Mitt Romney explains why he didn’t mention the wars of the troops in his acceptance speech:
Man, after the campaign is over maybe some of his spin doctors can get a gig on “The Worst Jobs in History”… :smack: :smack:
Over/under on how fast that makes it into an ad?
I know the folks over at The Onion are thinking, “Man, we simply cannot think up fake shit to top this.”
I can picture the Onion caricature of Romney talking about his plan to outsource the troops and hire cheap foreign mercenaries. Presumably, the actual Romney doesn’t have that on the agenda.
Anyhoo, digby comments:
I actually feel kind of bad for him, because I can see where he’s coming from and I think he’s being honest. Hell, I can even interpret his statement to suggest that he wouldn’t be a warmonger if elected (that is, he doesn’t consider military operations to be high on his priority list), which is actually comforting in a way.
But man, if you ever wanted an illustration of why politicians hit those laundry lists and make highly prepared, vague statements…
It’s time to include one of our own in this thread.
Based especially on this thread, where attempts to explain accounting basics get nowhere. He even goes so far as to accuse Bill Clinton of criminal activity that apparently no one ever noticed (i.e. “cooking the books.”)
moon[del]bat[/del]925 er shot is really, really, fucking stupid. You could put a banana in front of him and try to explain it’s a fruit and get nowhere. (“It’s not a fruit! Fruit are round!”)
He’s in the Elections forum a lot. Feel free to join me in mocking him further. But here, not there.
I don’t wanna sound like The Thread Police or nothing but I think moonbat should get his own thread. He isn’t a Republican official.
Of course, we don’t know that he isn’t one. For all we know he could have been the guy that convinced Romney to use Twitter without understanding Twitter culture. If that’s the case, then-- Well done, Knorf!
And they call him Flipper! Flipper! Faster than lightning…
I think the second part was even worse:
I didn’t use the word “troops”, I used the word “military”. I think they refer to the same thing.
No, not really; people use “troops” to refer to the individual men and women, and “military” most often to refer to the organization. Even as a person who never served, I am just as pissed off about that.
I thought Ryan was supposed to be ‘the smart one’.
Well, they *did *warn they wouldn’t let their campaign be dictated by fact-checkers. This would be an example of that :).
Mitt now says that he’s not going to lower taxes on the rich.
I’m starting to feel sorry for the desolate, unloved job creators. Out there, creatin’ jobs, without a friend in this world. sniff
Magic tax cuts can do everything, including getting a break without lowering the amount of taxes while lowering the tax rate while keeping revenues the same while not lowering taxes on the wealthy. LIKE, AT ALL, GUYS!
If the revenues are going to stay the same, and taxes people pay will stay the same, why even bother making any changes?
JOB CREATION. Sheesh! It’s like you didn’t even read what he said!
Mitt Romney suggests Obama plans to take references to god off of US coins:
Sounds more like lying than flipping.
Is he going to promise not to impose Sharia law next? :rolleyes:
The annoying thing about Iran is that its government is god based. Keep god on the coins, keep god in the pledge, god god god, always invoking god to justify whatever their cause is, and invoking god to demonize anyone who does not agree with the way they think. It’s a pity they can’t truly separate church and state.
I’d cheer if he did, but I’m a godless atheist. I’ll settle for him keeping god(s) out of the classrooms, especially the science classes.