LOL!!! Romney To Obama: Truce? Asks That Business Record, Taxes Be Off-Limits

[kpete]

“Our campaign would be — helped immensely if we had an agreement between both campaigns that we were only going to talk about issues and that attacks based upon — business or family or taxes or things of that nature,” Romney said, according to excerpts of an upcoming interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd released Friday.

Romney said he would prefer the campaigns “only talk about issues,” and claimed that “our ads haven’t gone after the president personally. … We haven’t dredged up the old stuff that people talked about last time around. We haven’t gone after the personal things.”

Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul offered up a broader take on whether Romney was really suggesting that his career at Bain Capital — the crux of his argument that he is better equipped to handle the economy — should be considered off-limits.

“The governor was expressing his view that he hopes we can have a campaign focused on the issues rather than one of desperation and lies as we’ve seen from the Obama campaign,” Saul said in an e-mail.

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/romney-to-obama-please-stop-attacking-my-business-taxes.php?ref=fpa

[grantcart]

1. I thought for sure that this was the onion

[FSogol]

33. Same here.

[obxhead]

89. Nope

This shit really can't be made up. Romney is the gift that just keeps giving.

Uncle, uncle, uncle..... Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[southernyankeebelle]

2. OMG he comes off like a whiny baby. He can dish it but can't take it. If he can't handle

what Obama is dishing then how can he handle the world stage. I mean Obama comes off presidential. Mittens gets in trouble he will pass the buck. That is what he will do.

[grantcart]

6. Oh is Rush going to have a heart attack when he hears this.

[southernyankeebelle]

57. I shouldn't say this because I have a heart condition but maybe satan will call on him soon.

[Gothmog]

65. I am looking forward to seeing Rush's reaction

The righties are not really comfortable with Romney and this is a clear sign of weakness

[StrictlyRockers]

25. Oh you wish, you little whiner.

Praise the Lord and pass us some more ammunition.

I am having the time of my life this cycle!

[southernyankeebelle]

55. LOL are you really have the time of your life? I am kinda of stressed out.

[StrictlyRockers]

100. Well, I haven't felt this good about a Democrat's chances of being elected

President in a long, long time.

This is so...refreshing!!

Still, it is a long way to the finish line...
This is a marathon, not a sprint.

[southernyankeebelle]

105. I wish I could feel that way. They put so much in the way of dems voting. I sure hope

your right.

[Skittles]

3. NEWSFLASH TO ROMNEY

taxes and business *ARE* issues!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[AtomicKitten]

12. +++

Hell yes they are, in fact, they are the backbone of this campaign.

[Hubert Flottz]

22. News Flash to Mitt rMoney...

"GET A BRAIN MORAN!"

Dumber that George W Bush...we'd never survive another dose of that magnitude of ignorance in high places. Mitt and W need to take their milk and GI Joe gear and go play in the sand box. And leave running America to the grown-ups.

[kentuck]

40. Word...

What "issues" would he prefer talking about??

[Skittles]

44. country clubs, dressage

that sort of thing

[CTyankee]

61. Good christ and he doesn't KNOW this?

He doesn't even KNOW what this election is about?

REALLY?

REALLY?

[vlyons]

112. Mitt thinks it's all about him

He's such a sociopath. He keeps thinking about how great he will look in white tie and tails at all those state dinners with the Queen of England, and he can joke that none of majesty's horses have ever won the Irish derby. hardy-har-har

[Berlum]

74. BlimgBlangBamaGittoes !!!

taxes and business *ARE* issues!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a weasel.

[Major Hogwash]

75. "You people!"

"It's none of YOUR business about MY income taxes."

"And that's not my horsie.
Horsies are off the table!"

[calimary]

93. "Our campaign would be helped immensely if..."

I can't believe that!

Like the Obama campaign should be in ANY way interested in helping its opponents???????

What are they smoking?????

[dixiegrrrrl]

126. MY budget "would be helped immensely" if I had romney's money.

So what?

[JDPriestly]

131. They are the two most important issues.

How do we help honest businesses that provide value and improve our society -- that promote the common good?

How do we encourage businesses to care about the our society as a whole including social and environmental justice and not just their own profits?

How do we create a fair tax structure?

There are a lot of important issues, but these are the primary ones.

[grantcart]

4. Obama campaign responds

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[goclark]

5. Bring on the taxes Mittwit and then we'll talk

TAXES,taxes, taxes

You can not pass GO without those tax returns

[bucolic_frolic]

135. During FDR's first few months in office there was a scandal over JP Morgan

and Morgan's "preferred" client list. Not only did Morgan pay no taxes
in the previous several years, but he gave deeply discounted stock
to clients on his preferred list.

Something similar may be operating here.

Would rMoney's tax returns list gifts to business associates, or grant
stock or options to prominent businessmen/women or even public figures?

Don't let this tax return issue drop. It needs to be explained why the 99%
should pay more while the 1% pay, in some instances, nothing.

[Warren Stupidity]

7. Was this the earliest concession speech ever?

[Major Hogwash]

78. I gotta get more butter.

The debates are guaranteed to be a laugh riot now!

[Earth_First]

8. So that leaves, apple pie, baseball and shirt sleeve rolling left on the table?

[Thrill]

9. So what does he have to run on then?

[hifiguy]

16. Zip, nada,

el zilcho. This is conclusive proof that the POTUS is handing Mittwit his ass and Rmoney knows it.

This is too funny.

[Salviati]

36. His daddy was governor of michigan, and also once ran for president.

Oh you mean Mitt? Well he was governor of Mass, but he doesn't want to talk about that either...

[arcane1]

10. When has Romney ever talked about issues?

[truebluegreen]

118. eXactly! nt

[fleur-de-lisa]

11. Love the photo!

And I kind of agree with MittWit. I would love to hear him talk about the issues, but he won't give any details about ANY policy platforms. When you refuse to explain why you should be president, except that you aren't Obama, what else can you expect besides personal attacks? He has been dumb enough to let the Obama campaign define him, so he has to suffer the consequences.

And how about releasing those tax returns?

[TwilightGardener]

13. Business and taxes = family???

He's running on his business experience! What's left, Mormonism? His hair?

[FailureToCommunicate]

95. "Yes, my hair...I LIKE it, do you? Oh, of course you do!"

[JoePhilly]

14. Its like when a big brother grabs your hands, and starts punching you in the head with ...

your own hands.

Obama is punching Mitt in the head with Mitt's hands, and Mitt would like to call a truce.

No.

[FSogol]

37. "Hey Mitt, stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself..."

[JoePhilly]

41. DING DING DING.

I have no problem with the Dems being the "bully" in this scenario.

[Whisp]

15. spoken like a spoiled grown up big brat

that's used to getting his way all his life by just throwing money or promises their way.

when times get tough and he's cornered, he winces and cries for uncle like the little weak kneed shit he truly is.

Money can't buy you happiness,
or good character.

[Scootaloo]

17. I've never seen a candidate so eager to arm the opposition as Mitt Romney

What a fucking doofus.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

18. This is the guy who wanted to run on his business record.

Vote for me because I have an awesome business record, he said. The catch is that even though he gets to brag about it nobody else can talk about it. So the first rule of Mittens' business record is you don't talk about Mittens' business record. Or his taxes.

Maybe the Obama campaign should offer the following deal:

We'll stop demanding your tax returns and suggesting you're a predatory capitalist who destroys jobs and takes away people's health insurance if you and your campaign and your surrogates promise to stop suggesting the President is unpatriotic, unamerican, foreign, socialist, strange, Kenyan, or Muslim or that he hates America and wants black people to get free money from the government. And not another word about birth certificates.

No way would the GOPers take that offer.

[rurallib]

31. BINGO!

[Politicalboi]

85. But, he would have to admit

Obama was right about him. That he is a predatory capitalist who destroys jobs and takes away people health insurance.

[caveat_imperator]

132. Shouldn't it be more like

the first rule of Mittens' business record is you don't talk negatively about Mittens' business record or his taxes.

He feels more than magnanimous in allowing all of us to speak of him and his business record in fawning, awe-filled and obsequious manner, though.

[Brother Buzz]

19. Keep digging, Romney

Soon, you'll reach China and we'll be able to see all the jobs you created.

Here's back at you, progressivebydesign. Thanks

[WI_DEM]

20. But Mittens, if you claim your business expertise is why you should be president...

Why shouldn't Bain be an issue?

[CJCRANE]

21. Okay let's talk about the hot-button issues...

deficits caused by unfair taxes for the 1% and businesses that outsource jobs and how they can have a devastating effect on someone's family.

[madinmaryland]

23. What a fucking crybaby...

[Liberal_in_LA]

24. So only Romney's year or so heading Olympics is on the table? what the hell?

[HubertHeaver]

53. That's not even on the table.

Seems he took a lot of gubermint handouts while staging that olympics.

[Liberal_in_LA]

54. so that table is bare? lol. SOMETHINGS got to be on the table.

[HubertHeaver]

90. There's a Mother Hubbard remake in there somewhere.

[goclark]

116. Only thing on the table are the plates

that he has pushed his kids face in ~ I'll never get over that one!

And the kids have repeated it and they think it is funny.

Mittwit is a Sociopath and should not be allowed to run for office.
Other Presidents may have had the condition but his condition is apparent
every damn day!

[RedStateLiberal]

26. Rethugs always play the victim

even when they're guilty of much worse than their opposition. Hypocrites!

Manufactured outrage is a pathetic attempt to change the narrative. The media is obsessed with conflict so they're trying to turn the focus on the O-campaign.

They hope they'll deflect from the fact that Rmoney is running the most dishonest campaign for president in modern history. It won't work.

[The Wizard]

98. Winner

Playing the victim as in war on religion because religion shouldn't impose superstition on government policy. Imagine every religion deciding which laws it had to follow. Talk about Sharia Law. Feigned outrage based on loose associations is a sign of arrested development and mental infirmity.

[WI_DEM]

27. Would they let up on us? Hell No!! and Mitten's these are real issues not phony, personal attacks

[Motown_Johnny]

28. Fine, release a total of 7 years of tax returns and we can move on.

So long as not talking about business records means you can't mention having business experience.

We can do that.

[MichiganVote]

29. You know, maybe Rmoney thinks of his taxes as his people, and his business and his nag, and

well, just about anything except like-real people. How humiliating he must feel having to actually be accountable to real people he so richly despises as beneath him. You know, people like you and me.

[NRaleighLiberal]

30. this really is the funniest thing I've heard all day...all week....maybe all month.

Romney is something else that I didn't realize - not very clever or savvy.

[jberryhill]

32. Oh yeah.... this Romney is THE guy I want to negotiate with North Korea and Iran

"Can we just agree not to attack each other on the basis of philosophies, economics and stuff like that?"

So, he wants to take:

"business or family or taxes or things of that nature"

Family? I think everyone agrees that the Romney family is an intact nuclear family, as is the Obama family. Clean living, healthy and smart kids, loving first spouses... the Cleavers and the Huxtables. Both fine families.

I wonder why he threw in "family", unless that includes Bain steering investment money to one of the Romney boys' businesses.

Now, if anyone wants to play "who's your daddy?" in the distinct political sense which has, oddly, become an obsession to some for the first time that the present has a darker shade of skin than previous presidents, I don't see the gain either way. We've had adopted or fatherless presidents (Ford, Clinton), and both Mr. Romney and Mr. Obama are a generation removed from polygamy in their family histories.

"Religion", strangely, is not on the list, because that's a FUN one:

1. Mr. Obama is the secret Muslim who, nonetheless, "sat in the pew for years" listening to the scary black Christian preacher; and

2. Mr. Romney believes a con man dug up holy golden plates which nobody ever saw, translated them by looking at rocks in a hat, learned the plates were put there by the original Hebrew inhabitants of the Americas and, consequently, wears sacred underwear. And, whatever your opinion happens to be, the fact of the matter is that the evangelical backbone of GOP religious voters has unequivocally and expressly taught that Mormonism is pretty much an abomination.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

82. He threw in family because the horse is family. nt

[jberryhill]

83. Well, that would explain the family resemblance of the back end of it

[Aviation Pro]

34. Two words....

[font size="24" color="red"]FUCK AND YOU.[/font]

Quit acting like a fucking infant, phlegm.

[renate]

80. I enjoyed that

Thanks!

[uponit7771]

103. +1!

[mercuryblues]

35. is this the start of

mittastrophy's big cave. If he can't stand up to Obama, how will he stand up to Reid?

[elzenmahn]

134. He'll try to hide behind Paul Ryan's kilt...

...expect MittWitt to disappear from the spotlight and Ryand taking his place. The MSM (and the corporations that own it) luuuuuv a young gun like him.

[indepat]

38. Focused on the issues by blaming BHO for the Bush/Cheney-created

deficits, disasters, and travesties BHO had inherited. How convenient, how narcissistic, how disingenuous, how cowardly: what a crock.

[Courtesy Flush]

39. Reminds me of Saddam Hussein

Remember when they found him in his spider hole? He said "I am willing to negotiate."

Yeah. I'll bet you are.

I play chess online, and I always chuckle when someone offers a draw when they've clearly lost the game.

[WinkyDink]

119. The difference is: We put SH where he was found; and 2.) He was speaking true.

[matt819]

42. Wah Wah Wah

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What a crybaby.

They haven't repeated the personal attacks of four years ago because they didn't work then and they won't work now. The RW has played the unAmerican, birther, Muslim, fraud, African, Socialist, etc. card for four years. What new lies is Rmoney going to come up with?

They can attack his record of the past four years, but they have to be prepared for immediate responses calling out their lies, to say nothing of the latest "revelation" that it has been republican party policy for four years to block Obama at every step of the way. So, you want to talk policy, go ahead. But you ain't got nothin' to go on, so have at it.

As for asking that business record and tax returns be off the table, I also thought this was an Onion report. The man is 65 years old and for most of his adult life has been in business. To sort of paraphrase Rmoney, that's fair game, my friends. Also, he may not want to run on his record as governor, which is understandable since MA showed a net job loss over the course of his term and a 66% disapproval rating when he left office, but when that's all you have as an elected official, what does he think, that it's not open to discussion. What planet is this man living on?

Edited to add:

Oh, an one more thing. Does this clown not realize that no matter what he might choose to cover or not cover in his ads, he has no control over the PACS (allegedly). And they do not play well with others. And, for the first time in decades, neither does our side. So, stop whining, put on your grown up pants, and get with the program.

[reflection]

48. Kolob?

[matt819]

86. Wow, Just Wow

I had missed the bit on Kolob, and looked it up before I asked what you were talking about.

Kolob? This is what Mormons are taught? Okay. Maybe it's no different than Hinduism with its many gods and goddesses, but these traditions go back thousands of years. Kolob? 150 years. And made up out of whole cloth.

[Ineeda]

43. And this quote is an indication of their good-faith effort, right?

"The governor was expressing his view that he hopes we can have a campaign focused on the issues rather than one of desperation and lies as we’ve seen from the Obama campaign,” Saul said in an e-mail.

Even their feeble and ridiculous attempt at negotiation with a political rival is insulting beyond belief. Can you imagine global negotiations with, say, Iran?

[ProSense]

45. The most telling

part comes at the end of the article:

“Look, I would not be in this race had I spent my life in politics alone,” Romney said at an October primary debate. “Nothing wrong with that, of course, but right now, with the American people in the kind of financial crisis they are in, they need someone who knows how to create jobs, and I do.”

That message was reinforced in ads. Most recently, this biographical spot last month that opens with Romney’s business experience:

[smirkymonkey]

60. Create Jobs?? Is he completely bat-shit crazy? Does he really have no idea as to what his legacy

in business has been? How can anyone be so clueless. Furthermore, how can he think that anyone is going to believe him. It's a well known truth that he fired and offshored thousands of jobs for no other reason than to make himself and his fellow money grubbing pals richer than they have a right to be. I really can't believe this guy. He is completely oblivious to reality.

[Vinca]

46. He can't run on his record as governor. He can't bring up the Olympics anymore.

If his "business" (aka vulture capitalism) is off limits, what's he going to run on?

[siligut]

52. Not being Obama

[catbyte]

47. Translation: "I want to continue lying about Obama's record, but he must

stop telling the truth about me."

What a tool!

[grasswire]

49. W* used his daddy to whine for him.

Bush elder would come to the press and cry about how the world was treating his "boy" so badly. Then Mama Bush would get all huffy and scary.

That's how W* got whiny.

Mitt doesn't have that surrogate.

[The_Casual_Observer]

50. When a rich bastard like that gets cornered he'll always try to recalibrate the game to his

advantage. Obama will just turn up the god damn heat on that asshole.

[riverwalker]

51. no mas, no mas!

just like Sugar Ray Leonard v.s. Roberto Duran 1980 (but Harry Reid is the one with the knockout punch!)

[RedSpartan]

66. Nice!

[JohnnyRingo]

56. Romney just wants him & Obama to talk about......

...how bad a job Obama has done for the last four years. Hahahahaha

By saying he "only wants to talk about the issues" that's what he means. Since Romney's past, his taxes, his one term as governor, and his tenure at Bain Capital would be off limits, all there is left is how Obama has handled things, and how Romney can do better.

I've never seen such a campaign so desperately struggling to tread water. Now it's Mitt who's "in over his head".

[1StrongBlackMan]

58. Truce? ... No talking about taxes or business or Family?

Yeah, Okay!

Now ... when are you going to release your tax filings? Have you read were out-sources hurts the working American? You should really think about that because your former company, Bain, is continuing the work you started ... they are in the process of shuttering a manufacturing plant here and ship those jobs to China ... Oh, I'm sorry, out-sourcing those jobs to China.

See? I didn't even mention that you guys spent more on Anne's horse last year than most Americans make.

[DonCoquixote]

59. He ran ON HIS BUSINESS RECORD

Because he knew if he ran on his record as GOVERNOR, there would be tons of people who would gladly tell us how awful he was. Obama can make a $10,000 dollar bet "Hey Mitt, I bet you will not carry your own state in the election, nor Michigan!" He ran as a businessman, so it became fair game to attack him as one, especially since his record is not that great. A Warren Buffet, a Steve Jobs, hell, even a Trump could at least say they were successful, he cannot.

[RedSpartan]

62. He's done. Finished. Goose is cooked.

As if The Base and the GOP in general weren't already holding their noses while supporting this guy. In their world, you NEVER are supposed to show anything that might be perceived as weakness. EVER. This will just make his so-called "supporters" hate him even more. His campaign is crumbling around him. Keep on hammering!!!

[avebury]

63. Who knew that Romney

had a sense of humor?


rofl: :

[magical thyme]

64. issues? fine. Health care anyone? nt

[RedSpartan]

67. Ha! +1000

[surrealAmerican]

68. "desperation and lies"?

She has got to be kidding. We're seeing a lot of desperation and lies, but it sure isn't coming from the Obama campaign.

[Jim__]

69. Is it ok to keep presenting out-of-context quotes that amount to lying?

I guess as long as the lies are about "issues" there's no reason to stop that.

[Major Hogwash]

70. "Hey, Mr President, can we just suspend the campaigns?" Where have I heard that before?

Jesus, Romney can't even come up with an original idea!!

What the hell are in those income tax returns anyway??

[jwirr]

71. Exactly where does rMoney get the idea that we are not interested in his tax returns and his

business records. Those are the first part of his resume I want to see.

[Berlum]

72. "Pwease stop being truthful about me. Whine." - Willard (R)

Shameless. Just shameless whining to keep the
Republicon OCCULTISM thingie protected.

Disgustipating.

[DearAbby]

73. Wanna know where you find sympathy in the dictionary?

It's between Shit and Syphilis. Tough luck there, Prince Royal.

[rocktivity]

76. Gasp -- this ISN'T an Onion story???

rocktivity

[rockingirl]

77. Oh yes and I'm hoping

that a great big hello dollars faerie will fly over and land in my back yard and poop a big pile of money for me so that I can more easily make my house payments and car payments and property taxes and utility bills and food costs and gasoline costs and all the rest blah blah ad nausea

I guess willard mittens can't just shake the etch-o-sketch and change this, hmmmm

[CanonRay]

79. This tax thing has him scared shitless, doesn't it.

If Obama goes for this "truce", he's nuts. Rmoney's PAC will do whatever Rove wants it to do.

[spanone]

81. bwahahahahahaa.. good luck with that mittsy

so his governorship is 'personal'

his tenure at bain was 'personal/

how stupid does he think the Obama campaign is?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

84. When's he going to call for a truce on all of (his) LIES about President Obama?

[Cali_Democrat]

87. Oh shit...it's like men against boys

I've been so impressed with Obama's campaign this year. The way they are attacking Romney in every which way is great!

[obxhead]

88. Obama's answer should be....

the release of every tax filing from his very first year on.

It would be beautiful.

[toddwv]

91. Meanwhile, Romney associated PACs continue with business as usual.

Thanks but no thanks.

We prefer to hear you squeal.

[Major Nikon]

92. Can we please not talk about the taxes I didn't pay for 10 years?

Q.
Can we talk about Seamus?

Rmoney.
No

Q.
Can we talk about the policies you implemented as governor of Mass that are virtually the same as the policies of Obama you're now condemning?

Rmoney.
I'd rather not.

Q.
Can we talk about how you sought draft deferments from Vietnam while publicly voicing support for the war, then later lied about it?

Rmoney.
Nope.

Q.
Can we talk about you making $14 million while claiming to be "unemployed"?

Rmoney.
Nah.

Q.
Can we talk about how the Tax Policy Center said your tax plan lowers taxes for people like you while raising taxes on the middle class?

Rmoney.
I'll get back to you on that.

Q.
So Mr. Rmoney, if we can't talk about your past, your present, or your future, what can we talk about?

Rmoney.
I went out and bought groceries, mostly by myself the other day.

[ejbr]

94. Rumor has it, that unlike with McCain,

Obama hates Romney's fucking guts...so, I doubt it.

[Moonwalk]

96. This is rather like the "When did you stop beating your wife?" question, right?

"We hope you'll stop using desperation and lies--like pointing out how Romney's tax plan will cost middle class Americans more and let the rich pay less--and start talking about the issues--like your attempt to cut voting short in Ohio and take away the work requirement for welfare."

So the Romney camp is accusing the Obama camp of doing what they're doing (using desperation and lies) and want them to stick to the issues, meaning the desperation and lies that they're putting out?

[bayareaboy]

97. You folks have said all.

there isn't too much to say, except what about your super fund Mitt!

[Incitatus]

99. Too late. Give up.

The severing of your achilles heel is almost complete.

[Dustin DeWinde]

101. mittens is way too soft to ever be our president

Also way too deceitful way too secretive way too crooked....

[Walk away]

102. Republicans are a lot funnier than I Thought!

[fascisthunter]

104. fuck him and the fascist pricks that vote for him

[Marr]

106. Romney seems whiny and weak.

First it was just his business record that he wanted everyone else to stop looking at. Nevermind that he himself made it his central qualification for the White House, and bragged about it at every opportunity. The moment people started criticizing his record, he insisted the subject be dropped.

Then the tax thing came up, and he insisted everyone drop that.

He doesn't just look crooked, he looks like a WIMP, and that's the only thing that will actually turn off Republican voters.

[Raine]

107. Bwahaha, what is left Mitt? You have no plan so that leaves zip, zero & zilch! Why not just

conceed and spare the country your empty suited phoney act.

[progressivebydesign]

108. C'mon. This is from the Onion, right? Seriously... he REALLY did not say that. ???

LOL. I thought we were to judge him on his biz experience, but we can't talk about it? or the taxes??

NO ONE in Obama's campaign has gone after Romney's family. Period. That's a red herring. He's trying to paint the Obama Campaign as leveling personal attacks on him. They're not. They want the taxes, and they are exposing Romney's Bain experience which resulted in thousands of people losing their jobs in America, so that Romney and his gang could reap millions...

Still in awe of the absolute ineptitude from them. How did the media a straight face?

[ejpoeta]

109. sorry... when you are using bain as the business experience to

be president, then that makes it on the table. and if you say 'trust me' about what's in your taxes, then that's on the table too. you have accused people of hiding things in the past who don't release their taxes, even when it is the spouse of the person running. therefore.... what's sauce for the goose.... you know. all that.

[Monk06]

110. Calls Obama a desperate liar. Refuses to denounce the birthers and now he wants to play nice?

I'd like to see Obama bring up Bain outsourcing and Mitten's tax avoidance during the debate.

In advance of the debate, I predict that Mitt will publicly demand that those questions be kept out of the Presidential debate. Which is just as good. He will once again be shown to be running from his own history.

Romney is a cockroach, he scurries into the nearest dark corner when the lights are turned on.

[Ohio Joe]

111. Awesome - nt

[drm604]

113. With this truce

we would no longer be able to discuss his taxes or business and financial dealings, but he could continue pushing the lies about welfare and "you didn't build that" etc. and just generally misrepresenting the President's record and views on the issues.

I don't think we should take that deal.

[BootinUp]

114. There's more than one old adage that are applicable here

"If you can't stand the heat, get outa the damn kitchen".

"Play with fire and you are likely to get burned dumb ass".

How many such adages apply, one may never know.

[Johnny2X2X]

115. WIMP

Mitt is a WIMP!

The media needs to start calling him the Wimp that he is.

[WinkyDink]

121. Oh, he's far from a wimp. He's a nasty, arrogant brute.

[Grammy23]

117. What Subjects, Pray Tell???

What subjects, pray tell, Mittens, do you propose be allowed during the debates??

We're all ears. Give us a hint.

[WinkyDink]

120. I like how he equates "family" to "business...or taxes...." HE IS ARROGANCE PERSONIFIED.

THAT is Romney's defin ing trait: ARROGANCE.

As the challenger, he thinks HE can and will DICTATE the terms of engagement.

I happen to think that Romney's belief in Mormonism and its theocratic goals ought to be REQUIRED subject matter.

[FlaGranny]

124. It's a rarified atmosphere

up there with Mitt and his cronies. It's their own little world. They sit around the table talking about the market, their horses, which house they will vacation at, whether or how much the Picasso they are considering buying will appreciate in value, should we redecorate the house in MA, you know, everyday things like that.

It is an arrogance that comes from privilege and lack of understanding how regular people think and live - the vast 99% of the world. They are afraid of us and must control us any way they can. They are people who believe they are entitled to be rulers because of their privilege.

There is a small restaurant chain with one near me. It's on the expensive side for this area. When you walk in, they treat you like you are a VIP. It feels good to be treated like that. If you are treated like that everywhere you go it probably gives you a false sense of your own worth.

[AzDar]

122. K & R because ...

[billky]

123. Romney, PLEASE HELP ME OBAMA...

And who says Obama wants to help him...He's dumber than I thought he was.

[L0oniX]

125. Hey dumb fuck (Robme) ...it's the people that want to know about your record and taxes.

[ecstatic]

128. exactly!! nt

[ecstatic]

127. Who does this guy think he is?

I, as an American citizen, want to see the returns.

Rmoney can't arrange (in a quiet room) to take his financial records off the table. Again,

[King_Klonopin]

129. Marquis of Queensbury rules only apply to Democrats

It has been the unspoken rule for decades.

Republicans can punch below the belt (Willy Horton and Swift Boat ads)
punch the kidneys (Obama is a Muslim, a foreigner)
punch behind the head (criticizing Obama's foreign policy overseas)
punch in the clinch
punch after the bell (Obama takes soooo many vacations)
punch when you're down on the mat
kick, thumb eyes, bite off ears, throw elbows
whatever it takes to win --
lie (every word from Romney's mouth so far is a lie),
cheat (PAC money made possible by Citizens United), and
steal (voter suppression laws, rigged voting machines, etc.)
and they never get disqualified for it.

-- BUT, when a Democrat starts landing body-shots that hurt because
they hit the mark and score points with the judges,
OOHHHH MY MY, how the bully cries FOUL and NO-FAIRZIES.

Repubs have always fought by street-fight rules. Totally shameless.
Dems never come close to the lowly depths of their dirty tactics.

SUCK IT, "You made your bed, now lie in it !"

[mick063]

130. No truce

The gloves are off.

We are fighting for survival here.

Even a cornered kitty cat will maul you when threatened.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

133. No, Romney are you trying to threaten us?