Has Rmoney been "guaranteed," "promised" a win in the November election? The reason I ask this

[monmouth]

is because of the very haphazard, don't give a shite and inept way the campaign is being run. Just shoot your mouth off, truth or lie, makes no difference, Dielbold and others will be programmed to bring in a win. I'm not saying this is true, but I'm so shocked at the sloppy and mistake after mistake-laden performance of the campaign. One would think they're not even trying because they don't have to...

[Lint Head]

1. The sad truth is that we are owned by the corporate rich. Corporate fascism is alive and well.

[monmouth]

4. Their performance skills are severely lacking..n/t

[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. Nah. His staff just isn't ready for prime time.

[catbyte]

3. I'm hoping it's because it worked for him in the primaries

[Freddie]

15. He won the primaries

Due to the nature of the competition (Serial Husband or Father Rick?) only.

[Drunken Irishman]

18. Exactly right and he nearly pissed away that too...

Had Romney not eked out a victory in Michigan over Santorum, it's entirely possible it's Obama versus Santorum instead of Obama versus Romney. Romney ran an awful primary campaign against b-list politicians and it nearly cost him the nomination.

You can learn a lot about a presidential candidate from their primary campaign. Obama ran a fantastic primary against Clinton and ran a fantastic general against McCain. McCain ran a pretty awful primary campaign in '08 and only lucked into the nomination when Romney imploded in Iowa (had Romney won Iowa, he probably would've won NH and the nomination) and he ran an awful general election campaign. In '92, Clinton ran a damn impressive primary campaign and ran a damn impressive general campaign.

[elleng]

5. maybe rover's promised him another theft.

[monmouth]

8. That's exactly what I mean..n/t

[brooklynite]

11. Just like they were able to steal the election in 2008?

[Politicalboi]

6. Well the GOP

IQ has dropped a lot since the 80's, and it seems a lot more since 2000.

[RKP5637]

7. They're just talking to the level of most republicans in 'republican speak' so

they can be understood. Most republicans can't tell the difference between truth and lies, so anything will do.

Relative to voting machines = scary results.

[enough]

9. He sincerely believes that the vast amounts of money at his disposal will guarantee the win.

So far in his life, he has never been wrong about this. He believes it, and so do the people working for him.

[brooklynite]

10. Unrec

Why is every bad campaign a consipiracy theory? The McCain campaign was horendous, and apparently he wasn't promised an automatic win. Maybe Romney's losing because he's never had someone challenge him in business, and he's surrounded himself with yes-men in his campaign.

[monmouth]

12. Agree with you, but this campaign is so blatantly awful...I see your point..n/t

[TeamPooka]

13. I think they think the superpac money they will dump on the Prez will win it for them

just like their superdump of negative attack ads did in the Primaries.
These Romneyites know in their hearts there isn't anything money can't buy them.
Let's break their hearts in Nov.

[siligut]

14. He sure does act like it

He is so arrogant and delusional, he thinks god is on his side. As for his inept team, I am pretty sure he only trusts other Mormons, so some of them appear inexperienced because they are.

Remember Ann saying "It's our turn."? I think that says so much.

[Drunken Irishman]

16. I know it's hard to believe, but candidates can run bad campaigns...

Just ask Dukakis & Mondale. I know we like to think politicians will do everything in their power to win, and in some cases, they will, but it doesn't always equal a great campaign strategy. There is a reason campaigns have a winner and loser and often if you're the loser, it's because you ran a losing campaign.

Romney is trying. He wouldn't be spouting some of the lies he's thrown out there if he wasn't. But his campaign isn't very well run. It was obvious in the primaries, too, when he had a hard time putting away a bunch of B-list politicians.

[demwing]

17. Everything Romney has wanted in his life

has been handed to him through his religion and his wealth.

Of course he thinks that God and Money can secure this election, it's worked for everything else

[Jamaal510]

19. IDK about him being guaranteed a win.

But as the GOPher party nominee, he is guaranteed at least 40% of the vote and full financial support from the Richie Riches of the country.

[firenewt]

20. It's bought and paid for. With computerized voting and voter purges, the bastards have the means

to do so. Crap

[ancianita]

21. So far there's evidence to support your concern.

There's too much preparatory national activity not to think this.

Add Dieboldt e-voting manipulations to the systematic voter purges and ID poll tax suppressions of Democratic voters across swing states, and there will likely be a repeat of the Florida debacle. Never, never underestimate the corruptibility of Republicans in swing states' election commissions. We should never let the Florida/Supreme Court disaster happen again, or this country is doomed.

Vigilance should never be conflated with tinfoil fears. Thousands of lawyers as vote count monitors should be assigned to these states.