Week In News: The 'Swiftboating' Of Mitt Romney

NPR ^ | July 14, 2012 | NPR

[xzins]

most Americans figure if you're the chairman, CEO and president of a company that you are responsible for what that company does.

That does make sense, and, it is something that Freepers have been pointing out for months.

This is not new. It was all over Free Republic during the Gingrich/Romney/Perry wars.

[Diogenesis]

Mr. RomneyCARE also owned 100% of the company,
and received a reported 100,000$ per year.

But he had no control.

None.
Nope.
Poor Mr. RomneyCARE. Had no control. None.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

The left has been desperate to destroy the legitimate criticism of John Kerry by his former peers and superiors in the US Navy, that knew him as a disreputable, ambitious, treacherous, deceitful, lying traitor to both his comrades and his nation.

Since they couldn't challenge the facts, they pretended that these former US Navy officers and enlisted men were universally partisan, spewing hatred and lies while being paid a fortune to do so by shadowy businessmen.

The the left and their MSM accomplices decided to create a verb of derision, "swiftboating", as an abbreviation of all their libels of these former officers and enlisted men; figuring that the public would forget the truth and only remember their lies. And then they would popularize this nonsense verb by applying it to totally unrelated situations.

So the proper response is that, when they use the term, they should be confronted with pretend confusion. For example:

"Are you suggesting that honorable, US Navy veteran Officers and enlisted men are calling Mitt Romney a lying, deceitful traitor to the United States, who faked military commendations, and traitorously slandered his former comrades before congress, calling them war criminals, in an effort to undermine the war effort, for his own political ambitions?"

"That's what 'Swiftboating' means, don't you know?"

What this accomplishes is to snatch this new verb out of their hands and redefine it as the legitimate criticism of John Kerry for his crimes.

[Sudetenland]

Right! Heaven forbid that a CEO receive a salary, why that would be . . . CAPITALIST!

LOL!!! Any port in a storm for you Romney haters. Doesn't matter how battered and storm-swept it may be, it's still a port, eh?

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

“Most Americans figure if you’re the chairman, CEO and president of a company that you are responsible for what that company does.”

Meanwhile, for all practical purposes, Barack Hussein Obama is the chairman, CEO and president of the United States of America. However, he, Obama, is NEVER held to account for the endless problems America has faced these past three and a half years.

It’s always the fault of someone or something else.....the Arab Spring, the Japanese tsunami, George W. Bush, ATM machines, the European financial crisis, the Koch brothers, the “Republican Congress” (gee....I thought the Senate was controlled by the dems).

Typical dem double standards.

[Big Mack]

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: “I think most Americans figure if you're the chairman, CEO and president of a company that you are responsible for what that company does”.

Does this clown even know what he reads from this teleprompter?

Try this on for size, “0”. “I think most Americans figure if you are the president of a country that you are responsible for what that country does.

In order for this to be “swiftboating” most of the employees of Bain would need to come forward and call Mit a liar. This is just the crats using a word they fail to understand. Nothing new here, just move on.

[Izzy Dunne]

in saying swiftboating, I'm not asserting that these are false accusations.

Wow, what an economy of words. Two birds with one stone.

He's implying that "swiftboating" is normally associated with "false accusations".

And then saying that these are not necessarily false.

[Tau Food]

Believe me, Romney isn’t claiming that he didn’t know what his company was doing while he was CEO because of outsourcing. In fact, he’s lying because he wants to pretend he knew nothing about his company trafficking in the bodies of little boys and girls murdered in abortion mills.

[Gritty]

Is this attack too early? Maybe Romney will be routed before the GOP Convention?

In that case, there are others ready, willing and able to take up the mantle - if only the GOP establishment has the guts and brains to do it!

Unfortunately, it doesn't. After all, these are the same clueless, ideologically centerless schmucks who carried their last three heroes and big losers - Gerald Ford, Bob Dole, and John McCain - across the finish line to certain electoral disaster.

[ByteMercenary]

So, you are voting for the First Muslim. Are you doing so by voting for him directly or buy staying home?

[Psalm 144]

“Doesn’t matter how battered and storm-swept it may be, it’s still a port, eh?”

The same could be said of a certain odious, culture of death candidate.

[Diogenesis]

The trouble with you knee-jerk RomneyBOT attackers
is that you have no logic.

The issue is not the salary. or Capitalism (both good).
The issue is that Mr. RomneyCARE
lied and said he had no control, but owned
100% and got paid a salary.

TELL THE TRUTH, Mr. ROMNEYCARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Diogenesis]

We do not backstab conservatives -- like Mitt Willard Romney and this Legion do daily.

Do YOU remember Election 2008?

FLASHBACK:

The McCain/Palin ticket was up ++4 to 10 pts
in some polls, days prior to Election 2008.
So rather than helping the GOP, Romney and
TeamROMNEY and the RNME (Republican National Media Establishment)
decided …to attack Gov. Palin to throw Election2008.

Romney, and the Van der Sloot RNME RINOs for Obama in 2008

Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers…
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide…
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
"Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."

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The Palmetto Scoop reported: "One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was
the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
… aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw
that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.

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"These staffers are now out trying to finish her off ….hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

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"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign?
National Review Online The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the “Diva” leak was Nicolle Wallace’s husband."

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"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

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[muawiyah]

Let me call you to account for the term 'hater' ~ that's a term the leftwingtards use ~ you are using their term ~ therefore you are a leftwingtard.

Capice?

Now, about accusing Freepers ~ any Freepers ~ of being "haters' ~ that is the sort of thing that should probably get you disposed of like rubbish.

Just waiting on the ZOT fur shur!

[muawiyah]

There can be no doubt that 'outsourcing' wasn't on his mind in this particular issue ~ you are hitting the target right in the center.

He really needs to clear this issue up, although I doubt even he can deal with the truth in this one.

So, a fair question, how is it you end up owning a company that treats murdered babies like so much trash? Gotta' be one hard hearted sociopathic bad-a$$ to seek out that industry eh!

[svcw]

Ok, let me see if I get this correct.

Romney says in 1999, he left Bain Capitol and all control of the company, to save the Olympics single handedly.

(using over one billion dollars in taxpayers money, IE bail out)

Yet, Romney received a salary and signed all the legal documents regarding the company until 2001-2.

So the simple seems to be this:

Romney may or may not have been in control of Bain, and he may or may not have been CEO or he may or may not have had knowledge of what was going on.

Romney could not have left control and still received a salary or signed documents if he were not still involved.

If he were still involved he knew what was going on, if he wasn't involved why was he still receiving a salary and signing documents.

So the real question is this how many versions of this story are Romney and his team going to tell, fourteen?

Why doesn't Romney just tell the truth?

[Tau Food]

So, a fair question, how is it you end up owning a company that treats murdered babies like so much trash? Gotta' be one hard hearted sociopathic bad-a$$ to seek out that industry eh!

Yes, and the name Stericycle implies that Romney may have come up with some way of recycling fetuses.

[Hoodat]

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: “I think most Americans figure if you're the chairman, CEO and president of a company that you are responsible for what that company does”.

Does this clown even know what he reads from this teleprompter?
Try this on for size, “0”. “I think most Americans figure if you are the president of a country that you are responsible for what that country does.

Spot on. And I agree with your assessment. He really doesn't know what he is reading from his teleprompters. Obama is the skinniest puppet the world has ever seen. And his sycophants in the press won't even address the charges that this emperor has no clothes.

[muawiyah]

Definitely a problem with the guy ~ he really should get this out of the way before the Convention.

BTW, the Democrats, so far, see no problem in that aspect ~ after all, they've undoubtedly contributed to the fetus stocks.