Thread: Mitt Romney

The Chocolate Jesus is getting hammered from left, right and center these days. Check this out where 'ol bubba even applauds Mitt's experience:

President Bill Clinton veered sharply off message Thursday, telling CNN that Mitt Romney's business record at Bain Capital was "sterling."

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No wonder Obama leads Romney in Massachusetts by 25 points,...... (http://www.suffolk.edu/images/conten...2012_FINAL.pdf)

Massachusetts knows Romney, (his record as governor there) and they don’t like him.

^ and that's great news for sen. candidate elizabeth warren.

and btw, has romney ever explained in detail why he wants to be president?

Originally Posted by raycarey

and btw, has romney ever explained in detail why he wants to be president?

No explanation is needed other than to rid America of The. Worst. President. Ever.

Originally Posted by raycarey

^ and that's great news for sen. candidate elizabeth warren.

Heh, maybe Elizabeth Warren isn’t really an Indian or the mother of the Marxist Occupy Wall Street movement. But voters still have a reason to vote for her; she is the first nursing mother to take the bar exam in New Jersey. Watch this expert comedienne deliver the line with a straight face:




The biggest whopper of them all!

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Originally Posted by raycarey

and btw, has romney ever explained in detail why he wants to be president?

No explanation is needed other than to rid America of The. Worst. President. Ever.

but but, I was told that it was Bushy that was the worst President ever.
Did they lie to me???

I doubt Liz being 3.2% Cherokee or not is considered a major issue by most voters booner. That is not a delusion.

Originally Posted by sabang

I doubt Liz being 3.2% Cherokee or not is considered a major issue by most voters booner. That is not a delusion.

What is though is her claim to that 1/32.

Her whole track record of lying to gain political advantage will be out before the fine voters of MA to witness.

Originally Posted by importford

but but, I was told that it was Bushy that was the worst President ever.
Did they lie to me???

When a liberal's lips are moving.........

Oh Dim Mitt you are a piece of work,.........

Romney's (Non) Military Record Faces New Scrutiny: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2012...pagewanted=all

On a stage crowded with war heroes, Mitt Romney recently praised the sacrifice "of the great men and women of every generation who serve in our armed services."

It is a sacrifice the Republican presidential candidate did not make.

Though an early supporter of the Vietnam War, Romney avoided military service at the height of the fighting after high school by seeking and receiving four draft deferments, according to Selective Service records.

Originally Posted by MrG

What happened to the Massachusetts debt? Mitt Romney happened!

No apologies for the facts, especially if some can't apologize for talking shite.

Love them "facts" when they're from Veracity Stew, the total lefty group including one bum writer who went door-to-door to get Jimmah Carter re-elected. Nice find, MrG. Very entertaining.

Originally Posted by Minnie Maugham

Originally Posted by MrG

What happened to the Massachusetts debt? Mitt Romney happened!

No apologies for the facts, especially if some can't apologize for talking shite.

Love them "facts" when they're from Veracity Stew, the total lefty group including one bum writer who went door-to-door to get Jimmah Carter re-elected. Nice find, MrG. Very entertaining.

Sources can be checked out. Do you dispute the facts presented?

^ Sure.

"Lies, damned lies, and statistics" is a phrase describing the persuasive power of numbers, particularly the use of statistics to bolster weak arguments. It is also sometimes colloquially used to doubt statistics used to prove an opponent's point.
The term was popularised in the United States by Mark Twain (among others), who attributed it to the 19th-century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881): "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."



BUT...


the phrase is not found in any of Disraeli's works and the earliest known appearances were years after his death. Other coiners have therefore been proposed.

Erm, libbie press also says Mariel Hemingway coined "Never complain, and never explain".WTF is going on?

Character is an issue,.........

When Mitt Romney was a college freshman, he told fellow residents of his Stanford University dormitory that he sometimes disguised himself as a police officer – a crime in many states, including Michigan and California, where he then lived. And he had the uniform on display as proof.

So recalls Robin Madden, who had also just arrived as a freshman, the startling incident began when Romney called him and two or three other residents into his room, saying, “Come up, I want to show you something.” When they entered Romney’s room, “and laid out on his bed was a Michigan State Trooper’s uniform.”

Madden, a native Texan who graduated from Stanford in 1970 and went on to become a successful television producer and writer, has never forgotten that strange moment, which he has recounted to friends over the years as he observed his former classmate’s political ascent. The National Memo learned of the incident from a longtime Madden friend to whom he had mentioned it years ago.

Said Madden in a recent interview, “He told us that he had gotten the uniform from his father,” George Romney, then the Governor of Michigan, whose security detail was staffed by uniformed troopers. “He told us that he was using it to pull over drivers on the road. He also had a red flashing light that he would attach to the top of his white Rambler.”

In Madden’s recollection, confirmed by his wife Susan, who also attended Stanford during those years, “we thought it was all pretty weird. We all thought, ‘Wow, that’s pretty creepy.’ And after that, we didn’t have much interaction with him,” although both Madden and Romney were prep school boys living in the same dorm, called Rinconada.

Other eyewitnesses have previously recalled Romney’s alleged use of a police or trooper uniform in pranks during his high school years at the exclusive Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

Phillip Maxwell, a prep school buddy, told the New Republic in 2008 that Romney had pulled over students from a girls school next door to Cranbrook while wearing a police uniform as a prank. Other former classmates described Mitt as a “happy-go-lucky guy known less for his achievements and more for his pranks.”

In The Real Romney, a biography published by Boston Globe reporters Michael Kranish and Scott Helman this year, another former friend recalled how Romney had “put a siren on top of his car and chased two of his friends who were driving around with their dates.” The two friends were in on the scheme, but the girls were not. There was beer in the car trunk, according to a prearranged plan. Mitt told his two counterparts to get out of their vehicle and into his car. Then they drove off, leaving the girls behind.

“It was a terrible thing to do,” said one of his accomplices, a Cranbrook classmate named Graham McDonald.

To some observers, Romney’s alleged masquerading as a cop to intimidate innocent drivers shows a character defect that is also revealed by other bullying incidents during his youth. When those incidents were disclosed in the Washington Post earlier this year, Romney issued an apology of sorts, stating that he had done “stupid” things and was sorry if he had harmed anyone.

While he may have believed that his cop antics were harmless, Romney may well have been breaking the law merely by donning a police uniform, committing a crime if he pretended to be a cop and a felony if he did so more than once. In both California and Michigan, any person convicted of fraudulently impersonating a police officer may be sentenced to up to one year in prison. (The National Memo has collected some other examples of police impersonators.)

The Romney campaign did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

must be nice to be the governor's son, but he did his best to stay out of a military uniform: The National Memo » Dim Mitt Impersonating A Police Officer

^ Aww, what lovely dust motes. Same source who has him fathering the child of his high school GF?
Just wondering, did lying Warren ever practise law? Thought not.
Next.

Originally Posted by barbaro

Originally Posted by S Landreth

Character is an issue,.........

When Mitt Romney was a college freshman, he told fellow residents of his Stanford University dormitory that he sometimes disguised himself as a police officer – a crime in many states, including Michigan and California, where he then lived. And he had the uniform on display as proof.

So recalls Robin Madden, who had also just arrived as a freshman, the startling incident began when Romney called him and two or three other residents into his room, saying, “Come up, I want to show you something.” When they entered Romney’s room, “and laid out on his bed was a Michigan State Trooper’s uniform.”

Madden, a native Texan who graduated from Stanford in 1970 and went on to become a successful television producer and writer, has never forgotten that strange moment, which he has recounted to friends over the years as he observed his former classmate’s political ascent. The National Memo learned of the incident from a longtime Madden friend to whom he had mentioned it years ago.

Said Madden in a recent interview, “He told us that he had gotten the uniform from his father,” George Romney, then the Governor of Michigan, whose security detail was staffed by uniformed troopers. “He told us that he was using it to pull over drivers on the road. He also had a red flashing light that he would attach to the top of his white Rambler.”

In Madden’s recollection, confirmed by his wife Susan, who also attended Stanford during those years, “we thought it was all pretty weird. We all thought, ‘Wow, that’s pretty creepy.’ And after that, we didn’t have much interaction with him,” although both Madden and Romney were prep school boys living in the same dorm, called Rinconada.

Other eyewitnesses have previously recalled Romney’s alleged use of a police or trooper uniform in pranks during his high school years at the exclusive Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

Phillip Maxwell, a prep school buddy, told the New Republic in 2008 that Romney had pulled over students from a girls school next door to Cranbrook while wearing a police uniform as a prank. Other former classmates described Mitt as a “happy-go-lucky guy known less for his achievements and more for his pranks.”

In The Real Romney, a biography published by Boston Globe reporters Michael Kranish and Scott Helman this year, another former friend recalled how Romney had “put a siren on top of his car and chased two of his friends who were driving around with their dates.” The two friends were in on the scheme, but the girls were not. There was beer in the car trunk, according to a prearranged plan. Mitt told his two counterparts to get out of their vehicle and into his car. Then they drove off, leaving the girls behind.

“It was a terrible thing to do,” said one of his accomplices, a Cranbrook classmate named Graham McDonald.

To some observers, Romney’s alleged masquerading as a cop to intimidate innocent drivers shows a character defect that is also revealed by other bullying incidents during his youth. When those incidents were disclosed in the Washington Post earlier this year, Romney issued an apology of sorts, stating that he had done “stupid” things and was sorry if he had harmed anyone.

While he may have believed that his cop antics were harmless, Romney may well have been breaking the law merely by donning a police uniform, committing a crime if he pretended to be a cop and a felony if he did so more than once. In both California and Michigan, any person convicted of fraudulently impersonating a police officer may be sentenced to up to one year in prison. (The National Memo has collected some other examples of police impersonators.)

The Romney campaign did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

must be nice to be the governor's son, but he did his best to stay out of a military uniform: The National Memo » Dim Mitt Impersonating A Police Officer

So....back in the late 1960s....if this joke is true and did happen......do you think Romney should be ineligible to run for President?

Is impersonating a police officer a crime? Yes

Should Dim MItt be punished or held accountable? Yes (as a criminal)

Will it happen? No

Why? Because he’s a privileged asshole (daddy was governor) and among the elite who think they are above the law.

^ Is that supposed to be a picture of Romney or is this just another fake memory from a "friend"? So, as it was a prank, you gonna go after Prince Harry, too, for wearing a nazi uniform to a party?

Originally Posted by S Landreth

Character is an issue,.........

Indeed it is:

Stanley Kurtz released proof that Obama had been a member of, and sought the endorsement of, the radical group in 1996--contrary to the Obama campaign's denials.

That radical group? Only the Socialist New Party.

Source

When the dust settles it'll be plain as the nose on your face who has the 'character' and who doesn't...