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NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
Fri Aug 10, 2012, 12:52 PM Aug 2012

GOP screams "No fair, he's fighting back" (and winning!!!)

Unlike Kerry and Gore to some extent, Obama is playing the game the GOP has been playing for several election cycles. He's hitting them hard and fast on issues that they thought were strengths of theirs. Kerry was switboated and Gore was made fun of, but Obama is hitting them right where it counts, calling their candidate and their positions "Killers". Killers of jobs, killers of growth, and even killers of the uninsured who lost everything to their bloodthirsty greed. Obama has ads featuring women saying point blank, "If Rmoney wins, Planned Parenthood will be shut down and women's rights to choose will be infringed upon". The republican response to that, "sure but you make us sound like bad guys when YOU say it like that".

Obama's fighting back and even taking the offensive (crazy, no) and he's winning as a result and it is severely pissing off all those on the right. Rove has basically been Newtered and pushed to the impotent fringe. Fox screams "no fair he's being a meanie" and has been forced to run against him by using the failed techniques from the last election...He's Black you know. They cant even run the religion angle on him because to try to call Obama anything other than a christian is to leave Rmoney exposed on the same front.

If he keeps it up he's guaranteed 4 more years in our White House.

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GOP screams "No fair, he's fighting back" (and winning!!!) (Original Post) NightWatcher Aug 2012 OP
90% of all the Obama adds are factual IMHO, even the Joe add doesn't calls it like it is... uponit7771 Aug 2012 #1
Bullies have nothing to fear rocktivity Aug 2012 #2
Your comment makes no sense. zentrum Aug 2012 #10
You just proved that my comment makes sense. rocktivity Aug 2012 #12
Either you are playing games with semantics, StrictlyRockers Aug 2012 #13
A gold medal example of judo. Using your opponents russspeakeasy Aug 2012 #3
so Obama's playing chess and judo at the same time.... NightWatcher Aug 2012 #5
That about sums it up... russspeakeasy Aug 2012 #7
"Dang, them Injuns is shootin' back!" Canuckistanian Aug 2012 #4
"I just tell the truth and the Republicans think it is hell." - Harry S. Truman yellowcanine Aug 2012 #6
"Give 'em hell, Barry!!" StrictlyRockers Aug 2012 #14
I'm loving this get the red out Aug 2012 #8
When you stand up to lying-ass malignant bullies (R), they whine Berlum Aug 2012 #9
they are George Zimmerman with a jammed gun n/t Enrique Aug 2012 #11
I love it. Give them what they deserve. lpbk2713 Aug 2012 #15
I like this. Can I have more please? Whisp Aug 2012 #16
This is delicious! lunatica Aug 2012 #17
This just in -- and NOT from The Onion! rocktivity Aug 2012 #18

uponit7771

(90,301 posts)
1. 90% of all the Obama adds are factual IMHO, even the Joe add doesn't calls it like it is...
Fri Aug 10, 2012, 12:59 PM
Aug 2012

...rMoney lied him off and if he didn't lay him off he would've had health care and his wife would have a better chance of living with it.

zentrum

(9,865 posts)
10. Your comment makes no sense.
Fri Aug 10, 2012, 03:56 PM
Aug 2012

Obama is not bullying the bullies. He's just standing up to them. Which is what you should always do with bullies. Obama standing up is the only thing bullies fear.

rocktivity

(44,571 posts)
12. You just proved that my comment makes sense.
Fri Aug 10, 2012, 05:49 PM
Aug 2012

Last edited Tue Jun 22, 2021, 01:07 AM - Edit history (14)

Obama is not bullying the bullies. He's just standing up to them. Which is what you should always do with bullies. Obama standing up is the only thing bullies fear.


I was speaking of bullies in general. The last thing bullies want is a fair fight because what they "fear" is it being discovered that they don't have what it takes to win. They "solve" that potential problem by preying upon those who appear to be either too scared or too vulnerable to fight back.

Mitt thought that defeating Obama would be as simple as damming him with both his race and Bush II's sins. Mitt's fatal error was in not realizing that he has far more vulnerabilities than Obama, who naturally started preying upon them purely in self-defense. And what is the Romney camp's response? To paraphrase the title of this very thread, "He's fighting back, and he's winning -- NO FAIR!!!"

Bullying is wrong. Bullying back is when you have no other line of defense is a line of defense.


rocktivity

StrictlyRockers

(3,855 posts)
13. Either you are playing games with semantics,
Fri Aug 10, 2012, 05:54 PM
Aug 2012

or you just contradicted yourself.

Republicans are getting a taste of their own medicine. I am loving this. They aren't used to being back on their heels.

Canuckistanian

(42,290 posts)
4. "Dang, them Injuns is shootin' back!"
Fri Aug 10, 2012, 01:07 PM
Aug 2012

I think you're right. Look at all the howls of GOP protest at Obama's killer ads and use of Harry Reid as a surrogate attack dog.

Using their own tactics against them while staying ON MESSAGE with a bigger policy point.

I love it when a plan comes together.

yellowcanine

(35,692 posts)
6. "I just tell the truth and the Republicans think it is hell." - Harry S. Truman
Fri Aug 10, 2012, 01:07 PM
Aug 2012

The more things change the more they stay the same.

get the red out

(13,460 posts)
8. I'm loving this
Fri Aug 10, 2012, 01:13 PM
Aug 2012

So often, Democrats believe the truth will prevail. Well, it won't, not unless it is offered up in no uncertain terms. I am so glad the President isn't mincing words, there is so much at stake.

It is easy to forget about the aging justices on the Supreme Court, and how that institution affects the lives of everyone in the country and even around the world! How many more people would be alive and well today if it hadn't been for the court's decision in favor of Bush in 2000? We will never know, but I'd imagine Al Gore would have done a Hell of a lot better on that front than Bush.

Now is no time to be nice.

lpbk2713

(42,729 posts)
15. I love it. Give them what they deserve.
Fri Aug 10, 2012, 05:56 PM
Aug 2012



Gore and Kerry wanted to play "nice" and that cost them dearly.
Obama should not let up on rMoney for a moment.


lunatica

(53,410 posts)
17. This is delicious!
Fri Aug 10, 2012, 05:58 PM
Aug 2012

Let them get a knot of profound misgiving and rage in their guts for a change. Crybabies.

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