# Fuck Romney for politicizing the events in Egypt and Libya **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 12, 2012, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507 "2012-09-12T14:30:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507/21 "2012-09-12T16:20:03Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Regardless, this could be the big break the Romney campaign has been waiting for! I’m not sure if this is a woosh. Just in case it isn’t: [Link](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/12/mitt-romney-libya-egypt-media-reactions_n_1877266.html) [QUOTE=Buzz feed’s Ben Smith] I’ve been inundated with emails and calls from elected GOP leaders who think Romney’s response was a mistake. Not today. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507/22 "2012-09-12T16:23:57Z")
> [@Sateryn76](#): > > Since when is our government in the business of rejecting efforts to denigrate religions? [1791](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights)? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507/23 "2012-09-12T16:28:03Z")
Dear Governor Romney Please stop talking about anything to do with foreign policy. You suck at it. Love America ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507/24 "2012-09-12T16:28:10Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > I’m not sure if this is a woosh. Just in case it isn’t: > > [Link](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/12/mitt-romney-libya-egypt-media-reactions_n_1877266.html) Just for clarity’s sake, the quoted statement/tweet is from Joe Scarsburough responding to Ben Smith. Still not 100% sure what the “Not today” part means. If it means that this is the wrong time to discuss these things, who’s he talking to: Smith or the Republicans who flooded him? And didn’t he JUST FINISH talking about it? Just confused. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507/25 "2012-09-12T16:33:59Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Just for clarity’s sake, the quoted statement/tweet is from Joe Scarsburough responding to Ben Smith. > > Still not 100% sure what the “Not today” part means. If it means that this is the wrong time to discuss these things, who’s he talking to: Smith or the Republicans who flooded him? And didn’t he JUST FINISH talking about it? > > Just confused. I read it as meaning that GOP leaders were saying to him that it was the wrong day for Romney to say what he said. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507/26 "2012-09-12T16:35:26Z")
Reasonable people can disagree on this. Some might say that Romney is an idiot. Others, that he is adequately intelligent, but lacks the moral integrity and decency of a spider. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507/27 "2012-09-12T16:42:23Z")
Muslims claiming it as their religious duty to attack Americans? What would the font of American democracy and religious freedom have done under similar circumstances? [If only we knew](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tripoli). ---
**Author:** ![Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/848f3c/32.png) [@Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_Dunlop)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507/28 "2012-09-12T17:07:47Z")
> [@Merneith](#): > > I beg your pardon. I misread the article and then flubbed the url. I should stop posting and drink my coffee. > > The “Lehman moment” statement was not said _by_ Romney, it was said _about_ Romney’s response to the events in Libya. > > [Foreign Policy Hands Voice Disbelief At Romney Cairo Statement](http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/foreign-policy-hands-voice-disbelief-at-romney-cai) I feel exactly the same way. Aside from how ugly a thing it was to do it just casts him as so un-presidential, so unstable, such a poor leader. The smugness of it reminds me of when McCain canceled his campaign and put country first and called on Obama to do the same, so they could concentrate 100% on fixing the economy. Then Obama said as president he’d need to be able to work on more than one thing at a time, and the whole country saw how McCain was incapable of leading on the economy. Romney was already behind on foreign policy and national defense by 10-14 points in polls released yesterday… what do you think people are going to say a week from now? ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507/29 "2012-09-12T18:01:14Z")
> [@Sateryn76](#): > > He’s only saying what a lot of people are thinking - why the fuck are our leaders so quick to add meaningless language about how they don’t support denigrating other religions? Really? What should be added is something along the lines of how our country has freedom of speech, despite if it enrages anyone, and no religion is more important than that right? And our Ambassador and others died in the service of this great right, and they should be commended? > > I mean, it makes a lot of people crazy that every goddamn statement addressing the latest atrocity by violent Islamists is always appended with some statement apologizing for some boorish asshole who exercising his rights. Someone, at some point, needs to tell these guys to jam it in their ass. Because some people are adults, and tossing gas on a flame won’t help to put it out any faster ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507/30 "2012-09-12T18:23:04Z")
And this just in, from our good friends at _DailyKos_ (lefty as all git-out, so if you can’t handle it, stay the fuck away…) > **[Romney campaign 'quietly advising' GOP on how to cover Mitt's ass](https://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/12/1130858/-Romney-campaign-quietly-advising-GOP-on-how-to-cover-Mitt-s-ass?detail=hide)** > > You've really got to love \[this chutzpah http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/12/romney-camp-tries-to-manage-fallout-from-libya-response/\]: > > Facing criticism for its aggressive and ... **Romney campaign quietly advising on how to cover Mitt’s ass** Joe Bob **'luc** says check it out. But this gem requires admiration… > [@](#): > > “Did Governor Romney ‘jump the gun’ last night in releasing his statement?” > > “No. It is never too soon to stand up for American values and interests.” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507/31 "2012-09-12T18:50:02Z")
> [@Terr](#): > > In any case, Obama is screwed by that Lybian situation. On one hand, he can’t really do anything. On the other, not doing anything he looks weak and ineffectual. So what would you be doing in his place? ---
**Author:** ![Terr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Terr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terr)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507/32 "2012-09-12T18:50:52Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > So what would you be doing in his place? See the post to which you were responding. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507/33 "2012-09-12T19:00:04Z")
> [@Terr](#): > > In any case, Obama is screwed by that Lybian situation. On one hand, he can’t really do anything. On the other, not doing anything he looks weak and ineffectual. No matter how loudly you whistle, your guy’s dead campaign isn’t going to rise from its grave. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507/34 "2012-09-12T19:02:42Z")
The head cut off, mouth stuffed with garlic, lips sewn shut, stake through the heart, and buried at a cross roads. A 24-hour guard on site forever may be excessive. Maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507/35 "2012-09-12T19:08:45Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > “Oh, but he’s still president, so therefore he is 100% responsible for anything anyone associated with the US stays anywhere at anytime.” Yet, when Bush was president this statement was claimed as gospel truth by the retards on the left. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507/36 "2012-09-12T19:10:33Z")
Really? Both of them? ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507/37 "2012-09-12T19:10:42Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Yet, when Bush was president this statement was claimed as gospel truth by the retards on the left. Cite? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507/38 "2012-09-12T19:12:38Z")
[The Romney campaign is already desperately flailing for damage-control.](http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/12/romney-camp-tries-to-manage-fallout-from-libya-response/) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507/39 "2012-09-12T19:14:32Z")
> [@](#): > > A sample response, as proposed by the Romney campaign officials in Boston: > > “Did Governor Romney ‘jump the gun’ last night in releasing his statement?” > > “No. It is never too soon to stand up for American values and interests.” A gem. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507/40 "2012-09-12T19:23:17Z")
Doesn’t this dumbshit have political advisors? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507.md?page=3)