What’s all this then?
Oh I can only hope. Exeunt the conveyance here, should you dare.
Anyway, you lie, madam. You will never shut up about Romney. Ever. In what should be her last paragraph about this campaign:
Certainly time and ad money have not been used to maximize Romney’s advantages. But that’s water under the bridge. He now can do it, provided he spends his remaining time on the simple message: We can do better, we’re doing worse under Obama and here’s how we can do better. That should be the formula for every ad, stump speech, major speech and debate answer. If he does that, he most certainly can win the race.
That would involve him giving specifics. Romney refuses to do that. He’s been refusing to do that since the start of the campaign. If he gave specifics, he would lose because the specifics are a massive tax burden on everyone who’s not Mitt Romney. What about that do you not understand, Jen?
It’s really not that hard. Sheesh.
JasonF
Good news out of Pennsylvania!
http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2019320055_apusvoteridpennsylvania.html
eric
even as a hired gun myself (lawyer), I cannot fathom the lack of self-respect one must have to take positions that are not simply stupid, but factually false and deceitful. I understand how the Village as collective operatives, but I do not understand how its component parts manage to do what they do. The sheer volume of people who publicly lie to see their cause win boggles my mind. I do not intend this as hyperbole, but Dante had all of this covered hundreds of years ago.
BGinCHI
I think “The Final Countdown” would have been catchier.
BGinCHI
@eric: We’re gonna need bigger circles of hell.
eric
@BGinCHI: i propose Hell formally annex Texas
Violet
@JasonF: Heard this on the radio while in the car. Calling Kay! Excellent news!
MaxxLange
So where is Dante putting the Villagers? False Councilors? Flatterers? Barratry?
eric
@MaxxLange: Cleveland
BGinCHI
@eric: Infrastructure? Check.
Hatred? Check.
BBQ? Check.
Jerry Jones? Check.
ericblair
The entire Romney campaign is based on the idea that Obama with a bad economy and high unemployment will lose to a Generic Republican with tons of dough. Romney tried his best to be a Generic Republican. You can’t expect him to be something actually specific now, can you? Because the specifics are, um, not so great acshully.
BGinCHI
@MaxxLange: Simony.
Michael
Here in Dallas, the fight between pilots and executives at American Airlines is pretty heated. You meet a lot of pilots. The thing you hear them complain most about is this:
1. AA had problems, management asked unions for “concessions” to extend the life of the company. They agree. Executives then get millions in bonuses (sometimes secret).
2. AA still has problems. Company could survive if they merged with another firm (like US Airways). This would likely mean all AA executives lose their jobs. Executives fight such a merger.
There’s a parallel here between AA and the US as a whole. The rich “leaders” want secured jobs and lucrative pay checks and insist that everyone else help ensure that by participating in some (not so) “shared sacrifice.”
And that’s essentially Romney/Ryan’s plan. Let’s attack SS, Medicare, and Medicaid so we can pay for huge tax cuts for the rich. They’re “job creators” so it’ll trickle down, they promise!
The masses are wising up, and if Rubin things that it works in favor of Romney to go out and talk about this plan, she’s pretty dense.
amk
signs of desperation from jenny baybee. sweet schadenfreude.
yet another reboot for the bot. that’s the ticket to prezinency.
sherparick
On CNBC, the plutocrats network, there is all kind of sad and predicting gloom and doom if the Kenyan Muslim Socialist Nazi Usurper who saved their bacon in 2008-09 and consquently made them all immeasurably wealthy is reelectd. See the Sam Zell piece for example (a real piece of work Mr. Zell. The folks at the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times can tell you how he screwed them all over) See http://www.cnbc.com/
Great news about Pennsylvania. Hope it stands up in court.
Yes, we need more circles of hell.
eric
@BGinCHI: jerry jones will be serving time in altogether different circle, in which he will eternally pummeled by footballs thrown by an accurate Jeff George (obviously a fantastic unreal creature)
ericblair
@amk:
That’s Microsoft tech support for you. Reboot, reboot, reboot, and maybe the problems will magically fix themselves.
Barbara
I realize that all columnists are paid to have a point of view but Rubin is virtually nothing more than a cheerleader for Romney. She is truly not worth reading.
MaxxLange
The flatterers are in a ditch filled with shit – works for me
BGinCHI
@eric: I assume that this version of Jeff George (another Indiana Legend) has a leg that is actually Patrick Duffy.
butler
@Barbara: Oh I don’t know. She can be good for a laugh at time. For example, her post yesterday opened with: “Mitt Romney is a nice man. He might be the nicest man ever to run for president.”
dmsilev
@eric:
“f I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent Texas and live in Hell” – Gen. Philip Sheridan
dmsilev
@ericblair: Maybe next time they should try rebooting the Romney campaign into safe mode.
eric
And Virgil pointed to the horizon,
where i saw rushing toward us,
a most amazing sight infused with
the sounds of wailing harpies,
not content to wail but also
to rip the flesh from the tortured
souls bound in the on rushing cloud.
these now fleshless creatures could
see inside each of their screaming
neighbors to see insubstantial vessels
of torn and burning flesh.
Such meaningless screams from the
meaningless denizens of the Village.
Then the Harpies in a fit of pique forced
upon these tortured souls endless loops
of video so each could see his emptiness
repeating false platitudes and lies in the service
of injustice and the subjugation of Justice.
And She was most pleased.
karen marie
@eric: But that’s the thing — I don’t think people like Ruben even understand they are lying. She, and they, are telling “the truth” within the scope of their extraordinarily narrow and ill-informed world view.
It’s like the every-four-years argument about voting third party ticket. Every four years there is a new crop of people who were either too young or simply weren’t paying attention in past cycles.
Ronaldus Reaganus was Rubin’s first president. His was the first election she was old enough to vote. In her experience, everything was “morning in America” until that scoundrel Clinton was elected. Her interest in politics rose once she had an income large enough to provide her with the leisure to become a pest.
Ash Can
Rubin’s really deep in denial, isn’t she? Romney has come right out and said that he won’t reveal any details of his plans. Ryan has corroborated this. If she’s so enamored of these guys, why is she ignoring what they’re saying? That’s just fucked up.
As for the PA ruling, it unfortunately may not be the good news the headlines make it out to be. I’m hoping Kay can shed some light on it, but, as commenters have been discussing in the previous thread, it’s murky at best.
Enhanced Mooching Techniques
and still leave the deficit so it would have to be another round of tax hikes for everyone not Mitt Romney and another ad nauseum.
negative 1
@BGinCHI: Oh dear lord now I have that song stuck in my head.
I think at the heart of the problem for anyone R is that ultimately they’d have to admit that capitalism is cyclical, and that there is very little that can be done about that as far as pure laissez-faire solutions, and especially that yelling ‘tax cuts’ at it doesn’t make it go away. I’m a little optimistic in that it appears that people are getting a little smarter about this.
zzyzx
Rubin is now forced to, “If he does that, he most certainly can win the race.” It’s no longer Romney will win or even that he’s winning but more like, “Well it’s not impossible for him to win if he can completely change his tactics, I guess.” That’s how badly he’s doing.
Enhanced Mooching Techniques
@MaxxLange: Malebolge
lacp
@butler: “Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.”
1badbaba3
We have seen Romney’s plan. First time was from 1980 to 1992. The second was from 2000 to 2008. Both sucked. Romney is fucked. What more do we need to know? The idea that all he has to do is be human to sell it is so hilarious. One would have to be the devil himself to pull that off. And Mr. Romney may be evil and stupid, but he’s no devil.
Now Cheney, OTOH…
Roger Moore
@ericblair:
The problem is that Generic Republican wasn’t a particularly good bet to beat Obama in the first place, since Generic Republican would have to abide by all the planks in the Republican platform that voters hate. What the Republicans really needed was Inanimate Carbon Rod who wouldn’t be tied to the Republican party in any way, shape, or form. Then they’d have the opposite problem, that the Republican base would have no particular reason to get excited about a candidate who didn’t endorse any of their positions. Which, come to think of it, is a tolerable description of the Scylla and Charybdis that Mitt has been trying to navigate through.
RSA
You’d think that a professional writer crafting a message for Romney would spend a little bit of time considering grammar and such.
PreservedKillick
Look, what Romney is going to do is stand up there and flat out lie. He’s going to do exactly what Scott Brown did last night – when facts are inconvenient, lie about them.
Brown wasn’t called out on his lies last night (“I’ve released my client list”, “I’ve voted with the dems half the time”.) Romney won’t be tonight. Fact checking afterwards won’t matter.
Welcome to a post-truth world.
quannlace
Funny how the REAL Romney campaign is always juuuuuust around the corner. His VP pick, his ‘introduction to America’ at the convention. The various new reboots that were supposed to come out during September. And now it’s the Debates!
Roger Moore
@RSA:
If she were actually trying to help him right now, she might be doing that. What’s she’s really trying to do is to simultaneously prove her loyalty to Romney while disclaiming responsibility for his campaign. This column is the set-up for the November 7 column about how Romney could have won if he’d only followed her advice. She isn’t quite throwing him under the bus; she’s recognizing that the bus is coming and trying to position herself to claim she tried to get him out of the way but was tragically unable to do so.
Amit Joshi
Zandar says:
Um, Zandar, what part of “she’s a paid shill” don’t you understand?
Barney
Shorter JenRub (ugh, that sounds obscene):
blingee
It’s Jennifer Rubin for fucks sakes. The Rmoney campaign has her on speed dial. What did you expect???
Higgs Boson's Mate
Hmmm, a previous post used the colloquialism “mercy fuck.” It never seems to occur to Rubin and her fellow editorialists that being paid to write drivel is one of the longest running mercy fucks in history.
Soonergrunt
Hacktackular Hack is hacktackular.
Chyron HR
Don’t worry, guys, Romney has this in the bag. I just saw a CNN report (not an editorial, just a statement of alleged fact) which informed me that Romney is poised to win because his campaign is in “shambles”–just like it was in 2002! Check and mate, Obummer.
hep kitty
I got one thing to say to this lady. There are almost no Romney signs in my rather conservative neighborhood as opposed to all those McCain posters plastered everywhere 4 years ago.
And I think some of them had Romney signs on their lawns for a bit but now appear to have been recently removed. :)
So, Ms. Rubin, Mr. Will, lady from Christian Science Monitor, Chris Christie, whoever, give it a rest. You’re using up perfectly good oxygen, there.
shortstop
@Roger Moore: Bingo. In fact, more of them are doing this than aren’t. The finger-pointing after the fact will be epic.
Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God
Rubin had a Twitter to Scott Brown during last night’s debate along the lines of “C’mon, Scott, win one for Gen. Custer!”.
I can’t link to it from here, but seriously… WTF is up with that?
ThresherK
@BGinCHI: “They’re not turning tricks, they’re turning illusions!”
Roger Moore
@shortstop:
Yeah, my impression is that the great divide in the Republican party right now is between the ones who are saying that Romney would win if he would only follow their brilliant advice and the ones who say he’s a terrible candidate and they were right that the party never should have nominated him. The number who are still working their hardest to elect him, rather than to cover their asses for his inevitable failure, is largely limited to his immediate family and staff.
Bruce S
@Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God:
Jennifer Rubin is the “Thinking Man’s” Pam Geller!
I hope that someone at WaPo has the foresight to bring her a big box of Depends to wear on election day, because she’ll need them.
Arclite
They really are getting desperate.
Captain C
@MaxxLange: If Hell is using Bush-era rhetoric as their legal theory, some of the Villagers may wind up in the 9th Circle with the rest of the traitors.