Mitt Romney is likely to be the eventual Republican presidential nominee. He’ll have plenty of financial support from hedge fund managers, Wall Street financiers and the billionaire crowd. There is an almost unlimited supply of donations raining in to Republican SuperPACs and they all share one goal: get rid of President Obama. There is only one little bitty problem…despite all the big money support and institutional Republican backing – Mitt Romney has even less enthusiasm among the base than John McCain did. In 2008 – “the conservative base” criticized John McCain for being too moderate…and he was ranked 8th out of 100 in terms of his conservative bona fides in the U.S. Senate.
Gallup writes:
These data are from a Gallup poll conducted March 8-11, 2012. The 35% of Republicans who at this point say they would vote “enthusiastically” for Mitt Romney for president if he were to win the GOP nomination is identical to the 35% of Republicans who said the same about Romney back in late January/early February 2008.
In that same 2008 poll, however, 47% of Republicans said they would vote enthusiastically for John McCain, who ended up as that year’s GOP nominee. In short, Romney’s enthusiasm deficit in 2008 has carried over to his current campaign, with the difference being that none of the other nominees this year are generating any more enthusiasm among Republicans than Romney is.
People just don’t like Mitt Romney; in modern political history – there has never been a presidential candidate less popular. And that leaves Mitt Romney with only one option…he has to go negative. People who have been in politics for a long time are saying that this has and will be the most negative campaign in modern history. The reality is that he hasn’t provided a positive vision for what he wants the future to look like…he has only played Monday morning quarterback regarding anything that President Obama does.
The American people see through his fake personality; they see him as inauthentic. So – there are only two things that you will see for the vast majority of the Presidential campaign if Mitt Romney wins the nomination as expected.
#1 – He’s going to tell Republicans to be fearful of President Obama and hope that their fear or distrust of Obama is more motivational than their blah blah feelings for him.
#2 – He and his SuperPACs are going to launch the most negative campaign in history hoping to drive down participation from independents and Democrats. That’s what has happened in the GOP primaries thus far.
So – just a little primer on how you should be viewing political advertisements. They are all propaganda. Some are honest and some are not….but they’re all propaganda. Watch this video to get a taste of how people will attempt to manipulate your vote during this cycle.
