Romney Still Isn't Over That Benghazi Debate

[DonViejo]

IGOR BOBIC – JANUARY 28, 2014, 11:07 AM EST

He may have suffered a resounding defeat to President Obama in 2012, but Mitt Romney still can't quite get over a debate in which he says the moderator improperly fact checked one his statements about the Sept. 11, 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya.

Appearing on the Hugh Hewitt radio show Monday, the former governor of Massachusetts said that CNN's Candy Crowley shouldn't have waded into an exchange about whether the President called the attack an act of terror the following morning in a statement in the White House Rose Garden.

"Well, I don’t think it’s the role of the moderator in a debate to insert themselves into the debate and to declare a winner or a loser on a particular point," Romney said of the October, 2012 debate, as quoted by Mediaite. "And I must admit that, at that stage, I was getting a little upset at Candy, because in a prior setting where I was to have had the last word, she decided that Barack Obama was to get the last word despite the rules that we had."

While Obama did refer to "acts of terror" in the statement, his administration later attributed the attack to a spontaneous protest against an inflammatory video.

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[Scuba]

1. Have they told him yet that he lost the election?

[giftedgirl77]

8. He is the perfect example of why it is necessary

to teach children that there are always winners & losers. Willard apparently never got that lesson, I wish they would stop humoring him & kick him to the curb.

[Berlum]

2. "Truth has no place in a political debate." - Romnoid (R)

"Obfuscation and occultation are core Republicon 'values' and you 47% of smelly American proles will just have to learn to deal with our Republicon lies and spin. Sneer. Smirk." - Romnoid (R)

[JoePhilly]

6. He has enough money, he could make a replica of DC and

then wander around playing President.

Could put it in Texas.

[CurtEastPoint]

3. Please proceed, Governor...

[TwilightGardener]

4. You know who's NOT giving the SOTU address tonight?

You, Mittens! Slink away, you sorry-ass loser.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

5. Romney looked to Crowley to give him the answer he wanted to hear

He was wrong.

"Don't take the shot until you know what the shot is"

[BeyondGeography]

7. Best photo of a man stepping in shit ever

[giftedgirl77]

9. I love it...

[2naSalit]

10. !!! DITTO !!!

rofl: :

That picture is soooo precious that I downloaded it the first time I saw it online!!! It is the quintessential image of the mittens.

And his whining about the debate now is a prime example of why he and the wannbe queen ann are so right for each other.

[BlueStreak]

11. Romney is mentally ill.

Maybe "ill" isn't the right word for it. He is just a garden variety sociopath with a nice suit and a big inheritance from his father, with enough brains to capitalize on that but not enough brains to realize how much he lacks as a human being.

I do hope he runs again. Some people are more admired after they gracefully accept the verdict of the people, and are given a second opportunity. I think this guy's stock has no upside. The more you know him, the less there is to like.

And it isn't as if he has made any effort to demonstrate he learned anything from the election.

[EC]

12. Well, what Candy did was moderate

that's what they are supposed to do. They bully moderators into being just announcers and questioners. They are supposed to settle disputes in debates, that's what they're for. So he was mad at her and he was mad at the team that prepared him. He should have realized then that they were in an alternate reality and no one was telling the truth.