Another Bad Day For Romney

[n2doc]

By JOE KLEIN

The theme of the day for the Romney campaign was, as Alex Rogers notes below, that Obama’s Soft on Welfare. It sort of flopped. The factoid planted at the microscopic center of the non-story is that the Obama campaign allegedly granted states the right to request waivers from the current welfare work requirements…which is true, except for the following things:

1. The waivers would be granted only if states came up with alternative ideas to create jobs for people on welfare.

2. As governor of Massachusetts, Romney himself asked for such a waiver in 2005.

And, this third bit is just too good…

3. As governor, Romney offered welfare recipients free auto insurance, registration, inspections and memberships in AAA.



Read more: http://swampland.time.com/2012/08/07/another-bad-day-for-romney/?iid=sl-article-mostpop1

...How incompetent is the Romney campaign? They keep coming up with these stupid gambits–the last was the lie that Obama opposed early voting for members of the military in Ohio–that are shot down instantaneously (everywhere but in Fox-Rush land). And worse, the Democrats–who seem to have a superior oppo team–can often produce counter-stories, like the Herald item, that make things even worse for Romney.

[russspeakeasy]

1. It's pretty obvious. Throw enough shit and maybe some will stick.

[Ikonoklast]

31. Throw enough shit and a lot gets splashed back in your face.

[spanone]

2. k&r...

[SDjack]

3. Good. The WH is probably reviewing all of Gov. rMoney's requests for State

flexibility. Hope that they find some related to convict sentences, gun control, food stamps, child welfare, abortion. Keep granting those flexibility requests!!!

[jillan]

4. What is mind blowing about their lies is that they released that ad on a day where they were

attacking the Obama camp for lies about Reid's statement and another ad that an Obama Super Pac put out.

In other words, they can't even call another person a liar without screwing it up

[SunsetDreams]

5. Why are you a fan of duplicating posts?

This OP has been repeated everyday since the beginning!















I guess I've been misunderstood. "Another Bad Day For Romney" is a repeat topic around here.

[Voice for Peace]

7. first-see for me - thanks n2doc

[SunsetDreams]

9. "Another Bad Day For Romney"

has been posted here everyday.

[MissMarple]

12. How about Another Horrible, Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.

Or is that November 4th?

[SunsetDreams]

13. Somebody needs to copyright these

"Another Horrible, Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day For Romney"


"Romney's Horrible No Good, Very Bad Day"


"Romney's No Good, Very Bad Day"


"Another Bad Day For Romney"

[progressivebydesign]

21. Sadly, every day is a bad day for Romney. We're running out of adjectives. n/t

[Voice for Peace]

24. aha.. I see you have been misunderstood by me

maybe the headline should be "Another Great Day for Obama"
or
Another great day on DU

[larkrake]

8. first I've seen, thanx

[SunsetDreams]

10. Thanks I've edited my post

to make my point clear.

[Chemisse]

32. I'm not so sure it matters if the title of the OP is the same every day

Since HOW Romney screws up is different every day.

[AllyCat]

34. *grin*

[flamingdem]

6. A bad day for Romney

is a good day for the "democrat party"

[Odious justice]

11. Why does he even want to be President?

Can't he enjoy his millions and maybe do some charity work for the poor, per the Bible?

[magical thyme]

17. I thought Mormons had their own book

but I could be mistaken. Maybe I'm thinking of their magic underwear?

[Jamaal510]

20. He wants to be president

just so he can lower his own taxes. I'm calling it right now.

[Voice for Peace]

25. his spokeslady said he has dedicated his life to public service

which was news to me, till she slipped in a "now"

Edit on afterthought
That he vowed not to finance his own presidential campaign
this time, or so I read; and that as a selfless public servant
in MA he didn't take a salary. Maybe he'll offer to do that
as president too; in which case it makes sense to have
somebody else finance his election so he has tons of money
to live on while he's being a selfless public servant.

dear dog I'm getting cynical.

[AllyCat]

35. So he can siphon more money out of the public treasury into the Caymans

[Proud Liberal Dem]

14. Did somebody say "FREE" auto insurance, registration, inspections.......

[Liberal_in_LA]

15. not necessarily a bad day - 25 million buy to run "Obama soft of welfare" ads. the point is to

trigger racial resentment, peel women voters off of Obama. The facts in the commercial may be false but
voters won't necessarily know that.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

16. How does this (potentially) peel off women voters?

[Liberal_in_LA]

19. race baiting

[Enrique]

23. I agree

this is not a blunder, it is a deliberate strategy. Just because Joe Klein just figured out that Mitt has his facts wrong doesn't mean the strategy failed.

[Cosmocat]

37. We have a winner

I appreciate Kline calling it for the disaster it was, but Romney LONG ago, L O N G ago gave up having the first care if what he or his campaign spewed had any connection to reality or the truth.

Between his never ending stream of nonsense and the "liberal" media dutifully ignoring his making crape up out of thin air, he is keeping himself within distance to maybe beat BO if something big breaks in October.

That has been the game all along.

It enrages US, because we pay attention and deal in reality.

The other 55% are either stone cold Rs who deal in a reality we have no connection to or mushy middle that isn't paying attention and gets pulled into believing half of their BS at any given time.

[Sheepshank]

18. This is so hillarious......surely there's a better term than "Dork"? n/t

[lindysalsagal]

22. Considering he claims to be a good manager, he never seems to know what he did in Mass.

I think he goes along with whatever some intern thinks up, and doesn't really know that it contradicts something in his own management past.

I think he has someone else doing his job for him. Big surprise.

[Douglas Carpenter]

26. he's just supporting the image of someone who will say anything and has no real convictions

[creeksneakers2]

27. The waivers weren't for work requirements

They were for reporting on work requirements. And that was only for pilot programs.

[Courtesy Flush]

28. The irony is

If he were running as a Democrat, he could use his record as a selling point. As a Republican, it hangs him.

[magnifisense]

29. How incompetent?

We may just be witnessing the worst-run campaign in modern history.

[kiranon]

30. Romney is like the lines of a song "Nothing from nothing leaves nothing, you

gotta have something if you want to be with me." Quote may be a bit off but it goes something like that. The Republicans have nothing to work with. They can be against or obstructive or hateful or mean but nothing positive.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

33. Bring on the debates

Except will there be enough time to thoroughly discredit Romney. 90 days out, at least one whopper per day before the election....could be tight.

[King_Klonopin]

36. Yep -- dumber than a bag of doorknobs...

A perfect example of unconcious self-parody.
But he sure is perrty, and rich, and a job-creator who believes in Jeebus (the one from New York state), and he hates libruls.
Therefore, a third of the U.S. think he's awesome. What an empty suit, empty head, empty soul !

[lunatica]

38. Romney campaign brings sticks and stones to a Star Wars fight