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Mitt’s Matter
Give voters something to grab at the Convention.
There’s a gray, portentous quality to the Republican National Convention this week, and not just because of the storm clouds.
There’s plenty to be hopeful about: a fresh, attractive ticket; the opportunity to make the case against President Obama; what’s sure to be a barnburner by Paul Ryan.
But that hope is mixed with dark necessity. This convention has to be good. The most cursory glance at the polling data over the past three months shows why. Barack Obama consistently leads Mitt Romney — often by margins of error, but the trend adds up. Over the weekend, Rasmussen’s Tracking poll put Obama up by two.
Romney needs not just a bounce, but a springboard out of a stagnant rut. A satisfactory speech won’t cut it. He needs to provide something tangible; something of substance for voters to grab.
Until recently, much of Romney’s strategy was to repeat at every opportunity that he wasn’t Barack Obama. It’s a fine thing to point out, of course. And Romney did offer some contrast, ticking off that he wanted to decrease the size of government and Obama wanted to grow it, he wanted to make this an American century and Obama wanted to lead from behind, and so on.
The message was: Barack Obama failed to mend the economy and my economic ideas are different than his so vote for me. Some of the sharpest arrows in the quiver, like Obamacare, went unused. The energy of the Tea Party gave way to steady-as-she-goes.
The Obama campaign responded with a relentless barrage of distractions. Look, a war on women! And tax returns! And that time Mitt Romney killed a guy’s wife! Romney kept an even keel (one of his most admirable characteristics is his managerial discipline). But the campaign shifted. The focus became Romney the gilded radical, rather than Obama the colossal failure.
But this shift also changed Obama and set the stage for Romney at the convention. It’s now obvious to everyone paying attention, save for the most Wasserman-Schultzean of delusional hacks, that the entire lofty, mawkish, hope-and-change, no-red-states-and-no-blue-states hunk of cornbread that Obama served in 2008 was a fraud. The man who was to summon our better angels now assumes us to be overcaffeinated children, staring at shiny objects as he tosses them out of a bag.
Romney’s done a fine job of keeping his poker face and attacking Obamanomics. But defining himself as non-Obama won’t be enough. Antimatter candidates don’t win. You need stuff, matter.
Obama has debased himself. Now it’s time for Romney to provide some color and definition to his campaign, and in doing so, stand above his diminutive opponent.
Instead of shouting about how much Obamacare cuts Medicare, Romney should address entitlements head-on at the convention. Use the bully pulpit to declare that the best way to destroy entitlements is do nothing. Reassure seniors that no Republican wants to disrupt coverage for anyone over the age of 55. Appeal to young voters, who will inherit tens of trillions in entitlement debt without reform. Offer to look at solutions from both sides. Make the Mediscare demagoguery look as cheap as it really is.
Democrats are shrieking that Republican policies will result in a genocide of senior citizens. But seniors favor Paul Ryan’s budget over Barack Obama’s. If Romney offers an honest, problem-solving approach to entitlements, he’ll beat the president on his own turf.
And if Romney won’t adopt all of the Tea Party’s solutions, at least embrace its spirit. Matthew Continetti recently wrote about how Paul Ryan’s natural rights rhetoric hearkens back to 1776. Republicans sometimes take a beating when they propose specific cuts to government programs, since somebody’s backyard is always being defunded. But the broad, historical, conservative idea — that the best government governs least — is always popular. A recent Fox News poll found 54% want government to “leave me alone” while 35% want Washington to “lend me a hand.”
Romney should rally the country to its first principles. He should use the convention to cast the battle between individual freedom and collectivist statism.
The selection of Paul Ryan shows he may be ready to draw this line. That he went against his cadre of lukewarm advisors — the people who drove him into the stagnant rut — is even more promising. Romney’s been called an extremist, a tax fraud, and a killer of women. It’s time to respond with an inspired, full-throated declaration of purpose. He has exactly nothing left to lose.
Whatever the weather is like in Tampa, Romney should sail into the storm. By handing voters something solid, he’ll tower above the diminished president and give everyone a reason to stand with him.
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Matt Purple is The American Spectator’s assistant managing editor.
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Albert Constantine Jr.| 8.27.12 @ 8:14AM
I'm sorry. Mr. Purple, you make an interesting point, but your nom de plume too closely resembles the troll "Purpleguy" AKA "Purp" who haunts this site for me not to view you with great suspicion.
Purp| 8.27.12 @ 8:36AM
Hi Sunshine! I guess my facts and arguments have made me a star ... hahahaha ....
Romney has a 30 point gender gap, a 40 point Latino gap and who knows what else. White men are really his only "base". But, we'll see how they react to WAR in IRAN, when we're broke.
Anyway, we'll see if Mitt the Twit can make the sale. So far, he hasn't shown himself that good at doing it. If he's overshadowed by anyone of the other, more dynamic speakers, he's history.
TeaPartyNow| 8.27.12 @ 9:22AM
That Von Mises Brains is a real malcontent. Don't let it bother you, those kind can't be anything but miserable. I appreciate you, and I know that you are for obama because you believe in what I consider the most horrific despotism over us ever, the nanny state. I love to see how the other half lives, and you are the best. I was on breitbarts first site, this one today is the third, after his death. But I've seen the left on these boards. You rock. If not for people like you, nothing would ever get talked about in a way that is taken seriously. Von Malcontent Missing Brains will be miserable no matter what. So worry not our little democrat friend, and watch our convention if you want a good laugh. Romney is going to shoot through the tubes after it. They can beg him to be good, but it aint gonna happen baby. Sorry right, Romney no can do.
You are the best, and give Mises the point a smack for me sometime.
Von Mises Jr| 8.27.12 @ 9:52AM
Is that you Perp? Or is it one of your OWS buddies coming up from under the desk to tap on his keyboard?
Purp| 8.27.12 @ 10:57AM
Nope
Von Mises Jr| 8.27.12 @ 11:11AM
Were you under the desk?
Purp| 8.27.12 @ 10:57AM
We all have plenty of choice, get a gun or don't get a gun. Use contraception, don't use contraception. No one enjoys or wants an abortion, but you can have one if you need. Worship or don't worship.
Otherwise, I like you comment.
The "Nanny State" is a misnomer, borne of the misconception that if it's there, everyone will become dependent. That is the myth. For those who NEED it, help is available.
Most Americans are proud and happy to make it on their own, but enjoy the security of knowing a helping hand is available if needed. It's like having a good neighbor, when you need them.
It's the same kind of misnomer that Republicans are the "Daddy Party" ... but they couldn't even capture or kill Bin Laden in 8 years. If that's Daddy I want a new one.
CJW| 8.27.12 @ 3:39PM
Purpie
You are a star here in that we use your name as an adjective for lefty comments, as in "purp-like" .
Such as the 716 Billion Dollar Heist from Medicare to pay for Obamacare.
Or Romney's 20% marginal tax rate cut means that the 0% rate rises to 8% because the 10% rate dropped to 8%.
Explain:
1. Michele's raise from $100,000 to $350,000 as a lawyer for a Chicago hospital that Obama requested a million dollar earmark. Her job was eliminated in Jan 2009.
2. Obama not sharing his wealth with his Kenya relatiaves living in poverty. Where's the compassion, only with taxpayers' money?
3. Obama giving 500 million to Solyndra, his campaign contributors.
4. Felon Rezko paying partially for Obama's $1,7000,000 house:
"Obama also involved Rezko in a house deal after he was elected to the U.S. Senate, a move he later called “a boneheaded mistake,” according to a 2008 report in ABC News.
Obama wanted to purchase a home that the seller had a specific condition on: the adjacent empty lot to the house had to be purchased at the same time, ABC News reported. In the house deal, Rezko’s wife paid the full asking price for that parcel, $625,000.
Obama shelled out $300,000 under the house’s asking price, paying $1.65 million, according to ABC News. Obama then purchased a part of Rezko’s lot for $104,500."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/s.....z24mBPUTrS
Von Mises Jr| 8.27.12 @ 8:55AM
Albert, Perp is a loser MoveOn propagandist trained in Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals." But two can play the game. Do not argue with someone ignorant or evil enough to live the existence he does.
Remember Rule # four: "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon." And use Rule # thirteen early and often: "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."
Everyone but D'Redful Communist and "little" Alan Brooks that reads these comments thinks Perp is a POS. There is no reason to have a debate with a POS.
Let me also say, Albert, that I read many of your posts. You are not only lucid and intelligent, but a heck of a nice gentleman.
Alan Obama Fan Brooks | 8.27.12 @ 10:18AM
"Remember Rule # four: "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon." And use Rule # thirteen early and often: "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."
You know because those are your own methods as well.
Von Mises Jr| 8.27.12 @ 10:40AM
When the leader of the movement tells you he brings a gun to a knife fight, you don't come with a knife.
Before I read "Rules for Radicals" and "Rules for Revolution," I read "The Art of War," "The Prince" and "The Coming Resurection," as well as half dozen books on earlier revolutions. Have you?
Perhaps you should do your homework?
Alan Obama Fan Brooks | 8.27.12 @ 11:17AM
So you run crummy candidates for 24 years and fantasize about war and prince and resurrection?
Von Mises Jr| 8.27.12 @ 1:01PM
You dream of Perp
TeaPartyNow| 8.27.12 @ 3:25PM
The right has to use hate as a means to get elected. Romney/Ryan can't run on their records, because everyone who supports Romney/Ryan today would vote for obama if they knew the truth. But they are just telling the truth about obama, in their ignorant & shallow minds. Not sheltering their far worse candidates from being talked about.
And hey, how about that Boehner Congress America? The republican congress raised spending, and cut nothing. Mitt Romney just called Obama last week and asked him not to cut spending. The right is a party of dupes.
Von Mises Jr| 8.27.12 @ 6:58PM
Notice how one trol answers for the other. There may only be one troll with ten names.
aware| 8.28.12 @ 6:08AM
Yeah, speaking of names, why does an obvious statist pick the one you use? Von Bismarck fits you better.
Tom Kyba| 8.27.12 @ 12:14PM
Oooh you tried to turn it back on him. Wow, your penetrating insight changes everything.
Purp| 8.27.12 @ 11:03AM
Never read anything by Alinsky or been "trained" by anyone. But you sure sound like you've mastered something about it.
Just because I can counter your theoretical mumbo jumbo - which, I might add, has never been implemented anywhere - with facts and figures to refute your theories, is no reason to call me a POS. But that says more about you than me.
I can make up my own mind ... I know the Republican Party - I was Republican leaning earlier. But they have strayed so far to the right they are far too extreme now. "Legitimate" or "Forcible" Rape is just one example of appalling thinking in their ranks. VoucherCare to replace Medicare is another ideological horror.
Have a nice day, VM
Von Mises Jr| 8.27.12 @ 11:12AM
troll alert
Drunken Sailor| 8.27.12 @ 11:18AM
"I was Republican leaning earlier"
That ranks right up there with some of the biggest lies you have ever told.
Tom Kyba| 8.27.12 @ 12:15PM
In order for you to call him a liar, doesn't he have to have told the truth at some point?
Drunken Sailor| 8.27.12 @ 12:39PM
You may have a point.
C. Vernon Crisler | 8.27.12 @ 9:08AM
I know several of us warned Republicans that nominating Mitt was a mistake. We are seeing the signs now of what a Mitt Romney administration would look like: the Tea Party will only be allowed through the back door of the White House. Sarah, Rush, and other leading conservatives are nowhere to be found except on the outside looking in.
What we see now from Mitt is timidity rather than Reaganesque boldness. But that's who Republicans nominated: a timid moderate. And now they have to live with it.
TLP| 8.27.12 @ 3:20PM
So, what do ya wanna do jackass? What do you want him to say, that he hasn't already said? What do YOU, one of the Stupidest Posters on this, or any Site, want him to do, short of putting a Pistol in the Muslim's Mouth and Pulling the Trigger?
What's your Great Omnipotent Plan?
If we need a guy to go out there, like Rambo, or Juggle Swords while quoting Shakespeare, to beat this guy, after his 4 Years of Total Destruction of The United States of America, its Economy, its Military, its Position in the World as its only Super Power, its Constituional form of Co-Equal Branches of Government, and as the World's last best hope for Freedom, Liberty, and a chance at a Better Life?
Then it's already over, and everybody needs to go out and Arm Themselves for the coming Apocalypse.
Quit you're BITCHIN go out and Vote, and Save the Country.
Nothing you're complaining about, EVERY DAY, is helping anybody.
Stop crying like a Woman.
Stand up on your hind legs, like a Man, and Vote for the guy Not Named, after Mohammed's Horse.
Idiot.
C. Vernon Crisler | 8.27.12 @ 4:48PM
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TeaPartyNow| 8.27.12 @ 9:11AM
The right has been pandering, to the biggest panderer they've ever had all along, and so here we go again. You all sit around and beg for romney to do something that you know that he can not do, and that is be a conservative. Romney is a liberal.
The reason he is behind obama is because he is not better than obama, he is worse. And he has zero understanding of why America is really in decline. It's not that he can't say it out loud, it's that Mitt Romney doesn't believe in conservatism. I plan on watching on youtube, as I have no tv. But I also plan on seeing exactly how bad he is. I will vote for obama, and I have only voted for one democrat before ever in my life.
Mitt Romney is the new low of the rights spineless pandering, begging for votes by being all out pathetic. We conservatives are not blind. And some, like myself are not silent.
Face it right, you've lost the 2012 race, by refusing to grow a spine. Money talked & the right got scre--d/ but oh, how about that Boehner congress, huh? Raising spending after 2010, instead of cutting back. SSDD with these spineless wonders. My man speaks last.
Drunken Sailor| 8.27.12 @ 10:05AM
Troll Alert
Albert Constantine Jr.| 8.27.12 @ 11:14AM
From reading the posts here and elsewhere on today's threads, my guess is "Anna K. from Emory U" is now "TeaPartyNow".
Drunken Sailor| 8.27.12 @ 11:20AM
Al,
I do believe you may be right. I knew it sounded familiar, just couldn't put my finger on it. They do have the same stench about them.
Nice catch.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 8.27.12 @ 5:15PM
Up until the point where she said she was voting for obama, I thought maybe Margie, but in the past she was more strident and consistent than TPN, who seems to be all over the place today.
JimP| 8.27.12 @ 9:55AM
I was not a Romney supporter during the primaries. Therefore, I submit that I have legitimate bona fides when it comes to judging Romney's campaigning so far and my opinion is that the author is way too pessimistic. They have a nice tall bridge down in Tampa/St. Pete from which Mr. Purple may take a flying leap since he's so pessimistic. Rasmussen is the only poll that I take seriously. However, what the pessimists never consider in these columns I keep reading that have the same tone as this one is the polls on the economy and the Wilder/Bradley effect on the polling. I would like to see Romney doing more advertising, but he's not allowed to spend all his cash until after the convention from what I heard, voters aren't really paying attention yet either according to analyses going back decades. So why is anyone hitting the panic button at this point? Also, don't forget history. Since the end of WWII the President with the bad economy lost his reelection bid every time. If my recollection of history is wrong, then someone correct me. [Also, please don't cite FDR. IMO, he is the exception to the 'rule'. That's why I left him out.]
Purp| 8.27.12 @ 11:07AM
Beg to differ on your last line... the economy facing FDR is much more like 2008 for Obama than any previous post-WWII recession. That is why is so slow going, not helped by Republican obstructionism, of course, but far more serious than anything Reagan or the Bush twins faced.
Why else would the President be doing so well - Americans understand what he faced, what he's done, what worked, what didn't, who stood in the way, and there's nothing but Bush policies on the Mitt the Twit prescription and more gloom and doom ahead. It's clear who will win. Even McCain got a bounce from his convention and Sarah "I can see Russia from my House" Palin.
JimP| 8.27.12 @ 12:05PM
Nonsense, Purp. You are pretty boring even for a propagandist. Love those ad hominem rationales for why I am mistaken. Very persuasive. /s
C. Vernon Crisler | 8.27.12 @ 12:27PM
Once again, Sarah did not say that. In addition, the Depression lasted for years under Roosevelt but the dolts kept voting him into office. I'm afraid the same thing might happen again: people just don't seem to understand the relation between socialist policies and unemployment.
JimP| 8.27.12 @ 12:53PM
Vern:
Respectfully, you are too pessimistic, IMO. Historical evidence, including FDR's reign of economic incompetence, shows that in the last twenty Presidential elections the POTUS with the bad economy is defeated the great majority of the time. In every case EXCEPT FDR. Since the end of WWII (1945- which is 67 years ago- added this just for emphasis. I don't assume you are unaware of this info.) the POTUS with the bad economy has lost 100% of the time. Voters are no less ignorant, lazy or stupid now than then from my reading of electoral history. I take nothing for granted, but I do not let my 'worries' get the better of me. If Obama were doing well in the minds of voters then the polling regarding the economy etc would not show him doing really badly in these polls. The only polling that indicates Obama is even doing OK is in the head to head polling with Romney. Purp, and other dopes like him, think this shows Obama is doing well. Not so. He's the POTUS and he's UNDER 50% in the 'whom would you choose' polls. Historically the POTUS receives the percentage of the vote that he was getting in these polls running up to the election. Therefore, Obama is looking at getting about 45% of the vote in November. This makes him the LOSER (emphasis added for Purp's benefit), no matter what clowns like Purp want to think. I hope this will help lessen your concerns.
Best regards,
JimP
Purp| 8.27.12 @ 2:42PM
Nonsense. We have 2 conventions and 3 debates on which the election will most likely turn.
People don't like change, and especially when it looks risky to make the change. Whether the last 4 years were great or not, stay the course is tough to beat, when all you have to offer is tax cuts for the rich, no deficit reductions and destroying Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security in the process. Not to mention War with Iran and Syria.
Have a nice day with your prognostications.
JimP| 8.27.12 @ 3:06PM
Purp, you crack me up. The DNC is really wasting its money paying you to write these comments. Not only are they completely bogus, they are the same old nostrums that have been put forth for all the other loser Democrat candidates in the past. It is YOUR candidate that looks risky. Staying the "course" when the course has proven to not work prompts American voters to change, except of course for your incompetent failed president FDR. Back then however people were even less sophisticated/more ignorant than now. Staying the course looks extremely risky when the 'course' involves NO JOBS, INFLATION, GAS AT $4.00/GAL, ROBBING MEDICARE TO PAY FOR OBAMACARE, NO GROWTH IN THE ECONOMY, NATIONAL DEBT INCREASING AT AN EXPONENTIAL PACE etc. Obama got everything HE and the Dems wanted for two full years and NONE of it worked. Reagan's tax cuts for the rich, by contrast, began to work the day they went into effect. As for not reducing the deficit, Obama and the Dems haven't reduced the deficit either. They've expanded it exponentially. Are you sure that is an argument you want to make?
Ah well. Good luck with YOUR prognostications.
CJW| 8.27.12 @ 3:43PM
JimP
At best they are paying $10 per hour, regardless of the number of names he uses, so you get what you pay for, which here is not much. But purpie serves a useful Purpose, he posts the same old nostrums, as you say, for us to mock, ridicule, and laugh at. This is the best the lefties can do.
JimP| 8.27.12 @ 3:47PM
CJW:
Touche!
Drunken Sailor| 8.27.12 @ 4:03PM
My, my, how purp has changed his tune. Same song and dance, just different music. Hey purp, your favorite site has had Obama steadily losing ground since 08/13. RCP had him at 4.0 advantage back then, now it's down to 1.1 and the convention hasn't even started.
And my, my, look at the battle ground states and see those blue arrows were he is losing there as well.
People vote their pocket books and your guy has hurt theirs.
fmm| 8.27.12 @ 10:45AM
Looks like you have not been following the political news since Romney has done all the above which you say he still has to do. You obviously want to keep some sort of negative thoughts flowing on Romney instead of pointing out all the positives. Try writing on a topic you know something about instead of being a troll.
Mike G| 8.27.12 @ 10:49AM
Personally, I think the biggest splash the Repubs could make this week is to have Artur Davis introduce Mitt, and then have Mitt explain how his policies will differ from Obama's.
Al Adab| 8.27.12 @ 12:28PM
We know why to vote against Obama. But, aside from his demonstrated competence, what does Romney offer to motivate us to vote FOR him? Where is the energy, where the forward vision to capture the attention of the voters? That is what is lacking and while Ryan helps, he alone is not enough.
TLP| 8.27.12 @ 3:26PM
HE'S NOT THE MUSLIM!
That's good enough for me.
And, it should be good enough for you, as well.
This isn't that Complicated.
DON'T THINK!
Do.
TeaPartyNow| 8.27.12 @ 3:53PM
You won't find it in Romney/Ryan. Romney is for the status quo. He is a social liberal, and pro-nanny state, he just doesn't say it. Because liberals know he's liberal, and the right is too hard up to care.
Romney will never inspire anyone. His vision is that of money, not peoples lives. He is the staus quo with a few more parasites on top, is all that he is, if you minus the spin from the right wing medias. The right, or Romney, or some idiot in charge thinks that Romney can win because he doesn't fight. He is $$$, and that is cold. And at a time like this, the right couldn't have done much worse for Americas future, than Romney/Ryan.
Notary Sojac| 8.27.12 @ 12:41PM
All during the primaries we were told by the conservative press to drop Perry, Newt, and Santorum. We were exhorted to get behind Mitt, who was electable because he had "the money" and "the organization". Not to mention his executive-style hair.
Now the same conservative pundits are feigning shock that there's no meat in their McRomney sandwich.
Surprise, surprise....
TLP| 8.27.12 @ 3:27PM
They're not Conservatives.
They're Establishment.
There's a HUGE Difference.
Ken (Old Texican)| 8.27.12 @ 3:07PM
Hey guys,
we got a retty good candidate, all your bitching aside..........SHOVE IT UP YOUR A**
He is a clean decent man...home run!
He is a SERIOUS investor...and he has invested SIX YEARS simply in order to serve the country.
His only remaining message to get across...
"I don't want to "manage the country. I want to SERVE each one of you Americans."
"I will do so with confidence, and a strong dose of humility."
TLP| 8.27.12 @ 3:28PM
Thank You.
I was starting to think I was all alone, out here.
TeaPartyNow| 8.27.12 @ 3:37PM
Mitt Romney is far too arrogant to ever say such words. He would involuntarily vomit. He does not care about the American People. Remember Ann during the primaries? She said "but only if you can fix it" and Mittens says "I can fix it". You see, in their arrogant minds, the people are nothing. We the People are merely subjects to be ruled over by the great fixer Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney will never serve the American People. He works for himself and his rich crony capitalist friends.
David| 8.27.12 @ 3:08PM
Romney ought to be far ahead now. But he is not and the reasons he is not is because those that were posted on this site by so many during the primaries.
In short, Romney does not draw a sharp contrast with Bam Bam.
Romneycare = Obamacare - I don't care how much anyone tries to make FINE distinctions between the two. The average voter doesn't buy there is a significant difference, and neither do I.
Romney's flip-flops during the almost 8 years he has been running for prez make people suspicious of him.
People are suspicious of him when he won't weigh in on the chikfilA matter, which was a big win for social conservatives, BUT immediately comes out and calls for Akin to leave the race. Romney cannot be trusted - but he can be moreso than the Boy.
He cannot connect with blue collar workers.
You RINO's picked another loser. If Romney loses, national healthcare, and hundreds of liberal federal judges serving for life will be around your necks, AND I hope you all hang to death for what you have done to generations of Americans.
TeaPartyNow| 8.27.12 @ 3:43PM
I'm with you baby. I have been writing to Mark Levin for years now, I am sure that he has thousands of e-mails from me. I was on the first breitbart site, and the second, as one of the biggest players, the voice of conservatism. I don't like the third breitbart site after his death. But I was with Santorum from day one, and wrote to him daily during the campaign. These people here call me a troll because they don't know who I am. I've changed my name because they hate me so much here. On breitbarts' second site, we hated Romney. Romney has always been the dirtbag, and we called him. But since he's the nominee, conservative gave up & quit talking about it.
But I'm with you, soon the idiots who support romney on the right will realize that they are making the biggest mistake of their lives. Today they don't care what he is, tomorrow, they'll go to hell for going along with the rights turn into full on liberalism.
TLP| 8.27.12 @ 3:46PM
The reason that Romney is not lapping this Piece of Sh*t, is because the Media us Covering for him.
When's the last time you saw a BODY COUNT on the Evening News, like you saw EVERY NIGHT, when George Bush was in Office?
When's the last time you heard a Story on Gas Prices, Foreclosures, Homelessness, or the Number of Americans living At, or Below, the Poverty Line?
Did you hear about the Marine who was ABDUCTED from his home, and put in to a Psychiatric Facility, against his will, and without a WARRANT, for 30 Days?
When was the last time you heard about the Hundreds of Thousands of Gulf Coast Jobs that were Lost, because of The Muslim's Illegal Drilling Moratorium?
When's the last time you heard a Story on his Gun Running to Mexican Drug Cartels, in an effort to Gin Up Support for the Liberal's Holy Grail of a Citizenry, unable to Protect itself from an Opressive Government.
Did you know that he is in the Process of sending all of the Taliban Leaders, at GITMO, back to Afghanistan, so they can rejoin the fight against OUR TROOPS, because Karzai says that they Promise to be good?
Of course you didn't.
STFU David, and save the world.
Vote against The Muslim.
It's just that simple.
Idiot.
TeaPartyNow| 8.27.12 @ 4:04PM
I miss when the media was all negative about life in America. I remember before Obama got in, Seattle had a huge problem with homeless people. But after, they have vanished. The media was all dramatizing fires, and trying everything that they could to get us all to panic about global warming. Now, nothing. But I miss that they could tell a story without slobbering all over how wonderful everything is now. But that is beside the fact that Romney would cause America a greater decline than if we just keep O. The truth will come out. If the right wanted to win, they should have got A) A conservative, & B) someone with a way to swing America far right with fight for infinite truths, like as John Locke & our founders knew.
This guy Romney is an visionless idiot, who won't fight, and a far left extremist if you look at his record and most of his rhetoric. Problem is the people on the right, yourself included are TOO HARD UP TO CARE!
Drunken Sailor| 8.27.12 @ 5:03PM
Troll,
and a pathetic one at that.
aware| 8.27.12 @ 5:37PM
"Save the world"? With Romney? Put down the hopium pipe, you have detached from reality.
Call me an idiot but Romney will make you supporting him harder and harder as time goes by. Seen who he wants in his cabinet yet? You'll love it.
CJW| 8.27.12 @ 6:54PM
I will oblige, you are an idiot if you cannot distinguish between Romney and Obama, the only two choices.
aware| 8.27.12 @ 7:20PM
Sure I can. One's a chocolate Goldman puppet and the other is a vanilla Goldman puppet. Either way, the bankers will be, not only safe, but very well paid. With your money, dumbass.
If you think you have "choices" you're worse than an idiot. I notice no "conservative" at the top. Again. Like for the last 25 years.
Yeah that's winning, huh? Look, either way you and the rest of the "Vote for Romney cause he ain't Obama" crowd can't help but end up looking like fools, cause if he wins you'll have to defend every big government lunge he makes.
His lunges might not be as huge as Obama, but they'll be way bigger than Bush. Watch and see. You catspaws aren't thinking past the election. The Leviathan is in no danger for the foreseeable future.
That's assuming we even get to an election. Even a farce of one like this.
CJW| 8.27.12 @ 8:35PM
Again, you are an idiot.
Aren't you the one who cries every day here that Padilla, the shoe bomber, was not given a donut and hot chocolate when he was questioned, but you have never expressed any sympathy for the Americans killed by Padilla and his terrorrist scum buddies?
Anyone who feels sorry for terrorrists but not Americans killed by terrorrists is an idiot, like you, who cannot distinguish. Get lost.
aware| 8.28.12 @ 5:20AM
You are even worse than worse than an idiot. Deflection is an admission that you are intellectually and morally bankrupt. I defy you to find a single post by me about Padilla.
I'm the one always telling you neo cons what pieces of crap you are. Just go back to shilling for a banker stooge. The vanilla one.
David| 8.27.12 @ 4:26PM
TLP, I didn't say I wasn't going to vote for him. The point is that Romney can't excite the base, he can't attract blue collar workers, and he can't make a sharp contrast with Bam Bam.
We all know the MSM is a big part of the problem. It was pointed out over and over that Romney would be painted by the MSM as the out-of-touch rich guy, who put Romney care in place, and who cannot relate to the average person.
It was also pointed out that despite the rise in alternative media, ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, and CNN's nightly viewership dwarfs Fox. Many older voters (AND THEY DO VOTE) do not have computers with Internet and many do not have cable.
TLP, if you were not a Romney supporter, then my comments were not directed at you. They were directed as the scum establishment repubs who keep telling us that the guy who has been running for prez for 7 years at the time of the primaries and could not get over 40% by outspending his opponents by astronomical amounts and destroyed the true conservatives in the race with false accustations was somehow the answer.
Now, with all the shit Bam Bam has done since day one, why can't Romney destroy him like he did to the conservatives?
The same people tell us that it is about fiscal issues and not social issues - to not discuss them.
I will say again, we are in this financial mess precisely because of the moral rot in this country - half the f_cking people walk around with their hands out.
TLP| 8.28.12 @ 9:29AM
This constant COMPLAINING doesn't help.
Capiche?
It's time to Circle the MFing Wagons.
I don't care if he picks his nose and eats it.
See what the Muslim has done, in less than 4 Years.
If you still need to be Energized, then there's something wrong with you.
And, that goes for everybody else with a Bug Up Their Ass.
It is, what it is.
Period.
Ken (Old Texican)| 8.27.12 @ 5:56PM
I have contributed to Romney's campaign until it hurts.
I have sent emails to the THOUSANDS on my contacts list to get themselves and their deadbeat brother in law out on election days.
I will keep sending begging emais.
aware| 8.27.12 @ 7:38PM
Good. I hope you end up broke. I hope Obama's marginally talented "star contributors" end up broke too. I hope anybody that contributes to any politician ends up broke.
Politicians end up getting all the "contributions" they want from you whether you like them or not. It's called progressive income tax. And about 400 other kinds of taxes, fines, and penalties.
Isn't that enough? I will never understand people giving politicians money voluntarily. It's like taking the mugger to your bank so he can have your savings after he takes your wallet. At least they have to put the gun to my head. Extortion/protection rackets depend on people just like you.