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2016 Postmortem

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts) Wed Oct 24, 2012, 01:24 PM Oct 2012

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The Greatest Tactical Error Of The Romney Campaign ? [View all]

Willard Romney went into his third debate with our president, sitting on a imaginary lead he never had. He thought he could run out the clock. It's the same calculus that Ken Norton and Oscar DeLaHoya employed in their boxing matches with Muhammad Ali and Felix Trinidad. They didn't have a lead. They played it safe. And they both lost hotly contested decisions.

No soup for you. Willard Romney. you pusillanimous, platitudinous, and prevaricating plutocrat.

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The Greatest Tactical Error Of The Romney Campaign ? [View all] DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2012 OP

You mean Oscar De La Hoya sat on his lead and ran the rest of the fight. JRLeft Oct 2012 #1

I Need To Fix My Post. I Wasn't Thinking DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2012 #2

I hear your last sentence in the voice of Sylvester the Cat! LOL! ncgrits Oct 2012 #3

or Daffy Duck demwing Oct 2012 #5

That's a lot of spit lunatica Oct 2012 #6

He focused on scoring points with voters rather than winning the debate. geek tragedy Oct 2012 #4

It's The Battle Of Narratives. DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2012 #7

Part of it quite frankly is that Romney just had no angles on Obama geek tragedy Oct 2012 #8

I Never Thought O Was Behind But It Makes A Great Story DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2012 #9

pusillanimous? lillypaddle Oct 2012 #10

It's A Fifty Dollar Word For Weak/nt DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2012 #11

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