Obama Campaign Plans To Recast Romney As "Weird"

A Politico headline reads: "Obama plan: Destroy Romney." A key component of the Obama plan according Ben Smith and Jonathan Martin is to portray Romney as "weird" in contrast to their efforts to portray his elder 2008 presidential candidate, John McCain, as "erratic." Romney, of course, is a Mormon. Dare not mention that Obama was born and raised as a Muslim, but it's totally fair game to describe a Mormon opponent as "weird" with a wink and a nod while insisting it has nothing to do with his religion.

Barack Obama’s aides and advisers are preparing to center the president’s re-election campaign on a ferocious personal assault on Mitt Romney’s character and business background, a strategy grounded in the early stage expectation that the former Massachusetts governor is the likely GOP nominee . . .

The dramatic and unabashedly negative turn is the product of political reality. Obama remains personally popular, but pluralities in recent polling disapprove of his handling of his job and Americans fear the country is on the wrong track. His aides are increasingly resigned to running for re-election in a glum nation. And so the candidate who ran on “hope” in 2008 has little choice four years later but to run a slashing, personal campaign aimed at disqualifying his likeliest opponent.

In a move that will make some Democrats shudder, Obama’s high command has even studied President Bush’s 2004 takedown of Sen. John F. Kerry, a senior campaign adviser told POLITICO, for clues on how a president with middling approval ratings can defeat a challenger.

“Unless things change and Obama can run on accomplishments, he will have to kill Romney,” said a prominent Democratic strategist aligned with the White House.

The onslaught would have two aspects. The first is personal: Obama’s re-elect will portray the public Romney as inauthentic, unprincipled and, in a word used repeatedly by Obama’s advisers in about a dozen interviews, “weird.”

Did you read that? A top strategist says Obama "will have to kill Romney" since he has no record upon which to run for re-election. Yep, Obama, Axelrod and Emanuel are the filthiest, dirtiest political scoundrels to which Chicago politics has given birth. They will do whatever it takes to win an election no matter how dishonest or low-handed. Can you imagine the outcry from the Omedia if a Republican strategist dared utter the words "kill Obama?" Unbelievable.

Speaking of assassinating political figures, what about the Daily Mail story that says tape-recorded interviews with Jackie Onassis soon to be released will reveal her belief that President Lyndon Baines Johnson and a group of Texas businessmen were behind the assassination of her first husband, President John. F. Kennedy.

Jackie Onassis believed that Lyndon B Johnson and a cabal of Texas tycoons were involved in the assassination of her husband John F Kennedy, ‘explosive’ recordings are set to reveal.

The secret tapes will show that the former first lady felt that her husband’s successor was at the heart of the plot to murder him.

She became convinced that the then vice president, along with businessmen in the South, had orchestrated the Dallas shooting, with gunman Lee Harvey Oswald – long claimed to have been a lone assassin – merely part of a much larger conspiracy.

Texas-born Mr Johnson, who served as the state’s governor and senator, completed Mr Kennedy’s term and went on to be elected president in his own right.

The tapes were recorded with leading historian Arthur Schlesinger Jnr within months of the assassination on November 22, 1963, and had been sealed in a vault at the Kennedy Library in Boston.

The then Mrs Kennedy, who went on to marry Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis, had ordered that they should not be released until 50 years after her death, with some reports suggesting she feared that her revelations might make her family targets for revenge.

She died 17 years ago from cancer aged 64 and now her daughter, Caroline Kennedy, has agreed to release the recordings early.

What will the elites who love to castigate everyone questioning the government's bogus account of the Kennedy assassination as contained in the Warren Commission Report as a conspiracy theorist nut have to say now that it turns out that their beloved Jackie was also a conspiracy theorist nut?