# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507/61 "2012-09-13T10:18:17Z")
> [@Kozmik](#): > > The NYT reported a few days ago that, except for the Aurora shooting, President Obama always waits a day to repond to events. I assume this meant “_publicly_ respond”. ---
**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 13, 2012, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507/62 "2012-09-13T10:22:24Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > I assume this meant “_publicly_ respond”. Well, he needs time to re-read his copy of “My Pet Goat” first. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507/63 "2012-09-13T10:54:45Z")
[This picture](http://i.imgur.com/VSjr6.jpg) of Romney as he finishes up that press release really manages to capture his gravitas, even-handedness, and _compassion_. Turns my stomach, it does. ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507/64 "2012-09-13T11:17:20Z")
> [@Lightnin](#): > > [This picture](http://i.imgur.com/VSjr6.jpg) of Romney as he finishes up that press release really manages to capture his gravitas, even-handedness, and _compassion_. “Nailed it!” ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507/65 "2012-09-13T11:29:56Z")
> [@Moe](#): > > “Nailed it!” I can’t stop looking at that picture and thinking of Romney thinking that 😃 ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507/66 "2012-09-13T12:17:46Z")
He really thinks he just scored, doesn’t he. I can just see Ann waiting in the wings, doing her little bunny hop of joy. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507/67 "2012-09-13T12:19:48Z")
Jesus Christ, every time anything bad happens in the world, be it economic or world news, Mittens thinks he has to sprint to a microphone and start masturbating about it being Obama’s fault. The only people who aren’t totally disgusted by his boorish behavior are those assholes who had already decided to vote for him. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507/68 "2012-09-13T12:34:59Z")
> [@Lightnin](#): > > [This picture](http://i.imgur.com/VSjr6.jpg) of Romney as he finishes up that press release really manages to capture his gravitas, even-handedness, and _compassion_. > > Turns my stomach, it does. He looks like a grade-schooler who used a swear word at school for the first time. He thinks he’s mature and one of the cool kids, but he’s going to get a scolding and detention. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507/69 "2012-09-13T13:45:18Z")
You know, I don’t often pull out the “as an American” stuff, because I just don’t do tribalism very well. But seriously, as an American, I’m a bit ashamed that this slimeball, this Gollum with good hair, is representing one of our two major parties. I really think the GOP should form a delegation of its top Congressional leaders and senior party figures, and go visit Romney to ask him to drop out of the race. (Then they can meet in the proverbial smoke-filled room and decide on his replacement; I’m certainly not saying they should just not have a Presidential candidate this time around.) And frankly, I think that someone whose first, second, third, and ongoing reaction on hearing a U.S. ambassador got killed in the line of duty was to invent a total fiction of a smear to make the President of the United States look bad, would be doing us all a favor if he renounced his U.S. citizenship and followed his money to the Caymans. This guy just isn’t on our side. Not just not on the side of America, but not even remotely on the side of common human decency. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507/70 "2012-09-13T14:09:04Z")
[Glenn Beck weighs in.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/12/glenn-beck-muslims-libya-attacks_n_1877820.html?utm_hp_ref=media) (Ridiculously, but without, at least, mentioning Obama or Romney.) ---
**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 13, 2012, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507/71 "2012-09-13T14:32:20Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > And frankly, I think that someone whose first, second, third, and ongoing reaction on hearing a U.S. ambassador got killed in the line of duty was to invent a total fiction of a smear to make the President of the United States look bad, would be doing us all a favor if he renounced his U.S. citizenship and followed his money to the Caymans. I guess he’ll have to take Reince Priebus with him too, then. On the Glenn Beck link: I thought for once Beck had picked a nice safe piece of low-hanging fruit - “rioters who kill people are bad” - but then he just had to fuck it up with the “God of Abraham” comment. Oh well… ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507/72 "2012-09-13T14:55:26Z")
There’s no sign of a change in the polls as the result of this preposterous gaffe just yet, which may simply indicate that the votes are pretty much set. People who still believe Obama is a Muslim terrorist aren’t going to notice the details of this incident and won’t even really notice that Republican leaders are edging away from Romney on it. Fox is deliberately avoiding talking about Romney’s error, so the true GOP believers won’t hear the truth. The argument has been made that Romney in in a situation where he has to pretty much attack Obama every chance he gets; there’s seven weeks left and he’s losing, so he has a limited number of opportunities to try to flip Florida and Ohio. But had he just waited one fricking day, he could have attacked on this in a way that he would NOT have sounded like a clueless sociopath. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507/73 "2012-09-13T14:56:39Z")
I also admired the pious hypocrisy of writing the response and distributing it, with the directive that it not be released until after midnight, so that Romney wasn’t criticising the Pres on 9/11, but on 9/12. Nice touch, that. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507/74 "2012-09-13T14:56:46Z")
> [@Kozmik](#): > > The NYT reported a few days ago that, except for the Aurora shooting, President Obama always waits a day to repond to events. He certainly learned his lesson after the Gates incident. ---
**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 13, 2012, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507/75 "2012-09-13T16:13:11Z")
> [@Truman\_Burbank](#): > > I also admired the pious hypocrisy of writing the response and distributing it, with the directive that it not be released until after midnight, so that Romney wasn’t criticising the Pres on 9/11, but on 9/12. Nice touch, that. He didn’t even manage to keep the statement embargoed until midnight, adding to the insincerity of the gesture. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507/76 "2012-09-13T16:26:23Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > Good lord, now Sarah Palin wants to talk about the President’s dick! :smack: > > [Link](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/12/sarah-palin-libya-egypt_n_1876948.html) If anyone can link me to an online porn video featuring a black male in an Obama mask and a white female in a Palin mask, with gratuitous donkey punching, fisting, pissing and name calling, I’d be much obliged. ---
**Author:** ![Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omg_a_Black_Conservative)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507/77 "2012-09-13T16:37:23Z")
[Just because people have short term memories](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXNF4_09BOI&feature=player_embedded). Cue the “But that’s different!” responses in 3… 2… 1… ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507/78 "2012-09-13T16:38:32Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > There’s no sign of a change in the polls as the result of this preposterous gaffe just yet, which may simply indicate that the votes are pretty much set. Or it may indicate that most people only got wind of all this just yesterday, and so far only maybe the Rasmussen tracker might be influenced by what people were thinking yesterday. I think Gallup’s daily tracker gets updated around 1pm each day, so that might give us a more reliable gauge, but Obama is already up 50-43 in that one, so he doesn’t have a lot of room for growth there, unless the undecideds suddenly break his way 6-1. I think the real effect of this will be more gradual in the polls: I think Romney’s finally managed to break down the MSM’s reflexive case of ‘both sides do it,’ and that’s going to really hurt the way the Romney campaign is covered the rest of the way, as reporters give up on trying to write in ‘balance’ in their coverage that doesn’t exist IRL. The reality that Romney’s a lying shitstain will gradually become a part of the narrative, and that’ll undermine Romney’s prospects with the low-info undecideds. I didn’t think Obama could possibly match his 2008 popular vote margin, but now I’m starting to believe he just might. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507/79 "2012-09-13T16:47:30Z")
> [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](#): > > [Just because people have short term memories](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXNF4_09BOI&feature=player_embedded). > > Cue the “But that’s different!” responses in 3… 2… 1… I’m sorry, what was your point exactly? ---
**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 13, 2012, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507/80 "2012-09-13T16:50:58Z")
> [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](#): > > [Just because people have short term memories](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXNF4_09BOI&feature=player_embedded). > > Cue the “But that’s different!” responses in 3… 2… 1… Wow, that video is devastating…no wait, thats not right. Its that other thing…what’s the opposite of devastating… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-romney-for-politicizing-the-events-in-egypt-and-libya/634507.md?page=5)