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Subscribe to RSSAP writes via Political Wire: "The long, grueling GOP primary race is over. Now comes a summertime lull the candidates could find just as difficult -- not because the schedule is crowded but because it isn't," the AP reports. "It is four months until the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., in late August. Democrats hold their convention a week later in Charlotte, N.C. That's a long time to fill, with no votes that matter, no debates to draw national attention. Voters tend to hibernate politically from the end of the primary season to the start of the conventions." That lull "should be a bigger problem" for Mitt Romney than for President Obama. "A challenger must keep stirring up enthusiasm if he hopes to oust an incumbent president."
“Even as Mitt Romney begins courting moderate and independent voters who could determine the outcome in November, his campaign is still working behind the scenes to shore up support from conservatives who have yet to fully embrace him. Peter Flaherty, Romney’s liaison to social conservatives, is planning to fly to Washington this month to meet with key conservative leaders at a breakfast hosted by Edwin Meese III, who was President Reagan’s attorney general, according to Bay Buchanan, a Romney adviser who is helping to arrange the meeting,” The Boston Globe writes. “The campaign has hired Michael Biundo, Rick Santorum’s former campaign manager; talks regularly to Keith Nahigian, Michele Bachmann’s former campaign manager; and recently received the endorsement of Rick Perry, the Texas governor who was Romney’s bitter rival during the early stages of the Republican primary.”
John McCain on FOX, per The Hill: “I say any president, Jimmy Carter, anybody, any president would have, obviously, under those circumstances, done the same thing. And to now take credit for something that any president would do is indicative of take over campaign we're under -- we're -- we're seeing…So all I can say is that this is going to be a very rough campaign," McCain told Fox News in an interview set to air Monday night. "And I've had the great honor of serving in the company of heroes. And, you know the thing about heroes, they don't brag.”
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Wow, two inept choices for President here...
I'm glad you feel that way - you clearly were never going to vote for Obama, and now maybe you and a bunch of your conservative friends will sit this election out altogether.
There is a very large segment of voters who are very frightened of the possibility that Obama could get 4 more years to extend his failed onerous and socialist policies. They will definitely vote, They will all vote for the other guy!
They will all vote for the other guy!
The other guy:
Who wants to keep taxes low on millionaires, and allow corporations to do whatever they want, which is what brought on the financial crisis of 2007 in the first place? Do you really think people can't remember back three years?
No worries, this group you mention are the bubble people stuck on stupid crowd that we could care less about what they think.
Would "Mission Accomplished" be considered bragging?
Pride and Joy,
The other guy want to go back to the Bush-like policies. And we all know how well we did under Bush...
LOYALTEXAN
It's not like it had a banner, and an aircraft carrier, and jet landing on the carrier as an overly theatrical and expensive stunt.
It's really kind of pitiful that the R's have to insist that "anyone would have done it" to detract from the President's accomplishment. It's like those emotionally juvenile people who think they have to tear someone else down to make themselves look bigger.
Some things never change with the man-boy Romney -- Your piece of cake is bigger than mine -- I should have all of the cake! I'm gonna tell Mom.
The really bad part of that was Dubya dressing in military garb after dodging the draft.
Pride and Joy - you clearly have no pride. Voting for Romney would be voting for the destruction of the middle class - driving more people into the category of poor. It would be voting for at least one more war - if he can't get us into two. It would be voting for the total destruction of the United States and, unlike you, most Americans are too smart for that.
Obama/Biden 2012
Pride and Joy - take your head out of your a**. When you throw out the "socialist" word it shows how totally ignorant you are!
How do these guys get away with such a lie? It was a 50-50 shot that Osama was there, everyone admitted it last year. Sure, any "American: would have ordered it if it was 100%, but it was not. Based on Mitten's comments in 2008, it is a valid question to ask based on a 50-50 shot, not the assumption that it was 100%. How does the media let them get away with this?
The evidence is there..... Obama was very reluctant to 'pull the trigger' despite the urging of all of his staff with the exception 1 person! That staffer's first name was Julie, but I can't remember her last name... in any case she no longer works there.
What is amazing is why you just don't get it Paul?
It is a retarded subject "well I did it and you wouldn't have" Well there is no way to prove this one way or another so let's keep people occupied with BS subject that is inconsequential while we continue to steal them blind. A good ploy that obviously works on some people that both parties use constantly.
Even at 50-50 odds binLaden was there... the seal team was ready to go! That's what they do! It is the politicians and their indecisiveness that gets more soldiers killed than enemy bullets!
What is criminal is that we didn't start a controlled withdrawal from Afganistan after OBL's death... instead this indecisiveness is still getting our boys killed in that silly excuse for a country!
The only 'evidence' you have Mark from Lake Tahoe is that is what you heard on Rush. All the true evidence points to the opposite. No one in the room, save two, wanted to pull the trigger, fearing a repeat of President Carter's decision in 1980. It was the VP and the President who disagreed, and the Prez made the gutsy decision to go for it. Don't try to change history. It is wrong and unbecoming.
Rule number 1: Don't pay any attention to the right wing talking heads.
sorry handjob, I know you worked very hard coming up with that line, but it just doesn't work! Actually that's true of most liberals... isn't it? lmao!
Sure, what ever you say bubble boy.
Because the right leads the field in lies.
96ws6 - it really doesn't matter what your political stance is but when you use "retarded" it shows how little intelligence and integrity you have. I'm guessing you're an adult. Maybe you should at least - occasionally - act like one. I volunteer for an organization that assist people who are mentally challenged and I'll tell you - as people - they are heads above you!
Today's NYT's featured an article on Tagg Romney using his father's political donors the way Girl Scouts use their parents' friends and co-workers to buy their cookies.
It really drives home the point "the rich are different from us."
Republicans admire the rich as "successful" and "winners," ignoring the fact, the super rich rarely start from zero. Romney's whole world view is predicated on protecting this system, where the wealthiest retain control of the nation's total wealth.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/us/politics/ties-to-romney-08-helped-fuel-equity-firm.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&src=rechp
Sorry Amy. Take a couple of laps around Silicon Valley and observe the super rich out watering their lawns and washing their cars.
Pretty much all of them started out as working stiffs or starving artists. Also, let us not ignore the fact the the "wealth gap" is partly related to people like Jobs and Zukerberg creating fabulous wealth, not taking it away from some working stiff.
You are right that the rich don't understand.
Remember Romney telling college students they should take out loans from their parents instead of relying on government student loans.
Romney also suggested they take out loans from their parents and form startup businesses.
Unlike Romney, my parents and all my friends parents certainly couldn't afford this. My parents mother worked and raised us. My father worked 2 jobs, often working nights and weekends. Yet, my parents couldn't afford to throw money around like Romney thinks parents can.
Romney and the Republican party since 2000 just doesn't understand most people don't have millionaire Governors for parents.
Sorry, Texan, telling kids they too can become rich like Zuckerman, by creating another Facebook, is like telling inner city kids they can succeed as Rap stars.
The wealthiest people I personally know, started out with an inheritance, and the connections that come with attending private schools. See: Tagg Romney.
MITT ROMNEY SERIOUSLY PURCHASED THIS ELECTION. None of the other
Republican candidates could hold up to the false attack ads that Romney put out
in every primary and caucus state. No one had the money to defeat Romney. We
have now experienced a "BAIN STYLE TAKEOVER OF THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION
and the GOP is so corrupt that they would prop up a literal anti-Christ to the
nomination "if he can win". That's all they care about. This country has lost its way.
Everyone should read the book, "Can Mitt Romney Serve Two Masters? The Mormon Church Versus The Office Of The Presidency of theUnited States of America". The information in the book is well documented and if your instincts are that Romney is as bad as Barack Obama, this book proves through researched facts why your instincts are correct. The book is the best I have seen or read to establish why you cannot give Romney a vote (or Obama).
If any President would have made the order, why didn't the last Republican President make the order when we had Bin Laden trapped?
Sadly, the last Republican President cared more about starting another war than killing Bin Laden.
Remember, Senator McCain and Governor Romney were two candidates who criticized Obama in 2007 for saying he would go into Pakistan and take out Bin Laden if Pakistan refused to act. Facts are that both McCain and Romney know they were wrong and that President Obama ordered something that they stated in 2007 they would not have done.
Actually, McCain is right that Jimmy Carter probably would have, but he is wrong in saying any president would have.
Jimmy Carter was willing to make the tough call and go with the hostage rescue mission despite its problems. Because it failed, Jimmy Carter gets labeled as a "weak" president.
Presidents who don't make that tough call (e.g. Gerald Ford in a similar situation to the Somali pilots in 1976) don't get the label of being weak.
The reality check is that the Secretary of Defense (originally a Bush appointee) was opposed to going forward with the mission and Mitt Romney was opposed in 2007 to devoting any additional resources to find Bin Laden. Now that the tough calls have paid off, Republicans don't get to claim that it was an easy call.
McCain is the biggest hippocrite in politics. "Heroes don't brag?" He's the guy who rode his pow experience throughout an entire career, through scandal, ineptitude, etc. He is no less heroic to me, just more hippocritical.