Democrats, with the aid of Fleet Street, ginned up a phony controversy last week, after Mitt Romney speculated out loud that maybe the Brits weren’t ready for the Olympics.
Impolitic? Perhaps (although not on the order of stashing the Churchill bust under a bag of oily rags in a White House storage locker).
But wrong?
Exhibit 1: Noted Conservative Tool Piers Morgan points out that everyone in the UK was saying the same thing before the Olympics:
Exhibits 2 through (TBD): The Brits prove Romney, and Morgan, correct over and over and over again.
In related news: A poll of 10,000 random Americans shows that Romney’s off-handed remarks about the London Olympics are more important to them than unemployment, the gathering double-dip recession, and the avalanche of debt about to inundate this country.
No, not really.
But the Dems and the Praetorian Guard (nee the Media) are going to do their best.
Yes, and the useful idiot from WDFL, Esme Murphy, is still going on about Michelle Bachmann’s comments. I caught a snippet of her show yesterday and she had another lefty political professor (her last name was Pearson) on her show. This additional lefty moonbat was stating that her opponent, Jim Graves, had seen an increase in campaign contributions since those comments. Of course, she had no data to support that claim.
Bachmann’s comments are a disaster, a bigger disaster than Romney’s.
But Romney screwed up, badly; especially in comparison to a similar trip by Obama 4 years ago. Mittens didn’t look presidential, he offeneded our ‘anglo-saxon’ buddies who themselves don’t identify themselves as strictly anglo-saxon. Kinda makes you wonder if he really intends to be president of all of us, if he wins, or just the WASPS. Then Romney apparently went on to ‘give the Israeli’s his blessing to attack Iran’.
He screwed up, clearly, by his need to backpedal. Is that a small thing? Sure, compared to his refusal to release his tax returns, his redux Bush mistakes policies and advisers, and his incredible unpopularity among pretty much everyone except the far far waaaaaaaaaaay far right.
I don’t see any big solutions in Romney’s Bain experience, and you have to be very skeptical of someone who is at such great pains NOT to discuss their performance as governor, especially with his job creating failure.
Now this morning we have Dick Cheney talking about what a failure part-time /part term governor Palin was last time around as a pick (we all knew it, you all just couldn’t admit it). Romney is just as bad a choice this time for a presidential candidate.
The condemnation of Bachmann has been nationwide, as well it should be. An even higher percentage of her donations has come from outside Minnesota this time — and it was very high the last time. That is because Bachmann doesn’t have support here in MN; with good reason. So……do you have any indiction that Graves hasn’t gotten a big boost in support? Or are you whistling in the dark?
Local media have Rolodex’s of academics available for comment. Their idea of balance is to say they seek opinion from different universities. It’s an MPR paradigm designed to anethestitize Nordic Lutherans into a comfortable consensus.
DG,
You have a number of questions in previous posts to answer.
Please attend to those, would you? I’d appreciate it.
While “tl;dr” is the quickest and surest response to a DG comment, there is a way to read these and get some useful information. Based on her most recent epistles, simply find the point (if there is one) and then you can safely assume that the exact opposite is true.
And when I say “please attend to that…”, well, no – I’m not under the illusion you actually will. The “Drop a rhetorical duke in someone else’s sandbox and scamper away before being held accountable” school of commenting is a bipartisan plague.
But make no mistake, it seems to be what you do.
So if you want to surprise the bejeebers out of a lot of people, perhaps you might, y’know, give it a try?
actually DG, Bachman DOES have support here in MN. All any “reality-based” citizen need do is look at her successful elections and re-elections to office during the past 12 years to see that she is supported, often overwhelmingly, by the citizens she represents.
DG where’s your homework?
tl;dr
tl:dr
Penigma’s Chihuahua homework is due!
Loren
I wonder if any of those “political scientists” have actually read the letters Bachmann sent to the IG and Ellison?
Doubt it.
I’d actually like to amend. The fact is I read long things, so long as they are worthwhile. From now on, I’ll be using:
DG;dr
Mitch, you missed the biggest indication of British incompetence: they had to import Afghanistan vets for security.
Now, I can understand the Brits getting a bit defensive. It’s one thing when you are criticizing yourself, but to have a foreigner do it is bad, and to have a foreigner who turned around a disaster of worse proportions than what you have and made it a showcase criticize you is even worse for your pride.
I agree with the Brits on one thing. Security in Londonistan would be a great deal more difficult than security in Salt Lake City, even with all those violent Mormons in their nicely pressed white shirts riding bicycles.
Dog poop, I love your libturd hypocrisy! You support lefty environazis, but you probably contribute more pollutants from your puppy mill than the average feedlot.
I also love how you continue the Romney-Bain Capital chanting points, which have been debunked and debunked and debunked, despite the efforts of ignorant useful idiots like you to keep them in the spotlight. Meanwhile, Frederico Pena, who was actually responsible for outsourcing jobs, escapes your scrutiny, because he’s a major contributor to your Fuhrer Obumbler. Again, if a lefty does something shifty, illegal or underhanded, it’s totally OK with you! You are a perfect example of why the left’s symbol is a braying jackass!
DG;dr
Useful.
DG thinks that the Romney comment carries more weight than the time Barry snubbed Netanyahu during a meeting so he wouldn’t miss din din with the wifey and kiddies.
How’s that NO-HOPE – NO-CHANGE working out for you lap dog. And by the way where’s your homework?
In the spirit of Foot’s suggestion of “DG;dr” for dealing with Dog’s comments, I’d also suggest the following:
AC;pii (Angryclown; phoning it in)
S;epu (Sanity; excessive pharmaceutical use)
I don’t think “oldjohnie” or “benjamindorsey” have enough game to merit one of these yet.
DG wrote: “Sure, compared to his refusal to release his tax returns….:”
Maybe he’ll release some info when Barry completes the following list:
1. Fast and Furious documents. Obama used executive privilege to save AG Eric Holder’s behind.
2. Health reform negotiations. Obama made back-room deals worth millions with lobbyists and legislators.
3. FOIA requests. Obama is “the worst” at complying with Freedom of Information Act requests.
4. Real White House guest list. Many visits are secret. Met with lobbyists off-site.
5. Rashid Khalidi tape. Obama attended a 2003 party for Rashid Khalidi in which a lot of anti-Israel rhetoric was featured. Nobody is releasing the tape. LA Times story.
6. Small dollar donors. Obama refused to release names of contributors who donated less than $200 even though he’s accused of receiving illegal foreign contributions. McCain did this in 2008, why couldn’t Obama?
7. Medical records. John McCain released thousands of pages of medical records. All Obama released was a one-page doctor’s note even though he has a history of drug abuse and smoking.
8. Book proposal. Obama’s literary agent said he was “born in Kenya”. Why hasn’t anybody released the original book proposal.
9. Academic transcripts. Can Obama prove his merit?
10. State senate papers. Obama never produced any papers from his eight years as a state senator. He says “they could have been thrown out.”.
What’s your thoughts on that Doggie?
I have the answers to some of these questions 🙂 but they come at a high price.
*sigh*
Bachmann’s comments are a disaster
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/07/21/rep-keith-ellison-rewrites-history-on-his-muslim-brotherhood-cair-ties/
I am tempted to also ask for undeniable, verifiable documented evidence that these 4 pages of undeniable, verifiable documented evidence are incorrect. Something more than “PJMedia is a RWNJ rag so that in and of itself discredits anything that comes out of there”, but I know it would be like pissing into the exhaust of a jet engine.
So, for the first of what promises to be a long string of times, I’ll just leave it at STFU, DG. You’ve lost what little respect I once had for your ability to rationally debate. You’re a fucking crock of shit.
It’s odd that Romney would blurt something like that. Where did he get the idea there was trouble?
Maybe from the Washington Post, who said exactly the same thing?
http://floppingaces.net/2012/07/27/romney-and-wapo-see-the-olympics-the-same-way-guess-whos-the-dumb-one/
Relying on one of the flagships of the Main Stream Media for your information, wow, what a moron. That’s it – I’m voting for Obama.
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Isn’t there some man-hatin ‘carpet’ that needs tending to?