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Seamus McGraw: Mitt Romney's Gaffes Are Needlessly Weakening Him Against Obama (What "Gaffes"?)
fox news ^ | 9/26/2012 | By Seamus McGraw

Posted on 09/27/2012 3:00:52 AM PDT by tobyhill

Anybody who has ever been in a singles bar at closing time ought to have a little sympathy for Mitt Romney?s Republican supporters right about now.

After all, we all know what it?s like.

You?ve spent hours in the comforting, carefully orchestrated shadows of the bar, nursing both an overpriced drink and that anxious sense of expectation that maybe this time you?ll get lucky. And then, all of a sudden the bartender switches the lights on, and all those lusty illusions are vaporized in a frigid, fluorescent blast of reality.

Last week, when a secretly made tape surfaced in which Mitt Romney appeared to tell donors at a $50,000-a-plate dinner in May that nearly half of all Americans were essentially unmotivated slackers angling to live off government handouts, the bartender turned on the lights.

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1 posted on 09/27/2012 3:00:57 AM PDT by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill

AS far as the drive by media is concerned, if Romney says it, it’s a gaffe.


2 posted on 09/27/2012 3:10:05 AM PDT by evad (Deception & Lying. It's what they do.. It's ALL they do... And they won't stop.. EVER!!)
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To: tobyhill

Romney is tied in credible polls, even with the Dem oversampling. Romney is ahead after the polls are unskewed. I don’t see the gaffes, other than in Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmm).


3 posted on 09/27/2012 3:12:26 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Obama does not have the work ethic to be Anti-Christ.)
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To: tobyhill

who is seamus Mcgraw?


4 posted on 09/27/2012 3:20:36 AM PDT by Perdogg
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To: tobyhill
Let me remind you to consider the source:

Seamus McGraw is a freelance journalist who has contributed to dozens of publications, including The New York Times, Playboy, The Forward, and Readers’ Digest. He is the author of “The End of Country: Dispatches from the Frack Zone.”

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2012/09/25/seamus-mcgraw-mitt-romney-gaffes-are-needlessly-weakening-him-against-obama/#ixzz27fEvZCvy

5 posted on 09/27/2012 3:24:14 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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To: tobyhill
Obama and Biden gaffe everyday. Following their Alinsky handbooks, they insist it's Romney who gaffes everyday.
6 posted on 09/27/2012 3:25:28 AM PDT by ryan71
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To: Texas Fossil
The great articles from “Playboy”! /sarc
7 posted on 09/27/2012 3:29:03 AM PDT by tobyhill (Obamacare, the final nail in the US coffin.)
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To: tobyhill

Since when did facts become lies? Oh, wait. In 2008 lies became the correct way of thinking. I understand.


8 posted on 09/27/2012 3:29:29 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: tobyhill
The author of this piece starts off looking to get “lucky” in a bar and talks about the “lights being turned down low” and sipping his drink to get tipsy... Does he want to vote for Romney/Obama or screw one of them?
9 posted on 09/27/2012 3:29:57 AM PDT by Casie
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To: tobyhill
Mr. 57 States, never made a gaff ever.
Neither has dumber.
Dumb & dumber Zero & Bite Me.
10 posted on 09/27/2012 3:38:34 AM PDT by DeaconRed (Gallup poll, 1980, two weeks before the election, Gallup had it Carter 47, Reagan 39.)
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To: tobyhill

In the eyes of leftist scribbler like McGraw, anything uttered by a Republican constitutes a gaffe. By the way, McGraw characterized Obama as being pragmatic.


11 posted on 09/27/2012 3:38:56 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: evad
...”AS far as the drive by media is concerned, if Romney says it, it’s a gaffe”...

We have never experienced a more corrupt media in the US than now. They will not hesitate in their attempts to destroy anyone who might tell the truth or shed light on their agenda. I, personally, as of today, am going to boycott all media..I will go vote and that is it. I am sick of FOX trying to be “fair and balanced” when the other side is practicing deceit and corruption. The Polls cannot be believed..They are simply fortune telling at this point. Only stupid people will determine whether or not they vote based on fraudulent polls. May God have mercy on America. Christians might read the book of James, the brother of Jesus, for insight into the importance of taking care of those who were persecuted because of their beliefs..Their property was confiscated and they scattered from their homes. Of course, in the end that only spread the gospel, but, in the short term, the widows and orphans, especially needed assistance. James was executed for his beliefs. That is, unfortunately, the end game of tyranny. I grieve to know that so many of our folks will vote on emotion, not knowledge, or wisdom and they run to vote to enslave the future of their children through what is sure to be a short term gain.

12 posted on 09/27/2012 3:39:23 AM PDT by jazzlite (esat)
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To: ryan71

Just like they insisted Palin was unfit to be vice president when in fact it was Joe Biden.

There is nothing different here than what happened in 2008. It’s just Romney is seasoned enough to give the Teflon response.


13 posted on 09/27/2012 3:41:43 AM PDT by CommieCutter
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To: tobyhill
Yep, he is an utter duffass.
14 posted on 09/27/2012 3:46:21 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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To: tobyhill

That’s why everybody buys it, for the articles, right?


15 posted on 09/27/2012 3:56:40 AM PDT by jughandle
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To: tobyhill
Fox News really has gotten all Alwaleed-eed up if it is the source for this drivel.

Mr. niteowl77

16 posted on 09/27/2012 4:17:52 AM PDT by niteowl77 (Getting stuck with other peoples' just desserts good and hard for over 50 years.)
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To: tobyhill

0bumble’s latest gaffe, “bumps in the road,” one of so many, is more egregious than all of Romney’s so-called gaffes put together. Since nobody can be perfect, critics, especially Republican ones, should get off of Romney’s back. They only help The Bamster.


17 posted on 09/27/2012 4:18:00 AM PDT by luvbach1 (Stop the destruction in 2012 or continue the decline)
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To: tobyhill

OMG!! The MSM do NOTHING but jump on OBAMA”S GAFFES. I call them the “GAFFE GRENADE GANG”!


18 posted on 09/27/2012 4:40:53 AM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: tobyhill
Yeah like this one, Romney misspeaks: "I want to see us export more jobs".
19 posted on 09/27/2012 4:50:50 AM PDT by McGruff (Support your local Republican candidates. They are our last line of defense.)
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To: Casie

Does he even realize that for almost 4 years now, he’s been being sodomized by Zero AND his Party?!


20 posted on 09/27/2012 5:30:58 AM PDT by Tucker39
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