Day: August 29, 2012
Rush Limbaugh: Obama, Acting Through the National Hurricane Center, Tried to Ruin Republican Convention
Rush Limbaugh has to be thinking that now would be as good a time as any to retire. His recent assertion that the National Hurricane Center (NHC) is conspiring to re-elect the president is all the evidence anyone needs that Rush would probably be happier at home, out of the reach of microphones.
Here’s what Rush said on his show earlier this week:
The hurricane center is the regime. The hurricane center is the Commerce Department. It’s the government. It’s Obama.
And as Obama, the NHC obviously wanted to disrupt the Republican National Convention by forecasting, while Isaac was still a tropical storm south of Haiti, that it could strengthen and threaten the gulf coast of Florida, including Tampa. Just listen to Rush’s version:
Hilarious New Video Exposes Mitt’s Real Life Story
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That Weather Event
Ann Romney admitted her husband has a charisma lack.
Chris Christie uncharacteristically didn’t go on the attack.
When we look back on the convention,
Pardon us when we mention
That the most interesting part of it was Tropical Storm Isaac.
Huckabee Uses Back-Handed Metaphor to Describe Romney
The sicker the patient, the less important is bedside manner. If you’ve just been diagnosed with a brain tumor, you honestly don’t care if your neurosurgeon is a jerk. You don’t care if he has a great personality. You want to know if you’re going to cut my head open, can you get the job done?
— Mike Huckabee, quoted by the Daily Beast, using a novel way to sell the staid Mitt Romney.
Romney Has Lowest Favorability Rating of a Prez Nominee Ever
40%
Of registered voters see Mitt Romney favorably overall, while 51% rate him unfavorably — 11 points underwater in this basic measure, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Romney accepts the Republican nomination for president with the lowest personal popularity of any major-party nominee in polls dating to Ronald Reagan’s presidency.
One-Fifth of Voters Paying No Attention to Campaign
20%
Of voters say they are tuning out the election almost entirely, a new CBS News poll finds; 45% of are paying a lot of attention to the campaign, and 34% say they are at least paying some attention.
Taibbi: Romney One of the Greatest Debt Creators of All Time
But what most voters don’t know is the way Mitt Romney actually made his fortune: by borrowing vast sums of money that other people were forced to pay back. This is the plain, stark reality that has somehow eluded America’s top political journalists for two consecutive presidential campaigns: Mitt Romney is one of the greatest and most irresponsible debt creators of all time. In the past few decades, in fact, Romney has piled more debt onto more unsuspecting companies, written more gigantic checks that other people have to cover, than perhaps all but a handful of people on planet Earth. … By making debt the centerpiece of his campaign, Romney was making a calculated bluff of historic dimensions — placing a massive all-in bet on the rank incompetence of the American press corps. The result has been a brilliant comedy: A man makes a $250 million fortune loading up companies with debt and then extracting million-dollar fees from those same companies, in exchange for the generous service of telling them who needs to be fired in order to finance the debt payments he saddled them with in the first place …
— Matt Taibbi, writing in Rolling Stone.
Ann Romney’s Convention Speech Omitted the Fact That She and Mitt Lived on Proceeds from Stocks During Their Hard Times in College
Ann Romney’s speech to the Republican National Convention last night included an anecdote about the hard times she and Mitt faced when they were young — a story intended to assure middle class voters that, despite the fact that the Romneys are multimillionaires, they’re really just regular folks like you and me:
Boehner’s Boozy Republicans-As-Bar-Flies Analogy in Convention Speech Backfires – Romney Said ‘Big Business Is Doing Fine’ Just Last Week
In his speech to the Republican Convention last night, House Speaker John Boehner, who also serves as the convention chairman, deployed a boozy analogy in which Republicans are bar flies and the president is a drunk, presumably, who says something that the bar fly hive mind collectively finds offensive:
