John Boehner: Americans 'Do Not Want To Vote For A Loser'
Source: Huffington Post
WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney's privileged background and personal wealth will not prevent Americans from voting for him in November's presidential election, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said on Sunday morning.
"The American people do not want to vote for a loser," Boehner told CNN's "State of the Union with Candy Crowley." "They don't want to vote for someone who hasn't been successful. I think Mitt Romney has a chance to show the American people that they, too, can succeed."
The House speaker's own background offers a sharp contrast with that of the former Massachusetts governor. Boehner "grew up mopping floors and waiting tables at his family tavern" and "worked several jobs to pay his way" through Xavier University, according to the official biography on his website. Romney holds law and business degrees from Harvard and made a fortune with Bain Capital before turning to politics, and his father, George Romney, was a wealthy auto executive who went on to become Michigan's governor and later served in the Nixon administration.
Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama have traded barbs over who is more "out of touch" with ordinary Americans. The speaker did not enter that argument, instead choosing to laud the presumptive GOP nominee's character and career and to emphasize the two Republicans' shared goals of improving the economy.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/29/john-boehner-mitt-romney-loser-very-successful_n_1462570.html?ref=politics
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)Atman
(31,464 posts)I remember when Americans considered becoming POTUS the pinnacle of success. I guess not so if you're a Republican...it's just a placeholder until you can land a better lobbying job or book deal.
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Amonester
(11,541 posts)smug
Millionaires-in-Chief
The top White House contenders are a lot richer than the rest of us. Here's where they got it...and where it goes.
By Marlys Harris, Money Magazine senior editor
http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/moneymag/0712/gallery.candidates.moneymag/5.html
No. To be successful is to be born with a silver spoon in the mouth...
mac56
(17,561 posts)"But Mr. Speaker - - - they voted for you, didn't they?!'
cstanleytech
(26,082 posts)Quantess
(27,630 posts)for their president.
LASlibinSC
(269 posts)Let me lie to you while looking into your eyes.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)bemildred
(90,061 posts)and-justice-for-all
(14,765 posts)patrice
(47,992 posts)There is at least a 50:50 probability that Mitt would not have been a "success" if he had come from the opposite end of the political/economic spectrum.
This country needs a long honest and very difficult discussion about what "success" means.
coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
The most I can see for him is manager (maybe) at a used-car lot where his unctuousness and smarmy false cheer might rope in a few suckers.
T.S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men" comes to mind:
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
patrice
(47,992 posts)coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)patrice
(47,992 posts)coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)all the crazy mirrors.
I was referring to my own post (speculating about a Mitt without the silver spoon) as being off topic in relation to the OP and thereby apologizing for distracting from the thrust of the OP (or even hijacking it, perish the notion).
patrice
(47,992 posts)Your reference to that poem shows that we are much closer than I assumed.
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patrice
(47,992 posts)the truth . . .
and I'm over 60 now and can still recite that poem in its entirety.
coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)toward e.e. cummings:
next to of course god america i
love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh
say can you see by the dawns early my
country tis of centuries come and go
and are no more what of it we should worry
in every language even deafanddumb
thy sons acclaim your glorious name by gorry
by jingo by gee by gosh by gum
why talk of beauty what could be more beaut-
iful than these heroic happy dead
who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter
they did not stop to think they died instead
then shall the voice of liberty be mute?
He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water
OR
my sweet old etcetera
aunt lucy during the recent
war could and what
is more did tell you just
what everybody was fighting
for,
my sister
Isabel created hundreds
(and
hundreds)of socks not to
mention fleaproof earwarmers
etcetera wristers etcetera, my
mother hoped that
i would die etcetera
bravely of course my father used
to become hoarse talking about how it was
a privilege and if only he
could meanwhile my
self etcetera lay quietly
in the deep mud et
cetera
(dreaming,
et
cetera, of
Your smile
eyes knees and of your Etcetera)
http://allpoetry.com and search on e.e. cummings
patrice
(47,992 posts)as is another of my favorites, Dylan Thomas.
I like to memorize poetry, because it makes it available to me whenever I want it.
I don't know what Eliot's politics were, but I agree that the outlines of conservatism are there, as his being an ex-patriot suggests. In light of that, it's interesting that, amongst other things, impotence, physical & psychological, seems to be a consistent theme in The Hollow Men, The Waste Land, and, obviously, The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock.
Don't let the conservatism turn you off; Burnt Norton IS stunning. Too big for me to memorize, though, except for the following, which seems to offer the suggestion of some "third" thing that can evoke a phoenix out of the ashes:
We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, remembered gate, when the last of Earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning. At the source of the longest river,
The voice of the hidden waterfall, and the children in the apple-tree,
Not known, because not looked for, but heard, half-heard in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea. Quick now, here, now, always ---
A condition of complete simplicity, costing not less than everything.
And all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well
When the tongues of flame are in-folded into the crowned knot of fire,
And the fire and the rose are one.
Impotence at whatever level is one thing, but being able to write lines like those is ITS OWN success.
Carla in Sequim
(228 posts)Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
patrice
(47,992 posts)I should read that every day.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)while over the past decade Romney has lost a high profile Senate and Presidential race and only eeked out this win over a very weak field.
goclark
(30,404 posts)zbdent
(35,392 posts)just because they think there's a socialist Muslim in the White House.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)... who became president of the prejudice-beyond-belief USA
is a loser....
Uh huh.
Go cry about it over your drink, Bohner.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)like so many others have forgotten the path they went through. One is Justice Thomas. Affirmative Action helped Thomas, but he is against it now. Same with the others, like Paul Ryan, who I believe needed government assistance. These people were helped by the government as well as the community, but don't want the goverrment to help others. Its total selfishness, and total Ayn Rand teachings.
They claim how "Christian" they are, but go with almost all of the 7 deadly sins. Mittens - a effing liar
truthisfreedom
(23,113 posts)A corporate raider who has left a trail of dead behind him?
I know for a fact that my main client (GC) started off at $650M in debt when they first worked with Bain on a leveraged buyout, and now they're $1.3B in debt to Bain some years later. Bain won't let them die until after the election so Mittens isn't embarrassed, but I'll be taken for at least $60K when that happens. And that's the way things are when Mittens does business. He takes off at high speed, brown fluid runs down the windshield, and you get the hose.
OffWithTheirHeads
(10,337 posts)liberal N proud
(60,302 posts)Peaceful Protester
(280 posts)Last edited Wed May 23, 2012, 01:46 PM - Edit history (1)
In the 1980's, Reagan determined to govern through deregulation and privatization, pursued a full on assault of the unions. In the 1990's Gingrich and Boehner set out to deregulate wall street. By 2000, deregulation red flags were being set off with the ENRON energy scandal. If you don't remember: ENRON manufactured rolling blackouts on the West Coast so people wouldn't complain when their energy bills rates spiked up wards while ENRON traded energy stock on wall street.
In 1998, Gingrich and Boehner were working to repeal Glass-Steagall. House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) was pushing for passage of a financial-services deregulation bill by Easter. Boehner had his back every step of the way. The bill, a compromise cobbled by Representative John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), would give brokers a boost, permitting them to acquire banks, which have the power to lend and take federally insured deposits.
John Boehner cried when he became Speaker of the House because he didn't think people would be dumb enough to allow a career politician, like himself, to rise to such a position of power after helping repeal the Glass-Steagall Act, a crucial firewall between banks and investment firms which had protected consumers from financial calamity since the aftermath of the Great Depression. Newt Gingrich even had the nerve to run for President, but ended his campaign by filing bankruptcy.
All this deregulation and privatization set the stage for people like Mitt Romney to go to work siphoning millions from the middle class. He made his money through managed bankruptcies. He bought businesses, laid off off workers, outsourced their jobs, and pocketed their pensions. The money he took from them was parked in swiss bank accounts, offshore accounts, and in the bahamas. Quite an accomplishment.
tonybgood
(218 posts)He was elected the President of the Screen Actors Guild; a union!!!
indypaul
(949 posts)Look at the elections of Rockefeller, Perot, etc. B/T/W where
is your tax return Mr Romney? Is there some disclosure there
that you think might expose your "vulture capitalistic" activities?
goclark
(30,404 posts)What a horrible example that sets for all of us who turned ours in and on time.
What's the problem M$$$y--- all those $$$ that landed in other countries for your tax breaks?
We know the real reason ~ you know you are hiding all your lies!
Can you imagine what the Rethugs would be saying if the President was "late" with his returns?
I thought GW was bad but this Empty Suit takes the Cake.
Peaceful Protester
(280 posts)A few years ago, Romney's advice for our economy while it was in free fall, was to let GM, the banks and homeowners file bankruptcy; let them all fail. I get the feeling that Romney thinks his only real job, managed bankruptcies, is a cure all solution for all situations.
By the way, Europe chose austerity measures and is contracting by 0.3%, while the U.S., under President Obama, chose to grow its way to prosperity is expanding by 2%-3%, no thanks to the ...hope-he-fails, say-no-to-everything, and do-nothing Republicans.
Romney's advise on the situation in Libya was just as inept. He said he wouldn't have gone into Libya. I find this hard to believe since the Republican party had been trying to take down Qaddafi since the Reagan years. By intervening in Libya, Obama helped save countless lives and take down Qaddafi while also securing a promise from the rebels to repay the U.S. for its military support.
nobodyspecial
(2,286 posts)First, Obama is too cool while simultaneously a loser. I guess this makes sense to people who insist he is a Muslim but got his marching orders from a preacher while sitting in church on Sunday.
Beartracks
(12,761 posts)... having a good job, raising a family in a comfortable home, being part of community and having friends, and not wanting for anything (because your income was enough to provide for everything you needed) -- in short, the "American Dream"? Today, the GOP wants you to believe that being successful only applies to making money -- like Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol -- and if you haven't even made your first million yet, then you, dear American, are a loser.
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penndragon69
(788 posts)if i'd been born with several million dollars in my diapers like romney and trump.
Born rich, pampered and tutored with access to the best of everything, who could loose.
Most of us are born poor, live poor and eventually die after years of struggle
and hard luck.
May the trust fund babies all BURN !
Taylor Smite
(86 posts)That Boehner attended one of the best private high schools in southwest ohio. Its not like he was going through metal detectors or eating dinner at the food pantry.
abolugi
(417 posts)thing to say about the President Of The United States!
Hey Boner... Can we play this clip back to you in November when Obama wins again and you are(hopefully) thrown out on your blubbering orange ass!!??
tonybgood
(218 posts)I should know, I live in Ohio's 8th Congressional District and he's my representative. It's unfortunate but true.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)DallasNE
(7,392 posts)Romney's work at Bain, where forced bankrupcy cost thousands and thousands of jobs displays Romney's character as well. It was always all about the almighty dollar with Romney. No compassion, no character. He was even ruthless when it came to the family dog, for crying out loud. His dad worked for Nixon and Mitt learned those Nixon lessons quite well.
kiranon
(1,727 posts)Was this Boehner's way of dissing Romney? Obama is a winner so just who is Boehner comparing Romney to or is he calling Romney a loser in a subtle way?
NOLALady
(4,003 posts)As in the "loser" who was elected President of the most powerful country on the planet? As in the "loser" who showed every American that they can succeed despite the obstacles of institutional racism?
They make this stuff up as they go along. This is why I do not watch TV. Some politicians deliver great comedy. The average sitcom cannot compete with the workings of the GOP machine.
LawdHaMercy!!!
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)I don't SEE Boehner in the oval office's chair. Go back to your bar stool, loser!
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)sitting on a stool mumbling incoherently about the world around him. you want to stay away from him as far as you can but he keeps moving closer as if he`s your new best friend...
MADem
(135,425 posts)aquart
(69,014 posts)DearAbby
(12,461 posts)So working your way through Harvard, becoming the first Black President of the law review, becoming President of the United states isn't successful?
Ya bastard, don't even give Obama credit for successfully winning the highest office in the country. You're really a prick aintcha?
truthisfreedom
(23,113 posts)You can't do anything anymore because you're at the mercy of the twiddling nutters from the Tea Party.
shawn703
(2,702 posts)Is that basically what Boehner is saying? That's an ad waiting to happen.
malthaussen
(17,066 posts)n/t
RFKHumphreyObama
(15,164 posts)<The American people do not want to vote for a loser," Boehner told CNN's "State of the Union with Candy Crowley." "They don't want to vote for someone who hasn't been successful>
That's why they had to steal it two times for Dubya
SmittynMo
(3,544 posts)I feel sorry for Mittens. NOT!!!!!
SmittynMo
(3,544 posts)This guy is a total idiot. Nothing but a blowhard, with nothing to back up his claims. Has he been asleep the past 3.5 years? Nevermind, we all know that answer. He was either crying or sleeping. How can he not give Obama credit for all he's done for the American people over this time frame? I'll tell you why. He's a closet racist. The GOP makes me sick to my stomach. They live their rich lifestyle, in a make believe world.
oilpro2
(80 posts)Seriously! He's the worst House Speaker in almost 100 years.
He is totally incompetent. Can the good people of Ohio get rid of him?
Life Long Dem
(8,582 posts)McCain lost to Obama. So what does that make Romney?
librechik
(30,663 posts)I mean--McCain? Romney more out of touch than McCain.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)not that Boehner would know.
Myrina
(12,296 posts)I'd say that qualifies him as A LOSER.