From Wikimedia Commons The news media must be tickled pink concerning the events of the past few weeks (after all, who doesn’t love a photo finish?). What was always considered a hypothetical long shot has now in fact come true – with only two weeks left until Election Day and going into the final presidential debate, this race is all tied up. Following gaffe after gaffe and the release of a most embarrassing video, Romney has experienced a ver...
...flaw. Success, all the same, has been a matter of defying the media’s labels. “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes” was a task Ms. “Crazy-Eyes” made extremely easy for the media – each misstep, each gaffe, each wildly bizarre accusation that Michele Bachmann made added fire to the flame of the general narrative that Bachmann was, well, a loon. By the time she bailed out of the race, Bachmann and the press were in agreem...
From Wikimedia Commons So Mitt Romney goes to London and insults the British, just as they’re preparing for the biggest event in England since the release of the last Harry Potter movie. The gaffe, in which Romney questioned London’s preparedness for the event, honestly made me scratch my head. What was he thinking? Politically, there was no upside. He didn’t make himself look better, nor did he seem more presidential. Ideologically there was n...
...on other topics, especially with the links Vice President Nominee Paul Ryan has to recent bills such as the Sanctity of Life Act of 2009. And let’s not forget his rape is just another “method of conception” gaffe....
...players of the Republican party, concerned that Akin would jeopardize their chances for a majority Senate, called (unsuccessfully) for the congressman to withdraw from the race. It is quite possible that the “legitimate rape” gaffe will have faded in voters’ minds by November and that Akin might win a victory (if a narrow one) over his Democratic opponent, incumbent senator Claire McCaskill. Romney, who has no such comment to overcome, could coas...
...unding—which, he says, will provide, paraphrasing the ever-popular Ronald Reagan, “peace through strength.” Romney’s promises to the middle class may fall on increasingly skeptical ears ever since his now-infamous “47 percent gaffe,” where he was surreptitiously recorded making disparaging comments about the smaller-earning half of the United States. Romney’s best chance to redefine himself after the 47 percent scandal (and Obama’s chance to rein...
...ehrnstrom said that his campaign is “almost like an Etch A Sketch” because if he gets the Republican nomination, you can just “hit the reset button” for the general election campaign. This might be the single most appropriate gaffe ever made by a candidate’s campaign staff, especially because Romney is typically pointed to as being willing to say anything to get elected. As a result, the toy’s sales are up 3000 percent since Fehrnstom’s appearanc...
...lets to hyperbolize and sensationalize, to turn politics into theater. The twenty-four hour news cycle has created a dynamic in which it has become necessary to spotlight every occurrence of political bickering, every awkward gaffe, every faint trace of disagreement that arises on Capitol Hill. Unsurprisingly, the public has become desensitized to the antics of the media and jaded to the melodramatic titles and technologies used in an attempt to...
From Wikimedia Commons Bad job numbers, the president’s not so “fine” gaffe, a failed recall attempt in Wisconsin, a plethora of White House scandals – and to top it all off, Mitt Romney, the guy who two months ago elicited no more than a deferential shrug from the average Republican, out-fundraised the Obama campaign by over $16 million in May. Altogether, the news is daunting to Democrats and harmful to the president’s re-election effor...
...tion) of this presidential cycle, commentators from both parties always agreed that the American people really didn’t care about any of it (at least when their party was on the losing side of a poll). The trivial attacks, the gaffes, the tax return scandal, the jobs reports: Nothing jolts Americans away from their barbecues and swimming pools. But Peggy Noonan wrote two weeks ago that this election is in fact different, and I’m inclined to agree...
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