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Newsweek Cover Story: 'Mitt Romney: A Candidate With a Serious Wimp Problem'
News Busters ^ | 29 Jul 2012 | Noel Sheppard

Posted on 07/29/2012 5:41:41 PM PDT by mandaladon

25 years ago, Newsweek published a controversial cover story titled "Bush Battles the 'Wimp Factor.'"

On Monday, newsstands will carry an equally controversial albeit derivative Newsweek cover story titled "Mitt Romney: A Candidate With a Serious Wimp Problem":

In 1987, this magazine created a famous hubbub by labeling George H.W. Bush a “wimp” on its cover. “The Wimp Factor.” Huge stir. And not entirely fair—the guy had been an aviator in the war, the big war, the good war, and he was even shot down out over the Pacific, cockpit drenched in smoke and fumes, at an age (20) when in most states he couldn’t even legally drink a beer. In hindsight, Poppy looks like Dirty Harry Callahan compared with Romney, who spent his war (Vietnam) in—ready?—Paris. Where he learned ... French. Up to his eyeballs in deferments. Where Reagan saddled up a horse with the masculine name of El Alamein, Mitt saddles up something called Rafalca—except that he doesn’t even really do that, his wife does (dressage). And speaking of Ann—did you notice that she was the one driving the Jet Ski on their recent vacation, while Mitt rode on the back, hanging on, as Paul Begala put it to me last week, “like a helpless papoose”?

The piece continued:

Romney is the genuine article: a true wimp...In some respects, he’s more weenie than wimp—socially inept; at times awkwardy ingratiating, at other times mocking those “below” him, but almost always getting the situation a little wrong, and never in a sympathetic way.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: elections; georgehwbush; liberalmedia; manhood; newsweak; romney; romney2012; wimp
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To: haircutter
I haven't picked up a newsweek in twenty years>

I made the mistake of picking one up in an airport free bin the other day, and found that this freak, a standard issue British Socialist is now the editor along with the Daily Beast, which is basically a talking points propaganda organ for the DNC.

In other words, it's a joke without the comics.

21 posted on 07/29/2012 6:08:15 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: mandaladon

Newsweak = propaganda. If Romney is a “wimp”, Zero is a “metro”, but I’m sure Newsweak will never print that!


22 posted on 07/29/2012 6:09:37 PM PDT by jeffc (Welcome to the United Socialist States of America)
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To: mandaladon
Wonder what newsweak thinks of homobama’s baseball throwing skills?
23 posted on 07/29/2012 6:09:55 PM PDT by I am bigjohn
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To: John W

I believe that was posted here last week. IIRC, it is possible by the end of the year. Now on to Time.


24 posted on 07/29/2012 6:11:13 PM PDT by matt04
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To: Army Air Corps

No wonder they’re dying. They keep recycling stories.


25 posted on 07/29/2012 6:11:30 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: mandaladon

Gravitas again?
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2007/11/30/gravitas_montage_explains_it_all


26 posted on 07/29/2012 6:11:54 PM PDT by SMGFan (SMGfan is not "Sub Machine Gun" fan)
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To: mandaladon
Ya know, I'm not voting for the guy, but I just don't see the wimp thing.

Now, Obama, he's a flaming queen.

/johnny

27 posted on 07/29/2012 6:13:16 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: John W

Eggsactly...I didn’t think they still had a cover.


28 posted on 07/29/2012 6:13:38 PM PDT by Positive (Nothing is sadder than to see a beautiful theory murdered by a gang of brutal facts.)
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To: mandaladon

I don’t have any respect for metrosexual-mitt, but obama is a flospy-wrist, fluttering pansy with a pocket full of rainbows compared to mitt. I bet he jumps up on a chair and shrieks when a mouse runs across the floor.


29 posted on 07/29/2012 6:13:48 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (Goode over evil. Voting for mitt or obie is like throwing your country away.)
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To: SMGFan

2004 David Limbaugh
Gravitas Factor in 2004
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/1/19/224019.shtml


30 posted on 07/29/2012 6:13:54 PM PDT by SMGFan (SMGfan is not "Sub Machine Gun" fan)
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To: ozzymandus

Is the article going to take up 4 of the 10 magazine pages?


31 posted on 07/29/2012 6:17:10 PM PDT by Salamander (I laugh to myself at the men and the ladies who never conceived of us billion dollar babies.)
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To: mandaladon

That is a stupid cover, IMO.

I won’t vote against Romney because he’s a wimp. I’ll vote against him because he’s a liberal.


32 posted on 07/29/2012 6:17:10 PM PDT by Tau Food (Tom Hoefling for President - 2012)
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To: mandaladon

One pic of the Obamagirl trying like mad to loft a baseball should take care of that.


33 posted on 07/29/2012 6:19:34 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: VeniVidiVici

Need the pic of Soetoro hanging pink curtains and the girlie pitches.


34 posted on 07/29/2012 6:20:39 PM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: Da Coyote

I must make amends for my last comment. I’ve played pitch with my petite wife, who can send a baseball through the nearest wall. A pitch from her would knock Obamapussy right through his wimpy b*ll-less shorts.


35 posted on 07/29/2012 6:21:04 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Tau Food

I don’t have any bocy to vote for. Do you? But Romney showed big time “wimp” in retracting his statement that security in London wad “disconcerting” offending the Brits. He show weakness like a woman and was discombobulated.


36 posted on 07/29/2012 6:22:24 PM PDT by marygonzo
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To: TexasVoter

Bullies are often wimps, especially when they need their buddies to hold an already effeminate guy down, Romney was never a tough guy or athletic.


37 posted on 07/29/2012 6:24:04 PM PDT by ansel12 (Massachusetts Governors,,, where the GOP goes for it's "conservative" Presidential candidates.)
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To: HollyB

And post a pic of Rep. Allen West on his motorcycle next to it!


38 posted on 07/29/2012 6:25:03 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: mandaladon

Gee, a lib-leftist rag bashes a “conservative” Republican candidate. Just call me thoroughly surprised. Will wonders never cease?


39 posted on 07/29/2012 6:25:32 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: mandaladon

Newsweek’s still publishing ?


40 posted on 07/29/2012 6:27:27 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (I didn't post this. Someone else did.)
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