Condi Rice for Mitt’s veep? You mean THIS Condi Rice?
Condi Rice for vice president?
Personally, I think it’s a great idea, but only if Joe Biden decides that he doesn’t want a second term.
Yeah, that's the ticket.
But wait … Drudge is reporting that she’s now a frontrunner for the Republican veep pick?
Hmmm. That would be interesting. She is obviously qualified for the position, and her selection would shake up the campaign in ways that no other potential candidate could match.
On the other hand:
She has described President Bush’s decision to withdraw from the Kyoto Treaty on climate change as a “self-inflicted wound,” and while she doesn’t support implementing Kyoto in its present form, she believes the United States must lead international action on that problem.
Rice has also discussed what she calls her “mildly pro-choice” views, defends Roe v. Wade and “can’t imagine why one would take these decisions out of the hands of the family.” She believes it “appropriate” to consider race in college admissions, says affirmative action is needed “if it does not lead to quotas” and acknowledges that she herself benefited from the program. As secretary of state, she appointed that department’s first chief diversity officer.
She supports civil unions for gay Americans and warns against mixing religion and politics, “because that is really when man is trying to use God for his own purposes.” She has also made clear her distaste for the Dick Cheney school of foreign policy, from which Romney has drawn most of his foreign policy advisers. In fact, she publicly defended Obama against charges by Cheney that he has weakened the country, nothing that “Nothing in this president’s methods suggests this president is other than a defender of America’s interests.”
Rice is on the record as recognizing that both tax increases and spending cuts will be needed to balance the budget, with an emphasis on spending cuts. However, she opposes spending cuts on foreign aid, which Romney has proposed, and backs “strong investment in renewable energy like wind and solar” to begin to wean the country off oil.
She believes most illegal immigrants should be allowed to stay in this country, advocating “comprehensive immigration reform”. The United States, she said in 2008, “is going to have to have enlightened immigration policies if we’re going to stay this strong, competitive, open magnet for the best and brightest from around the world that we’ve been.”
And on Israel, the conservative Jewish Telegraphic Agency warns that ‘overall she’s a big advocate of a two-state solution who is closer to the Obama team on this issue than she is to where the GOP candidates and GOP base have been during this campaign season.”
Now, if the modern Republican Party is nonetheless willing to have a candidate with such beliefs on its national ticket — and if it’s willing to “let Condi be Condi,” rather than force her to do a full Romney and recant these and other positions — then I think that her nomination would be great for both the party and the nation.
Somehow, I’m a little doubtful that’s going to happen.
– Jay Bookman
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Steve
July 13th, 2012
1:14 pm
Wow, Ben – circular logic so soon in the debate?
Jack
July 13th, 2012
1:14 pm
Condi for VP. It would absolutely confound the liberals. Obama will likely choose Hillary for VP.
kawasaki kid
July 13th, 2012
1:14 pm
Condoleeza Rice has stongly stated she has no desire to get back into politics. That remains to be seen, but if she’s indeed her own woman, she apparently would, as Jay said, be a better pick to replace Joe Biden. I’ll wager she’s too classy to allow herself to be used as a tool for the purpose of diverting enough black votes to defeat Obama. Black voters will quickly wise up to that.
stands for decibels
July 13th, 2012
1:14 pm
And when you have googled the answer to my question @ 1.13, Ben, care to tell us why attending a “government school” is something to be ashamed of?
Ben Shockley
July 13th, 2012
1:15 pm
“Pop quiz, Ben–what percentage of Americans attending K-12 are in “government schools”?”
Why don’t you share with the group?
Joe Hussein Mama
July 13th, 2012
1:15 pm
Doom — “Jhm, Typical of a lib you throw the r card around way too casually.”
Typically for a con, you fail to read closely and gripe about something I didn’t say.
“Y’all need some new material. I saw a quinnipiac poll that had o leading 94 to 2% against Romney in the black community. To say that at least some of that isn’t due solely to race is to strain credulity not to mention common sense.”
The point was that 0311 said that *all* of it was due to race. I disagreed with him. Maybe you can see the difference in what he said, what I said and what you said — if you think about it a little.
Ben Shockley
July 13th, 2012
1:16 pm
“Wow, Ben – circular logic so soon in the debate?”
Thanks, Steve, for your usual non-sensical response.
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
July 13th, 2012
1:16 pm
“LMAO….if the real Republican party is hte moonbats that Condi is too moderate for, how have they won so many elections? You went to government schools, didn’t you?”
nope – So Bap elementary school followed by Catholic high school.
I’ll write this slowly so that you’ll understand:
extremists are the ones winning elections – the anti-choice, anti-gay, anti-compromise candidates.
those are the ones winning.
Condi ain’t that.
ergo, she won’t be embraced by their ilk.
there.
clear enough for you?
Ben Shockley
July 13th, 2012
1:17 pm
“And when you have googled the answer to my question @ 1.13, Ben, care to tell us why attending a “government school” is something to be ashamed of?”
It’s nothing to be ashmaed of. Some people don’t have the resources to explore superior alternatives, and the Democrats make damn sure they have no other options.
josef
July 13th, 2012
1:17 pm
JM
Just doing my EOI duties in the absence of Paul and Brosephus…
THULSA
Look, I’m trying to be charitable today…I’m looking for substance…
Middle of the Road
July 13th, 2012
1:18 pm
“I would call you more of a center Conservative.”
Maybe you might think better of me if I told you I’m strongly pro-choice and am appalled by how the GOP is trying to shut down abortion clinics and Planned Parenthood? I think I favor Herman Cain’s point of view here. Decisions about whether to have an abortion should be left to individuals and families, not made by the government.
How I stand really depends on the particular issue. What I really do not like is the extreme elements of both parties. I really miss compromise and bipartisanship.
curious
July 13th, 2012
1:18 pm
Samuel L Jackson and the vast majority of Blacks will vote for the Democrat regardless of race.
I voted for Obama and will again.
But all this time, I thought I was White.
stands for decibels
July 13th, 2012
1:19 pm
share with the group?
It’s 90%.
When you sneer about someone being the product of “government schools,” you are sneering at 90% of your fellow citizens.
So, if you wonder why people consider you smelly and disgusting? It’s because of stuff like that.
Ben Shockley
July 13th, 2012
1:19 pm
“extremists are the ones winning elections ”
Congratulations….dumbest post on this blog in months.
Philosophical question for you, sport. Can a clear majority be “extremist”?
LMAO
Bernie
July 13th, 2012
1:19 pm
One thing for sure, Condi is really going to be “OUTSTANDING” on those Romney family vacations and family outings.
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
July 13th, 2012
1:20 pm
The name that would seal the deal for me is……………………I’ll tell you in a second……..The GOP base, The Christians, the non wackos, normal folks, tax payers are gonna vote for Mitt regardless. Someone in my book that would seal the deal with certain groups ( and I’ll throw traditional Dems on that list)
would be Joe Lieberman.
Ben Shockley
July 13th, 2012
1:20 pm
Looks like we got under SFD’s skin. Facts have a way of doing that to libs.
East Cobb RINO, Inc (LLC)
July 13th, 2012
1:21 pm
Condi as the Veep nominee would get Momar Khadafi to vote for the Republican ticket.
Steve
July 13th, 2012
1:22 pm
Ben thinks the fact that Dems control the Presidency and half of Congress means that the GOP have a clear majority, especially when Romney is trailing Obama in the polls and swing states?
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
July 13th, 2012
1:22 pm
Ben – “Philosophical question for you, sport. Can a clear majority be “extremist”?”
hrm. let’s ask the fine residents of Germany circa 1933
Ben Shockley
July 13th, 2012
1:22 pm
We bloggers do need to extend thanks to USinUK though, for providing us a rare glimpse into the limited intellectual development of a liberal, ergo, anyone who disagrees with them is by definition an extremist. To believe anything else would result in their heads exploding en masse.
JimmyZ
July 13th, 2012
1:22 pm
Okay so I read your description of her, and her beliefs. As a more moderate Republican, I can’t wait for 8 years from now when she can be PRESIDENT. She’s exactly what this party needs, and pretty much puts a lock on a Romney win if he picks her.
Ben Shockley
July 13th, 2012
1:22 pm
Steve thinks his posts are relevant to thinking people.
Gordon
July 13th, 2012
1:23 pm
Romney has two choices: pick someone Jay approvs of and someone he doesn’t. He get criticized either way. Who would have guessed that?
stands for decibels
July 13th, 2012
1:25 pm
we got under SFD’s skin.
two things–
we?
and
erm, *I’m* not the one who won’t be using a certain pathetic rhetorical line of attack in the future, having been shamed online, just now.
but think what you like. Yeah, you’re totally under my skin. You haunt me, man.
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
July 13th, 2012
1:25 pm
The more you read on here “against” her, the selection of her would be great. There are some scared hippies on this board.
Steve
July 13th, 2012
1:26 pm
Condi as a GOP President? Really? A black RINO woman who has never married and is certainly a closeted homosexual.
Yeah, the GOP base would LOVE that.
Good grief this is a forum of idiocy.
East Cobb RINO, Inc (LLC)
July 13th, 2012
1:26 pm
Joe Hussein Mama @1:03 pm
“Remember the episode called “The First Lady’s Persqueeter?” ”
————————
I think that was from a different show with live actors called Thats my Bush but still a classic, I was referring to a animated show. But they should both be brought back.
Jm (LL) -pass TSPLOST silly people
July 13th, 2012
1:26 pm
Bernie 12:58 you’re sick dude
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
July 13th, 2012
1:27 pm
BS – no – an extremist is an extremist.
I know plenty of people who disagree with me, but who are reasonable. to me, anyone who sees compromise with the Democrats as bordering on traiterous = extremist.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 13th, 2012
1:27 pm
Thulsa Doom:
“Mama” is twisting what I posted.
I never said that “all” blacks voted for Obama because of race. I said hundreds of thousands did which helped give him the election. Hundreds of thousands of others considered their knowledge of Obama’s policies and as a result voted for or against him.
My point stands ………… if Condi is on the ticket the libs. fear just “enough” votes (based solely on race and being a woman) could go the Republican direction to cost Obama a second term.
Bernie
July 13th, 2012
1:28 pm
A scene as President MITT goes to the Presidential limousine :
Mitt turns to CONDI and says, “I am sorry, we just do not have enough room for “YOU” , because ANN is going with me. You are welcome to ride on “TOP”, if you do not mind?”
Joe Hussein Mama
July 13th, 2012
1:28 pm
Someone who might actually KNOW what’s in Romney’s tax returns, and what he has to say:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/07/romneys_big_tax_return_tell.php?ref=fpblg
Cons, don’t freak. The “someone” I speak of is GOP political fixer Steve Schmidt. And he very likely *saw* Romney’s returns when they were turned over to the McCain campaign for vetting.
josef
July 13th, 2012
1:28 pm
BEN
You couldn’t get under the skin of a heroine addict if you were a syringe…
BERNIE
Why don’t you just go ahead and call her an oreo and be done with it….?
stands for decibels
July 13th, 2012
1:29 pm
A black RINO woman who has never married and is certainly a closeted homosexual.
I was going to post “well, if she’s not actually gay, she might as well be. Gooper Wimminz is ’spected to breed.”
But I’m open to examples of present-day elected GOP women who didn’t first marry/have kids. Anyone know of any?
Lequetta
July 13th, 2012
1:29 pm
“Condi Rice for Mitt’s veep? You mean THIS Condi Rice?”
She’s a very smart, capable lady but anyone even remotely connected with the GWB administration should be forever banned from holding public office.
JamVet
July 13th, 2012
1:30 pm
What are you implying with this stupid comment Sir?
I think you know.
She was an integral part of arguably the most depraved aspect of arguably the most depraved administration in American history.
Torture.
Unfit to lead…
Zebra
July 13th, 2012
1:30 pm
If the GOP was smart, somebody would examine that tax cheat’s returns before the convention. It will be too late after that.
Jm (LL) -pass TSPLOST silly people
July 13th, 2012
1:31 pm
Steve , you , also sick
Condi may or may not be hetero. But unless you know for sure, STFU
Sexual orientation is irrelevant except to sickos like you
They BOTH suck
July 13th, 2012
1:31 pm
“It only took you longer to go that direction on Romney because of the slow nomination process”
Actually it was the slow flip flopping metamorphosis, but don’t let the truth get in the way of a good diatribe
josef
July 13th, 2012
1:31 pm
STEVE
You seem to be obsessed with Dr. Rice’s bedroom…why?
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 13th, 2012
1:32 pm
Just another reason why he has to go !!!
Headline: “Republicans accuse HHS of gutting welfare reform with quiet policy change”
“Republicans are accusing the Obama administration of unilaterally gutting welfare reform after the Department of Health and Human Services quietly notified states that they may seek a waiver for the program’s strict work requirements.
HHS made the announcement in a policy memo Thursday, news that slipped well below the radar amid a raucous day on the presidential campaign trail. But a few prominent GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill picked up on the change, and accused the administration of overhauling one of the most important bipartisan agreements of the past several decades.
“President Obama just tore up a basic foundation of the welfare contract” Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, D-Ohio, said in a statement. He also called the move a “blatant violation of the law.”
Mitt Romney on Friday spoke up on the change, saying: “President Obama now wants to strip the established work requirements from welfare.” He said “the linkage of work and welfare is essential to prevent welfare from becoming a way of life.”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07/13/republicans-accuse-hhs-gutting-welfare-reform-with-quiet-policy-change/#ixzz20WbHsNvz
They BOTH suck
July 13th, 2012
1:33 pm
“Sexual orientation is irrelevant except to sickos like you”
True. Does that go for the right and left wing ones or just those on the right?
I know you haven’t missed some of the right wing anti gay diatribes on this blog
TaxPayer
July 13th, 2012
1:33 pm
Sounds like Ben is trying to proclaim himself to be some sort of superior being. I’ve heard such a complex is readily developed in some of the home-schooled, especially when also subjected to extreme isolation during those formative years.
Andy
July 13th, 2012
1:33 pm
I think Mr. Bookman is overlooking the fact that the VP does not really have that much power, unless, of course, the president dies, and that does not happen very often. Does anybody really think Biden is telling Obama what to do? Democrats should be very worried that Romney does pick her, as that could win him the election right there.
stands for decibels
July 13th, 2012
1:34 pm
And he very likely *saw* Romney’s returns when they were turned over to the McCain campaign for vetting.
ooh oooh oooh. I was wondering about that…
ok, I read the piece, and it’s just a nice bit of fact-finding, but no real news. Still, Steve Schmidt’s comments from six months ago might be dead-on accurate, and maybe there’s no there, there.
if so, Romney’s playing this smart; wait for a groundswell to peak, and then say “oh, you wanted this? here ya go. And?”
They BOTH suck
July 13th, 2012
1:34 pm
Even though Romney did the right thing and asked his adviser to stay, did he leave because of pressure from the left or because of some social conservatives with clout pressuring him to leave?
Goldie
July 13th, 2012
1:34 pm
oh boy Condi — bring it, Baby!
Looking forward to discussing the slam dunk about the uranium tubes that Saddam Hussein was supposed to be in possession of:
“…The tubes were “only really suited for nuclear weapons programs,” Condoleezza Rice, the president’s national security adviser, explained on CNN on Sept. 8, 2002. “We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.”
LMAO, because you Cons are too funny!
josef
July 13th, 2012
1:35 pm
And STEVE
A closeted homosexual has no chance with the GOP? Good L-rd, Mec, that party is KNOWN for its closeted homosexuals…
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
July 13th, 2012
1:35 pm
Zebra…..like the press looked into Obama?
They BOTH suck
July 13th, 2012
1:36 pm
And for the record, Steve as I told another blogger last night it is none of your business what Condi’s sexual orientation is or isn’t.
NONE………..
East Cobb RINO, Inc (LLC)
July 13th, 2012
1:36 pm
“STEVE You seem to be obsessed with Dr. Rice’s bedroom…why?”
Maybe he is channeling his inner Momar Khadafi?
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
July 13th, 2012
1:37 pm
“BEN You couldn’t get under the skin of a heroine addict if you were a syringe…”
classic!
They BOTH suck
July 13th, 2012
1:37 pm
Heck, if Scout can warm up to her, the world of possibilities is endless
Bernie
July 13th, 2012
1:38 pm
The Romeny BOYS are having “WET DREAMS” already, something NEW and exotic may be coming their way.
Joe Hussein Mama
July 13th, 2012
1:39 pm
0311 — ““Mama” is twisting what I posted. ”
Nope. You’re BACKPEDALING, Marine.
“I never said that “all” blacks voted for Obama because of race.”
I said that in general, blacks didn’t vote based on race any more than anyone else. You then replied by posting about *one* man, as if that somehow demonstrated that they all DID. Subsequent to that, you baselessly claimed that your evidence was Mr. Jackson “time hundreds of thousands.”
GMAB.
“I said hundreds of thousands did which helped give him the election.”
I asked you to demonstrate that, and you had nothing other than your own wild speculation. All you could present was Samuel L. Jackson. I ridiculed that, asking you if that meant that *all* blacks would automatically have to do the same thing. THEN you said “Agree do disagree. See my 12:35 time hundreds of thousands,” but you can’t demonstrate that, can you? Once again, you *suspect* the number is that large, but you don’t really know, do you?
“Hundreds of thousands of others considered their knowledge of Obama’s policies and as a result voted for or against him.”
If that’s what you think, then how come you didn’t agree with me when I POSTED that? How come you blew right past me saying ‘not all of them vote based on race; some vote based on policies?’
“My point stands ……”
No, it doesn’t. Not in the least.
…… if Condi is on the ticket the libs. fear just “enough” votes (based solely on race and being a woman) could go the Republican direction to cost Obama a second term.”
Once again, throw me in that briar patch. Do you know what that means?
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
July 13th, 2012
1:40 pm
The debate with her and Biden would pay off the national debt if they sold tickets. A brain vs a senile walking gaff so out of touch he couldn’t find reality with Daniel Boone helping him…….But hey, he was the first to tell us that Obama was clean and articulate.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 13th, 2012
1:41 pm
Everything should be on the table ………… everything !
Finances, medical, educational, sexual preference, background, writings, friends, contacts, organizational memberships, foreign travel (official and private), etc., etc., etc.
Anyone who has access to Top Secret information can be blackmailed or pressured to make certain decisions/adjustments given the right circumstances.
No one is forced to run for President or Vice President.
If you want to get in the game ……………. everything must be out in the open.
Just my opinion.
Joe Hussein Mama
July 13th, 2012
1:42 pm
SfD — “if so, Romney’s playing this smart; wait for a groundswell to peak, and then say “oh, you wanted this? here ya go. And?”
Agreed, but it’s a gamble. Obama gambled that the public didn’t care about his birth certificate and won (despite the fact that it had been validated and verified by Hawaii’s Republican governor months before the election. Romney is clearly gambling that the tax thing is going to lose steam as well.
stands for decibels
July 13th, 2012
1:42 pm
The debate with her and Biden would pay off the national debt if they sold tickets.
They get bitter, and they cling to guns, and religion, and impossibly high-stakes VP debates.
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
July 13th, 2012
1:43 pm
Wonder if Biden told the NAACP crowd last week how ” clean” they looked…LOL
josef
July 13th, 2012
1:45 pm
BOTH
“Heck, if Scout can warm up to her, the world of possibilities is endless”
Said in jest, but that’s my point. It’s not nearly as far-fetched as some would like to assume…whistling past the graveyard, so to speak.
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
July 13th, 2012
1:45 pm
by the by …
as I’m about to head home, I’d leave you with a bit of a giggle …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpqTaJfJDW4
Andy Murray at Mock the Week
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
July 13th, 2012
1:45 pm
SFD. only thing I’m clinging to is getting the over his head commie out of office.
Jm (LL) -pass TSPLOST silly people
July 13th, 2012
1:46 pm
Jay
I guess bernie’s comments don’t cross a line for you
But he sure makes liberals even worse
And thats difficult
Don't Forget
July 13th, 2012
1:46 pm
No way Condi gets the VEEP job, unless she changes her position on nearly every issue. Then she’d fit right in with Mitt.
Joe Hussein Mama
July 13th, 2012
1:46 pm
0311 — “Anyone who has access to Top Secret information can be blackmailed or pressured to make certain decisions/adjustments given the right circumstances.
No one is forced to run for President or Vice President.
If you want to get in the game ……………. everything must be out in the open.”
Agreed.
I don’t know if you knew this, but I was tapped for the White House Communications Agency when I was in the Army. I decided I didn’t want to go for it, as I had planned to get out of uniform and go back to grad school, BUT I think that some WHCAs have to submit to a Yankee White Federal security procto exam.
If the people who work for the President need that kind of checking out, then it seems like Presidents and Presidential candidates could stand a little security vetting themselves.
TaxPayer
July 13th, 2012
1:47 pm
“[T]here were a number of social trips and business trips that brought me back to Massachusetts, board meetings, Thanksgiving and so forth,” he said.
Romney’s sworn testimony was given as part of a hearing to determine whether he had sufficient residency status in Massachusetts to run for governor.
Romney testified that he “remained on the board of the Staples Corporation and Marriott International, the LifeLike Corporation” at the time.
Yet in the Aug. 12, 2011, federal disclosure form filed as part of his presidential bid, he said, “Mr. Romney retired from Bain Capital on February 11, 1999 to head the Salt Lake Organizing Committee. Since February 11, 1999, Mr. Romney has not had any active role with any Bain Capital entity and has not been involved in the operations of any Bain Capital entity in any way.”
Now, con class, read along with me:
See Mitt Squirm.
Squirm, Mitt, squirm.
See Mitt obfuscate.
Obfuscate, Mitt, obfuscate…
stands for decibels
July 13th, 2012
1:48 pm
Wonder if Biden told the NAACP crowd last week how ” clean” they looked…LOL
actually, they probably would’ve laughed. I’m sure Biden, who is decent at delivering self-deprecating humor, has milked those “clean and articulate” lines of his into a decent three minutes or so of stand-up.
JohnnyReb
July 13th, 2012
1:48 pm
Why would Romney take the chance on running the female VP experiment with so much in the balance?
There will come a time it appropriate, but this is not that time.
When the time comes, Ms Rice would be a good candidate.
If Romney has two grey cells to rub together, he will pick Rubio or Jindal.
But not to fear, the results will be a landslide putting Romney in office regardless of who he picks as #2.
PJ
July 13th, 2012
1:49 pm
“If the GOP was smart, somebody would examine that tax cheat’s returns before the convention. It will be too late after that.”
Oh hell, I can’t stop laughing. Thanks.
bookman parrot
July 13th, 2012
1:49 pm
Jay,
You should come at this from another side as well. Just think of how “open-minded” (libs love that terminology) George Bush was to have a Democrat like Condi Rice in his administration. Atleast if what you say she supports is true.
They BOTH suck
July 13th, 2012
1:50 pm
Long way before the election, but are polls and Electoral College projections reflecting the wakening of the “Sleeping Giant”?
getalife
July 13th, 2012
1:51 pm
We are living in a billionaires united system where the billionaires are calling the shots .
willard will make it easier for the billionaires.
cons support this.
Don Abernethy
July 13th, 2012
1:54 pm
Another 4 years of Obama will ruin this country. So I don’t about her views . She is mostly conservative. If she can be the one to helps defeat Obama I am all for her. I think she would give Romney just what he needs to make the ticket strong enough to pull off the defeat. She would be a great debater. Only problem I see is that she could over shadow Romney.
getalife
July 13th, 2012
1:54 pm
So, corporate media should be asking the billionaires what they want like they did with the tea party.
What is their end game?
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
July 13th, 2012
1:54 pm
SFD. True about Biden. It’s called pandering. Probably used a black preacher dialect. I was proud of Romney looking them in the eye and saying, I’m the better person to be your President, and Obamacare is not a good piece of law.
josef
July 13th, 2012
1:55 pm
Everything should be on the table including sexual preference/orientation…
Yeah, like we really need to know who diddles which dangles with who, when, where and how often?
eeeewwwww….
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 13th, 2012
1:55 pm
Most likely this is just a trial balloon.
Gonna see more of these before the convention.
East Lake Ira
July 13th, 2012
1:55 pm
Great. Nominate Condi.
This woman’s area of expertise entering the Bush administration was the Soviet Union for god’s sake. Now, that jibes with Mitt’s belief that the former Soviet countries are our biggest threat but come on!
I hope Mitt picks her. Her supposed strength is acutally a weakness – foreign policy. She was a disaster as NSA and as SoS.
Bring her on.
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
July 13th, 2012
1:56 pm
So, we should be worried about what Romney does with HIS money….and not worried about what Obama does with ours?
getalife
July 13th, 2012
1:56 pm
Drew Bress signed.
Who dat?
Zedd
July 13th, 2012
1:56 pm
Drive by – Have you heard about the new Urban Dictionary entry? It’s Harry Reid! It’s described as a sexual position where you climb on top and then do absolutely nothing!
stands for decibels
July 13th, 2012
1:56 pm
It’s called pandering.
Self-deprecating humor is “pandering?”
stuff like this:
“I never had an interest in being a mayor ’cause that’s a real job. You have to produce. That’s why I was able to be a senator for 36 years.”
or this:
“I guess what I’m trying to say without boring you too long at breakfast – and you all look dull as hell, I might add. The dullest audience I have ever spoken to. Just sitting there, staring at me. Pretend you like me!”
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Pandering?
I do not think it means what you think it means.
weetamoe
July 13th, 2012
1:56 pm
Didn’t have to wait long for the mushroom cloud. Synecdoche is a literary trope, not a tool for divining thoughts and emotions of republicans. Word is that Condi has given some standing ovation speeches at a number of meetings, and was especially cheered for her *storm Washington* words. In any case, I don’t think the vp selection committee needs any advice from Bookman, and it is self evident that the cannibals on the Obama side are sharpening their carving knives for whoever is chosen.
Erwin's cat
July 13th, 2012
1:56 pm
personally i like Luis Fortuno….he’s my dark horse for VP
They BOTH suck
July 13th, 2012
1:57 pm
“I’m the better person to be your President, and Obamacare is not a good piece of law.”
Yep it did a great job of riling up his base and nothing more’
How about Romney flying in people to his speech so he could have some support then say after the speech he met with some black leaders
yeah, the ones he flew in
Great, great marketing gimmick
stands for decibels
July 13th, 2012
1:57 pm
So, we should be worried about what Romney does with HIS money….and not worried about what Obama does with ours?
hey Adam–add this one to your list. I think it’s meme-regurgitator #4.
JamVet
July 13th, 2012
1:58 pm
Wonder if Biden told the NAACP crowd last week how ” clean” they looked…LOL
Wonder if the NAACP booed him repeatedly like they did Romney? Ever bigger LOL…
josef
July 13th, 2012
1:58 pm
DON
“Only problem I see is that she could over shadow Romney.”
There is that. Not that it’s necessarily a problem. It could be a plus.
Joe Hussein Mama
July 13th, 2012
1:59 pm
TBS — “Long way before the election, but are polls and Electoral College projections reflecting the wakening of the “Sleeping Giant”?”
Here you go.
http://www.electoral-vote.com
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 13th, 2012
1:59 pm
So, we should be worried about what Romney does with HIS money….and not worried about what Obama does with ours?
Nyuk, nyuk nyuk.
It’s congress that has the checkbook, sport.
Civics lessons — try them, you’ll like them.
PJ
July 13th, 2012
2:00 pm
“I think Mr. Bookman is overlooking the fact that the VP does not really have that much power, unless, of course, the president dies, and that does not happen very often. Does anybody really think Biden is telling Obama what to do? Democrats should be very worried that Romney does pick her, as that could win him the election right there.”
That’s precisely what President Cheney told Vice President Bush.
Joe Hussein Mama
July 13th, 2012
2:00 pm
Zedd — “Have you heard about the new Urban Dictionary entry? It’s Harry Reid! It’s described as a sexual position where you climb on top and then do absolutely nothing!”
I see you’ve met my first wife.
JamVet
July 13th, 2012
2:00 pm
Most likely this is just a trial balloon.
Agreed, Kam.
Otherwise they might as well start printing the bumper stickers:
Romney/Bush-Cheney 2012.
They BOTH suck
July 13th, 2012
2:01 pm
JHM
Thanks but I knew the answer from various polls and websites. Was hoping one of our right leaning bloggers would be able to opine on the current status of the “sleeping giant”
josef
July 13th, 2012
2:01 pm
ZEDD
@ 1:56
I don’t care who you are, thass funny!
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Self deprecating humor? Barack’s my man there…a master of it! One of the few places I’m an unabashed fan of his…
JohnnyReb
July 13th, 2012
2:02 pm
“It’s congress that has the checkbook, sport.”
Not really.
Congress is more the banking account than the checkbook. Congress did not specifically give billions to failed green energy companies, the Obama administration did.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 13th, 2012
2:02 pm
Word is that Condi has given some standing ovation speeches at a number of meetings…
Word is that I’ll be among the starting 11 on the U.S. soccer team in the Olympics.
They BOTH suck
July 13th, 2012
2:03 pm
Zedd
That is funny and Reid surely isn’t the best Senate leader by any means