Demoralized as hell: the Obama Prevent Defense edition

I don’t think you’re escort­ing me I think I’m escort­ing you amigos.

Richard Sharpe Sharpe’s Rifles 1993

For the past week the Rom­ney cam­paign has been under unre­lent­ing attack con­cern­ing the Governor’s time at Bain Cap­i­tal.

The Obama Cam­paign has unleashed ad after ad con­tend­ing he was an out­sourcer. The cable net­works have talked and talked on the sub­ject and the MSM has been divided between those who have said Mitt has to come clean and those who think the attacks are unfair but insist Mitt needs to answer them.

Either way, the MSM con­sen­sus is Mitt is play­ing pre­vent defense. As usual the MSM has it exactly BACKWARDS!

It isn’t the Mitt Rom­ney team that is play­ing pre­vent defense, it is the OBAMA Campaign.

The Obama cam­paign knows what the score is. The Base is dis­sat­is­fied, Democ­rats pols have been run­ning away from him for a year, black vot­ers are hes­i­tat­ing over Gay Mar­riage, the Oba­macare deci­sion while painted as a vic­tory has ener­gized the tea party activists, and the once vaunted Obama money machine is so weak when they aren’t beg­ging brides to be for their dowry they’re forced to travel to for­eign lands for dona­tions.

And while the pub­lic knows the state the econ­omy they are liv­ing in, the cam­paign under­stands they are not pay­ing atten­tion to the polit­i­cal side of the coin…at least not yet.

And THAT’s why the Obama cam­paign is spend­ing their mea­ger war chest and going all in on Bain in the mid­dle of Summer.

The Democ­rats and their allies in the media under­stand that if this elec­tion becomes about the president’s record, it will be over before the first debate begins. They also under­stand that while peo­ple aren’t pay­ing atten­tion they see in pass­ing the mag­a­zine cov­ers, the News­pa­per head­lines and the var­i­ous media sto­ries as they surf the chan­nels or see the TV screens that are now impos­si­ble to avoid as you go to the bank, the air­port or the local water­ing hole. If those screens are full of the econ­omy the kids will be learn­ing how to say “Pres­i­dent Rom­ney” on their 2^nd day back to school and the will­ing­ness of even the truest believer to open up their pock­et­books for the home stretch will be gone.

They aren’t spend­ing their money in the mid­dle of sum­mer in the hopes of defin­ing Rom­ney to an audi­ence that isn’t pay­ing atten­tion, they are spend­ing the money NOW to keep their poll num­bers from col­laps­ing prior to the fall cam­paign sea­son. This isn’t about get­ting ahead, it’s about tread­ing water long enough for some­thing ANY­THING to come along and save them.

Robert Stacy McCain gets it:

it’s only July and if the Obama cam­paign is already burn­ing through that cash at an unsus­taintable pace …

Well, there’s a good rea­son they’re “freaked out,” you see.

If the polls start shift­ing toward Rom­ney now, the scenes inside Obama HQ in Chicago will be Hitler-​in-​the-​bunker Down­fall par­ody stuff.

As does Jen­nifer Rubin:

So the Obama team has shot its wad. Its oppo­nent has more ammo and more money now. Rom­ney hasn’t been mor­tally wounded. And there isn’t money from Obama to keep up the 4-​to-​1 spend­ing bar­rage. In fact with­out it, Obama might well have fallen behind in the race. So the Obama team pleads for money and turns up the vol­ume of the attacks. (After call­ing Rom­ney a crim­i­nal in July, what’s left for Sep­tem­ber and October?)

Obama is now com­mit­ted to a strat­egy that isn’t work­ing. He’s left to unleash his attack dogs and to pray for a miracle.

That’s why Obama’s cam­paign is doing what they are and why the media is bait­ing the Rom­ney cam­paign in the hope they will bite. Even those media out­lets that call out the attacks as the BS they are, are still aid­ing the over­all strat­egy, keep the focus off of the Pres­i­dent record and main­tain­ing the bluff.

Unfor­tu­nately for the left and Obama they shall dis­cover what each GOP con­tender has dis­cov­ered before them while Rom­ney lacks charisma, he has no short­age of patience and sin­gle mind­eded courage when it comes to fol­low­ing through on a plan.

Obama’s only hope is to keep things close enough for Rom­ney to make a fatal mis­take, an Etch a Sketch moment times 20. It’s not much of a plan but it’s the best chance they have.

As for the GOP well the advice is the same it has always been:

“Ride right through them, they’re demor­al­ized as hell”!

The Obama Col­lapse has been evi­dent for a long time, when it comes, it will be like the Berlin Wall com­ing down and peo­ple who have been doing this a lot longer than me who were talk­ing about the unbeat­able Obama re-​election will be will talk­ing about how inevitable his fall was.

But only a very few of us were will­ing to say it when it counted.

Update: Insta­lanche thanks Glenn. I’ve just put up a sequel to this post titled: Demor­al­ized as Hell AH Squad Leader Edi­tion. What does a clas­sic Wargame from the 80’s have to do with the Obama Campaign’s tac­tics today? The answer is a click away.

Update 2: Race 2012 shows the graph and says.

Think of all the effort, time, money, and resources that Obama has been expend­ing try­ing to destroy Rom­ney. Yet take a gan­der at today’s Ras­mussen poll and its trend­line charts…

There hasn’t been any sig­nif­i­cant change in the num­bers in two months. In fact, if you take away Mitt’s big May 11^th bounce, there hasn’t been a sig­nif­i­cant change in the num­bers since the poll began.

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