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发帖数: 7397 | 1 【 以下文字转载自 NewJersey 讨论区 】
发信人: mitaas (快乐的山里人 蓝色的翅膀), 信区: NewJersey
标 题: let's just say, Mitt has found me
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Jul 9 21:41:00 2012, 美东)
就等州长了 | m****s
发帖数: 7397 | 2 Okay, My goal is to raise $3,000 for Mitt in NY.
I have noticed we have quite a few Grand Old Papa here.
Let me know if we can get together and work this number out.
It doesn't have to be my name. totally not.
At the end of day, we want 60 Grants in the envelope and go. | m*****5
发帖数: 23482 | | m****s
发帖数: 7397 | 4 money money money
i will put down your name.
【在 m*****5 的大作中提到】
: 你这个右洞
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发帖数: 839 | 5 支持。
如果o8不下台，美国将永远不再是我和framers希望的美国。 | m*****5
发帖数: 23482 | 6
那你显然想害死他
我又不是公民
【在 m****s 的大作中提到】
: money money money
: i will put down your name.
| m****s
发帖数: 7397 | 7 Is Romney Gutsy Enough to Pick Chris Christie?
By Jeffrey Goldberg - Jul 9, 2012 (BLOOMBERG)
Here is a fact causing Republicans to wonder why Mitt Romney isn’t the
runaway favorite in his campaign to unseat Barack Obama: No U.S. president
since Franklin Roosevelt has won re-election when the unemployment rate was
more than 7.4 percent.
So why isn’t Romney the clear favorite? Because Obama remains more popular
personally than one would otherwise expect. Because the Obama campaign has
been more effective at sowing doubt about Romney’s record as a wealthy
capitalist than the Romney campaign anticipated, which is evidence to some
that Romney’s campaign isn’t overstaffed with brilliant strategists. And
because Romney himself has the unfortunate tendency to come off as both
artificial and superficial.
Even Romney’s allies know he lacks the chemical building blocks of
likability. The Republican speaker of the House, John Boehner, was asked
recently by a voter in West Virginia the following lamenting question: “Can
you make me love Mitt Romney?” Boehner answered, in a plain-spoken manner,
“The American people probably aren’t going to fall in love with Mitt
Romney.”
Many of Romney’s problems arise from his lack of authenticity. This
suggests that he should choose a running mate who conveys a feeling of he-
just-can’t-help-himself genuineness. Which is why all the talk about Romney
’s unwillingness to consider New Jersey Governor Chris Christie for the
vice- presidential slot is a bit of a mystery to me.
Large Liabilities
There are, to be fair, many reasons Romney might want to keep Christie off
the ticket. Christie has an excessively large mouth. He is easily provoked.
He turns up late to speeches on occasion. He doesn’t quit when he’s ahead.
He is no one’s idea of a deputy. He comes from a state the Republicans can
’t win, no matter what Romney does. He is a Northeastern laissez-faire
Republican mistrusted by social conservatives. And, of course, he is
unwieldy and overweight and makes Romney look anorexic by comparison.
On the other hand, if Romney wanted to actually win the presidency, he might
consider choosing Christie.
I’ve been looking at Romney’s vice-presidential possibilities for the past
couple of weeks (yes, I know, I need to find a better hobby), and I’ve
been struck by two things. The first, as the Washington Post columnist
Michael Gerson has noted, is that the field of Republican vice-presidential
hopefuls is much more impressive than was the field of Republican
presidential hopefuls. (My apologies to fans of Michele Bachmann and Herman
Cain.)
The second is that the most talked-about candidates, while in possession of
impressive resumes, are almost comically bland. The first rule when picking
a vice-presidential running mate is, of course, don’t pick Sarah Palin, or
anyone who might remind the voting public of Sarah Palin. The people on
Romney’s short list -- which includes Ohio Senator Rob Portman, former
Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty and Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan -- do
not resemble Palin in any way. Romney is safe with any of these candidates.
Will he fill arenas with them? Are any of these candidates particularly
skilled at speaking to disaffected blue-collar workers, to Reagan Democrats,
without condescension? Pawlenty has a blue-collar background, but he didn’
t connect with the white working class, or with anyone else, in his
abbreviated run for president. Let me put it another way. Do any of these
candidates match Christie’s preternatural ability to explain Republican
deficit-reduction ideas without coming off as bloodless budget-cutters?
Overflow Crowds
I’ve spent some time following Christie across New Jersey, to town-hall
meetings mainly, but also on visits to social- service agencies and, most
entertainingly, to a Bruce Springsteen concert in Newark. His town halls are
famous for their confrontational tone, but in truth shouting matches are
rare. What isn’t rare are huge, overflow crowds. I attended events, mainly
in high-school gymnasiums, over the past few months, and at each one fire
marshals had to cap attendance.
Why do people come by the hundreds to weekday morning meetings in small
towns? Because Christie gives them something they want. Not so much the
sarcasm (which can be enjoyable), but the skillful, tenacious and blunt
articulation of just where New Jersey’s government has gone off the rails -
- in its budget- making, in its management of state-worker pensions and in
its uncanny ability to create unfunded mandates. No one in national politics
does a better job of arguing against deficit spending than Christie.
An easy prediction: Christie would be filling basketball arenas with wildly
enthusiastic fiscal conservatives within two weeks of being chosen as Romney
’s running mate.
Another easy prediction: It ain’t going to happen.
The downside risk of a Christie pick is fairly small. But from what I
understand, Romney is looking for someone who presents no downside at all.
This comprehensive aversion to risk might be at the core of the problems
plaguing his campaign. If the campaign does figure out that it needs to
balance Romney’s upper-crust manner with someone who has actual middle-
class, even working-class, credentials, it might very well go with Pawlenty.
Pawlenty lost his nerve in the Republican primaries, but he was a talented
governor.
Can he energize arenas crammed with Republicans looking for inspiration?
Doubtful. But nothing the Romney campaign has done so far suggests that it
is interested in energizing voters.
(Jeffrey Goldberg is a Bloomberg View columnist and a national correspondent
for The Atlantic. The opinions expressed are his own.)
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To contact the author of this column: Jeffrey Goldberg at goldberg.atlantic@
gmail.com.
To contact the editor responsible for this column: Timothy Lavin at tlavin1@
bloomberg.net. | d*****9
发帖数: 3459 | 8 not need to be, as long as you re a green card holder.
【在 m*****5 的大作中提到】
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: 那你显然想害死他
: 我又不是公民
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