Will Romney Say Something Stupid Enough to Cost Him Any Chance of Election?

[MineralMan]

What do you think?

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	Yes, absolutely he will.
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	No, I don't think so.
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	He will say many such things.
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	He'll say something that should end his chances, but nobody will report it.
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	He already has, but nobody noticed.
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	Nobody listens to Romney, anyhow, so who would know?
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	Every word out of his lying mouth, I swear.
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	Robb is a dingbat.
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[uponit7771]

1. On NPR this morning there were a couple of guys lamenting how the MSM doesn't report on kkkon

...stupidity and extremism like they should for the sake of being "non partisan"

[tularetom]

4. Ironic isn't it that guys on NPR would be saying this

especially since NPR is possibly the best example of "journalists" jumping backwards through their own assholes to avoid being accused of being "liberal".

[Rex]

2. Already has many many times.

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[MineralMan]

3. But did anybody notice?

[lpbk2713]

5. It has all been said.

They have no idea how generous they were to us with their 25 televised debates.


Thanks to them we have all the video offerings we could ever hope for.

[Bake]

6. He has. People noticed but DON'T CARE.

They know he's a blithering idiot. They know he's spineless. THEY DON'T CARE (his supporters, that is).

Thugs like Norquist don't even try to hide it ... all they want is somebody to sign the bills passed by a teabagger Congress.

Bake

[MineralMan]

7. You make a good point. His supporters will vote for him

regardless. I guess it's going to depend on that ineffable "independent" vote.

[randome]

8. I haven't looked this foward to a Presidential candidate debate in a long time.

Obama is not perfect but his debating skills are immense. He will bring out the stupid in Romney when they go head to head.

It's gonna be a blast!

[MineralMan]

10. Romney's going to fight even having a debate.

He knows he'll look like a moron. That's going to be interesting to see.

[WI_DEM]

9. In my eyes he already has--many times.

[NYC Liberal]

11. He will say a lot of stupid things that, over the course of the campaign, will sink him.

It won't be one remark that kills his campaign. It'll be the sum of an entire year of stupid remarks and gaffes…similar to McCain.

[MineralMan]

12. You might well be right.

[RZM]

14. Pretty much

When all is said and done, there will be quite a collection of gaffes, misstatements, and things he really shouldn't have said.

[NYC Liberal]

15. I wonder if there will be a "fundamentals of our economy are sound" moment?

Gaffes during the primaries don't really mean much for a candidate if they end up winning.

If a gaffe is going to hurt Romney in the general election it will be one said in the heat of the general election campaign.

[RZM]

20. You're probably right

I guess what I meant that it once it's over it will be fun to look at his laundry list of gaffes. But I agree that they are most damaging at the time they are said. Romney has probably already taken most of the damage for his gaffes so far.

I think this is why campaigns sometimes keep their opponents' most damaging quotes on ice until very close to election day. In 2004 I believe that the Kerry campaign waited until the end to air their commercial showing Bush joking about not finding WMD in Iraq. And I think it was also very late when the Bush campaign rolled out their ad with Kerry's 'I was for the 87 billion before I was against it' quote.

[Initech]

13. Has Mitt said some stupid some stupid things?

This is a guy who claims to be a southerner because he "likes cheesy grits and says y'all a lot". Oh and some of his best friends are NASCAR team owners.

This is a guy who tried to win over Michigan auto workers by saying his wife 'owns a couple Cadillacs" and gave a speech to a nearly empty Ford Field.

This is a guy who's building a car elevator in his sixth mansion in San Diego which has it's own lobbyist while claiming to meet with regular people because he wants to find out how the regular economy works.

Yes he's a stupid candidate but he's the very textbook definition of what an empty suit - a bland, boring byproduct of, by, and for our nations wealthy elite - he's the perfect candidate for Wall St - and nobody seems to notice.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

16. He'll say something that would normally cost any politician an election but his supporters

won't care. It will be reported and noticed but we're dealing with Republicans. And we're dealing with questionable voting machines along with voter suppression. In what other country on Earth would someone still be in the race after saying "is our children learnin'", "puttin' food on your family", and "man and the fish can co-exist"?

[cthulu2016]

17. No

No republican can say something that makes him unelectable. If they could they already would have.

Romney has said many, many, many things that should make him utterly unelectable, with minimal effect.

As did Bush W. and Reagan.

[Lamm]

18. Gaffe prone Mittens?

Definetely!

[SoCalDem]

19. Once he is the official candidate, he will be reined in and will only speak at controlled events

and of course any debates that come up.

He is a gaffe-machine, and his handlers know it.

[grantcart]

21. Yes. Of course there have been many such flubs already including the "Corporations are people too".

But up until now its been too early and the attention to dissipated.

Now it will happen in a much more center stage, probably at a debate or an interview.

It will coalesce opinion and overtake his campaign.

Ironically his father George lost a likely successful run for the WH when they uncovered a year old radio script where he used the word 'brainwashed'. It has made him hyper concerned about word choice which makes him more conscious and more susceptible to it.