Zingers? Really? Is Mitt preparing to be Herman Cain or Sarah Palin?

[ProSense]

In Debate, Romney Plans To Drop ‘Zingers’ On Obama

Looking forward to the first presidential debate next week, Mitt Romney has a plan: Knock President Obama off his game with some well-rehearsed "zingers," reports the New York Times:

Mr. Romney’s team has concluded that debates are about creating moments and has equipped him with a series of zingers that he has memorized and has been practicing on aides since August. His strategy includes luring the president into appearing smug or evasive about his responsibility for the economy.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/in-debate-romney-plans-to-drop-zingers-on

#MittZingers is now trending on Twitter
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021436367

So who is Mitt preparing to emulate?

A message to all you Republicans blaming Romney for the state of the presidential race

by Eclectablog

Let's review, shall we?

Republicans are starting to drift away at the edges of Presidential campaign. Vulnerable Republicans, in particular, are avoiding "The Stench". They don't need that boat anchor around their ankles.

It actually started early in the primary season when people like Ann Coulter and Newt Gingrich warned Republicans that, if they chose Romney, they'd lose to Obama. Yesterday, Politico posted a piece titled "In the end, it's Mitt". Everyone blames Mitt.

Let's just remember what the Republicans alternatives were (after the great orange squibbledigibbet.)



Newt Gingrich? The self-promoting, "let's hire poor kids to clean toilets at their schools to give them dignity" candidate? HE could have beaten Obama? Please.

Herman Cain? The "nine-nine-nine" pizza mogul who mocks other countries ("Uze becki becki stan stan&quot and was about 2 millimeters deep when it came to any sort of discussion about his foreign policy or even domestic policy? Right.

Rick Perry? The secessionist governor who wanted to lead the country and remake it in the image of Texas? Oops.

Michele Bachmann? The woman was so detached from the facts that fact checkers just sort of shrugged their shoulders and gave up? Seriously?

Rick Santorum? The guy who thinks wanting all Americans to have the opportunity to go to college makes you "a snob"? Ferreals?

Ron Paul? RON PAUL??? You have to be kidding.

Jon Huntsman? Oh, sure, like you guys were ever going to pick him! Waa-aay too sane in comparison to the others.

So, as things go forward and the slow motion trainwreck of the Romney campaign unfolds in front of your eyes and he gets his ass handed to him by Barack Obama, sweeping a new crew of Democrats into Congress, let's just remember this: Romney may have been an atrocious candidate -- and he was -- but your choices were no better elsewhere. You literally had EIGHT candidates to chose from and not one of them had a prayer of winning against Barack Obama.

And that is what happens when you let the tea party take over your party. Congratulations. You deserve it.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/29/1137816/-A-message-to-all-you-Republicans-blaming-Romney-for-the-state-of-the-presidential-race

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021304282

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[bigdarryl]

1. Noticed the Romney campaign is talking a lot of SHIT about debate prep

And the Oboma team isn't saying nothing why would you give your opponent a heads up as to what your thinking of doing.

[Siwsan]

2. I'm pretty sure if you have to rehearse it, it's not a 'zinger'.

Willard is such an entitled twit, I doubt he actuallly knows what a zinger is. He will probably memorize a bunch of snarky remarks and deliver them in the same order he memorized them, whether they fit, or not. I can already hear that uncomfortable noise that passes for a laugh, in his world, as he waits for an opening. Seems like a really great way to make a total fool of himself. Yet again.

[treestar]

10. Absolutely

Not only is it a stupid plan, they are letting the opposition know their strategy ahead of time.

[Cha]

17. They have Romney "memorizing" them, do they?

How special is that?

[hedgehog]

3. How much money have Mitt and his buddies spent, and it all comes down

to hoping he can land a rehearsed zinger?

BTW - I would submit that if you've rehearsed it, it's not a zinger!

[monmouth]

5. One of his "zinger" coaches might be Dennis Miller. Oh yeah, that has win all over it...n/t

[Pbs1914]

4. Eaten Alive

If he broadcasts that he plans to be a late night comic at the debates and fails to deliver the laughs, he'll be eaten alive by Conan, Letterman and the rest who do schtick for a living. It would be comedy gold to have a Presidential canditate characterized as a failed stand up comic telling bad jokes.

[Cha]

18. Mitt won't do it without that special nervous

laugh he does so badly.

[Spazito]

6. The thing about practiced "zingers" for an event where one can't control the discussion...

is that one is so focused on where and when to let fly the "zinger" it almost always comes off as practiced and out of place, imo.

The other thing about Romney and "zingers" he has been totally tone deaf as to when and where humorous zingers belong and fit.

It is going to be an interesting debate, that's for sure.

[Curtland1015]

7. See: Sarah Palin's "Say it ain't so Joe" clunker from the VP debates 4 years ago.

So obviously rehearsed. So poorly done.

[Spazito]

9. There is an art to inserting humor via zingers and Romney doesn't have it, imo...

neither did Palin. Reagan, with his "There you go again", was an actor with a practiced skill re making something scripted seem unscripted which is what makes a zinger effective.

Romney is no actor, to say the least, lol.

[flyguyjake]

8. It's been all

over main stream news. Romney will try "Where's the Beef?", "There you go again", "Where's the results", "Show us the jobs"...

With as bad as Romney's been overall I don't know if this is really his saving grace. Shouldn't he talk about the actual details of his plans? I think this is going to be yet another failed attempt from a failed campaign staff. They haven't gotten anything right since day one.

[pepperbear]

11. Here's a zinger: Why would they let this become public....

It's their whole debate strategy, right?

[ProSense]

15. Someone on Mitt's

staff thought it was a brilliant idea, you know, to keep the opponent off balanced.

[Cha]

19. Man, I was just looking for a place

to post that question! Why would they release the campaign strategy before hand?

More of the angry chair and leaving out The Troops in rnc acceptence speech, Strategy?

[surrealAmerican]

12. Try as I might, I can't think of a single time ...

... that somebody's zinger caught President Obama so off guard as to make him look bad.

[Cha]

20. There's a Vid out with Best Presidential moments..and

one of them is when Ed Henry tried to zing PBO at a Presser and Pres Obama Zinged him right back..left Ed with his mouth agape.

[kalli007]

13. I have one

What's black and white and gonna win election night?


HAHAHAHA

[madamesilverspurs]

14. If Romney shows up

with something written on his palm, we'll know who coached him...


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[Cha]

16. Mitt's advisor, was it Stu Stevens of The Angry Chair and

not thanking the Troops, advisor/speech writerr? Anyway,it's evident he advised him to pull a psych ops before the debate. Mitt's been telling anyone who will listen that ..

Towards the end of the interview, however, Romney looked ahead to the upcoming debates and said he'll have a challenge to deal with: "the president tends to, how shall I say it, to say things that aren't true."

http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/09/14/13865583-chronicling-mitts-mendacity-vol-xxxiv?lite

Meanwhile Steve Benen has accumulated XXXV Volumes of Mitt Lies..

The LIES..http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/09/21/14015581-chronicling-mitts-mendacity-vol-xxxv?lite

Good heads up from Eclectablog.. Thanks ProSense!

[Cirque du So-What]

21. 'Oh yeah? Well, the Jerk Store called, and they're running out of you!'

Didn't work out so well for Georgie Boy either.

[FSogol]

22. In the debates, Mitt will totally destroy

Rick Perry.