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Said Romney: “I don’t think adding a new chair in his Cabinet will help add millions of jobs on Main Street. We don’t need the secretary of business to understand business,” he added. “We need a president who understands business, and I do. And that’s why I’ll help be able to get this economy going again.”
Watch Florida… The L.A. Times’ Lauter notes that Romney’s on a “razor’s edge” in Florida: “Even as the lion's share of attention in the presidential campaign goes to the battleground of Ohio and the storm-battered states of the Mid-Atlantic, the outcome to the south, in the nation's largest swing state, now seems very much in doubt.”
Jeep backfire… “In battleground Ohio the focus of the presidential race has returned to one of President Obama's favorite topics -- the auto industry -- courtesy of Mitt Romney, who brought the issue back to center stage,” USA Today writes.
It notes that automakers and newspapers objected. For example, “Romney's implication that jobs were being shifted overseas earned him a stinging editorial from The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, which called the spot ‘a masterpiece of misdirection’ from a candidate ‘desperate to convince Ohio voters that he's the candidate most committed to the U.S. auto industry – no matter how much confusion he must sow to do it.' The (Toledo) Blade called it ‘an exercise in deception … remarkable even by the standards of his campaign.' An ad watch in The Columbus Dispatch -- the editorial page of which endorsed Romney, unlike the other papers – pointed out the ad's inaccuracy: ‘what is being considered is adding production in China -- not shutting down American Jeep factories such as the one in Toledo.’”
And: Reuters: “A Chrysler executive told Donald Trump in a Tweet on Thursday that the real estate executive and television personality was "full of sh--" for repeating a notion that Chrysler is shipping U.S. Jeep production to China, which the automaker refutes.”
More: Trump, from his Twitter account, said, "Obama is a terrible negotiator. He bails out Chrysler and now Chrysler wants to send all Jeep manufacturing to China--and will!" To which Gilles, from his Twitter account, responded to Trump: ‘You are full of sh--!’ In a second Tweet, Giles added: ‘I apologize for my language, but lies are just that, lies.’”
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Since Romney flopped during the 3rd debate...
1) Attacking businesses to the point they have to defend their own businesses from Romney and Ryan.
2) Romney and Ryan criticizing the Chamber of Commerce and businesses across the country who overwhelmingly support Obama's Business Cabinet position to reduce the red tape.
3) Romney and Ryan have been in a full panic since that debate knowing polls have been slipping away from them.
The irony in all of this is the Republican party would have been better off if Romney had flopped in the first debate instead of the last debate. They were all set to pull money from Romney/Ryan and spend it on Congressional Republicans. After the 3rd debate flop, it was a week before polling showed how bad Romney did. The result is they wasted millions on Romney and Ryan.
Romney is a pathological liar. At this point he doesn't even care that he's making sh*t up. It's sad; it's desperate; it's wrong. But he did it when he ran for Governor of Mass. He lied to get the votes and once elected he basically reversed all his "promises."
Romney has no plan for our future. He has promised trickle down stimulative tax cuts for the rich and promised that they would not be a tax cut at all, therefore not stimulative. Mitt has been contradicting himself and he refuses to explain what he means.
He is against FEMA funding before he was for it. Again, he does not explain his change in thinking.
He was for a voucher plan for Medicare that would have shifted some additional cost to retirees before he said there would be no increased cost. Again, he does not explain his position shifr.
Romney said we need to be tougher with Iran, but when asked to explain what he would do differently, he said sanctions are working. Again, he did not explain his position shift.
On the Afghanistan troop withdrawal. Romney was against the timeline. when pressed on the issue at debate, he said he supported the timeline. Again, he refused to explain why his position had changed.
Mitt is like a chameleon. He changes his color to blend in with the environment. The man has no core beliefs, or so it seems, yet this rudderless candidate wants to lead us. He has shown his inability to effectively deal with real time events or even questions from the media. he has caused so much trouble for himself, that his campaign has kept him from answering questions since the last debate.
Romney has shown himself to be poorly equipped to lead America. He also has failed the integrity test with his frequent lies and "double down on exposed lie" strategy.
OBAMA 2012....for strong, decisive leadership
This morning, I was watching TV as I got ready for work, and I saw this Crossroads ad: a young, entitled woman is jogging down the street pushing one of those expensive baby joggers. I guess the run isn't improving her post partum depression because she keeps clutching her head, worrying out loud about her husband losing his job, and moaning about how Obama promised unemployment under 5%. The ad ends with her bendind down to tend the baby - whose face is contorted with tears, as it wails in misery, over the economy, apparently. I burst out laughing!
Hey, young folks, my parents grew up during the Great Depression, my Dad fought in WWII, they raised four kids during the era of sex, drugs and rock and roll. You have no reason to feel sorry for yourselves! For pete's sake, your parents had challenges too, the Vietnam War, living in the age of AIDs, women fighting for opportunity, civil rights, etc STOP whinning already!
Isn't that the most rediculous ad? Who is it supposed to be appealling to, spoiled brats who spend more on a stroller and runniing suit than some people make in a month? That lady needs serious antidepressants. As Mick Jagger says, "It's all Doom and Gloom."
Irving, thank you! It's almost as ridiculous as the ad where two well-scrubbed, cheerful, adult children return to their widowed (divorced?) mother's comfortable home, because of the bad economy, and she is supposedly unhappy about that!
That man Willard Romney lies so much, it's hard to imagine anyone voting for him and dismissing all of his repeated lies on every position. It sure bothers me and millions others, that this man a talking lying buffoon, is fooling so many.
Condi Rice was such a disaster as National Security Advisor, W had to create a department of Homeland Security. Because Homeland Security is so different than National Security.
Ladies and Gentlemen, that in a nutshell sums up the entire Romney 2012 campaign, from the primaries, to the conventions, to the debates and now to the closing days. One lie after another.
Romney does NOT have a real plan to improve the economy or reduce the deficit. But worse than that, he has proven he CANNOT BE TRUSTED. Think Progress reported that most of what Romney said in the first presidential debate was a distortion or lie. Politifact said that two-thirds of Romney's statements during his long campaign range from "half-true" to blatant lies. And even this week, Romney is running an extremely deceptive ad in Ohio.
Oh oh Willard, now you are criticizing the President for creating your next job. You tell us how great you were as a business man who better would have been qualified to be Secretary of Business than you? Now you've blown it and President Obama will have to choose someone else.
Romney has all the catch phrases, "we don't need a secretary that understands business, we need a president that understands business," but he never has the specifics on what he'll actually do.
That's because he'll do the same exact thing that George Bush did. The Republican playbook hasn't changed a bit.
Yep, Mitt has all the catch phrases. He just doesn't have the votes, especially in place called OHIO.
Sorry but Romney will give the rich and those following the proper zealot driven religion a good ride.
All others will be in the back of the bus. His repeated lies about Jeep is proof he has no empathy for hard working, middle class people and their families. The tea party and the likes of Santorum and Ryan will work Romney like a puppet on strings.