I get the feeling that the GOP isn't worried about the Bain scandal.

[geardaddy]

I wonder if they're going to let it play out in order to "disqualify" Rmoney and get Jeb in as the anointed one.

[KurtNYC]

1. I want some of whatever you are smoking

...don't bogart dude....

Bain is destroying their strategy to keep Obama on defense and portray Romney as some brilliant business man who will create jobs HERE.

[geardaddy]

2. It just seems like shit like this never stick to Goopers.

[KurtNYC]

12. I know THAT feeling but I think Romney's responses show how much this is hitting them.

They demanded a retraction from the Washington Post and didn't get it. They demanded retraction from the Boston Globe which is not happening and they demanded an apology from the Obama campaign. So it seems like this is sticking and they have moved from dismissing and ignoring to trying to kill it but that only keeps it alive for more news cycles.

When both campaigns are talking about the same issue and hitting back and forth it is impossible for the media to ignore it. It is more like media catnip.

[BlueToTheBone]

20. Well, another bankster went to jail today.

So I for one am feeling a bit optimistic.

But then in Burma, they become optimistic when a butterfly flaps its wings a certain way.

[geardaddy]

21. I guess I'm just being pessimistig

I hope you're optimism is right!

[Bigmack]

3. "(Yawn...) Bain...? Libor...? Dunno." - signed..."Average Murikan" nt

[lunatica]

4. I bet they're busy either scrambling or just depressed right now.

[ThoughtCriminal]

5. They wrote this election off when Bin Laden was dumped in the Indian Ocean

Keeping control of the House and gaining ground in the Senate is all they are really worried about.

[ananda]

8. It's the House and particularly the Senate that worry me too.

Rove has a lot of money and tactics going into the Senate races.

Will the Dems fight back and mount sufficient challenges?

[Douglas Carpenter]

6. even if in the extremely unlikely event that Romney is out - Jeb will not be the nominee

I cannot even imagine where people get that idea that is plausible

[randome]

7. They want to believe there are vast forces arrayed against us.

In fact, there are, but they aren't nearly as invincible as we sometimes make them out to be.

Romney and the GOP are floundering, plain and simple.

[loyalsister]

11. Jeb has expressed a slight disdain for the tea party

by saying he didn't think they would like him- almost as if he's too good to have to deal with them. No way he gets anywhere near this ticket.

[arely staircase]

9. i sure hope they aren't

they should ignore the whole thing and take the high road.

[Turbineguy]

10. To republicans financial fraud (among many other things)

is not a crime.

[tanyev]

13. Jeb doesn't want to run in 2012.

Any Republican with more than 3 brain cells to rub together is waiting for 2016.

[Corgigal]

14. Oh they are

they are just pretending it's not a big deal. Years ago..blah, blah for the low information voters. They are worried because they can't control this, Romney did this all himself. This is what the greed gene does to you.

[Quantess]

15. No. There is real anxiety.

It's like the guy in that Arnold Schwarzenegger film (was it Total Recall?) who was so convincing in his confidence and self-assuredness, except for the little bead of sweat beaded up on his brow.

[geardaddy]

16. I hope there is.

I hope this comes and bites him in the ass hard.

[progressivebydesign]

17. Oh they're worried...

their candidate has a HUGE likability problem, as well as a level of distrust. This stuff is just chipping away at him little by little. They're also expecting their base of a particular type of Christian, to embrace a Mormon, when there has always been distrust there... Add to that his non-personality, and disdain for the little people, and this stuff hurts them.

He'd have to get a movie star for a VP to get any kind of excitement at this point... or maybe someone who had been on DWTS. I think it'll be Paul Ryan... he wants an attack dog (though It hink someone should let the VP choice know what Romney usually does with his dogs.)

[DCBob]

18. They are worried..

the RW talk shows were all over it today. Normally they would just dismiss something like this or laugh it off but this one is different.

[librechik]

19. they expect to do illegal, unethical things. It's just doing business to them.

they probably wonder what all the fuss is about.

It's about LYING. Remember when they did that to Clinton for months on end? It's not about sex. It's about THE LYING.

We must do the same to them.