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TroyD

(4,551 posts)
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 10:13 PM Sep 2012

Peggy Noonan: "It’s time to admit the Romney campaign is an incompetent one"

It’s time to admit the Romney campaign is an incompetent one. It’s not big, it’s not brave, it’s not thoughtfully tackling great issues.


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otherone

(973 posts)
1. I wonder if he was too rich to worry about the campaign, or if he knew all along he would fail..
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 10:14 PM
Sep 2012

central scrutinizer

(12,655 posts)
2. no, it is time to admit the candidate is dangerous, sick asshole
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 10:39 PM
Sep 2012

so thank the goddess that the campaign is incompetent.

cr8tvlde

(1,185 posts)
4. To be fair, the first week describes the candidate...it took a bit longer for the campaign
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 10:45 PM
Sep 2012

TwilightGardener

(46,416 posts)
5. It's tackling people who feel somehow entitled to eat, and might need some
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 10:50 PM
Sep 2012

help doing that. So Mr. Bazillionaire is going to put those parasites in their place. Wait...is that not a "great issue"? Isn't that "big and brave", to pick on the bottom half of the country's earners?

bklyncowgirl

(7,960 posts)
6. There's an old saying "A dead fish stinks from the head."
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 10:50 PM
Sep 2012

If his campaign is incompetent we know who to blame. That would be the great turn around artist, the guy who likes firing people, that captain of industry (in China that is) Mitt Romney.

Doctor Jack

(3,072 posts)
7. Incompetent was a good description 6 months ago
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 10:51 PM
Sep 2012

Today it is more of an unmitigated disaster.

FSogol

(47,665 posts)
8. it is time to admit that the Republican Party is morally bankrupt, criminally negligent,
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 10:56 PM
Sep 2012

and does not have America's best interests at heart.

Indpndnt

(2,391 posts)
9. Only his campaign is incompetent? No, Willard, himself, is grossly incompetent.
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 11:02 PM
Sep 2012

And very, very twisted.

 

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)
11. Peggy the end is here. Gathering all the "elders" of the party in a circle around him won't work.
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 11:10 PM
Sep 2012

You can't put lipstick on a pig.

Wounded Bear

(64,629 posts)
13. Figgerred that out all by yourself, there, didja, Pegs?
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 11:14 PM
Sep 2012


Good journalists make stating the obvious interesting. You failed.

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