Hey, Romney, Kiss My Big Blue Butt
After 9-11, did Democrats stand up and blame George Bush – even when we should have? No, we did not. We loved our country more than we hated George Bush – even when he needed hating. And, by the way, he stole the damn presidency.
Mitt Romney’s attempt this morning to poison the well for the President of the United States of damn America is not only classless, but an actual danger to our country.
Mitt Romney reiterated on Wednesday his claim that President Obama’s “first response” to an attack on a diplomatic compound in Libya that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens was to “sympathize” with Stevens’s attackers.
In a press conference delivered minutes after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addressed the attacks, Romney expanded on his initial statement, accusing Obama of apologizing to Islamic militants.
Mitt Romney, you are an unmitigated galling classless son of a motherless goat.
President Obama said, “Make no mistake, justice will be done.” This comes from the man who took out Osama bin Laden when Mitt Romney’s political party kowtowed to him. President Obama gets even. Romney’s party gets lazy. Our ambassador was killed. Try to show a little class.
Up until this morning, I just thought Romney was a clown. Now I know he’s a dangerous clown.
We gotta beat this guy. Seriously.
The minute I heard the news I knew Romney would pull something like this. Does he really believe the things he says or does he know better and just thinks the American people are so stupid they’ll believe anything?
1Noted that none of the GOP leaders during the first day of Congress mentioned Romney’s name. I hope some of the less loathsome ones like John McCain will step up to the mic and roundly exorcise him for these stupid comments.
2Remember when politics ended at the waters edge? This new republican party has no class. The only justice for these people is a landslide whereby the Democratic party controls both houses and the Presidency.
3John McCain is too busy beating the war drums for battle with Iran.
4After months of hard work trying to guarantee the reelection of President Obama, Mitt Romney today has finally succeeded. “It’s been a long descent,” Romney said, “but I think we’ve finally hit bottom.” Romney has revealed the reason behind the effort: “One of my grandkids, I forget her name, she had a social studies project. We wanted to see if one obscenely rich guy could singlehandedly boondoggle the election. Basically, it was a punk of the GOP.”
5He’s a really dangerous clown. friend of mine on Dreamwidth posted a link to your blog (thank you!) and also posted lots o info on Romney.
http://twistedchick.dreamwidth.org/3717044.html
http://twistedchick.dreamwidth.org/3714627.html
and possibly the most important one, it has a link at the bottom to Matt Taibbi’s Rolling Stone column on Romney and Bain Capitol and where the money went. Really eye-opening on this one.
6http://twistedchick.dreamwidth.org/3713233.html
Mitt Ready,FIRE, oh wait ,aim!
7Juanita Jean, as usual you are eloquent and delightful. I hope that your blog will go viral, and become national reading every day. It’s your irreverent balloon-popping humor that can show the mitsy-boy for what he is.
I’m furious that this gormless poser even opened his mouth about our ambassador’s death. He will never be able to understand that relationships between independent nations are nothing like the social twists of prep school. God forbid that this hollow man should ever be in a position to pick up his barber shears or put on his phony uniform and go out and make war. With my money.
8The radical right’s definition of “patriotism” is now officially as inaccurate as their definition of “Christianity.”
9This is the same SOB who yesterday sat down at a table with a Vietnam War Vet and told him he would prevent his husband from getting any benefits! The same one who just did an event with coal minors in mandatory unpaid attendance and thinks he was showing solidarity with American workers. The same one who forgets to to honor our warriors who are currently in Afghanistan and those recently returned from IRAC. This is the guy who thinks its good policy to ship american jobs overseas. The same guy who wants to make things so bad economically in the US that menial laborers from south America will “Self Deport”. I could go on for days.
10Something is totally rotten in Denmark folks. This “movie” was made last year by an Israeli-American for $5 million donated by about 100 like minded folks. The “movie” bombed, and sat on a shelf until somebody got the bright idea to dub it in Arabic and put it out on the ‘Net.Along comes avid supporter Terry Jones, who has stirred up his own share of moose pucky by burning Qurans. Don’t you find it interesting that here we are in the last lap of our election process, Israel is doing it’s level best to drag us along with them into a shooting war with Iran, and the Mittster and the rest of his warmongering group is shooting himself in the foot right and left without an issue to hang his hat on and all of a sudden 4 dedicated Americans are murdered and they are screaming for somebody’s head, preferably a Muslim.
11If there is an upside in this mess, I did watch Romney’s press conference this morning, and the reporters did not let him off the hook for his irresponsible statements. He finally walked out of the room after he realized that every question was questioning HIS word choices, not the President’s.
12The Rethugs have finally landed with a resounding thud at the bottom of the barrel,the edge of which Saint Ronnie Of Raygun perched upon so daintily,without ever quite falling in,save for brief dunkings when he was caught conspiring with the Iranians and fomenting Rightwing Terrorist regimes in Central/South America.It’s long overdue.
13If the maker of this film is proud of his work, why is he in hiding. My suggestion is we should buy him a ticket to the middle east and let him exercise his free speech over there!
14Did you see the photos of Romney laughing at the presser last night? Mitts laughs about 4 Americans killed in Cairo by terrorists. Despicable.
Bet ($10,000 of course) that he’d like to outsource some jobs right now to make hisself feel better.
Love and alfalfa hay,
15LongRider
American values, Mr Romney, include disavowing bigots, even as you defend their right to speak.
They include supporting the President during an international crisis, even as you run to replace him.
They include rising above political expedience to do what is right, which also happens to be politically expedient!
They include restraining our impetuous allies, even as we spport them in a dangerous region.
You sir, should learn truly what it means to be an American. In the meantime, don’t ask for true Americans to vote for you.
16He wants to be President? The embassy statement was made before the protests and before the Libyan deaths in an attempt to calm down the people protesting in Egypt. So what does the idiot do now? He double-downs on his unbelievable error… now it’s a blatant lie. This is a man who would throw gasoline on a fire and claim he was trying to put it out!
17Mittens, take you Treason and Sedition and home and play in the car elevator – maybe it will get stuck and nobody will find you for days – you are sickening – disgusting you sent a statement to news stations TWO HOURS before midnight yesterday and they held them until 12:01 on 09/12. You lost today. Thankfully, for America.
18The Boston Globe’s website did a piece on his dealings with GLBT people while he was governor. The creepy part, and I mean REALLY creepy, was the way that everyone described him as lacking an ounce of empathy. Like, not one atom of empathy. All these different people, in different situations, different times, etc., all said it was as if he had no human connection at all.
Now he tries beating up on the president after a US ambassador is killed, a lifelong public servant who surely did mountains more good for his country than Mittens ever did. Just when I think the taste he leaves in my mouth can’t get any nastier, the son of a motherless goat surprises me. (In all respect to Romney’s actual late mother, she, by all accounts, was a liberal Republican and a swell lady.)
19If you didn’t watch Morning Joe today (Joe wasn’t there so it was better), look at the piece with Joe Klein. Romney was working buddies with Netanyahu in the 80s (I think) and he is trying to get Mitt elected for his own gain, to get us to back him militarily. Even the Israelis are condemning his actions. (“Whose regime are you trying to overthrow first, the US or Iran?”)
20Surely, surely, this will sink Romney to below the bottom! I bow to all the comments above. I can’t do better.
I am as disgusted with recent events as the rest of you. Other than that, I just wanna say to those who attacked us ” Hey, y’all damn sure better be huntin’ a hole ’cause you done gone and made the binLaden gitter mad.”
21Romney is desperate. The election is eight weeks away, he knows he’s behind, and he has about a month to turn the election around. During that period he will seize on any event that he hopes will get him elected. It will only get uglier.
22Romney’s toast. He clearly showed the world this morning that he is unfit to be POTUS. This election is over. Congratulations, President Obama.
23Well Ann, we now KNOW your husband has no empathy, no brains, no class and is a dangerous jerk.
How dare he question the administration at a time like this?
Has he no sense of solidarity as an American?
He could have quietly next week stated how he would have handled these deaths but nope, that is the kind of jerk he is.
Did he even mention the deaths and families?
24I remember during the Bush/Gore debates that a question came up (don’t recall what it was–maybe something about Bosnia) regarding some action President Clinton had just taken. And first Bush, then Gore *both* said it would be inappropriate to comment on the President’s decision, that he had their support. So for pity’s sake, if even *George W. Bush* can out-class Romney in a similar situation, Mitt Romney needs to just apologize profusely and slink back under his rock until the election results roll right over him. G’night, Willard!
25Given the sequence of events that led up to this, taken in their entirety, it’s a shame that John Lennon is no longer here for people to apologize to:
Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people living for today
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people living life in peace
I really wish the Rapture would come and clear out some of the religionists around here. You may say that I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.
26If I understand the polls correctly, the only way Romney can win the election at this point is if he gets more of his supporters to vote than Obama does. That means Romney must say whatever necessary to get his voters riled up into a frothy, crazed mob that will run down to the polls on election day with torches and pitchforks – – to save their version of America.
27DaChipster … I totally agree with you … I pray for the Rapture and truly hope I’m strong enough in my faith and love of the Lord to be taken up!!
Amen! Amen! Amen!!
28All of the comments above say it all so well. There’s no doubt this Romney person (using the term loosely) is not capable of showing any class or sympathy. I have noticed lately that, while he used to be a rather attractive man, he is becoming pinched face and uglier by the day. A pox on this empty suit!
29“American values, Mr Romney, include disavowing bigots, even as you defend their right to speak.”
30Well said, Da Chipster but we already know Romney and the Republicans have kicked that ideal to death.
The second Republican presidential campaign debate was held in Concord, NH on the same day “don’t ask, don’t tell” was officially declared no longer a US armed forces policy. The debate moderators skyped in a serviceman from Afghanistan who expressed his relief and joy that he could continue to serve his country without denying his sexual orientation.
The audience booed him.
Not ONE of the candidates on the stage took the audience to task or pointed out that this serviceman was putting his own life at risk to safeguard their bigotry. Not ONE.
If I were doing media for a Democratic candidate this year I would freeze frame that 30 seconds and I would loop it over and over and over.
They’re going to “fight” for fellow Americans? Sure.
They haven’t even got the backbone to scold a small group of bigots.
This election is not won yet. GOTV. GOTV. GOTV. I don’t care how crazy Romney looks. He can still win, and it will be our own fault, if we get too cocky too soon. It’s not over until 7 p.m. on Tuesday, November 6th. And that is 7 p.m. on the west coast and beyond, for those of you who are old enough to remember that election disaster. Vote. Volunteer to drive folks to the polls. Vote. Remind, hell, nag everyone you know to vote. Vote. Man the phone banks. Vote. His people will go to the polls. We better be there, too.
31@Rick No one can get lazy now about voting it’s just to dang important but I’d seriously start worrying about any state that uses electronic voting machines. This is when I hope Anon and 4Chan are watching closely – VERY closely.
32My family members are fans of the poet Carol Lynn Pearson – a mormon – whose husband was gay in the days when the desert was full of the bodies of young men turned away from their families with encouragement of the church. To expect Rmoney to have any empathy with his training is unfortunately ludicrous.
33You know, fans of JJ, that the time has come to put our bodies where our mouths are. We aren’t going to give up freedom of speech or religion. However, we have been shown time and time again that others don’t enjoy such liberties and have nothing but to defend their religion in the only way they know how.
So, I suggest that all of us do whatever we can, as citizens with freedom of speech and religion, to SHAME the so-called Christianists (Terry Jones comes immediately to mind) and declare them Traitors and non-Christians. There is no cartoon, movie, printed tract, about Mohammed (true or not) that is worth the lives of any more Americans.
Please, can we just acknowledge that there are a whole lot of people who love their religion and will use violence to protect what they see as fidelity? That costs us nothing but our own safety. How do you deal with a largely illiterate population like the Taliban who see women as less than human?
I’m not talking here about bowing to their religious beliefs. I’m talking about leaving the Muslims in America to build their mosques and worship as they see fit–as long as they don’t break any laws–just as the vast majority here want to do. Just as the Mormons do.
For those of you who consider yourselves Christian, it’s time to take back your religion from those who are busily destroying it in Jesus’ name.
34“If I’m President, I will take your healthcare, take your birth control, take your social security and medicare, take Big Bird and everything else on PBS, take your art pencils, take your minimum wage away, take your museums, take your roads and bridges, take your schools and libraries, and take the post office and food stamps. But don’t worry, I’ll be richer, and maybe I’ll give one or two of you a job. You and the local churches can pick up the slack, right? Why aren’t ya’ll working harder? Don’t you have any values? Where is your work ethic? One of my cars is dirty.”
Can you imagine WHO is going to vote for this guy??
35Dear Barb, you are SO RIGHT and I’ve been trying for years! I also hope to heaven that my actions support my words. I told my mother when I was 8 that the church was wrong, that God didnt make all the Indians and Chinese and Arabs just to throw them away, because if all that other stuff she said was true He had to love them too! AND HE DOES! Never mind Luke 10, read Matthew 25, 31-42. Terry jones has a surprise waiting for him. I hope he has to watch God/Allah bestow 75 beautiful girls each upon all the Muslims he so despises while he gets nothing! It would be great!
36@Lissa … I’m “borrowing” your comment to put on Facebook … It says exactly what I’d like to say but just couldn’t come up with the right phrasing and you have done it so well!
The sad thing is the fact that wonderful, intelligent women will be voting for Mitt and I simply cannot understand that mentality. I believe they are so grounded in the Republican rut that they can’t get out onto the main highway!
37Objective indicia:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/11/opinion/the-bush-white-house-was-deaf-to-9-11-warnings.html?_r=2
38he’s a slimy opportunist and only wants the Presidency to prove he is a bigger man than his Daddy ( much like Bush Jr)…heaven help us if he manages to buy the White House!
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