First the Wall St. Journal, now conservative Bill Kristol slams Mitt Romney

Earlier I posted a scathing Wall Street Journal (all the more significant because it’s owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp) editorial that whacked Willard M. Romney upside his well-coiffed head: “Mr. Romney is jeopardizing his chance at becoming President… Campaign looks confused… politically dumb.”

In that post, they confirmed the problems pointed out in Dueling Mitt Romneys, but the one who raised Massachusetts taxes wins: The mandate “is a tax.”

Willard’s strategy is to avoid, to dodge, to be all over the place, to flip flop. And per a new Weekly Standard opinion piece, not only is his vague, fuzzy gray zone getting really old, he’s also insulting voters by being stuck in autobot mode regarding the economy, stupid.

There’s so much gold here, and even *gasp!* truth, and from Bill Kristol of all people:

Is it too much to ask Mitt Romney to get off autopilot and actually think about the race he’s running? [...]

But his campaign’s monomaniacal belief that it’s about the economy and only the economy, and that they need to keep telling us stupid voters that it’s only about the economy, has gone from being an annoying tick to a dangerous self-delusion. [...]

The economy is of course important. But voters want to hear what Romney is going to do about the economy. He can “speak about” how bad the economy is all he wants… but doesn’t the content of what Romney has to say matter? What is his economic growth agenda? His deficit reform agenda? His health care reform agenda? His tax reform agenda? His replacement for Dodd-Frank? No need for any of that, I suppose the Romney campaign believes. 

Details schmetails.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DW7LHDQQLRH5RQG2AGEXP35QGM Mr. B

    You don’t think somebody running for POTUS needs to talk about what they’ll do?

    Um, OK.  Spoken like a true teabagger . . .

  • http://twitter.com/NewDallas New Dallas

    I disagree!  Mitt doesn’t need to talk about what he will do, the Dems will only tear his ideas down, We seen what their vicious words and lies can do!   Stay on Message and Repeal the TAX!

  • majii

    I’ve noticed that many republicans are in denial about Romney’s many weaknesses.  Whenever I’ve mentioned on the internet that Romney refuses to discuss any specifics about any part of his platform, the faux conservatives descend to defend him.  It’s as if they don’t care whether Romney has plans that are good for them/country, they’re going to vote for him anyway.  They don’t want to hear any criticism of Romney, but they feel they have the right to call PBO names and label him “the worst POTUS America has ever had.”  This shows how out of touch they are with reality.  The title of worst president in the modern era goes to GWB, and there’s data available that verifies it.  I couldn’t care less what the WSJ, Bill Kristol, or Rupert Murdoch have to say about Romney.  He’s their puppet, they wanted him, they and their friends are financing his campaign, and they’re stuck with him.  There’s one thing that the RW millionaires and billionaires didn’t think about when they started throwing money at Romney.  They never thought how poorly a weak candidate would perform in spite of having millions of campaign dollars on hand.  They also did what they’ve been doing for the past 3+ years–they underestimated PBO.  Romney is campaigning against the Fox-created version of PBO.  The real PBO is a whole other person. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DW7LHDQQLRH5RQG2AGEXP35QGM Mr. B

    First the Wall St. Journal, now conservative Bill Kristol slams Mitt Romney

    And, this on top of Rupert Murdoch tweeting how lousy he thinks your campaign is going — twice:

    http://www.newshounds.us/rupert_murdoch_thinks_romney_s_looking_like_a_loser_06252012

    http://www.newshounds.us/rupert_murdoch_going_after_romney_again_07012012

    Memo to Mittens:  if the Kochsucker Brothers ever make a negative public statement about you, just stick a fork in yourself — cause YOU’RE DONE.