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Mitt Romney: Empty suit, empty mind
By DOUG THOMPSON - Capitol Hill Blue
August 1, 2012


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The wimp wannabe

Every day, some right-winger bombards the offices of Capitol Hill Blue with the outlandish claim that Mitt Romney is somehow qualified to be President because he is a good businessman.

Christ, what a crock. Business has nothing to do with running a country and many could argue that it is the kind of big business that Romney represents that has put this country into economic chaos.

While Romney may know how to make money, being a head of state has nothing to do with getting rich. A President requires many skills — most of which neither Romney or current President Mitt Romney possess — and running a jobs-sucking hedge fund ain’t one of them.

At this point, someone in the peanut gallery will rise up in righteous indignation with “yeah, but a businessman is better than a community organizer.”

Granted, it shouldn’t take much to be better than a monumental failure like Barack Obama.

But Mitt Romney, in our opinion, ain’t the one for the job.

Romney’s biggest problem is the one that inflicts many candidates of his ilk: A constant attack of incompetence that sends projectile verbal diarrhea spewing out of his mouth and coating the political landscape with stuff that stinks to high heaven.

The presumed GOP candidate’s overseas junket proves once again that he can’t think on him feet. Hell, he probably has trouble walking and chewing gum without stumbling.

Without a prepared script, Romney is a cross between Henny Youngman and Rodney Dangerfield. His one-liners fall flat and he gets no respect because he doesn’t deserve any.

He lacks the ability to multitask, is easily distracted and can’t stay on message because that message is constantly shifting.

As governor of Massachusetts, he avoided getting into the nitty-gritty of politics or government operation. He chooses to tout a record that falls apart under scrutiny.

Newsweek magazine focuses on what it calls Romney’s “Wimp factor.”

Good call. Romney is a wimp. We’ve had enough wimps in the White House. Don’t we have any leaders in this nation?

For some reason, watching Romney stumble and mumble his way through his muddled campaign reminds us of a surprising speech given many years ago by the father of one of the Marshall University football players killed in a plane crash in West Virginia.

During the memorial service, the father said this of his son:

He didn’t know the meaning of the word “fear.” In fact, he didn’t know the meaning of a lot of words.

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In other words, your standard American political leader?

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True enough, Romney lacks the ability to chew and walk gum. he doesn't know the meaning of the term secrecy when speaking with security agency heads. He can't help himself when it comes to evaluating the works of others if he has the opportunity to toot his own horn. Then, post toot, he tries to walk it back, and proves chew and walk gum thing is beyond his skill set.

Is he really the best the Republicans can do?

What has America done to deserve such a dearth of ability from the major party? Division of the controlling party? Parties? (There are really two parties in name only, because no matter who gets the job, the relentless diminishment of America goes on, unchecked.


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A President requires many skills — most of which neither Romney or current President Mitt Romney possess

A freudian slop?


"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
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Originally Posted by Lillibet
Is he really the best the Republicans can do?

What has America done to deserve such a dearth of ability from the major party?
"Government is the Entertainment Division of the Military-Industrial Complex."

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Oh, noomie! That one makes me smile demurely behind my hand, as if hiding a piece of spinach leaf on a gold tooth.


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To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
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If you had the Midas Touch of the Military-Industrial Complex, you would be hiding spinach gold-leaf on your shark's teeth.

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Originally Posted by numan
Originally Posted by Lillibet
Is he really the best the Republicans can do?

What has America done to deserve such a dearth of ability from the major party?
"Government is the Entertainment Division of the Military-Industrial Complex."
Bow Bow Bow
We are the best entertained, least informed nation in the history of democratic republics. According to a survey, results often seen on RT, viewers of Fox are less informed regarding current events than those that watch no news at all. Apparently fair and balanced is entertaining and vacuous.

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Is it not ironic that Russia Today (RT) now appears to be the counterpart of Radio Free Europe a few decades ago?

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I see that Mitt Romney has decided that the "businessman angle" is not working out very well, since his job-creation skills all pertain to creating jobs in China rather than the US. Now he's talking about his term as Governor instead:
Mitt Romney changes his identity from CEO of Bain to governor of Massachusetts

I particularly enjoyed this claim:
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I brought the unemployment rate down from 5.6 to 4.7.


Look at the national unemployment rate from Jan 2003 to Dec 2007, while Romney was Governor. Here's a nice link to a database and chart generator:

US Unemployment Rates

The US unemployment rate over that time period fell from 5.8% down to about 4.7%. So I think Romney is taking credit for something the whole US economy did. He just happened to be sitting on the bus stop bench at the right time, like Forrest Gump!

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