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Old 09-09-2012, 07:35 PM
 
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Ouch.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough offered some harsh words for Mitt Romney via Twitter on Saturday night.

"Romney will lose if he doesn't dramatically change his strategy," he said. "Negative ads won't substitute for conservative ideas."

The 'Morning Joe' host continued: "The Romney campaign is not conservative. It is just as cynical and risk-averse as Team Obama. A real conservative would be winning now."

Both campaigns have unleashed a barrage of attack ads over the course of the campaign.

The Romney campaign released a Spanish-language ad on Saturday called “Ya No Más."

"After four years of broken promises and disappointment, we hear the testimonies of Hispanics who are not willing to give the President four more years," the campaign said in a statement.

Scarborough also on Saturday criticized Romney for his vague policies.

"Romney has been clear he will avoid specifics on balancing the budget and shrinking government. Not the Reagan and Thatcher way," he said. "The truth is that Thatcher would have lost in 1979 and Reagan would have lost in 1980 if they had run as timid a campaign as Mitt Romney.
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Old 09-09-2012, 07:36 PM
 
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Why is Romney releasing ads in spanish? I thought the GOP was the champion for english only America.?
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Old 09-12-2012, 09:34 AM
 
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Scarborough is right, honestly.

The GOP is not anti-Spanish. We believe English should be the official language of the US. A private campaign, such as Romney for President, can conduct business in whatever language(s) they so choose.
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Old 09-12-2012, 09:51 AM
 
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A real conservative wouldn't be caught dead appearing in MSNBC.
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Old 09-12-2012, 09:54 AM
 
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Ouch.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough offered some harsh words for Mitt Romney via Twitter on Saturday night.

"Romney will lose if he doesn't dramatically change his strategy," he said. "Negative ads won't substitute for conservative ideas."

The 'Morning Joe' host continued: "The Romney campaign is not conservative. It is just as cynical and risk-averse as Team Obama. A real conservative would be winning now."

Both campaigns have unleashed a barrage of attack ads over the course of the campaign.

The Romney campaign released a Spanish-language ad on Saturday called “Ya No Más."

"After four years of broken promises and disappointment, we hear the testimonies of Hispanics who are not willing to give the President four more years," the campaign said in a statement.

Scarborough also on Saturday criticized Romney for his vague policies.

"Romney has been clear he will avoid specifics on balancing the budget and shrinking government. Not the Reagan and Thatcher way," he said. "The truth is that Thatcher would have lost in 1979 and Reagan would have lost in 1980 if they had run as timid a campaign as Mitt Romney.

Romney has already won. We are just debating the margin at this time.
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Old 09-12-2012, 10:07 AM
 
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Joe Scarborough is in no position to lecture anyone on being a "real" conservative in the first place.

He's also never run for the Presidency.....for a reason.
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Old 09-12-2012, 10:33 AM
 
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Right wingers all seem to think that Romney is trailing in polls because he's not right wing enough.

I think he's trailing in the polls because many middle class people (who aren't FOX News followers) don't think he's going to do anything to help them, that all of his policies are geared towards helping Wall St. and big money corporations make even more profits like the last 3 Republican Presidents. When he says something like "corporations are people" and you see pictures of him biting dollar bills with a bunch of other suits, that is not good.

Also, where limosuine redneck Dubya managed to convince a bunch of idiots that he was "one of them" even though he was purely in bed with Wall St. inc., he at least didn't APPEAR to so much to be that way. Romney looks and sounds like a pure suit.

If Romney came out tomorrow and said that his tax plan would not touch the mortgage interest deduction for people making under 200K a year, he would have an immediate 1-2 point bump. He refuses. How can he sell tax cuts for the wealthy when his method of paying for them is to hammer the middle class?

If he did a PR spectacle with him driving a tractor or shooting a gun or something, he'd probably get a point or 2 right there.

The answer is NOT for him to come out calling Obama a "Socialist" like everyone on talk radio keeps saying. Only the hard core Republican base likes that stuff....who are they voting for other than Romney?
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Old 09-12-2012, 10:34 AM
 
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Right wingers all seem to think that Romney is trailing in polls because he's not right wing enough.

Ummmmm.....the polls show it as a dead heat.
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Old 09-12-2012, 10:39 AM
 
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Ummmmm.....the polls show it as a dead heat.
The electoral college total is strongly against him as of today, which is all that matters (see Bush/Gore).
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Old 09-12-2012, 10:53 AM
 
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The electoral college total is strongly against him as of today, which is all that matters (see Bush/Gore).
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