Mitt Romney's new strategy: Go into hiding while opponents implode

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Mitt Romney's new strategy: Go into hiding while opponents implode

by Kaili Joy GrayFollow

While Rick Perry and Herman Cain are busy fighting over the anti-Romney spot on the Republican presidential ticket, Mitt Romney's keeping a low profile:

The Romney campaign, running this cycle from a frontrunner position, has scaled back on the candidate's accessibility from four years ago and rarely allows for such unguarded moments on the campaign trail. While Romney has taken the stage for primetime debates and has done a few cable news hits, he's avoided lengthy interviews with magazines to which he spoke in 2008 -- such as Time and Newsweek -- and hasn't appeared on any of the Sunday morning chat shows, a traditional pit stop for any presidential contender. <...>

During recent Republican debates, Romney has twice mentioned an interview he gave to a top national political journalist, Dan Balz of the Washington Post. That interview, however, took place in June 2007. Romney hasn't given a substantive interview to the influential Washington paper this time around.

This makes perfect sense for Romney, of course. Actually talking to the media will inevitably mean he says something that completely contradicts something he's said in the past, which will just lead to more stories about what a flip-flopper Romney is, which will only lead to more stories about how Republicans don't trust that he's really one of them. So staying quiet is really his best option for staying in the lead.

Sure, the Republican Party hates his guts, and the base is so desperate for an Anybody But Romney candidate that these freaks have flirted with Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry and Herman Cain. But at the end of the day, the only candidate who has even a snowball's chance in hell of beating President Obama is the Mittster...

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[FrenchieCat]

1. Willard hasn't shown up on a Sunday talk show since 2010!

He's a coward.....

[FSogol]

2. Here's a prairie dog. He'll only stick his head up when he thinks it is safe.

:shrug:

[golfguru]

3. Last man standing strategy!

[WI_DEM]

4. well, so far that strategy has been working.

[flamingdem]

5. He must have uncorked the $500 wine today considering Cain's implosion

and Perry's psychotic speech in NH

[Freddie Stubbs]

6. Mormons aren't supposed to drink

[flamingdem]

8. Ha! I forgot about that one

He uncorked the expensive glass of Lithuanian spring water and ..

[JoePhilly]

7. YUP .... he's doing political 4 corners ... has a small lead, will try to run out the clock.

[jimlup]

9. This makes since to me. If I were Romney I would do exactly this...

We need to grow up and realize that he is the very likely nominee. We are not running against Herman Cain - he is a flash in the pan and at best a brief sideshow.

[Ikonoklast]

10. I've stated that Romney will be the nominee since he declared, but you are wrong about one thing:

Romney is running against himself, no one else has to do or say a thing.

[RoadRage]

12. And here is the perfect ad that proves exactly that...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GShp7GuGzw

Seriously - it writes itself...

[Proud Liberal Dem]

11. He will "win" the nomination by surviving the primary IMHO

I don't the GOP "base" is particularly crazy about him but, like with McCain, they'll still go with him if they believe that he's the most likely GOPer to beat President Obama.

[DFLforever]

13. I think they look at Romney differently than McCain

The conservatives deeply despise Romney. Much, much more than McCain They don't believe a word he says. Some dislike him even more than Pres Obama.

I think he'll get the nomination. The GOP really has no one else. The decent candidates stayed out, anticipating the troubles the party is undergoing now.

But I think he'll be greatly disadvantaged going into the general election. Romney could win with our economy as bad as it is but I don't think he will. He's a mediocre to poor politician and no match for Pres Obama.

[Tx4obama]

14. Here's a link to Tuesday's GOP candidate schedule - Cain and Romney are missing

http://thepage.time.com/2011/10/31/tues-candidate-schedule-4/#more-255431

[agentS]

15. I seem to recall the GOP voters having the exact same problem with McCain in 08

Hardly anybody liked him, he was even down in single digits 8 months before Iowa, yet he came back to win.

If so many of them don't like him, why is he #2 in the GOP polls?

haven't they learned from their mistakes from 2008? PICK SOMEONE YOU LIKE, damnit!

Don't make it THIS easy for Obama! Give the man a damn challenge, for Pete's sake!

[Tx4obama]

16. Why don't you want it to be easy for Obama. Aren't you a Democrat? n/t

[agentS]

17. Obama's a great candidate and president. He deserves a great opponent

Or at least a halfway decent opponent.

These GOP idiots are cheapening the meaning of the White House and presidency with their antics. Are they even serious or are they only interested in FOX News gigs?!

What does it say about democracy in general when the opposition is composed of 1 guy who flip-flops every 15 minutes, 1 guy with a serious sex scandal, 2 guys and 1 girls with serious LBGT issues (Perry, Bachmann, and Santorum) serious racism issues (almost everybody), a Gilded Age revisionist (Paul), a billion dollars in back-alley corporate funding (all of them), serious character problems (Cain and Gingrich esp), and ongoing corruption scandals (Cain and Gingrich and Perry AND Bachmann)?

It's pretty pathetic when President Obama's best opponent is Buddy Roemer, the former Democratic governor of Louisiana.

Where's the great clash of ideas, of ideologies, of beliefs? Who's going to bring out the President's A game? Or at least his C game? Who's going to elevate the debate, or at least keep it out of the gutter of Islam-phobia and birther-ism?

President Obama is a top 10 caliber president. His opponent should at least be better than Warren G. Harding or Herbert Hoover.

A presidential race is like a Super Bowl or a World Series- literally in this case because a US president can affect the outcome of the entire world. The 2 or 3 (or 10) best people in the country should be up on stage. It should be a New Orleans Vs Indianapolis match, or a LSU vs Oklahoma match, not a San Francisco Vs Denver curb-stop.

We're Americans! We should never be afraid of tough competition! Who put a man on the moon? AMERICANS! Which party decided to do this? DEMOCRATS (this is correct, right?)! Who built the atomic bomb first? AMERICANS!

[Moostache]

18. The A-Bomb? Really? Crowning achievement?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWS-FoXbjVI

Seriously, why the jingoism?

Is it not enough to say the American Revolution, Declaration of Independence, and Constitution were some of our greatest moments? We need to celebrate the most destructive weapon ever conceived and built instead?