Earlier this month, Mitt Romney's chief spokesperson, Andrea Saul, gave the right a heart attack when she suggested on Fox News that struggling families nationwide would benefit greatly if only they lived under Romneycare at the national level -- implicitly endorsing the implementation of Obamacare.
Conservatives were livid, and the campaign was left confused and unsure what to say next.
As of yesterday, however, Team Romney seems to have settled on a new message, embracing the same law the candidate ignored for the last two years.
Asked about Todd Akin and the Republican Party's far-right line on women's health, Romney said, "[W]ith regards to women's health care, look, I'm the guy that was able to get health care for all of the women and men in my state.... I'm very proud of what we did and the fact that we helped women and men and children in our state."
This is just fascinating. Romney has a problem when it comes to the gender gap, so all of a sudden, "Romneycare," which has been a forbidden topic throughout the race, is seen as a possible solution. Left unsaid, of course, is Romney telling those on the right to keep their mouths shut because, well, he's running for president for Pete's sake.
More importantly, though, is the other detail Romney neglected to mention: he intends to destroy the entirety of the Affordable Care Act, which would mean necessarily stripping millions of families of insurance, consumer protections, and health benefits.
It's disjointed argument, isn't it? Romney can't be awful on women's health, the argument goes, because he brought coverage to so many women in Massachusetts, but don't worry, the argument continues, he'll take coverage away from millions of women nationwide if elected president.
Who's supposed to find this persuasive?
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He will lie his way right into the Whitehouse if we let him .
The audacity of Dishonesty
Allowed by a public too stupid to care and a compliant media
Mencken said it 82 years ago: "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."
Here's comes Romney's switch to the middle, or what's going to pass for convincing people where the middle is. It'll be his pitch to convince people of his reasonableness and Obama's anti-American radicalism. You gotta admit, it's pretty brazen on the order of Al Capone or Bernie Madoff calling Sister Theresa immoral. And it'll probably work because of a incompetent, cowardly press and an politically incompetent party opponent. Just watch.
He's got the conservatives, no matter how kooky with the implicit approval of all the kook cultural issues. He's baited the racists and idiots and have them with the Welfare Lie. He's confused the Medicare issue for the ignorant, stupid, and irresponsibly inattentive with the Medicare Lie and impotent Democratic set-up. Now he's going to tack to the middle (on just a few issues) and convince just enough of those idiot "swing" voter and independents he's moderate and unscary.
Dems too stupid to know what hit them.
Of course, this is all "just campaigning". Once Mitt is in office, he'll be the fount of truth and transparency for "you people".
Disgusted, Mother Theresa was immoral. She was a bad person. This doesn't require any spin, she deliberately made people suffer who didn't have to because she felt it was the right thing to do. Unless, of course, it was her, in which case she went to a real hospital to get real treatment from real doctors who did their best to keep her from suffering. She caused many people, children included, much unnecessary pain, even though with the money she was getting she could've easily made their lives much better. Instead, she let many die in pain with poor treatment and nothing but the love of nuns to soothe their easily-treated ills.
On the other hand it will save $716 billion in Medicare.
Except it won't (save $716 billion)...that money was saved by reducing overpayments to hospitals (plus more). And the ACA itself closes the Medicare donut hole, saving seniors money.
Meanwhile, the Ryan budget also cuts $716 billion, which will be used for tax cuts for the 1%. So Medicare costs will go up for those currently on the plan.
http://moelane.com/2012/06/09/troll-hunting-101/
Oh, that Shooter, always looking for attention...oh, and a reason to rage-masturbate
Slappy, Is there any way to post this automatically at the start of each blog? Shooter is a poor shill, a Tromney, and plays his party's game, change the subject or add another distortion.
No, Mr. (Dim)Mitty, it won't save anything. But we have to be patient with Mr. Mitty; it's only been a couple of months and he's a VERY slow learner.
Romney-Ryan will cost and run up the date to where Medicare runs deficits:
- PolitiFact | Mitt Romney said Barack Obama robs Medicare of more than $700 billion to pay for Obamacare
- PolitiFact | Ryan's plan includes $700 billion in Medicare "cuts," says Stephanie Cutter
- http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/106298/guide-to-medicare-debate-romney-ryan-obama-voucher-premium-support
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/medicare-primer/index.html
nomoremagicalthinking, probably not, and I'm not even the forum member who found that original shooter comment that exposes him as a fraud looking for attention to make his nipples all pokey.
To be honest, I don't even necessarily copy and paste it to expose him as the fraud he is, but in an attempt to keep everyone else from busting a stitch, which is the thing Shooter wants to have happen or else his climaxes seem all empty and hollow. I'd elaborate, but that level of attention would only make him harder. Just point and laugh at him. That's all.
All anyone needs to do is click on shooter242's link or on his photo (avatar).
The link will take you to Newsvine where you
click on: “Ignore This Author” and be rid of the troll forever.
He doesn't bother me that much, losers like him need a hobby. I just feel bad when other visitors and people posting comments take him seriously and get all angry, post links to which he'll never read, demand he answer questions he'll never answer or just tell him to eff off in general. So I figure it's just a Good Samaritan thing to point out his peculiar blog-fetish and remind people, by all means, point out where he's wrong but don't get angry lest you become his accidental FWB du jour.
Thank you East, I hope this weeds out the undesirables.
why of course!!!
and for their on-core it will be taking all the credit for all the good things or things that have helped and are slowly working.
that would be a good bet in Vegas.
This is just getting sad. Pick a freaking message already, Mitt.
It's hilarious in so many ways...the human weathervane strikes again
"...embracing the saw law..." hmmmm...what? :)
Hey I would like to talk about Mitt's Cosco shirts. Cosco is a Democratic company from Caif.(great wine) They pay their workers so much, that there is almost no turn over. Sam's is a Republican company that treats their workers very poorly. Mostly the women make much less than the males. There have been many lawsuits against Walmart and Sams on this issue.
Yes, Mitt loves that Democratic company that treats their workers with respect.
actually, the company is washington-based and is spelled 'costco'(cosco is a shipping/container line) but your point is spot on
It is obvious Mitt will keep going back into his past to try to find a message that reverberates with more than the rich. Perhaps he can talk about his driving experiences in France or his amateur barbering in prep school. Betcha there were lots of francs spent to quiet the girls that shared Mitt's spreading his gospel and his seed in France. Shut up in advance Shooter.
lmao on that last...
This is how Romney roll. He has a "take no prisoners" kind of approach toward his goals of being the Master of the Universe. A method he must have learned from his business buddies in El Salvador.
He has said that he likes to fire people. So in trying to leap this chasm of what he was for, before he was for that, he threw his young spokesperson/organizer under the bus for saying what she was....told to announce by the campaign...and then they fired her.
Romney thinks people are expendable, federal lands are expendable, the truth is expendable. He has no respect for the real world because he has already bought a place in paridise for himself.
A man who will say anything and do anything to get what he wants, with no limit, no rules, no decency, no respect for the listener, is the last person one wishes to see achieving his dreams.
And of course the top "documentary" this year, that Anti-Obama movie, will engage the public with more honest dialogue, because that's what those authentic Fox-docs do.
So Romneycare is no longer unspeakable. Will his taxes be next? nah.
Consider the stupidity of extolling the virtues of Romneycare only to promise that the first thing one would do as president is repeal it for the rest of America!
If it makes so much sense, why not keep it?
Old snake new skin. Rolling stones hide no snakes, keep on rolling. Snakes prove economic evolution, costs and arm and leg now and then but that would just distract from slithering. Snakes swallow their prey whole, digestion begin afterward.
In typical Romney fashion, he was for it in 2008 before he was against it
Romney Asked if He Would Bring RomneyCare Nationally In 2008 in NH: "Absolutely"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6xXoQY5OcI&feature=youtu.be
Romneycare which basically birthed Obamacare that Romney continues to spew he'll repeal it. Yet, in 2008 he was willing to take Romneycare National.