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Milquetoast Mitt (Mark Steyn)
National Review Online ^ | August 11, 2012 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 08/10/2012 11:56:45 PM PDT by neverdem

The other day, I passed a Republican-party county office here in my home state, its window attractively emblazoned with placards declaring “Believe in America. Romney 2012” and “New Hampshire Believes. Romney 2012.” There’s not a lot of evidence for the latter proposition, but I’m certainly willing to believe that Romney believes that New Hampshire believes. An hour or two later, I chanced to be passing a television set just as the station went to break. The words “WE BELIEVE” appeared on the screen, followed by youthful hands raised to a clear blue sky at the dawn of a new day, shafts of sunlight gleaming through ears of corn, a puppy gamboling across a meadow, a kitten playfully pawing, happy green-T-shirted volunteers of many races unloading a recycling carton . . . and I thought, despite myself, “Well, say what you like, but the reassuring vapidity of the Romney campaign is at least getting more professional.” At the end, in the spot where the off-screen voice is supposed to say...

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Obama has spent America’s future, and left no more trace than if he and his high-school “choom gang” had wheeled a barrow of 5 trillion in large notes behind the gym and used them for rolling paper...

--snip--

Obama is the first president in history to create more disabled people than workers. He is the biggest creator of disabled people on the planet. He has disabled more people than the Japanese tsunami. More Americans have been disabled by Obama than have been given cancer by Mitt Romney. “Ask yourself, ‘Are you more disabled now than you were four years ago?’ Obama 2012.” Followed by the wheelchair logo with the Obama “O” where the wheel should be. In the Democrats’ Dependistan, the wheelchair ramp is downhill all the way...

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: marksteyn; milquetoast; obama; romney
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
MARK STEYN's telling the truth. Obama's team is trying to make him out to be the 'John Kerry' of the race. A nice guy who's totally out of touch with real Americans. They are winning at that... Romney can start out by getting in front of a camera and recording himself talking. Half the time when he's saying 'yes' he's nodding his head 'no'. He needs to 'get with the reality of this race'. Dems want him perceived as an ineffectiual nice guy who won't be able to do crap. We've met the men who smile too much...

But in fact, Romney's a capable leader - he leads with teams and consensus - not threats and intimidation like democrats. Romney can keep us from falling off an economic cliff.... Obama can't.

Both men are too liberal for my tastes... but Romney has a chance of saving the country after an economic collapse.

41 posted on 08/11/2012 9:55:31 AM PDT by GOPJ (Freeper Neveronmywatch's convinced: Put a compass in the hands of a liberal it'll point south.)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
MARK STEYN's telling the truth. Obama's team is trying to make him out to be the 'John Kerry' of the race. A nice guy who's totally out of touch with real Americans. They're winning with that line...

Romney can start out by getting in front of a camera and recording himself talking. Half the time when he's saying 'yes' he's nodding his head 'no'. That doesn't engender trust. Dems want him perceived as an ineffectual nice guy who won't be able to do crap. "We've met the men who smile too much" - that's the dem message - 'go with the bad boys'...

But in fact, Romney's a capable leader - he leads with teams and consensus - not threats and intimidation like democrats. And he's very effective. Romney can keep us from falling off an economic cliff.... Obama can't.

Both men are too liberal for my tastes... but Romney has a chance of saving the country from economic collapse.

42 posted on 08/11/2012 9:58:58 AM PDT by GOPJ (Freeper Neveronmywatch's convinced: Put a compass in the hands of a liberal it'll point south.)
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To: GOPJ

One thing is certain.
Obama is a radical.


43 posted on 08/11/2012 10:18:54 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: JLS

That was a classic! I couldn’t stand more than 5 minutes of that tedious, leftist propaganda. I wonder what the British people thought of it?


44 posted on 08/11/2012 12:38:40 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX ( The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else. ~)
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To: VanDeKoik
Mark lives over in East Vermont as opposed to NH. There has been allot of work in NH to return to Constitutional Government. If we work hard it may come to fruition.
45 posted on 08/11/2012 12:52:18 PM PDT by Little Bill
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To: neverdem

I remember Mark dissing Newt Gingrich during the primaries. And Newt was the only candidate (IMO) who could have been counted on to relentlessly and aggressively take it to Obama. Sounds like Mark has buyer’s remorse now.


46 posted on 08/11/2012 1:13:19 PM PDT by kevao
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To: mylife

[ I think it is unfair to equate Romney to Obama on this matter. ]

I don’t think its UNFAIR... as they say in NYC..

If you can make “it” politically Massachusetts.. theres something seriously WRONG with you..

The people in Mass.. are more than generally wacked out..
The Swimmer and the Butt Bandit are just two of the freak show..
Pretty much the whole State is a freak show..
The “Big Dig” was a comedy of P.T. Barnum proportions..
Exposing UNION corruption like a Mafia “Special” Olympics..

“Making it” in Massachusetts is definitely not a Merit Badge..


47 posted on 08/11/2012 1:22:33 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Sherman Logan

[ Not unless they can get 2/3 in each house. Which seems pretty unlikely. ]

Need 2/3rds if Barry Half-White is reelected but not if Myth Romney is elected..
UNLESS Myth turns totally liberal after election.. comes out of the closet..

Probably won’t happen at least in the first term..


48 posted on 08/11/2012 1:41:25 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: cynwoody

[ That means you have to generate maximum enthusiasm for the top of the ticket. Unless you are a traitor. ]

LoL... I remember Hitler said something like that... and Stalin as well..


49 posted on 08/11/2012 2:00:04 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: hosepipe
LoL... I remember Hitler said something like that... and Stalin as well..

Just another anonymous Internet Tuff Gai, is all; an ineffectual online non-entity whose ambitions may be Pol Pot, but whose actual magnitude and reach are more along the lines of Baby Bop. ;)

50 posted on 08/11/2012 3:16:24 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("If you're not fiscally AND socially conservative, you're not conservative!" - Jim Robinson, 9-1-10)
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To: mvpel; Byron_the_Aussie

I used the term “allegedly-Republican” to indicate actual Republican voters and the conservatives that the RNC likes to pretend are still part of the party. I have talked to many people who identify as Conservative but not “Republican” as it is apparently currently defined, and they say they want to have little or nothing to do with the current RNC or with Romney.

And Byron, I’m assuming a “Kentbot” is a supporter of someone named Kent. I am not one of those, and I don’t even know who that candidate is (nor do I care). I am not supporting any third-party candidate in this election.


51 posted on 08/11/2012 9:27:39 PM PDT by Little Pig (Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici.)
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To: neverdem
Obama has added $5 trillion to the national debt, and has nothing to show for it. Do you know how difficult that is to do?
52 posted on 08/12/2012 5:11:28 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
"OMG!!11!!!WHY DOES MARK STEYN SUPPORT OBAMA?!?"

From the article .....

I support Romney, and I’m not rattled by a bad week’s polls. But I am bothered that Romney’s insipid message does not rise to the challenge this nation faces. ... Mark Steyn

KentTrappedInYourOwnLittleWorld, you doth protest too much, methinks.

53 posted on 08/12/2012 5:59:31 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Servant of the Cross
KentTrappedInYourOwnLittleWorld, you doth protest too much, methinks.

Servant of the Cross, go back and re-read for cunning little indicator (i.e., blatant "tell") of heavy sarcasm you inexplicably missed.

::facepalm::

54 posted on 08/12/2012 10:39:19 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("If you're not fiscally AND socially conservative, you're not conservative!" - Jim Robinson, 9-1-10)
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