Tag: Republicans
If Mitt Were Michael Scott…
Great job on this video from MoveOn.org — except that guy’s makeup is a little wonky. Oh well, he still captures Mitt’s alien-like awkwardness with actual humans.
Many Florida Republicans Not Ready to Choose
1 in 3
Number of registered Republican voters in Florida who say they are still making up their minds who to vote for in less than a week. Their candidates have one more “debate,” as the press conference/Greek chorus/American Idol/Survivor T.V. contests are called, before the Florida primary. Another 64% of Florida Republicans said they have made their choice and will stick with it.
Carville: ‘Republicans Are in the Midst of a World Class Disaster’
James Carville, or as I think of him, Mr. Mary Matalin, penned an open letter to Republicans and it’s a doozy. Carville looks back at the lowest high points of the race so far and concludes it’s a “world-class disaster.” Since right now that particular description brings to mind captain-less ships unable to float, it’s not a bad analogy.
But Carville is just getting warmed up.
Carville on Newt: ‘You guys have to deal with a $1.6 million Freddie Mac consultant who has been married three times’
…most people thought it was kind of a watermark when your Tea Party gang booed the golden rule. You know, I’ve spent some time in Philly and they have always thought they were pretty radical because they actually booed Santa Claus and Willie Mays. Philly, I’ve got news for you — you ain’t got nothing on South Carolina Republicans. They just aren’t buying any of that do-unto-others garbage.
It’s hard to tell from the clip if the audience was booing Jesus or Ron Paul or peace. No matter, they were clearly not interested in anything but kicking Iranian butt.
But Paul, as we know, is not a front-runner. For the two of them, Carville saves his best shots, starting with Mitt Romney.
Mitt Is a Job Creator
If you don’t think Mitt Romney created 100,000 jobs, you’ve never been to India.
Unattributed quote making the rounds on Facebook
Gingrich Goes Negative on Mitt – And Reveals His Own Shortcomings
Yes, this video put together by the Newt Gingrich team does show a greatest hits list of Romney bloopers (although there are more that didn’t make this cut, such as when he pretended to be goosed by waitresses in a diner, or when he claimed in front of unemployed people to understand their plight because he is unemployed too, or more, more, more). But the most revealing line in it, to me, is the premise underlying it: that Romney will never win in a debate with the presumably much smarter and better spoken Obama — and that this is what matters most.
I think Gingrich honestly believes that governing is all about what words you choose and the mental abstractions you amuse yourself and those listening in awe with. There is no sound more lovely to Gingrich than that of his own voice, but a president needs traits other than pontification and bloviation. He, or one day, she, needs judgment and sanity and a willingness to be, as we so often think of Obama when the subject of Congress comes up, the adult in the room. Million dollar credit lines at Tiffany and trophy wives and egos that don’t fit through the door equip someone to be president no better than does constantly saying stupid things in public.
So yeah, Mitt’s an idiot. But Gingrich doesn’t even get why he’s no upgrade.
Who’s on Mitt’s Car Roof Now?
REPORT: Mitt has strapped Jon Huntsman to the roof of his car and is driving to South Carolina.
LOLGOP, aka comedian Pete Nicely, alluding to one of Mitt Romney’s dumbest ideas ever.
Bush to Blame for GOP’s Crummy Candidates
A successful Presidency can produce a new crop of future Presidential candidates for the party that controls the White House. The vice president and cabinet officials, as well as governors and senators elected over the course of the administration, are historically major sources for a party’s next round of candidates. The Bush years had the opposite effect. It was unthinkable that his vice president would run for higher office and much of his cabinet left Washington tainted by the President’s unpopularity. Moreover, Bush helped sink his party in the 2006 and 2008 elections, thus depleting the ranks of potential Republican candidates for 2012.
— Ryan Lizza, writing in the New Yorker, blaming former President George W. Bush is at fault for the exceptionally weak field of Republican presidential candidates.
Struggling to Understand How Rich Mitt Romney Is
It’s hard for most of us to imagine being worth a few million dollars. That’s serious greenbacks, putting us beyond worry and squarely in the land of comfort. But if we were Mitt Romney, who is worth a quarter-BILLION dollars, that would be chump change.
And while all the presidential candidates are in that comfortable, worry-free zone, Romney’s wealth, according to a fascinating piece of research in the Tampa Bay Times, blocks out the sun.
Romney refuses to say how much, if anything, he pays in income taxes
For every $100 personally owned by Romney, President Obama has $4.20, Newt Gingrich has $2.70 and Ron Paul has $2. And Rick Santorum, closely trailing a victorious Romney in last week’s Iowa caucus, has but a single buck.
But wait, there’s more.
