Romney doesn't just lie, he's delusional (updated)

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Romney Camp Hitting Back On Foreign Policy

As Vice President Biden prepares for his 10:30 a.m. foreign policy speech in New York, in which he will attack Romney’s foreign policy vision, the Romney campaign is pre-emptively hitting back.

Richard Williamson, special adviser on foreign policy to the Romney campaign, has an op-ed in Foreign Policy, arguing Obama is “appraoching a Jimmy Carter moment”:

With President Obama’s foreign policy unraveling, his reelection campaign has been quick to attack Mitt Romney as a distraction. But events abroad may be bringing us to a juncture at which the inexperience and incompetence of a presidency crystallizes in the public mind. In short, we are approaching a Jimmy Carter moment. In a perilous world, this is not the kind of leadership our country needs.

In addition, the campaign organized a press call Thursday morning “to discuss Vice President Biden’s visit to New York City and President Obama’s failed foreign policy.”

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/romney-camp-hitting-back-on-foreign-policy

Obama Campaign Video Hits Romney On Foreign Policy ‘False Attacks’
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002612518

Updated to add:

Republicans fret about Mitt Romney's persistent negativity

by Jed Lewison

This is one gem of a quote from today's New York Times article on Republicans who are worried Mitt Romney has been too negative and want him to go positive:

“Mitt Romney has to come up with a plan and policy and principles that people can rally around,” said Gov. Gary R. Herbert of Utah, a strong supporter of Mr. Romney who said it was “fair game” to point out differences with the president. “It can’t just be negativity.”

If Republicans wanted a candidate who would run a positive campaign, they picked the wrong guy. Case in point: he spent more than $100 million winning the Republican nomination, and more than 95 percent of his ads were attacks on fellow Republicans.

But the issue here isn't just Romney's slash and burn style: it's that the conservative economic agenda really doesn't lend itself to a positive campaign. The whole conservative thesis is that Barack Obama's presidency is destroying America because he's a European-style communist dictator. (Never mind the fact that Europe is in recession because it's following the austerian policies the right wants America to embrace.)

To conservatives, the only way to save America is to reject Barack Obama. That's a negative message, to it's core. The only way to talk about it in semi-positive terms is for them to say that government must get out of the way. But even that isn't really a positive agenda. And even if it were, Romney's embraced it time and again. His basic plan is to cut taxes, slash regulations, and shrink government. Romney wants to effectively end Medicare, he wants to turn Social Security into a welfare program, and he supports austerian policies that would force us to stop investing public funds in our infrastructure.

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/26/1086560/-Republicans-fret-about-Mitt-Romney-s-persistent-negativity

Mitt can't go positive or the teabaggers he sold his soul to will attack him.

[Scuba]

1. Ask Osama if Obama failed.

[magical thyme]

2. we're approaching a Jimmy Carter moment?

What? Is Romney going to cut a deal with Iran to take some hostages, and free them right after he's annointed empero...er, appointed prez? :rolleyes:

[ProSense]

5. Mitt is in for a rude awakening. n/t

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Funny how they can't state what the foreign policy failures are. And what

would Mitt be except 'inexperienced and incompetent' in foreign relations?

[ProSense]

4. Oh, Romney

and the Republicans can say anything. All they have to do is talk: Bush did "a fantastic job" (http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002608946), but Obama's "inexperience and incompetence" is showing.

Like I said, delusional.

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6. say anything

"With President Obama’s foreign policy unraveling, his reelection campaign has been quick to attack Mitt Romney as a distraction. But events abroad may be bringing us to a juncture at which the inexperience and incompetence of a presidency crystallizes in the public mind. In short, we are approaching a Jimmy Carter moment. In a perilous world, this is not the kind of leadership our country needs."

What is he even TALKING about? These people... they just say words and they know that nobody is going to call them on it. His foreign policy unraveling? Oh, well, Richard Williamson the special advisor on foreign policy to the Romney campaign says it's unraveling, so it must be so! No need to wonder what the hell he's talking about!

The old Rovian technique was to attack your opponent's strength. Now it's even simpler--just say bullshit, and if your voice is authoritative enough, nobody will ask for actual information to back it up.