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Longtime Obama political honcho Bill Burton, now head of a main pro-Obama super-PAC, has the single sickest, vilest, most reprehensible ad since the NAACP blamed G.W. Bush for the truck-dragging deaths of a Texas black man. The ad effectively blames Romney for the cancer death of the wife of a former worker at a Bain Capital-rescued steel mill that later closed down.
Perhaps somebody should punch Burton in the nose. And then spit in his face. Or, at least, that would be the moral equivalent of what Burton has done to Romney. If Obama doesn’t disavow the ad, and soon, he should be held to account for it — not because he authorized it, but because it so violates the tone that he repeatedly promised that he must weigh in to rebuke his own close associate, if he is to maintain any pose of basic human decency.
Apart from decency, the ad is ludicrous on its face. Not only does it blame Romney for a plant closure that happened after he left Bain — one that happened as the entire steel industry was taking it on the chin, several years after Bain SAVED all the jobs there by helping provide funds to keep it afloat — but the man’s wife died another five years after the closure, in 2006 — after being diagnosed with cancer only 22 days earlier.
So we have an illness that turned deadely blamed on lack of insurance, blamed on a plant closure five years earlier, blamed on a director of Bain who had left Bain two years earlier even than that, assessed blame for investments that probably extended the man’s job at the plant for several years longer than he otherwise would have had it.
Sick. Sick. Sick. Depraved. Unconscionable. Disgusting. The work of a depraved, despicably immoral thug.
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Crassus| 8.7.12 @ 1:41PM
If Romney won't fight why should Obama disavow?
Libertyinfinite| 8.7.12 @ 3:18PM
America will only get worse until the American People trow off the republican & the democrat parties & form a Tea Party to fight for conservative values. Thing is, waiting any longer will make it to late. We need to rise now, if we are to have any hope of regaining freedom.
After four years of romney or obama, we will all be beaten in one fashion or another. I say rise today Tea Party or, admit that America is gone.
DarkMan| 8.8.12 @ 7:32AM
The Obama campaign is hiring Nigerian online scam artists to post on internet media. Example #1
Libertyinfinite| 8.7.12 @ 1:47PM
Mitt Romney is sicker than anyone on the left. & of course this is going to be an ugly fight. No one in America likes either of these guys, everyone will either vote against romney or against obama.
Mitt Romney has just promised never to fight for conservative values in America. His tax reform plans give money to people making over 1 million a year & take from people making less than 200 thou. Romney is a maggot, he is feeding off of the dying of America. & now he has said that he will never fight for conservative values.
The above is ugly, but it will only get worse because Romney, an avowed social liberal now, can only go negative. Romney will never been seen by a majority of Americans as better than obama, because in reality Mitt Romney is worse than obama.
Mitt Romney is what it looks like when the right becomes so desperate, so hard up, that it sells it's soul to satan, just to die a quicker death.
The right isn't any better than the left anymore with Romney. We need a Tea Party now, not next time. If we keep Romney, there won't be a next time.
fmm| 8.7.12 @ 2:35PM
lol
Trinacria| 8.7.12 @ 3:08PM
It is lamentable that so few recognize the fact that inherent in the first amendment is it's converse; namely, the right not to speak, particularly when doing so betrays a marginal intellect. Perhaps Mr. Liberty might profitably consider the merits of exercising this lesser known (and under utilized) right.
spike59| 8.7.12 @ 3:22PM
"Mitt Romney...blah blah blah..won't be a next time"
allow me to edit your post down to its essentials:
"I am a troll"
note the economy of words-you're welcome
Tom Kyba| 8.7.12 @ 2:08PM
Quin, your last paragraph should be definition no.1 beside the word liberal in the dictionary.
Libertyinfinite, your Romney description is overdoing it by several orders of magnitude. You will probably have ample opportunity to verify your opinion after the new year. Unfortunately, Romney will probably turn out to be rather less than "sicker than any liberal" and you will nit-pick everything he does in a desperate need to feel vindicated. This will align you with the liberals you supposedly dislike. Good luck with that.
Mimi | 8.7.12 @ 2:23PM
Tom....Libertyinfinite is LIBERALINFINITE...He is a TROLL ! His downright bashing of Mitt is nerve-racking...He gives himself away its so harsh!
Libertyinfinite| 8.7.12 @ 2:37PM
I guess you like it too, when Romney promises never to fight for conservative values? Nit picking? I am female, & you didn't comprehend what just happened.
Trinacria| 8.7.12 @ 3:24PM
By way of clarification, Mr. Romney made no such promise. He did, however, do precisely what a serious and disciplined candidate for the presidency should do. He recognized that in order to wield power one must first gain power; this cannot be achieved by taking the bait on issues that do not resonate with the 10% of the electorate who remain undecided.
You want a true conservative candidate? Good - when a viable one comes along, I'll jump on board with you to support him/her. At present, however, we don't have one, so your persistent bitching serves rather little purpose. You have a choice between horribly shitty and less shitty. Pick one and shut up. Me? I'll take less shitty, thank you.
Libertyinfinite| 8.7.12 @ 3:41PM
Yes, he promised never to comment on social issues in America. That is a promise from Mitt Romney never to fight for conservative values. He did it personally & with a great deal of arrogance. The story was on newsmax, & they also had video of him refusing to comment on chick-fil-a & the michelle bachmann comment.
I don't believe that a liberal right is better than a liberal left right now.
& I am working to get a conservative Tea Party ticket this year because I believe that the longer that we hold on to republicans, the worse it will be for everything.
We need to let the republican party go before anything can get better. I am sorry that I feel this urgency. But if we had a conservative choice, I believe that the vast majority of Americans today would be there fighting for him or her. For someone fight for the American People.
& I'm sorry if you don't appreciate someone who objects to what Mitt Romney just did but I am not alone. Many left him for that. But he is adamant that he will never stand up for conservative.
Levin said a word about it. But no good can come until we throw off the republican party & affiliate us.
Trinacria| 8.7.12 @ 5:23PM
Once again, you rather missed the point. I didn't say that I don't appreciate those who feel that social issues are important; on the contrary, I simply pointed out the strategic futility of taking the bait and allowing others to frame the debate in terms that will adversely affect his ability to appeal to the 10% of voters who remain undecided. To be clear, they are emphatically NOT undecided because they're waiting to see who is more conservative on social issues; to suggest otherwise is simply absurd.
I suppose my beef with your position comes down to this: it's not really a position. You're bitching about your choices, but you don't have a credible alternative. "Throw over the Republican Party" and "Support an unnamed Tea Party candidate" are no more viable plans (and no less vacuous themes) than "hope and change". Won't happen. Can't happen. Not at this stage of the process.
If in the end you're willing to accept the disasterous social, economic, and national security consequences of a second Obama term because you're pissed that Mr. Romney chose not do battle on an issue that has no upside (remember, the goal of elections is to WIN them), that's your choice. But then again, it does strike one as ironic that in your haste to spite the candidate who doesn't explicitly support your social positions, you will be complicit in the election of a candidate who publicly rejects them. Again, your call - but don't bitch about the consequences...
spike59| 8.8.12 @ 6:21AM
no actually, he never 'promised to comment on social issues in America', regardless of what the voices in your head are telling you
spike59| 8.8.12 @ 6:22AM
correction 'promised never to comment...'
it appears that i was distracted by the screeching of the voices in your head; fix that leak, would you?
Libertyinfinite| 8.7.12 @ 2:44PM
Word from the American People today is they know that Romney will stab them in the back but they think that they can take on the whole culturally marxist nanny state society nation & change it out to a nation of people who work to keep freedom real, alone.
& good luck with that. Many people understand that Romney will destroy everything that conservatives care for. That they have mostly dropped out in disgust & non objectors like yourself are left doesn't really matter to me.
I know that with compliance such as is in those who are left, this nation will never rise to the height of civil rebellion that it would need to truly change anything.
Freedom is work. People like you who tell us all to sit down, shut up & take what despotic left & right leaders are feeding us are on the way out. Unfortunately because of people like you, America is too far gone. The American People are not stupid enough to think that a liberal right is better than obama.
Trinacria| 8.7.12 @ 3:32PM
It is profoundly remarkable that anyone could underestimate the stupidity of an electorate who enthusiastically embraced a candidate for the highest office of the land on the basis of nothing more than the utterly vacuous and platitudinous promise of "hope" and "change". No experience, no substance, no record of even the most pedestrian achievement; only the nebulous promise of hope that things will change.
No, my friend, Americans ARE stupid. Profoundly so. That's why we're in this mess...
Libertyinfinite| 8.7.12 @ 3:47PM
& are trying to fix it with someone even worse because he has money & friends on Wall Street. The American People live almost wholly in the dark today, it is true. We learn only what our oppressive medias, schools, entertainment industries, & marxist culturalism throws at us.
The American People know as much about Mitt Romney as they did about obama because the right is as bad as the left now. I believe that the right still has better intentions, but zero functionability.
America will only get worse until the people throw off both parties, & really change this nation. As long as we hold on to people like Mitt Romney, things can only get worse.
We do live in the dark. & are wholly powerless now. We won't gain anything until we affiliate a Tea Party ticket.
Trinacria| 8.7.12 @ 5:22PM
Once again, you rather missed the point. I didn't say that I don't appreciate those who feel that social issues are important; on the contrary, I simply pointed out the strategic futility of taking the bait and allowing others to frame the debate in terms that will adversely affect his ability to appeal to the 10% of voters who remain undecided. To be clear, they are emphatically NOT undecided because they're waiting to see who is more conservative on social issues; to suggest otherwise is simply absurd.
I suppose my beef with your position comes down to this: it's not really a position. You're bitching about your choices, but you don't have a credible alternative. "Throw over the Republican Party" and "Support an unnamed Tea Party candidate" are no more viable plans (and no less vacuous themes) than "hope and change". Won't happen. Can't happen. Not at this stage of the process.
If in the end you're willing to accept the disasterous social, economic, and national security consequences of a second Obama term because you're pissed that Mr. Romney chose not do battle on an issue that has no upside (remember, the goal of elections is to WIN them), that's your choice. But then again, it does strike one as ironic that in your haste to spite the candidate who doesn't explicitly support your social positions, you will be complicit in the election of a candidate who publicly rejects them. Again, your call - but don't bitch about the consequences...
Butch| 8.7.12 @ 3:31PM
I am already skipping over his (her?) posts. Took me a while to figure out that she/he/it is just another troll, albeit one with a different approach: trojan horse versus blatant. Looks like the Obama types have given up on changing anybody's mind; this one is just trying to discourage (something: turnout?) from a perspective toward which you are not automatically repulsed. However, the content gets increasingly simple anti-Romney in every way. Recommend total ignore for this one.
Libertyinfinite| 8.7.12 @ 3:51PM
America can only get worse until the American people throw off both the democrat & the republican parties & work to change the direction by affiliating the Tea Party. I get that you feel like there is no other choice but Romney. But we can't all sit down & shut up as well as you can when liberals take over our party.
RJ| 8.7.12 @ 2:22PM
With a record like Obama's, slander of the opponent is the only thing he and his supporters have left in this campaign. They can say nothing positive and truthful about the Obama Administration and the Democratic Senate.
Let's not forget that Obama's last two proposed budget did not get a single Democratic vote in the Senate and the Democratic-majority Senate has not passed a budget for over 2 years. This is unparalleled failure.
BD57| 8.7.12 @ 2:39PM
There is not a chance in Hades that Obama will disavow the ad. None. Zero. Zilch. Nada.
Oldefarte| 8.7.12 @ 2:44PM
Wait, Obama should disavow and/or become responsible for this ad? Are you kidding me? The words responsibility and Obama [and/or Democrats] should not be used in the same sentence ever. This simply is THE CHICAGO WAY, THE RAHM WAY, THE AXELROD WAY, or whatever. These are snakes, sleezy Acornish commnunity organizers, and the thought is that they should apologize or take responsibility? Come on, get real, cut the excrement. They are what they are, and Americans should make use of their intelligence by ignoring same and concentrating on the truth if at all possible; but please don't insinuate any degree of humanity when referring to this domestic terrorists okay????????
Libertyinfinite| 8.7.12 @ 2:49PM
What about what Romney & Paul did to Santorum during the primaries. The right lies just as much as the left does. The right isn't any better than the left anymore, especially when they side with a guy like Mitt Romney who swears never to stand up for conservative values in America.
Romney lied hi sass off in the primaries, you gonna talk about that? No because you are just as selective & deceitful as the left is about their guys.
Trinacria| 8.7.12 @ 3:34PM
What are you, 12?
Libertyinfinite| 8.7.12 @ 4:01PM
You above statement is highly contradictory of this one. You were the one who said that the American people believe anything they are told above. & so I point out an instance of the American People believing anything they are told by a liberal republican & you change your mind completely as to the peoples abilities to see the truth?
The American People are either easily led as you said above or they are only easily led by the left.
No, you were right the first time. But Romney ran a dirty campaign during the primaries with many lies that were used to slander Rick Santorum.
Real conservatives are treated like crap in America. & much of the time by people who are supposed to have been conservative too.
Are you a split personality or something? You couldn't have had a more profound change of understanding. Unless you think the right is, holy crap you are actually stupid enough to think that the right is flawless. How utterly pathetic.
Trinacria| 8.7.12 @ 5:39PM
Incorrect. I simply pointed out the strikingly naive and unnuanced nature of the views that you have somehow concluded we'd all be interested to hear.
With respect to your final "point", I never said the right is flawless; indeed, I was quite specific in my assertion that we have a choice between two inherently flawed candidates. When left with such a choice, the rational being will choose the less imperfect candidate. The irrational being will bitch and moan about the quality of the choices and choose neither. Perhaps one can argue that choosing not to choose is in and of itself a choice, but one can hardly argue it's a noble one...
aware| 8.8.12 @ 6:22AM
Of course maybe this explains what is happening: http://www.mefeedia.com/watch/32463793
This may be the most eye opening video you ever watched.
Butch| 8.7.12 @ 3:34PM
Quin, Rush lost it today over this one; he was furious. He was so furious that he said his staff was standing up gesturing at him to get off of it or it would become all about him. You and Rush are right on the money on this one: this is dispicable.
Trinacria| 8.7.12 @ 3:37PM
I'm confused. How did Romney cause her cancer? I thought it was Bush's fault.
Libertyinfinite| 8.7.12 @ 4:04PM
From schizophrenic comments above I'd say that confusion with you is constant.
Trinacria| 8.7.12 @ 5:48PM
Really? That's your best shot? And you actually thought this comment was so redolent with wit and insight that the readers of the American Spectator would suffer from it's absence.
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
Occam's Tool| 8.7.12 @ 5:18PM
Liberals are scumbags. This is new?
AllAmericanAmerican| 8.7.12 @ 6:36PM
"The work of a depraved, despicably immoral thug."
In other words, a Democrat.
Cobalt| 8.7.12 @ 10:00PM
Obama and company are now motivated by fear and desperation.