Tag: Republicans
Even Republicans Think Romney Blew It with Libya Statement
“Bungle…” “utter disaster…” “not ready for prime time…” “not presidential…” “Lehman moment.” And that’s just the Republicans.
— Subhead from Buzzfeed.com’s Ben Smith on a post titled, “Foreign Policy Hands Voice Disbelief At Romney Cairo Statement.” The story noted that senior Republicans felt Romney’s move “broke with a tradition of unity around national tragedies, and of avoiding hasty statements on foreign policy.” Smith added, this was the second time Romney has been burned by an early statement on a complex crisis: Romney denounced the Obama Administration’s handling of a Chinese dissident’s escape just as the Administration negotiated behind the scenes for his departure from the country.”
North Carolina Republicans Delusional Over Osama Bin Laden
15%
North Carolina Republicans that answered the question, “Who do you think deserves more credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden: Barack Obama or Mitt Romney?” with Mitt Romney. Another 56% of Republicans told Public Policy Polling (PPP) they weren’t sure, while only 29% could bring themselves to admit that Pres. Obama should get more credit. While the president is enjoying a post convention bounce nationwide, he moved up only one point in the battleground state, from 48-48 the week before the event to 49-48 immediately after.
Pat Robertson, Fresh Off the Campaign Trail with Mitt, Advises a Man to Beat His Wife
Keep in mind as you watch Pat Robertson advise a man whose wife insults him that he needs to move to Saudi Arabia so he can “become a Muslim and beat her,” that Mitt campaigned this weekend with Pat at his side. Make no mistake about the “conservative” attitude toward women: we are to submit to male authority and if we don’t, well a man’s got to do what a man’s got to do.
Nice try by the CBN host to save Pat from saying more, and to laugh off his comments, but we get it. It’s called the Republican War on Women, and it just keeps escalating.
Update: Someone on Facebook reminded us that Vice Pres. Joe Biden was the author of the Violence Against Women Act, and that our choice in November couldn’t be clearer.
H/T to MBH
#RomneyHardships Shows Life for a Rich Corporate Raider is Harder Than You Think
A new hashtag is lighting up on Twitter: #RomneyHardships. Among those listed:
- So many connecting flights to get to your Swiss banks
- “I can’t hire illegals, I’m running for President for Pete’s sake.”
- So annoying that they won’t just let me buy Twitter outright…
- Nobody ever has change for a $10,000 bill.
- Car elevator becomes stuck between Bentley and Ferrari floors
- Having to pretend the greatest achievement of your time as Mass. governor never happened
- Not being able to “retroactively retire” from this miserable loser of a race
- Fact-checkers
- Trying to avoid situations where he’ll have to admit he thinks his mormon god lives on the planet Kolob
A promoted tweet from Paul Ryan appears at the top of the search: “Our economy runs on freedom, not government. It’s time we put our faith back in the American people #BelieveInAmerica #RomneyRyan2012”
In addition, there are a few tweets of support for Romney, including these completely not angry contributions:
- Having to deal with the tremendous amount of morons who think 4yrs of failure isn’t enough…#fail
- Paying $4,000,000.00 in taxes in one year, only to have zero-paying recipients whine he’s not paying his “fair share”
