Fisher
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This is a classic example of what happens to a campaign that has no core message and no core beliefs. They begin chasing the news cycle. This has been going on since March or April it seems like. Every time the news cycle starts to go against Romney, which has been almost every day now, they come up with a new "ourtrageous" video or clip or take some words out of context from a speech. They try to "pounce" on this new narrative to change the new reporting. In this case it was that Romney lost control of his debate expectations. It stopped being about how good a debater Obama was and started being about how Romney must completely destroy Obama in order to regain traction in the campaign. With that narrative Romney was sure to come in under expectations and therefore "lose" the debate and by extrapolation the election. Therefore they needed to change the news cycle. However if the campaign had a coherent message with a core set of beliefs this would not be required. They could just continue repeating their message and not worry about the news cycle. But alas, it is impossible to have coherent message with core beliefs if the candidate is incoherent and has no core beliefs (at least politically speaking).
Lord knows the democrats NEVER EVER EVER in a million years jump on anything like say "the 47%" because their guy has such a noble, coherent message and core belief system. I mean it would be beyond belief if they ran ads focused on something as reactionary as that, but wait.....they DO!!!! Obama must not have a coherent message or any core beliefs..... you said so yourself.