Posting hecklers to disrupt Axlerod’s press conference. Driving a bus around and honking a horn outside of Presidential speech? Is it just oddball behavior? Probably not according to Josh Marshall. It all seems part of Romney’s plan to appeal to the Gingrich/Santorum fringe of the party that wants a bad ass.
The Romney folks know that pretty much nobody — not the Republican base or really anyone else — is going to be convinced that the candidate is a down-the-line conservative. But he can appeal to them by playing the bad ass card, getting in Obama’s grill, disrespecting him. Not in highly public ways and not the candidate himself — that could be damaging. But in slightly out of the way ways, the sort of stuff that really committed political types do see.
Great. So now they’re basically running Donald Segretti for president.
The Romney campaign is running the rightwing blogger fantasy campaign.
Ah, rhetorical. “I’m smart! Not like everybody says… like dumb…I’m smart and I want respect!” -Fredo Corleone. Don’t respect me, fear me.
I read that they were paid staff in Boston to hassle Axlehead, btw. This is the low hanging fruit brought to you by “candidates” such as the half-term grizzled abstinencer, Mitch McConnell, Jim Demint and the completely dishonorable primary televised debates. Certainly the audience is abhorrent to call for death rather than health, to boo a soldier ON FUCKING STATION and casually dismiss relevant questions as “gotcha”. Every man and moon bat on the stage were responsible for dumbing down the electorate; wolves herding the sheep. And none of the media called them on it, and they still do not. I guess it is true they don’t call Obama on it either. They don’t call the banks on it. J.P.Morgan:$5b, if you’re lucky, likely $100s billion. Don’t get me started with your smart ass rhetorical questions! Bring me your belly! I’ve got a sharpie. I’ve got TOTSE and I can build a tattoo gun; bring me your belly!
Mitt Romney, a bad ass? Well, he’s certainly an ass, and he’s pretty bad at telling the truth.