Romney Relying On… Zingers?
First, I have trouble envisioning Mitt Romney delivering a zinger. Zingers work when they flow naturally. Zingers work when your opponent plays the straight man/woman and gives you the opening. They do not work when forced. They do not work when you look for, or make-up, an excuse to use them.
And zingers alone won’t help Romney. He needs to put meat on the bones. It is well past time for Romney to tell the American people exactly what he plans to do.
Use this thread to tell us what “zingers” you think Romney will use. Yeah, go ahead and have fun with this.
Tags: 2012 Presidential, 2012 Presidential Debates, Mitt Romney
“Well, you are from Kenya, so naturally you think that…” TEABAG ZING!
“So’s your face..!” 5th GRADE ZING!
“Vos politiques économiques sentir comme une couche de bébé!” FRONCOphile ZING!
“There you go again.” CLASSIC ZING!
“That’s what she said.” THE OFFICE FLASHBACK ZING!
“Dah Juudg, mah biz nufin!” Honey Boo Boo ZING!
“I’ll bet you 10,000 dollars.” Recycled from the primary ZING!
“You are no Bill Clinton.” Lloyd Bentson rip off ZING!
“What’s you talkin ’bout Barry?!” Diffrent Strokes Flashback w/ teabag snub ZING!
“Obamacare… more like Obamacrap.” My 17 year old son’s version of a good ZING structure ZING!
I’m glad someone is having fun with this! Love the Different Strokes zinger!
When Romney trots out some lame shit, I hope Obama stuffs it down his throat. It isn’t his style, but team Romney promoting this zinger strategy is just nuts.
“He’s as clumsy as he is stupid.” Darth Vader ZING!
“Is that your face, or did your neck throw up?” Calvin and Hobbes ZING!
Hey, this is fun! I iz a Romney speechwriter too!
It is nuts. What happens if Romney doesn’t do a zinger? After all this talk won’t that be viewed as a loss? Talk about raising a bar that didn’t need to be raised.
I was just flipping through the News Channels – a lot of zingers talk.
One of the reasons zingers are called zingers is because they seem to come out of the blue. No one says… next week at dinner I’m going zing you.
First, “why was Ambassador Stevens really in Bangazi?” Zing!
or, “Hey, I released my tax returns, can we see your college transcripts now?” Ba-zing!
or maybe, “have you seen that Telemundo news story on Fast &Furious?” Sorpresa!
http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=17342034
I would be the happiest person on the face of the earth if Romney took DangerMouse’s advice.
I was listening to someone on NPR over the weekend talking about this zinger business and apparently zingers are mostly scripted (and focus grouped!)and in the pockets of candidates in case they can use them. In case being the operative phrase.
And now you know why there are no conservative comedians.
all Obama has to do is call him out on it. “well i see the governor has practiced his Zingers, however….” and it will be all over.
That is so true Ben. For the life of me I have no idea why the Romney campaign leaked this zinger business. Sweet Jesus, what an incompetent campaign.
Yes, DangerMouse, lets bring up Mitts Tax Return. He only released one.
Would the real Mill Rmoney please stand up, please stand up.
“I should tell my story. I’m also unemployed.”
Legitimate rape? Legitimate rape?
“Stop it. This is hard You wanna try it, get in the ring. This is hard.”
“I like being able to fire people who provide services to me.”
“It’s easier if you hold an Olympic Games in the middle of nowhere.”
“Foreign policy is a “distraction.”
Shoot first, ask questions later.
“I would like you to join me in welcoming the next President of the United States, Paul Ryan !
“My job is not to worry about those people,”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxch-yi14BE&feature=related
Zingers… What you focus on when you lack substance.
The zinger exchange I want to see.
“Our plan is to balance the budget with cutting taxes by closing tax loopholes.”
“Closing loopholes? Like the hide-your-money-in-the-Caymen-Islands loophole?
or the hide-your-money-in-a-Swiss-bank loophole? Or the carried interest loophole?
I fear that you’ll lose all of your friends, Mitt.”
Trump provides Team Romney with the checkmate zinger:
Romney going birther? I’m simply not that lucky.
I don’t know. Romney’s track record in this campaign doesn’t argue in favor of sound decision making.