Posted on 10/23/2012 1:54:25 AM PDT by markomalley
Following the conclusion of Monday night’s final presidential debate, MSNBC’s hosts noted that GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney had distanced himself from his positions as a primary candidate. Chris Matthews called this a political calculation and said that the Republican party has a greater hatred of Barack Obama than they do of Al Qaeda.
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“Mitt Romney committed to the idea, without clarification, that troops should be removed in 2014,” said Rachel Maddow referring to Afghanistan. She said Romney made significant news this morning when he reversed his position on the Afghan troop withdrawal. She said that on that issue, and a number of issues, Romney agreed with Romney more than she thought was likely.
Matthews, who opened by saying the debate focused “far too much on Israel,” said there were a number of threats to global security that went unaddressed.
“Nothing about the drug trade coming through Latin America – which is the greatest threat to our culture in many ways,” said Matthews. He said there was nearly no discussion of the financial strains on the European Union and virtually no discussion of the BRIC countries – Brazil, Russia, India and China.
“I thought Romney had a strategy tonight – avoid looking like a radical,” Matthews added. He said he thought Romney had good shots on the economy but he avoided linking himself to the positions he took as a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.
“I thought it lacked any kind of originality and importance,” Matthews said of the debate. When Maddow noted that Romney had divorced himself from many positions he took in the primary, Matthews said that the Republican party has become married to the idea of recapturing the White House to the exclusion of many others.
“They hate Obama – they want him out of the White House more than they want to destroy Al Qaeda,” said Matthews. “Their number one enemy in the world right now – on the right – is their hatred, hatred for Obama.” He cited racism in the South against Obama which he claims is evident in recent polling data.
Watch the clip via MSNBC:
Yep. It has nothing to do with race, and everything to do with who he is and what he stands for.
Most conservatives I know look at someone like Allen West and say they would vote for him if he were running.
What we despise is an incompetent, arrogant person who hates what this country stands for, rules by fiat with presidential directives, is trying at every turn to raise the cost of energy for us, has treasonous bastards like Bill Ayers for friends, and hides behind the skirt of racism when he is called on any of it.
THAT is what many of us HATE about Barack Obama.
The one will follow the other, as a matter of course.
Fomenting racial division and tension. The trump race card. If there were to be post Romney election violence, lay it at Chris Matthews’ door.
“Nov.6th is going to be very entertaining watching Matthews come apart as the Democrat Party loses the WH and Senate”
From your typing fingers to G-d’s ears. I pray daily that this will be the case!!!!!
Really?
I thought we were just trying to get Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood out of the White House.
I don’t see this as an “either/or” thing, but a “both/and” thing. We want the WH and we want to destroy Al Qaeda, no?
Can’t wait to see the men in white jackets escort Matthews from the studio on camera election night.
Chrissy isn’t all wrong about this. Obama is a bigger threat to America than al-Qaeda.
The good thing is we know what the full criteria are for employment at MSNBC...unhinged, virulent hatred and raging alcoholic...
Unlike the liberal Democrats who want to destroy America more than they want to destroy Al Qaeda.
Hate: another word, like racism, that the left use indiscriminately. Of course Mr. Tingles represents a perfect example of projection.
Actually I believe Obama is more dangerous to the United States than Al Quaeda.
He has turned over the Middle east to Muslim terrorists, he has slowed our energy, he has wasted billions of dollars on Green, He has devastated our economy.
What has Al Quaeda done that compares?
Is this guy considered a “hero” to the left?
Democrats hate Romney and want the White House more than they want to prosper and protect America.
Sorry Chrissy but there is nothing uniquely American about Obama. He comes across as a foreigner. His African, Indonesian, Muslim, black liberation theology and communist roots show through loud and clear. That is what shaped him. Not apple pie and football.
Well, DUH! Mr “Tingles” Matthews!
0bama is the more immediate threat.
Don’t make me say that again.
Romney may be a lot of things, but I’m certain he’s not Al Quaeda.
AFAIC Obama is simply another terrorist who got behind the flight controls of this country only concerned with how he could take off and with no intentions of landing
in one piece.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=paP8K1j-OCU
Chris Matthews:
Too bad his mother decided to keep the afterbirth rather than the baby.
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