For months, Mitt Romney has said repeatedly that Americans should vote for him because of his business record. In a startling turn of events, he told Chuck Todd he'd like his past to be excluded from the race altogether.
"[O]ur campaign would be helped immensely if we had an agreement between both campaigns that we were only going to talk about issues and that attacks based upon business or family or taxes or things of that nature, this is just a diversion," Romney said. He added, "I would love to have a setting where we only talk about issues."
He added, in reference to his attacks against President Obama, "We haven't gone after the personal things." That's not true.
Regardless, this is quite an unexpected turn. Romney, very quickly, has gone from "Vote for me because of my business background" to "My business background is just a diversion."
What was once presented as Romney's central qualification for the presidency is now an issue he wants off the table, free from all scrutiny. This is clearly evidence of a campaign unfolding in a direction the challenger isn't happy with -- confident candidates in a position of strength don't make "please stop hitting me" pleas through the media.
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Romney is running on his "private equity" experience, so questioning his record is vital to our democracy. How can voters elect someone when the candidate balks at accountability for his controversial private record? That's preposterous. Bain was a profit-making venture for Mitt, Bain and the other well-heeled investors Romney took on. It had nothing to with creating jobs. How can Romney profess to fix a jobs crisis when all he knows is how to kill jobs and make himself richer? Principled Progressive
So you expected something different from someone who grew up thinking he would be god of his own planet after he dies?
Romney doesn't want to wait until he dies. He wants to be a god NOW!!
Wow. So let's see, we can't ask about his record on anything. We can't ask about his finances. We should ignore his ignorance on foreign policy. All of his claims about Obama are blatant lies. We can't go on things he says, because of the lies and the drastic flip flops. He may have broken the law running for governor because he lived in Utah. Oh, sorry, that's about his record. He invented Obamacare but we should reject it because Obama implemented it. Doh! Another record.... Uh...this is so hard.
Why is he running for president again?
He's rich and wants to be head of the richy-rich gang? And he was a Mormon bishop so he's used to being in charge? I'm guessing it's one of these.
Yup - That seems to sum it up nicely.
Either that or he's a narcissist prevaricating hypocrite who thinks he can have the presidency just because he "wants" it.
I am without speech.
I've got a Bad Case of Doubting You .... Ode to Mitt Romney
By Michael Dionne, 07 July 2012
Based on Robert Palmer's "Bad Case of Lovin' You" -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Whooaaaaa
Come election night, we see no plan in sight
We've yet to see what we're gonna get
We need you to tell the truth
Will you treat us just like your pets?
Mittster, Mittster, tell us the truth
We got a bad case of doubting you
No schill's gonna cure our ills
We got a bad case of doubting you
A wooden face don't make a carin' heart
We learned that, buddy, from the start
You think you're cool, a little bit sly
Mittster, we ain't buyin' those hollow lines
Mittster, Mittster, tell us the truth
We got a bad case of doubting you
No schill's gonna cure our ills
We got a bad case of doubting you
Whooaaa
You like your money, you like it alot
But listen Mittster, that's all you got!
You put us down, make us take the hit
Smile of greed upon your lip
Shake your fist, made of puppet's wood
That's how we know, that you're no good
Mittster, Mittster, tell us the truth
We got a bad case of doubting you
No schill's gonna cure our ills
We got a bad case of doubting you .
Romney has already said after Obama smashes him, "Can I get up now?" He has now resorted to, "When can I get up?"
It's a beat down.
Business experience off the table? Check.
Government experience off the table? Check.
Let's talk about your foreign policy experience, Willard.
What's next?
Mitt to the Middle East: "It would really help my campaign if you just gave us all your oil."
Mitt to cancer patients: "It would really help my campaign if you just stopped expecting treatment."
Mitt to LGBT folks: "It would really help my campaign if you just stopped thinking about equal rights."
Mitt to women: "It would really help my campaign if you would just be men."
Feeling the heat
Not going to happen!!
Hey Offshore Willy, just why are we supposed to vote for you? When are you going to tell us, after the election? Oh, that's right I forgot , we're on double secret probation.
Huff wants to know what wonan we want to moderate a presidential debate.
Our Rachel is the 99% vote getter so far.
Romney does much better in fights where his friends hold the guy down and he punches him in the face and takes a scissor to his hair. RMoney is so hollow and fraudulent it is frankly disturbing. The real question Mitt Romney should be asked is, given the gay bullying experience in your youth, were your motivated by the animus of having a homosexual panic attack necessitating you to harm the ultimate object of your affection because you knew you had gay desires. Come on Mitt be honest about it.
Isn't the reason we want to see the tax returns is because we want to see his Bain activities and salary when he wasn't working for them? And to help us understand why he needs tax breaks when he could be getting a refund after not paying taxes? Pretty smart! I'd think that could work to his advantage. I think he wants to show us the returns but Kochs don't want the proof out there. . . it will cost them m(b)illions.
Remember what the "Queen of Mean," real estate tycoon Leona Helmsley, famously told her maid? (it was part of the maid's sworn testimony at Leona's trial) She said "...only the little people pay taxes." In that, she gave voice to her class's attitudes regarding taxes. And it perfectly mirrors Romney's attitude.
So if the Terrorists attacked us again - what in the hell would he do??? Seriously, send them a note asking them to please not hurt us because it isn't very nice?!?!?!? This man is not fit to be President of the USA and quite honestly I am shocked he was able to be a Corporate raider!!! Good thing his daddy got him all set up in business so he didn't have to put together a resume or beat the pavement for a job!! He is a woos!!!!!
One reporter on TV last night said he was at a romney speech and 5 min later asked him about something in his speech. mitt the twit denied saying what he had said 5 min before in his speech. Short term memory loss or too stupid to know what he was talking about. Both if you ask me.
Romney says whatever he calculates is to his greatest advantage in every single moment. And like all Republicans he sees the media as his mortal enemy. So, in that moment when he is threatened (as he must see it) by his enemy, he reacts defensively and wards off the threat. If something he said is not providing an advantage, he will deny that he ever said it.
People often say that Romney says whatever he thinks his audience wants to hear. I think that's incorrect. It's not about the audience at all. It's all about Mitt and whatever advantages for himself he can wrest from any given set of circumstances. I think that's the true explanation for his shifting positions and why he now wants to have it that his business record is no longer what he wants to run on. He no longer sees it as providing an advantage and is egotistical enough he expects everyone else to go along with his wishes.
The goal is to get President Obama out of office...it's not Romney, he just happened to get the boost up towards that position. If it was Mickey Mouse...it would still be a bash on our President...they would swear by him and try to elect him. That is exactly why Obama is going to win...Romney is an ignorant, crooked and scary dude. (They can't make a snake look like an eagle)......from day one it was make him a 1 term president, at all costs..that is a sad plan for our country...and they call themselves Patriots....what a crock!
As a former reporter, I honestly did not believe I could be more confused than I am now. Yes, I voted for President Obama, and will again. The thing is, even with all the b.s. Mitland Romneyforth The Third has (or has not) said, I thought the idea was for him to at least try and win the election. If by some chance this guy wins the election, it will be a signal to the entire universe that there is no intelligent life here, or at least none that could get to the polls.
Just look up the term "douche bag" in the dictionary and it will say: See "Mitt Romney"...
Just like what you find when looking up Santorum.....
Other than lying about Obama,, what is it exactly that you do want to talk about???
The repubs must have some computer hacker who will rig the election results..
Twitt is going to fake an assinateing attempt to get out of the debates/gain the dbag sympathy vote...?....
"Obama's going to take away our military bases and then use the military to take away our guuuns."
"Businesses will dump their health plans (saving millions) and then go broke because of Obamacare."
As Newt recently said, and I paraphrase,, a smart lying POS (rumney) would make his lies speculative...
Unfortunately, I still think it's a win/win for the republicans,, Obama is the best republican president we've had since Lincoln...
I hope they not only beat Romney, not only annihilate him like Sherman and Grant, put salt the earth like Scipio Africanus so that nothing ever grows there.
Someone should make a parody of the "leave Britney alone" you tube video, but make it about Romney ;)
Let's demand to see Rumney's medical records,, he's probably hideing something there too,,, I think he botox's his lower lip...
Paul Ryan loves loves lies about Ayn Rand....
To D.C. Sessions. I rarely ever lambast somebody, but you are just brain dead. You claim Romney is 'put ahead' of Obama based solely on the basis that he is a Republican, and not a Democrat. What kind of baseless baloney is that? In what way is Obama a fascist? Or a witch? I don't even have a clue where that one came from! LOL! And of course you mention our president's ethnicity. How childish is that? Pretty childish. He's a negro, and you're not. I get it.
And to defend Romney, you say he is someone you can trust. To do what? Flip-flop on the issues like a fish out of water? You bet! And open and honest? Wow. That is a stretch even salt water taffy couldn't manage! You claim Romney is perceptive? He wouldn't recognize perceptive if it stayed up all night and begged! And he 'understands people'? What people? Rich people? That must be who you are talking about, because he is so out of touch with the average getting by "by the skin of their teeth" people, that he wouldn't know one if he passed one by on the street. That is, if he ever was out of his stretch limo long enough to see a real hourly wage earner in the flesh.
No, you seem to believe that the conservative right is so very smart, and the liberal left is so very dumb. Well, by definition, conservatives have little to think about, they just follow in the footsteps of their daddy, and do as they are told. Liberals, on the other hand, by definition, are free THINKERS, who don't need anybody telling them what to think or do, because they are so very smart, and they know how to wade through the smoke and mirrors the GOP propaganda mill puts forth. You are a loser. You can go back to your Rush Limbaugh, O'Reilly Factor, and whatever tirade Glenn Beck is spewing this week. If Romney somehow manages to swindle the election, you will get exactly what you deserve.
Mel,
You ever READ any DC Sessions' posts?? I really think you ought to because you've really made a mistake about him!!! Actually, I think you MUST be confusing DC Sessions with someone else!!! Happens sometimes!!!
Does anyone really think he would take a phone call at 3 a.m.?