Dead cat bounce. Dead cat bounce. Dead cat bounce

[Panasonic]

Any bumps on Romney's polls will be declared dead cat bounce, and go back down after more gaffes after gaffes.

[Bryn]

1. Huh?

There are cat lovers here. This is sick!

[cali]

2. well,

In economics, a dead cat bounce is a small, brief recovery in the price of a declining stock.[1] Derived from the idea that "even a dead cat will bounce if it falls from a great height", the phrase, which originated on Wall Street, is also popularly applied to any case where a subject experiences a brief resurgence during or following a severe decline.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_bounce

[Bryn]

11. Thank you for explaining

I hadn't heard of this phrase before.

[A HERETIC I AM]

9. Oh, for fucks sake.

[magical thyme]

3. Hail mary pass. 2 gaffes already

the first in the announcement itself, when he introduced Ryan as the next President.

Second when he cancelled all press interviews, including Gwen Ifill, for the weekend.

Appears unsure who heads the ticket and unprepared to answer any questions regarding the choice.

[CatWoman]

4. and then there's this:

Mitt Romney Disses Tea Party Star On Day Of Base-Focused VP Rollout

Mitt Romney giveth and he taketh away. On the day he fired up the conservative base by selecting Paul Ryan as his running mate, he also dissed one of the tea party’s favorite rising political stars and one of his recent surrogates.

At his second Virginia campaign stop of the day Saturday after debuting Ryan as his running mate, Romney appeared to weigh into the 2013 Virginia gubernatorial GOP primary which pits Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling against Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli.

Bolling joined Romney on the trail, first in Norfolk where Ryan made his first speech of the day and then in Ashland, Va., where Romney and Ryan made another appearance.

Romney said Bolling was “a great friend” and added, “I hope the next governor of Virginia.”

Bolling is one Romney’s Virginia campaign co-chairs.

Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) introduced Romney at the Norfolk event and he also gave Bolling some love, but didn’t offer the same kind of endorsement, though McDonnell has been on Team Bolling for quite a while now.

Speaking to an overflow crowd after the Ashland event, Romney changed his tune on the 2013 primary.

“We’re counting on you to make sure that when Bob McDonnell retires, I know this one term thing is an unusual thing in Virginia. We want to make sure to have a Republican take his place,” Romney said. “There are a couple of guys in the race, I love them both. I want to see one of those guys take his place.”

Cuccinelli was apparently not in attendance at either event. Cuccinelli’s campaign staff directed TPM to the Romney campaign, who told us Romney “wants to see another Republican elected governor in Virginia, but he has not endorsed in the primary.”

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/mitt-romney-ken-cuccinelli-diss.php

[grantcart]

5. Intrade is not impressed. Lost half a point and there are 142 shares waiting to go now.

http://www.intrade.com/v4/home/

[magical thyme]

7. dead cat splat? nt

[HopeHoops]

6. I wouldn't be shocked if rMoney came out with a commercial about him road-killing cats...

... with a dog tied to the roof.

[Motown_Johnny]

8. Yep, this was to soon. They should have waited a week

so the bounce would carry into the convention to help keep the numbers up.


They are so desperate to not talk about Rmoney's taxes and the "Son of Boss" scandal that they changed the subject to Ryand's budget.


Between now and the debates the polls will be all over the place. Once we get through those we will have a better picture of where the race really is.

[hobbit709]

10. More like dead pair of rats.

[DearAbby]

12. People are speculating that this was just phase two of his plan...

What's with the dead cat shit?