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maddezmom

(135,060 posts)
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 06:46 PM Jul 2012

Romney in a pickle

Republicans are wishing they could retroactively nominate someone else.


Instead, they’ve picked a guy, in Mitt Romney, who reads like a caricature of every stereotype of an arrogant, out-of-touch Wall Street conservative, someone labeled a “vulture capitalist” by members of his own party.

Romney never planned to run on his record as governor of Massachusetts. That would mean campaigning on his signature accomplishment, RomneyCare, which (in its ObamaCare guise) he is now sworn to attack. Clearly, his business record would have to serve as his ticket to the White House. Yet Romney appears shocked that the accolades he receives in boardrooms and skyboxes aren’t translating to mass popular appeal.

Indeed, his business background is turning out to be so toxic that Newt Gingrich nearly derailed Romney’s coronation by winning South Carolina on the strength of an anti-Bain message.

If attacking Romney’s private equity buccaneering was so effective with a hyper-conservative electorate in the country’s most conservative state, how did Republicans expect it to resonate in the general election?

more: http://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/markos-moulitas/238507-romney-in-a-pickle

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Romney in a pickle (Original Post) maddezmom Jul 2012 OP
Romney in a pickle Yeah Its Spin Jul 2012 #1
Pickle. Warm. Tart. maddezmom Jul 2012 #2
"Oh, bother!" TlalocW Jul 2012 #3
I wish we could photoshop a pic of Mitt literally in a pickle. ananda Jul 2012 #4
Better yet madokie Jul 2012 #5
Will this work? SunsetDreams Jul 2012 #6
. Liberal_in_LA Jul 2012 #7
I must be tired. Space99 Jul 2012 #8

TlalocW

(15,373 posts)
3. "Oh, bother!"
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 07:39 PM
Jul 2012

"I seem to be in a pickle. This kind of thing simply is not done to men of my breeding. Once I extricate myself from this gherkin, I shall make my displeasure known by buying the Mount Olive pickle company and firing all their employees. Harumph!" - Mitt Romney in a pickle.

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