Romney spokesperson does the UNSPEAKABLE!!!

[techs]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/08/andrea-saul-romney-health-care_n_1757550.html

On Foxnews this morning Romney spokesperson Andrea Saul was asked about the pro Obama ad that shows the worker who lost his job when Bain put his company out of business and his wife died of cancer.

Are you fecking ready for this?

Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul went "off-script," and amid a larger declaration about the ad being despicable and some pushback on the facts of the ad, she offered this statement in Romney's defense: "To that point, if people had been in Massachusetts, under Governor Romney's health care plan, they would have had health care."

After that came the deluge of conservatives savaging Saul for getting lost on the road to Damascus, essentially accusing her of giving away the election.



There are some days the irony is just so ironic.
I suspect Andrea Saul will soon be leaving the campaign "to spend more time with her family"

 

[Smoblikat]

Well thats it, obama has officially (unofficially) won this election. Goodbye America.

 

[bfdd]

Well thats it, obama has officially (unofficially) won this election. Goodbye America.

He won awhile ago, you idiots have just been to blinded by the game to see it. Fucking retards. Vote for someone besides Obama or Romney and make your voice heard, a vote for Obama or Romney is a wasted vote.

 

[BoomerD]

He won awhile ago, you idiots have just been to blinded by the game to see it. Fucking retards. Vote for someone besides Obama or Romney and make your voice heard, a vote for Obama or Romney is a wasted vote.

Unfortunately, while I agree that one isn't much different from the other, a vote for ANYONE else is the wasted vote...

And yes, odds are, I'll be voting for "not one of them" this year again.

I HATE that we are always given the choice of "voting for the candidate who you hate less than you hate the other candidate."

Sadly, none of the 3rd party candidates has a snowball's chance in hell of winning...or making a difference, other than siphoning a few votes away from one of the "big two."

Most third party fans ignore the fact that our system is so corrupted by big money that even if their candidate DID manage to win...they'd quickly become just as corrupted as any of the others...or they wouldn't survive long.

 

[bfdd]

Unfortunately, while I agree that one isn't much different from the other, a vote for ANYONE else is the wasted vote...

And yes, odds are, I'll be voting for "not one of them" this year again.

I HATE that we are always given the choice of "voting for the candidate who you hate less than you hate the other candidate."

Sadly, none of the 3rd party candidates has a snowball's chance in hell of winning...or making a difference, other than siphoning a few votes away from one of the "big two."

Most third party fans ignore the fact that our system is so corrupted by big money that even if their candidate DID manage to win...they'd quickly become just as corrupted as any of the others...or they wouldn't survive long.

who cares about odds, waah this shit isn't fucking Las Vegas. Literally a vote for ANYONE besides a main party candidate is a vote for change, voting Democratic or Republican in this election is a wasted vote. You want change? Start fucking being it and stop acting like shit is so goddamn hopeless.

 

[BoomerD]

who cares about odds, waah this shit isn't fucking Las Vegas. Literally a vote for ANYONE besides a main party candidate is a vote for change, voting Democratic or Republican in this election is a wasted vote. You want change? Start fucking being it and stop acting like shit is so goddamn hopeless.

ROFL...you act like your candidate could make a difference even if he was elected...

Denial isn't just a river in Egypt...

"Change" isn't going to happen without completely removing all the money from our political system and holding our elected representative responsible for the laws they choose to pass.
Make "professional lobbyists" illegal, eliminate all political donations to any candidate or PAC, (sorry...money is NOT speech) and make political corruption a death penalty crime.

 

[First]

^ Romney and Obama are next to nothing alike, other than on healthcare. Their tax, spending, immigration, foreign policy and social welfare program policy positions are dramatically different in most respects. This is easily verifiable with a 5 minute Google search of their policy positions.

I know 3rd partiers are proud of their choice, but bottom line is they aren't anything alike in any significant way other than healthcare.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

Helps answer the question posed in another P&N thread topic.....

 

[bfdd]

^ Romney and Obama are next to nothing alike, other than on healthcare. Their tax, spending, immigration, foreign policy and social welfare program policy positions are dramatically different in most respects. This is easily verifiable with a 5 minute Google search of their policy positions.

I know 3rd partiers are proud of their choice, but bottom line is they aren't anything alike in any significant way other than healthcare.

Except they both have the same end game. So whatever, you guys will just keep playing the game because you're idiots. "They don't have a chance!" that's because you aren't on board. You aren't willing to be on board because you're to lazy and expect everything to be done for you.

A vote for Romney or Obama is a wasted vote.

 

[Phokus]

Maybe with enough of these blunders, conservatives will just GTFO of this country. I can see their heads exploding with anger already.

 

[bfdd]

Maybe with enough of these blunders, conservatives will just GTFO of this country. I can see their heads exploding with anger already.

Rather conservative of you to want to do away with all the people who disagree with you or hold a difference of opinion. Why so full of hate?

 

[Phokus]

Rather conservative of you to want to do away with all the people who disagree with you or hold a difference of opinion. Why so full of hate?

Oh i'm sorry, did i advocate the removal of conservatives with the use of force? I'm just suggesting conservatives can get the fuck out of here on their own volition.

 

[First]

Except they both have the same end game.

Uh, as in what?

So whatever, you guys will just keep playing the game because you're idiots. "They don't have a chance!" that's because you aren't on board. You aren't willing to be on board because you're to lazy and expect everything to be done for you.

Gary Johnson nor Ron Paul have any practical solutions to address reality. This is a well known fact, so it's odd that you would pretend they offer any real world solutions. For example, Ron Paul has never seen a single bill of his passed into law, not even as a co-sponsor. That is the sad fact of his career in public service my friend.

A vote for Romney or Obama is a wasted vote.

A truly wasted vote is for Gary Johnson or Ron Paul as a write-in. They will not win the general election. A vote for Romney or Obama in over a dozen swing states, on the other hand, definitely could be quite vital.

 

[soulcougher73]

A truly wasted vote is for Gary Johnson or Ron Paul as a write-in. They will not win the general election. A vote for Romney or Obama in over a dozen swing states, on the other hand, definitely could be quite vital.

Must be nice to have the fate of the nation decided by a handful of swing states. Fuck you EC for ruining the game for all the other non-swing states.

 

[Jhhnn]

^ Romney and Obama are next to nothing alike, other than on healthcare. Their tax, spending, immigration, foreign policy and social welfare program policy positions are dramatically different in most respects. This is easily verifiable with a 5 minute Google search of their policy positions.

I know 3rd partiers are proud of their choice, but bottom line is they aren't anything alike in any significant way other than healthcare.

Except they both have the same end game. So whatever, you guys will just keep playing the game because you're idiots. "They don't have a chance!" that's because you aren't on board. You aren't willing to be on board because you're to lazy and expect everything to be done for you.

A vote for Romney or Obama is a wasted vote.

Your usual false equivalencies are really quite tedious.

What is the "same end game" you speak of, anyway?

 

[sportage]

Romney's campaign event in Iowa 8/8/12.
Pathetic....
More people showed up to see the state fair piano playing dancing chicken.
And maybe a suggesting for Mitt's running mate?

 

[waggy]

The only difference between the two is what corporations are going to be in control. Anyone that thinks One is going to be better then the other hasn't been paying attention for the last or 30 years.

 

[OutHouse]

Techs why dont you make a thread flaming hte shit out of that blatant TV ad about the guy blaming Romney for his wife dying of cancer...

 

[DominionSeraph]

^ Romney and Obama are next to nothing alike, other than on healthcare. Their tax, spending, immigration, foreign policy and social welfare program policy positions are dramatically different in most respects. This is easily verifiable with a 5 minute Google search of their policy positions.

Hmmmm.... so under "Agriculture" Romney supposedly wants to reduce farm subsidies. Ya' really think he's running on that? Pretty sure that would lose him quite a bit of the midwest.
Under "Automotive" it says he's for a market driven approach to CAFE, yet under "Energy" it says he favors policies to cut demand. :hmm: Also, apparently contradicting the reduction in farm subsidies he's in favor of developing biodiesel and ethanol. Or does that "policy" only consist of whimsically wishing for the free market to magically take care of it?
Oh, whimsy!

Romney wants to increase the size of the military and increase technology expenditure, while under "Deficit", supporting cut, cap, and balance; while under "Taxation" supporting tax cuts for all. :hmm: So... you cut spending by increasing it, and then you balance the shortfall by taking in less money to pay for it. :hmm:


Yeah, I'd have to agree with you that Romney's positions are... "different".

 

[DrPizza]

LMAO, you're almost accused of murdering the woman - by bankrupting a company for your own profit, laying everyone off so they have no health insurance, then as a result of not being able to afford care, this woman dies.

And the answer is... "well, she'd have had care if she lived in Massachusetts and had Romneycare."

OMFG! It just hit me.
Wait a second... wait a second...
Romney has clinched the Republican nomination. The rest is just a formality. We're seeing stage one of him saying "fuck you!" to the extremists in the party who helped him get the nomination, and he's now attempting to appeal to the middle. He knows he's got the "anyone but Obama" vote clinched. All he has to do now is say something that might be conceived as being slightly pro-gay tolerance.

A lot of people said that's what he had to do to get the nomination - appeal to the extremists in the party, but by doing so he wouldn't win the main election; he'd have to shift more toward the center. And this might just be the first sign of that shift.

 

[DominionSeraph]

^^ You're right. And Romney has carte blanche in the general election to be the most liberal candidate ever. He's got the, "He's not a Negro," vote in his pocket so all he needs is to appeal to the Left.

 

[WhipperSnapper]

Well thats it, obama has officially (unofficially) won this election. Goodbye America.

Why do you think that if Romney were elected, it wouldn't also be "Goodbye America"? What exactly are the Republicans going to do other than:

(1.) Support more free trade policies that export American jobs overseas?

(2.) Support an expansion of the H-1B and L-1 visas which displace Americans from college-education-requiring jobs at home?

(3) Continue to support mass immigration, both legal and illegal, which increases the supply of labor and increases the cost of living (Malthusian pressures)?

(4) Continue to support the world's most antiquated, expensive, and broken health care system?

(5) Continue to support policies that allow and encourage a tiny percentage of the populace to become very rich at the expense of the rest of the populace?

(6) Continue to advocate forcing religious dictatorship on the populace, such as opposition to abortion, opposition to gay marriage, and opposition to legalizing marijuana?

Obama and the Democrats are not much better, but just what is so amazing and nation-saving about Mitt Romney or the Republicans? If the Republicans are so good for America, then why did our nation's economic collapse accelerate rapidly during the last Republican administration?

 

[WhipperSnapper]

And yes, odds are, I'll be voting for "not one of them" this year again.

I HATE that we are always given the choice of "voting for the candidate who you hate less than you hate the other candidate."

"We've been given the right to vote between a douche and a turd."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5gXRPXs0PQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMGu4pbivkY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hGFrvevXHM

 

[Genx87]

^ Romney and Obama are next to nothing alike, other than on healthcare. Their tax, spending, immigration, foreign policy and social welfare program policy positions are dramatically different in most respects. This is easily verifiable with a 5 minute Google search of their policy positions.

I know 3rd partiers are proud of their choice, but bottom line is they aren't anything alike in any significant way other than healthcare.

These are largely the same people running for president. They are both for govt spending to prop up an economy(stimulus,bailouts), both have the same idea's of healthcare, their foreign policy is nearly identical, both have the same idea to expand govt and crush civil liberties. Tax difference could be true but even Obama hasnt seriously pushed this supposed progressive tax scheme. Instead he passed a regressive tax on the middle class(ACA). Their difference? Oh that is right, they are both now on opposing sides of gay marriage. Whoopie fucking do. An issue so far down on the list of priorities for americans who gives a fuck.

I know hardcore dems and republicans like to believe they are voting for people who are running on major policy differences. But they arent. We have devolved the process down to two parties that play up low priority topics to create an artificial rift.

To further prove my point. How many times have people on this very msgboard asked conservatives why they dont like Obama? Then list a bunch of things Obama has done that are just like Bush?

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Personally I like Ann Coulters (this is a summary) "Anyone who donated to the Romney Campaign especially big donors, should be on the phone with Romney now and ask for her resignation". So how much does it cost to be in that line, you can call the Presidential nominee and demand he does crap immediately? Do any small donors get his phone number?