Mitt Romney is the worst national politician I’ve ever seen (M. Cohen)

Mr.Micro

briankeating wrote: »

I would also add that having a pop at Romney for being a Mormon is a cheap shot IMO, there is plenty about the man to dislike without going there.

Indeed, the Mormon part is his good side.:D

RGM

I disagree with Obama and Democrats on just about everything. But, as an American, I'm ashamed that Romney is even in the race.

On election day, I will drag myself to the booth, vote all third-party, then go home and cry.

Amerika

As an American I’m pretty hyped on the Romney/Ryan ticket. On election day I will be voting enthusiastically and avoid walking past tall buildings with open windows in urban areas... if the polls keep tracking in Romney’s favor now till then that is.

Be like Nutella

just in case anyone forgot... Mitt Romney got all the way to this point... without fukcing explaining his big plan yet?

How is that even possible?

It's an indictment on the entire American media ...and public... how was he not destroyed over this? how the hell can somebody run on a mystery plan? can anyone tell me how his plan works? I'm open minded I swear to god if anyone can just explain how his plan works succinctly with evidence from what he has said I will gladly admit he's the man for the job. It's the most mind-bendingly ridiculous thing. His campaign has been the most fake embarrassing valueless flip flopping characterless joke I've ever seen in my life... Obama's hope and change bolox was bad enough in 2008 but at least he can tell you what his fiscal plan is going forward!
We're all fools. Romney should have been utterly destroyed in this campaign. He stands for absolutely nothing. How can anyone support this guy?
His only attribute ... literally his entire campaign value... his worth... his whole point is very simply nothing more than...'I am not Barack Obama'. Most American's are so embarrassed at the 8 years of George W Moron Bush... how can they possibly try and top that by voting in a guy who won't even tell them how he plans on doing the job!!!!!! Would any republican here like to attempt to rationalize choosing Romney based on his plan? or for the last time can we have some of yol come out of the closet and admit once and for all that this eejit : ) is just 'not Obama' and that's why you support him... fat chance I suppose I'm just givin yol a chance to come clean and cleans your soul and stop pretending you like and support the guy based on his character and his plan.. of which he has neither. I think that's me last rant on this haha I'm just dumbfounded as to how he got this far without being annihilated over NOT EXPLAINING HIS GOD DAMN PLAN!

right.. I'm done : ) Hope the election is clean and hope Obama wins.. and afterwards I hope people take a second to realize how close Romney came to getting the most important job on earth based on complete tripe and nonsense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WXhO_-e3bM

The Bishop!

Be like Nutella wrote: »

can anyone tell me how his plan works?

Nope. I think it's something to do with blind faith in his own awesomeness or something.

Here's what he said himself in the 47% speech:

"If it looks like I'm going to win, the markets will be happy. If it looks like the president's going to win, the markets should not be terribly happy. It depends of course which markets you're talking about, which types of commodities and so forth, but my own view is that if we win on November 6th, there will be a great deal of optimism about the future of this country. We'll see capital come back and we'll see -- without actually doing anything -- we'll actually get a boost in the economy."


As Paul Krugman put it, Romney is effectively saying, "I am the confidence fairy!".

Joseph Stiglitz describes it as based on magic.

nagilum2

The Bishop! wrote: »

Nope. I think it's something to do with blind faith in his own awesomeness or something.

To be fair I think the exact same thing was true of Obama in 2008. His entire platform was "I'm not Bush" + "Hope" + "Change"

joseph brand

Originally Posted by Robindch in A&A.

Proving He’s Not Fit to Lead, Romney Blames Others for His Failure

Mitt is not an impressive man.

http://www.politicususa.com/proving-...s-failure.html

Originally Posted by Politicus USA
The numbers don’t look so great for Romney right now. No matter what the spin is out there about a close race, this race isn’t close if you go state by state, as the Obama campaign figured out long ago.

Unable to deny these numbers internally, even as they spin to win, Romney surrogates are busy blaming Hurricane Sandy and Chris Christie, which is really the perfect way for them to flame out. It’s sort of like when you break up with someone because you just don’t trust them, and after you break up with them they prove you more right than you could have imagined.

Romney has never been a good candidate. Not only was he never loved by his own base and not only did he have to steal wins in the primaries, but he has completely changed what he stands for in the interim. He’s a constant and chaotic rewrite that his own campaign couldn’t keep up with. Romney never did release his tax returns (we got bits and pieces of two years of amended returns or returns they admitted were manipulated to pay more in taxes). He never did do the math for his Bush on steroids tax plan. He was outed as holding half the country in contempt. He made Sarah Palin look like a knowledgeable candidate on his summer foreign relations disaster tour.

Romney won’t give interviews or answer questions. During his entire summer of gaffes tour, he only answered 6 questions from the press. His campaign shut down all that “access” when the candidate proved his own worst enemy. Then he deployed his wife Ann as his “secret weapon” only to learn that her whining and imperial attitudes rendered her a weapon of mass campaign destruction. Who can forget “this is hard” as Americans starved or her suggestions that her husband had sort of served in the military by living lavishly in Paris while others died in the war he actively supported.

There was “Russia is our number one geopolitical foe” and putting words in the Australian Foreign Minister’s mouth in order to attack Obama. Romney managed to get the Palestinians and the Israelis to agree on one thing: He is a racist. That was after he insulted the British and left England in a flurry of humiliating headlines best remembered for their scathing beat down of his clownery. He was compared unfavorably to Sarah Palin and called a twit. Crowds mocked him.

Then we got Romney’s binders full of women, general misogyny, “if she’s going to work” tells and him standing by the man who said pregnancy from rape was a gift from God. Not cool. There was his Obamacare slur that got him booed by the NAACP. His busing in of black people to attend that rally. His fear of the ladies on The View. His temper tantrums like the one he aimed at the poor Univsion producers. There was his failure to mention the troops at the convention and then the doubling down that he mentioned what was “important.” Still wondering why he doesn’t do interviews anymore?

Oh, and Romney’s greatest achievement this cycle — lying so dangerously about auto production being moved to China that he forced GM and Chrylser to correct him on the record, over and over and over again. He’s still telling that lie. So it should be a given that seeing a potential fail on the horizon, Romney and his surrogates do what Republicans have come to do best. Blame others. They never look at their policies or candidates and think, gee, maybe we got it wrong. Nope.

It’s always everyone else’s fault. And so Chris Christie is being threatened that if Governor Romney wins, he won’t forget (nice mafia tone to that one) the betrayal of Christie helping his state and praising the President for a job well done for the people. So unfair of Christie to refuse to aid Romney in his delusions of grandeur. Doesn’t Christie know what really matters in this world? This is hard, Governor! And Sandy. Who knows what revenge the GOP has planned for Sandy for screwing them over so. Others lost lives and property but Sandy will be best remembered in Republican land as the unfair stealer of toys for the boys.

According to a PPP poll, Romney’s favorable ratings dropped by a net 7 points in the aftermath of Sandy, while Obama’s rose 6 points. While there’s no way of knowing if that drop is related specifically to the storm, perhaps instead of having a “relief” campaign rally staged with props as Sandy ravaged New Jersey, Romney could have acted presidential, even from the sidelines. Obama did it in 2008 when the financial crisis hit. Then candidate Obama proved himself worthy of leading by rolling up his sleeves and putting the country first. Sandy wasn’t destiny for Romney. He could have asked the Red Cross what they needed and set about really trying to make that happen instead of posing with canned goods the Red Cross said they didn’t want. He could have praised Christie and Obama and demonstrated his alleged bipartisanship. He could have taken the high road, but then, this is Mitt Romney.

There were options open to Romney that he chose to ignore. No, it wasn’t ideal for him as the challenger, but he could have made it work. Instead, he chose to make cheap shots from the sidelines while complaining about Chris Christie not being his bestie anymore. Maybe if Romney had treated Christie with a modicum of courtesy after he knew he was picking Ryan as his VP, Christie would have felt his loyalty had been returned. But no. Romney left Christie hanging. Another bad decision from Romney, but more than that, an indication that he doesn’t know how to build consensus and loyalty.

If Romney manages somehow to make magical math happen on Tuesday, surely he will take all of the credit. But should he fail, he will take none of the blame. That, in and of itself, should prove he’s unfit to lead.

The Romneys paraded themselves like a couple of Monarchs, waiting to rule over those lazy moochers, who don't understand how 'hard' they have it. Admittedly, Willard wasn't the worst out of a bad bunch, but the memory of the other candidates who lied to GOP supporters, telling them that god had told each of them they would win if they ran, is fresh in my mind.
Lying to voters is insulting and offensive, or at least it should be. But we've seen GOP supporters who believe Obama is a Kenyan, a communist a muslim and who knows what else.

Furthermore, Mitt's contempt, or lack of understanding of women, by supporting 'rape is a gift from god Mourdock' hasn't helped him. He should know better, what with his 'binders full of women', and maybe, his wife.

If he really is doing well in the polls, it's very surprising, since he's alienated 47% of Americans, most blacks, women and IIRC Latinos, who favour Obama.

joseph brand

nagilum2 wrote: »

To be fair I think the exact same thing was true of Obama in 2008. His entire platform was "I'm not Bush" + "Hope" + "Change"

To be fair:
He isn't Bush.
He gave them Hope.
and
He has brought change.

Perhaps not a lot of change, but you can put that down to obstructionism, and Mitch McConnell.
Are we allowed mention Bush, or was that too long ago? GOP supporters loathe to mention his name, which explains his absence at the RNC.

nagilum2

joseph brand wrote: »

To be fair:
He isn't Bush.
He gave them Hope.
and
He has brought change.

Perhaps not a lot of change, but you can put that down to obstructionism, and Mitch McConnell.
Are we allowed mention Bush, or was that too long ago? GOP supporters loathe to mention his name, which explains his absence at the RNC.

Obama is not as unpopular as Bush, but he is still very unpopular with some. And many Democrats are disillusioned with him.

It shouldn't be surprising that Romney copied a playbook that won last time. He is a business guy after all.

aloyisious

I listen to Romney and it sound's like he's taken a leaf from Clinton's book "It's the economy, dummy". I also heard that one of his Presidential plans is to scrap FEMA, which would go down a treat in the East Coast states right now.

I'm left wondering who exactly Romney mean's when he tell's the voters he will raise pay scales, given that he is a businessman who's income comes from ensuring production is done at minimum cost. There's also the Obamacare Plan:

http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=does%20the%20obama%20healthcare%20put%20extra%20cost%20on%20employers&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&ved=0CDEQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Fobamacar-has-put-employer-based-health-care-plans-on-a-slippery-slope-2012-7&ei=RAKZUJbEDImnhAerg4H4DQ&usg=AFQjCNFVA1w0mpLmMCNkIueLlZ0vp7DEfw