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JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Who knew Mitt Romney was a Bill Murray fan?
The former Massachusetts governor unveiled a brand new attack line on President Obama this morning, hearkening back to a classic 1993 comedy, no-doubt familiar to any basic cable audience.
"This has been a 'Groundhog Day' presidency. He keeps saying the same things and we keep waking up with the same things going on. Nothing changes," Romney said. "He keeps saying these great things he’s going to do and yet it’s the same picture every single morning. It’s been a Groundhog Day presidency and that’s going to end if I’m president."
The hit came as Romney continues to divide his energy between striking President Obama, and holding off Newt Gingrich. Today. Romney made his anti-Obama argument in simple terms.
"If you believe things are on the right track in America then you ought to vote for Barack Obama. If you believe, like I do, that he has not put things on the right track, that we're on the wrong track and that we need to change course in this country and to get back to American values and American principles, then I want your vote," Romney said.
If that message sinks in, it may be good news for Romney, as today's NBC News/WSJ poll shows that voters believe, by a 61 to 30 percent margin, that the country remains on the wrong track.
With tonight's pivotal Florida debate just hours away, Romney also continued to draw contrasts with Newt Gingrich, who has surged into a dead heat with Romney, and on whom Romney's campaign has trained increasing amounts of fire each day this week, with surrogate conference calls, research dumps and direct assaults from the candidate on the stump and in interviews.
"Florida is going to make a decision about who is going to be our nominee. And I've got something to admit: I've never lived in Washington DC. I'm not part of the culture of Washington DC. I spent my life outside of Washington, D.C. I lived my life on main street and on other streets across this country. I want to use the experience I've had, working in the real economy, to go to Washington and fix it," Romney said, in a none-too-subtle contrast with the former speaker. "Now if you think that you really need someone who has been part of the culture of Washington for the last 35 years to go there again and continue in Washington, why there are other people you can choose."
Of the debate itself, Romney said it would be "fun," and jokingly urged the supporters gathered here outside a shuttered printing company to attend and be loud -- by any means necessary.
"We may talk about the differences between ourselves as well. There may be some give and take. That's always fun and entertaining, I know. If y'all can get there, we'd love to see you there, cheering and being part of that," Romney said. "No tickets huh? Just storm in. Oh you're going to be there? That'll be fun."
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Great Movie, bad analogy...;-)
Is it me, or wouldn't you like to know that one stays with one position instead of changing points of views depending on the crowd or wind blows (or latest polls come out)?
You know the one about the politician who was elected as a Liberal based on his promises...and re-elected as a Conservative because he failed to keep them?...
What has Romney been doing since the crash of '08? President Obama has been attempting (and is) to fix it. Day in, day out.
Remember after WWII, the allies made the Germans face the music and clean it up?
This is what President Obama is doing. Fixing Romney and his friends' messes.
That's how rotten to the core these wealthy people are. And that includes Romney.
btw, there is a video over @ DK showing Nancy Reagan saying her husband Ronald passed the torch to Gingrich.
What an unbelievably stupid stupid party they all are.
You are on your game today dangerfield!!!! Well played!!! (I'll set them up, you knock them down) LOL
phinephancy-4252115
It's not you phine it's Mitt's many , many faces.
http://i629.photobucket.com/albums/uu19/zachellison/104344_600.jpg
https://encrypted-tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSJkLhNUaLHkIvEQNa_rBGRB6w3TyQd2dUM8NEujtZZzhinKE9pAA
What are the odds that Romney will eventually end up standing outside a shuttered plant brought to you by Bain? If I was Newt or Obama I would start giving speeches outside of businesses destroyed by Bain. I'd also be worried if Romney was standing outside of my business. Would mine be the next to be acquired by Bain and run into the ground while Bain somehow still manages to make a profit?
Usually in America when you make a bad business investment it results in a loss, hence the risk involved in investments. But somehow Romney manages to find a loophole that allowed Bain to purchase questionable business, re-organize and leverage them to the max with debt, sending a management fee check to Bain before doing an IPO or locating some other chump to dump the business on before it went bankrupt.
Malibu Mitt better find a New line of Attack other than reciting "America The Beautiful", as the Newt is talking Big things. Yesterday, some on here were makeing fun of Newt & his Moon Colony, & that was a bad move on them.I'm sure some people did the same thing when JFK talked of just going to the Moon, but Fools were made of them also, as we did make it to the Moon. Not takeing up for Newt, but just sayin, it could very well happen.
The RightWing went crazy yesterday as the NBC/WSJ quarterly poll cameout & showed Turnarounds for several things involving President Obama & his handling the Office of the Presidency. The Spankster loseing his Right Track-Wrong Track argument(albiet slowly, but chugging along).The Pole Dancing Hacker from Jersey(Donna I think)looking for pennies being thrown at her instead of the Big Nickels with Her version of Gallop-Rasmusen-PPP-Fox-Cnn-Abc-CBs Poll Dancing Daily. Only pay attention to any certain Poll that shows No improvment for Americans well being & have only Negative comments, when a Poll shows POSITIVE improvements for America as a whole.
O well, when all you got is Malibu Mitt & The 3 Time Born again Christain(how many times do we get to be Reborn) knocking thier heads against each other for Republicans, I'd be Disenchanted also.
Occupy SoggyBottom!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan
Isn't that the President's job? Just as Romney's job is to offer an alternative.
Pat - it would make sense that one adulterer would pass his torch to another adulterer, guess Nancy must be pretty partial to homewreckers too as she is one herself. Oh, the morals of the right, shame they don't get to apply to the rest of us.
Get real, Mittens. What movie would a Romney presidency look like?
Maybe Night of the Living Dead?
Ah, so that explains why Newt's pants are on fire...
So then what is the Romney and Newt contest? Dumb and Dumberer or A Confederacy of Dunces?
I'm kidding. I don't think either of them is stupid.
Terms of Endearment or Gone With the Wind?
War of the Roses? Or maybe Half-Baked?
"Rocky"...
Nope, wait, I think I got it:
Newt and Mitt Go to White Castle
Somehow seeing Newt run up the steps as Rocky is hard for me to imagine. LOL (pant, pant, pant)
nisl,
No White Castles here, but we do have Krystals.
nisl
Newt and Mitt Go to White Castle
ROFL
Oh, boy there isn't a crown large enough to fit Newt 's grandiose cranium. Neither are there enough crowns to put on the many heads of Mitt.
Rocky? Nah, I think Phine is right, I can't see Newt running up those stairs. I can see Newt eating raw eggs though.
OT, but if you liked the movie Rocky you should check out "Warrior" on DVD. It stars Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton and came out in 2011. I think it was one of the most underrated films of 2011.
Now, back to laughing at Romney!
Romney lives on a street called Boardwalk.
Got lots of houses, $57,000. a day in income and can't wait to go the DC and bring the capital gain tax down to Zero.
He will use his expertise as CEO of Bain Capital by selling off the least profitable part of the country to get the US back in the black.
Goodbye Florida ...
Mitt would get one of those reports on which states send net money to Washington and which states take net money from Washington and outsource those states ASAP.
Steeler Fan,
Damn, MN sends alot more money to DC than we receive. Only have one small national park, no military bases .
I was really hoping we could be outsourced to Canada, they have a snigle payer health system.:0)
We need you, Northstar, to pay for those slacker states that aren't carrying their weight! They'll be getting pink slips and foreclosure notices from the stressed out banks.
Some would say Romney and Gingrich are more like the ubiquitous Ground Hog Day movie; retreads from the 90's.
Well THANK YOU WILLARD. American citizens KNOW we are on a "righter" track than we were when the GOP-TEA people were in the White House 2001-2009, and that the problems ARE improving today....
so, just exactly as you suggest, we will vote for Obama and disregard the untrue picture you are trying to sell us of lies, mis-information, excuses and illogical explanations.
Thank you
Amy,
You are right. They glory in the 90's.
But it is a new day.in fact, we are in a new century, have been for 12 years.
Northstar,
Drat! I knew I needed to buy a new calendar! :)
I was thinking of more appropriate movies to describe the candidates:
Romney - Westworld
Gingrich - King Ralph
Ron Paul - Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Santorum - Crying Game
Santorum - Crying Game
Now that is some quality funny!!!!
ty Nisl,
I was think Ron Paul could also be The Matrix, "...there is no spoon.." or Fed, or military, or governemnt
Of course, Gingrich's moonbase idea sounds like Pluto Nash, especially if he wants to make his buddy Adelson happy by putting up casinos
Hi everyone. Have a great day!
"I lived my life on main street and on other streets across this country."
Uh... Wall Street?
The $64K question (or, in Mitt's case, the $10K bet): how can a guy worth $100M possibly have any real empathy for working Americans? Considering the overall callousness of the GOP in general, added to that, do we really want a cold fish like Mitt running the show? Or a space cadet like Newt? Say what you will about the State of the Union address, but for God's sake people...who sounds more like he should be President?
Romney can go after Obama because newt keeps coming up with stupid ideas. The moon beam candidate is self destructing.
If the uptick in general indicators continues, about all Newt and Mitt will be able to accuse Obama of by the time of the GOP convention is one joke that fell flat during the State of the Union address.
Obama/Biden in 2012.
Those who think the country is on the wrong track should give the Dems and Obama a real shot at fixing things. The country was put on that track by BushCheney and their corhorts have continued to obfuscate and delay and deny since then. Remember that old golf joke "hit the ball, drag Boehner, hit the ball, drag McConnell." Let's cut them loose. Remember that we don't want another Supreme Court like this one. Obama's choice was held ransom and we got Roberts and Alito.
Republicans want to believe that they have successfully stalled the recovery from their Great Recession and can use it against President Obama. Once again, we learn that the economy is driven by the private sector and that Republican permissiveness and lack of regulatory enforcement is not an option they now have. They are also powerless to damage the economy from their seats in Congress, because government does not run the private sector.
The Republican house has buried recovery legislation the president proposed in committee. Earlier attempts were filibustered to death by Senate Republicans. But the most unproductive Congress in modern history can only retard recovery, not prevent it. Republicans in Congress need to experience unemployment first hand, even if the majority are millionaires. Truman said, "Show me a rich politician, and I'll show you a crook."
Republicans cheered when the Supreme Court made it legal for them to sell out to the highest bidder and have no spending limits on their campaigns. The one thing they cannot buy is actual votes. Perhaps their constituents will warily fact check the fear, smear, promises, lies, propaganda, and mob incitement and throw the arrogant, incompetent bums out, along with the few monkey-see-monkey-do corrupted Democrats.
Democracy is a use it or lose it proposition. With the Tea Party attempting to take away personal rights, apply economic mindlessness, and re-engineer society with their prejudices, jingoism, and moralistic crusades, it's time to clean house and stress American values and Constitutional rights.
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What is "Romulian Romney" talking about??? Is he drinking more illegal Romulian Ale?? Again!! The "Romulian" loves to "Politically Puke" after have a few of his favorite Romulian Ale. The Romulian "Socially Sputters" around the GOP Circus grounds firing off more incorrect economic, political, and social statements. Was the "Romulian" drinking his favorite Romulian Ale?? When he "Speculated" to his Bain Capital Accountants. On how to stretch the US Tax Codes to the max?? Have another drink "Romulian!!"
Groundhog Day is a great movie. It's a terrible, strained metaphor here, but still a great movie.
Does the Romulians have 'groundhogs' on their home planet of Romulus?? The only "Financial Hog" here is "Romulian Romney!" He walked around Bain Capital as it's CEO making snorting sounds, and eating as much "Pork" as possible. Manipulating the US Tax Codes is "Hog Heaven" for the "Romulian!" That is fact!
You know it's just spelled "Romulan", right?
The only thing that will end if Romney is elected is the up-tick in the economy!!