Tag: Mitt Romney

Right-Wing Boston Newspaper Calls GOP Presidential Field a ‘Clown Car’ Then Endorses Bozo

Jon Ponder

Romney as a clown (art found online)
Romney as a clown (art found online)
Boston’s Republican Party daily propaganda sheet, the Boston Herald, has made its endorsement in the GOP presidential primaries:

We have referred in the past to the clown car nature of the Republican field as ego-driven candidates like Donald Trump flirted with the process only to be followed by the often engaging but deeply flawed candidacies of Herman Cain, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Ron Paul and finally Newt Gingrich.

It has been an entertaining several months, but really now, does anyone see even the remotest possibility of any of those folks taking the oath of office on the Capitol steps come Jan. 20, 2013?

So this is no longer a parlor game. Beginning Jan. 3 in Iowa this is very real indeed.

And there is only one candidate in the Republican field with the integrity, the experience, the organizational strength and the intelligence to beat Barack Obama and that man is Mitt Romney.

Romney’s Flip-Flop on Bin Laden Is Undeniable

Buck Banks

I do not concur in the words of Barack Obama in a plan to enter an ally of ours… I don’t think those kinds of comments help in this effort to draw more friends to our effort.

— Mitt Romney, quoted by Reuters in 2008, on the United States entering Pakistan to kill Osama bin Laden.

I think other presidents and other candidates like myself would do exactly the same thing.

— Romney, in an interview on MSNBC earlier today, downplaying credit for Obama for ordering the raid in Pakistan that finally killed Osama bin Laden.

Dems to Paint Romney as ‘Predatory, Unfettered’ Capitalist

Buck Banks

The Bain years are central to Romney’s narrative. If you think about the arc of his life, on a personal level, he seems to be an exemplary man. He was born with every advantage of wealth, power, and privilege. But he used all of those talents to enrich himself and his wealthy friends — and to screw the middle class. That feeds into his policy agenda.

— Democratic strategist Paul Begala, in an interview with Greg Sargent, on how Democrats plan to paint Mitt Romney “as a symbol of the predatory, unfettered capitalism that landed us in our economic crisis.”

Romney’s Idea of a Casual Bet is a Quarter of Most People’s Annual Salary

Trish

Watch Perry’s face as Romney holds out his hand and asks him to bet, you know, the usual amount for a casual wager — $10,000 — on whether Romney once favored requiring people to have health insurance. Catch that flicker of incredulity and astonishment as Romney proves he’s serious about the sum by repeating it in case Perry didn’t get it the first time.

Certainly Romney and his folks will walk back this display of Romney’s 1%-ness by claiming he was only kidding and that members of the Mormon sect don’t bet either. Most of those watching the moment are unconvinced.

Bill Burton, spokesman for PrioritiesUSA, an outside group supporting President Barack Obama’s re-election, said the attempted wager is another sign that in an economy with 8.6 percent unemployment, Romney “could not be more out of step.”

…”It is predictable that Mitt Romney will slip up and let folks in on who he is from time-to-time,” Burton said in an email. “Corporations are people, joking about being unemployed and now this. Mitt Romney has no clue what pain the American middle class is feeling right now.”

Meanwhile, fellow Mormonite and silver spoon baby Jon Huntsman is jumping on Romney’s slip.

Rival Republican Jon Huntsman’s campaign seized on Romney’s remark, promising in an email that the website 10KBet.com was on its way.

Update: 10KBet.com is up.