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SoutherDem

(2,307 posts)
Thu Jul 26, 2012, 04:19 PM Jul 2012

Can you imagine a President Romney?

I can't. Not just because I am for President Obama, it is because I have no clue who he is or what he will do.
He is the most secretive candidate running for president I have ever seen.
Records of his are either destroyed or kept under lock and key.
He has changed his opinions more than any candidate I have ever seen, he even keeps changing back and forth.
He is the quickest to claim his opponent has no plan while he has no plan or simply lofty outlines with no details.
He is the quickest to criticize his opponent while suggesting we do exactly what his opponent is doing.
He is the quickest to take credit for things which he had nothing to do with, some he was even publicly against.
He is the quickest to not take credit for things which he did, even if the proof is very public.
He wants to use rules which apply only to his opponent but not him or apply only to him but not his opponent.
He does fine if he is reading a teleprompter, but let him say anything on his own he puts his "silver foot" in his mouth.

So, just what would the nightmare called a Romney Presidency actually be?

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Can you imagine a President Romney? (Original Post) SoutherDem Jul 2012 OP
He's like a box of chocolates... n/t PoliticAverse Jul 2012 #1
Well, maybe... Wait Wut Jul 2012 #3
Easily Scootaloo Jul 2012 #2
Your right, Republicans come in one flavor only. SoutherDem Jul 2012 #4
He'll be a puppet of the neo-cons and teabaggers RedStateLiberal Jul 2012 #5
When I try, kittens die. nt Nay Jul 2012 #6
Zing. dimbear Jul 2012 #10
Methinks that if Romney were president... awoke_in_2003 Jul 2012 #7
puppet to the RW. DCBob Jul 2012 #8
personally i'd rather not linux80386 Jul 2012 #9
Romney's presidency will mean... ancianita Jul 2012 #11
An Amway motivational seminar speaker is more real than Mitt Romney. Douglas Carpenter Jul 2012 #12
Willard is the great UNKNOWN...n/t EmeraldCityGrl Jul 2012 #13
Yeah. I can also imagine a telephone pole shoved up my ass. Neither is good imagery. HopeHoops Jul 2012 #14
much like George W. - lovemydog Jul 2012 #15
Complete assholery taught_me_patience Jul 2012 #16

Wait Wut

(8,492 posts)
3. Well, maybe...
Thu Jul 26, 2012, 04:27 PM
Jul 2012

...the ones left in the box with the holes punched in the bottoms. The ones nobody will eat.

 

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)
2. Easily
Thu Jul 26, 2012, 04:24 PM
Jul 2012

It'll be just like Presidents Bush, Bush, Reagan, Ford, and Nixon.

Really, the Republicans don't offer variety.

SoutherDem

(2,307 posts)
4. Your right, Republicans come in one flavor only.
Thu Jul 26, 2012, 04:38 PM
Jul 2012

But, Romney isn't a Republican. He is play-doe. While I didn't like any of those presidents you listed, to be fair I don't remember Ford much and know of Nixon only from history, for Reagan and the Bush boys I knew what they were, I knew what we were in for, I don't have that feeling with Romney. I don't mean this in a good way, as if in he might really be pandering to his base, he won't lead the way he talks today. I mean if this nation actually voted for, or the Republican stole the election for Romney, we have no real clue about so much. What we do know is he won't take responsibility for things he has done wrong, wants credit for things which he has little or nothing to do with. He plays by his own rules and he feels he should be able to change them in the middle of the game.

He reminds me of a 5 year old child. Think about it. Go and talk to a 5 year old and you will see what I mean.

RedStateLiberal

(1,374 posts)
5. He'll be a puppet of the neo-cons and teabaggers
Thu Jul 26, 2012, 04:43 PM
Jul 2012

worse than Dubya who didn't have as much pressure from the extreme right wing (teabaggers).

America better wake up as to just how bad a president he will be. We see it, but the vast majority aren't really paying close attention. I hope they will eventually but the MSM seems to be covering for Rmoney an awful lot. It's frustrating.

 

awoke_in_2003

(34,582 posts)
7. Methinks that if Romney were president...
Thu Jul 26, 2012, 06:36 PM
Jul 2012

and I saw one of those assinine Bush billboards saying "Miss me yet?" I might think- "Maybe".

ancianita

(36,023 posts)
11. Romney's presidency will mean...
Thu Jul 26, 2012, 07:36 PM
Jul 2012

1. appointments of one or more right wing SCOTUS judges
2. war with Iran
3. full bore 50-state ALEC press on civil rights -- abortion, voter suppression, privatizing of public schools, eliminating Medicaid and state services for the poor
4. the selling of our national parks to Big Oil
5. massive fracking everywhere
6. a rise in the domestic terrorist list
7. rise in the criminalizing of criticism and protest, increased public and internet surveillance
8. deregulated food and drugs
9. rescinding of health care
10. rescinding Roe v. Wade
11. increased discrimination on women's contraceptive and reproductive rights
12. broke communities in the dark with no fire, police or garbage services
13. increased child and elderly mortality rates
14. increased unemployment, with more jobs shipped off to China and other countries
15. increased monopolizing of communications
16. dismantling of all unions, pensions
17. the end of Social Security and Medicare
18. increased taxes on the poor, tax cuts for the rich
19. defunding and ending the Dept of Education and the Consumer Fraud Protection Bureau
20. militarized law enforcement.
21. make the workers of this country become plantation residents in the corporate colony of China'
22. expansion of the Patriot Act
23. one party rule -- the Republican party -- through permanent vote rigging
24. monopolizied ownership of all media, and the blocking of the Internet
25. false scarcity and the increase of 'managed depopulation.'
26. increased impoverishment of the 99%, such that they go nowhere while watching the 1% will go anywhere in private jets, copters and limos
27. more civil unrest, more homelessness,
28. increased prison populations
29. increased religious influence in federal lawmaking
30. the defunding of independent universities and scientific research
31. food shortages
32. utilities outages
33. infrastructure crumbles and becomes unsafe
34. the dollar is devalued
35. unsafe water and air due to pollution
36. 'managers' who run the government while he's running around with global bankers.

I could go on.

Douglas Carpenter

(20,226 posts)
12. An Amway motivational seminar speaker is more real than Mitt Romney.
Thu Jul 26, 2012, 07:41 PM
Jul 2012

I have trouble imagining the personhood of Mitt Romney. He is so phony - I have trouble imagining that he really exist. Even most totally despicable politicians who are far more extreme than him -seem to be actual real live people. To me Romney seems like the man who isn't there.

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