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Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 11:30 AM Feb 2012

Best description ever of R-money!

http://spectator.org/archives/2012/02/23/the-mittens-come-off-in-mesa

-- Romney remains the smarmy apple polisher who likes to narc on his misbehaving classmates -- one could almost see strings attached to the reinvented Republican's back. Romney is the semi-reformed RINO dummy of high-priced ventriloquists -- a dummy whose words and robotic jerks come from the pushing and pulling of scummy strategists and pollsters who crawl along a corrupt corridor from Boston to D.C. His "Fortune 500" campaign makes me sick. Is the GOP really going to nominate this fraud?

The cheapness and inauthenticity of his campaign is too depressing for words. One small example of this dismal charade came early in the debate when Romney made an utterly random reference to "George Costanza." Apparently, one of Romney's oh-so-clever strategists told him to dispel his image as a nerd trapped in the 1950s by spicing up his answers with "hip" references. So what does Romney do? He cites, for no apparent reason, a character from a sitcom that went off NBC's schedule over a decade ago.
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stockholmer

(3,751 posts)
1. Agreed, but the piece is also pure ass-kiss for the thuglet Newton & taken from a right-wing rag
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 11:47 AM
Feb 2012

I just finished watching the debate, and Rmoney and Paul laid a serious beating on the insanely noxious Santorum. Newton hardly, as the author puts it "resumed his role as the commanding, Olympian overseer". Talk about

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
3. I actually don't care where the quote came from because I agree with it
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 12:04 PM
Feb 2012

100%. I also agree that there is something about Noot's demeanor that is sage and commanding. Taking
all the politics out of it and disagreeing with the ideology...to me, he does have a calm demeanor and it's obvious he is
an intellectual, albeit with the wrong conclusions.

Although Romney may have scored points beating up on Santorum, he runs the risk of making himself sound
like a whining bully.

GeorgeGist

(25,315 posts)
4. obvious intellectuals disagree...
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 12:14 PM
Feb 2012

KRUGMAN: Gingrich Is The Stupid Man's Idea Of What A Smart Person Sounds Like

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
7. well it's all relative. Out of Romney, Santorum, and Noot, all politics aside, which
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 02:20 PM
Feb 2012

do you think has the most intellect?

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