I understand that Mitt’s feelings are hurt by all the bad things the Obama campaign has been saying about him, so it’s about time to re-post this video for the Romney campaign. You need to remember that this world was never meant for ones as beautiful as these, so go easy on Mitt and Paul. They’re delicate.
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Mudge
Tis a marvelous method..do X, then falsely (or inaccurately) accuse your opponent of doing X, then become outraged. Perfect for the low information voters.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
It is simply amazing to see an adult who’s never been opposed in any fashion – that he couldn’t make disappear with infusions of cash – cry “foul” or “unnecessary roughness” or “below the belt” as if he were a petulant child. Don’t get me started on how Ann comes across whining about tax questions.
Ash Can
So what’s on tap for the Romney-Ryan juggernaut today? Where will the poor things be speaking, and who will shit himself first?
Figs
They’re all lined up to watch that movie, Maid in Manhattan!
Mark S.
That’s a good way to draw more attention to the ad.
FFredPalakon
When I drop in here I often link-pimp too much, but I think this might be relevant to the campaign. I don’t think it’s been brought up yet about Ayn Rand, not in any recent article I’ve seen, including the very good “Ayn Rand’s Long Journey to the Heart of American Politics” and “No Taxes, No Female Presidents, and No Physical Attraction: The Ten Strangest Things About Objectivism”: Ayn Rand’s Objectivism was used as the foundation for american satanism.
This isn’t a hysterical analysis from a critic of objectivism, it’s a claim made by satanists themselves.
From a satanist, writing about the two philosophies:
The full post, “The Satanic Bible and Ayn Rand”.
dmsilev
@Mark S.: Hmmm. So Mitt Romney believes that a campaign should be held accountable for everything that supporters like SuperPACs do.
Given the history and track record of Romney-supporting entities, that’s fascinating.
artem1s
well, it’s become pretty clear why Ryan got picked…
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57493156-503544/ryan-to-meet-with-sheldon-adelson-in-las-vegas/
he’s meeting with Newt’s handlers already. Wonder what percentage of the ad buys Gingrich is getting from Adelson’s
bribesdonations?rumpole
This is Rove 101: what’s the Romney campaign’s biggest weakness:
-runs on hate
-no new ideas
-mendacity beyond historical norms
Step one: project onto opponent.
Step two: turn lies and anger up to 11.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
This morning on my local adult alternative station, the news reader mentioned Biden’s “controversial” remarks. I’ve never heard mention of the welfare ad, or palling around with birther-in-chief Donald Trump
Maude
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Trump was on Imus this a.m. I passed by the station and didn’t listen.
The fact that he has credibility with the Repubs tells you everything.
Amir Khalid
So the first thing I was moved to do was listen to Vincent, by Don McLean. Van Gogh is at least deserving of some sympathy as a great artist and a vulnerable human being, even if he could be a real dick at times. Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are hollow men: dishonest and inept campaigners, unable to articulate or defend their policy agenda, easily outmaneuvered by the opposition, and unappealing in person.
@FFredPalakon:
Satanism and Objectivism both seem to be philosophies created by a particularly toddlerish set of mind. So it’s not surprising to me that they have those traits in common.
ChrisNYC
I love the constant complaining. Why does he think it’s appealing? Poor little rich man.
And did you see Biden’s kick ass response? “You know what’s outrageous? It’s their policies. THAT’S what’s outrageous.”
The Ancient Randonneur
Good thing this isn’t a baseball game.
Gravie
Thank you for reminding me how much I love FOTC. And, oh yes, Romney & Ryan are preposterous, puling asshats.
danimal
Aha, I’ve found a campaign-related open thread to vent about my latest pet peeve. Every liberal/progressive worth his or her salt has spilled gallons of virtual ink proving that Mitt Romney will cut Medicare by gazillions of dollars (here’s an example), despite the fact that Romney has avoided the issue. They use a foreign (Arabic, even) concept called mathematics, and the logic is sound. But it’s wrong, wrong, wrong.
Mitt Romney is a despicable, hypocritical liar, but liberals are exposing the wrong lie. Mitt Romney will not cut Medicare (Medicaid, on the other hand, is a different issue). All the liberal hand-wringing is wrong. MITT ROMNEY DOES NOT GIVE A CRAP ABOUT FEDERAL DEFICITS. This is the gargantuan lie that we need to get our heads around. He will not make the ‘tough choices’ required to say “no” to voter priorities, he will simply throw dust in the air and blow a massive hole in the deficit.
We know this because it has been the functional (as opposed to rhetorical) fiscal policy of every conservative since Ronald Reagan. More importantly, the American people know it. They don’t fear Romney’s cuts because Republicans don’t cut programs that affect the non-poor. Don’t get caught chasing rabbits about Medicaid budget cuts that won’t happen. They are trying to gain the appearance of being tough-minded budget-cutters without proposing any actual cuts; we shouldn’t help them. Question their fidelity to budget balancing instead; Republicans are vulnerable to attack from the right on this issue. Obama has been pretty clever in this regard (see, for example, the refusal of every Republican presidential candidate to accept 10:1 budget cuts vs tax hikes stand).
All the Keynes-bashing by Republicans will vanish on January 21, 2013 if they somehow fool enough people to come back into power. They will spend, and cut taxes as much as needed to goose the economy back to health, deficits be damned. The cold, hard truth is that Republican NEED deficits in order to gain leverage to push their unpopular policies. They will never “fix” the deficit problem, because they would lose political leverage.
PWL
I admit I’m amused by Romney’s whimpering about Obama’s “personal attacks,” after all the shit his party threw at Obama about being a “Kenyan socialist,” etc, etc….
Obama took it, so why can’t Mitt? Anyway, Mitt’s the one who was blathering about how his “business experience” meant he was the only good choice for POTUS, so he should’ve expected to get called on this. That’s called politics, my friend…can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Looks like Mitt’s just a wimp, who can’t believe anyone would question the obvious superiority of such an entitled one as himself. Dishes it out, but can’t take it.
Anatoliĭ Lъudьvigovich Bzyp (formerly Horrendo Slapp, Jimperson Zibb, Duncan Dönitz, Otto Graf von Pfmidtnöchtler-Pízsmőgy, Mumphrey, et al.)
I’ve brought this up before, but I wonder if Rmoney might not have some condition like Asperger’s syndrome or something. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a politician in my lifetime who is as bad being anywhere near people as Rmoney is. He can’t help putting people off. It’s amazing. I guess we could chalk it up to never having had anybody stand up to him and not give him what he wants, only there have been other spoiled politicians, like Bush the Younger, who came across as at least somewhat likeable. I never thought he was any kind of a decent guy, and I’d never have chosen to have a beer with him, but I can see how sothers might. And he wasn’t so consistently weird, so consistently off.
But Rmoney… Over and over and over, they guy just can’t even to begin to fathom how people will react to something he does or says. I’ve never seen anybody run for office who gets every encounter with people so wrong somehow. It’s like listening to somebody who’s tone deaf try to sing.
I really think he has some kind of mild autism. It isn’t that he’s unlikeable; Richard Noxon was unlikeable, too. He was always awkward dealing with others, but he knew he was unlikeable and awkward. Rmoney doesn’t even seem to know that he creeps people out and that he comes off as so damned weird. I know a guy with Asperger’s, and I know all about him (I went to college with his brother, so the first time I met him, my friend told all about his “offness” before I met him), so it doesn’t freak me out to be with him; but people who don’t know him sometimes head the other way as soon as they meet him. Does anybody know more about this than I do? Am I way off here?
Persia
@ChrisNYC: Yeah, I cannot figure out who decided ‘they’re big meanies’ was a winning campaign strategy.
muddy
WATB
FFredPalakon
@danimal: I think what’s going to come up is that Ryan isn’t anywhere near as serious about cutting deficits as he says he is: he didn’t “reluctantly” go along with the deficit increases of the Bush years, he was very much at the head of the charge.
From “The Legendary Paul Ryan” by John Chait:
Only with Obama has he changed his mind on stimulus; he killed Erskine-Bowles because of his stand on taxes. That one weak spot started to get hit doesn’t mean the others won’t either – whatever his body fat, he’s a little like Romney, a man almost entirely made up of exposed underbelly.
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us? (formerly MarkJ)
@ChrisNYC: That’s the key to understanding this whole thing. Mitt says he wants to focus on the issues but he doesn’t – it’s just a phrase he uses all the time to deflect criticism. Those of his policies that have been spelled out are unpopular and massively stupid. The rest he won’t make clear, and how does on talk about the issues when one’s proposed solutions to said issues are being hidden behind frosted glass?
The whining is another deflection. He wants to be able to attack Obama as unAmerican but deflect any “personal” attacks that come his way by saying Obama is the one going negative. That’s the whole campaign right there – there’s no “there” there – just a campaign strategy of opaqueness and deflection with enough dog-whistling to stir up enough white resentment to get him over the hump. So far it’s not working, but he’s too much of a coward to come up with anything else substantive that he could be attacked on.
Royston Vasey
Ah, New Zealand’s 4th best folk-pop duo.
Cool. :-)
RV in NZ