Conservative columnist Peggy Noonan: "It’s time to admit the Romney campaign is an incompetent one."

Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal:

The central problem revealed by the tape is Romney’s theory of the 2012 election. It is that a high percentage of the electorate receives government checks and therefore won’t vote for him, another high percentage is supplying the tax revenues and will vote for him, and almost half the people don’t pay taxes and presumably won’t vote for him. 

My goodness, that’s a lot of people who won’t vote for you. You wonder how he gets up in the morning. 

This is not how big leaders talk, it’s how shallow campaign operatives talk: They slice and dice the electorate like that, they see everything as determined by this interest or that. They’re usually young enough and dumb enough that nobody holds it against them, but they don’t know anything. They don’t know much about America. 

We are a big, complicated nation. And we are human beings. We are people. We have souls. We are complex. We are not data points. Many things go into our decisions and our political affiliations. 

You have to be sophisticated to know that. And if you’re operating at the top of national politics, you’re supposed to be sophisticated.

Wow! That is pretty damning!

And that is not all that Noonan had in her quiver:

It’s time to admit the Romney campaign is an incompetent one. It’s not big, it’s not brave, it’s not thoughtfully tackling great issues. It’s always been too small for the moment.

Noonan goes on to almost literally beg the Republican establishment folks to step in and "right this ship," but that is almost like sending sailors onto the Titanic with only the stern still visible above the icy waters and asking them to bail in order to save the ship.

Too little, too late. Now the only thing left to do is make a movie about the disaster.

I wanted to attach a segment from one of the news shows here in order to illustrate just how much trouble Romney finds himself in right now.  There was certainly no lack of appropriate choices, but in my opinion NOBODY was having as much fun tearing Romney into bite size chunks as Lawrence O'Donnell was yesterday, so the choice became a no-brainer. Enjoy!


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