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Daily Archives: October 10, 2012
The gloves are off
“I think it’s fair to say I was just too polite.” — President Obama
Quoted by the Huffington Post, on why he didn’t do well in the first presidential debate.
liberalsarecool: The gloves are off. Obama will finish hard like he always does.
One month to go — Romney’s beliefs and positions change like the weather: every 15 minutes
It’s impossible to keep up with Willard’s positions anymore. To say he’s a flip flopper is to give him undeserved credit for something resembling a belief that was changed — and that would just be completely inaccurate.
It’s so weird those words came out of my own mouth — totally didn’t mean that! “Mitt Romney again distanced himself from his infamous 47 percent comments caught on video at a private fundraiser in May, telling CNN in an interview Tuesday night that, “the words that came out were not what I meant.”“
Steve Benen: Mitt Romney takes a position on tax policy, then his staff says something else. Romney takes a position on Iran, then his staff says something else. Romney takes a position on health care, then his staff says something else. Romney takes a position on his own immigration adviser, then his staff says something else.
Romney wants you to forget about all that abortion stuff: “Mitt Romney said Tuesday he has no plans to push for legislation limiting abortion, a softer stance from a candidate who has said he would “get rid of” funding for Planned Parenthood and appoint Supreme Court who would overturn Roe v. Wade. “There’s no legislation with regards to abortion that I’m familiar with that would become part of my agenda,” the Republican presidential nominee told The Des Moines Register in an interview.”
Obama camp fires back.
WAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIT!!! “It took all of two hours before Romney’s chief spokesperson said the exact opposite, explaining, “Gov. Romney would of course support legislation aimed at providing greater protections for life.” Asked whether the candidate’s position on abortion legislation had changed, Romney’s spokesperson would “not answer directly.” Look, even before the predictable walkback, Romney’s carefully-worded answer, intended to make him appear less extreme on reproductive rights, was absurd. Romney’s platform calls for a constitutional amendment that bans all abortions; Romney said he “absolutely” supports a “Personhood” measure that would ban all abortions and some forms of birth control; and in 2007, Romney boasted that that he’d be “delighted” to sign a bill that would no longer allow abortions “at all, period.” – Steve Benen
Only Mitt Romney could debate himself so thoroughly.
And now a word from FDR
Romney and Ryan lie but dislike being called liars
Describing the reality of what’s actually happening right in front of you isn’t a “strategy,” it’s an expected reaction.
GOP’s VP pick Paul Ryan: “Democratic strategy is ‘to call us liars for a month’”
In a radio interview three days ahead of his debate against Vice President Biden, GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan on Monday contended in some of his strongest language yet that Democrats are distorting his and Mitt Romney’s record on the issues.
“They’re just going to call us liars for a month, is basically what they’re going to do, it looks like. … It seems pretty clear that their new strategy is basically just call us liars, to descend down into a mud pit and hopefully with enough mudslinging back and forth and distortion, people will get demoralized and then they can win by default; sort of a choice of the lesser or two evils,” Ryan told radio host Frank Beckmann on Monday morning.
Here’s the convoluted defense: It’s as if Ryan’s telling the GOP base rubes that it shouldn’t matter if he’s lying to them, it shouldn’t matter if Mitt’s lying to them, but what should matter is that the Democrats will call them liars – and if they hate Democrats then, obviously, they should support the lies.
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The Republican recipe for class warfare
The Romney Wave: “Obama has proven to be very slow, but very deadly. I doubt that’s changed.”
Jonathan Chait: “On the other hand, a continued series of events like last week’s debate really might change the narrative of the race. And here is the bad news for Democrats: Their best shot has already come and gone. The debates will anchor the campaign narrative from here on out, and the three debates that follow all offer less favorable terrain for them to press their case.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates: ”This is a real threat. The reporting indicates that Obama now understands that. Hopefully he is now willing to give Romney the respect he deserves. This is a man bent on taking the White House and putting Obama’s signature achievement (health care) in peril, and likely shifting the Supreme Court to the right, thus endangering (among other things) the right to choose. Wiser men and women than me can better sketch the stakes. My point is this: I am sorry that the president finds debating before the public to be annoying. And I am very sorry that more Americans don’t delve into the footnotes of position papers. And I am very sorry that Mitt Romney was mean to the moderator, and lied to the viewers. And I am especially sorry that Barack Obama was evidently shocked — shocked! — to find the party of poll-taxing, evolution-disputing, and climate-change denying engaging in such tactics. But this is the war we have. And this president has signed up to lead the fight. I think he understands that. Over the past four years Obama has proven to be very slow, but very deadly. I doubt that’s changed.”
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