Did Mitt Romney assault a prep school classmate?

I wonder if he thinks it'll help him in the polls because the Hollywood money was fixin' to dry up.

 

I think that's the case with most people.

 

That might be a fair point. I don't think it was a coincidence that he did this the day before he had a huge fundraising dinner at George Clooney's house...

But having Hollywood's support may help with fundraising, but it won't necessarily help in the polls.

 

Votes and money
Votes and money
They go together like milk and honey
This I tell you brother
You can't have one without the other ...

 

I don't think it will necessarily gain him any additional votes, but it helps to prevent an narrative that he is a standard politician, driven by politics. That could have eroded his support from independents.

 

Sometimes... I seem to remember Springsteen and Vedder holding a concert for John Kerry.

 

It is not just about gaining votes, it is about doing everything to distract Americans and make them forget what a lousy president he has been in terms of what really matters - the economy

 

Isn't it still the economy, stupid?

as this chart on unemployment rates shows.

http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000

 

Maybe. But it's still an incredibly ballsy move, especially when states like North Carolina and Florida are key battleground states.

 

I happen to believ that the presidents' affect on an economy good or bad is largely extremely overrated but reality is voters in general do not and vote their pocketbooks.

Thus Obama needs to do everything in his power to make sure people don't start to ask questions about why, four years later he still has no clue how to fix what ails the economy, why four years later his best and only answer is it is Bush's fault, why four years later he still lacks a plan and why four years later he still can't even define what ails us much less offer some sort of a way out of it.

His lack of a plan, overall lack of leadership and creativity and lack of a clue is stunning to me, to be honest, and is the kind of thing that should get a guy fired.

But as long as he can keep filling out NCAA brackets with Andy Katz, smiling and reminding people that the alternative is Romney, well, he will win.

 

Looks like Marshall and I are pretty much on the same page here.

This is so easy to handle. Just say that you acted that way, you are embarrassed about it today, but that it forced you to reconsider what kind of person you really wanted to be. And you can explain that and not be insincere about it. Personally, I once did something I'm ashamed of. It was a major turning point in my life, because I decided right then and there that this is not who I am and not who I am going to be.

Now, RickStain and Stanley Kubrick/Anthony Burgess would probably dispute that someone can actually transform aspects of their self, deep down, but I think that a large enough segment of the population - most of whom HAVE embarrassing moments of bad judgment in their past - would buy it that it could turn out to be a positive.

Their reaction is just bizarre. First huge miscalculation of the campaign.

 

Money is important, but it isn't always determinative. For example, Lugar outspent his opponent like 3-1 in Indiana this spring.