The War Is Over (If Mitt Romney Writes An Op-Ed)
Mitt Romney is a very serious politician (the media tells me this) and a frontrunner for the GOP nomination for president. He wrote an op-ed critical of Obama that was published yesterday, but perhaps he’s using Palin’s fact checkers.
Former Gov. Mitt Romney (R), back on the presidential campaign trail, isn’t sitting down for a lot of media interviews — but he loves writing op-eds. Romney’s latest ran in New Hampshire’s largest paper this morning.
When I took office in Massachusetts, we faced job losses and a fiscal crisis that had the potential to shake the faith of the credit raters in our bonds. […]
Barack Obama is facing a financial emergency on a grander scale. Yet his approach has been to engage in one of the biggest peacetime spending binges in American history. With its failed stimulus package, its grandiose new social programs, its fervor for more taxes and government regulations, and its hostility toward business, the administration has made the debt problem worse, hindered economic recovery and needlessly cost American workers countless jobs.
Oopsie, I guess someone forgot about those 3 wars we are engaging in. Who can blame him, it’s not like it’s effecting his family, right?
Tags: Afghanistan, Iraq, Mitt Romney
Joe Kennedy had two sons in the front lines in WWII, one of whom was killed.
Like Al Franken said, LIES and the Lying Liars who tell them.
The Onion:
Funny thing about Mitt: When he was running for the 2008 GOP Pres nomination, his biggest problem was that too many people didn’t think a Mormon could be elected President. BOY WERE THEY WRONG! As a result we got a chump like McCain on the ballot, not that a Republican had a chance of winning that year anyway. It’ll be interesting to see what Romney can do this time around.
When he was running for the 2008 GOP Pres nomination, his biggest problem was that too many people didn’t think a Mormon could be elected President. BOY WERE THEY WRONG!
Um, no… they were correct. It’s still his biggest problem with the Republican base.
Great minds think alike, Jason!
My comment would have made more sense if it hadn’t hopped in front of Jason’s. Either that, or I’m psychic.
How much more wrong could the last commenter be?
“When he was running for the 2008 GOP Pres nomination, his biggest problem was that too many people didn’t think a Mormon could be elected President.”
FALSE. He couldn’t get past the GOP primary as a mormon. Other than GOP primary voters, nobody cares about Mormonism. Like Bush, Romney is just a crazy-ass-evangelical-end-of-the-world-cheerleader as far as American voters are concerned.
Jason, sorry to disagree. The reason more people aren’t concerned about Mormon’s running for office is that (like Dominionists running for office) they’ve kept a low profile. I’d expect the Mormon interference in California law via Prop 8, for example, to become very much a part of any election Mittens got into.
The Onion thing is spot on, though, lol. 😀
If the Bush and Obama elections prove anything, they prove that American voters can ignore the seemingly unignoreable. For Bush it was brainlessness, and for Obama it was race. Voters can shunt things like Mormonism aside is they think the candidate is “authentic” and sincere in his beliefs.
Clearly, that is Mitt’s big problem, but of course, Obama also has some baggage in that category this time out.
The voters Romney has to get past first are the GOP primary voters — the Christian Coalition types simply don’t see Mormons as “one of them”. And unless you can credibly be one of them (and they are still crucial bits of the GOP base), you don’t get too far past the starting gate.
but of course, Obama also has some baggage in that category this time out.
In an Obama vs. Romney election I think both candidates would have to agree to an uncomfortable truce on the flip-flop issue.
I think that Romney won’t win the primary because he doesn’t have a nutty schtick like Trump, Bachman, Paul, etc do. I think 2012 will be the year of the GOP whack-job, who will be quite entertaining to the sensible and who will lose by a substantial margin in the general election.
I think the GOP nominee for 2012 will most likely lose, but will be positioned as the favorite going into 2016, when the GOP nominee will likely be the favorite. For that reason, I hope Dana is wrong about a whack-a-doodle getting the nomination.
I’m so sick of cult members running for office.
But with that said, I highly doubt Guy Smilely can convince the majority of the legitimate cult to vote for him. So I guess it is up to the DC cocktail curcuit to keep his candidacy afloat with prose of praise telling us all how serious and adult he is, even though a four year old can point out the oscillating views of this glory-seeker.
Conviction is for unserious kids.
If it is any comfort, Geezer, I am often wrong about the outcome of elections. 🙂
Flippy, the “end of the world” ground-hogger, was a big backer of Bush and his TWO unpaid for wars in 2008 when he ran.
He also had five, I repeat five, healthy young sons of a military age he was unwilling to put in harm’s way.He felt they could do more for the country by staying here and helping on the campaign to get him elected.I SWEAR I saw this in an interview.
And not one of his boys would volunteer either.
Remember, we’ve got soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen doing MULTIPLE tours at this time without recourse or the ability to end their service though they DID their time.
He’s a chicken-hawk and his kids are FORTUNATE SONS.
I’d like to BRACE him up close and personal.His kids too.