Romney bombs on 'Face the Nation' !!

[ailsagirl]

Shades of Sarah Palin as Mitt Romney Bombs On Face The Nation
Jason Easley June 17, 2012

"Romney was fumbling, bumbling, and dodging through seventeen painful minutes..."

Even with Bob Schieffer being as gentle as only the corporate media can, there is no escaping the conclusion that Mitt Romney bombed his first non-Fox Sunday morning interview.

This interview went wrong in so many ways.

http://www.politicususa.com/shades-sarah-palin-mitt-romney-bombs-cbs-interview.html

[Baitball Blogger]

1. Problem is, the right-wingers will relate to him.

He's one of them. They don't like Presidents who are smarter than they are.

[ailsagirl]

4. I think it clearly showed him to be the blithering idiot he really is

And I can't wait for "the gang" (Martin, Rachel, Ed, Lawrence, Al) to take him to task for his lousy interview tomorrow!!

[Baitball Blogger]

6. Dems should put him up against world leaders and ask if this is really the face you

want representing the U.S.

[Kablooie]

12. But that's exactly the kind of president the RW wants.

But none of them watch Face The Nation anyway so it won't matter

[monmouth]

20. Morning Joe will un-watchable tomorrow..LOL..n/t

[Siwsan]

2. Did Rove not send him his prep notes??

This is a guy with ZERO ideas of his own. I really think he believes he can buy the election.

[DCBob]

5. Im sure he had plenty of "prep notes".

Romney is simply not good at thinking while talking.

[JDPriestly]

17. Romney's first concern is expediency.

The first concern of a good president must be principles.

Presidents have to consider expediency, but voters will not trust a person for whom expediency is the first concern.

Romney is trying to keep his Party together. He will deny it, but he is walking on eggshells when it comes to the political bickering in his own party.

We Democrats have the same problem, but to a far lesser extent.

This is going to be a very interesting election. The comparison of Romney to Palin is accurate.

Romney and Palin are even worse people-pleasers than Obama.

Of course, a politician has to be good with people.

Bill Clinton charmed people with his warmth. That is how he managed to stay afloat in the political storm.

While Romney may be charming on a one-to-one basis, he projects anything but charm in public appearances. He is visibly insecure and won the nomination simply because he was the sanest person on the stage. That is not saying much.

Romney wouldn't make much of a president. If elected, he will split our country into even more pieces than it already is. He just doesn't have that warmth it takes to melt bitter differences. Obama is by nature way ahead of Romney on that. And Romney and Rove will not be able to manufacture that warmth no matter how much money they put into the campaign. That is because Romney has lived the Galtian life and nobody loves that kind of a person. He doesn't even love himself.

Besides, the mantra of lower taxes for the rich is no longer convincing.

Raising wages for working people to a level that injects purchasing power combined with a trade policy that balances imports with exports and stimulates clean manufacturing are what will has helped the economy in the past and would help it again. That is becoming more and more evident as we see that those economies that are doing relatively well, like Germany and China, are those in which either the workers are well compensated (Germany) or the government is protecting its local industry and fostering development (China).

[fredamae]

3. What they don't say, while trying not

to say it---says it all.

[KurtNYC]

44. I didn't see MTP but you nailed Romney there.

He isn't sure what NOT to say so it seems he tries to say very little of substance. In trying hard not to blow it, he blows it. Like in the donut thing -- he wants to say something clever then memories of the 7/11 cookies come into his head and then he just stumbles through the rest and smiles as if he DID say something clever.

We have seen the real Mitt Romney and we don't like it so now he is trying to be folksy and normal but can't pull it off.

I have had more experience than I wanted in dealing with relatives and friends' brain cancers, aphasia and Alzheimers and I think it may be possible that Mitt is some stage of decline. I say that with no malice and it is just a theory but the way he fumbles these things looks all too familiar to me.

[JNelson6563]

7. Yikes! I watched the clips!

Very much like Palin! lolz His team must be shitting themselves in anticipation of the debates. hahahaha

Julie

[Control-Z]

13. Where can I find the other clips? n/t

[JNelson6563]

27. I watched two at the OP's link

[young_at_heart]

8. Maybe they will give him a transmitter like they gave to Bush

Of course, Bush claimed he had a bad tailor and the media went with it!!

[ailsagirl]

9. I was thinking about that the other day

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We never did find out what it was, did we?

Weird

[LeftofObama]

10. I've thought about it off and on a lot

since it we saw it. Nope, nary a peep about it.

[yellowcanine]

46. "Let me finish!" G.W. Bush, objecting when no one was interrupting him, at least not audibly.

Of course it could have been his inner self interrupting him. Or maybe GAWD.

[thelordofhell]

11. The major media will be on damage control.......can't lose all that Citizen's United money!!

Thanks Supreme Court Of The United States

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

14. He "brought armament, brought bombardment upon" Face The Nation?

[liberalnationalist]

41. lol

had to laugh when i heard him say that...what a mormon..ooops moron

[jillan]

15. Romney is a puppet who doesn't seem to have a thought in his head. He needs his puppetmasters

to control his every move.

[immoderate]

16. I think that's what he went there to do...

I see him as an idiot. And I think he got through that pretty well. He's in a position where any statement of substance can only cost him votes.

But he can't hide forever.

Prediction: The tax breaks for his horse is the kind of thing that could resonate.

--imm

[BeyondGeography]

18. During the primaries he promised to be mean to the brown people

Like the base was going to let him slide on that. It's basically all they care about.

[ailsagirl]

21. Awful

That's disgusting. I can't believe how racist this country is.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

19. RE: Immigration

can't he just say that he'll keep President Obama's new policy in effect AND push for something more if- Ra forbid- he gets elected POTUS? Is it THAT complicated? Also, to say that President Obama hasn't "done anything" on immigration is false too if anybody still remembers that the GOP blocked the WH-backed Dream Act from even getting a vote in 2010. Of course, I think that he fears the GOP base so much he can't really say anything without worrying about a backlash from them. If this keeps up- if he's so boxed in like this that he can't answer basic questions nor articulate much of anything about what he is likely to do as POTUS, then President Obama will be easily able to run circles around him in the debates and prove the point that Romney has no real core- or at least that he will pander to the extremist elements of the GOP as POTUS and not try to come up with any "common sense" solutions to anything, which is o.k. with the right as all they really want is an "autopen".

[magical thyme]

34. he can't say he'll keep it in place because he'll lose the rightwing nuts.

he can't say he'll overturn it because he'll lose the Hispanic vote.

He is on record as being to the right over *everybody* on immigration. He is on record supporting Arizona's disastrous laws.

Instead of standing on principals, he is trying to avoid taking a stand and hold onto two groups with diametrically opposed views.

It takes political genius to walk that sort of tightrope. He is a political moron.

[PopYoColla]

22. Romney just learned a lesson...

...that playing slow pitch softball with family (interviews on Fox Noise) is a lot different than hitting a 100 mph fastball in the Major Leagues.....

I can't wait for the debates.....

[graywarrior]

23. Remember the bumbling, fumbling idiot that got elected in 2000?

[liberalnationalist]

42. Raw Money

takes the cake though...he is worse than bush

[coalition_unwilling]

52. So you maintain that * was 'elected' in 2000? He was

installed by the Supreme Court in a bloodless coup, but I'm pretty sure he was not 'elected,' no matter how the ballots were counted.

[graywarrior]

53. Oops, you are correct

[Swede Atlanta]

24. Oh, I love his statement...

the 1%, the 2%, the .5% would still pay the same burden as they do today. Well isn't that just cheesy? They have had the lowest tax rates in a century for the past decade and where are the jobs? I don't see any.

This is the same sorry trickle-down crap we have seen before.

[demwing]

26. exactly

Romney told the truth, to those listening. He was very clear - the 1% will continue to pay the same, lowest rates they are blessed with now, the same rates that helped push the US to the economic brink.

[demwing]

25. Oh Come on....Romney is a fiend here, not a dope

he didn't fumble, no deer in the headlights looks, no horrible sound bites...

What he did do was show what a greedy, lying, oily snake charmer he can be, and that should be enough.

[JDPriestly]

28. In addition to my general comments made earlier, I would like to note:

A. With regard to immigration, my congressman, Xavier Becerra, (and others no doubt) has been working for reform for years. He has a good plan. The problem is that conservatives including the clowns and extremists in Arizona have created a paranoid, hate-filled climate that does not permit any progress in Congress on this. Romney's promise to get a long-term solution is empty considering his own party has thwarted the slightest leniency on this issue. And it is mostly Republicans who have balked at the idea of making employers who hire illegals responsible for their conduct. The fact that she had hired an illegal and then treated the illegal maid cruelly was part of the reason that Meg Whitman lost her bid for governor of California. How many Democrats do you know who employ illegal immigrants? There are some, but not as many as Republicans, I would bet.

B. With regard to California raising taxes and Romney's promise to lower taxes and cut spending. Guess what Arnold Schwarzenegger promised Californians? Right. He was going to cut spending by eliminating the fat in the state budget. He failed miserably. He hired someone to study the books and couldn't find enough fat to balance the budget. So, Schwarzenegger floated bonds -- which Californians now have to repay in a depressed economy. Schwarzenegger's solution was a recipe for disaster.

When I hear Romney threaten the same "solutions" that put Schwarzenegger in the governor's office in California, I really worry. It is a "solution" that leads to disaster. It sounds to easy and reassuring, but it didn't work for Schwarzenegger and it won't work for Romney.

[Paka]

29. Thanks so much for the post.

No tv so I have to rely on DU to get my dose of the Sunday shows or wait until I get Rachel online Tuesday mid-day.

[liberalnationalist]

43. u can watch it a

cbsnews.com

[dennis4868]

30. Scheiffer...

could have easily called him out to his face on all his fucking lies (i.e., Obama negotiated any trade agrement is one example)...he went VERY VERY VERY easy on Romney. He's lucky he was not interviewed by someone demanding he explain his lies.

[Happydayz]

31. Obama is going to demolish Mittens in the debates

Mittens has to spend a billion dollars just to compete with Obama. But Americans are going to see how incompetent and unqualified Mittens is during the debates.

[Gothmog]

32. Like Palin, you will not see Romney on any channel other than Fox

Romney is not ready for real media and will stick to Fox News which is a safe place for him.

[magical thyme]

35. sooner or later he's going to have to face the real media

sooner is better because it gives him the opportunity to practice while fewer people are watching.

Maybe he could start with somebody easier, like, say, Katie Couric?

[ailsagirl]

58. The msm has clearly been coddling him all along

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But I don't see how he can get through the debates because they're not going to coddle him.

[and-justice-for-all]

33. Maddow would make him piss his pants...nt

[RebelOne]

50. I'd really like to see him go up against Rachel, but I doubt it will happen. n/t

[and-justice-for-all]

55. Mitt is a coward and an idiot,

so as much as Rachel would love to have him on her show, never gonna happen because she will eat him alive on the national telly.

[ailsagirl]

36. kick

Nothing but a lot of hot air

He can talk endlessly and say nothing

[Wounded Bear]

37. I'm sure they'll blame it on the "liberal" media harassing him.

[Brigid]

38. Obama is going to shred this guy in the debates.

It will be like watching a live execution on prime time TV.

[ailsagirl]

39. Can't wait

Now I know why Nitt put off doing a formal interview...he stinks!!!!!

[ailsagirl]

40. Brevity is the soul of wit

nuff said

[yellowcanine]

45. Clearly Bob Schieffer was asking him unfair "gotcha" questions! Heh.

[ailsagirl]

47. Just wait for the debates!

Obama, by being calm, knowledgeable, and eloquent, will show America what a babbling idiot Nitt really is!!

[FSogol]

48. K & R. The debates will be especially funny, I predict. n/t

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

49. and the media isn't reporting on Romney's stumbles

Meanwhile, everything Obama says or does is being looked at under an electron microscope and labeled as a floundering campaign.

[ailsagirl]

54. It's infuriating, isn't it?

I do know that it's certainly being discussed with the MSNBC gang. I guess I don't watch msm anymore, unless it's a non-political story. Learned that in the early 2000s. Helps keep me anchored.

[Iceberg Louie]

51. Funny. I seem to recall a certain Barack Hussein Obama had the balls to go up against O'Reilly

[marlakay]

56. While I used to think that was great....

I remember Bush got elected twice...

[eppur_se_muova]

57. I keep expecting Rmoney to say "Uh, why, what did you want me to say?" ...

Maybe it's because he's thinking that really hard ... *every* time he speaks in public.

[NYC Liberal]

59. Kept yapping about a "long term solution" that Obama doesn't have, but he never says what it is.

[Honeycombe8]

60. Of COURSE a leftie site thinks he bombed. What do the other media think? nt