From Denny: Tomorrow night the big political match-up between the flip-flopping challenger Republican Mitt Romney and incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama will be nationally televised. So far to date, Romney senior advisers have whined about the political polls incorrectly lean toward people identifying themselves as Democrats.
What's the matter? Find your Republican base eroding? Even here in former red state Louisiana droves of people no longer identify with the Republican Party and now list themselves as Independents. If the Democrats actually got serious about making their case more Independents would sign on into the Democrat camp permanently.
More weird in this odd campaign, Romney sends out his wife to whine to the press about "how hard it is" to run for President. Oh, please, watch the millionaire's wife bitch about working for a few short interview stints and campaign rallies. How about all the people bitching as to why their pension funds are sitting in the Romney personal account because of his corporate raider ways? Last time we all checked that's called "ill gotten gains."
Then Romney decides to disrespect the entire half of America, much of his voter base. Romney spurred new satirical t-shirts about Romney's labeling "the 47 percent" as co-dependent upon government and total users. Never mind that the elderly, the disabled veterans, working class people struggling to survive and loads of children were found to be living in that 47 percent. What a gaffe.
Now the two campaigns are sparring about preparing zingers for the first debate tomorrow night. That should be rich. Can all of you imagine excessively socially awkward Romney attempting sarcastic, or worse, comedic timing? Does he really think President Obama will play his personal punching bag?
Obama may be a lot of things but one thing he isn't is socially awkward. He also thinks well on his feet most of the time, especially in a one-on-one competition. Obama has also grown some in his four years in office. Romney's campaign will under estimate Obama, only to regret it.
Obama? He would do well to figure out how to lip sync President Bill Clinton's 2012 DNC speech in summary form. Why? Because that's the only way to pull his butt out of the voter firing squad, angry about the economy and bad jobs situation. The polls have tightened up so much it's time to remind the voters of the Clinton Big Brain's ability to reframe the facts and accomplishments. Stay tuned. This debate should be very entertaining.
Meanwhile, check out the late night comics' jokes about this 2012 election. And these are just the collection of political jokes about what has happened in the month of September. The photo shop guys had a field day with the Romney and Ryan gaffes. Plenty of funny photos sure to give you a smile. Oh, yeah, and I just had to add my own bumper sticker:
Romney-Ryan: Stupid on Steroids. Open mouth; insert foot. Lose election. It really is that simple.
