You have to admit the guy has a point. Obama has been phoning it in.

You do have to wonder with Romney's campaign lately if HE really wants to get elected in the first place...

notmtwain: You have to admit the guy has a point. Obama has been phoning it in. doing what he has done since his first presidential campaign started: standing back and letting the opposition implode on itself.

Does the challenger Mitt Romney simply want the job more than the incumbent President Obama?

He needs to get back the eye of the tiger. He and George W need to homo-erotically dance on the beach.

/Rocky 3

notmtwain: Obama has been phoning it in.

Because he actually owns a calendar and knows the campaign doesn't really start until the conventions. The general public has other things to care about and once the GOP primaries stopped being interesting, they moved on. They won't start caring again until late Summer. The only people paying attention right now are pols, shills, trolls, and Fark modmins.

Wow, any chance that piece was written by a Republican political strategist, investment banker, and finance attorney who was a communications aide with the McCain-Palin campaign?

The Iconoclast: Wow, any chance that piece was written by a Republican political strategist, investment banker, and finance attorney who was a communications aide with the McCain-Palin campaign?

Why, yes. Yes, there is. This darling little neocon appears to have written a book entitled, "phoning it in." Note, the style, the flair! Yep, he's got it on speed dial.

I intend to insert "dicksmack" into every conversation today.

" Romney has exhibited almost perfect consistency in concentrating on lying about the economy "

I lived with someone in college who used "dicksmack" a lot. A very useful word indeed.

Romney has exhibited almost perfect consistency

lol wut

notmtwain: You have to admit the guy has a point. Obama has been phoning it in.

It's May. Only a few weeks ago there were serious questions about who the Republicans would nominate. 6 months is a looooooong time in politics.

Hopey McChange 2012!

notmtwain: You have to admit the guy has a point. Obama has been phoning it in.

How hard do you really have to try when you know you have three debates coming up where you will make Romney cry like the little pussy he is?

/No offence to little pussies, which I am quite fond of.

Subby sounds a tad butthurt...

Why do conservatives spend so much time talking about feelings? This guy talks about Obama's tone, about his enthusiasm, about how his campaign must feel etc.

Are conservatives really so intellectually stunted they can't stick to the issues?

0Icky0: notmtwain: You have to admit the guy has a point. Obama has been phoning it in.

How hard do you really have to try when you know you have three debates coming up where you will make Romney cry like the little pussy he is?

/No offence to little pussies, which I am quite fond of.

I don't think so. Like many Americans in Obama's economy, Romney is unemployed. So he has lots of free time on his hands. Hoping for a fair and balanced White House, I'll bet the fine folks at Fox News have lent him their Fauxbama guy for debate practice. Because they make a living identifying target audiences for its advertisers, Fox has probably helped Romney identify his target audience. Fox is very good at this. They make a lot of money, probably more than most other commercial-based broadcasters. With a half a year to fine-tune answers and their delivery (point with your thumb, not your finger), Romney will walk into those "debates" call, cool and collected.

Oh wait, you're serious. Let me laugh even harder.

dstanley: I intend to insert "dicksmack" into every conversation today.

Seconded.

/dicksmack

notmtwain: You have to admit the guy has a point. Obama has been phoning it in.

What are you talking about? We are about half a year away from the election. We're in that nebulous phase where nothing happens for several months. How do you phone in nothing?

As for TFA, here's some perspective: "Boris Epshteyn [author] is a Republican political strategist, investment banker, and finance attorney currently living in New York City."

May 2011: Obama is having a victory lap about Bin Laden! He's already started the campaign! Why doesn't that piece of shiat actually do his job as President?

May 2012: Obama is sitting on his hands and barely campaigning at all. He doesn't even want to be president!

Boris Epshteyn. That is all.

Right, because if you're not screaming, lying, frothing at the mouth and just plain saying whatever you feel should be true, you're just 'phoning it in.'

The populace is basically the same as Guy Pierce's role in "Memento;" anything said now will be forgotten come November. I think he's just playing 'rope-a-dope.'

From TFA: Boris Epshteyn is a Republican political strategist, investment banker, and finance attorney currently living in New York City. He was a communications aide with the McCain-Palin campaign. He is also a regular guest on MSNBC, CNN, CNBC, Fox News, and radio programs nationwide providing analysis on topics including political strategy, financial markets, international affairs, future elections, and party relations.

While we are at it, why don't we get Andrea Dworkin's take on the proper way to use cosmetics for the swimsuit competition portion of a beauty pageant?

Finally, the president is facing a very formidable opponent in former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

Meanwhile, this article is the definition of phoning it in.

holy shiat the president is actually presidenting instead of wasting time before it's necessary to take action? CALL THE NATIONAL GUARD.

hubiestubert: You do have to wonder with Romney's campaign lately if HE really wants to get elected in the first place...

Like I said a couple days ago, after hearing Romney's plans for Day 1, I have to wonder if he even understands what position he's running for.

Boris Epshteyn is a Republican political strategist, investment banker, and finance attorney

Fine specimen of humanity, he is.

I think the real question is "Does Mitt Rmoney really want to be president?"

I think he ran due to peer pressure, and he's the new John Kerry in that he's "anyone but the current" but at least 3% away from getting elected.

What kind of partisan hack wrote this garbage?

Boris Epshteyn is a Republican political strategist, investment banker, and finance attorney currently living in New York City. He was a communications aide with the McCain-Palin campaign

Oh.

So, what will the explanation be when Obama wins?
Bush's tax cuts saved Obama's economy?
Romney wasn't Rommel enough?
Obama send the Black Panthers to steal votes at the poll?

Somebody has to be working on the talking points already.

I can't wait till Obama gets re-elected. I'm going to have to upgrade my phone's memory to like 100 terabytes to preserve all the outright public racism the next day.

hinten: So, what will the explanation be when Obama wins?
Bush's tax cuts saved Obama's economy?
Romney wasn't Rommel enough?
Obama send the Black Panthers to steal votes at the poll?

Somebody has to be working on the talking points already.

Voter fraud, welfare state, white guilt, Soros, RON PAUL!

You know, the usual.

I'm confused by an unopposed (within his own party) incumbent candidate spending his time doing his job rather than campaigning before the primaries. I mean, who DOES that?

I'm just gonna quote myself from yesterday:

Gunther: Look forward to half a year of "Obama could TOTALLY still lose this, guys! Please keep watching!".

The media really, really, really wants this to be a close race, so people pay more attention to them. Eventually they're gonna start flat out campaigning for Romney just so he has a chance.

Snake Vargas: I can't wait till Obama gets re-elected. I'm going to have to upgrade my phone's memory to like 100 terabytes to preserve all the outright public racism the next day.

Yep, there will be some epic butthurt and weapons-grade derp on that day.

kronicfeld: ... doing what he has done since his first presidential campaign started: standing back and letting the opposition implode on itself.

Yep. You can pretty much take any Republican ad spot, end it with the caption "SERIOUSLY?" and rebrand it as a Democratic ad spot.

PC LOAD LETTER: I lived with someone in college who used "dicksmack" a lot. A very useful word indeed.

Tim? Is that you?

apoptotic: Voter fraud, welfare state, white guilt, Soros, RON PAUL!

we didn't start the fire...

This guy sounds concerned.

Also wasn't the old talking point that Obama had spent the last three years campaigning?

Sock Ruh Tease: Romney has exhibited almost perfect consistency

lol wut

He has. If there is a position that Romney thinks can get him more votes, he fanged to it. Very consistent.

Duke Phillips' Singing Bears: apoptotic: Voter fraud, welfare state, white guilt, Soros, RON PAUL!

we didn't start the fire...

Heh, yeah I noticed that after I hit Add Comment. It's been stuck in my head ever since. Damn me!

kronicfeld: notmtwain: You have to admit the guy has a point. Obama has been phoning it in. doing what he has done since his first presidential campaign started: standing back and letting the opposition implode on itself.

That's been Romney's strategy thus far in the primaries. Problem with that is Obama isn't going to self destruct and Romney will likely be obliterated in a debate. I think Obama is just playing it cool until the debates start up and then he'll put the pedal to the floor.

In answer to TFH question, does the slow speed of the FoxNews crawl at screen bottom reveal the literacy of their average viewer?

/yes

kronicfeld: notmtwain: You have to admit the guy has a point. Obama has been phoning it in. doing what he has done since his first presidential campaign started: standing back and letting the opposition implode on itself.

right. just like he is standing back and letting the economy implode on itself.

casual disregard: notmtwain: You have to admit the guy has a point. Obama has been phoning it in.

What are you talking about? We are about half a year away from the election. We're in that nebulous phase where nothing happens for several months. How do you phone in nothing?

As for TFA, here's some perspective: "Boris Epshteyn [author] is"

Good point!
Boris sounds like a communist name so he obviously is biased towards 0bama and yet he still is critical of him.

If 0bama can't generate excitement among communists and socialists, he is going to have a hard time getting re-elected.

apoptotic: It's been stuck in my head ever since. Damn me!

Damn both of you. :P

apoptotic: Like I said a couple days ago, after hearing Romney's plans for Day 1, I have to wonder if he even understands what position he's running for.

6% unemployment! 500,000 jobs a month! A chicken in every pot!