Mon Jul 16, 2012, 01:06 AM
ABC News: "The summer Mitt Romney didn't want"Analysis: The summer Mitt Romney didn't want
By Rick Klein | ABC OTUS News – 5 hrs ago 
http://news.yahoo.com/world-news-political-insights-mitt-romney-blasted-off-234153324--abc-news-politics.html Somehow, the summer of national economic discontent morphed into the summer of when Mitt Romney left Bain Capital and how many years' worth of tax returns he's released to the public. Along the way, Romney has lost control of his campaign message, and lost perhaps his best opportunity to define himself to undecided voters. President Obama's campaign has delivered a sustained attack on Romney by hitting an area the Republican candidate hoped to make into a strength - and they just might have done lasting damage. But Obama isn't being shamed out of his attacks: "No, we won't be apologizing," the president said in an interview aired today.
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Author | Time | Post |
 ABC News: "The summer Mitt Romney didn't want" (Original post) |
Amerigo Vespucci | Jul 2012 | OP |
| KT2000 | Jul 2012 | #1 | |
| tanyev | Jul 2012 | #8 | |
| DeSwiss | Jul 2012 | #2 | |
| Spitfire of ATJ | Jul 2012 | #3 | |
| amandabeech | Jul 2012 | #4 | |
| Spitfire of ATJ | Jul 2012 | #5 | |
| GoCubsGo | Jul 2012 | #7 | |
| Spitfire of ATJ | Jul 2012 | #11 | |
| fasttense | Jul 2012 | #6 | |
| Amerigo Vespucci | Jul 2012 | #9 | |
| enough | Jul 2012 | #10 | |
| XemaSab | Jul 2012 | #12 | |
| Blue Owl | Jul 2012 | #13 |
Response to Amerigo Vespucci (Original post)
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 02:16 AM
KT2000 (9,727 posts)
1. Besides that
Response to Amerigo Vespucci (Original post)
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 03:12 AM
2. Same shot, different perspective....
 - K&R |
Response to DeSwiss (Reply #2)
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 04:11 AM
Spitfire of ATJ (7,384 posts)
3. What the HELL is wrong with these people????
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That has got to be the WORSE image EVER during a campaign. It screams out that EVERYBODY, even his own FAMILY has abandoned him. I remember when Republicans would NEVER have let a picture like this happen. WE WOULD,...but not THEM. I swear, they really HAVE become incredibly stupid. Can you picture Reagan in this shot? Okay,....MAYBE Ford..... But at least he'd have a beer.... |
Response to Spitfire of ATJ (Reply #3)
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 06:34 AM
4. Jerry was a decent, old-fashioned Republican,
Response to amandabeech (Reply #4)
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 06:53 AM
Spitfire of ATJ (7,384 posts)
5. Yeah,....like pardoning Nixon....
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And thinking the way to cure inflation was for everyone to walk around with a "WIN" button.
Republicans have always believed the economy is all psychological. Unlike us elitist Liberals who believe in silly stuff,... ......like math...... |
Response to Spitfire of ATJ (Reply #5)
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 07:57 AM
GoCubsGo (13,017 posts)
7. But, but, but, Carter caused all that!
Response to GoCubsGo (Reply #7)
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 03:52 PM
Spitfire of ATJ (7,384 posts)
11. No kidding. Mention Carter to a Right Winger and they'll say, "Gas lines".
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Even though those happened before Carter.
Doesn't matter. The 1973 gas crisis is REMEMBERED as having happened under Carter. Reagan spent his entire Presidency claiming Carter left the country in such a mess that even his magic cowboy hat couldn't fix it. Republicans even blamed Black Monday in 1987 on Carter. 
After being bashed by Republicans for 12 years is it any wonder they consider Carter to be the worse President ever? The funny thing is, it was the South that put him in office. 
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Response to Amerigo Vespucci (Original post)
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 07:55 AM
6. I thought they meant the summer he spent in Paris avoiding the Vietnam war.
Response to fasttense (Reply #6)
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 08:32 AM
9. HEY! Mitt "longed in many respects" to serve in Vietnam.
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Last edited Mon Jul 16, 2012, 10:01 AM USA/ET - Edit history (1) Do you have any idea how difficult it must have been, to be stuck in France and all the while, in your heart, you really wanted to be in uniform and in combat in Vietnam?
I consider Romney's remarks to be even more odious than those of noted draft dodger Dick Cheney, who got five deferments because he "had other priorities." Did Mitt Romney ‘Long’ To Serve In Vietnam? By Ben Armbruster on Jun 5, 2012 at 3:10 pm http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/06/05/495310/romney-military-vietnam/?mobile=nc 
Mitt Romney regularly prides himself as a champion of the military and the nation’s veterans (despite the fact that has offered little to no details about how he would address veterans issues). Romney recently praised the sacrifice “of the great men and women of every generation who serve in our armed services.” But in a new story examining Romney’s own military record, the AP notes that “it is a sacrifice the Republican presidential candidate did not make.” During the height of the Vietnam War, Romney avoided military service by seeking and receiving four military draft deferments, some for university study and others for serving as a “minister of religion” in France. But during his political career, Romney has flip-flopped on whether he actually wanted to serve in Vietnam. In 2007, Romney — a supporter of the war in Vietnam during the late-1960s — said he had wished he had served: “I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there, and in some ways it was frustrating not to feel like I was there as part of the troops that were fighting in Vietnam.” |
Response to Amerigo Vespucci (Reply #9)
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 09:20 AM
enough (6,917 posts)
10. Shameless, just shameless. (nt)
Response to Amerigo Vespucci (Reply #9)
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 04:26 PM
XemaSab (57,411 posts)
12. Mitt has a military record just like Ike:
