The reason is simple: "He's Not Obama"
SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 2012
The Bain of Our Existence
By American Zen's Mike Flannigan
"The reason is simple: Romney is not a conservative. He's not, folks. You can argue with me all day long on that, but he isn't. What he has going for him is that he's not Obama..." -
Rush Limbaugh on Bain Capital-owned Clear Channel.
Mitt Romney: (pass this photo around folks)
A mediocre entity that vultures a berth more through process of attrition than anything else.
...........................................What he has going for him is that he's not Obama..."
............When dealing with the one-dimensional, reactionarily reptilian Republican brain, one cannot introduce more complex logic than that without subjecting oneself to endless head banging on the brick wall of racially-motivated "reasoning."
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But as ill-informed and reactionary as conservative voters tend to be, the repugnance to Romney that still almost cost him the Iowa caucus to one term Senator Rick Santorum can perhaps also be ascribed to reptilian reactivism. Say what you want about George W. Bush and John McCain and many Republican presidential candidates before them but at least those men had human traits and could resonate with voters across a broad spectrum of the electorate (McCain, despite his age and clearly incipient dementia, still got almost 60,000,000 people to vote for him against Obama).
Mitt Romney, even on those mercifully rare occasions when he tries to connect with the grass roots, cannot help but show what an elitist scum he truly is, whether it's telling largely out of work Floridians "I'm unemployed, too," betting Texas Governor Rick Perry $10,000 over a minor squabble over a book passage during a nationally televised debate, telling hecklers at the Iowa State Fair that corporations are people, that income inequality should be spoken of only in "quiet rooms" or four years ago seeking out a reporter for special abuse when he rightly called out Romney's lobbyist Ron Kaufman as running his campaign.
In fact, the only time one can get a human reaction from Romney is when someone accuses him of being a flip-flopper, insists that corporations are not, in fact, people or calling him out for his long history of vulturism with Bain Capital. Even then, Romney, will break into the most plastic and disingenuous grin since Ken and Barbie or what Charles Pierce at Esquire calls his "Flog the Butler" face.
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DCBob
(24,689 posts)He is no Republican Obama.. not even close. Actually the best thing Willard has going for him is that he is in the Republican Party which is supported by rich fat cats, big corp, and the media.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)kpete, do you know what is going on in that photograph?
http://www.mediaite.com/online/salon-pimps-alleged-mitt-romney-shoe-shine-photo/
It's kind of silly that anyone thought it was a shoe shine photograph in the first place.
As if there is some shoe-shine guy that hangs out on the tarmac of a charter jet area of an airport, instead of inside the terminal.
The shoe shine guy has no shoe shine kit, and for this "luxury" treatment, the person getting the shine has to hold their leg up in the air, instead of resting their shoe on a shoe-shine box or other platform.
Just how long do you think you'd hold your leg up for a shine like that?
Sometime in the next couple of months, there is going to be some "damning" document or photograph which everyone is going to get excited about, and it is going to turn out to be something along the lines of the Texas Air National Guard "memo" - a deliberate fake meant to discredit a correct narrative.
Romney isnt actually getting a shoe shine but being wanded for security purposes before boarding a charter flight.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)seems like they could do a security check on him standing up, eh?
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)I think if you were the guy doing the wanding, you'd be the one wanting the chair for people to sit in.
Old and In the Way
(37,540 posts)Assuming it is not photoshopped, my immediate thought was that this is a joke photo of Bain's acquisition of the airline (can't see the logo in this pic...which I don't think would have been cropped out).
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)It is a charter provider:
Oconnor4Congress
(19 posts)together... They are Obamney.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)http://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/21/us/haircut-grounded-clinton-while-the-price-took-off.html
"Haircut Grounded Clinton While the Price Took Off
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Published: May 21, 1993Correction Appended
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It may have been the most expensive haircut in history.
Two of Los Angeles International Airport's four runways were shut down for nearly an hour on Tuesday, some incoming flights were delayed and Air Force One sat on the tarmac with engines running -- all so that President Clinton's Beverly Hills hairstylist, Chistophe, could come aboard and give Mr. Clinton a high-price trim before he took off for Washington."