Interesting strategy article: Bain Attacks Soften Up Romney For The Real Blow: the Ryan Budget!

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/19/1111710/-The-Obama-Strategy-Bain-Softens-Up-Romney-For-The-Real-Blow-the-Ryan-Budget

The Obama Strategy: Bain Softens Up Romney For The Real Blow: the Ryan Budget
byTomP

Earlier this week it was Romney's tax plan creates jobs, but they're overseas and not here. Today, it's Romney will end Medicare as we know it.

Bain is the jab to the stomach that softens up Romney for the haymakers on policy (to use boxing metaphors). Both are essential, and in multiple ways. The Obama campaign has a plan and they are executing it well.

For several weeks, pundits like Greg Sargent, Jonathan Chait and others have discussed the Obama campaign strategy. The campaign found in focus groups that people simply did not believe Romney's actual policies were what they were. They thought it was all attacks and no one would really want to voucherize Medicare, give more tax breaks to the wealthy, etc.

The average American does not understand how radical this Republican Party is. So the only way to get folks to listen to the truth was to attack Romney on Bain, showing people that he was the sort of person who would do these things. Yes, he outsourced lots of folks, ran a corporate chop shop and got rich on the suffering of working people. A guy like that would screw the middle class by destroying Medicare and running the country for the rich only.

This is very interesting, because my mom is like those people in the focus groups - she doesn't believe that Republicans are capable of the truly evil shit that they've already done - she still thinks George W. Bush is a decent human being. For some people, the concept of a truly sociopathic personality just doesn't compute. I'm not entirely sure how to persuade her that the really sociopathic people on our government really exist, and really do intend to do us harm.

So I'd say that Obama's strategy is a damned good one - first, with Bain, show that Rmoney is a vicious, Gordon-Gekko-esque sociopathic evil bastard.

Then, later, hit with the bashing of the Ryan budget, to make the connection from past evil behavior to present policy issues.

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1. Yup,

"So I'd say that Obama's strategy is a damned good one - first, with Bain, show that Rmoney is a vicious, Gordon-Gekko-esque sociopathic evil bastard. "

...the stories exposing Mitt/Bain aren't going away, and neither are the demands for his tax returns.

The Obama campaign can hit him on policy, and on that front, Mitt has got nothing. His advisers can't even explain his positions: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002975617

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2. With Romney rubber stamping as ordered by Grover, Ryan's budget ordered by Ayn Rand,

We need to consider what they intend to do to us.

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3. And this is why Ryan will not be VP

because if Mitt picks him, then there will be no way he can deny he is sucking up to Grover.