Letter to Mitt - 09-26-12 - Updated!

Mitt, we haven't talked in over two weeks, and in that time, you campaign has gone nowhere, except maybe downhill. Your peeps have challenged the MSM on their gundecked "polls", but that's not resonating. If you don't do something soon to remove the MSM from their attack-Mitt mode, you will lose the election.

What to do?

Here's an idea that will take them out of the game, and put YOU in charge of what they say for the next five or so weeks until the election.

Start announcing your Cabinet. Yes, I know you are probably not prepared for this, maybe haven't even named a Transition Manager yet, but I know you have to have had discussions with prospects.

Start with someone important, like Treasury or State. Name the person, then sit back and watch what the media will do. Here's how it should break out:

1. First, they and Obama will howl that it's not traditional. Your reply will be, "so what", then "all we're doing is giving our voters a real choice". Some really brainy people from the (D)onk side will concede that it's a brilliant move.
2. The press will then have to start chasing the prospective Cabinet Secretary. There are only so many minutes in a broadcast day, and that takes away minutes from their incessant attacks on YOU, Mitt.
3. After a few days, do it again. With the second announcement, all the press will be able to do is react, then speculate about who all the rest of them will be, etc. Obama's time before the press will shrink, and YOUR time before the press will shrink, both good things, because, let's face it, Mitt, you have all the appeal now of a mud fence.
4. Quickly, the focus of campaigning will be not on you, not on Obama, but on your choices. You can then restrict your speeches to promoting your choices, which offers less fodder for the Obama War Room to grind you up with.
5. (The Update!) The elephant almost got out of the room un-noticed. This plan uses the tried and true "Assumed Close" method of salesmanship. I've sold intangibles (advertising) in my life, and I'm here to tell you that without the assumed close system, you don't sell water to a man dying of thirst in the desert, but with it, you can sell oil to an Arab Sheik who has it coming out his ears.

Word of advice: for this new tactic to work, the prospective appointees have to be solid people, not re-used hacks leftover from GWB43. There MIGHT be a few GWB43 people who would be decent, Ambassador John Bolton or Condi Rice come to mind, but leave out party hacks like Sununu, who, distressingly, is turning up more and more in front of GOP cameras.

Your election should be about ending the US move towards Socialism, and making that work means having some outstanding administrators to be able to get to the heart of the most damaging parts of Obama's destruction of individual enterprise, and ripping them out by the roots. That has to be reflected not only in the Cabinet Secretaries, but all the way down into the daily work force of the Government. You MUST have people working for you who can manage the Un-Do. GWB43 had his chance after Clinton's leftward moves, but he failed to change anything, and now you MUST.

Get to it, Mitt, this Nation isn't going to be worth a flying fark if we get Four More of Obama. 

Comments

[JebTexas]

This would likely result in a Romney landslide... 8 or 9 pts up at least. Why are they not smart enough to see this? Do they not remember Nov 2010 at all??!?