Mittens Romney
Focus Group Fallout From Romney’s “I Don’t Care About the Very Poor” Remark Yesterday
UPDATE: I wrote this before news broke this morning that Donald Trump will be endorsing Willard “Mittens” Romney in Las Vegas later today…and that Romney will share a stage with Trump. For a big photo op. A photo op that will create many images of Trump and Romney together. Trump is most famous these days for his TV catchphrase of “You’re fired!”.
If you can’t see what Democrats are going to do with that in terms of campaign-commercial material then there’s just no hope for you.
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What follows below the fold is a Facebook discussion of Willard “Mittens” Romney(care)’s remark yesterday, where he said to Soledad O’Brien that he didn’t care about the very poor. Context be damned because Democrats have already begun repeating the story without any of the caveats and clarifications that Romney later issued to explain himself.
The meme is that Romney said, “I don’t care about the very poor” and did it in a callous and cruel way — whether that’s what really happened or not is irrelevant as Democrats are going to use this as a major meme in the general election should the Cocktail Party succeed in nominating the exact person that Barack Obama most wants to run against in the class warfare/unemployment/terrible economy election that’s being orchestrated.
I found this discussion on a very Leftist site, where hundreds of people have chimed in (as of this writing) to illustrate just how effective a cudgel the “I don’t care about the very poor” remark will be against Romney if he’s the Republican nominated to oppose Obama in the fall.
You really need to read this — especially if you are a Romney supporter. There’s just no way to do damage control on this. IT IS THAT BAD.
NOTE: Because this is lifted directly off a Leftist Facebook page, the language is horrific. Expletives everywhere, violent imagery, the works. I have left it all uncensored and apologize in advance for anyone who is offended…but this is really how the Tolerant Left expresses itself.
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Reasons Romney Will Lose to Obama: #2 He Says Things In Public That Even Thurston Howell III Wouldn’t Say Aloud
[ Click above to embiggen: Reason #2 of Why Willard "Mittens" Romney Will Lose to Barack Obama ]
Can you think of any more quotes attributable to Willard “Mittens” Romney that Democrats will use against him in a generation election to paint him as the quintessential embodiment of what the Occupy Wall Street astroturfed protests were created to rail against?
Remember: one of the things Democrats are exponentially better at than Republicans is using words to their maximum impact — and also slightly tweaking things someone said to the full advantage of The Tolerant Left. For example, in 2008 Governor Sarah Palin never said that she could see Russia from her house; the actual quote was that you can see Russia from Alaska because Alaskan Bering Sea islands are incredibly close to Siberian islands off the coast of Russia. Tina Fey and Saturday Night Live tweaked what she said and added the “from my house” part to caricature the Governor as stupid (a classic attack on Republicans, whom the Tolerant Left forever portrays as dim-witted, backwards, saurian, or needlessly cruel in order to alienate Independent voters from the GOP).
Romney gives Democrats more ammunition — on a rolling basis — than any Republican presidential candidate in memory because he feeds so directly into the caricature the Tolerant Left needs to create of him in order to secure Barack Obama’s re-election.
What else has he said that Democrats will lampoon?
Besides Thurston Howell III, what other callous, super-wealthy, out-of-touch characters from fiction will Democrats use to further alienate Independents from voting Republican in the fall if Romney is the nominee?
Addressing this stuff now means we will have nine months to come up with some creative way to mitigate this if indeed the Cocktail Party GOP establishment gets its way and Romney is installed as the “it’s his turn!” nominee that’s destined to lose the general election in Dole and McCain fashion.
The #1 Reason Mitt Romney Would Lose to Barack Obama: Nonstop Forced Errors Feeding Into the Occupy Wall Street Obama Campaign Strategy
This is truly an unacceptable “mistake” to make for someone who has no day job and who has spent the last eight years now running for the same elected office.
Today on Soledad O’Brien’s CNN puppet talk show, Willard “Mittens” Romney(care) made more of the statements he’s becoming increasingly famous for — the ones where he essentially stands in front of the camera and willingly records video for David Axelrod to use in Barack Obama’s re-election campaign commercials.
No doubt, Romney supporters will send hatemail claiming “that’s taken out of context!” or “but, but, but…he clarified what he meant!” because Romney has a very aggressive phalanx of minions out there who desperately attempt to fabricate a new reality where Democrats don’t lift bits and pieces of speech and create devastatingly effective ads that take things out of context without additional clarification allowed.
In politics, you can’t state anything in a sentence in a way that someone can lift that one little bit out and use it against you — especially not in an election year where The Tolerant Left has no record of achievement to run on and is committed to the “Occupy & Persecute” class warfare strategy that’s begun in earnest with Occupy Wall Street and its chosen villain of the very fat cat, elitist, mega-wealthy archetype that Romney embodies.
Let’s put this in a much more relatable, real-world context and pretend you’re on a job interview to work in a business that’s located in a part of town where there’s been a lot of suspicious fires lately. During the interview, almost completely unprompted, you volunteer that you like having the ability to set fires and don’t much care for fire prevention efforts. After that you say a few things about how your focus, upon clarification, shows anyone willing to really listen to you that you are most certainly against burning buildings to the ground. You just have a habit of slipping in that you collect matchbooks from different places you go and you inherited a fine collection of lighters and that you love the smell of gasoline in the morning and, of course, it’s purely by coincidence those establishments you just happen to visit in the course of your day end up piles of ash so inexplicably.
Do you think you would get the job if you said things like this?
Do you — and please be honest here — think it’s really a smart idea for Republicans to nominate Romney to run against Obama in a year when the “Occupy & Persecute” strategy is to rev up a massive class warfare targeting people that Democrats will claim are responsible for the privations millions of Americans are suffering these economic times?
Almost every time Romney opens his mouth he comes across like someone going on about his platinum-plated lighter collection and his fascination with the elemental power of flames — in front of a huddled group of desperate people whose home just burned down.
Can you please explain why the Cocktail Party keeps saying this man is “electable”?
Is this one of those things where no one has a real plan, but they’re counting on saying the same thing enough times to wishcast what they want into reality?
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UPDATE: I really enjoyed this piece by Jeff Emmanuel at Redstate about the colossal damage Romney did to himself for the general election today.
For some reason, Republicans have an incredibly hard time understanding that Democrats know how to take video of Republicans saying things like “I don’t care about the very poor” and use those sound bytes to defeat Republicans in elections.
When someone like Romney does something this stupid, the Cocktail Party GOP establishment won’t even admit it was a major mistake. Instead, they’ll say things like, “Everyone will forget about this tomorrow”, or “Nobody watches that CNN show”, or “that’s not what he really meant to say”.
Folks — a very large part of why Bill Clinton won the 1992 election was because George H.W. Bush looked at his watch like he was bored and didn’t want to be at one of the debates any longer. That was caught on film in the days before YouTube or computers and was replayed over and over again in the news so that millions of Americans resented Bush’s implication that he didn’t think it was worth his time to stand there and present his case for re-election to the American people.
And that was something Bush did without even speaking. When he DID open his mouth, he’d say strange, alien things about not really knowing how much bread costs or how amazed he was by the scanners in supermarkets.
When a Republican candidate presents himself to the American people in a way that makes him seem so ridiculously wealthy and out of touch that he can’t relate to regular people, that Republican is TOAST (whether or not he knows how much bread costs).
Mark this date on your calendar.
I honestly believe Mitt Romney just lost the general election today…in this interview with Soledad O’Brien. There is no recovery possible from this sound byte. It’s like how Rick Perry lost his chance at the nomination during that one debate where he couldn’t name the three departments of government he planned to eliminate if he was elected. As soon as it happened, it was clear Perry was Texas TOAST.
It took several weeks for that to sink in for him and the fools who ran his campaign (into the ground), but Perry lost the race in those 53 seconds.
Mitt Romney just handed Barack Obama a second term, in however many seconds he spent talking about the “very poor” to Soledad O’Brien.
If Republicans nominate this man anyway, then there better be absolute Hell to pay for everyone responsible for continuing to push him when the race was already lost on February 1st, 2012.
Hold Them Accountable: Start Keeping Track of Who Aggressively Pushes Romney For the Nomination And Make Sure They Answer For It November 6th (one way or the other)
Whatever happened to everyone who aggressively pushed John McCain as the “it’s his turn!” nominee back in 2008 — you know, after he lost the presidency to Barack Obama?
Mike Huckabee deliberately stayed in the race as a vote-splitting spoiler to benefit McCain — and he was rewarded with a lucrative TV career.
The fools who ran McCain’s lackluster campaign all still have high-paying jobs amongst the Cocktail Party establishment elite. Almost all of them tried to deflect attention from their own failings by blaming Governor Sarah Palin for McCain’s loss — when in reality it would have been an absolute blowout loss if not for the energy and adrenaline that Palin brought to the race. Remember how aggressively the elite, agenda-driven media and The Tolerant Left conspired with the Cocktail Party to malign Governor Palin — while protecting the permanent political class elites that actually fumbled the election — and you’ll see clearly that there’s never any consequence for the men who lose elections for the GOP. I think a big part of that is because The Tolerant Left wants Republicans to keep losing elections, so the elite media avoids running this habitual losers out of town on rails (as they’d do if they were fumbling Democrat races).
I’d like you to consider doing something novel in conservative politics: let’s hold everyone who’s pushing Willard Mittens Romneycare toward the Republican nomination responsible for what happens on November 6th, 2012.
I think it’s only fair to count the people who’ve been doing this in the past, and who are currently doing it, up until such time as Romneycare would secure the nomination. After that (if he’s indeed the nominee), everyone will coalesce behind him and it’s no longer appropriate to target every Republican in the event of Romneycare’s loss — just the ones who were most aggressively in pushing the “inevitable”, “it’s his turn!”, and “he’s so electable!” memes in the primaries.
None of the people doing this should work on political campaigns ever again if, as expected, Romneycare goes on to defeat in November.
If any of these people are elected officials — such as Nikki Haley and Kelly Ayotte — they need to be primaried the next time they are up for election.
The people pushing Romneycare as the “nominee in all but name only” and “the primaries must end with Florida!” talking points who work in TV and print media need to be removed from the air.
Large donors who funded Romneycare’s primarily campaign should feel the wrath of a public disgusted with the GOP running another loser in the fashion of Bob Dole and John McCain in an election year when he was the absolute worst candidate to put up against the manufactured zeitgeist the Democrats had prepped to secure Obama’s re-election.
My thinking is this: should Romneycare actually win the nomination and the general election, all of the people who’ve pushed for him so aggressively during the primaries will be handsomely rewarded in his theoretical administration. Haley and Ayotte are under the delusion they may even be considered for VP (when Romneycare already signals he wants Pawlenty…or if forced otherwise, will accept Marco Rubio). Others in the Cocktail Party GOP establishment have bellied up to push for Romneycare in hopes of landing everything from Cabinet slots to ambassadorships.
If these people get to reap the rewards if Romneycare wins…then why they heck aren’t they held accountable when soggy cucumber-and-mayo candidates like Romneycare, McCain, and Dole LOSE?
Conservatives are amnesiacs for the most part. For a day or two after the election, there’s bitterness at the loss and a great deal of childishness…then there’s a weird period where people seem to look desperately for a scapegoat (to protect their own necks, I bet).
And then…after a few months…it’s like the election never happened.
Everyone who was responsible for the disastrous nomination of John “it’s his turn!” McCain gets to keep running political campaigns and the fools in elected office who came out in force to foist McCain upon voters are all allowed to keep their choice positions of influence in the party.
Let’s start a new tradition this year: if Romneycare becomes the nominee and then loses to Obama as just about everyone in the Tea Party believes in their heart will happen, then let’s have severe consequences for everyone identifiable by name who was responsible in any way for pushing Romneycare to securing the nomination.
It’s going to take a lot of work to pull this info together and we will receive absolute no help at all from anyone in the elite, agenda-driven media. It will be yeoman’s work…but once this is compiled I’ll create a page here on HB where I’ll keep this information assembled so that if Romneycare does indeed lose to Obama, on November 7th a political reckoning could come for those who set that loss in motion.
Looking on a much brighter side for the country, if Obama is defeated then this list can happily be used to congratulate all the far-seeing geniuses who helped make that win possible. I will be so happy that Obama lost his re-election bid that I will gladly admit I was wrong and will be the first to call for medals to be awarded to every Romneycare surrogate and proponent who lobbied for his nomination.
But if I’m right and Romneycare is defeated in the general election by Obama’s 2012 “Occupy & Persecute” strategy (tailor made for Romneycare), then I would like to see mass resignations from the corridors of power from everyone on “The Romney List”.
I’m tired of amnesiac conservatives forever allowing the same losing strategists and bumbling Cocktail Party elites to survive one defeat only to lose another important election a few years later by doing the same stupid things but expecting different results.
Let’s make 2012 different.
Let’s hold the Cocktail Party establishment accountable by naming names and identifying who in the permanent political class is most responsible for pushing Willard Mittens Romneycare towards nomination under the banner of “he’s most electable!” and “it’s his turn!”. It may end up being his turn…but if that results in Obama getting another term than everyone who shouting that “electable” garbage needs to be booted from any position of authority in the GOP.
PERMANENTLY.
QUESTION: Can You Explain Why Romney’s Supporters Scream “Don’t Give Democrats Material!” In These Primaries? Y’all Know The Tolerant Left Already Has All of This Material and More Ready To Use in the General Election, Right?
I’d like to make this a sort of open thread because I want your take on what I think is a dangerous and bizarre recent habit of Willard Mittens Romneycare’s supporters during these primaries: screeching that “You need to shut up and not criticize him because you’re just giving Democrats material!” or “We need to get these primaries over and make Romney the nominee already!”.
First off, sister mister, if you have a problem with the primary contest going through June and the nominee not selected until August then you best take that up with the Cocktail Party GOP establishment that scheduled states to vote from January all through the winter and spring and into summer. Have you only just realized that the majority of states will not vote until after March?
There’s no “these primaries drag on too long!” allowed when the primaries were scheduled to occur from January through June; it’s not like all of a sudden people decided to go nuts and move these things later in the year, just to screw with you or upset your blood pressure.
Contested primaries with two or more candidates aggressively competing mean people in more states get fired up and become actively involved in the 2012 campaign — instead of tuning everything out because “my vote doesn’t matter” since all but one candidate dropped out of the running before the state a person lives in had the chance to vote. If you’re someone who’s been parroting the Mittens campaign’s “we need these primaries to be over and Romney coronated today!” meme then you need to think long and hard about the massive infusion of energy the heated Hillary-Obama race gave Democrats in 2008.
Moveon.org’s “Mitt’s Office” Ad
I’ve seen several conservatives sites that have posted this ad — made by Moveon.org — saying, “Oh, if that’s the best they can do, it’s not so bad”.
Yes, it is bad.
No, it’s not the extent of what they’ll do if Romney is the nominee.
The reason the elite, agenda-driven media has been so aggressively fighting for Willard “Mittens” Romney’s nomination in 2012 is because The Tolerant Left’s been building the entire Occupy Wall Street theme around his predicted candidacy.
This ad is like seeing a short preview for a coming attraction at the movies. It’s a small hint of what will come if the Cocktail Party GOP establishment prevails and Romney wins the nomination.
It’s amazing to me, but a large swath of the Republican Party is actively denying this is going to happen. Just like they actively denied John McCain would be brutally savaged back in 2008.
“Oh, no, they won’t do that. Everyone loves McCain. There’s nothing anyone can say bad about him that people will believe. That’s why we have to run a moderate because they don’t scare people”.
The Party of Stupid does it again.
MYSTERY: What’s Mitt Romney Hiding in His 2008 and 2009 Tax Returns? Day Two
[ Click above to embiggen: What's on Romney's 2008 and 2009 tax returns that he doesn't want anyone to see?]
Yesterday, I started investigating “The Mystery of Mitt Romney’s Missing 2008 and 2009 Tax Returns” using the basic detective skills I’ve learned through the years and apply towards political mysteries.
Willard “Mittens” Romney deigned to release his 2010 and 2011 returns after weeks’ of pressure — but he’s still refusing to release his 2008 and 2009 returns because there’s something in those years that he feels the need to hide during the Republican primaries. Back in 2008, Romney provided the McCain campaign with his financial records from 1984-2007 while Romney was vetted as a potential running mate or Cabinet nominee for John McCain (it’s not hard to imagine Romney being named the Treasury Secretary in an alternate universe where Barack Obama lost the 2008 election). This means Romney has now revealed his tax returns for the last twenty odd years…except for the years 2008 and 2009 (which are protected with the same level of secrecy as Obama’s college transcripts, birth certificate, and other vital records).
What’s Romney hiding from the years 2008 and 2009?
Why’s it an issue when Obama suspiciously hides his records but not Romney?
1. Did he make a bunch of money in 2008 and 2009 by betting against the US economy the way George Soros did?
2. Did he earn a big profit off investments in companies that received huge infusions of stimulus money (particularly companies pushed by the Church of Green like Solyndra and others)?
3. Did Romney invest heavily in China and now wants to pretend that never happened as Chinese investment has become a political liability?
I am 100% confident that Romney broke no laws in 2008 and 2009 — clearly, he’s been running for President for 6 years and would never have been stupid enough to do anything illegal. But, a lot of things have happened since Obama first won election in 2008 and the political atmosphere has changed greatly in many ways. Romney seems to have made investments in 2008 and 2009 that would cause him great embarrassment in 2012 if they came out during the presidential campaign.
I think Republican voters have a right to see his 2008 and 2009 returns so we know what he’s hiding and can better judge exactly how much damage The Tolerant Left could do with that information if the elite, agenda-driven media dropped an investment scandal bombshell on the GOP in October (should the Cocktail Party GOP establishment succeed in making Romney the nominee).
Nancy Pelosi and other operatives of The Tolerant Left are working overtime to ensure Romney is the 2012 GOP nominee. Why would they be doing that — unless they know there’s something in Romney’s 2008 and 2009 tax returns (which Democrats already have in their possession) that would cost him the general election?
Today, I’d like you to think about specific people who have the power to put pressure on Romney (both in public and privately) to release his 2008 and 2009 tax returns to clear up this mystery.
Can YOU think of three people you can call, email, fax, or snail mail to ask them to demand the release of Romney’s 2008 and 2009 tax returns so we can see if he did any of the three things outlined above that could secure Barack Obama’s re-election if made public as an Occutober Surprise — the 2012 spin on The Tolerant Left’s usual election-winning strategy, this time with an Occupy Wall Street twist?
