It sounds like desperation time for Mitt Romney
In a perfect world, every political campaign would close on an uplifting note. When they don’t, it’s a big fat sign a candidate knows he’s losing, and is desperately trying to avoid that outcome.
That’s what makes Mitt Romney’s message in Wisconsin this morning so curious. From a Talking Points Memo post titled “Romney: Elect Me Or House GOP Will Wreck The Economy:”
In what his campaign billed as his “closing argument,” Mitt Romney warned Americans that a second term for President Obama would have apocalyptic consequences for the economy in part because his own party would force a debt ceiling disaster.
“Unless we change course, we may well be looking at another recession,” Romney told a crowd in West Allis, Wisconsin.
Romney said that Obama “promised to be a post-partisan president, but he became the most partisan” and that his bitter relations with the House GOP could threaten the economy. As his chief example, he pointed to a crisis created entirely by his own party’s choice — Republican lawmakers’ ongoing threat to reject a debt ceiling increase. Economists warn that a failure to pass such a measure would have immediate and catastrophic consequences for the recovery.
The message here is that Republicans in the House are so angry at the president that they’ll certainly drive the nation over a fiscal cliff rather than work with him on the debt ceiling to avoid that economic catastrophe.
The message has the whiff of blackmail, eh? Not uplifting at all.
I really hope Romney’s wrong and the Reps. Bob Goodlatte, Morgan Griffith and Robert Hurt wouldn’t play that game.
Does anybody think they would?
November 2, 2012 - 1:10 PM
The whiff of blackmail? It IS blackmail, the same kind of blackmail that led to the United States getting its credit-rating downgraded after Republicans held the nation’s hostage to get their way in a policy dispute over debt-reduction.
More economic terrorism from the right.
Throw them out. Throw them all out.
Given what he’s done the last 6 years of his campaign for the presidency, are you really surprised??
Oh, and I think your hope that Goodlatte, Griffith and Hurt won’t play that game is misplaced. They played it last time, didn’t they?
I think they would have played that game last year… but, if Obama wins this election, I think the republicans are more likely to compromise. Obama has shown a tougher side recently. I think they know he means business and coming back for his second term, he’s taking the gloves off.
Traitors. It’s time the house GOP was called out for what they are. They’ve made a mockery of their oath of office.
Its sad that so much of the House would work to put 1 man out of work.. when should be working on the problems that the ENTIRE COUNTRY is facing.
“Talking Points Memo”??
Give me a break, Dan. Talk about DESPERATION. You look desperate putting this nonsense up.
Lynda K
Unless democrats make sizable gains in the House (even if short of a takeover) I don’t think Cantor and TPNUTS will back down at all. If the margin gets close, then there might be a chance for some cooperation.
thinking you have that backwards, looks like bammy is the desperate one lately ! He won’t come out with Libya details when we KNOW he and his commie admin denied them help, we KNOW he lied when he said he would cut the deficit by half, we KNOW he is an idiot…most of the country does as well, at least the intelligent ones
right danny and it had nothing at all to do with the $5T that bammy wasted on bankrupt ‘green’ companies
How about a look at all the conspiracy theories in chart form? After Nov 6th, and the President is re-elected, will these be put to rest, or will new and “improved” smear tactics emerge?
Take a look:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/10/chart-obama-conspiracy-theories
His “bitter relations with the House GOP” are the fault of the House GOP. Arrogant does not begin to describe that man or his party. They are willing to destroy this country and don’t give a damn.
LC, you have nothing to worry about! Remember, Dick Morris is predicting a Romney landslide. It’s in the bag — and you know it! GOP has the Senate, too.
“. . .it had nothing at all to do with the $5T that bammy wasted on bankrupt ‘green’ companies.”
Really? Hah!
hey K, when that one man gets outawork, lots more will be able to FIND work.
$5T ? Care to share with us, entrepreneur pammmalala, what the “T” stands for?
Do you even attempt to comprehend the brainless swill you pass along on this blog? No doubt everyone else on your email list is equally witless.
Does anyone really believe that a man, whose sole life’s work has been to streamline companies for maximum profit, would know anything at all about putting middle class Americans back to work? (eye roll)
If you right wingers ever get a grip on the truth, I think you would spontaneously burst into flames.
You just lie all the time.
Did you know Mittens and Dubyah are cousins? Now if that’s not enough to put you in the Obama camp I suggest professional help:
“According to Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online family history resource, Romney’s family tree connects him to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Pierce, Herbert Hoover, and both George H.W. and George W. Bush.”
http://blogs.ancestry.com/cm/2012/10/16/you-wont-believe-who-romneys-related-to/
TPM is a respected, award-winning online publication, LC. It has an undisguised leftward tilt, but when it presents something as a fact, as opposed to an opinion, you can bet it’s accurate.
Romney either said this or he didn’t. I haven’t independently verified it, but if TPM says he said it, then I’d be willing to bet a good stack of cash that he did.
And what do you know? I’d win that bet.
Romney said it, and it is undisguised desperation. Apparently they’re not listening to DM, the Romney in a landslide, GOP majority in the Senate guy.
hey sandi,
Obuma LIED when he said he would accept tax-payer funding for his 2008 presidential campaign…
@pammala: “hinking you have that backwards, looks like bammy is the desperate one lately ! He won’t come out with Libya details when we KNOW he and his commie admin denied them help, we KNOW he lied when he said he would cut the deficit by half, we KNOW he is an idiot…most of the country does as well, at least the intelligent ones”
What’s funny is pammala thinking she speaks for “the intelligent ones.”
#10 “right danny and it had nothing at all to do with the $5T that bammy wasted on bankrupt ‘green’ companies”
And pammalamadingdong takes the lead in blatant lying BS.
The Economist endorses Obama. Says Romney’s plan for the budget and economy is hopeless BS.
Shrillay, sadly, these attacks will continue if the President wins re-election. In my opinion, the obsession with defeating President Obama is rooted squarely in pre-existing prejudices. No level of Obama success will be admitted by these angry folks.
Every poll has Obama up in Ohio on RCP today. The fat lady is warming up. Romney is toast. God bless America. Sanity wins out over insanitea.
18.If you right wingers ever get a grip on the truth, I think you would spontaneously burst into flames.
You just lie all the time.
Comment by Sandi Saunders — November 2, 2012 @ 5:33 pm
Here’s a little truth for you Sandi.
Obama not only lies; he is a lie.
If he is eligible to be Potus is a legitimate question. Not one of us, liberal or conservative, knows about Obama’s background, college records,
or citizenship status; all of it is sealed. We do know that there is a
Supreme Court precedent which defines “natural born citizen” and we also know that, per his own book, Obama does not meet such definition. The man
is a fabrication of liberals who make him out to be something he is not.
The liberals howl…Romney lies…but no specific items or incidents are forthcoming as if calling him such enough times will make it ring true.
Obama on the other hand…is caught time and time again in blatant lies;
Benghazi, Fast and Furious, Solyndra, Delphi, Gitmo, Deficit, Sequestration, Planned Parenthood, Racism, Pell Grants, Big Bird and “you didn’t build that”. For Obama such lies flow like water off of a ducks back because he himself is a LIE.
What’s funny is pammala thinking she speaks for “the intelligent ones.”
Comment by Dan Radmacher — November 2, 2012 @ 10:18 pm
What she said made sense. What’s funny is Radmuckers pompous and arrogant
assertion that he has any credibility or even right to comment on another
poster’s thinking.
Every poll has Obama up in Ohio on RCP today. The fat lady is warming up. Romney is toast. God bless America. Sanity wins out over insanitea.
Unless they steal it. Something weird is going on there.
Oh yeah, Romney owns the polling machines in Ohio….we could be faced with another illegitimate GOP president. I don’t think the American people will stand for another steal by the Goppers. Could get ugly if they try it again.
Leon,
I can name dozens of Romney lies.
“Obama gutted work requirements for welfare” LIE
“Obama is cutting Medicare benefits to pay for Obamacare.” LIE
“Jeep is moving production to China.” LIE
“Obama went on an apology tour.” LIE
“Obama doesn’t have a jobs plan.” LIE
“The economy is worse now than when Obama took office.” LIE
I could go on. And unlike the things you name, these are actual lies that came out of Romney’s own mouth. You simply listed disagreements you have with Obama policies, not lies he said.
And enough of the eligibility nonsense. Obama is a natural born citizen. His mother was a citizen, and he was born in Hawaii. That’s enough to make him a natural-born citizen, however many irrelevant and outdated Supreme Court decisions you want to grasp at.
Thank Jesus we have the UN watching the voting results. If the GOP does try to steal the election, the blue hats will save us from the tin foil hatters.
ColdNP, I agree. Learned our lesson in 2000. It can’t be allowed to happen again…we paid dearly last time.
Cold, there are a lot of ways to cheat and I believe that for 4 years, certain elements of the RW, a small minority for sure, have been ruthless about identifying those and establishing the framework for it to happen.
One was the voter suppression efforts (i.e. voter ID) we have seen in many different states via legislatures, although at least technically those are not illegal. (It would not be illegal to steal cars, either, if a legislature legalized car theft).
Another is the garbage we’ve seen with Strategic Allied Consulting/Pinpoint and the “voter registration drives” they’ve conducted, in which its operatives have been caught destroying voter registration applications they suspected were from Democrats. We really have no idea how many people believe they are registered and will show up at the polls Tuesday expecting to vote, only to find out they can’t because of this scam.
The same goes for absentee ballot scamming.
Then there are the polling place marshals the GOP has trained to challenge voters at the polls. They will be out in key Ohio polling places for sure, and in NoVa as well.
Then there are the things the Secretary of State in Ohio did in 2004, such as placing few voting machines in precincts expected to vote Democrat — and the ones they placed there repeatedly breaking down — while putting plenty of working machines in strong Republican precincts.
These are all well-understood ways of screwing with the vote.
And then there are the machines and their electronics/software. Frankly I don’t know well enough how they operate to understand the mechanics behind such cheating, so that’s more abstract to me. The notion that they’re owned by companies linked somehow to investors who are supporting Romney is interesting, but it doesn’t necessarily spell cheat to me.
I hear you Dan. Sorry, I woke up this morning with my Sarcasm Font in the stuck on position. Reading the crap posted by some folks sorely in need of a reality check this week has gone beyond slightly annoying to just full on silly.
Cold, one big tell that somebody in the GOP may be playing some voting machine shenanigans is the GOP already is accusing the Dems of stealing electronic votes for Obama. That’s right out of the Rove playbook: accuse your opponent of the dirty tricks you’re playing.
Yes, I saw that story. It seems Faux News will not let its reporting be subjected to any sort of fact checking. Just throw any crap lie out and see what sticks.
Radmucker@33
WoW Radmucker. . .you blew this one. Everything you listed has an element
of truth or is true and therefore not a lie. As to natural born citizen. . .one must be born of two (2) (Dos) (II) U.S. Citizen parents to
qualify as a natural born citizen (Minor v. Happersett, 1875). If born in
Hawaii to a U.S. citizen mother and a Kenyan father Obama would be a citizen. . .but not a natural born citizen and therefore NOT ELIGIBLE TO BE POTUS! BTW, Supreme Court precedents do not become outdated.
Obama administration advised state not to enforce work provision of the welfare reform act. Obamacare cuts $700 billion in Medicare benefits to pay for Obamacare. How many kings and heads of state did Obama bow to on his worldwide apology tour (see youtube for film). Obama only has a plan to kill jobs. . .500+ layoffs announced in local area this week alone! The economy is worse now than it was four years ago. . .perhaps you do not
buy gas, groceries or happen to be looking for work.
Radmucke’s UnReality comes to a screeching halt on Tuesday as does this corrupt adminstration he supports. Can you guess why Tom Kaine’s nose is brown?.
Thanks for proving what I said was true Leon. You are a gift that way. Even your truth is a lie. How sad.
Cold n P:
34.”Thank Jesus we have the UN watching the voting results. If the GOP does try to steal the election, the blue hats will save us from the tin foil hatters.”
The UN has no business in our elections.
“WoW Radmucker. . .you blew this one. Everything you listed has an element of truth or is true and therefore not a lie.”
–Comment from Leon
Unlike, your comments, Leon. Which seem to be loaded with the element of TP stupidity.
Leon,
Repeating BS again and again does nothing to make it smell any better.
Minor v. Happersett said women don’t have the right to vote. It did not rule about what constituted natural-born citizenship, and with the passage of the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote, it did, indeed, become outdated.
Obama did not advise states to not enforce the work provision. It gave them the ability to apply for a waiver to allow them to apply that provision in a more flexible manner, only if they could prove that their system would lead to more people going from welfare to work.
Obama found $700 billion in savings for Medicare, thus extending the life of the trust fund by eight years. Those savings will be used to expand benefits for seniors.
The economy is in no way, shape or form worse than it was four years ago. Gas is only more expensive because the economy has improved, thus increasing demand. The housing market is coming back and more people are going to work.
In other words, Leon, not one thing you said in your post is true. Not a single thing.
Your observations on citizenship are incorrect, Leon. Two American parents are not required for citizenship. One is. As such, Obama certainly is a “naturally born” citizen. Any citizen not obligated to go through naturalization proceedings is considered “natural born”. You are simply wrong.
And the rules have changed considerably since 1875. But this is moot by now, except in the roiling brains of a few conspiracist nutters.
My son is a medical student in NYC. He requested an absentee ballot, but it did not come before the hurricane. He came home to Virginia because he had no electricity, water, or heat, so we told him to see about voting early.
He went to the place and filled out the request an elderly man gave him. Then he waited until another guy asked him what he needed. He said that he was waiting to vote, but the first guy couldn’t find the paper my son had just filled out. This is just while my son is sitting there. So my son filled out another request and cast a provisional ballot. He says these guys were elderly men, so maybe they were just forgetful. Still, that seems really sketchy.
On Saturday, people from both parties came to our house asking after his vote. I began to wonder if the parties are gathering a little too much information about individual voters.
A Republican friend of mine who works at the polls is constantly telling me about people she has encountered at the polls who are supposedly not citizens. I wonder if she is being trained by one of these Republican groups to challenge voters. I think it is rare for non-citizens to vote because they can be deported. I told my friend that if she has evidence of a felony, maybe she should tell the FBI. She didn’t say anything to that.
If TP/R’s cannot cheat or steal the election they cannot win.
Princeton Election Consortium says so:
http://election.princeton.edu/
Obama 319
Romney 219