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They're going to buy it outright?? Crikey...

I thought that this was a very interesting part of the story, with which I very much agree. I thought Perry could also be that guy but failed horribly:

From the outset, Axelrod and the rest of Team Obama assumed that Romney would ultimately emerge as the Republican nominee, though there were moments of uncertainty. “I believed a well-funded, clever, right-wing candidate could beat Romney,” Axelrod says. “The question was, did anybody fit the bill? Theoretically, Rick Perry was that guy, but he was less than met the eye—he never got the gun out of the holster.”

Perry wasn’t the only Republican whose doofishness caused Obama’s lieutenants to sigh. “All of Romney’s rivals ran incompetent campaigns at every level,” declares Plouffe, nodding appalledly as we tick off the series of malpractice-quality errors they committed, such as the failure to run ads featuring video of Romney signing the Massachusetts health-care law alongside Ted Kennedy. “They had terrible debate strategy, terrible research, and terrible ads. It was painful to see what could be done to Romney and see no one doing it.”

So painful, in fact, that eventually the Obamans decided to do the job themselves, taking the unusual step of becoming participants in the GOP nomination fight, making the arguments his competitors should have been but weren’t. It began with Plouffe appearing on Meet the Press in October and charging that Romney “has no core.” Soon after, the DNC released a two-minute TV ad titled “Mitt Versus Mitt,” hammering its target for being a flip-flopper. “That was the right narrative for him at the time, because it was a fundamental truth, and it damaged him in the primary,” says another Obama adviser. “His negatives went up to the highest of any presidential candidate in modern American history.”

Awwww! cute fellas.

Lighten up Francis, was just a not very funny joke. Neither swr nor me think pres Obama really wants to buy the white house.

901 proving once again that he's the best poster on the site

Bush did it to good effect. Obama has changed his opinion on the mandate, gay marriage etc but Romney is known for having changed his views on pretty much every issue under the sun. It's a good political play, I think.

the flip flopper card is a dangerous card for any politician with any sort of record. I can't think of very many politicians who haven't flip flopped often (Ron Paul comes to mind). I still don't think Pres Obama flip flopped on gay marriage in his heart, I think he was always for it.

I think he's always been for it. He said what was politically expediant. And I think his "coming out" recently was out of political expediance as well. I don't believe he's ever been a particularly religious guy (despite his claims of morning prayer and bible study) and it's mostly religious folks who are driving the anti gay marriage bus.

Sort of like a hypocrite poster calling out a President for being a hypocrite?

Damaged Romney so badly, that he won the nomination.

I suggest that the "Obamans" keep that stuff under their hat, it makes them look like they don;t get the results that they are expecting.

However, given the tight nature of this race, they may not get their ultimate prize, either.

PS -- I suggest they start focusing on their own primaries and get their candidate more than 60% of the vote when challenged by a convicted felon...or nobody at all.

Good list. I imagine that Romney is right there with him on all those issues.

Btw, Obama has not raised taxes on those under $250K.

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