Romney Is Rudderless, Flailing

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Thursday September 20, 2012 · 7:29 PM PDT

2012/09/20 · 19:29

Romney's New Strategy Turns Right
“This is going to be a base election.” More God, less economy. - Posted Sep 17

First Thoughts: A more moderate Mitt returns?
A more moderate Mitt returns?…. How will conservatives react? - Sep 20

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Thursday September 20, 2012 · 5:19 PM PDT

2012/09/20 · 17:19

They're down to $6M. Didn't someone tell me Romney and his people were supposed to be financial whiz kids? The only whizzing I see going on is them pissing away the election.

The rats are jumping ship. Why throw good money after bad, right? Romney's going to lose so why would anyone donate to his PAC? Republicans are realizing their money is better spent on the congressional races.

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Thursday September 20, 2012 · 12:00 AM PDT

2012/09/20 · 00:00

The title of this diary is found in an email from EJ Dionne's conservative friend and clipped from his latest article.

The most incisive reaction to Mitt Romney's disparaging comments about 47 percent of us came from a conservative friend who emailed: "If I were you, I'd wonder why Romney hates America so much."
A bit strong, perhaps. But the more you think about what Romney said, the more you wonder how he really feels about the country he wants to lead.

What kind of nation are we if nearly half of us are lazy, self-indulgent moochers who will never be persuaded to mend our ways?

Why does Romney feel the way he does about the 47%? That's a question every American will have to answer for themselves, because we all know they aren't going to get a straight answer from Mitt, and our media isn't going to ask the questions of him they asked of Obama. Of course it's unfair, but that's how it will go down in this country. And yet, that leaves every American the freedom to decide for themselves how this happened, and what led a man like Romney to a point in his life where he could feel the way he does about fully half of this country. Read More

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Wednesday September 19, 2012 · 7:44 PM PDT

2012/09/19 · 19:44

I have to admit that I was a little confused. Over the past few weeks we've seen regional protests and violent events take place because some random loser put a pitifully amateur movie on YouTube. Some of these extremists in the Mideast have even committed murder because of it, somehow ascribing the views of this unknown, unloved idiot to the entire Hollywood establishment and the American government.

At the same time we have an amateur movie of Mitt Romney going insane viral - with a message from the next possible Leader of the Free World (in a race between only himself and one other person), in which he lays out his plans to personally crap all over the Palestinian people. And what do we hear from Muslim extremists? Crickets... for now.

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Wednesday September 19, 2012 · 2:06 AM PDT

2012/09/19 · 02:06

Mitt Romney doesn't understand what it means to honor a contract. People with the kind of money he has often don't need to. They have lawyers for that, and the people they ~~employ~~ exploit do not.

In America, Romney doesn't believe that our citizens have a right to housing, food, or a whole host of other basic human needs. He thinks Americans only earn those rights by working for an employer.

He's wrong, and his disdain for and ignorance of America's social contract with its citizens is telling. Mitt Romney is a global citizen, a jet setting member of the 1% of 1% who don't seem to think the American Dream entails holding true to the social contract all Americans have signed.

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Tuesday September 18, 2012 · 10:05 PM PDT

2012/09/18 · 22:05

How many mulligans does Mitt Romney think he's owed exactly? The pundit class seems willing to give him an infinite supply. Every time he makes it clear how out of touch and incompetent he is, the pundits call it a "process" distraction and ask for Romney to address the real issues. Like dealing with foreign leaders? "Real" presidential issues like how he views 47% of the American public (including all senior citizens)? Or "Real" presidential issues like who he'd allow to speak to the world for his administration? Or "Real" issues like his outrageous views on the Israel/Palestine situation, the root of much of the Muslim anger/radicalism in the Mideast? The reality is, Romney HAS addressed all the real issues, and America is horrified (including many Republicans).

Just how many mulligans is this guy going to take? How many times are the pundits going to try and "reintroduce" him to the American public? It's become such a clown show that I had to go to Caddyshack to make any sense of it. For the valuable lessons gleaned from my research, scroll down below the orange doily. To make a long story short, Romney IS Judge Smails - I can't believe I didn't realize it before.

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Tuesday September 18, 2012 · 3:56 PM PDT

2012/09/18 · 15:56

I'd just like to point out that the two "best" candidates the GOP had to offer us towards the end of their primary have collectively written off 100% of Americans in just the last month:

"We will never have the elite, smart people on our side" - Rick Santorum

All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it -- that that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what. ... These are people who pay no income tax. ... [M]y job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives." - Mitt Romney

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Friday September 14, 2012 · 3:12 PM PDT

2012/09/14 · 15:12

Nakoula Bassely Nakoula, bank fraudster, meth cooker, and bigoted filmmaker...

is under investigation for possible probation violations stemming from the making of an anti-Islam video that triggered violent protests against the United States in the Muslim world, U.S. officials said on Friday...

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Friday September 14, 2012 · 2:02 PM PDT

2012/09/14 · 14:02

In Romney's fake scripted attempt to talk pop culture and get women to like him (the only voting block that can save his campaign), he said he'd like Gene Hackman to play him if he's ever in a movie.

Gene Hackman is 82 years old and has retired from acting.

Mitt Romney is 65. Evidently Romney's problem with basic math and reality continues. Or maybe he just wants to go back into retirement and enjoy the money he looted from American families' pension funds.

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Friday September 14, 2012 · 11:44 AM PDT

2012/09/14 · 11:44

There's a great diary on the Rec list about Mitt Romney's refusal (or inability) to do basic math.

Here's the summary:

1. The rich will pay the same amount, lower rates and fewer deductions (gee, I'm sure they won't find ways to use the remaining deductions to lower their overall tax burden after he cuts their rates so they pay even lower taxes than their already absurdly low rates now).

2. "reduce tax burdens on middle-income people." And by "middle income" he means people earning $250,000. Note that he doesn't say ALL middle class people, like you and me, he just says "people," and by definition that can mean "some people." He also doesn't say middle class, he says middle income, which may also be important.

Now I think we understand the Mitt Romney Unicorn Math. He won't raise taxes on some "middle class" people who in his clown world earn around $250,000. The rest of us, well, it looks like we're going to pay for their tax cuts and the money he wants to send to the Pentagon.

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Thursday September 13, 2012 · 11:23 PM PDT

2012/09/13 · 23:23

GOP Elector Resigns, Says She Can't Support Romney

The defection of multiple electors would be unprecedented in the last 116 years of U.S. politics.

Melinda Wadsley of Ames, Iowa, told The Associated Press that she could not in good conscience vote for party nominee Mitt Romney. Wadsley was among three electors who had told the AP for a story published Thursday that they were exploring alternatives should Romney win their states.
"I have always been a straight ticket Republican, and for the first time in my life I am an undecided voter...

the state party's central committee would begin the process of selecting a replacement, essentially allowing the party to confirm a die-hard Romney supporter.

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Thursday September 13, 2012 · 7:51 PM PDT

2012/09/13 · 19:51

If Willard Wins, Foreign Policy Will Look Like these bumbling buffoons. Vote accordingly. (ps, the W in Willard is for W)

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