make it very clear, I want to help 100 percent of the American people.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57518137/romney-my-campaign-doesnt-need-a-turnaround/

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. It's a merry-go-round anyway.

except all the clowns keep falling off the ride.

[tanyev]

2. You tell them, Mitt! Just keep doing what you've been doing.

[oldhippydude]

3. wow just wow

denile a river in Egypt

[Cha]

4. Romney will LIE

about the weather..just to fuck with you.

[secondvariety]

5. "...not everything I say is elegant."

No shit, but everything you say IS arrogant.

[PatrynXX]

18. saw your line

and though okay well shit. anybody who's pissed off won't be doing eligant very well either. Nore spell rite. (sic) he can shove a catheter up his shrinking member and have a wiz at it. Hows that for Elegant. ???

[JHB]

21. An elegant crocodile shedding elegant tears...

...still amounts to crocodile tears and a big crock. (sic)

[wordpix]

32. Rmoney likes elegant - dinners, yachts, homes - but he can't help the spew out of his mouth

[JI7]

33. and ignorant

[awake]

6. Time to give your staffers another raise

because the last $200,000 bonus for a months work went so well.

[calimary]

37. Welcome to DU, awake!

Glad to have you here and we need you! We need ALL OF US - to help each other to avoid being tempted by complacency. We do NOT have this thing won yet.

We still have to work like dogs!

[magical thyme]

42. hey, when your national co-chair bails, you gotta do what ya gotta do

to keep the rest on board the Titanic.

The $200K bonus kept his remaining staff intact for another month or so. He'll probably shower the rest of the campaign funds on them to keep them on the final 2 weeks before they all go down together.

That's how they do it in his biz. When they realize they've skuttled another one, they grab the monies and bail.

[mwooldri]

7. Yep Mr. Romney. Your campaign doesn't need a turnaround.

It doesn't matter - turning over a corpse is still a corpse. Might as well present the best angle and go from there.

[defacto7]

8. No it doesn't need a turn around..

Just keep marching right out that door.

[Laurian]

9. What's with all the "elegant" talk? Who wants elegant talk.

How about a little straight talk? Jeez, this guy is goofier than I ever though he would be. If he hadn't been born rich, he'd never have been a success in business. He's just not very bight.

[GEOpix]

10. Romney to campaign staff...

I am the boss! If you were so damned smart, you'd be up here where I am, but you're not!

[busterbrown]

11. "Everything I say is elegant". This guy is really dumb.

Elegant is a word to describe a ballerina or Mrs and Mr. Romney as they enter a ballroom.
Not to describe a disaster!

[calimary]

38. Welcome to DU, busterbrown and GEOpix!

Glad you're both here! We need you to help us make sure lord and lady wrongney have a nice future in their home state of - uh - well, whichever state they're calling home this week.




Now get to work.

[Ikonoklast]

12. Keep up the good work Willard, stay the course!!

[tarheelsunc]

13. That's pretty sad

Mitt knows no one would vote for him on his merits alone, his whole campaign is about the "NOBAMA" movement, he's surely not campaigning on his personal strengths. Mitt even admits this now...

[calimary]

39. Welcome to DU, tarheelsunc!

Here's hoping even some of the lost souls will decide that they need a little more than just "well, crap, at least he isn't Obama" as justification for voting for wrongney.

Glad you're here. We need you!




Now get to work.

[tarheelsunc]

44. Thanks for the warm welcome

As Romney says 47% will vote for Obama no matter what, there must be at least 40% who would vote for any Republican Presidential candidate just because of the big R. I try to give the truth to my friends and all over internet message boards. Of course, this is mostly useless because on some boards, people just give "thumbs down" no matter what you say even if you appear to be leaning left. The hate machine they are running is absolutely ridiculous.

I've been a Democrat ever since I was a 9 year old watching the 2000 stolen election. I was the only Gore supporter in my class and I never backed down from my beliefs, and never have since. My conservative parents are too apathetic to vote, but I did at least get my mom to "support" Obama in 2008. I do want to do more, I'm just not sure where to start/

[calimary]

45. THIS is a good place to start!

DU strikes me as something beyond just a website or a blog - it's a think tank!

If you spend a little bit of time here, reading and checking out some of the links and commentaries and "Good Reads" and other stuff, you will be ASTOUNDED at how much you will learn! How your mind will expand! How much better-armed and equipped you'll be to take on others around you who get their talking points directly from Pox Noise.

Just hang around and absorb. You'll get ideas. You'll hear stories - inspirational ones and cautionary tales. Success stories, for example, about those DUers who've managed to complain to a local store or bank about ALWAYS airing Pox on their in-store monitors - and gotten the channel changed; or how somebody in their office/class/shop/checkout line/etc was finally reached and eyes were opened, and the truth finally was able to break through to them. You'll see those here all the time. You'll see great slogans and bumper stickers and clever phrasing and meme-scheming that are memorable and engaging and worth sharing - to be "said, read, and spread!" You'll learn about approaches, techniques, and phrasings that work as well as those that don't. You'll gain from others' accomplishments here and learn from their mistakes. You'll get LOTS of history and background info from people here, both through the links they post to buttress their arguments AND their own anecdotal testimony from their own lives - especially the veterans here and the older DUers who can remember back through maybe a dozen Presidents' terms! That perspective is PRICELESS and will expand your own understanding and your growing mastery of facts. AND you'll have a chance to "eavesdrop" on some of the finest, most nimble-minded, and shrewd debaters - literally world class.

Best of all: you'll get a sense of solidarity that there are LOTS of people who feel as you do, and see things as you do, and recognize truths and lies as you do. It will help keep you fired up when you're on a roll and reassure you when something concerns or outrages or bewilders you, or brings you down. You'll discover you are FAR from being alone. Our side is gaining ground by the day!

Glad you're here!

[L0oniX]

14. Full speed ahead...

[spiderpig]

15. He is such a tool

[fascisthunter]

16. I AGREE! Full steam AHEAD!!!!

[barnabas63]

20. +1

Willard's right this time!

[calimary]

40. Wow! Lots of new DUers here! Welcome!

Glad to have you here, too, barnabas63! We need you! We have an election to win!




Now get to work.

[CreekDog]

47. GMTA!

[SoapBox]

17. Agreed with others...Mittens, DON'T change a thing!

Just keep vomiting up the same spew and tossing around the same Shiny Objects.

Prez O is gonna kick your ass.

[FiveGoodMen]

19. "...because my rich friends and I are planning to cheat!"

[november3rd]

22. Poor guy

I feel sorry for him already.

--Bleeding Heart Liberal

[Maeve]

23. True enough, turning around won't help. Try moving the deck chairs.

Or at least get the band to play "Nearer My God To Thee"

(yeah, they didn't really play that on the Titanic, but the point is made)

[Sophiegirl]

24. If you are gonna lose..

...LOSE BIG!!!

Go big or go home.....both in this case.

[cosmicone]

25. By mid-October

Romney will say that he wants to help 150% of Americans...

[nolabear]

26. This:

Any questions?

[trailmonkee]

27. friday fish fry?

Flounder? Did someone say flounder?

Wait, that Would be more of a Ryan thing

[landolfi]

28. This guy is delusional

but I think he should double down it!

[calimary]

41. And another new DUer! Welcome landolfi!

Glad to have you with us! And we need you - we've got an election to win!





Now get to work.

[cheezmaka]

29. Romney's campaign is "doing a very good job."

Well I LIKE what the campaign is doing TOO as well as the Brits! Keep on talkin' Mitt!

[abolugi]

30. You are NOT

tied in the polls, dumbass!! In the swing state polls and the electoral college Obama is beating your inelegant ass...

[wordpix]

31. good, Rmoney, stay that course so by election day, O will be 10 pts. over you in every swing state

[DemKittyNC]

34. It has been

one hell of a week for Mitt the Twit. I can't wait to see what comes next week! Better than popcorn and a movie

[progressivebydesign]

35. Why the fuck is he getting all of this airtime??? nt

[Ash_F]

36. This Scott Pelley guy is awesome. /nt

[Tom Ripley]

43. It needs a reacharound

[Initech]

46. And the Titanic only had 599 of 600 hulls breached.

[lunatica]

48. Mitt can always sic Ann on them

[Samjm]

49. Definitely needs a turn around

A 360 turn around, and then keep going the way you are....