Your morning jolt: Mitt Romney shows his sensitive side
On Tuesday, Fox News aired what was, by all appearances, a straight-up interview with Mitt Romney, the lead survivor in the GOP race for president.
Bret Baier asked the logical questions: The New Hampshire Union Leader had just endorsed Newt Gingrich, yet another of Romney’s surging opponents – at the same time alluding to the former Massachusetts governor’s multiple positions.
Last night, in a conversation with Bill O’Reilly, Baier said that, off-camera, Romney declared he had been mistreated:
Said Baier:
“He said he thought it overly aggressive….As we were walking in the walk-and-talk, and then after we finished he went to his holding room — and then came back and said he didn’t like the interview and thought it was uncalled for.”
And in today’s New York Times, columnist Gail Collins has this account of Romney’s on-camera reaction as his interrogator went down a roster of his flip-flops:
Romney looked approximately as comfortable as the three wealth managers who had to appear on camera claiming the $254 million they won with a $1 Powerball ticket.
“Your list is just not accurate so, one, we’re going to have to be better informed,” Romney began.
His other responses included: “This is an unusual interview. Heh. Heh. Heh. Heh.”
The Washington Post reports this morning that the Romney camp has been caught slightly off-guard by the surge of Newt Gingrich. There is, of course, the question of whether Gingrich will follow the trajectory of Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry and Herman Cain:
Increasingly, Romney’s advisers believe he will not. They are calculating that primary voters will overlook Gingrich’s rocky career in public life — including ethics charges, extramarital affairs and a decade of trading his influence to enrich himself.
Voters “know all that, and they’ve discounted those things,” said a third Romney adviser. “The leadership of the campaign recognizes that Gingrich has got staying power, that he’s a very serious candidate.”
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But Texas congressman Ron Paul thinks the former House speaker can be lowered a notch or two. Late Wednesday, he posted this Internet ad – almost a doppelganger of the one that the Democratic National Committee produced against Mitt Romney:
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By now, you know that Herman Cain says he needs to have a face-to-face conversation with his wife before he decides whether his presidential campaign will continue. In the meantime, his campaign – perhaps in an effort to reassure jittery Iowa supporters – launched this TV ad in the state:
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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liberalefty
December 1st, 2011
12:18 pm
AU CONTRAIRE
sorry if racists like u think blacks cant be trusted ti vote who we think are best for us. and since HERMIE is a republican so he would not get the black vote.carry on racist….
liberalefty
December 1st, 2011
12:19 pm
uga
OBAMA has kept america safe un like DUBYA …remember 9/11
UGA 1999
December 1st, 2011
12:20 pm
liberalefty….what did AU say that was “racist”? What a worn out word anyways….it virtually has NO meaning anymore. Such a tired arguement.
It is a shame too…..if you look at all that the repubs have done for the black race. They are just brainwashed by the media. Nice!
liberalefty
December 1st, 2011
12:21 pm
@uga
we dont need the repubs to do for us, we do for ourselves. u racists are just brainwashed by talk radio
John S
December 1st, 2011
12:22 pm
Poor Mitt. He made the mistake of being interviewed by one of Fox New’s few actual journalists.Next time he needs to stick to talking to the hacks like Hannity and O’Reilly where he can be sure he will not be called upon to explain his flip flops.
OSAMA
December 1st, 2011
12:24 pm
UGA
You’re right, Obama is a failure. i sure miss DUBYA
UGA 1999
December 1st, 2011
12:24 pm
liberalefty…..Actually you show your intelligence again. Can you say “Ft. Hood”? Sorry brother you are wrong again.
BTW…Didnt Clinton admit that he had an opportunity to kill Osama but neglected to do so. NOW, who is to blame for 9/11?
UGA 1999
December 1st, 2011
12:25 pm
liberalefty…see THAT is the problem…you DO NOT do for yourselves. You depend on the “gubament” to take care of all of your shortcomings. That is ok, us “rich” repubs will always be here to pay the debts that you amass.
liberalefty
December 1st, 2011
12:28 pm
uga
keep trying u insecure fool.OSAMA made a fool out of DUMB DUBYA,LOL. thank god OBAMA is strong on defense.but i know youre mad that OBAMA made OSAMA his biatch. JUST like OSAMA MADE BUSHY BOY his biatch on 9/11. hahahahaha
UGA 1999
December 1st, 2011
12:29 pm
liberalefty…..see more personal attacks. This is GREAT! Keep up the good work.
liberalefty
December 1st, 2011
12:29 pm
uga
i dont depend on the government, sorry to disappoint you .
Wow, liberalefty...
December 1st, 2011
12:30 pm
…laughing about 9/11 – you are truly sick…
Hazel
December 1st, 2011
12:30 pm
Tell me this…what are his accomplishments?
http://obamaachievements.org/
Obama has overhauled the food safety system
Advanced women’s rights in the work place
Ended Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) in our military
Stopped defending DOMA in court.
Passed the Hate Crimes bill.
Appointed two pro-choice women to the Supreme Court.
Expanded access to medical care and provided subsidies for people who can’t afford it.
Expanded the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
Fixed the preexisting conditions travesty [and rescissions] in health insurance.
Invested in clean energy.
Overhauled the credit card industry, making it much more consumer-friendly.
While Dodd-Frank bill was weak in many respects, it was still an extremely worthwhile start at re-regulating the financial sector.
He created a Elizabeth Warren’s dream agency: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
He’s done a lot for veterans
He got help for people whose health was injured during the clean-up after the 9/11 attacks.
None of these things were priorities for Republicans. They actively opposed, directly or indirectly through obstruction, every single item on this list. In fact, they succeeded in killing a Cap & Trade bill in the Senate after it had passed through the House.
All of these things are improvements that would not have occurred under a McCain-Palin administration. Moreover, a McCain-Palin administration would have moved in the other direction on most of these issues, or come up with even worse compromises.
UGA 1999
December 1st, 2011
12:31 pm
liberalefty….but you said earlier that you did. I guess you are either a flip flopper or a liar. Either way keep up the good work.
Wow, liberalefty...
December 1st, 2011
12:31 pm
…and, I hope, truly in the minority of others who lean toward the left…
Alabama Communist
December 1st, 2011
12:33 pm
More Breaking News On Ron Paul TV AD Exposing Newt As A Fat Old
Overweigh Hypocrate Bear… A source with the Jenny Craig weight program said today, ” We have try many times to enrolled Newt into our program but he claims it was God that made him fat by using a Gay Bear to convinced him to stay Fat. Frankly! We even offer him 2 million diet free meals but he insisted that it be Cash.”
liberalefty
December 1st, 2011
12:33 pm
uga
why do racists call black folks brainwashed ,because we vote for who we want to vote for? dont racists like u think blacks are capable of making a rational decision? sorry if we dont listen to hateful junkies like LIMBAUGH who called the first lady uppity (which u probaly agree with)
liberalefty
December 1st, 2011
12:34 pm
uga
i said earlier i did what?
liberalefty
December 1st, 2011
12:36 pm
@wow
i’m not laughing about 9/11. i just remember the stupid look on DUBYAS face.
Hey Hazel...
December 1st, 2011
12:38 pm
Obama has overhauled the food safety system – HOW?
Advanced women’s rights in the work place HUH?
Ended Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) in our military ALREADY IN THE WORKS
Stopped defending DOMA in court. WOW
Passed the Hate Crimes bill. WHO DOESN’T HATE CRIME…
Appointed two pro-choice women to the Supreme Court. – EXCELLENT
Expanded access to medical care and provided subsidies for people who can’t afford it. CALLED OBAMACARE
Expanded the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) CALLED OBAMACARE
Fixed the preexisting conditions travesty [and rescissions] in health insurance.SAYS WHO?
Invested in clean energy. YES, SOLYNDRA REALLY WORKED OUT WELL
Overhauled the credit card industry, making it much more consumer-friendly. YEAH, RIGHT
While Dodd-Frank bill was weak in many respects, it was still an extremely worthwhile start at re-regulating the financial sector. WHAT?
He created a Elizabeth Warren’s dream agency: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. AND JUST WHO IS IT PROTECTING
He’s done a lot for veterans – LIKE WHAT?
He got help for people whose health was injured during the clean-up after the 9/11 attacks. SEE OBAMACARE
DIDN’T WE DO THIS YESTERDAY?
liberalefty
December 1st, 2011
12:39 pm
dumb dubya who the GOP says was strong on defense looked like a fool on 9/11. a pitiful fpathetic fool.
liberalefty
December 1st, 2011
12:40 pm
@hey hazel
why does marriage need to be defended? and from whom?
liberalefty
December 1st, 2011
12:41 pm
hey hazel
whats wrong with giving treatment to the people who cleaned up the 9/11 debris.
gm
December 1st, 2011
12:42 pm
UGA 1999
Obama will go down as the greatest in history even with a 20% bigots he still got the job done
Now name 10 important things Bush or Reagan Did””
1 The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, makes it illegal for employers to pay unequal wages to men and women who perform equal work(yet you have stupid rep women going around trashing him, shows their mentality)
2.The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, provided hundreds of billions of dollars into infrastructure, research and job creation
3. Saved the American auto industry and its hundreds of thousands of jobs from disappearing by preventing Chrysler and GM from going bankrupt
.
4. The Matthew Shepard Act, expands hate crime definitions to include gender, sexual orientation, gender
5. The Credit Card Bill of Rights, outlaws hidden fees and deceptive lending practices from credit card companies
6. The Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act, allows gay soldiers to serve openly in the United States military
7. The Affordable Care Act, will establish universal health care for the first time in the history of the United Stat
8. Bin Ladin dead
9, Kadafi dead
10.
Children’s Health Insurance Reauthorization Act, provides health care to 11 million children who live in poverty.
Carol
December 1st, 2011
12:42 pm
Liberallefty
why do racists call black folks brainwashed ,because we vote for who we want to vote for? dont racists like u think blacks are capable of making a rational decision? sorry if we dont listen to hateful junkies like LIMBAUGH who called the first lady uppity (which u probaly agree with)
+++++
Many times you have a very strong argument in dealing with Repubs on this board. Don’t let them reduce you to just calling them racists because you have far better ammunition.
UGA 1999
December 1st, 2011
12:43 pm
Hazel…Ok you asked for it…..
Obama has overhauled the food safety system – No he didnt. Facts please
Advanced women’s rights in the work place – Facts please.
Ended Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) in our military – We will see if this plays out to be a positive thing.
Stopped defending DOMA in court. – This WILL prove to be a horrible idea. Just wait.
Passed the Hate Crimes bill.- With Republican help.
Appointed two pro-choice women to the Supreme Court.- And?
Expanded access to medical care and provided subsidies for people who can’t afford it.- And who gets stuck with that bill? You and I. Great!
Expanded the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) – This is a GOOD thing. But again who pays this bill.
Fixed the preexisting conditions travesty [and rescissions] in health insurance.- Not a travesty. Forcing insurance companies to provide coverage on a bad investment will prove to be costly to us all.
Invested in clean energy.- Yep that Gulf oil spill worked out great.
Overhauled the credit card industry, making it much more consumer-friendly.- Yet the average credit debt has increased under this administration.
While Dodd-Frank bill was weak in many respects, it was still an extremely worthwhile start at re-regulating the financial sector. DODD AND FRANK ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MESS!!! Thank God Frank is going away.
He created a Elizabeth Warren’s dream agency: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.- Good
He’s done a lot for veterans – Pretty generic dont you think?
He got help for people whose health was injured during the clean-up after the 9/11 attacks. Good
Ok, are you not going to mention these things???
SUED STATES FOR ENFORCING THE CONSTITUTION AND FEDERAL LAWS.
GAVE CIVILIAN TRIALS TO TERRORISTS
HAS HELPED TO RUN OUR DEBT UP TO OVER $15TRILLION
9% UNEMPLOYMENT
CREDIT RATING LOWERED TO AA FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY
HELPED LIBYA TO BRING IN A NEW SHARIA LAW REGIME
DELAY IN ACTING ON GULF OIL SPILL
DENYING NOTION OF AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM
BOWING TO OUR ENEMIES
FAILING TO CLOSE GITMO
BLEW THE ELECTIONS FOR THE HOUSE DEMOCRATS
FAILING TO KEEP UNEMPLOYMENT BELOW 8% AFTER PROMISING TO DO SO WITH THE STIMULUS BILL.
Care for more?
UGA 1999
December 1st, 2011
12:44 pm
gm….are you sure you want to keep that moniker? hahah busted.
UGA 1999
December 1st, 2011
12:44 pm
Oh look liberlefty has found a girlfriend in Carol. That is sweet.
UGA 1999
December 1st, 2011
12:46 pm
Lord please let Obama run on the fact that “he killed Obama”…..I will love watching that firing range.
liberalefty
December 1st, 2011
12:49 pm
uga
nope but he can run on killing OSAMA. after all u dont want this president looking weak and foolish like DUBYA did, do you.
Carol
December 1st, 2011
12:50 pm
I predict that by Monday our conversation regarding Herman Cain will be about his decision to withdraw from the race. I think that even his wife has to admit that there is a lot more to this story than her husband is letting on to.
Let’s be real, if you had a friend of the opposite sex that you give/loan money to, wouldn’t your wife of 43 years know about them? After all, you would taking money from your family to give to this person. Casually loaning small amounts of money wouldn’t raise a flag, and probably wouldn’t call much for mentioning, but if the situation calls for 60+ calls and texts; if there are records of calls and texts over 2 years, this is more than a casual acquaintance. I don’t know any casual acquaintances well enough to pay their rent or help them out of financial binds.
liberalefty
December 1st, 2011
12:51 pm
@uga
why do u need the president to tell u that you’re exceptional? are u a child or something that u need validatioin from the president? lol
Smoke
December 1st, 2011
12:53 pm
I double dog dare any Dixiecrat to prove that Sen. Kyl didn’t first say and McConnell confirmed that tax cuts don’t add to the deficit. Now they are pretending to know how to do simple math. They aren’t flip-flopping, they are spinning tops. That’s like their thoughts on spending cuts, because they know their constituents have no clue as to the makeup of the federal budget. If Perry could remember the agencies, eliminating the Departments of Ed, Commerce, and Energy would reduce the budget by $116B annually, and the dreaded EPA a total of $9B.
gm
December 1st, 2011
12:54 pm
UGA 1999
Georgia Bush
1. 3500 Americans dead in Ny under his watch
2. 4500 American Troops dead in Irag
3. Helped cause the worst economy crises in American history, banks failed, housing fail , auto collaps, wall street collaps.
4. Started 2 wars that cause billions in our debt, never paid for them
Obama: auto are making record profits, wall street strong, banking is strong
unemployment in Ky, Co, Wym, Nh, Ut, Nd, Sd, Mn 6% below
honested
December 1st, 2011
12:58 pm
You guys are hilarious.
You get some bogus talking points from am radio and faux newz and run with it like it were clearly elucidated fact.
Like ‘Dodd and Frank are responsible for the mess’. Really? In what way? Were they Committee Chairs when the disaster that started the ball rolling, Gramm-Leach-Bliley (repeal of Glass-Steagall) was squeezed into a must-pass budget bill?
Did they invent a new type of bogus ’security’ allowing the comingling of depositer funds and ’securities’ funds?
If you don’t understand what caused the shrub depression, please don’t pretend!!
Hazel
December 1st, 2011
1:02 pm
Ok, are you not going to mention these things???
SUED STATES FOR ENFORCING THE CONSTITUTION AND FEDERAL LAWS.- Only against certain folk
GAVE CIVILIAN TRIALS TO TERRORISTS-As did Bush
HAS HELPED TO RUN OUR DEBT UP TO OVER $15TRILLION-Headstart by Bush
9% UNEMPLOYMENT-See Above
CREDIT RATING LOWERED TO AA FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY-Ask Grover and the GOP
HELPED LIBYA TO BRING IN A NEW SHARIA LAW REGIME-You would prefer it stay as before? And isn’t Sharia Law what the Bible folk want here?
DELAY IN ACTING ON GULF OIL SPILL-Too many regulations I thought-trust the market to ensure the drillers will be careful
DENYING NOTION OF AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM-If this blog is an example. . .
BOWING TO OUR ENEMIES-Not holding hands with the oil guys?
FAILING TO CLOSE GITMO-GOP won’t allow it-fraid of them
BLEW THE ELECTIONS FOR THE HOUSE DEMOCRATS-??????
FAILING TO KEEP UNEMPLOYMENT BELOW 8% AFTER PROMISING TO DO SO WITH THE STIMULUS BILL. Brought a 10 foot ladder to the 30 foot hole GWB dug
But, it would have been so much better under John & Sarah!
Truth Squad
December 1st, 2011
1:02 pm
Read your history books people. African-Americans where Republicans and voted Republicans for decades. Why? Because President Lincoln was a Republican and they figured the Republicans would be the least harmful to them.
Even Nixon got some 30% of the African-American vote. But since the Republicans made the previously Democratic Dixiecrat segregationists their own, African-Americans saw that the Democratic Party was the least harmful to their interests.
That was true when the Civil Rights Act passed, and it’s true now. The segregationists haven’t gone away, they and their children are now mainstream Republicans. They just call themselves the Moral Majority, the Religious Right, Evangelicals, etc…
I find it fascinating that people thought all the segregationists just disappeared in the 60’s and 70’s. They and their offspring are alive and well and love to comment in code in these type forums.
MD
December 1st, 2011
1:03 pm
gm it was Chris Dodd and Barney Frank that caused the housing crisis.
liberalefty
December 1st, 2011
1:04 pm
UGA like most conservatives need the president to tell them how exceptional(great) they are. they seem like kids who want a pat on the back from an adoring parent, and if they dont get that pat, they pout and have hissy fits
liberalefty
December 1st, 2011
1:05 pm
truth squad
u know racist christians hate the facts
liberalefty
December 1st, 2011
1:08 pm
OBAMA need to teach wh@remongers NEWT and HERMAN about family values,.
yellowdog
December 1st, 2011
1:09 pm
same old, same old; all of these people make Alfred E. Neuman look good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MD
December 1st, 2011
1:09 pm
By the way your opinion as a liberal mean nothing in this state.Georgia is a conservative state and will have a majority republican vote when the ax falls.
ed
December 1st, 2011
1:10 pm
Hey, what’ss all the fuss about? So Herman and Newt don’t have lily white (no pun intended) personal backgrounds. What do you want running the country? A homossexual with HIV?
gm
December 1st, 2011
1:11 pm
Hazel
Another submissive Rep women, not one Rep passed the The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, I guess the rep men were to busy telling you rep women to take last pay and shut up:
This shows the mentality of the Rep women, they love the Newt and the Caines the men that have several wifes and mistress yet they run around on fox news saying they are looking for family values in a President, ha ha
UGA 1999
December 1st, 2011
1:25 pm
Gm….submissive Rep women or woman? hahaha you continue to amaze us all with your intelligence. Great work.
UGA 1999
December 1st, 2011
1:31 pm
Our candidate (Herman) is blacker than your candidate (Barack)….vote for our guy or you are a “racist”! haha
Buck Hayek
December 1st, 2011
1:32 pm
You know you are dealing with a brain dead Limbaugh redneck as soon as Barney Frank and Chris Dodd are blamed for the Wall St meltdown.
Tom DeLay wouldn’t let Barney Frank schedule a meeting room (true) much less “block” something (which an individual can’t do).
honested
December 1st, 2011
1:32 pm
md,
Define HOW Dodd and Frank ’caused the housing crisis’ or ‘banking crises’ or whatever name you want to give the disaster created by foolish bank deregulation or stop parroting that nonsense.
This isn’t talk radio so repeating a bogus pseudo-statement does NOT make it true!
UGA 1999
December 1st, 2011
1:34 pm
Buck…..and we know that you are a lunatic left leaning libtard if you believe they didnt.