He's toast. Done, cooked and crispy.

[Raven]

It's July...the dog days of summer have arrived. Most of the country is preoccupied with vacation, fires, power outages...not politics. For the Obama campaign to be going after Romney/Bain as hard as they are now means to me that they have many more arrows in their quiver. This is going to be a slow death for Romney and the final stake will go in his heart sometime in October. Romney will be complicit in his political demise because he is a lying lightweight with an incompetent and arrogant campaign staff.

[redwitch]

1. I like the way you think.

[C_U_L8R]

2. I like the image of Romney as an overcooked wiener

Mitt is that you ?

[Raven]

6. Just the way I like my Republican dogs! :-)

[lastlib]

8. New version of the "Wish Sandwich":

"A Wish Sandwich is the kind of a sandwich where you have two slices of bread, and you *WISH*..." you weren't the overcooked weiner between them!

BA-BA-BOW!!

[vi5]

3. You really think that?

Such a sweet kid.

And by the way, you're right that he is a lying lightweight with an incompetent and arrogant staff. I just think you overestimate the intelligence of the voting public.

[denverbill]

55. And the impact of $1 billion in soft money ads. n/t

[Hawaii Hiker]

4. Romney is a compulsive liar

and that's his best attribute..

The guy is a skunk, puts Pepe La Pew to shame...

[RC]

12. Stop saying that, it's not true.

To lie, you have to know the truth. To know the truth, you have to have a grip on reality. For people like Mitt, reality is whatever they say it is at the moment.
If the answer to the next question contradicts the answer to the last question, no problem. Both are correct. See, Mitt is incapable of lying.

[spinbaby]

23. He lies about everything all the time

No one should be surprised he lied about Bain.

[ellenfl]

51. he buys his reality. eom

[jberryhill]

52. I generally take "compulsive liar" to means something other than "willful liar"

What I find most fascinating about the way this has unfolded is that the Obama campaign seems to be counting on the reliability with which he will say things that are not true (whether he has a grip on objective truth or not).

But, yes, I think we all understand that a pathological liar is not "lying" in the sense of willfully and knowingly making false statements. It is a compulsion. They can't help themselves. And they do not have the consciousness of "lying" that someone without a character disorder would otherwise have.

[Blue Owl]

5. I love a good slice of sour d'oh toast!

n/t

[struggle4progress]

7. Wait. Hatch. Count. Chickens.

[whopis01]

41. That's not how it's done...

It's more like:

Count. Extrapolate. Predict October surprise. Demand a recount. Argue about chickens with hanging chads. Speculate on whether or not they are actually duck eggs. Hatch. Count. Claim this is what you predicted back in January.

[struggle4progress]

42. In any case, I'm not assuming Rmoney's defeat until I hear his concession:

before then, it's "let's all work to re-elect Obama"

[maryellen99]

47. I bet Romney won't concede if he loses

The man has no class.

[CTyankee]

9. My only two caveats: voter suppression and a huge ad dump

during September and October, courtesy of all those Super Pac donors. Fortunately, the obama people aren't going to be caught surprised since it's pretty obvious this is going to be the Romeny strategy. Remember the Swiftboating of Kerry happened later in October and Kerry's campaign couldn't get into gear in time to rebut successfully.

[Raven]

10. I agree and would add all of the outside forces

that could come into play during the next few months but I do believe that the Obama campaign is ready for it. I think the basic mistake that the Romney campaign has made is thinking that Democrats will be passive and that the American people are stupid.

[CTyankee]

11. Hopefully, there will be a "Linda McMahon effect" with too much

advertising, leading people to be completely turned off of her campaign against Dick Blumenthal in 2010. Of course, the fact that she was the "wrestling lady" and quite a nasty piece of Republican work at that didn't help her and Dick Blumenthal was a very highly regarded state A.G. Now he is our Senator, yaay!

But Linda is back and will be running (paying) for Joe Lieberman's seat, probably against Chris Murphy, now a Congressman and a good guy. But there is real doubt that a person with her background would ever be elected Senator from CT...it wouldn't "do."

[Rosanna Lopez]

17. Kerry

They didn't WANT to rebut Bush - that was one of their problems. Kerry was a wimp. He never fought back and never stated the obvious because he was too afraid to - that Bush was a Vietnam draft dodger who was kept out of the War by his rich influential Daddy, while guys like Kerry were the ones who went over there and actually put their lives in danger.

He allowed Rove's strategy to work beautifully against him. They needed to go after Bush's opponent by protecting Bush's greatest vulnerability - his lack of military background and draft dodging. So since Bush was running against a man who HAD been in Vietnam and the military, they need to discredit Kerry so people wouldn't pay attention to Bush's own background.

Kerry allowed himself to fall right into Rove's trap by not fighting back.

[CTyankee]

19. Well, I have information to the contrary, but who knows who is right?

[DCBob]

25. "Kerry was a wimp" ???

That's nice talk regarding one of the key leaders of our party.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

28. Like it or not.

His campaign lacked a backbone.

[DCBob]

44. Senator Kerry is not a "wimp".

[qwlauren35]

49. Ads vs. Calls...

The SuperPACs may have more ads, but the Obama supporters will have more volunteers. It makes me wonder when the Romney office will figure out that they need to pay people to make phone calls. But even if they pay people, a paid person doesn't have the personal touch of a true Obama supporter.

We can do this!

[DCBob]

13. He's definitely on the ropes.

I agree with you that the O-campaign has much more in the quiver. They probably have a weekly attack plan to keep Romney campaign continuosly off balance then save the best for last and blow him away the final few weeks before the election.

[proud patriot]

14. let's keep hammering his ass

I'm feeling very positive

[DCBob]

15. Im feeling optimistic too but..

Republicans can be the most dangerous when feeling threatened like a cornered rabid dog. We need to be extremely cautious with these animals.

Wow! nearing 100,000 posts! I salute you!

[proud patriot]

59. thanks

[OverseaVisitor]

27. Hey Old timer

[proud patriot]

60. Whose got my cane?

(smooch)

[OverseaVisitor]

61. Not me

I did not remember taking a cane with me during my " cough cough " enforce vacation.

Maybe someone lost a club

[Faygo Kid]

16. Koch money, Rove and Diebold.

Three of many reasons Rmoney will never be finished.

[Canuckistanian]

31. Yup

I wouldn't be so hasty to write a eulogy.... yet.

[Catherine Vincent]

18. I appreciate your thought on this but

I go back when Bush II was campaigning and we thought no way in hell this clown would ever get elected but look what happened.

[GoCubsGo]

24. Yep, and that was before Citizens United.

And, before hundreds of thousands of people were improperly purged from the voter rolls. And, before all the voter ID BS...

[MrSlayer]

20. Stupid voters, citizens united, voter id, purges, diebold.

And Obama is still black.

Don't count your chickens and never let up on the throttle. This is a battle for our very lives.

We have to act like we're ten points down.

[chknltl]

21. Fellow Duer(s) This fight is not over....not by a long shot!

We all here know about the unenlightend electorate produced by the right wing propaganda machine....given a choice between President Obama and...ANYONE, they will enthusiastically vote against our President

We all here are aware of the election fraud going on perpetrated by the GOP, they are scrubbing millions of us Dems off the voter rolls.

We are well aware of what happened in Wisconsin, where a combinatiown of the above two factors combined with corporatist funding (we were outspent 8 to1 by the most conservative estimates), gave the recall away to the corporate lacky repuke!

Given what we know, that the rabid haters WILL turn out, that the felonious election fraudsters will stop millions of us from voting, that the corporatists will outspent us by at least 8 to 1....
........and this thread thinks to encourage us that it is all decided, that he is toast, implying that perhaps we can relax?

Not just NO but HELL NO! The corporatists haven't given up spending millions maybe even billions thanks to citizens united. Hell IT WAS OUR MONEY that they spend in order to make even MORE OF OUR MONEY by swaying this election. They have invested too much already to give up now.

They want to purchase the White House, The Congress and they already have the SCOTUS. We have been getting our asses kicked for the past decade, arguably even since Regan. We The People are outgunned on all fronts but one: our sheer numbers. No, now is not the time to kick back and sip a tall cool one, we are in the fight to save our very democracy!

We need to push our fellow voters, educate them, show them where we really are, what is at stake. Most of them don't know what you know about the election fraud going on, about how the GOP is taking all that money from the corporatists-corporatists who have no other agenda then to take even more of OUR hard earned dollars. Get them fired up.

No, stop thinking that our fight is only with the mitt-wit, he has some big guns on his side aimed right at We The People, aimed right at YOUR CHILDREN'S FUTURE! This fight is not over....don't you dare think that.

[davidpdx]

37. +1

This thing is so far from over. The one thing that scares me is the unlimited money Romney is able to raise from the rich. If the SC had ruled the other way on campaign finance I think this would be similar to the 96' race.

(edited for grammar)

[Brother Buzz]

22. At this juncture, I question whether he can survive the August convention

[patrice]

26. too early

[Cosmocat]

29. The "liberal" media WILL keep him afloat

at least into late October ...

[SILVER__FOX52]

30. 100 %........

CORRECT !!!!!!!!

[TBF]

32. Hopefully - but the repugs could still replace him at this point

nt

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

33. With Ron Paul?

Here's the worst thing you can say about the Republican Party, circa 2012: Mitt Romney is their strongest candidate.

[chknltl]

39. romney/paul ticket scares the hell out of me. eom

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

45. Now, now....

They'd never get elected and just THINK of the fun that Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert would have with it.

[krawhitham]

34. Can a felon hold office as President?

According to FactCheck

he "would be guilty of a federal felony by certifying on federal financial disclosure forms that he left active management of Bain Capital in February 1999."

In that federal financial disclosure form he claimed
http://pfds.opensecrets.org/N00000286_2010_pres.pdf

"Mr. Romney retired from Bain Capital on February 11, 1999 to head the Salt Lake Organizing Committee. Since February 11, 1999, Mr. Romney has not had any active role with any Bain Capital entity and has not been involved in the operations of any Bain Capital entity in any way."

But when he had to prove residency to run for Massachusetts governor, Mitt testified under oath that he
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/12/mitt-romney-bain-departure_n_1669006.html

"remained on the board of the Staples Corporation and Marriott International, the Life Like Corporation"

And

"There were a number of social trips and business trips that brought me back to Massachusetts, board meetings, Thanksgiving and so forth,"

And

His activities during that period also included Staples board meetings: "I returned for most of those meetings. Others I attended by telephone if I could not return."

So he either lied under oath or lied on his federal financial disclosure form, one or the other is a FELONY right?

[Generic Brad]

36. Yes - As long as he is not a convicted felon

[WI_DEM]

35. long way to the election.

[Kablooie]

38. Unfortunately many voter love cooked and crispy Republicans.

They circle the wagons and will defend criminal behavior to the death because the are faithful patriots.

Wait, I mistyped that ... faithful parasites.

[Warren DeMontague]

40. This also gives plenty of time for the image of him as a rich tax dodger who thinks rules only apply

to "the little people" to sink in.

[mnhtnbb]

43. I certainly hope you are right.

[Raven]

46. I repeat: cooked and crispy. I am

more certain of this today than I was yesterday when I wrote this. The reason being that the leadership of the Republican Party is entirely too quiet. If they thought they had a leg to stand on, they'd be all over the Democrats. Nothing but crickets.

[HopeHoops]

48. Don't forget the Colonel's special recipe!

[TheDonkey]

50. I believe this was the time that John Kerry was swiftboated

It was painful to be on the other side of the character attacks, but as Kerry would agree, they work.

When you are an unkown-being it is critical you don't let yourself be pegged a "bad guy" or a liar and that is what is happening to Romney. Unlike Kerry who was involved in a "he said, she said" bit of character assasination, Romney has provided all the evidence for his failings, some of that evidence under oath!

Democrats cannot afford to let up now. Where are the tax records? What is Romney hiding from America that he gladly gave up to John McCain? Why is he lying about his involvement in Bain Capital (at the same time saying that is his #1 achievement).

[grasswire]

53. so let's be sure we support the journalists who are doing this work

It was David Corn who broke the Stericide/abortion waste matter story in Mother Jones. That story is turning some Republicans against Mitt.

Boost these bits of investigative reporting every chance you get. Tweet them. Like them. Forward them. Repost them.

[TheDonkey]

56. Yes we can!

I totally agree. It is up to all of us to keep these stories going. It is important as it reveals plainly who Romney works for (the almightly dollar ... stashed overseas so it can't be taxed and used to support American society).

David Corn has been a hero this cycle in uncovering the truth about Romney and Obama.

[Mopar151]

54. I hope so - but the Obama campaign better have plenty of charcoal ready

So as to burn down the Super-Pac supersaturation coming with fall TV. The smoking ruin that is Trump's credibility tells me there's something in reserve.....

[LonePirate]

57. This issue is merely a temporary blip on the news radar. It will be forgotten by August.

[quaker bill]

58. Some of the specifics, sure

The point is how it colors views of his character, not the specifics. The basic concept that he is a guy who got very rich laying people off and sending their jobs to China will stick.