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matt819

(10,749 posts)
Mon Sep 17, 2012, 07:54 PM Sep 2012

If a campaign is a dress rehearsal. . .

Let's put aside for a moment Mr. Romney's term as governor, which was less than stellar.

Let's put aside his management of the Olympic Games, which without more than a billion dollar infusion from the government he so clearly hates would have been a failure.

Let's even put aside is so-called business experience, which was nothing less than a mob-style bankruptcy ring.

Let's just take a look at the campaign. I would think that a campaign is like a dress rehearsal for the office you're running for. It's about surrounding yourself with the right people. It's about staying on message. It's about managing that message and the hordes of supporters, advisers, hangers on, etc. It's a bit about diplomacy - the art of getting people to do what they don't want to do and having them walk away happy. It's a bit about battlefield tactics and longer range strategy. Etc.

Can even those on the right want to be governed by a man who is nothing more than the leader of the clown car brigade?

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