Posted on 08/27/2012 8:00:50 AM PDT by Bigtigermike
Politico has an interesting and provocative interview with Mitt Romney this morning — although perhaps not provocative enough for some of the passionate base. After dumping the “nice guy but failed President” argument in the overwhelming volume of nasty attacks from Barack Obama and his campaign, including insinuations of being a felon, a murderer, and a modern-day slaver, Romney tells Politico that the theme will return at the Republican National Convention this week in Tampa:
Mitt Romney conceded President Barack Obama has succeeded in making him a less likable person, but he offered a defiant retort to those hoping he will open up this week: “I am who I am.” …
“I know there are some people who do a very good job acting and pretend they’re something they’re not,” Romney said. “You get what you see. I am who I am.”
To press the point, he said the GOP would even try to turn Obama’s still-high personal favorability rankings back on him at its convention this week, by making the simple case to voters: nice guy, failed president.
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Ever see those color films of Hitler? The ones with Blondie-the-Dog? If that was all we knew about Hitler, he would seem like a “nice guy”.
Of Course, he murdered Blondie in the Bunker just before the Russians showed up.
Nice Guy ? facts without evidence.
Do "nice guys" advocate that babies who manage to survive a gruesome partial-birth abortion be left to die on their own?
This man is EVIL!
Shout it from the rooftops!!!!
September 10, 2012, Issue
Romney’s Revelation
He knows the president is burying the American Dream
President Obama occasionally invites historians to the White House to talk about the lessons of history. During one such gathering last year, presidential historian Robert Dallek asked the president, Politico’s Edward-Isaac Dovere writes, “what the group could do to help him. Obama’s answer went right to a present-day concern: ‘What you could do for me is to help me find a way to discuss the issue of inequality in our society without being accused of class warfare.’
https://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/articles/314752/romney-s-revelation
“This is exactly what they need to do, in order to pick up the remaining wishy-washy voters. I have no problem with it at all.”
I agree. It’s beyond me as to what people are thinking, but Obama does seem to poll well as a “nice guy”, even in polls that are otherwise favorable to Romney.
But he’s not a nice guy. He’s condescending. He jumps at chances to insult others.
Is this the best the GOP can do?
I remember watching a movie about Stalin. There’s a scene where Stalin meets his grandson for the first time and he takes the young boy around his house to see some squirrels outside.
The boy later says to his mom “Mom, Grandpa’s nice.” If only he knew...
What’s this nice guy crap? there is nothing “nice” about him. He’s packing the court with libs, he’s against freedom, he says what we built is not ours it’s the government’s,he wants to cripple our nuke capability, he’s cutting defense spending, unemployment through the roof and on and on. Because he shoots hoops with a couple of ‘brothers” doesn’t make him a nice guy.
He’s not a nice man, and if people are going to insist on concluding he is they can do so without the help of the Romney campaign.
The focus should be on policies and ideology, not personalities, anyway.
Morris says that the 'rats will go completely berserk and that their polling numbers won't recover. We'll see.
The 4 weeks before the election must reinforce the failure of this guy with non stop advertising. Don’t waste ad money calling him a nice guy or bad guy just a failed guy.The negative, when it is based on facts and statistics highlighted in an ad, works and it will trump all the phony war on women or racemongering narratives the other side can cook up. The biggest weapon Romney has in this campaign is his opponent’s abject failure.
nobama is not a “nice guy”. Anyone who is hell-bent on destroying Free America is an enemy of Freedom. Not a “nice guy”. nobama (and his minions) should be in prison for the rest of his (their) worthless lives.
The GOP has nominated Neville Chamberlain...
‘Nice guy’??
That’s like calling Manuel Noriega a ‘nice guy’!
Comparison with McCain not even close. McCain had NO ONE doing the dirty work.
Sure. Wait til Chris Christie makes his keynote speech.
Romney isn’t going to do the dirty work, that is for others like Reince Priebus and Chris Christy to do.
Describing Obama as a “nice guy” is buffoonery, however, Obama has gotta go—no ifs ands or buts.
This is exactly what they need to do, in order to pick up the remaining wishy-washy voters. I have no problem with it at all.
No, the wishy washy voters need to see 2016 Obama’s America and ask the question “How did we get here?”. And don’t ever let anyone ask you a stupid question how the German people ever elected Hitler to be the Chancellor of Germany in 1933, because America did even worse in the information age by electing radical Obama.
Pass this along to a libtard...
’2016: Obama’s America’ Movie Is Disturbingly Necessary
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/08/17/2016-obamas-america-movie-is-disturbingly-necessary/
Romney must not cast himself as naive enough to concede "likeability" to be a favorable quality of a person whose mask has slipped in recent times, revealing a calculating but smiling villain who systematically has led the charge to "fundamentally transform" and "change" America, using Executive Orders to accomplish what cannot be accomplished under the Constitution's strict limits on his power.
Romney sad this weekend that he would take his father's advice to "be bold." Now is the time for the boldness required to call Americans to recognize tyranny "in whatever forms it may appear," to confront tyranny, and to choose the Creator-endowed liberty protected by the specific limits of the Constitution.
In 1775, Edmund Burke said of the American colonists and their "spirit of liberty":
"In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." - Edmund Burke "Speech on Conciliation . . ."
Those colonists, in 1775, though, had leaders whose passion for liberty equaled or surpassed that of their fellow colonists, and one of them authored a Declaration of Independence which didn't call King George a "nice guy" who just was uninformed. That writer (Thomas Jefferson), who later became a President, specified King George's actions which violated the Creator-endowed rights and liberties of "the People" who, in turn, wrote a Constitution 11 years later to prohibit any President or other elected representative of "the People" in America from ever laying such a regulatory and taxation burden on them.
Now, that was "bold," Mr. Romney!
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