IF I WERE MITT ROMNEY'S PR MAN

Buying the Oval Office

By Victor M Adamus

I spent a good deal of my youth being crisis communications director for Public Employee Unions and going back that far to the days of George Meany, there are still basic rules of winning a campaign that exist even in today’s high tech world, if not moreso.

Get Off the Clown Car

My first impression of Mitt Romney is to stop struggling to get off the clown car which is making the GoP a laughing stock.  For this remedy a fantastic campaign rooted in Romney’s comfort zone should be presented by the candidate with such impact as to make him be believable.  Such frequency that his message cannot be ignored. 

With both sides estimating they have to raise $30 billion dollars for advertising, it dawned on me that a few billion here and there is chump change to the big boys on Wall Street, a mere days work for most.  These 5% people of wealth also control the Congress, the Supreme Court, and various other agencies through piles of money used to lobby people in high positions of government.  What’s missing is how they spend their money and how with a strong campaign the GoP may not even need ad dollars if their campaign was followed extensively by the Media and internet bloggers.

A fresh start for our hero would be to position him in the field he knows best, making tons of money off Buy Outs and investing in high risk hedge funds which are made secure by finding an insurance company to pay the investors back if the Wall Street Casino goes belly up.  Corporate America also controls the U.S. Treasury so there is a nice cushion for the 3 to 5% who are too big to fail.  We’ve all seen that Corporate Welfare before.

One assumption that has to be made up front is the old “birds of a feather, stick together” scenario.  Romney has to be in the group of Buy Out Kings who understand the system and financial world so their trades coincide with huge returns.  Friends, I’m talking about asset managers at the highest levels of the paper trading business and these friends will have the trust that goes along with future objectives of their companies.  Plans they could easily reach if Romney were in the White House and would rubber stamp their deregulations, tax cuts, and loop holes so they could bring their off shore money home without paying a penalty.

That said, it’s now time to launch The Buy Out of the Oval Office.

Romney needs to announce in June that he has gathered a few friends in his 1% club that will buy down the national debt if he is elected President.  It has to be legit though.  He would have to set up a special account in Washington, D.C. so the day of his Inauguration Timothy Geithner, Secretary of the Treasury, could immediately transfer $10 to $12 Trillion from the fund to pay down the national debt, giving the new president a clean sheet to work from the day he took office.

The campaign would hit every voter between the eyes.  What better way to encourage a change in our economy than have those who destroyed it pay it down and make huge profits while doing so?  And instead of trying to sing God Bless America, he could be telling from his heart the latest donor to the SAVE AMERICA theme and show the actual check he picked up that day to deposit in the AMERICA FOR ROMNEY account in Washington, D.C.  You see, it only takes 25 billionaires out of 300 to write checks for half a Trillion dollars to have a whopping $12 Trillion sitting in one single account.  And I know Romney knows more than 25 people with that kind of wealth.  It could get more exciting if smaller donors like GE, Bain Capitol, Apple Computers, or even Warren Buffet ponied up to the bar.  Every little bit helps and it would make them feel a big part of the movement to SAVE AMERICA.  Big, successful and wealthy businessmen put it all on the line for their country and for the soon to be elected Mitt Romney. 

A sidebar to this campaign is that all the talk of Mitt being a Moderate goes by the wayside.  Being of Mormon Faith, gone!  His love to fire people, who cares?  With this type of project on the line it puts the electorate at an amazing disadvantage.  How could they not vote for him since the National Debt is, well, a top priority for the majority of Americans.  They’d never live down missing this opportunity to pay off the national debt rather than leaving it to their grandchildren to pick up the tab.  They’d have to vote for him in one of the biggest voter turnouts in U.S. History.

TO BE CONTINUED