Posted on 09/08/2012 4:37:33 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
Mitt Romney says Bill Clinton's speech to the Democratic National Convention "really did elevate" that gathering and that the former two-term president might even be able to win another four years in the White House "if the Constitution weren't in his way." Romney's comments, in an excerpt of an interview with Meet the Press, came as Clinton prepared to campaign for President Barack Obama in key swing states.
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I have no intent on voting for Romney but fully intend to vote in the downticket races. (Unless you’d prefer that I stay home)
Think about this: four years ago, Obama was the flavor of the month. Now Clinton is. What does that tell you about Obama?
Romney’s right - and there’s nothing wrong with admitting the truth. But Bill Clinton isn’t running for president. And yesterday’s job numbers prove that Obama ain’t Clinton.
He’s right. Clinton would easily beat any candidate for a 3rd term if so allowed.
How dare you attack a conservative who describes
a “candidate” who is failing to speak up for conservative
principles? Are you a plant?
If Romney loses, it is because of Romney’s failure,
and Romney alone having pulled failure out of the jaws
of victory.
Romney was ALL OVER conservative candidates, but
now he is mushy, pro-Clinton, anti-Eastwood,
and ambiguously quiet.
Why is Bill Clinton considered such a political genius?
First he sabotaged the economy by raising taxes and proposing Hillarycare. Fortunately the dot.com boom and the Cold War peace dividend were too strong to stop.
Then Clinton nearly destroyed his presidency with a reckless affair with an intern. He left a moral stench so bad that his own vice president was unable to win the presidency despite times of peace and prosperity.
Clinton is a genius?
When you hear things like that, it's really, really hard to believe that the Romney campaign isn't populated with double agents from the other side. Maybe the reason Obama really put gay marriage in the platform is to convince gays within the Republican establishment to sabotage the Romney campaign with bad advice to help Obama?
Wherever it comes from, that is an unprecedentedly stupid so-called strategy. There is no psychological basis for why that would work and no historical precedent for such a thing ever working. If you make people feel good about voting for Obama, they will 100% absolutely vote for him again. It is basic human nature. Pepsi doesn't run an ad saying, Coke is good and we don't blame you for drinking it, but, uh, can you try us too, maybe, please? Or, nevermind, just do whatever you want, we understand the appeal of Coke.
Maybe he should become a liberal like you and mitt and praise your own kind. mitt's going to lose because he's a faggoty liberal. And between a black faggoty liberal and an uptight faggoty liberal, the blacks and liberals are going to vote for the black one. Conservatives don't have a Republican candidate to vote for at the top of the ticket.
What he should have said was “he gave a well-delivered speech. But unfortunately much of what he delivered was simply not true, such as regarding the president and his party raiding Medicare to pay for his government-run healthcare scheme, and the president’s shameful dismantling of welfare reform”.
Why would the Constitution stop him? It didn’t stop obama.
“Wherever it comes from, that is an unprecedentedly stupid so-called strategy”
Luntz: Ads about disappointed Obama voters work best with swing voters.
Americans for Prosperity may be cutting through the clutter most effectively with its relatively low-key attacks on President Obama.
Almost everyone in the group said they voted for Obama in 2008, but they were about evenly split between Obama and Mitt Romney in the 2012 race, with several still undecided.
This approach may also have the benefit of closing the Romney-Obama likeability gap. A Gallup poll on attack ads this week found that 44 percent of Americans think Obama’s attacking Romney unfairly while only 40 percent believe Romney’s attacking Obama unfairly. Among independents, the number who think Obama’s attacking unfairly rises to 46 percent while Romney’s number falls to 38 percent. Up against a guy with Obama’s charisma cachet and media protection, this is an encouraging sign.
That's fine, but all I'm saying is that in the absence of a third party candidate making their way into the debates, the amount of people voting the way you're voting is so small as to be statistically insignificant.
Subtle way of reminding people that Obama is not in Clinton’s class.
Another clueless wonder.
The primaries ARE OVER. Do you understand what that means? It is now either A or B. Those of us with two functional brain cells understand that. Only idiots will help elect Obama because Romney is not conservative enough. ONLY IDIOTS!
That's not the point. The point is Clinton made many deceptive arguments that didn't pass the fact checks. Yet Romney takes this media opportunity to praise him instead of pointing out his dishonesty and attacking his arguments. This is the latest step in Romney's political suicide by 1,000 cuts.
I agree with you. See my other comment about what he SHOULD have said.
Romney and Clinton were more or less the same ideologically during the '90s, so it's not surprising that Romney says good things about him. After all, Clinton isn't a conservative and this is not a primary.
How clueless are YOU for voting for the used car salesman who is fundamentally the same as Obama?
If by some miracle, Romney wins, you will probably be complaining about him two minutes after he takes the oath of office.
You are the “idiot” if you don’t realize that regardless of who wins in November, your life is going to suck worse than it does right now. You are the “Idiot” for voting for the Obama-lite thrust upon you by the liberal elite in the Republican party. As long as you and people like you continue to vote for whatever liberal candidate the party saddles you with, you will continue to get presidents, senators and congressmen who will trash your values and destroy this nation.
To be fair, we can’t be sure that Romney didn’t at least go on to say that stuff until we see the full Meet the Press interview. Obviously the AP will quote the most embarrassing segments. But even so Romney needs to be smart enough not to make statements like this at all which will be quoted out of context. However saying Clinton “elevated” the convention is still too strong a statement for someone who gave a deceptive speech.
ROMNEY isn't a RINO - ROMNEY is a LIBERAL!
They never learn.
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