COMMENTARY | If I wasn't already aware of the Republican presidential candidates now setting their sights on Colorado, the robo-calls from the Mitt Romney campaign on a Sunday afternoon, which incidentally followed robo-surveys of a political nature over the last week, would have certainly let me in on that little fact. According to the Associated Press, Romney -- galvanized by his recent wins -- is looking to hold on to his top position and build on it.
I'm not sure robo-calling people's homes on Super Bowl Sunday is necessarily the way to gain fans, but I guess Romney's campaign managers must know more about the matter than I do. The former governor of Massachusetts has done well so far, finishing with a double-digit win in Nevada on the heels of a convincing Florida victory.
I'm glad Colorado isn't one of those states with a long build-up like Iowa or Florida. Robo-calls are bad enough without being mixed well with a slurry of negative ads on TV, debates every other night and an intensely focused media traipsing around, looking for a "real-life" angle.
The Associated Press is reporting Newt Gingrich refuses to throw in the towel on his own campaign, ensuring the battle will likely last at least into the spring. Judging from the smiling, sweater-vested man who posed with Colorado people on my Facebook friend's list over the weekend, Rick Santorum is in it for a little while longer as well. And Ron Paul, on ABC's show "This Week," is "energized" by the number of people still looking for another option.
I don't necessarily find it energizing, at least not any more so than our current commander in chief using any positive signal from the economy as a campaign talking point. He challenges whoever stays in this Republican race until the bitter end, ensuring the nonsense will continue well past spring. Well past summer. Don't we all have things we need to be worried about that have nothing to do with campaigning?
Here's hoping Romney doesn't share his call list with the others. The thought of nine more months of happy sounding robots either wanting to survey my likely political mood or encourage me as to which candidate has my best interests at heart makes me want to hibernate until 2013. Romney campaign, if you're reading this: Lose the number, all right? Let's pretend your robot got a robot answer of her own when she called. An answer that said, "The number you have reached has been disconnected."
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