Just started reading the "The Real Romney" ... so far so good. I think I like this guy.
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Just started reading the "The Real Romney" ... so far so good. I think I like this guy.
:rofl: And, erm, obama created what? Oh, sucking off the public teat to organize his Chicago community? Ooooh, whoopee. And, how is Chicago doing these days? And, obama's half uncle (you know, the guy who's in the US illegally for how many years and busted how many times for DUI) is still trying to get a pass like obama's illegal welfare aunty? Absolute travesty.Quote:
Originally Posted by bsnub
If these wr Bush relatives, it would be :spin:
Hypocrite lefties.
The Republicans are going to be very, very disappointed if they expect Romney to get real tough on immigration ...specifically the problem with Mexicans. "Romney" is a big name still in Mexico and good ole Mitt has a first cousin living there who he has never met. As a matter of fact Mitt Romney's Dad was born in Mexico and went on to be a three term Governor of Michigan and one time candidate for President. Besides all that he's very rich and loves cheap servants.
That explains why all of about 30% of Latino polled said they'd vote for him. Do you think Latinos will see a trade off of social services and social security for a guy who has relatives in Mexico, or that his dad was there? :)
Well, Mittens has every so-called 'news' outlet stacked against him but Fox. To wit:
CNN: Mexico was a “polygamy haven” for the Romneys but fails to note that Obama’s father was a drunken polygamist who scattered his seed from one continent to another like a wild hyena.
Romney will prevail though as the numerous scandals surrounding the Obama administration are made completely aware to the voting public.:)
Romney is looking pretty good, with wins sweeping through the east coast.
He's on a strong message about the economy much like Ronald Reagan when he obliterated Jimmy Carter.
FOX News - Top Stories - Romney wins big, promises 'Better America' as Gingrich stays aloof - Page 1 of 2
Romney looking good? For cinching the nomination, but that's about it - at this time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Earl
We have 6 months to go.
The campaign for Mitt is starting in earnest. Crafting a simple message and repeating it over and over.
Sure, like other politicians, he may lift some of Reagan's soundbites as the economy was a focus in 1980 and it is in this election cycle.
I don't like BO or Romney. But I think I'd prefer Romney over BO.
Obama has turned out to be just another politicians. He ran on many messages and when in office did nothing (save health care).
Obama got a "youth" vote. But college tuition has continued to sky rocket and BO's moves have not even addresses the seriousness and depth of the issue.
Over-spending, stimulus, and using class-warfare rhetoric.
Obama is a major disappointment.
I'd like to see a different schmuck in office for the next round.
I think it's unlikely. By my calculations Obama has 208 electoral votes locked up. But according to an article on Yahoo today they have him at 247 locked up.Quote:
Originally Posted by barbaro
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/y...n-outlook.html
^ 270 is needed to win.
Will Obama get FL? OH? IA? PA? VA?
Hard to say.
6 months away...inching closer.
The media will talk up Romneys chances, to sell more papers & advertising. That's their business model. But barring some 'bad news' like a double dip recession, I give Romney very little chance indeed. We'll see. The main question to me is whether the GOP can maintain a majority in the House of Congress- John Boehner recently said on Faux that he thought there was about a 30% chance they would lose it.
^ They are dead even in the polls, generally not a good sign for an incumbent.
The GOP machine is just getting revved up. I doubt any mistakes like Dan Quayle or Sarah Palin will happen this time.
Romney's message is very simple and clear, so that even the simpletons who voted Obama in 08' will understand.
Yes it is a very short message and not surprisingly its all been said before.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Earl
I think the "mistake" this year will clearly be made by the dufus running for president not who he chooses as his VP running mate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Earl
They'll be sailing along the river in Egypt when Obama loses. All the voter fraud that took place when McCain ran against Obama won't be tolerated and a repeat of JFK's win in Ill against Nixon isn't in the cards this time. As you say, the GOP is revved up. Look how fast the worm turned when the Lamestream Media tried to poke fun at Romney's dog? Heh, we now know all about the dog-eater in Big White! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Earl
Ah yes the old "you're stupid" strategy probably wont sell this time around.Quote:
Originally Posted by bsnub
The facts are pretty clear; big government is in the way and making the government even bigger isn't the solution.
American voters aren't that stupid. The messianic frenzy over BO is over. BO didn't deliver.
what's willard hiding?
Brown?s tax release argument at odds with Romney?s - Boston.comQuote:
The issue of tax returns has been a thorny one for Romney.
His late father, George, released 12 years worth of tax returns when he ran for president in 1968. Mitt Romney also reportedly made 20 years worth of returns available to John McCain when he was being vetted as the 2008 nominee’s potential vice presidential running mate.
Democrats have argued he should follow both examples. President Obama has already released his current returns, made them public annually throughout his presidency, and released six years worth during his 2008 race.
IMHO ... Obama could screw himself if chooses to attack Romney in a way that offends independent voters. If he goes after him in any way about his faith ... I'll be turned off. I sure as hell hope Obama doesn't try to flip the script and try to use his "Christian" faith to appeal to the evangelical wackos.Quote:
Originally Posted by sabang
Obama will never get these evangelicals.Quote:
Originally Posted by StorekeeperIMHO ... Obama could screw himself if chooses to attack Romney in a way that offends independent voters. If he goes after him in any way about his faith ... I'll be turned off. I sure as hell hope Obama doesn't try to flip the script and try to use his "Christian" faith to appeal to the evangelical wackos.Quote:
Originally Posted by sabang
If the Evangelicals show up at the polls, they will plug their nose and vote for Romney.
The question is (perhaps): how many Evangelicals will show up at the polls.....
He'll do it if desperate!!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by StorekeeperIMHO ... Obama could screw himself if chooses to attack Romney in a way that offends independent voters. If he goes after him in any way about his faith ... I'll be turned off. I sure as hell hope Obama doesn't try to flip the script and try to use his "Christian" faith to appeal to the evangelical wackos.Quote:
Originally Posted by sabang
The man who said he'd be a one term if he falters got a taste of POTUS, he's hooked like those of us who came to Pattaya..:smileylaughing:
Wow!! Who would have thought of that!!Quote:
Obama will never get these evangelicals.
If the Evangelicals show up at the polls, they will plug their nose and vote for Romney.
The question is (perhaps): how many Evangelicals will show up at the polls.....
Agreed ... bunch of hypocrites in my book. How many show up might depend on the VP choice.Quote:
Originally Posted by barbaro
Agree on the hypocrites and agree that the VP choice will be to motivate them to participate.Quote:
Originally Posted by StorekeeperAgreed ... bunch of hypocrites in my book. How many show up might depend on the VP choice.Quote:
Originally Posted by barbaro
Saw an interview a month or so ago when he was slamming Turkey over their 'honour' killings, he did not pull any punches.
He quoted numbers and suggested if he got in power that would be a big issue with him, bearing in mind that the US airforce is based there very strategically it was a bold rant.
At least he has direct opinions, not like wishy washy boy Obama.
things aren't looking good for the Rethugs and Romney. The Rethugs are all upset that our President questioned Romney's remarks about ever going after bin Laden.
from Obama,.....
As far as my personal role and what other folks would do, I'd just recommend that everybody look at people's previous statements in terms of whether they thought it was appropriate to go into Pakistan and take out bin Laden.
I assume that people meant what they said when they said—that's been at least my practice. I said that I'd go after bin Laden if we had a clear shot at him, and I did. If there are others who have said one thing and now suggest they would do something else, then I'd go ahead and let them explain it.
from Romney,..........
"I do not concur in the words of Barack Obama in a plan to enter an ally of ours... I don't think those kinds of comments help in this effort to draw more friends (friends?,........really?) to our effort," Romney told reporters on the campaign trail....
"If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won't act, we will," Obama said.
Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who is one of the Republican front-runners, said U.S. troops "shouldn't be sent all over the world." He called Obama's comments "ill-timed" and "ill-considered."
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Originally Posted by S Landreth
Cant really argue with that can you?
I mean, he for it before he was against it, wasn't he?
Or was that John Kerry??:confused:
:smileylaughing:
Would you expect anything else but?
Mitt Romney extended his condolences to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the death of his father — Obama waxes silent
Romney extended his condolences today to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the death of his father.
Ben-Zion Netanyahu, a historian and Zionist activist, died today in Israel. He was 102.
Romney called the Israeli prime minister his "friend" in his statement. The two men have been friends for years, and their relationship was forged in the 1970s when they were young up-and-comers sizing up companies for the Boston Consulting Group.
Romney praises Netanyahu's father upon his death
That piece of slime in Big White wouldn't know what a friend is...:thumbsdown:
GOP tolerance,........
there isn't much of it
Richard Grenell hounded from Romney campaign by anti-gay conservatives
Richard Grenell, the openly gay spokesman recently hired to sharpen the foreign policy message of Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, has resigned in the wake of a full-court press by anti-gay conservatives.
In a statement obtained by Right Turn, Grenell says:
I have decided to resign from the Romney campaign as the Foreign Policy and National Security Spokesman. While I welcomed the challenge to confront President Obama’s foreign policy failures and weak leadership on the world stage, my ability to speak clearly and forcefully on the issues has been greatly diminished by the hyper-partisan discussion of personal issues that sometimes comes from a presidential campaign. I want to thank Governor Romney for his belief in me and my abilities and his clear message to me that being openly gay was a non-issue for him and his team.
No women, no Hispanics, no young voters and now no gays: EXCLUSIVE: Richard Grenell hounded from Romney campaign by anti-gay conservatives - Right Turn - The Washington Post
GOP voters might have a problem with Romney because of this statement from Grenell,......
Quote:
I want to thank Governor Romney for his belief in me and my abilities and his clear message to me that being openly gay was a non-issue for him and his team.
Newt throws his support to Romney
well maybe not :)
Heh...it's on!
Team Romney Rains on Obama’s Parade
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— GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney welcomed President Barack Obama to the Buckeye State on Saturday by parking his campaign bus outside of the site where Obama will hold his first campaign rally of the 2012 campaign.
Romney bus welcomes Obama to Ohio – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs
I hope Romney wins, he said recently that he was disgusted with Turkey (NATO) not doing too much to prevent so called honour killings and if he was in charge he would raise that sick issue with a country that wants to join the EU.
Romney to win and the Turks to not join, happy days.
I don't want to hear it. Of course we (or most of us) were assholes when we were younger, but none of us are Presidential material (and either is Romney).
Teasing (other kids) one another when growing up is a part of life. But not to a point where it is vicious.
Mitt Romney returned from a three-week spring break in 1965 to resume his studies as a high school senior at the prestigious Cranbrook School. Back on the handsome[at]campus, studded with Tudor brick buildings and manicured fields, he spotted something he thought did not belong at a school where the boys wore ties and carried briefcases. John Lauber, a soft-spoken new student one year behind Romney, was perpetually teased for his nonconformity and presumed homosexuality. Now he was walking around the all-boys school with bleached-blond hair that draped over one eye, and Romney wasn’t having it.
“He can’t look like that. That’s wrong. Just look at him!” an incensed Romney told Matthew Friedemann, his close friend in the Stevens Hall dorm, according to Friedemann’s recollection. Mitt, the teenaged son of Michigan Gov. George Romney, kept complaining about Lauber’s look, Friedemann recalled.
A few days later, Friedemann entered Stevens Hall off the school’s collegiate quad to find Romney marching out of his own room ahead of a prep school posse shouting about their plan to cut Lauber’s hair. Friedemann followed them to a nearby room where they came upon Lauber, tackled him and pinned him to the ground. As Lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help, Romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors.
The incident was recalled similarly by five students, who gave their accounts independently of one another.
Fuck Romney and his scissors: Mitt Romney's prep school classmates recall pranks, but also troubling incidents - The Washington Post
and fuck Romney's (just recent) apology (audio link): Breaking: Romney apologizes for being a fuckin' asshole - Hotair
Heh...Family of Romney's alleged bulling 'victim' says Washington Post story is inaccurate.
Meanwhile, the Washington Post is quietly airbrushing passages in the story.
Also: ABC, “Sister of Alleged Romney Target Has ‘No Knowledge’ of Any Bullying Incident.”
Fail...more examples of Yellow Journalism, eh?
^have to agree with you on this one boon. very stupid indeed to go after Romney for high school pranks.
Phillip Maxwell wishes he had done something to stop it.
Maxwell, a Michigan attorney, is still haunted by what he claims he witnessed on the campus of the state's elite Cranbrook School in 1965: a young Mitt Romney and a group of friends holding down a classmate named John Lauber and cutting off chunks of his long hair.
"It was not an event you take a lot of pride in. And it was that way for all of us," Maxwell told CNN.
Maxwell confirmed the story, first reported in the Washington Post. However, he insisted the incident was far worse than a high school prank.
"I'm a lawyer. I know what an assault is. This kid was scared. He was terrified. That's an assault," Maxwell said.
Romney said in an interview with Fox News Radio he does not recall the incident described in the Post article.
Doesn't remeber? Yeah right: Romney’s former classmate: ‘You have to take it into account’ – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs
IMO it's worse if he doesn't actually remember it. and begs the question: is willard a sociopath?Quote:
Originally Posted by S Landreth
according to the washington post article willard organized a gang to assault this poor kid because his hair was different...and after the assault was over, willard led the gang back to his dorm room to celebrate the assault.
and now he doesn't even remember that this event took place?
no matter which side of the partisan divide you're on..... that's fcuked up.
we agree on a lot, but you and i have a very different understanding of the term 'prank'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Humbert
^ Weak argument. The victim's family also dismisses the attack. Guess it's OK to smoke dope with your choom friends and hoover up cocaine, tho, eh, ray? And chow down on some deep-fried puppies?
Here's from the "victim"'s family. Also, as this was a private school where the boys wore uniforms, I would posit that there were also rules on all manner of dress, hair styles, etc. Go figure. Another libbie phony personal attack.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/163410269...ylist_id=87937
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Originally Posted by raycarey
The following passage from an article in Vanity Fair puts the event into perspective for me and it makes a more important point.
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2012/05/When-the-Mitt-Hits-the-Fan
The incident of hair assault revealed this week that led colleague Bruce Handy to dub Romney "the Demon Barber of Cranbrook" shows the mark of a bully, part of a pattern that goes from strapping his dog to a car roof to "I like to fire people." But I think that Romney as bully misses something larger about the political, public man: He's a coward. He's never gone against the grain, stood up for an underdog or advanced an unpopular cause before it became popular, risked a single gleaming hair off his head, shone any backbone apart from the determination to win, tapped into anything larger than himself, risen to the moment. His selfishness is such that you think conservatives would appreciate him more, since that's their driving ethos. He may have to show some of that old nasty Cranbrook spirit if he truly wants to win their love.
sounds like a repressed homosexual becoming a bully to save face,Quote:
Originally Posted by S Landreth
^
Nice try but Washington Post Romney Hit Piece Implodes.
Today’s unconscionable Washington Post story, which implied without evidence that Mitt Romney was a homophobic bully to one John Lauber back in his high school days five decades ago, has totally imploded.
Timed to drop the day after President Obama’s announced embrace of same-sex marriage, the story set the political world atwitter. But earlier today, Breitbart News reported that the Post had inflated witness testimony. The original Washington Post piece stated the following:
“I always enjoyed his pranks,” said Stu White, a popular friend of Romney’s who went on to a career as a public school teacher and has long been bothered by the Lauber incident. [emphasis added]
Yet in an interview with ABC News today, White disowned that characterization:
While the Post reports White as having “long been bothered” by the haircutting incident,” he told ABC News he was not present for the prank, in which Romney is said to have forcefully cut a student’s long hair and was not aware of it until this year when he was contacted by the Washington Post.
White didn’t know about the incident until this year, but the Post reported that he had “long been bothered” by it. We demanded a correction.
So the Washington Post did what no reputable newspaper should ever do when caught falsifying testimony: it made a stealth correction to its own article. The article now reads:
“I always enjoyed his pranks,” said Stu White, a popular friend of Romney’s who went on to a career as a public school teacher and said he has been “disturbed” by the Lauber incident since hearing about it several weeks ago, before being contacted by The Washington Post. “But I was not the brunt of any of his pranks.” [emphasis added]
The Post did not note that it had made any correction to the article.
It was irresponsible of the Post to run the hit piece in the first place, especially given its obvious bias; to retract a critical phrase and replace it without noting the retraction is just as bad.
But it gets worse. Tonight, Christine Lauber, John Lauber’s sister, said that she didn’t know anything about the bullying incident. More importantly, she said that the story had factual inaccuracies. Betsy Lauber, another of John’s sisters, told ABC News, “The family of John Lauber is releasing a statement saying the portrayal of John is factually incorrect and we are aggrieved that he would be used to further a political agenda. There will be no more comments from the family.” Said Christine, “If he were alive today, he would be furious [about the story].” Jason Horowitz, the reporter on the Post story, did speak to both sisters and quoted them in the story – but apparently still botched the facts.
Source
So sorry there Libs - you failed again!:rofl:
Your source has zero credibility and is trying to create spin where it doesn't exist. There is no "implosion" that is pure far right blogosphere hype. Nice try.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boon Mee
VIDEO- What makes Mitt Romney chuckle: Abusing dogs, gay schoolmates, employees, Medicare recipients, the sight-challenged… | | The Political CarnivalThe Political Carnival
What a finely tuned, well-developed, tasteful, sophisticated sense of humor Willard M. Romney has. Why, who wouldn’t find it difficult to stifle a giggle when discussing animal abuse, assault with a deadly weapon (scissors), bigotry, firings,and cutting programs for those in need?
And somehow, despite all those rib-ticklers, Mitt didn’t remember some of his most notable “pranks”? And by “pranks” I mean vicious, sociopathic behavior.
He was eighteen years old– not nine or ten– when he attacked someone as they cried and screamed for help. Yeah, well, maybe that’s exactly the kind of moment that slips a bully’s mind, but not the bullied, ever, as I can personally attest. Ever.
Glad ol’ Mitt got such a chuckle out of all those youthful indiscretions, they make him seem so “wild and crazy,” so… “human.” Just ask his equally crass supporters, including his economic adviser wife.
How is it that Republicans find it so easy to slam six-year-old Barack Obama for eating dog meat that was fed to him, but find it so offensive when their own candidate is scrutinized for his adult mistreatment of his own dog and young-adult physical and emotional abuse of fellow classmates and a severely sight-challenged teacher?
And speaking of “severely“… the vetting has only just begun, but it’s becoming quite clear that Romney is severely unqualified to hold office.
Family values my ass.
Character Matters! Defining the Republican Mitt will be fun.