The Official Mitt Romney Thread II

[SV Fan]

Romney doesn't want a war with Iran but he can be easily bullied into taking action.

17 of his 24 foreign policy staff worked with Bush and I know they were really pushing going to war with Iran before Bush left

 

[Thundercrack85]

I can't see that happening. Not unless someone else (Iran or Israel) kicks things off.

America is tired of war as it is, and Europe isn't going to do anything on its own.

 

[SV Fan]

not sure how true this is(it's from Politco) but it's pretty funny

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81618.html?hp=l1

Paul Ryan vs. The Stench

Paul Ryan has gone rogue. He is unleashed, unchained, off the hook. “I hate to say this, but if Ryan wants to run for national office again, he’ll probably have to wash the stench of Romney off of him,” Craig Robinson, a former political director of the Republican Party of Iowa, told The New York Times on Sunday.

Coming from a resident of Iowa, a state where people are polite even to soybeans, this was a powerful condemnation of the Republican nominee. Though Ryan had already decided to distance himself from the floundering Romney campaign, he now feels totally uninhibited. Reportedly, he has been marching around his campaign bus, saying things like, “If Stench calls, take a message” and “Tell Stench I’m having finger sandwiches with Peggy Noonan and will text him later.”

 

[Smashlilman]

Everytime I see Romney on TV talking about his Campaign, It keeps remind me of the Stages of Grief short on Robot Chicken.

Robot Chicken: Quicksand

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Haha I was just about to post that article too, SV. You beat me to it! :P

It's amazing how quickly Ryan is trying to disassociate himself from the campaign. I love it when the Republicans panic and start to cannibalize their own.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

It's also amazing how many true political stories (this "stench" one, the airplane window thing, Clint Eastwood talking to a chair) seem like they were pulled right out of The Onion.

 

[Excel]

Florida: CBS/NYT/Quinnipiac Obama 53, Romney 44 Obama +9
Ohio: CBS/NYT/Quinnipiac Obama 53, Romney 43 Obama +10
Pennsylvania: CBS/NYT/Quinnipiac Obama 54, Romney 42 Obama +12


Game...set...match?

 

[Matt]

Yep. This campaign is just about over. Obama has the ball with 30 seconds left on the clock and Romney has no time outs. All that Obama has to do now is take a knee and not botch the snap. Unless Obama says something REALLY egregious in the debate or there is a crash in the market within the next month, this one is over.

The craziest part about all of this is that Obama is probably the most vulnerable president since Carter. Yet Romney just couldn't hack it.

 

[Kelly]

Yep. This campaign is just about over. Obama has the ball with 30 seconds left on the clock and Romney has no time outs. All that Obama has to do now is take a knee and not botch the snap. Unless Obama says something REALLY egregious in the debate or there is a crash in the market within the next month, this one is over.

The craziest part about all of this is that Obama is probably the most vulnerable president since Carter. Yet Romney just couldn't hack it.

He was more vunerable than Carter.....Romney's campaign has been pathetically run....my 6th grade classes could have run it better....

 

[Nitehawk013]

Not that Romney hasn't run a terrible campaign, because he clearly has, but you don't think maybe the fact that only ONE major news outlet has even attempted to make Obama accountable and hold his feet to the fire has had somethign to do with Obama surviving such vulnerability?

 

[Schlosser85]

I'm a little surprised, to be honest. I was always afraid of Romney being nominated because, while I never liked him, I thought he was the most presidential and electable GOP contender.

But seeing what he's done with it when he finally got it...he's like a parody of a candidate.

 

[Atom Ant]

17 of his 24 foreign policy staff worked with Bush and I know they were really pushing going to war with Iran before Bush left

yeah he's got the PNAC crew advising him. He has Adelson financing him. And Bibi in his ear. If he's elected we will go to war with Iran.

 

[Atom Ant]

Not that Romney hasn't run a terrible campaign, because he clearly has, but you don't think maybe the fact that only ONE major news outlet has even attempted to make Obama accountable and hold his feet to the fire has had somethign to do with Obama surviving such vulnerability?

feet to the fire over what? The more than doubling of the stock market? The 5 million jobs created/saved? bringing unemployment down from 10.2% to 8%? Saving GM? Getting Obamacare passed? Repealing DADT? Ending the war in Iraq? Killing bin Laden? All despite total opposition from the GOP?

 

[Atom Ant]

Looks like Gallup is finally coming around. 50-44 Obama
better late than never I guess.

 

[Marvolo]

not sure how true this is(it's from Politco) but it's pretty funny

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81618.html?hp=l1

If it is true it is incredibly childish. I may not approve of Romney or Ryan, but Ryan entered into a business agreement with Romney. Its his fault he didn't vet the guy more and know the type of person Romney was and the campaign he might run. To call your partner a disrespectful nickname behind his back is very sleezy imo.

 

[Atom Ant]

If it is true it is incredibly childish. I may not approve of Romney or Ryan, but Ryan entered into a business agreement with Romney. Its his fault he didn't vet the guy more and know the type of person Romney was and the campaign he might run. To call your partner a disrespectful nickname behind his back is very sleezy imo.

heh this is just like Noonan said. A rolling calamity here's another "moment" between Romney and Ryan...
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[Pink Ranger]

If it is true it is incredibly childish. I may not approve of Romney or Ryan, but Ryan entered into a business agreement with Romney. Its his fault he didn't vet the guy more and know the type of person Romney was and the campaign he might run. To call your partner a disrespectful nickname behind his back is very sleezy imo.

Lol, so this is a rare case where the vice-presidential candidate should have vetted his running mate.

 

[Kelly]

heh this is just like Noonan said. A rolling calamity here's another "moment" between Romney and Ryan...
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lol....Noonan is PISSED........she is so pissed right now, every article she rights is drenched in it.....and when you are a Republican and Noonan is PISSED, you are screwed.... : /

 

[Pink Ranger]

Obama doesn't need to say a single word from here on until the debates; just let Peggy Noonan talk for him.

 

[Pink Ranger]

I bet Rick Perry is furious right now.

"All I did was forget to name a government department, once, and that killed my nomination. And now Romney's dropping bombs left and right ..."

 

[Marvolo]

^.Lmao!

 

[Lighthouse]

not sure how true this is(it's from Politco) but it's pretty funny

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81618.html?hp=l1

The guy is now saying it's satire. That's really bad satire. Either that, or he'll have to admit he did some really shady reporting.

 

[SV Fan]

The guy is now saying it's satire. That's really bad satire. Either that, or he'll have to admit he did some really shady reporting.

I have to agree, if it was ment to be satire it should have stated it at the beginning of the article or he should have wrote an opinion piece of how the stench of Romney will hurt Ryan's political career without making it seem legit.

 

[Kelly]

Please keep the cartoons and satire to this thread....as in, the funny pics go here....

http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=351003&page=21

 

[Excel]

He was more vunerable than Carter.....Romney's campaign has been pathetically run....my 6th grade classes could have run it better....

Not that a Republican had ANY shot in2008, but mcCains campaign was equally weak. It is beyond the two candidates. The party they are representing is just too out of date with contemporary centrists and independents. Not that O and co. are their dream candidates, but they're far easier to pick than any of the current GOP members.

No bias, I wonder how much longer until the Republicans realize they simply current win with their platform. They're in a similar position to the Democrats of the late 70s and the entire 1980s. They're waiting for their Bill Clinton to come along. They need to look in the mirror; their base is simply costing them elections.

Moderate Mitt Romney, maverick John McCain...those guys would have been 10x more competent on the campaign trail if they weren't being pulled by the radicals right wingers of their party.

In politics, nothing is more popular than popularity, not even money. None of these guys they have been hyping, like Rubio or Ryan or whoever, are going to generate any real enthusiasm. They have nobody with any sort of mass appeal.

The "base", the "establishment" is entirely what is wrong with the party.