Archive for the ‘2012 Election’ CategoryMitt Romney says screw the Detroit bailout; managed bankruptcy was the way
Santorum says “No, no…the Detroit bailout AND the Wall Street bailout were wrong. See, I’m consistent. I stand on principles, and my positions are consistent.” Wow, see that? Romney says screw the Detroit bailout that actually worked, and Santorum one-ups… The stupid American public maybe isn’t as dumb as you’d think
I just underwent the strangest change: I just became less cynical while listening to politicos talk about how these republican candidates are running the most soulless, vacuous, demagoguing campaigns imaginable. I mean typically I’m the guy who says… Gingrich: the Great Debater?
I don’t think so. I was most definitely impressed with this guy initially because he’s got a Toast-Masters style of speaking, he’s grandiose, he’s searing and he knows how to turn the tables on his opponents when they’re backing him into a corner. I mean I see Gingrich and I see some solid… The State of the Union speech was strong…and pointless
It’s the same old story with Obama; just when everyone is resigned to the fact that he’s useless, he sees the campaign season around the corner and he hits you with a speech that reminds you why he was elected in 2008. The problem is…unless you’re my friend who’s listed in the Guinness book as having the worst memory in history, you remember how utterly impotent Obama has been for the last three years. He came out of the gate strong: “Hope and change,” “Common sense principles”… The Mitt Romney 24-hour turnaround
Within 24 hours, Mitt Romney went from being a lock for 3 and 0 (Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina) to being 1 and 2. The Iowa vote was recounted and it turned out that his… The correct reaction to Bain Capital
Is “I don’t know.” What’s irritating to me is that raising the issue of Bain Capital has any effect at all, one way or the other. If a man who was running a positive campaign feels slighted by a competitor because the competitor decided to play a little rough, and then that man proceeds to get red in the face and put out ads attempting… The tea party f^&#@ things up for republicans
I don’t know if this is true, but this is the feeling I’m getting. Tea party kicked off a couple years ago with good reason; the national debt is slightly out of control. The party is comprised of some of the real nuts of an already nutty conservative segment of the electorate, so the fact that the their central theme is the overburdening debt is fine, but the champions of their movement ended up being some real gems like… Mitt Romney double-gaffe; priceless
Gaffe: “I like being able to fire people who provide a service to me.”
Explanation-of-the-gaffe gaffe: “If you expect me to carefully watch every word I say, and worry about how it relates to people….that’s not me. I speak from my life experiences, I’m sure you have your own.”
Translation:
“I like firing people. That’s my life experience; I’m sure yours is different since you were probably fired. I’m not going to worry about how I relate to people when I say that.”
Love it. If people were smart, these semantic trivialities probably wouldn’t matter…but since they’re not it’s a double-gaffe. Gotta love it; as Jon Stewart would say, “It’s been a week and daddy needs another hit of gaffe-crack!!!”
1/10/2012 – Christ Gingrich isn’t too bad
I like the guy because he’s intellectual blunt. I.e. a combination of being intelligent, articulate, and, when needed, blunt. Now the guy has about 100 ideas a day and 99 of them are removed from the bounds of reality, and he ran what he called “scorched earth politics” back in 90s. But he did find a way to work with Clinton. And… Mitt Romney is not a robot
Jon Huntsman is. People keep calling Romney a robot but that’s not quite accurate; Huntsman proves this by comparison perfectly because the guy actually IS a robot. When Huntsman speaks, people fall into comas. The guy has no passion, no fire, and he doesn’t even sound like a polished politician (a la Romney); he sounds like a guy making announcements over a PA system. There’s a reason you call someone a robot; it means they’re… |
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