Romney camp toying with symbolic birtherism
A screengrab from DrudgeReport.com, the conservative id, highlighting accusations from Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio that President Obama's birth certificate is undoubtedly a fake. It is complete with links to World Net Daily, which gleefully reports Arpaio's claim that this information "threatens to weaken national security.”
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John Sununu, a prominent spokesman for the Romney campaign, says that he is sorry for his remark Tuesday morning that “I wish this president would learn how to be an American.”
I do not for a moment believe that Sununu is sorry about that remark. Quite the contrary, he said what he intended to say and what the Romney campaign had instructed him to say.
After all, in a separate appearance Tuesday morning on Fox News, Sununu said much the same thing in slightly different words, claiming that Obama “has no idea how the American system functions. And we shouldn’t be surprised about that, because he spent his early years in Hawaii smoking something, spent another set of years in Indonesia.”
How is that functionally different from the comments for which he apologized?
Later that same day, Romney himself accused Obama of wanting to “change the nature of America,” claiming that “his course is extraordinarily foreign.” If Sununu’s statement had been a mistake and the campaign was truly chagrined by it, there is no way Romney would have publicly reinforced it.
In other words, Obama’s “otherness” was the Romney campaign’s message of the day. Their goal was to not to discuss Obama’s economic policies, but to cast their opponent as “extraordinarily foreign” and unAmerican in the eyes of voters. It is a slightly more subtle form of the lunacy playing out in the Drudge screengrab posted above.
That, in turn, is a sign of danger and weakness within the Romney campaign.
In the last couple of weeks, Romney has come under harsh attack from the Obama campaign, both in speeches and statements by Obama and in campaign ads airing in swing states. He hasn’t responded well. In fact, Romney’s inability to either defend himself or change the subject has brought also harsh condemnation from the GOP right, which is fearful that he is repeating the mistakes of John McCain.
For example, Byron York, in a much-publicized piece headlined “How Did Vaunted Romney Death Star Break Down?“, complains that “the Romney campaign is not displaying the super-aggressive effectiveness it showed in the primaries” against his fellow Republicans. If Romney doesn’t regain “the back-against-the-wall fighting spirit he had in the Florida primary,” York writes, “the Obama campaign will run over him.”
It has become an article of faith on the conservative right that in 2008, McCain lost because he did not play rough and did not fight back. He didn’t raise questions about Obama’s citizenship, about his patriotism, about Obama’s alleged goal of destroying America as we know it, about his ties to terrorists, etc. The conservative right is quite convinced that raising such allegations before the general public is the path to victory, because it matches so closely to what they themselves already believe.
The statements by Sununu and Romney on Tuesday were intended to reassure nervous conservatives that yes, they get it. However, to the degree that the Romney campaign is pushed closer to the lunatic fringe as a means of proving its toughness to its own base, it will lose. Popular as it is among conservatives, it simply is not an argument likely to convince the swing and independent voters who will decide this race. As the backlash to Sununu’s statement suggests, it is likely to do the opposite.
In fact, I suspect the Obama campaign is pushing the Romney folks hard for just that reason, hoping to provoke them to overreact. They know that the GOP base is pushing Romney in that same direction, and they too must have noticed that one of the striking attributes of the Romney campaign has been its inability to deny the right what it demands.
In other words, yesterday’s “slip” may become tomorrow’s campaign theme, and if that happens it will make the Obama campaign very very happy.
– Jay Bookman
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Steve
July 18th, 2012
1:26 pm
Joseph – this country has always been evenly split along party lines. Voter motivation is what counts, and you guys don’t have it.
Common Damn Sense isn't Very Common
July 18th, 2012
1:26 pm
Joseph
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) cards are also used by people that hold down full time jobs that don’t pay very much.
Also many retired people are using them to stretch their limited incomes. It is far from a welfare program as you should know.
Erwin's cat
July 18th, 2012
1:27 pm
JHM – don’t you think she’d have said something if she thought there was a problem with it?
sure I do….i just don’t see a lot of difference between the *birthers* and the *income taxers*
Aquagirl
July 18th, 2012
1:28 pm
Was his mother a prostitute?? Is Oblama gay? These are real story’s that voters want to know about….
You may spend a lot of time thinking about hawt Mandingo men and their oversized tools of love. The rest of us…not so much.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 18th, 2012
1:28 pm
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes: President Obama doesn’t do anything with taxpayer money that Congress won’t let him do. So if you have a beef with how taxpayer money is being spent, then go grip to the GOP run House of Repr as that is where all of the money bills have to be approved.
Huh?
If you’re referring to the first part of my post at 12:31, the fact that it was in italics is a clue that I was quoting someone else.
Just saying..
July 18th, 2012
1:28 pm
It would be good for this country if we had a genuine Republican Party.
If…
FrankLeeDarling
July 18th, 2012
1:29 pm
Man if this Romny on the offensive ha! Bring it!
Oscar
July 18th, 2012
1:29 pm
Oscar, stop living in denial.
-______
I live in DeKalb, not denial. But living in Georgia is living surrounded by denial. Amounts to much the same thing, I suppose.
Joseph
July 18th, 2012
1:29 pm
Do libs realize that after the 2012 elections that our nation could possibly have 35 Republican Governors???
DJ Sniper
July 18th, 2012
1:30 pm
There’s a big difference between “birthers” and “income taxers.” Obama’s BC has been proven and verified, so he is a US citizen. The POTUS has never before been required to show his BC to anybody, and the fact that he is the POTUS is proof enough that he is a US citizen.
On the flipside, presidential candidates have a history of showing their tax returns when running. Romney is refusing to release his, so there’s obviously something shady in there. Also, he released 23 years of returns to McCain when he was trying to run for VP and McCain STILL picked Palin.
Jm (LL) -pass TSPLOST silly people
July 18th, 2012
1:30 pm
“What’s funny is that if Romney was a conservadem”
He is
Joe Hussein Mama
July 18th, 2012
1:31 pm
E. Cat — “sure I do….i just don’t see a lot of difference between the *birthers* and the *income taxers*
I don’t think that anyone questions whether or not Romney paid his taxes. I really don’t think that’s at issue.
The issue I think we’re all dancing around — and the one Romney is likely concerned about — is what is IN those tax returns. If he’s got a couple of years where he paid nothing or close to nothing, that’s REALLY going to hurt him with some segments of the voting public. Obama could nail him as a Wall Street fatcat and you know — Romney wouldn’t have any sort of effective counterattack for that.
I think the Obama campaign glommed onto Romney’s weak point, and Romney knows it. The only thing I can’t figure is why Republicans are joining the call for him to release the returns. I guess it’s *possible* that they think he could weather whatever criticism he gets for them, but then again, they might be looking for a way to knock him off and put someone else up as candidate in his place.
Joseph
July 18th, 2012
1:31 pm
Do you libs realize that in 2014 that Republicans could have up to 65 US Senate members???
Joe Hussein Mama
July 18th, 2012
1:32 pm
Aquagirl — “You may spend a lot of time thinking about hawt Mandingo men and their oversized tools of love. The rest of us…not so much.”
You missed my post to JohnnyReb yesterday, Ma’am.
Joseph
July 18th, 2012
1:33 pm
2010 was not just an mirage as many of you libs love to say… 2010 woke up millions. 2012 with Oblama’s job on the line will wake up millions more….
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
July 18th, 2012
1:33 pm
What the heck kind of name is Arpaio anyway….
Sure don’t sound Amerkin.
What a goofball.
godless heathen
July 18th, 2012
1:33 pm
You folks might have to go OTP to see a Romney bumper sticker. As someone in NY said after the 2004 election. “How in the hell did Bush get elected? I don’t know anyone that voted for him.”
Erwin's cat
July 18th, 2012
1:34 pm
DJ – Romney is refusing to release his, so there’s obviously something shady in there.
I’ve herad the same said about the Obama’s long form …
so how are birthers different than income taxers?
Joe Hussein Mama
July 18th, 2012
1:34 pm
Joseph — “Do you libs realize that in 2014 that Republicans could have up to 65 US Senate members???”
Only if they prevail in the 2013 elections.
St Simons - guaranteed
July 18th, 2012
1:34 pm
this is why i stand by ‘guaranteed’
they’re base-jumping with 100 days to go, scaring the mushy middle
to death with their crazy. They are in the very pickle i predicted
when they picked Rmoney –
they can’t sell him to da snake-handlers and if they do act crazy
enough for the snake handlers, the middle is gooooone.
Barring a dead girl or a live boy, Four more years. Guaranteed.
Joseph
July 18th, 2012
1:34 pm
Steve:
From the polls I’ve seen I think you may need to rethink. Blacks are certainly not nearly as excited and that’s the dem base…..
Joe Hussein Mama
July 18th, 2012
1:35 pm
E. Cat — “I’ve herad the same said about the Obama’s long form … so how are birthers different than income taxers?”
Birthers are alleging something illegal. Taxers aren’t.
Oscar
July 18th, 2012
1:35 pm
Steve
July 18th, 2012
1:26 pm
____
It’s not always been evenly split along party lines. Parties get out of line and lose support. They get taken over by different groups and change. It goes back and forth.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
July 18th, 2012
1:35 pm
Let’s not forget Trump’s birther claims:
Donald Trump has operatives working on an important political mission. He has people in Hawaii probing President Obama’s birth, “and they cannot believe what they’re finding,” The Donald notes ominously
“I have people that actually have been studying it and they cannot believe what they’re finding,” Trump told NBC’s “Today” show on Thursday.
So Trump has the scoop but has yet to reveal too him. I am sure Obama has some secret info on Trump.
East Lake Ira
July 18th, 2012
1:35 pm
Joseph do you realize that in the year 2525, if man is still alive, if woman can survive, they may find in the year 3535 ain’t gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lie everything you think, do and say is in the pill you took today
rightwingextreme
July 18th, 2012
1:36 pm
Jay…a serious question if I may. If Obama is saying he’s the most transparent prez, why won’t he release the following:
Transcript(s)
Passport
College Thesis
Any and all records pertaining college admission
And let’s keep in mind that it was the Clinton campaign that first raised the issue of him being legit or not.
If I’m running for the presidency I would be glad to show you any of the above. I certainly had to show my transcripts when I applied for my job!
I think you have to admit it is somewhat suspicious that Obama is not releasing these.
Respectfuflly
barking frog
July 18th, 2012
1:36 pm
Many may vote for Romney
because he is rich and
slightly shady. Remember
jennifer flowers?
curious
July 18th, 2012
1:37 pm
The Republican “offense” is about as effective as the Polish cavalry charging Panzers in WW2. It was seen as an act of stupidity
Erwin's cat
July 18th, 2012
1:37 pm
Taxers aren’t
Yes they are…well at least some are
Oscar
July 18th, 2012
1:37 pm
so how are birthers different than income taxers?
_______
Birthers are beating a dead cat. Place of birth has been proven over and over.
Facts on Romney’s taxes are unknown.
Big difference in wanting to out unknow facts and refusing to accept proven facts.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 18th, 2012
1:37 pm
And Joseph, you knew that she was a “welfare mama ” because …. ?
Really, what gave it away?
Must have been the shopping carts filled with prom dresses, or maybe she was wearing one while shopping.
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…but then again, they might be looking for a way to knock him off and put someone else up as candidate in his place.
That’s where I’m placing my money. During most of the primary season, the guy polled no higher than the mid twenties, then all of a sudden it’s like — wham — we’re sooooooo much in love with this guy and have been all along.
GMAFB
GT
July 18th, 2012
1:38 pm
Channel 120 and I am with Jay. I find myself screaming at Anderson Cooper for not being able to read the teleprompter. He is trying to be tough and then butchers the reading so bad I cannot tell what he is saying more less the poor person being interviewed. Brian Williams is about the only one I take to the bank, if he is lying he is so good at it.
Romney and this big money have no improvisation skills. I noticed that in the primaries. If Romney gets off script he is toast. The speech to the NAACP was a prime example. He was going to make that speech with those talking points for the mass public no matter what happened in that audience. He had the press there and he was not going to move an inch off what he was told to say.
Then there are the givens the big money research firms give him, one being the economy. Huge money is put into this attack and if it changes by August they have burned all that research and will have to start from scratch. Obama has been brilliant not responding to a lot of his tautening and letting the Romney campaign spend lots of money on dead end streets. At the right moment Obama responds and the Romney treasure chest has to retool leaking oil on the entire turnaround. Obama doesn’t need a big campaign chest he spend much more wisely than Romney and is much more flexible. Like Kennedy said about Nixon, it is much easier on me telling the truth than it is on Nixon remembering his lies.
DJ Sniper
July 18th, 2012
1:38 pm
Erwin, please stop it. #1. Obama is a freaking US citizen. #2. There has never been a POTUS in this history of this country who has ever been asked to show his BC, but now that the black guy gets elected, it’s an issue. You birthers just cannot accept this fact. You all keep getting smacked down on this issue and yet you still persist.
Once again, the POTUS is an American citizen, and no amount of hand wringing will change that.
Joseph
July 18th, 2012
1:38 pm
Common Damn Sense isn’t Very Common:
Trust me this woman was not retired….
Joe Hussein Mama
July 18th, 2012
1:39 pm
E. Cat — “Yes they are…well at least some are”
Really? What particular illegalities have been suggested? Seriously, I haven’t heard of any, and I’ve been following this pretty closely.
Oscar
July 18th, 2012
1:39 pm
Erwin, why do you keep beating a dead cat?
Aquagirl
July 18th, 2012
1:40 pm
You missed my post to JohnnyReb yesterday, Ma’am.
Did he unintentionally fly out of the closet too? Must be the heat.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
July 18th, 2012
1:40 pm
rightwingextreme
July 18th, 2012
1:36 pm
“I think you have to admit it is somewhat suspicious that Obama is not releasing these.”
Ah nope.
I think we have to admit you are over the top.
Erwin's cat
July 18th, 2012
1:41 pm
Oscar – and what do think you’ll find in those returns that isn’t legal?
Birthers are beating a dead cat…no they can’t… they haven’t opened the box yet
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 18th, 2012
1:41 pm
You folks might have to go OTP to see a Romney bumper sticker.
I’m in a small hamlet in the N.C. Mtns. and I haven’t seen any here.
How much farther OTP do you want me to go?
Goldie
July 18th, 2012
1:41 pm
“Blacks are certainly not nearly as excited and that’s the dem base…..”
bwaaaa– you wish! We got da blacks, da gays, all da single womens, da Latinos. You Cons got da angry old white men and their suppressed womenfolk — too bad for ya, but thanks for sharing!
Erwin's cat
July 18th, 2012
1:42 pm
JHM – the “tax cheat” seems to up a lot
Joe Hussein Mama
July 18th, 2012
1:42 pm
Aquagirl — “Did he unintentionally fly out of the closet too? Must be the heat.”
He spouted some racist pap again, I called him on it and eventually, this happened:
http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/07/17/i-wish-this-president-would-learn-how-to-be-an-american/?cp=8#comment-1015648
Jefferson
July 18th, 2012
1:43 pm
The debates will sink Romney, likeablity is not even close and the President rules.
Joseph
July 18th, 2012
1:43 pm
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes:
Last I checked that’s the way primaries worked. The dems were certainly not completely sold on Oblama. I was a Gingrich man. So using liberal logic I should vote for Oblama since Gingrich didn’t win. Only in the mind of a liberal…..
curious
July 18th, 2012
1:43 pm
rightwingextreme
a serious question if I may.
Does the Degree need to be from an accredited University and what is the minimum acceptable GPA?
Oscar
July 18th, 2012
1:44 pm
Oscar – and what do think you’ll find in those returns that isn’t legal?
______________
I don’t know what’s in the returnes. That’s the point. They are unknows.
Could have falsified the value of some of the stock he put in his IRA. Returns could reveal partnerships with people he had rather the public not know.
Point is, nobody knows what is in the returns.
And, people do know where the President was born.
Steve
July 18th, 2012
1:44 pm
Oscar – we’ve been split along party lines for decades now. It’s all up to the Independents and swing voters.
Joe Hussein Mama
July 18th, 2012
1:44 pm
E. Cat — “JHM – the “tax cheat” seems to up a lot”
Who has expressed that view? Specifically, who has suggested that Romney’s done something criminal with respect to his taxes?
Shep
July 18th, 2012
1:44 pm
So has Mitt released his birth certificate yet? I cannot recall him doing so.
barking frog
July 18th, 2012
1:45 pm
Kam
Santorum as VP would
assure no runaway
convention but it would
probably assure his defeat
which is why Obama wants
him on the ticket. The prez
is good.
Jefferson
July 18th, 2012
1:45 pm
Romney made a killing while others were being killed…
Joseph
July 18th, 2012
1:45 pm
Let’s get back on point libs… Where’s Oblama’s jobs council?? Where’s Thomas “Loopy” Freidman and Jeffery “Made in China” Inmelt… I just knew these great minds were going to get our economy going again…
carlosgvv
July 18th, 2012
1:47 pm
Some years ago, Republican leaders came to understand that fundamentalist Christians were not only the most likely to vote but, because of their total willingness to believe without any evidence, were most likely to accept Republican attacks on abortion and evolution as being completely sincere. The net effect of this is a Republican voting base composed of crazed religious nuts who are simple enough to actually believe that, somehow, Obama just is not a real American.
Republican ambition and total lack of conscience has resulted in an electorate who truly believe their politicians actually care for them and their crazy beliefs. They are just too gullible to realize they are nothing more than tools for those who lust for political power and have sold themselves to Big Business which has an unlimited desire for profit.
Matti's favorite mascot t-shirt
July 18th, 2012
1:47 pm
Birf’ers. Birf’tards. Birf’aroni.
If STUPID were wealth, the United States would have more wealth per capita than Qatar.
Jefferson
July 18th, 2012
1:47 pm
American Presidents ALWAYS bank on and IN America. The phony want-to-bes hide and help foreign banks.
Adam
July 18th, 2012
1:47 pm
Where’s Oblama’s jobs council??
I was wondering when the next thing would come up. It was too much to hope that asking for college records would be the end of the endless stream of DEMANDED information….
barking frog
July 18th, 2012
1:47 pm
Where’s Thomas
“Loopy” Freidman and Jeffery
“Made in China” Inmelt…
…….
They are out hustling for
Romney…
Oblama
July 18th, 2012
1:48 pm
I have three Obama bobble head dolls on my dash…….. talk about flip flopping.
Erwin's cat
July 18th, 2012
1:48 pm
Point is, nobody knows what is in the returns.
The IRS does…much in the same way the Gov of Hawaii has the the only one to see the BC
Don’t you trust the IRS? (LOL.. what a loaded question)..
BTW, I’m no birther, I just find the similarities between birthers and taxers amusing…even more amusing is that taxers don’t see any similarities at all
Joseph
July 18th, 2012
1:49 pm
Jefferson:
The debates will sink Romney, likeablity is not even close and the President rules.
Thats what libs are cringing about. Think about it. McCain held his own with Oblama. He’s certainly no charmer. Romney will look Presidential and certainly act like one. And by the way Oblama won’t have a teleprompter….
godless heathen
July 18th, 2012
1:49 pm
I’m in a small hamlet in the N.C. Mtns. and I haven’t seen any here.
Kam, They probably don’t even know there is an election coming up. If only I could be that lucky.
Jefferson
July 18th, 2012
1:49 pm
I like it BETTER when he don’t show his tax returns, much more drama.
Jefferson
July 18th, 2012
1:50 pm
Romney don’t look presidential in Mom jeans.
mm
July 18th, 2012
1:50 pm
The latest diversion from the cons. They’ll do anything to change the subject from Bain and tax returns.
The rightwing fringe has pushed Romney so far to the right he cannot recover.
curious
July 18th, 2012
1:50 pm
Ebeneezer Scoorge didn’t commit illegal acts; it was just the way he acted toward the working guy and how he used his good fortune.
Joseph
July 18th, 2012
1:50 pm
barking frog:
Did you just wake from a long nap in your mama’s basement???
Aquagirl
July 18th, 2012
1:51 pm
Let’s get back on point libs… Where’s Oblama’s jobs council??
Wait, we haven’t heard one thing about white wimmen love slaves or teh dark, sweaty gayz. Did you re-order your priority list?
Joseph
July 18th, 2012
1:51 pm
Adam:
There’s a huge difference in people and documents. Loopy don’t even do Sunday shows anymore…..
Erwin's cat
July 18th, 2012
1:51 pm
Adam – be the end of the endless stream of DEMANDED information….
both sides play that game…Mitt releases last years..”WE WANT MORE”…I’ll give ya this years..”WE WANT MORE”…I’ll give ya the last 10 yrs…”YOU GAVE McCAIN 23 yrs WE WANT MORE”…
TaxPayer
July 18th, 2012
1:51 pm
Actually, I take that back. I did see a Romney sticker the other day on a Prius of all things. That’s why I remembered it.
That was to remind us that we would not have such high quality low pollution vehicles today were it not for Romney’s efforts to outsource that work to places like Japan, right.
barking frog
July 18th, 2012
1:52 pm
Joseph
No I was killing Joseph bugs.
Joe Hussein Mama
July 18th, 2012
1:52 pm
E. Cat — “The IRS does…much in the same way the Gov of Hawaii has the the only one to see the BC”
She’s (the HI Gov was Linda Lingle in 2008, it’s Neil Abercrombie now) not the only one to see it. She simply got involved in order to give the process a little more weight and authority.
“Don’t you trust the IRS? (LOL.. what a loaded question).”
I think that’s more a question for the people on the GOP side, don’t you?
“BTW, I’m no birther, I just find the similarities between birthers and taxers amusing…even more amusing is that taxers don’t see any similarities at all”
I don’t see taxers asserting criminal wrongdoing on Romney’s part (I’m not saying that it hasn’t happened, just that I haven’t seen it myself) and they’re not threatening legal action like the birthers have. I can *kinda* see your point, but only through some fog and haze.
East Lake Ira
July 18th, 2012
1:53 pm
Erwin’s Cat – when did Romney offer 10 more years?
Joseph
July 18th, 2012
1:53 pm
Oblama lowered the tides and brightened the landscape yet he still can’t garner close to 50% of the vote…
Adam
July 18th, 2012
1:53 pm
Erwin’s Cat: I personally could care less whether he releases them or not. His response indicates only one thing: He has determined that there is less political risk in NOT releasing them than there is in releasing them. I don’t really care why, personally.
I just think that it’s a responsible thing to do and standard procedure for candidates, and that in his particular case if he is making the case that people at the top just NEEEEEED another tax cut, like he’s proposing, I suspect his tax returns would show pretty clearly that people at the top need no further help at all.
By the way Obama should release his college records… AFTER Romney releases his short form, long form, ten years of tax returns, and his OWN college records. Just to be fair.
Steve
July 18th, 2012
1:53 pm
From ABC News/Wa Post Poll:
One in four self-identified Republicans has an unfavorable view of how Mitt Romney is running his campaign, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. The poll represents the latest evidence of unease within some segments of the GOP about how the former Massachusetts governor is progressing in the 2012 race.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/some-republicans-still-not-sold-on-mitt-romneys-campaign/2012/07/17/gJQAiyCMsW_blog.html
Erwin's cat
July 18th, 2012
1:53 pm
The Jobs counsel hasn’t met in 6mos as of yesterday..Imlett’s been to bust moving jobs and HQ to China
They BOTH suck
July 18th, 2012
1:53 pm
godless
At least we are not in a swing state. Just think if we lived in FL, OH, WI, CO, NM, NV or IA.
They are probably getting hammered 24/7 plus a little more
PJ
July 18th, 2012
1:54 pm
“From the polls I’ve seen I think you may need to rethink. Blacks are certainly not nearly as excited and that’s the dem base…..”
If cons keep calling him names and talking about his Mama…well you ain’t seen excited yet.
Joseph
July 18th, 2012
1:54 pm
Let’s make a deal. When Oblama give’s Issa all the docs he wants Romney will give you libs all the tax returns… Fair…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 18th, 2012
1:54 pm
I was a Gingrich man.
There’s your sign.
So using liberal logic I should vote for Oblama since Gingrich didn’t win.
I’m speaking of the primaries, not the general election, sport. Don’t try to move the goalposts if they’re too heavy to lift.
Let’s get back on point libs…
The point of this thread is about symbolic birtherism not whatever your daily foam-at-the-mouth ranting wants it to be,
Josephmike.Erwin's cat
July 18th, 2012
1:55 pm
East Lake…would you be satisfied with 10 yrs?
Adam
July 18th, 2012
1:55 pm
Good video on what policies are being fought over in this election cycle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2m0uAYNnwY
mm
July 18th, 2012
1:55 pm
“BTW, I’m no birther, I just find the similarities between birthers and taxers amusing…even more amusing is that taxers don’t see any similarities at all”
Pure idiocy.
There is a vast precedent for releasing tax returns.
Please name just one other candidate that has released their birth certificate.
They BOTH suck
July 18th, 2012
1:56 pm
“will give you libs all the tax returns…”
You is “we”. You are not even on the local PTA President’s radar, nonetheless Romney for President’s radar.
“We”
hahahahahahahahaa
Joe Hussein Mama
July 18th, 2012
1:56 pm
I can’t recall if I posted this in this thread or not, but electoral-vote.com has updated their results.
FL is now barely in Romney’s column (it had been a tossup) and Obama has picked up seven EVs (I think) from the last results. Still a comfortable lead for the President.
http://www.electoral-vote.com/
Goldie
July 18th, 2012
1:56 pm
Mitt the Wise with words:
““his course is extraordinarily foreign.”
“Corporations are people, my friend!”
“Let Detroit Go Bankrupt!”
“I stand by what I said, whatever it was…”
Lookin’ real bleak for the Cons in November!
the cat
July 18th, 2012
1:56 pm
Report states that the part about Swiss accounts is missing from the 2010 tax form that was released. Does Romney’s campaign really not think anyone would notice?
Steve
July 18th, 2012
1:57 pm
I’m telling you folks, the next tactic from the Obama campaign will be to expose Mittens’ lame 4 years as governor. It truly is all over for Magic Underpants.
Adam
July 18th, 2012
1:57 pm
mm: Please name just one other candidate that has released their birth certificate.
John McCain, Mitt Romney, etc etc
Now if you mean the long form, only Obama has done that. But then, he’s the only one to ever have had that DEMANDED of him.
East Lake Ira
July 18th, 2012
1:57 pm
Erwin’s Cat, 12 years seems to be the standard so 10 in addition to what he’s already released sounds fair to me.
They BOTH suck
July 18th, 2012
1:58 pm
“Who is ‘we’”
Excuse me
You crack me up.
Filter
July 18th, 2012
1:59 pm
Only in America and only on a blog can someone like Joseph refer to a three time Pulitzer winner and the author of “The World is Flat” as Loopy.
If I knew how to do that face palm thingy I’d do it now.
getalife
July 18th, 2012
1:59 pm
The gop can’t set a new low because they trashed the bar.
They should apologize and show our President respect in his second term.
Act like Americans.
Butch Cassidy (I)
July 18th, 2012
1:59 pm
Joseph – “McCain held his own with Oblama.”
Yes, and he still lost to him. Of course, that was before Romney lost to McCain.
mm
July 18th, 2012
2:00 pm
“Let’s make a deal. When Oblama give’s Issa all the docs he wants Romney will give you libs all the tax returns… Fair…”
More idiocy.
Jm (LL) -pass TSPLOST silly people
July 18th, 2012
2:00 pm
Kam – Highlands?
mm
July 18th, 2012
2:02 pm
“the next tactic from the Obama campaign will be to expose Mittens’ lame 4 years as governor”
They’ve been running that ad here in FL for weeks.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 18th, 2012
2:02 pm
Bloomberg troll
No.