[Maelstorm]

Yeah the 200 Million dollar man thinks unemployment is something to joke about. If this was Palin or even Obama this would not be pass over as nothing. This man is a joke. MA was 47th in job creation out of 50 during his tenure. The vast majority of his judicial appointmnets(2/3) were liberal Democrats and Democrat leaning independents while Gov. Out of 36 appointments only 9 were Republicans. One judge in particular was responsible for the release of a violent criminal that later killed a newly wed couple over $5. He also spend hundreds of thousands of dollars while the state was in fiscal decline on the "Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth". The big thing you find is that this man didn't even try to fight. Is this what you want to follow 2010 with? A return to Gerald Ford/Richard Nixon?

Even if we manage to win with this smuck we'd lose something much more valuable our souls. I'll never vote for the man. Him and Hunstman will never get my vote. We've worked too hard to surrender to this kind of thing.

[isthisnickcool]

Maybe Romney and Perry can team up?

Dumb and dumber...

[Maelstorm]

The guy just back at the beginning of the mounth was hammering Obama on joking about unemployed Americans.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/06/mitt-romney-rebukes-obama-unemployed-americans-are-not-just-statistics.html

Where are the GOP elites who salivate at skewering Sarah?

[FrankR]

[Williams]

In my crabby older age I’ve beome distressed elections get decided over this meaningless stuff.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Little behaviors, off the cuff remarks, and seemingly harmless gaffes can trigger a lot of subconscious reactions in people.

This was a horrible gaffe, it conveyed stronger than any words from an opponent that Romney is not in an empathetic place with people who are struggling in this economy.

[Paladin2]

Willard has gone Galt.

[tips up]

Like Barry’s comment on “shovel ready jobs”.

[Paladin2]

Willard has likely put in more than a fair amount of time and effort to attaining his financial situation. It's not like he is 22 yr old.

Maybe he is trying to starve the gov't beast.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

I don’t care about Romney’s gaffes. I care about him being another weak and failing John McCain!!! I want an attack dog out there blasting Obama from morning until night!!! You good folks should go to the library and take out Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” and Hitler’s follow-up, but unpublished book. Obama is following both tomes to a tee. Folks, IMHO, we got one chance to destroy Obama and the Democrat Party politically come November, 2012. We can not afford to lose in 2012. If that happens, it will not only be the economy that fails, much worse will befall the American people. Wise up, open up your eyes. Obama, his wife and their cronies are all American haters and....that includes all Americans!!!

[andy58-in-nh]

I think the reporting tends to miss the point. It's not that Romney is inexperienced ("not ready for prime time"). It's that he is artificial - trying to be whatever he thinks his audience wants him to be - that makes him sound so goofy.

Romney is as much of a silver-spoon fed candidate as John Kerry or Al Gore, and has no true idea about what is happening to average Americans these days or what their lives are like. I have always sensed that his true focus is inward rather than outward; one who thrives on being influential, not on the power of ideas. We already have a President who thinks the world of himself. We don't need another.

[ExTxMarine]

This man is the epitome of how Democrats see the Republican party! They call us hypocrites because the party is made-up of primarily Christians but half our front-runners believe in abortion on demand. The party demands government stay out of our lives, yet one of our front-runner created the original ObamaCare! We tell people that we care about the middle-Americans, but one of our front-runners doesn’t even understand the touchy subject of prolonged unemployment!

I hear people say, “I don’t want a ‘regular’ person to be President, but we don’t need these elites.” I say, “BS!”
Please, can we have a normal person? I want a normal, everyday, regular person who has had to worry about making a payroll! Someone who understands that a government budget is just like a family budget: when the money runs out, you stop going out for surf and turf every night and you simply pay the lights, water, rent and gas bills!!

Someone, please, PLEASE tell Mitt, Newt, T-Paw, ALL THESE USEFUL IDIOTS, to sit down and SHUT THE ... UP! I apologize for the rant, but please! PLEASE, let’s stop the stupidity!!

[ilgipper]

dumb on Mitt’s part, but it played well with the unemployed he was meeting with. As another poster said, elections need to be decided on more important things than a minor gaffe. If the guy continues to make stupid comments, then we have a problem. Of course, I think Mitt’s a big problem to begin with, so tone deaf humor hurting Mitt is fine with me.

[married21]

Random stupid remarks may or may not stick and cause undue harm. Remember, he’s running against a President who thinks ATM’s cause unemployment and once sought to ingratiate himself with the common man by complaining about the price of arugula at Whole Foods Market.

[ImpBill]

A Joe Biden moment if there ever was one. That’s for sure!

[cotton1706]

Much like his father’s brainwashing comment.

[MissesBush]

If this was Palin or even Obama this would not be pass over as nothing

I'm not a Romney fan, but when Obama joked about there being no shovel ready jobs the only ones who noticed or cared was conservative talk radio. Let's not join the MSM in their hypocritical efforts to attack Republicans for every little thing while ignoring the same crap out of Obama and the Dems. This statement in particular, Yes. Romney clearly isn't ready for prime time: The Republican frontrunner's "gift for odd, awkward, delusional gaffes" is almost unparalleled, says Tom Levenson at Balloon Juice. is particularly rich coming from the same media that ignores all of Obama's many gaffes including when he made fun of Special Olympians, etc. We can have our own internal discussion on who should and shouldn't be our candidate, but to validate the MSM's silly, hypocritical and nitpicking attacks on any Republican just constitutes sleeping with the enemy. They lie in wait for every misstep from a Republican, as if during the long course of a campaign it's possible to never say the wrong thing, and pass by every stupid comment Obama and the Dems make.

The MSM is the mortal enemy of Republicans and conservatives. We should NEVER join forces with them against ANYONE Republican no matter how much we dislike them. We should defend our own against all their lame and inconsistent attacks. I'm not a Palin fan either, but I will never echo their obsessive and lame-brained attacks on her. Close ranks against these scum in the media. Don't join hands with them.

[allmendream]

[Windflier]

Romney clearly isn't ready for prime time: The Republican frontrunner's "gift for odd, awkward, delusional gaffes" is almost unparalleled..."

Reminds me of another gaffe-prone, multi-millionaire politician...

[Servant of the Cross]

Awkward. Delusional. And remember ... this comes right on the heels of another 'Fantastically Stupid' gaffe about imaginary waitresses pinching his butt!

[blueunicorn6]

I always thought it was, “You’re dumber than an oven mitt.” But now I see it was actually, “You’re dumber than an oven, Mitt.”