If Romney is their nominee, how can he be POLITICALLY attacked?

[RBInMaine]

Flip flopper? Friend of corporate America? Didn't support the auto bailouts? Has taken over companies and laid off workers? Use what Teddy Kennedy used to defeat him for Senate in MA?

What do you think? What would work best?

[elocs]

1. Paint him as a Liberal and PO the teabaggers until they won't vote for him.

I am sure that nearly all teabaggers voted for McCain last time.

[peacebird]

2. "he's not a good gawd-fearin christian - he's a mormon for chrissakes!"

:eyes:

(sorry - but that's the way I see this one playing out - for better or worse)

[JoePhilly]

11. Be prepared for Beck to try and prop Romney up.

My wife works for a company with a very strong Mormon management chain. She's worked in a number of medium to large companies and she's seen her share of "boys" clubs" in which the men in the organization help each other, even passing over better candidates for promotions, etc.

But she tells me this company sets the new bar. It is a Mormon boys club. She watches the Mormon men get quickly promoted well beyond their ability, often taking on an "assistant" who does the real work. The sense of many is that this preferential treatment comes straight out of their shared religion. Its just what they do.

I continue to bet that Beck's job going forward will be to try and mitigate the Mormon issue for Romney.

[FormerDittoHead]

17. His "I *am* a Christian" speech was a low point in politics for the last 35 years, IMO.

I remember seeing "Inherit the Wind" on TV when I was a KID.

The thought of having this much time pass and then seeing someone having to pass some kind of religious test to run for office represented a giant step backward for this country.

[patrice]

3. Death panel architect made fortune downsizing professional staff in "Health" "Care" facilities.

[Armstead]

4. All of the above -- Plus he's a phony game show host

[tridim]

6. Boring, generic, fake tan just like Boner.

IMO Romney is going to be easy to beat.

[rurallib]

13. I think Romney would be the hardest for Obama to defeat but

for reasons cited above plus his health care stance as gov + his once pro-choice stance makes him a loser in the primary to some right wing-o-tard

[Inspired]

5. Romney's political past is low hanging fruit. Easy pickin's. nt

[RBInMaine]

7. In what ways? I need ammo for my sparring with the right wingers I know.

[Inspired]

9. For every reason stated so far in your thread! nt

[RBInMaine]

10. OK. Just wondering if you had more.

[zulchzulu]

8. Obama could say "I agree with the former Mitt Romney on many things before he sold his soul".

Maybe tone it down a tad, but that would be the takeaway.

[RBInMaine]

12. In the primary, he will have to turn pretty hard right to win. Then we GLUE it to him BIGTIME. We

don't let him then reinvent himself as a "centrist."

[emulatorloo]

14. Attack his supposed strength as a Business Man. As that is what he is going to run on

[RBInMaine]

15. How is he not a good businessman?

[emulatorloo]

19. "Romney, who vows to "fight for jobs," oversaw job losses and factory closures as CEO

of a private equity firm."

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By LISA LERER | 1/18/08 4:30 PM EDT

Romney changes tune on layoffs
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0108/7967.html

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On the stump in economically struggling Michigan and South Carolina recently, Mitt Romney has been making the case that “it always makes sense to fight for every single good job.”

But this position seems to be at odds with the Republican contender's one-time role as chief executive officer of Bain Capital, a large private equity firm.

• In 1992, the firm acquired American Pad & Paper. By 1999, the year Romney left Bain, two American plants were closed, 385 jobs had been cut and the company was $392 million in debt.

The next year, Ampad was forced into bankruptcy.

• Bain Capital and Goldman Sachs bought Dade International for about $450 million in 1994.

The firm quickly fired or relocated at least 900 workers. Over the next several years, it sunk increasingly into debt and laid off 1,000 workers.

In 2002 — after Romney had left Bain — it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

• A 1997 buyout of LIVE Entertainment for $150 million resulted in 40 layoffs, roughly one in four of the company's 166 workers.

The job cuts affected all aspects of the company, from production and acquisition to legal and public relations.

• In 1997, Bain bought a stake in DDI Corp., a maker of electronic circuit boards.

Three years later, Bain took the company public and collected a $36 million payout.

But by August 2003, the company filed for bankruptcy protection, laying off more than 2,100 workers.

<SNIP>

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More at link

[Davis_X_Machina]

16. Obama's heath care plan for the country...

....is basically what happened in Massachusetts.

Romney showed the way, he's a true liberal hero. We're able now to do nationwide what the Mittster did in Massachusetts.

The ads write themselves.

The GOP base would stay home in droves. Of course, the Democratic 'base' here is forever threatening to do the same thing, and for the same reason.

So maybe they just cancel each other out.

[niceypoo]

18. Ted Baxter

Romney IS Ted Baxter

[NYC Liberal]

20. Just go over to Free Republic, find their primary threads

and find arguments used by anti-Romney Repugs.

[DrToast]

21. If Romney was as true leader he would defend his health care record instead of run from him.

He's a coward.

[southernyankeebelle]

22. The killer for him is the MA HEALTH care.

[Jennicut]

23. He is from Mass, he won't make it in the Repub primaries.

Oh, I knew of old Mitt when he was the governor next door. Thankfully our Repub gov in Connecticut, Jodi Rell, seemed more mild in comparison. He tried to act like a moderate Repub but he wasn't. But for the Repubs, they will see two things. Mormon and from Massachusetts. He is a goner and won't be the nominee.

[BeyondGeography]

24. If Romneycare survives the GOP primaries it will be a miracle

Until then, stop freaking out about Romney.

[rbilancia]

30. Hey dude, no one is "freaking." We are discussing.

[karynnj]

25. He drove from MA to (I think) Canada, with his dog in a crate on top

Shallow - yes. I know some non aligned, non- political people this would impact.

Seriously - your list is far better. He has changed positions 180 degrees on many issues - and I would hope that his not supporting the bailouts would erase whatever connection his dad being MI's governor would have.

As to what he did with Bain Capital, they might be able to connect him to the hated Wall Street, but I wonder if the details on his destroying jobs could be explained easily enough.

I don't think it will be a problem, as I think he will lose the primaries.

[marlakay]

26. We won't have to do anything

there is a good chunk of christian america that thinks mormons are a cult and would never vote for one.

[Hawaii Hiker]

27. Can also attack him for being a big time flip flopper on abortion

He was not only pro-choice in 1994, so much so he attended a Planned Parenthood fundraiser....

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/12/romney-attended.html

This could work both ways...Pro-choice people will not vote for him now and the pro-life crowd won't trust him...

[Moral_Imagination]

28. If he managed to win the GOP nom

He would be so tied up into a pretzel beyond recognition.

[Robbins]

29. Let's see

Paint him as flip flooper.Hit him for past prochoice stands.This helps Obama with the female vote.

Nail her for back In 1994 for running as more progay than Ted Kennedy and compare him to antigay now.

The minute Romney critices anything of health care reform hit back he had similar laws passed as governor.

Exploit Romney's business connections.This allows Obama to hit on any critizes Romney levels on Financial reform.

Romney Is Mccain II or Dole II.

[Arkana]

31. Insinuate he has no principles and that he'd sell his own mother to be elected.

It has the added merit of being true, along with being a stooge of big business and having no clue or experience with foreign policy.

[Orsino]

32. Willfully ignorant panderer and liar...

...indistinguishable from his political brethren.