Via the Crack Den’s comments thread, here’s a particular piece of stupidity amidstthe avalanche of stupidity coming from the Romney campaign right now:
Another adviser expressed frustration with horserace reporters declaring Romney’s campaign dead fatally behind, as President Obama pulls ahead in the polls. He said he suspects the press is projecting their own hopes for an Obama re-election at best — and purposefully cheerleading the incumbent, at worst.
“I mean, I was expecting this narrative in October,” he said. “You know, the polls are close, and so the media starts cheering on their guy, saying Romney’s doomed. But I didn’t expect it to happen this early. They just seem really eager.”
Let’s look at all the ways the Libya thing was stupid. First, you turn the campaign from the suckass economy, on which you have some advantage based on Obama not doing enough and not doing the right things (not that you’re gonna do the right things, but let’s not get crazy), to foreign policy, where your party has recently distinguished itself by sticking its entire dick in a bees’ nest.
You are a basketball player, and you challenge your opponent to the 800-meter freestyle, for some godforsaken reason. Leave aside the human considerations, like the DEAD PEOPLE, and there’s no reason to open your trap at all. Just keep blithering about job creation and how government sucks. Many Americans these days seem to find that bullshit appealing, whereas absolutely none of them think it’s cool to wave a corpse around to get attention.
Plus, by making it an actual event, you made it eminently clear that your entire campaign apparatus was involved in making this statement, so you can’t disavow it by saying the candidate wasn’t prepared, or was taken in by a trick question, or was otherwise unable to somehow not shoot a hole in his own ass.
And NOW you want to claim liberal media trickery? Are you fucking kidding me? YOU CALLED THE PRESS TO SHOW UP THERE, MORONS. Now you’re made because they wrote down what you said?
Just like during the RNC, I’m honestly getting offended at how inept the Romney campaign is, and here’s why: Running for president isn’t something you should do as a joke. It’s not a stunt show. Sure, Bush’s operation was evil, but they took it seriously. They didn’t faff around. Their campaign show was the Death Star. Romney’s is turning into an Ewok add-on movie George Lucas crapped out to buy himself a new boat.
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ps. HAT TIP JAC DAMMIT JESUS