Morning Joe: Romney campaign "one of the worst-run Presidential campaigns in American History"

[brooklynite]

[TroyD]

1. Who said this?

Joe himself, or one of his guests?

[CTyankee]

2. Joe said it. He's in a bad mood today. He hated the weekend...

poor thing. He needs to take a tranquilizer and lie down for a while...

[Bad Thoughts]

3. Whatever

Dear Joe: Mitt was the only candidate the GOP could run. He was an empty suit to represent vile and hateful people. Suck it up!

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. That may be partly true, but we also have to give the Obama campaign credit for

ninja-level skillz.

Have they made a mistake of any consequence? Have they not, rather, countered the giant money advantage of Romney and the superPACs with deft moves? When the book is written on this one, it is going to be as much about the genius of Chicago as about the dumbassery of Boston.

That said, I have a sneaking suspicion that all this "we're losing" talk on the part of the right-wing has some strategy and coordination behind it, especially as registration deadlines loom across the country. They may be trying to dampen the urge to register that came out of the Dem convention, and fire up their own people to register. That's the only sense I can make of it at this point? Who runs public post mortems of a political campaign in mid-September? It's weird.

[JeffersonLoveChild]

5. While your theory has a ring of truth to it...

... I also think that the traditional Republicans in the party are trying to leverage themselves in the inevitable GOP post-November clear out. I think many of them, including Joe himself, are embarrassed and concerned at how Romney has allowed his candidacy to be hijacked and charted by the right wing ideologues and tea party extremists in the GOP.

Joe would, a few minutes later, state that because of the huge money advantage, Romney might still win the presidency despite his horrible campaign and conduct. I think that is a very telling statement.

[Cosmocat]

7. Rove was a GENIUS, no one even know who David Plouffe is

cause, you know, the media is liberally biased ...

[brooklynite]

9. Interesting perspective on "liberal media bias" came up as well...

...basically it was "so what"?

Assuming for the sake of argument that it's true, somehow Reagan and Bush 1 managed to win, and without a conservative network/blogosphere to help them. Deal with it.

[TroyD]

6. Don't assume this is in the bag though

The Republicans are ruthless and can never be ruled out.

Don't let your guard down for the next month and a half.

Everything is still on the line.

[BeyondGeography]

8. Romney is inept, but he's not the main problem, Joe

Your party has made itself useless and/or a threat to the average person's well-being in the eyes of too many voters.

Not that I want to give you any hints; scapegoat away, dude. You'll be saying the same things in four years if the GOP keeps marching off that ideological cliff.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

10. Oh dear

Republicans eating their toast

[grantcart]

11. so if he can't run a campaign well how would he do with a government?

[FSogol]

12. +100 n/t

[Sekhmets Daughter]

13. Then he proceeded

to tell the usual republican lies about how ineffective Pres. Obama has been. My favorite was that "the world" hates us more now than 4 years ago....
He blames Obama for Israel, Oil and the armed forces based in Saudi Arabia to keep the Saud family on the throne there...Of course he never mentions that those are the real reasons we have enemies in the ME and even in Europe. Nor does he mention that the entire financial crisis percolating throughout Europe was created by American Banks. It doesn't help that regardless of how slowly our recovery has been moving along, we are in better shape than most of the European nations who were hit by the credit meltdown.

Mika the Mindless sat there posing , as usual.

[Mike Daniels]

14. Unfortunately, as long as "Joe" outperforms CNN in whatever demographic ranking they use

Joe will have a media career.

You have to figure that FOX is easily killing Morning Joe and whatever is on CNN combined at that time period.

As such, Morning Joe must be beating the CNN competition pretty handily in a "money" demographic for it to still be on air after all this time. Although if it ever slips into third I imagine MSNBC would at least see if having Mika directly face the camera with crossed legs (a la FOX News) would bring ratings back up before they cut bait.

[SkepticMetric]

15. Morning Joe "Top Talkers" Coach Romney's Clown Handlers To Triple-Down On Spewing B.S.!

This pleasant Tuesday in the last week of summer turned mentally stormy for me as I became discombobulated watching the pompous pundits on Morning Joe spend a half hour coaching the goofs handling Mitt Romney, exhorting them to put up their dukes ---err, make that "Mitt", get tougher with the talk, by gosh, triple-down and (imho) continue to play the clown to gain renown !

Donnie Deutsch, Morning Joe, the GOP cliche'-ridden schmoo, sensation-seeking Tina Brown, attention-starved creator of the sick 'NewsWeak' cover stories and the rest of the mindless palavers, made trite, ill-informed suggestions on how the "inelegant" Romney basket case communicators still could save the day.

Just continue to call the Obama-loyal 47 per centers hopeless outcasts. Focus fervently on the fertile independent, undecided targets....in fact, kiss their ass(es) !

This coming metaphor doesn't fit, but did you ever feel you had to hold your nose to avoid the stinking smell of Romney-ridden stink emanating from your TV set? I better change viewing behavior and switch to Fox News and get off on their "fare unbalanced" nonsense than stay loyal to "mourning Joe".

Indeed, the group of giddy gabbers created a Dale Carnegie-like "How to Influence People" forum for the Romney and Ryan Regiment Driven to Run Over the Middle Class.

A pompous, pathetic and pretentious lout of a presidential candidate is outed speaking untruths to power, selling a bunch of big donor fat cats on the concept they hold precious: that you literally don't have to give a shit about the concerns of half the American citizens. Hell no! Simply, discard dissidents hating your elitist hierarchy of values as being of no consequence to your warped American Dream in your shoddy scheme.

THE tape exposed the unethically elite forces so vividly I can vouch with certitude that I indeed surely know and have seen in living color the characters fitting the definition of the old school term, CAPITALISTIC PIG!

The repugnant Republican ritual? Just spew out putrid falsehoods so the self-centered rich sons of bitches can get off on that tax-dodging thrill that sends a tingle up their legs!

God help the USA if this truly evil and unethical nasty niche of One Percenters gain the right to rule literally within weeks! We are on the count down on a calendar about to seal our fate. Go out and do something about it!

It would be the better of two evils I joketh to vote against that elephantine contingent by taking to the ballot box early and often on Election Day, as we progressives in Chicago have been accused of doing for decades.

WE PLEDGE TO NOT STUFF THE BALLOT BOX despite what they say on FOX ! We go forward to fight by championing voter rights. It's the crafty, cheating plans being plotted throughout the land we must confront.

The opposition's scheme is to block enough voters to tip the balance against those of us more committed than ever to back hope and change equally for all Americans, half of whom Romney virtually identifies as human waste unfit to have a voice in America!

So do your patriotic part to get out the vote to keep out the worst of the business barons from using the White House as their tool to pump up questionable profits for their corporate bottom lines---and see how low they can make the fading middle class go!

MAD AS HELL, I am the CynicMetric and we must stick together and prevail! Rage and at least invest enough of yourself above the minimum wage of due Democratic diligence the forces of the Democratic Underground must exhaust to win!