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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIndependent UK: The Romney dog-food brand still isn't selling
Rupert Cornwell: The Romney dog-food brand still isn't selling
Out of America: The Republican frontrunner can't seem to win over the party faithful
For sheer craziness, few events on the American political calendar beat the annual gathering in a cavernous Washington hotel each February of the Conservative Political Action Conference.
Republicans with the slightest instinct for compromise need not apply. A CPAC is part political trade fair, part motivational course for tomorrow's right-wing true believers, and not least an opportunity for the further fringes of the party to vent their innermost prejudices.
And in the past these conferences have featured some strange stars. In 1994, CPAC was where Paula Jones first went public with her allegations of sexual harassment against then President Bill Clinton. But the CPAC that wrapped up here last night was different. For once, it may have really mattered.
For that, thank the calendar of this extraordinary Republican presidential race. This time last week, Mitt Romney, fresh from convincing wins in Florida and Nevada, looked to have the nomination in the bag. Then came Rick Santorum's sweep in Missouri, Colorado and Minnesota meaning that the frontrunner had actually lost five of the first eight primaries and caucuses, four of them to Santorum and one to Newt Gingrich. And so to CPAC, at which all three made their pitches. ...............(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/rupert-cornwell/rupert-cornwell-the-romney-dogfood-brand-still-isnt-selling-6785681.html
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Independent UK: The Romney dog-food brand still isn't selling (Original Post)
marmar
Feb 2012
OP
When I read the headline, I started writing a little commercial in my head
customerserviceguy
Feb 2012
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Zambero
(8,965 posts)1. Perhaps they should stop transporting it on the tops of semi trucks?
I know that hauling it around in the same manner as Romney's canine friend (?) is a brilliant sales ploy, but the darn chow keeps getting knocked off the trucks by the highway overpasses. It doesn't sell because it never makes it into the stores!
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)2. When I read the headline, I started writing a little commercial in my head
Dogs were going, "Roof, roof!!"
muriel_volestrangler
(101,361 posts)3. A good chant? "Dogs Go Woof, Not On The Roof!"