The GOP would be unreasonable if they were in power as well. Right now, the GOP is unreasonable, period.
They govern at the state level and the vast majority will be reelected in 2014.
Heck, according to the RCP average, the GOP might GAIN one governor on net.
Is anyone else idly wondering how many of those Oct and Nov appearances are going to suddenly get cancelled after Romney spends Aug and Sept back in the spotlight and reminding the public just why they didn’t vote for him?
The media isn’t going to be giving him negative coverage. Left to his own devices, he does just fine. Unlike Obama, he can build a following without media adoration.
Of course… Romney is naturally charismatic and a great campaigner, and Obama is dull, unlikable, and a poor campaigner, and Obama only won because the media boosted him.
Boy do I hope that Republican leaders believe this stuff!
There’s more to politics than being charismatic. There’s performance in office. Romney is competent and has integrity. Obama is neither. Romney will be campaigning with candidates even more in October than he is now. Obama will be way too busy, you see. Important stuff for him to watch over, like his poll numbers.
HAHAHA! And I just love how you, repeatedly, state something, it’s challenged and mocked, and you immediately back off and change to some other (often equally absurd) assertion. This posting move should be called the “Full Adaher”.
Compared to Romney, Obama has both in spades. Yes, I recognize this is just opinion. But the way you state these things as if they’re facts that are obvious to all makes me smile.
How much integrity did it take for Romney to tell people in Ohio that Chrysler planned to move all of its Jeep production to China, prompting Chrysler to take the unusual move of advertising that they, indeed, had no such plans and were instead making new investments in their Ohio facilities? How much integrity did it take for Romney to repeatedly insist that Obama was taking $716 billion from Medicare to fund Obamacare? Especially when his OWN RUNNING MATE included that same figure, but got it from turning Medicare into a voucher system. How much integrity did it take for Romney to claim that Obama removed work requirements from welfare, when in fact Obama merely allowed governors to implement harder or broader work requirements. How much integrity did Romney have to insist that his proposed tax cuts would also cut the deficits because he would close loopholes, withoug going into details. How much integrity did Romney have by refusing to release the same number of tax returns as has been customary since HIS OWN FATHER did the same? How much integrity did Romney have by accusing Obama of going on an “apology tour”?
Well then, let’s settle this by seeing who is willing to be seen with whom in October.
This has already been settled in the 2012 election. Romney got spanked on both counts.
To be fair, Obama has a job and has other things to do. Of course, it’s looking more and more like Stassen, I mean Romney, is now in year 10 of his run for the White House.
Why do I get the feeling you’ll be saying 2012 settled everything come 2017 when Republicans are repealing ACA?
In other news, the percentage of people who disapprove of Obama’s performance is currently somewhere around 42%. By contrast, George W. Bush was at 40% at the same point in his Presidency.
and of course in 2006 the Democrats gained control of Congress.
So there is hope for the future, and I look forward to wailing and gnashing of teeth on the SDMB in a few months.
Regards,
Shodan
I think you mean, “approve”, don’t you? His disapproval is around 55%.
Actually, he’s 41-54 right now:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html
And I don’t think there will be any gnashing of teeth. It’s actually quite incredible how much of a disconnect from reality there is with Obama’s supporters on the issue of his popularity. They either think he’s quite popular, or this is just a temporary situation due to… something. In reality, it’s years of dishonesty and incompetence that has led to this.
Honest question: Does anyone know what the approval/disapproval rating was for the Democrats while GWB was at 40%?
adaher has me convinced. No way will I vote for Obama in 2016.
55% or so.
Don’t take too much comfort from that though. Today the Democrats stand at 41%. Still more popular than the GOP, to be sure, who stand at 29%, but not popular enough to stand on their own, apart from the President, who as always, will be the primary focus of a sixth-year midterm election.
http://pollingreport.com/dem.htm
Another red flag should be that Democrats are less popular today than they were in Nov. 2010.
Your feelings are almost always wrong and aren’t based on anything logical, so I have no idea.
I too have been seeing a lot blather in this thread about Romney’s honesty and integrity. I’ve yet to see any responses to BobLibDem’s counter examples.
For example:
This was Chrysler’s response:
“Jeep has no intention of shifting production of its Jeep models out of North America to China. It’s simply reviewing the opportunities to return Jeep output to China for the world’s largest auto market. U.S. Jeep assembly lines will continue to stay in operation. A careful and unbiased reading of the Bloomberg take would have saved unnecessary fantasies and extravagant comments.”
Even after being called on his lies he continued to run ads repeating the false claims.
Check this out. I love GM’s and Chrysler’s responses.
Emphasis mine.
Fiat Group Automobiles S.p.A., Chrysler Group International LLC and Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd. (GAC Group) have reached an agreement to expand their joint venture partnership to include Jeep brand vehicles for sale in the Chinese market.
By the terms of the agreement announced Saturday in Beijing, GAC Fiat, the group’s joint venture in China, will produce three new Jeep vehicles for the Chinese market. The Chinese government has already approved the expansion and the related projects.
GAC Fiat will finalize its localized production plans, including consideration of a Jeep model uniquely designed for China, and begin production by late 2015. Jeep vehicles will be built at a GAC Fiat manufacturing branch to be established in Guangzhou, the capital city of Guangdong Province. In earlier comments, Jeep CEO Mike Manley had indicated the production site would be the GAC Fiat plant in Changsha in Hunan Province, located to the north of Guangdong.
Guangdong Province is where many of the manufacturing jobs outsourced from the United States went, making it one of the most prosperous of the Chinese provinces.
That’s from this year. This is from 2012, just before the election:
Fiat SpA (F), majority owner of Chrysler Group LLC, plans to return Jeep output to China and may eventually make all of its models in that country, according to the head of both automakers’ operations in the region.
Fiat is in “very detailed conversations” with its Chinese partner, Guangzhou Automobile Group Co. (2238), about making Jeeps in the world’s largest auto market, said Mike Manley, chief operating officer of Fiat and Chrysler in Asia. Chrysler hasn’t built Jeeps there since before Fiat took control in 2009.
“The volume opportunity for us is very significant,” Manley, who is also president of the Jeep brand, said in an interview at Chrysler’s Auburn Hills, Michigan, headquarters. “We’re reviewing the opportunities within existing capacity” as well as “should we be localizing the entire Jeep portfolio or some of the Jeep portfolio.”
Chrysler, which entered an alliance with Turin, Italy-based Fiat as part of its U.S. government-backed bankruptcy, is relying on growth in China to counter weakness in Europe’s auto market. The automaker is targeting 500,000 annual sales outside North America by 2014, more than triple its overseas deliveries in 2009.
Chrysler currently builds all Jeep SUV models at plants in Michigan, Illinois and Ohio. Manley referred to adding Jeep production sites rather than shifting output from North America to China.