I knew a jazz pianist years ago who told me something interesting about how he handled mistakes. "When I hit a wrong note, I keep hitting it -- so the audience will think it's intentional," he said. To move away from the wrong note would be a subtle admission of an error.
I wonder if the Romney campaign knows the same pianist.
Team Romney's efforts on the "war on women" went off the rails this morning when the campaign organized a press call and (1) couldn't defend a misleading statistic; (2) couldn't explain what would change if the former governor is elected president; and (3) couldn't even say whether Romney supports the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.
Forced to scramble, the Romney campaign issued a statement from Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-Calif.) -- who voted against the Fair Pay Act. So, the campaign then sent around a statement from Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) -- who also voted against the Fair Pay Act.
After going 0-for-2, Team Romney sent out a statement from Kerry Healey, who served as Romney's lieutenant governor in Massachusetts -- and who urged Romney in 2003 not to cut funding for preventive health care programs, including breast cancer and cervical cancer research, only to find that Romney chose to ignore her warnings.
Anything else? Romney campaign policy director Lanhee Chen also argued that "Obamacare" has been bad for women, but as it turns out, that's wrong, too.
Some of these benefits will take effect over the next few years, but many of them are already helping women lead healthier lives. Senior citizens like Norma Byrne of Vineland, N.J., have already seen that the new Affordable Care Act makes prescription drugs more affordable. [...]
The new health-care law is also helping mothers and daughters like Joyce and Emma Morgan of Charleston, S.C. Thanks to the new law, Joyce can sleep a little easier at night, knowing that 23-year-old Emma can stay on her own plan until she turns 26. Emma is one of 2.5 million young adults who are already receiving health insurance through this provision.
Women who own small businesses, such as Nan Warshaw of Chicago, are taking advantage of provisions in the Affordable Care Act that help them provide coverage for their employees. [...]
Finally, the Affordable Care Act includes new benefits specifically for women, such as requiring health plans to cover recommended preventive services to help protect women's health without any additional cost sharing. Many preventive services, including mammograms, screenings for cervical cancer, and other services, are already covered, and additional preventive-care services for women, such as contraception, must be covered by new plans after Aug. 1, 2012.
There's also a provision in the law that will prevent women from being charged more for insurance simply because of their gender.
Dear Romney campaign: pick a different note. Hitting this dissonant note over and over again won't hide the fact that you made a mistake.
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They have been living in the Faux Nooze world so long they think that is the way things are ...
Say dumb sh*t..
no follow up, no questions , just nodding heads .
Welcome to the real world Mittens.
When you couple Willard's b.s. campaiging (as in a liar knows he lies, a b.s.er doesn't care if it's a lie) with total ignorance and incompetence like this, it's got to be some sort of design to totally gobsmack reporters, because for them to tell the truth about the campaign is to say Romney doesn't care about the truth and will say anything, and the campaign is run by incompetents. If they say that, the Republicans can then go after them for not being "fair and balanced." So they say nothing, and this b.s. campaign continues on right in front of everyone, never getting called for its baloney.
Slogans and superficial treatment of issues will not win the election for Romney. Romney is running the "Let's throw it all against the wall and see what sticks" campaign. He is stumbling from one mistake to the next.
The Romney campaign, the RNC chair, and Republicans generally apparently all believe that they simply have a messaging problem. But people have noticed a pattern in how Republicans govern these days, and their policy choices are having and will continue to have a negative impact on women's lives. That will continue to get people's attention.
It's all well and good to assure me that you are not punching me in the face, unless you really are punching me in the face, then I am not going to believe you. The Republicans are in the same position: they are telling us they are not beating up on women when all the while we can plainly see that they are beating up on women. That's not simply a messaging problem.
It would be nice to give a shout-out for the following.
States that did not sue the federal government have provisions to insure unemployed and low income individuals.
This link is prominently posted on the White House website, and the arguments against "Obamacare" disappear when you investigate the link.
The republican hype is a lie.
If the Republicans continue to insist on hitting that wrong note over and over, all they'll end up with is a bunch of dead catepillars! -Kevo
Thing is, the pianist is right. The note has been hit. The rubber-glue dynamic has already reduced any significant attack on Romney as just "he-said/she-said" partisan blathering that will go right over the heads of most people and be judged as about equal.
The two congresswomen voted against the Fair Pay Act?!? I don't believe this campaign. It's just too bizarre.
I keep saying Romney's campaign staff is the most incompetent highly paid staff in the history of American politics. They do something this boneheaded just about every day. I just hope Romney never gets a chance to look at anything other than Fox News or to read anything other than the Wall Street Journal editorial page. If he does, Obama might have some competition. Romney will most certainly have a new staff.
aaslulrjeVojrvwlknvwjewj - that makes about as much sense as Mittens!
How do you spell I-N-E-P-T?
Now if RP could just hit that perfect beat boy!
Its not too late for the voters - they can still get behind Ron Paul. Mitt has yet to sew this up.
Yeah, get behind the racist sexist crazy-arse who wants to destroy the economy so you don't have to vote for Mittens. Spiting your face has never been so painful!
like mitt is the paragon of virtue !!?
Mind you, comments like yours represent the dumb uneducated proletariat!
Ron Paul wants to help America get back on its feet, not destroy it - what nonsense you do speak!!
I'm sure that if Ron Paul got his chance to destroy all infrastructure (or 'internal improvements' as it was called back in his time, the 19th century), we'd have no choice but to get to our feet (and hoof it).
Of course, Reps Mack's or Rodgers' are boiler-plate responses and neither offered their reasons for not voting for the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (or back up their theories on why women are doing worse under President Obama). Obviously, these response doen't fill the void regarding what Romney would do in regards to women. But, if WI Gov. Walker is any indication, think repeal.
Toss in GOP National Comm chair standing by his 'War on Caterpillars' statement.
Mr. Romney and the GOP appear to be intent on "reaching out" to women voters by lecturing them on how they ought to get out of the workforce and gutting laws meant to protect equal rights for every American. This is shameful. And the Republican Party insists it is not engaged in a "war on women"? Then what do they call this? Equal pay is the broadest and most uncontroversial issue in America today. We are not in the 1950's anymore, much to Mr. Romney's deep dismay... http://www.sunstateactivist.org
I think it's pretty clear that Romney's tone deaf.
When are Democrats going to start calling out Republicans for the Fascists they really are?
Rachel I like this health care overhaul for the most part, but even with insurance "more affordable", I can't afford it and I am not going to pay a fine for that.
There are subsidies to purchase insurance under AKA. Your health insurance premiums are tax deductible as well, if you are self-insured.
For a guy who claims to like firing people, maybe he should start with his campaign handlers. They have been terrible pretty much from the word "go."
You campaign for president with the campaign staff you have, not the campaign staff you wish you had. Besides which, aren't you kind of assuming that Romney is capable of seeing how terrible they are? Considering how consistently off-key the man (for lack of a better word) is, I don't think he is capable of that.