…and do you know what my favorite myth to puncture will be? The one about how Team Obama is/was this unstoppable juggernaut of DOOM.
Um.
No:
You’d think that Obama’s official 2012 kickoff would fill a stadium, huh? Especially one on a college campus. THAT HE OVERFLOWED TWO YEARS AGO.
Not much to add, except my two cents on this entire “Are we being distracted?” line, which started showing up in the media right after Team Obama got smacked in the face several times running after trying to play define-the-opponent games on his opponent. I feel that we are capable of, as my colleague streiff at RS put it, capable of walking and chewing gum at the same time. In fact, I feel that Mitt Romney and I – hubris, much? – are starting to come to an understanding. Mitt Romney’s job is to keep smacking the President around on the economy. My job is keep smacking the President around on everything else.
I am fine with this division of labor. I can hack it. It should be a thing.
Moe Lane
PS: I might as well make this observation now. I’m always happy to be given tips about interesting stuff, or new developments. But every cycle somebody gets bent out of shape because I – or the other members of the VRWC – write about stuff that I/we think is important, as opposed to what the person getting bent out of shape thinks is important. That’s… not really my problem.
Exactly, Moe. The Romney Campaign will paint Obama as “a nice guy, but…”* (hat tip Ace of Spades) while the proxies (i.e. you, streiff, Iowahawk, Jim Treacher, Ace of Spades again) will keep jabbing at the pinata.
Seems, to this cat, to be a very reasonable division of labor as well ..
Mew
*(it’s worth noting, as Ace does, that any time “nice guy” is followed with “but” it nullifies “nice guy” entirely…)
Agreed strongly, but with a caveat: the Romney campaign, and preferably Mr. Romney himself, have to occasionally bring things out of New Media and introduce them. My boss is a registered Cherokee, Dawes-roll ancestor and all that, not blond but blue-eyed and pale faced — and he had never heard about the “Fauxcahontas” controversy because the MSM is keeping it under wraps. The only way some of this stuff will ever escape into the wild is if the main campaign forces it into public view.
Moe – In 2008 he was at “The Shoe” as the OSU football stadium is known. This past weekend he was at “The Schott” basketball arena. The Schott has about half the capacity of the Shoe, so the difference in turnout is HUGE!
About half? Ohio Stadium seats 102K, whereas Value City Arena seats 18K, 20K for concerts. So more like one-fifth the size, and he still couldn’t fill it.