"Mitt Romney, at his core, is not a hardcore conservative," Mark McKinnon said Wednesday on The Last Word, laying out one of many of Romney's problems.
What makes his words different? McKinnon was a top adviser to George W. Bush who also helped out on John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign.
In a brutally honest editorial in The Daily Beast about Romney's latest 47% troubles, McKinnon wrote that candidate is "running out of time, and voters like me are running out of patience."
McKinnon described Romney comments made in the video—which was surreptitiously recorded and posted online Monday by the liberal magazine Mother Jones—as unpresidential. "Presidents don't talk about those people," he said. "Presidents talk about being inclusive."
"He's been a mystery for a lot of us," McKinnon continued, and the latest remarks aren't helping.
O'Donnell asked if this now means that he is an undecided voter.
"The Libertarian's starting to look pretty good to me right now," McKinnon said, referring to Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson.
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He'd be a more acceptable candidate if he were "hard core"? Please explain.
When things are turning south, conservatives think that they need to go even further to the right. In 2008, instead of learning a lesson about extremism, they decided that they needed to cater to the lunatic fringe even more. This is a prime example of being out of touch with American voters.
How can anyone that only wants to be President as one more feather in his cap and no passion for his ideas since they change with the wind, turn anything around when he has nothing to turn around in the first place. Repub voters, it is too late. Obama will kill him in the debates as well.
Romney is the most UN qualifiedd candidate since Sarah Palin; the difference? She knew it; he Romney doesn't
For all it may be worth, I do commend Romney for being honest. While the experiences we have had thus far clearly should tell us that Romney if elected will be the President of the Super Rich who are bank rolling him presently( at the expense of the rest of us), you have to admit that he is the genuine article. Romney is a true politician in public(most of the times) and a plutocratic vulture capitalist in private.
Republican arguing to raise taxes? The 47% Debate
Romney can not articulate; nor can Republicans, a concern about the 47% not paying taxes because it essentially puts them on the side of arguing to raise taxes? (Suggesting some people need to pay more) From a purely political point of view...Dems. suggest raising taxes on the top 1%...insert Repub. talking point "now is not the time to be raising taxes on any American". So for Repubs. to politically take a stance suggesting the 47% need to pay more because we all need to pay our fair share is a debate to raise taxes on somebody.
Mock Debate:
Romney - "We all need to pay our fair share"
Obama - "I agree on raising taxes, I just think the 1% should pay rather than the middle class"
Not sure how that will help republicans politically. Keep in mind the Dems and the Obama campaign already note the CBO's score suggesting Romneys plan would raise taxes on the Middle Class. So a debate on the 47% not paying their fair share is a confirmation of that point, atleast it could spin that way. I'm just saying.
Romney's plan is to have tax reform that will lower tax rates for everyone, especially corporations who have the highest rates of any any developed or developing nation right now, while broadening the base and staying revenue nuetral but erring on the side of raising tax revenues by removing the hodge podge of deductions and credits that have been layered on the tax code since its last being reformed under President Ronald Reagen and Tip O'Neil as Democrat Party Speaker of the House (the same pair that last brought program sustaining reform to our Social Security system back in the 1980s.
Interesting that President Obama and Republican Party Speaker of the House John Boehner came close to the same style deal in the Summer of 2011, before Obama came back to the table with the deal done with his request for an extra $400 billion in tax rate increases in the his favorite group of people to raise taxes on, those making $200K or more ($250K annualy ir married and filing jointly), which was on top of the $800K in increased tax revenues already agreed upon thru tax code reform which would broaden the tax base.
Does that help you any Political Point?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxch-yi14BE&feature=related
TMom~ OMG! That is so funny! Perfect!
Why?!? Is it because he's alienated so much of the population, that has the most significance in this type of election? Will the group it seems he is protecting/advocating for going to spend enough to overcome the individual voters who have the right to choose? Do those spenders/donors believe their dollars outnumber the voters at the election booth/, can a dollar bill cast a vote? Mitt is running the race before him... regardless of whether there is anyone to win against beside himself.
Seems to me the group that Romney is advocating for is the Middle Class in this country, and that is the 53% he is attempting to reach, floyd.
It was the most articulate speech Romney has spoken during the whole campaign. I really understand which direction he wants to take the country. To hell with the 47%, who really needs them. They are holding the country back. Lets take our country back and tell the middle class and the poor to sink or swim. Don't ask for nothing. Go Romney? I don't think so.
Seems to me Romney gave a widely broadcast interview at about this same time saying he wasn't concerned with the poor, as there was a safety net in place for them, and if that safety net needed mending, he would get that done....but it was the suffering middle class that he was most concerned with. 90% of all federal taxes in this country are paid beginning with those individuals and families with incomes beginning at $66,000 only and on up to the "filthy rich". While we approach 50% of the population now receiving some form of federal assistance, (sure to go over 50% with the planned ObamaCare federal subsidies given to individuals and families to pay their increased premiums for their mandated and very pricey one size fits all Washington, DC bureaucrats designed health insurance policies), we will have reached the tipping point where more are taking from the federal govenment than are putting in, which means our children and grandchildren will be passed our debts we knowingly ran up. Something has to change folks, and there is not going to enough money out of the millionaires and billionaires tax that Obama and some Senate Democrats are angling for, which is estimated to raise only $4.7 billion a year, or just enough to pay one to two days of our annual spending of $3,67 Trillion a year, $1.2 Trillion or which is currently deficit financed.
By ROGER SIMON | 9/19/12 4:32 AM EDT
The wheels are not coming off the Mitt Romney campaign. They came off some
time ago. The press is just beginning to notice.
The Romney campaign is skidding along on its axles and scraping its muffler.
Soon it will be down to the dog on the roof.
I hate to say I told you so. No, scratch that. I love to say I told you so. I
just don’t get to do it very often.
But as I have been saying for a while now, Mitt Romney is a deeply flawed
candidate who got the Republican nomination by beating a ludicrously weak field.
Don’t believe me?
You know who came in second? Rick Santorum. Newt Gingrich was third, and Ron
Paul was fourth. That’s not a field; that’s a therapy group.
Romney’s defects as a nominee, which I will get to in a moment, were obvious,
but considered unimportant because he really did not have to attract voters.
Instead, voters would flock to him.
They would be driven to him by a bad economy and a lack of jobs, jobs, jobs.
The latter was the Romney campaign’s magical incantation that would make up for
any of its own faults and deficiencies.
Did Team Romney face a well-funded incumbent, an inspirational orator, who
had assembled an experienced, battle-hardened campaign staff that understood the
electoral map as well as any in history?
Well, yes.
And did Team Romney understand that as much as the media dismissed
conventions as meaningless, the Democrats would use their convention to rebrand
the party as one that was strong on defense, big on determination and deeply
concerned about our fighting forces?
Well, no.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, the Romney team chanted. That would solve everything. That
would make voters desert Obama in droves. And it did not matter that the
evidence suggested otherwise. Unemployment has been above 8 percent for every
month of the Obama campaign and he has beaten Romney in the polls in every month
of his campaign.
With its tunnel vision, the Romney campaign assumed an economic downturn
would mean Americans would want to elect a businessman to the presidency.
Yet the economic downturn was caused in part by shady business practices,
runaway greed and outright dishonesty at the highest reaches of America’s
corporate community. Did Americans really want to elect the guy on the cover of
the Monopoly box or throw him in jail?
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"S.O.S. To the media and Obama Campaign. We all know how fickle the media can be" when they are beating someone down in one moment in order to build them back up in the next moment. This is something that certain people in the media especially at Fox News and some at CNN might do during the debates. If Mitt Romney just do well in the debates they make call him the comeback kid waiting on the one liners like why Obama hate cutting taxes or something like that in order to say that Mitt Romney win these debates to claim that he is the comeback kid. So that the democrats and the media should not let the bar be set so low that, that will be all it will take for Mitt Romney to win and the media again will be back on his side.
It always amuses me when the weak sisters in the Republican Party that are hasbeens from former campaigns get their nose out of joint when the current candidate doesn't have any use for their counsel or attempt to gain a spot on the paid current campaign staff. The national polls just released in the past two days, ABC, and Rasmussen and Gallup tracking polls show a statistically tied race at this exact point in time, with Obama having a 1 point edge only, 47% to Romney's 46%. And most notably, Gallup shows that Obama lost 12 points in his supposed strong suit, voter support for his handling of foreign affairs, from pre attack on our embassies and asassination of our Ambassador and his colleagues on the 11th anniversary of 9/11's former 53% overall voter support down to only 41% now. But hey, remember it was Romney that the liberal media and the kibitzers like Bill Kristol and Joe Scarbourough (who never liked Romney as the candidate of the Republican Party in the first place) chastized for "speaking out of turn" in the immediate aftermath of the assault and breaching of our Embassy in Cairo, Egypt that preceeded the deadly planned assault on the Ambassador and his collegues at our unprotected consulate in Benghazi, Libya by heavily armed terrorists, which the beleagured Obma administration has been trying to apologize for and lay blame on "spontaneous demonstrations that spun out of control" by protesters of 1 several month old out on YouTube 14 minute trailer for a blamphemous film about Mohammed and Islam's beginnings still to be released.
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and you can fool all of the people some of the time", but you still can't fool all of the people all of the time.
No would would suggest you weren't in the latter category, Fuzzie...
"No would would..."? What malady have you developed now, a typing out your scrambled toughts inpediment, Cab Driver?
Another interesting take on the Romney campaign....
I agree with Mr. O'Donnell's assessment. But what I think he, Rachel Maddow and other commentators are missing right now is that Romney's troubles are bigger than himself. O'Donnell and Maddow need immediately to get "out of the weeds" on this one and tell a big-picture story. Romney is the flawed messenger of a flawed GOP platform and philosophy, which are incompatible the needs of the American people at this particular point in time.
Their scorched-earth approach to making needed investment in the people, infrastructure and environment of our country risks hurting us over the long term. Too many Americans are fearful of losing what few breaks they are receiving from the government just now and are wary of a GOP platform that seems tone-deaf to the concerns of the middle class. Romney certainly carries some blame for this.
But if O'Donnell and Maddow focus only on Romney's performance, they're handing the GOP an easy out: "Our trouble was Romney. We'll front a better candidate in 2016." Instead the message to GOP should be: "Wrong policies, wrong strategy, wrong candidate. Too much dogma, too little pragmatism, and too little understanding of the needs of the American people." Mr. O'Donnell, please hammer this message home during the weeks ahead.
The past thirty years have been very good to the well-to-do. Ed Schultz talks with Dean Baker, of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
The Romney campaign remains in crisis mode with the release of a secretly recorded video shot in May of Mitt Romney dissing the 47 percent of Americans who pay no federal income and as people "who are dependent on government, who believe that they are victims."
So yesterday, the Republican presidential nominee reached back a decade-and-a-half to 1998 to suggest that President Barack Obama's principal goal, as The New York Times says, "is to soak the rich so that money will keep flowing for social program handouts to the lazy and undeserving."
"A tape came out a couple of days ago with the president saying, yes, he believes in redistribution. I don't," said Romney. "I believe the way to lift people and to help people have higher incomes is not to take from some and give to others, but to create wealth for all of us."
But things have gotten better for the rich under President Obama. Wall Street profits are soaring through the roof. Productivity has surged. Yet wages remain stagnant, as this chart from Mother Jones points out:
Republicans should be proud of the way Mitt-for-brains is emulating another who ascended to the Presidency by "reinventing himself."
You all remember the "New Nixon," don't you? And how that turned out?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxeFMHyOx3I
And now we are seeing the "New Romney."
Praise the Lord, and pass the Etch-a-Sketch...
Does anyone not believe that Obama's whole economic phisosophy isn't based on using Big Government to effedtuate his reimbursement of what he calls "our resources" (read other peoples money)?
I get very concerned that with the current commentary from the experts on MSNBC and other supporters of the President, voters supporting the President will get over confident, think its over and not come to the polls. Between the overconfidence and the voter suppression efforts, I think the republicans think that can back into the White House. Please continue to remind your audience that to ensure the President's successful reelection, supporters must go to the polls and vote