Hot Air:
Via BuzzFeed, a fun way to end Gay Marriage Day. The key bit comes at 2:15 but watch from the beginning or else you’ll miss why he’s so exasperated. This is what I was getting at in this morning’s post about why O was willing to take a calculated gamble on endorsing SSM. Simply put, he knows Romney doesn’t want to talk about it. He’s desperately trying to brand himself as the candidate of economic recovery before Obama can brand him as the candidate of waging war on women and putting dogs on car roofs and yadda yadda yadda. Remember, their big talking point against Romney, ludicrous as it is, is that he’s the most conservative nominee since Barry Goldwater. If they can bog him down in talking about hot-button social issues instead of unemployment, they can get him to play into that impression a bit. His rhetoric doesn’t have to be strident or out of the conservative mainstream for this tactic to work; all they’re trying to do is make him look like a guy who’s preoccupied with “values” issues while swing voters are worried about jobs. And of course Romney knows it. Hence his consternation here as he’s put through his paces first on gay marriage, then in-state tuition for illegals, and then ye olde medical marijuana question. Axelrod couldn’t have scripted that any better. If Mitt never has to field another question about those topics before election day, I’d bet he’ll be just fine with it.
I remember back in 2006 when I heard some GOP candidate from Colorado proclaim that “Gay marriage is the most important issue facing our nation.” Oh really? We’re in the middle of two wars, Bush is trying to start a third, we have the deficit and global warming on our plate and North Korea just announced they have a nuclear bomb, but the MOST important issue is keeping gays from getting married?
I’ll be honest with you – gay marriage is not a high priority for me. Neither is abortion. I’m never gonna do either one. If you care passionately about them that’s your business. I support both of them, I just have other things I think are more important right now.
I care about the economy and unemployment. I care about health care reform. Those are things that affect everybody. I care about war and our various military adventures around the world, but those issues have slipped off the top of my list.
When I step in the voting booth I won’t be thinking about gay marriage or abortion. I won’t consider marijuana legalization, Seamus the Dog, Trayvon Martin or Sarah Palin’s uterus.
What is at the top of my priority list this election?
Corruption. Defeating Obama and cleaning house in the Democratic party. The way I see it we need to take a step backward now so we can take two steps forward later. Obama is a cancer and we need some political chemotherapy.
What will you be thinking about when you cast your vote?
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I’ll be thinking about May 31, 2008
Honk, honk. That’s my #1 issue too.
Oh, yes. I will never forget, and never forgive.
AMEN to that, sister.
BINGO!!!!!!
HONK!!
Me too. As a matter of fact, that in itself is enough to think about.
I’ve been waiting 4 years for this…..
Ditto
Me too! May 31, 2008. That’s my voting issue.
me too——defeating the cancer that became the Democratic Party is my top priority followed by the economy
Same here. I will vote ABO desperately hoping Mitt can do CPR on the economy.
This is an old game the media plays. They will hound a republican with questions about social issues, and when he/she is finally forced to respond, they run with 47 stories about it.
The coup de grace is that after doing this multiple times, they then start printing tut-tutting articles and opining on air about how republicans are obsessed with social issues. Huh? YOU kept bringing it up!
Are there some batty “social issues are my only thing” R’s out there? Of course there are. But not all of them, and Romney certainly isn’t one. Neither was Sarah, but that didn’t prevent them from painting her as 24-7 ruminating on how to create an American Taliban.
Romney did well in that clip. He came across as an ADULT, dealing with a transparent idiot who was breathlessly trying to talk about what amounts to the latest gossip and American Idol, politically.
It’s still the economy, and we’re not stupid. Stay on message, Mitt.
BTW, one thing that gives the lie to the whole “American Taliban” thing is that rank and file R’s consistently do NOT nominate their firebreathing Christianists for president. Do they tolerate that wing of the party, and give some lip service to them? Sure. Just as D’s have historically tolerated their extreme left wackos who seem to want us all to live on a blissed-out hippie commune praising Mao. But most rank-and-file D’s roll their eyes at that. They might elect some kooks to local office, but usually not for president.
Similarly, the R voters haven’t nominated Santorum, or Huckabee, or Pat Robertson – and likely never will. The R party has a lot of people who are into traditional and family values. But the vast majority uphold those things in a sane and very generalized “it’s good for society to affirm decency and morality and the family, and acknowledge our religious heritage” in a soft-focus kind of way. The actual kooks are thin on the ground.
As to Romney, the Mormons I have known, as a matter of fact, have been singularly uninterested in how other people live their lives. They are one of the handful of strict Christian groups I’ve come in contact with that, however many religious demands for behavior they place on themselves, don’t seem to have much compulsion to police other people. Convert you to their faith? Yeah, they will try to do that (very politely). But they understand very clearly that unless and until you decide to convert, their rules simply don’t apply to you in any way whatsoever. Just my personal experience with Mormons: very strict on themselves, remarkably easygoing toward others.
Did someone say American Taliban?
http://www.countercontempt.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/75245_10150690920071175_22960221174_9535244_10876526_n1.jpg
Though I haven’t known many, of the Mormons I have known the one characteristic they shared was that they were incredibly nice people. And, yes, very tolerant. Not one ever tried to convert me but perhaps they recognized a hopeless case.
That would actually be a good reply if Romney said “Are you going to ask me about American Idol next?” Then launch off into a jobs spiel. You have to ridicule with a smile on your face.
Some twitter rxns to the Mitt was a teen meanie meme:
Yeah, I caught that teen age bully story first thing this morning and my first thought was, “How conveeeeenient!” I was Church Lady’ed straight away this morning! LOL
I thought the media was desperate to put that childhood bullying story out there. It looked pathetic. The great Obama juggernaut and that’s all they’ve got????
Desperate is right. An admitted Obama campaign volunteer is the source, along with a dead guy (whose death they try to connect with the hair cutting incident).
Romney has saved 2 families from drowning. I don’t buy this story whatsoever.
Well, he pitched and the press batted. SOP. It was a set up, but it was premature ejaculation, too. Forcing them to play this card now took the decision making out of their hands. We’ll have to wait and see about the impact.
in the end? ZERO impact. As an election issue it’s as solid as cotton candy….
Wait, Angie, so the victim is dead? I wondered about that. How could they put this guy’s story out there and be absolutely certain he would not refute their story? Well, now I know. Dead men can’t talk.
Yes, Lola, the alleged victim died in 2004 so the statements that he was “haunted” by the hair cutting is hearsay from the Obama campaign volunteer (who just happened to run into the guy at the airport at some unspecified time & they just happened to talk about that incident) and from his sister.
LMAO@ WCMB. I once racked a guy who was tormenting and bullying me. My classmates held him down while I gave him a swift kick in the groin. I didn’t realize it would hurt so much. #StillDon’tRegretIt He was a dick.
In high school me and my jock buddies gave a nerdy kid a swirly.
Oh, wait! I was the nerdy kid.
F**king jocks.
@Lola — wait, the crappy journalistic standards aren’t even the best part. The best part is that the second act of cruelty by a teen aged Mitt is that he once dated a girl, they went out several times and even kissed (she claims “He’ll admit that” to imply he hides stuff, I guess), she thought everything was going great and then — wait for it — are you sitting down? He just stopped calling — for no reason! And she heard later he had started dating another girl. Can you believe it? That BEAST!
Much more acceptable to sleep with a girl, berate her for beating you in a foot race & then dumping her due to racial incompatibility, I guess.
Angie I saw your tweet and I thought you were joking – is that actually in the article? OMGLOL.
WaPo is so pathetic.
Votermom — yes, it is actually in the story! Can you believe that shit! I would say you have to read it, but it is such a boring, fake, nothing piece of shit disgrace to “journalism” I wouldn’t put you through it. Anyway, the “he just stopped calling me!” story is after recounting how Romney’s alleged “gay bullying” victim died of a broken heart 43 years later of natural causes.
That’s why I tweeted it to David Axlerod & WaPo with #tryhardernexttime. I’m still so new at this Twitter thing, I don’t know if that hashtag was appropriate to make it clear. {shrug} Sorry for confusion.
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/05/10/breaking-romney-apologizes-for-high-school-pranks/
He also scoffed at the idea that he even thought for a second that the other kid was gay.
Ookay. As it turns out, Obama confessed to bullying a girl when he was in middle school. Poor Coretta. LOL.
I’m curious to see what happens with his polling/fundraising now. Sarah just endorsed Ted Cruz, the TeaParty hispanic running for senate here in TX:
http://www.tedcruz.org/press-releases/2012/05/10/governor-sarah-palin-endorses-ted-cruz-for-u-s-senate/
CAN’T I JUST EAT MY WAFFLES!!!!!
The pix here made me LOL. Obama 2012, so full of unintentional hilarity.
http://www.countercontempt.com/archives/3362
GOOD POST OSWALD————–
Bristol makes a good point about how Obama always touts his kids:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/bristolpalin/2012/05/hail-to-the-chiefs-malia-and-sasha-obama/
I will be thinking how very grateful I am that I don’t have to vote uni-party. Sure, the Green Party may not stand a chance but it gives me a vote to cast that I can feel good about.
Weekly Standard:
He was probably saving the announcement for the day Romney accepts the nomination at the GOP Convention. Remember how during the 2008 primary he saved up endorsements and used them to change the news cycle after he lost a primary or had other bad news to deal with?
He just ended up needing it earlier this time.
Fundraising isn’t what it used to. Wall Street is pissed at Dodd-Frank (and, btw, everyone should be) and Hollywood was balking (see, Jon Lovitz). At least he has Hollywood snowed again (easy job, I know as they are truly all the people you can fool all of the time). Reports are all declaring how much money he raised after his “evolution” announcement (could be a haka, but probably has some truth). Of course, the fact that it doesn’t actually do squat to change the status quo & might have even helped if done prior to NC vote are, of course, squashed. It all unicorns farting rainbows in Obotland again.
Bad news for TehOnce though is between having to move up this announcement (and, of course the fake “Romney bullied gays” story) to now means he’s pretty much blown his load and it’s only May.
Obama criticizes Romney for holding the same view that Obama held until yesterday:
haha! And Dreams From My Father delivers once again!
Damn Twitter and the secure https!
Great, now I’ve been moderated.
Quit being so radical
LOL! I think it was actually the double links.
I think this is revealing and disturbing:
When teased about the girl Obama doesn’t confront the kids teasing him. He doesn’t run away. He attacks the girl and chases her away.
BTW – Notice the part “I gave her a slight shove” and “she staggered.”
That is inconsistent.
We are tweeting this under the hashtag #Coretta. I’ve challenged the writer of the WaPo hit piece on Mitt to look into it.
These idiots really ought to read Obama’s books before speaking. Dogs redux.
Malkin links to the actual Coretta, mentioned as a classmate wya back, with no mention of the shoving:
Maybe Coretta is a composite.
I front-paged the story.
Obot fail:
LOL. But the actual unemployed guy whose wife pleaded with Obama to help him – no job for him despite sending the WH his resume.