Republican's scratching their heads over Mitten's gaffes

[MickZagger]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/19/47-percent-scott-brown-dean-heller_n_1898691.html

WASHINGTON -- Two Republicans in tight Senate races went a long way to distance themselves from GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney Wednesday -- all the way back to their childhoods.

Wonder how many more Repub's are thinking the same thing, but don't want to publically go out and say it?

 

[jlprk]

That article says that when the Republican Senatorial candidates in Massachusetts and Nevada repudiated Romney's words, they described how they were each in welfare families as children. Why on Earth would they be Republicans then.

 

[Masbee]

That article says that when the Republican Senatorial candidates in Massachusetts and Nevada repudiated Romney's words, they described how they were each in welfare families as children. Why on Earth would they be Republicans then.

What the fuck is that supposed to mean?

 

[jlprk]

What the fuck is it not supposed to mean? There is no secret code here.

 

[Masbee]

What the fuck is it not supposed to mean? There is no secret code here.

Do all Repub's want all assistance eliminated for all time?

Does having received assistance preclude one from choosing a political party forever?

The whole premise of the thought is off base.

 

[jlprk]

Why would you hate welfare bums and want millions to die in order to give historical tax cuts to the rich, because your economic ideology believes in scarcity of jobs, when you yourself were a welfare bum? The whole premise is off base.

 

[The_Lillard_King]

Do all Repub's want all assistance eliminated for all time?

Does having received assistance preclude one from choosing a political party forever?

The whole premise of the thought is off base.

According to Romney, anyone receiving gov't assistance considers themselves victims and entitled and will not waiver voting for the likes of Obama. So how can they be republican?

 

[VanillaGorilla]

Do all Repub's want all assistance eliminated for all time?

Does having received assistance preclude one from choosing a political party forever?

The whole premise of the thought is off base.

 

[mook]

I don't understand your point, but I gotta say I stared at that gif for a solid 90 seconds. Shit is funny.

Odd thing was that the longer I stared, the more bizarre snobby rich guy things it seemed to say. The animation repeats, but the words don't.

 

[VanillaGorilla]

I don't understand your point, but I gotta say I stared at that gif for a solid 90 seconds. Shit is funny.

Odd thing was that the longer I stared, the more bizarre snobby rich guy things it seemed to say. The animation repeats, but the words don't.

I didn't have a point, I was just captivated by this for about 5 minutes straight so I needed to share it with all of S2.

"This, or that. These are the best tomatoes you're gonna find"

 

[MickZagger]

Maybe the funniest thing I've ever seen on the internet!

Repped!

 

[maxiep]

It's strange that someone who gives so much to charity, who gives his time to his church, who gifted his father's estate, who donated his olympic paycheck, who worked as Governor of Massachusetts for $1 a year and who is running on a tax program that would eliminate tax loopholes for people like him is thought of as someone greedy and out-of-touch.

It may strike some on this board as difficult to understand, but compassion for those people who are on the lower end of the economic scale isn't always more government. Many times, it is offering them more opportunity. Has it occured to anyone that Romney may have a generous heart, but disagrees with the policy prescription?

On the flip side, it always amazes me how generous people on the left are with other people's money, and penurious with their own.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

this... is ok... those spicy bitches are always right

 

[Masbee]

Why would you hate welfare bums and want millions to die in order to give historical tax cuts to the rich, because your economic ideology believes in scarcity of jobs, when you yourself were a welfare bum? The whole premise is off base.

This post is full of hate and ignorance.

Such left wing drivel.

 

[blazerboy30]

The Obama supporters flood PapaG's thread, making excuses for Obama not knowing the size of the national debt, saying it isn't a big deal.

Yet, those same Obama supporters are all over Romney's gaffes.

Ignorance.

It's Bush's fault.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

just because people got assistance when they needed it, doesnt mean that they want other people to get assistance when THEY need it

 

[3RA1N1AC]

The Obama supporters flood PapaG's thread, making excuses for Obama not knowing the size of the national debt, saying it isn't a big deal.

Yet, those same Obama supporters are all over Romney's gaffes.

Ignorance.

It's Bush's fault.

give me something better to hate obama for and im all over it

for instance, he is a piece of shit hypocrite for having smoked weed and done coke while there are millions in prison for the same thing, effectively ruining their chances of ever being productive citizens, let alone the president of the united states

 

[Masbee]

To add more to Maxie's post and to make those on the Left who are so ignorant of basic economics and so fixated on personality and "stars" and promises and so ignoring of actions and results:

Romney has been opposed to Bernake's policies for some time now, and the Obama Admin has been pushing the Fed to do more in order to counteract their failures: Here in a mainstream (ie, left leaning) media is a complaint that the Fed's policies help the rich and do nothing for the poor:

In other words, actions speak louder than words.

Romney is painted as an out of touch rich dude (and in many ways he is) and Obama is painted as a man of the people (when the reality is far, far more complicated and his current life of privlige and luxury belies the media projection of someone who understands the average person), and yet here is one of only 3 or 4 key policy choices for the country to make that make the largest impact in all our lives, and Obama sides with:

THE RICH.

http://money.cnn.com/2012/09/20/news/economy/federal-reserve-rich/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

And this CNN article is actually pretty tame. There was a story in an investment article about a trading floor on Wall Street where they broke out into a chant of "QE3, QE3, QE3" and were dancing around. Some are claiming the big winners of QE3 will be not really stockholders and homeowners as much the Big Banks and many traders and financiers.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

obama AND romney are both corporate shills, evidenced by the hundreds of millions of dollars worth of bribe donations both have received thus far. bought and paid for.

to think either is going to do anything to reign in the ruling class of corporate war mongers is ignorant

 

[MickZagger]

It's strange that someone who gives so much to charity, who gives his time to his church, who gifted his father's estate, who donated his olympic paycheck, who worked as Governor of Massachusetts for $1 a year and who is running on a tax program that would eliminate tax loopholes for people like him is thought of as someone greedy and out-of-touch.

It may strike some on this board as difficult to understand, but compassion for those people who are on the lower end of the economic scale isn't always more government. Many times, it is offering them more opportunity. Has it occured to anyone that Romney may have a generous heart, but disagrees with the policy prescription?

On the flip side, it always amazes me how generous people on the left are with other people's money, and penurious with their own.

Its strange that someone who is soooo Republican, is in sooooo much denial of it. We won't judge you anymore than we do now, I swear.

 

[maxiep]

Its strange that someone who is soooo Republican, is in sooooo much denial of it. We won't judge you anymore than we do now, I swear.

I don't deny my political leanings. I'm not a member of any party, however. You keep up that meme, however, it works for you.

 

[MickZagger]

I don't deny my political leanings. I'm not a member of any party, however. You keep up that meme, however, it works for you.

You're like the Joe Lieberman of S2. A wolf dressed in sheep's clothing.

 

[blazerboy30]

You're like the Joe Lieberman of S2. A wolf dressed in sheep's clothing.

The only reason you care if somebody calls themselves a D or a R is because you need this to determine which way you should think and who to vote for. If the candidates weren't allowed to represent a particular party, or show up on TV with a "R" or "D" next to their name, you would have no idea which politicians you actually liked or hated.