Mitt Romney Refuses to Call Obama a Socialist (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, November 21, 2011, 10:34 PM
During his interview with Sean Hannity tonight Mitt Romney would not call Obama a socialist. Instead, the former Massachusetts governor said Obama was a typical “liberal democrat” like other democrats he’s dealt with over the years. Obviously, Mitt didn’t want to offend any of the media elites.
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the Boodge commented:
Mitt SUCKS! The problem is, he and obama have to much in common!
TennDon commented:
Yea, if he did, he’d have to call himself one as well!
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
Obviously, Mitt didn’t want to offend any of the media elites.
My suspicion is that he didn’t want to offend a fellow traveler.
gus commented:
Good for Mitt. He doesn’t want to alienate the COMMIE vote!!!
Mitt McCain is our man!!!!
Patty commented:
Never expected anymore or any less from Romney. We all are aware of Obama record as president. As far as Obama’s past, there seems to be no records.
But be thankful we have seen Obama’s ineffectiveness as President. Massive, for lack of a better word, ammunition to hit Obama with in the debates.
noislamocommie commented:
TOTAL SCUM DO NOT VOTE FOR THIS CLOWN….we are actually up against a marxist coup’d'etat.
Highlander commented:
If we let the left choose this guy as our candidate, we deserve everything we get.
CV1 commented:
Tiptoe through the tulips!
jainphx commented:
Romney is Obama-Obama is Romney! Please folks anybody but Romney or Paul.
USMC Thomas commented:
RINO, RINO, RINO, RINO, RINO, RINO, RINO…McCain deja vu.
Votemout2012 commented:
Perry, Perry, Perry! Get behind the only conservative candidate w/ record conservative values, limited government, record of success and record to prove it.
gus commented:
USMC THOMAS. Godspeed and Semper Fi. I have a Marine nephew. You are wrong. Mitt isn’t a RINO. Mitt IS…MITT IS….The REPUBLICAN PARTY.
jainphx commented:
You know in away Obama saved us from McCain and McCain saved us from Romney. Now we need to be saved from Obama stat. Romney is a Demoncrap inside out.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
Hey, all: remember, this is the guy the State-Run Media is going to “pick” for us.
And he’ll take a dive just like the media’s “Maverick” McCain did.
Just watch.
Conservatives need to quit letting the State-Run Media influence their decisions.
Sadly, that isn’t likely to happen, since most conservatives also consider the Idiot-box to be the Oracle at Delphi, whose altar takes center-stage in their living rooms.
Sometimes I worry that the world is doomed. Sometimes that thought consoles me.
jTex commented:
Marxists, semi-marxists, hemi-marxists, pseudo-marxists….
Could we PLEASE have a candidate who LOVES the USA, Liberty, Freedom, and (last but certainly not lease) God?
Sarah, where are you?
donh commented:
I refuse to call Romney a Republican….He is a liberal democrat .
Rock commented:
Hey Mitt, some call you a RHINO, I guess its pretty clear your a Socialist, my only questions if the Socialist dream is so great why do so many of your ilk try to avoid the title?
USMC Thomas commented:
MITT IS….The BELTWAY REPUBLICAN PARTY.
gus commented:
So we have EXTREMELY SEVERE problems in this nation. Most of these problems derive completely and specifically from LIBTARD policies of spending and pandering.
Which will Romney fix AND HOW.
tommy mc donnell commented:
i’ll bet if you asked obama he’d proudly say he is a socialist. when he is out of office or completely destroys the country, whichever comes first, he’ll proudly admit he is a communist.
bigL commented:
the gop won’t run a campaign against Obama. forget it. the gop is the Permanent Losee Party.
better work on the pitiful senate.maybe we can get 7 or 8 there and dump some old bastids and squishes.total 11 new ones. Then in the House the GOP 2010ers, most have to go. they have not been doing the work we sent them to do.
Obama is in for life.
rcl commented:
I’d rather have Obama.
If the GOP refuses to fight for America then I’d rather burn the party to the ground than support their lies anymore.
Bubba commented:
Man, it is absolutely comical the way the media is telegraphing the fact that they are keeping their powder dry when it comes to Romney. Anyone who even shows a hint of becoming the front runner is faced with a full court rabid response by the MSM to tear them down. But Romney has been left alone entirely. The closest he came to anything harsh was Newsweek’s Mormon cover story about 6 months ago.
Romney has no idea what type of sh*t storm is going to come down on his head as soon as he’s the nominee. The MSM is salivating at the prospect of the GOP being dumb enough to nominate this guy. Seriously, the Right has never even dreamed of the firestorm about to descend on Romney. Ha, we all thought Palin was savaged? Good lord, that’s going to be a kid glove love fest next to what is unleashed on Romney.
All you have to do, in order to know that something HUGE is set to come down, is look at the complete silence surrounding Romney. If this idiot thinks he’s won the favour of the MSM by walking the line and trying to take the high road, he’s got sh*t for brains and that kind of naivety should be a disqualifier for the WH.
Rose commented:
Having seen the McCain tactics of sucking up to Obama work so well for him in 2008…
gus commented:
ROSE BINGO!!!! McCAIN, treated Obama just like he was suffering from the STOCKHOLM SYNDROME.
rcl commented:
#5: “…we have seen Obama’s ineffectiveness as President.”
You think Mitt will best Obama in a debate? When was the last time the MSM called out Romney for making millions as a hedge fund trader? Or for buying and selling high profile corporations through Bain Capital? Not once during this primary season. You think that’s an accident?
He is dead meat. They will kill the economy on purpose just as Rush predicted. They will amplify the anti-business, anti-Wall Street drumbeat. They’re hoping for violence in the street. All will be blamed on the very people the nitwit GOP is planning to put up for President.
The media is sitting on months of attacks and exposes just as they did on McCain but much, much worse. Here’s some of what’s coming…
Mr. Romney’s company of Wall Street 1%ers, Bain Capital, bought Chrysler when it was still potentially prosperous. They cleaned it up and made it shine just long enough to sell for a huge profit but they saddled this iconic American company with debts and bad contracts that doomed it to failure after they’d sucked out all the cash they could. Only the US government stood up to save the industry and lives Mitt Romney crippled. Now he’s stepping in claiming he can “fix” the economy just the way he “fixed” Chrysler. He and his Wall Street pals want to strip America like they stripped our car companies. Leaving Americans poor and unemployed and the billionaires rolling in cash.
Whether it’s all true or not doesn’t matter. It will be true after they’re done with it.
Here’s some more…
Romney is a blue nosed elitist who has nothing in common with the great American people. Born a millionaire, he’s a member of an exclusive cult with a white racist past. This man who seeks to lead our young men and women as Commander in Chief raised five sons yet not a single one of his own blood saw fit to defend this nation when we were under attack. All of them had the chance but not one in five answered his nation’s call! What kind of father raises such sons who feel no gratitude to the country who made them wealthy beyond most of our dreams. When asked Mr. Romney expressed appreciation for the country’s “volunteer army” and said “that’s the way we’re going to keep it.” What he’s really saying is “You people fight and bleed, we billionaires will applaud.”
Mitt is Obama’s wet dream.
MrGoodWench commented:
Hey Mitt, remember Obama’s reply to Joe the plumber ??
tHE pUNIsHEr commented:
“TOTAL SCUM DO NOT VOTE FOR THIS CLOWN….we are actually up against a marxist coup’d’etat.”
lol……no, what you are up against is the ruling class that cemented their coup with the assassinations of the Kennedys, MLK, etc. The problem is that posters on this site are too blind to understand it. The offering of entirely unelectable nuts like Cain, Bachman, santorum et al, is a feint to not only keep the maroons occupied with bs, but to perpetuate the illusion of diversity in the political process. Newt Gingrich as the front runner???!!!! It is way beyond obvious that the REAL PTB want Obama to be re-elected, and, barring that, Romney will do as a stand in. Will I vote for either? NO! Any realistically intelligent and qualified candidate..like Dennis Kucinich or Ron Paul is marginalized. (see primaries, election 2008 for proof) so the masses can obediently settle on one of the two APPROVED candidates.
tHE pUNIsHEr commented:
“Hey, all: remember, this is the guy the State-Run Media is going to “pick” for us.
And he’ll take a dive just like the media’s “Maverick” McCain did.
Just watch.
Conservatives need to quit letting the State-Run Media influence their decisions.
Sadly, that isn’t likely to happen, since most conservatives also consider the Idiot-box to be the Oracle at Delphi, whose altar takes center-stage in their living rooms.”
Wow, Taqy. Keep posting stuff like this and there is a tiny chance you will earn my respect. The REAL problem is that CONS like yourself think ANY of the other candidates are presidential material.
tHE pUNIsHEr commented:
@rcl: excellent post! I would quibble with one small detail.
“Whether it’s all true or not doesn’t matter. It will be true after they’re done with it.”
It IS true. But you are right, it does not matter.
jorgen commented:
And this is the future Conservative candidate???
mcc commented:
So, I take it tHE pUNIsHEr wishes he could vote for the realistically intelligent and qualified Dennis Kucinich and would never consider entirely unelectable nuts like Cain, Bachman, santorum…
tHE pUNIsHEr commented:
@mcc: You got it. Or Ron Paul. Actually voted for him once before.
Freddy commented:
Watching Romney dance around how Romneycare was a great idea that was simply badly managed leads me to believe that as President, Romney would try to manage Obamacare.
This is the failure of every socialist. They all believe that they can manage other people’s lives better than the people themselves.
tHE pUNIsHEr commented:
@ Freddy: Define Socialism…(hint: I will know if you just copied wikipedia!)
Mike Bell commented:
How can a guy who implemented socialized medicine in Mass. call Obama a socialist?
GOP will make a huge mistake nominating Romney. It’ll be a gift to Obama.
arnonerik commented:
If you can not correctly define the problem you cannot solve it.
Militant Conservative commented:
Romney is a typical RINO, I will have none of him.
Powder is dry
Joel commented:
This is the MSM pick for the Republicans. Do Not Vote for Mitt. He would lose to Obama.
FarNorthAlaskagirl commented:
Mitt Romney is not a RINO, for someone like John McCain or Lindsay Graham are RINOS. They know what they are, and they do not try to pretend to be anything else. Mitt Romney is worse, he is not mis-guided or co opted, he is deceptive. He knows exactly what he is, and yet is trying hard to present himself as something he is not. That is worse than a RINO, for a RINO does not know they are wrong; Romney knows he is wrong and cares not. He will say whatever to get in office and then we will all be screwed.
Just to show you how close he is to the current Council of Econ Advisers, the gentleman that Romney announced to be on that committee was Manikw. This is a guy who Blames Bush like Krugman, just not so loudly. He shares an office with Krugman. He teaches with Krugman. He writes books with Krugman. Just more of Harvard Yard, brought to you to screw the rest of the country for their Socialist Elitist Agenda. Enough!
Harvard is not the only college in the US. It is not the only place whereby economic theory and thinking may be articulated, written and published. They do not define the US, but rather reflect their European connections. We do not want them… We don’t want Obama, We don’t want Romney, we don’t want any more Harvard Yard types cramming their commie crap down our throat, we don’t want them running the journals and determining tenure and bureaucratic appointments. We want them gone, and stay gone, until they have read all the Milton Friedman that they can find, bathed in the ashes of Paul Samuelson’s commentaries, and buried, deep into the ground, the last remaining copy of Das Kapital and Lord J. Maynard Keynes’ The General Theory. They should stay out of policy until Bastiat’s the Law is contained in their marrow and the firm counters to communism in ( universal plunder) shine from their private parts brighter than the Candlestick Maker’s Guild.
I tire of these Marxists, and those who think they are not communists by espousing Keynes.
I would rather listen to 3 minutes of Santelli than an hour of Krugman and his colleagues at Harvard.
FarNorthAlaskagirl commented:
And if Romney is even remotely serious about being the Republican nominee, he would really rethink his picks for the CEA and steer clear of Havard Yard, UC Berkley, U of Illinois, U Mass-Amherst, Columbia, Rice (especially Garbage Binkley as Congressman Young called him), and other universities that have become the hot bed of socialism. There are plenty of Western Universities with solid pro-oil, pro-business economists that would be far more worthy of consideration than those academics down east in MA. In fact, before you appoint one, Mr. Romney, you should make sure they are not on the list of the Radical Political Economists or publish in the Journal of Urban Planning, or some other publication that is predisposed toward big government programs.
More liberty commented:
Just another reason I won’t show up to vote if Romney is the candidate. he is just another status quo anti-constitution anti-liberty corporatist. He’s a statist pure and simple.
Pragmatist commented:
Further proof / confirmation that Mitt Romney is wrong for America!
post*tenebras*lux commented:
No, Romney won’t call Obama a socialist. Why? He’s getting help from him financially. Why else? I blame all of them, except Michelle and Herman. They, the Republicans are letting this dirty, rotten government get away with murder!
SteveJ commented:
Wow, the more-conservative-than-thou are out in full force here. To the purity police, there’s no difference between Romney and Obama. Sure, uh-huh. Look at their positions point by point on the issues and see if that indignant thesis holds up. Hannity’s question is doltish and he asks it of everybody. As if hanging the “socialist” moniker on Obama is somehow a winning point for our side.
Does it really make sense to take your ball and go home on election day just because you agree with someone only 70 percent of the time instead of the mandatory 100? You political gourmets are going to get Obama elected again. And if you do, you deserve to be reviled.
bigL commented:
Be careful of that hannity. He is an eliie snob too. He will spout all theat conservatism and then slip you a mickey.
Hannity has that cardboard-cutout panel and his toy football. don’t follow anything he says . forget the Presidency. Work on the senate. and don’t vote absentee because they don’t count the abesentees unless something is close. That is what the registrar of voters said where I live.
the absentee votes are sampled and then set aside and the totals are the machine votes. All these probs stated when we got rid of the paper ballots. Had to be faster for TV. and the TV,
of course is the msm.
Watch that Hannity and don’t vote absentee, and work on the senate.
RedBeard commented:
1. I liked hearing Perry call Obama a socialist, because it’s honest, refreshing, and true.
2. I liked hearing Romney not call Obama a socialist, because the fact remains that we absolutely and positively have to attract the squishy and philosophically adrift independent vote in order to oust Obama.
#1 feels good, and #2 does not, but we’re playing in the big leagues here. Ideological purity means zip if we fail to send Obama packing. If it comes down to the wire, and it looks like Romney is the guy who can beat Obama and the other candidates are iffy at best, then it’s time to swallow our pride and go with the best hope.
The real world is seldom like Disney World. I’m hoping that a more conservative candidate than Romney catches fire with the voters, but I’m prepared for the alternative.
Goal #1 (the ONLY goal): Defeat Obama, crush Obama, destroy Obama.
Mikey commented:
Romney sucks. GINGRICH 2012 if you want to save America.
Bloodless Coup commented:
It seems obvious that Mitt doesn’t want to run off the independents and the rinos. He is playing it safe in his choice of words. Which makes me question if he really has the courage of his convictions. I like a man who isn’t afraid to call a spade a fricken shovel.
lizzy84 commented:
Romney’s not ok. He is anything but ok…he’s McCain cubed and he will not win. I’m going to support Newt.
More Liberty commented:
SteveJ said:
“Does it really make sense to take your ball and go home on election day just because you agree with someone only 70 percent of the time instead of the mandatory 100? You political gourmets are going to get Obama elected again. And if you do, you deserve to be reviled.”
You know what voting for the lesser of two evils and compromise have gotten us SteveJ? They gave us $15 trillion in debt. They gave us circumvention of the US Constitution, more wars TARP, decade long wars, and the lost goes on. I’m tired of betraying my principles and voting for statist that don’t believe in individual liberty or the US Constitution.
Mitt Romney is nothing but a liberal. Obama’$ trademark legislation, the Affordable Healthcare Act, is based on RomneyCare. I’m not voting for the liberal Romney.
Conservative to the Core commented:
It’s evident that Romney believes Tea Party support is detrimental to his campaign. His VP pick will be a more liberal RINO so that he appears to be the Conservative one.
*sigh*
Hugh commented:
He is a total establishment phony. I don’t know one conservative that considers him a viable option for the GOP nomination.
More Liberty commented:
Romney = More of the same.
bg commented:
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November 16, 2011
The Electability Trap
[What bothers me about it is the presumption Obama's smart, that Obama has somehow dazzling intelligence. Take him off a teleprompter, and it's a potential train wreck. I have people say when I say that to 'em, "Yeah, but he just sounds smart. Rush, he just sounds smart and the media is gonna make him sound even smarter." I know. David Brooks thought the crease in his pants was smart. All these guys think he's smart, but I just don't see it. That's why I think we need to redefine "smart," and I've been saying this for years. It's all rooted in fear. So many people on our side think that we've got nobody that can hold their own in a debate with Obama; and furthermore, that that alone is gonna determine the presidential outcome, the race.
I don't know that there's evidence to support the debates have that much to do with who wins and who loses a presidential race. In other words, how many minds are changed by a debate. You might have intensity. If you have somebody who's lukewarm for a Republican candidate and the debate comes along and the Republican kinda doesn't do well, "Oh, okay, okay." The intensity is lost, but to actually cause a person to vote for Obama? No. And if, say, one of our guys skunks Obama in a debate, is it gonna go make some rabid Obama supporter vote for our guy? No. Now, we're talking about the great unwashed, the moderates, the independents? See, that's where this all resides. "Yeah, that's where the elections are won and lost, Rush.
"Moderates, those are the ones who pay attention to debates! They're the voters who can be moved one way or the other by virtue of the debate. That's why it matters, Rush," blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Thereby perpetuating this notion that all elections hinge on what the undecideds do or what the moderates do (and you know how I feel about that). I think we just need somebody who can articulate conservatism in a proud, happy, confident way; and that will take care of everything else. "That's awfully simplistic, Mr. Limbaugh." It sounds simplistic to you. It's actually not simply, obviously. If it were that easy more people could do it.]
just sayin’
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RedBeard commented:
Ok, multiple choice question for all those who think Romney is too liberal and not really our kind of guy (you can count me in that group): What will you do next November if Romney is the Republican nominee?
1. Get mad and refuse to vote in the general election, and thereby help Obama keep screwing up the country for 4 more years.
2. Throw a tantrum and vote for some nutty 3rd party candidate, and thereby help Obama keep screwing up the country for 4 more years.
3. Make an angry brain-dead “statement” by voting for Obama instead of the RINO, and thereby REALLY help Obama keep screwing up the country for 4 more years.
4. Realize it’s not always possible to have perfect results in life, be a sentient adult, and vote for the RINO, thereby helping to keep Obama from screwing up the country for 4 more years.
SteveJ commented:
Redbeard, you are a voice of sanity amid a mob of torch-bearing heretic-hunters. I’d like a better candidate, too, but this all-or-nothing zealotry is crazed. These same anti-pragmatic purists would be calling Reagan a RINO if he were running today, and would be making the same pouty point about staying home and letting Carter win.
USMC Thomas commented:
Mitt as a candidate is exciting as a tree stump. More McCain…yawn.
MrBlonde commented:
Romney/ Graham 2012, woohoo
SteveJ commented:
Also, this “where has compromise gotten us?” retort misses the mark. It’s not compromise that’s jacked up our deficit and national debt — it’s irresponsibility and stupidity. Bush was a halfwit who didn’t seem to realize he could veto bills instead of signing them. Anyone who thinks that Romney, given the current national worry about debt, will continue the Bush/Obama spending orgy is simply out of touch with reality. In fact, *none* of the GOP candidates would dare continue such a course. It would be suicide and every one of the candidates knows it.
butch commented:
If Rinomey gets the nomination, he will probably pick McCain as his running mate. A democrats dream ticket.
Jerry C commented:
@ RedBeard & SteveJ
I will no longer vote for the least worst candidate. Nor will I accept a RHINO the establishment chooses for me. Your comments remind me of a saying: “there’s a sucker born every minute.” RedBeard & SteveJ, two suckers who believe voting for Romney will change anything.
I bet both of you would be happy after Romeny gets elected in a landslide but continues with Obamacare, green investments, spending us more in debt, more wars and every other marxist/socialist policies. And all the while pat yourselves on the back telling each other it could have been worse. Amazing.
Kissmygrits commented:
He ignored the question about agw, too. Guess he wants in on the cap & trade gravy train.
RedBeard commented:
So Jerry, just to be clear, you intend to help Obama stay in the White House, because in your mind he’s no worse than Romney. Amazing.
Liz commented:
Mitt is right on. If you want a loose cannon, you’ve got Perry and Cain to support. Intelligence means not having to state the obvious. Go get ‘em, Mr. Romney.
Uncle Monkey commented:
All Romney did last night was say he’s reaching for the middle. The squishy, mushy middle. What’s new?
If he gets the nod I’ll still vote for him, but we need to work on the house and senate to hold his feet to the fire. He’ll do the right thing if he has to. That’s the only improvement over ZerO.
bg commented:
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Liz #70 November 22, 2011 at 9:35 am
albeit i would vote for Romney, Cain or anyone else before i’d vote for
a man after Obama’s heart Perry.. Cain is no loose cannon, that’s just
the way that GP etal & the MSM have been portraying him.. please, do
some research, or not.. but that “loose cannon” or not, nomination or
not, is still a winner if there ever was one..
[not too many people know, but Herman Cain
almost single handedly stopped HillaryCare..]
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bg commented:
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ps re: #72 November 22, 2011 at 9:55 ambg
if any of them are loose cannons, imho, it’s Gingrich or Paul..
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dwd commented:
F this guy. He says whatever he thinks a given crowd wants to hear. Sick of him
bg commented:
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testing 123..
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More Liberty commented:
SteveJ said:
“Also, this “where has compromise gotten us?” retort misses the mark. It’s not compromise that’s jacked up our deficit and national debt — it’s irresponsibility and stupidity. Bush was a halfwit who didn’t seem to realize he could veto bills instead of signing them. Anyone who thinks that Romney, given the current national worry about debt, will continue the Bush/Obama spending orgy is simply out of touch with reality. In fact, *none* of the GOP candidates would dare continue such a course. It would be suicide and every one of the candidates knows it.”
Keep telling yourself that Steve. I look at what Romney has done throughout his career – not what he says. His record is RINO and statist at best. Just reference the Romneycare.
Even what he says is not conservative:
“I don’t want [federal programs] to go away, but I don’t want to borrow $1 billion from China to pay for them,” Romney said. “I think it’s time for programs that we like that we simply can’t afford to be stopped or to be cut back and are to make it on their own.”
The fact is, in his heart and soul he is a a statist who has no problem with federal programs. He proposes to cut $500 billion annually from federal spending. Our current deficit is THREE times that number. We’d still be running a deficit.
If Romney is the choice, he is no real choice.
Joanne commented:
If you listen to the democrats speak, they keep pushing for Romney – a very bad sign. Go for who they hate, and not the one the left promotes.
More Liberty commented:
Good point Joanne but it’s not only the DNC/left. It is also the establishment republican party. They want a statist. They sure don’t want a guy that will limit the power of the government.
RedBeard commented:
Uncle Monkey, I agree with you completely. Romney would be unlikely to veto most conservative Republican legislation, even if he didn’t necessarily agree with it. But that would require a solid Republican majority in both houses of Congress. We can’t lose focus on that.
Gary commented:
bg
hear hear!
Since my candidate (Bachmann) and yours (Cain) have been hit by the same train, I think we can objectively see what’s happening here. They’re being swayed over to Newt’s camp.
People have short memories.
Newt is a loose cannon with a bad habit of “I don’t know what I was thinking” and “that was the stupidest thing I ever did”.
Admittedly different from Cain’s “I never did anything wrong and I’m sticking to that story”, it’s no more comforting.
I’ve been trying to warm up to the idea of Romney for president since it looks inevitable, but I cringed last night when he squirmed through this socialist/liberal democrat thing.
Also, I like how Newt is just now coming down on the occupy losers, weeks late and only after the polls show them to be unpopular. At least Cain gets the first and only credit on that front. Newt added “take a shower” to Cain’s “get a job”. Wow Newt, you really are the smartest guy in the room.
Maybe we need a candidate with Cain’s conservative values, Newt’s (alleged) intellect, and Bachmann’s steel spine, with Romney’s hair and Obama’s war chest.
Gary commented:
Red Beard
you’re right about that.
The Senate is probably more important than the other two races this time.
We need to swing that over to our side.
Then even if Obama does get elected, maybe he’ll be slowed down a bit for the next four (or maybe his end game will be revealed as he sets about bypassing Congress in every way imaginable)
TammyChicago commented:
Romney is a construct. Designed to run down the middle of the road and under the radar. He is about as charismatic as a mortician.
bg commented:
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Gary #80 November 22, 2011 at 10:47 am
re: [Maybe we need a candidate with Cain’s conservative values, Newt’s
(alleged) intellect, and Bachmann’s steel spine, with Romney’s hair and
Obama’s war chest.]
albeit you forgot Santorum’s a one issue sort of guy, Perry’s a give away
the store & more, & it’s America’s fault i have to run for presidential loser
Paul’s isolationism..
but Amen to that..
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SteveJ commented:
Jerry C. said:
“I will no longer vote for the least worst candidate. Nor will I accept a RHINO the establishment chooses for me. Your comments remind me of a saying: “there’s a sucker born every minute.” RedBeard & SteveJ, two suckers who believe voting for Romney will change anything.”
Jerry, we’ve made it clear that we’re not wild about Romney. But to say he won’t change ANYTHING is such an extreme statement that you ought to be embarrassed to say it. OK, so you assume that Romney will spend at the same levels as Obama, leave taxes as is (despite cutting taxes in his own state, repeatedly) and do nothing about Obamacare? I find it difficult to believe that you honestly, in your heart of hearts, subscribe to such silly rhetoric. What’s going on here in these posts, I suspect, is a conservative tantrum because you can’t get the kind of no-holds-barred candidate that you think (erroneously) the American electorate craves.
A conservative staying home on election day is nothing but a principled dope. Like a person on the deck of a sinking ship just standing there complaining about the inadequacy of the lifeboats.
SteveJ commented:
@Liberty
I realize you can pull Romney quotes that contradict his current positions. But you could have done exactly the same thing with Reagan when he ran against Carter. The Gipper would be excoriated today on the right-wing blogosphere as a RINO and a sellout who’s no better than Gov. Jimmy. And it would be stupid.
Freddy commented:
While I am using the term a bit loosely, I do base my statement on a simple concept. That concept was nicely defined by a speaker many years ago. What is really odd is the relevance to what has happened since this speach.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRdLpem-AAs
(an oldie but a goodie)
Most stunning is how relevant to the takeover of education, including medical workers, has now been rammed into place piece by piece over many years.
Romney still supports his own contribution to this socialization of the US, hence, I see him for what he believes.
burt commented:
What a coward. The world does not need him.
KLD commented:
Or any of his Liberal Democrat friends.
bg commented:
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Freddy #86 November 22, 2011 at 11:47 am
thanks, a few more related samplings..
Herman Cain
flashback:
Newt Gingrich
flashforward:
Newt Gingrich
Rick Perry
Michele Bachmann
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More Liberty commented:
SteveJ said:
“I realize you can pull Romney quotes that contradict his current positions. But you could have done exactly the same thing with Reagan when he ran against Carter. The Gipper would be excoriated today on the right-wing blogosphere as a RINO and a sellout who’s no better than Gov. Jimmy. And it would be stupid.”
So? RR is not my god – my god is individual liberty and personal freedom. Reagan increased the size of government, got us into fruitless conflicts and handed out amnesty. I like some of what he did, and didn’t like others. But the fact remains, politicians aren’t important. What is important is our Constitutional Republic and individual liberty. Romney has a record of saying one thing and doing another – he’s a cheap liar of a politician and i, like many other constitutional conservatives, don’t trust him.
RedBeard commented:
More Liberty, the key part of your last post is that we should never trust ANY politician, no matter how much we might want to do so. A politician without the citizens’ metaphorical pistol to his head is a rogue politician.
SteveJ commented:
But seriously, MoreLiberty, do you really think Romney’s going to enter the Oval Office and decide to keep Obamacare firmly in place and spend like a madman? Do you honestly anticipate that?
MikeB commented:
I have to wonder how many people with the extremely negative comments here actually watched the entire interview last evening. Mitt is smart, has a wide of range experience to demonstrate his qualities as a leader, and by all accounts is a good person. These qualities come with a man who can take issue with someone like Obama rather than simply call him names.
AsperAE commented:
If Paul doesn’t get the Republican nomination Obama will win by a landslide. Too many people are done voting for crypto socialists like bush, Romney, Mccain, Perry etc. I’d rather have an open Marxist like Obama than a false friend like Romney.