Regarding the GOP primary race ...

[Tx4obama]

Is it possible that all the bickering going on between the GOP candidates is coordinated ???
And could this perhaps be a GOP strategy?

This is what I was thinking about yesterday...

If they all attack Mitt Romney regarding several different issues that takes the sting out of those particular issues once the general election begins.

If they continue to 'fight' in public they suck up all the media airtime and that leaves less time for the press to cover positive news regarding President Obama.

And it was noted in 2008 that the Obama/Hillary rivalry made Obama a better candidate/debater.

Could it be that the GOP took notes during the 2008 Democratic primary when they noticed that the media was obsessed with the Obama/Hillary rivalry and they are going to try to to the same thing within their own party on purpose?

Just wondering ...
Thoughts anyone ?

[immoderate]

1. Coordinated? No. Better candidates?

Not much to work with there. It's not Barack and Hillary.

Romney has a great edge in that he doesn't seem overtly dangerous to a general electorate. But he can't articulate a coherent platform. And nobody really knows which way he will go.

I am not a Barackista but I'm guessing that none of the Republicans will come anywhere near his political skills.

--imm

[ellisonz]

2. More fractured than the Democrats in 2008...

[Lil Missy]

3. No. And it's a losing strategy. n/t

[morningfog]

4. Krugman made a good point on this. He said the attacks against Romney

won't have an immunizing effect because of the nature of the attacks. If scandals were being addressed, they could be dealt with and people would no longer care when the general election rolls around.

These attacks, though, are based on his philosophy of capitalism, which will stay relevant and we now have republican quotes leveled against him to use.

[Tx4obama]

5. Thank you for your reply. I had not heard Krugman's comments. n/t

[JoePhilly]

6. I heard him say this also.

The unemployment, economy and income inequality will still be issues during the GE, and so Mitt's time at Bain, and his "corporations are people" and "I like being able to fire people" comments will haunt him.

I think the other shoe to drop on his time at Bain will be along these lines ... he claims he took all the risk ... if so, then Bain and Romney LOST money when one of these companies they acquired went under. Of course we know that's not what happened. Romney and Bain made tons of money REGARDLESS of what happened to the company and its employees.

The other thing is that his business experience is supposed to be his BEST attribute. And he's going to be playing defense on that point because to be able to prove he was a great business man, he's going to have to open the Bain books ... which he does not want to do. Too much dirt in their. He's hoping to be able to make the claim but never have to prove it. Which won't work.

And he can't pivot to foreign affairs, Obama will crush him there.

Obama should win in a landslide.

[Major Hogwash]

10. I agree with both you and Krugman.

Obama should be re-elected easily, but I'm not going to count on it.
The Senate races are going to be hotter than hell this year, but the House races are going to be interesting to watch as the tea party Republicans try to get re-elected.

Congress' approval rating of 9% is going to be their undoing since they are the ones that have pushed the ones in charge of the House to the brink of disaster.

When the S&P lowered the rating of the United States, they specifically pointed at the tea party coalition in Congress as the reason they lowered the rating due to their unwillingness to compromise last year.
I think everyone knows now that President Bush and the Republicans in the Congresses that he worked with are the reason that the talk of lowering the rating to begin with started in 2010.

[JoePhilly]

11. Agree on all points.

[Little Star]

7. If it is, it's a lousy strategy that will divide them even more than they already are. n/t

[WI_DEM]

8. Well, with Bain they succeeded in making it a bi-partisan issue

[HopeHoops]

9. Dude. They aren't intelligent enough to be "coordinated".

I doubt any of them can even hit the fucking toilet with a piss stream - including the women.

[annabanana]

12. If his activities at Bain concern me during the primaries... and he

has no acceptable answer to them.. WHY should those bother me less during the General? This whole "inoculation" argument doesn't make sense to me.

[Tx4obama]

13. Okay, I know the OP was posted on Monday, but I heard stuff on the TV box today ...

that makes me think that there 'really might be' a strategy going on here.

Not sure if it was on CNN or MSNBC but they were talking about the GOP dragging out the primaries 'on purpose' by having Mitt and Newt going head to head 'just like Obama and Hillary did in 2008'. They even mentioned that it was possible for 'another' person to jump in and win a few states so that no one would get enough delegates at the convention and it would turn into a brokered convention.

Anyway, I thought I add that.

[grantcart]

14. sideshow but not exactly coordinated

No candidate is going to get to the convention with enough delegates.

They will start drafting favorite sons and find a governor that isn't a complete idiot.

Daniels/McDonnell is a possibility.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512725