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Newsweek Cover Story: 'Mitt Romney: A Candidate With a Serious Wimp Problem'
News Busters ^ | 29 Jul 2012 | Noel Sheppard

Posted on 07/29/2012 5:41:41 PM PDT by mandaladon

25 years ago, Newsweek published a controversial cover story titled "Bush Battles the 'Wimp Factor.'"

On Monday, newsstands will carry an equally controversial albeit derivative Newsweek cover story titled "Mitt Romney: A Candidate With a Serious Wimp Problem":

In 1987, this magazine created a famous hubbub by labeling George H.W. Bush a “wimp” on its cover. “The Wimp Factor.” Huge stir. And not entirely fair—the guy had been an aviator in the war, the big war, the good war, and he was even shot down out over the Pacific, cockpit drenched in smoke and fumes, at an age (20) when in most states he couldn’t even legally drink a beer. In hindsight, Poppy looks like Dirty Harry Callahan compared with Romney, who spent his war (Vietnam) in—ready?—Paris. Where he learned ... French. Up to his eyeballs in deferments. Where Reagan saddled up a horse with the masculine name of El Alamein, Mitt saddles up something called Rafalca—except that he doesn’t even really do that, his wife does (dressage). And speaking of Ann—did you notice that she was the one driving the Jet Ski on their recent vacation, while Mitt rode on the back, hanging on, as Paul Begala put it to me last week, “like a helpless papoose”?

The piece continued:

Romney is the genuine article: a true wimp...In some respects, he’s more weenie than wimp—socially inept; at times awkwardy ingratiating, at other times mocking those “below” him, but almost always getting the situation a little wrong, and never in a sympathetic way.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: elections; georgehwbush; liberalmedia; manhood; newsweak; romney; romney2012; wimp
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1 posted on 07/29/2012 5:41:58 PM PDT by mandaladon
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To: mandaladon

Yeah, as if Obummer is Captain Superbutch.


2 posted on 07/29/2012 5:45:28 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: mandaladon

Oh, just hurry up and die, Newsweak.


3 posted on 07/29/2012 5:46:16 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Army Air Corps

Michelle is SuperButch


4 posted on 07/29/2012 5:46:29 PM PDT by Kozy (Calling Al Gore)
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To: ozzymandus

I was going to say, isn’t the end of the print edition in sight per Newsweek itself?


5 posted on 07/29/2012 5:48:24 PM PDT by John W (Viva Cristo Rey!)
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To: Army Air Corps

“Yeah, as if Obummer is Captain Superbutch”

I believe that is Michelle.


6 posted on 07/29/2012 5:49:26 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans. Don't read their lips. Watch their hands.)
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7 posted on 07/29/2012 5:50:24 PM PDT by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: ozzymandus
socially inept; at times awkwardy ingratiating, at other times mocking those “below” him, but almost always getting the situation a little wrong, and never in a sympathetic way.

Are the people at Newsweak just using one series of descriptives for any presidential candidate? It sure would work as an Obama piece.............

8 posted on 07/29/2012 5:52:08 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: mandaladon

we are all socialists now

they said


9 posted on 07/29/2012 5:52:08 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: mandaladon

Compared to the Commando leader of Seal Team Six, Obambo, who eats raw dog meat for breakfast and who killed Bin Laden with his bare hands.

Watch for Putin-style images of a shirtless Obama wrestling a tiger in the next Newsweek.


10 posted on 07/29/2012 5:52:57 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Don't nuke me, bro)
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To: mandaladon
And the same media freak show call Obama a tough guy.


11 posted on 07/29/2012 5:53:08 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Congrats to Ted Kennedy! He's been sober for two years now!!)
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To: mandaladon
lol I haven't picked up a newsweek in twenty years and sure don't intend to do so this late in the game...

MSM needs to wake up...AMERICANS are wise to them now...

12 posted on 07/29/2012 5:53:15 PM PDT by haircutter
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To: mandaladon

Someone, Plc post a pic of Owimpy riding his bike. (I don’t know how). Thx!


13 posted on 07/29/2012 5:53:27 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: VeniVidiVici

Perfect!


14 posted on 07/29/2012 5:55:03 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: mandaladon

Isn’t it just a couple of weeks ago that he was being derided as a “bully?”


15 posted on 07/29/2012 5:56:17 PM PDT by TexasVoter (No Constitution? No Union!)
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To: mandaladon

Hey Newsweak, there’s no one more of a pansy ass than Obama.


16 posted on 07/29/2012 5:57:03 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: mandaladon
Real men are like the Messiah and manage to have their c... (read without the ellipses) serviced by Larry Sinclar.
17 posted on 07/29/2012 6:01:33 PM PDT by Stepan12
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To: mandaladon

But I thought you D-baggers wanted a more civil campaign.


18 posted on 07/29/2012 6:02:39 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: mandaladon

And Newsweek descends further into self-parody.

Seriously, is there ANYONE in America, left or right, that takes them seriously anymore? If so, God help us.


19 posted on 07/29/2012 6:05:47 PM PDT by Random_User_250
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To: Huskrrrr

It’s easy to be “civil” when you have the news media to do your smear campaigning for you.


20 posted on 07/29/2012 6:07:33 PM PDT by Random_User_250
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