Hopefully he will be forthcoming and add to his “Repeal and Replace Obamacare, with something like “replace it with Romneycare. He should expand on his job creation plans by elaborating on his record at Bain, I am sure we would all be thrilled. Perhaps he should tell us how he is going to reduce spending with special focus on the main Federal government outlays (Defense, Social Security, MEDICARE, MEDICAID, and interest on the debt. Does he still support privatizing SS and Rep. Ryan’s plan to dismantle MEDICARE? A little more specificity on his tough foreign policy positions, particularly those that pertain to Iran, would be welcome. Is he proposing a war with Iran? Are any of his kids going to volunteer? How is he going to pay for it? Is he going to use Executive Orders and charge the cost of warfare to unfunded liabilities instead of doing it within budget? Talking tough, criticizing others, and being vague is easy, what is not so easy is governing and telling people the truth.

What good is it to stay Vague, If we know what kind of tax cheat he is no one will vote for him. Besides he hasn’t been told by his million dollar donors what he is supposed to do. He has no backbone. Look he even rides bitch on a sea doo

The problem with only runing a negitive campagin is one day you will have to say what you would do. Take health care which is his signature program. Obama and the democratic pacs are tying him to it like a hostage so he looks foolish saying he will repeal his own idea unless he can present an alternative. Or out sourcing. What is your plan to get jobs back here when you made millions sending them to china? He needs to get specific. Just saying he will cut taxes to the rich leaves him open to the issue that 2.9 million jobs left under the Bush Cuts and he was part of making that happen. Or the argument that if we cut the 1%s taxes will they just hide the money off shore as you did? What s his plan to rebuild the national infastructure? There are 60,000 bridges in need of repair, so if you are going to increse military spending where is the money going to come from to do both?
What about Iran? Other than the neo cons, most americans are tired of war, so what is the plan?
I could go on but you get the point. There are so many issues eventually some stakeholder groups are going to demand: what are you going to do about my issue? That is where he won’t get away with slogans about Obama

Mitt Romney Will Not Become President So We Can Avoid All That Racist Mess He Is Saying. President Obama Will Remain President And No One But Not Hurt Or Kill Him. If So We Are Going To Have A War In America. A Race War. Good People Against Racist Trash.

Republican actually do better when they say less. When they honesly explain their policies and ideas they always end up in trouble. Besides, catchy phrases and simple explanations are what their base really likes.

Could it be that Mitt Romney is correct from a strategic point of view to tell us little about what he’d do as president?…

HOGWASH – he probably doesn’t know himself, he JUST WANNA BE PRES!

Besides the money, Romney has another big advantage that I don’t think is being talked about enough. Republican controlled states have been aggressively purging Democratic leaning groups off their voter rolls and also bringing in tough ID laws designed to discourage Democratic leaning voting groups from voting. In a tight race, that may easily be enough to win it for him when combined with his large advantage in super pac ad money. I don’t see the DOJ doing very much about this.

Given what he’s selling, and his awkwardness as a candidate, keeping vague and staying off the non Fox channels may be the best strategy for him.

It would be nice for Romney to actually stand for something and to have an actual view point. When asked about the uniforms for the Olympians being made in China. He states something about the Olympic Committee being their own entity and let’s focus on the sports.Well that’s all fine and dandy; but have some sense as to what it would have meant in pride and dollars for those uniforms to have been made here. At the NAACP he was booed and his response was I don’t change my speech for the audience I’m addressing. Well, Mr. Romney the first lesson in speech is know your audience.If you’re out giving the same speech to different groups it’s as if you don’t have much going on in that brain

When I hear about Mitt Romney disparaging “people who want free stuff” at his soiree at Dick Cheney’s estate on July 12th, or pick up the tone of entitlement with which he dismissed (on all news channels the next day) the obligation to be honest about his financial status and business dealings with the American public, I recognize a person who thinks he can be elected president and still identify exclusively with his cronies among the 1%.

Note that Romney never, ever claims that he is or has been honest. Given his social status, he may not think basic honesty is a requirement. He is so much a part of the 1%, who feel that they can act with impunity, that he may not recognize the many ways in which he exposes his partisanship with the wealthiest Americans, with all of their private conventions (like Swiss bank accounts and bigotry) and secret peccadillos (like garage elevators and $10,000 bets).

In “Moby-Dick,” Herman Melville identified this type among the ship captains of his day and even more widely, though figuratively, among those he calls “the Captains of this earth.” In a sermon about Jonah and the whale, Father Mapple echoes Melville’s comdemnation of these types: “Now Jonah’s Captain, shipmates, was one whose discernment detects crime in any, but whose cupidity exposes it only in the penniless. In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.” Melville would have seen through the Citizen’s United ruling in an instant. It allows lying “that pays its way” free travel.

While I’m accessing this Sunday mood, I am reminded of how Melville, again speaking through the sermon of Father Mapple, defined Jonah’s calling: “To preach the Truth to the face of Falsehood!” Perhaps this is the task before us, as Democrats, in this election cycle. While the Republican Party proudly aligns itself behind Mitt Romney and his disrespectful cronies, committing itself shamelessly to the amplification and repetition of the Big Lie, the Obama campaign is obligated to do no less than “preach Truth to the face of Falsehood.”