Romney To Obama: Please Stop Attacking My Business Record, Taxes

[maddezmom]

Mitt Romney, battered by Democratic attacks over his Bain Capital record and taxes, is calling on President Obama to agree to a truce over his business career.

“Our campaign would be — helped immensely if we had an agreement between both campaigns that we were only going to talk about issues and that attacks based upon — business or family or taxes or things of that nature,” Romney said, according to excerpts of an upcoming interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd released Friday.

Romney said he would prefer the campaigns “only talk about issues,” and claimed that “our ads haven’t gone after the president personally. … We haven’t dredged up the old stuff that people talked about last time around. We haven’t gone after the personal things.”

Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul offered up a broader take on whether Romney was really suggesting that his career at Bain Capital — the crux of his argument that he is better equipped to handle the economy — should be considered off-limits.

more:http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/romney-to-obama-please-stop-attacking-my-business-taxes.php


They have to be kidding. Did they not see or hear or condone this:



Romney launches character offensive against Obama

(CBS News) BOSTON - The Romney campaign on Friday launched a character offensive against President Obama and his allies, arguing that a recent ad by a pro-Obama super PAC crosses a line and diminishes the office of the presidency.

The ad from Priorities USA Action, which had not yet run as of Friday, insinuates that presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney was indirectly responsible for a woman's death from cancer. Eric Ferhnstrom, a senior adviser to Romney, accused the Obama campaign of lying to the public about the ad.

"They've gone from what started as petty distortions and untruths to unbelievable exaggerations that diminish the office of the president and insult the American people," Fehrnstrom told reporters during a briefing at Romney's Boston headquarters. "I don't think a world champion limbo dancer could get any lower than the Obama campaign right now."

more:http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57491200-503544/romney-launches-character-offensive-against-obama/

[sibelian]

1. HELPFUL?

What the FUCK? After all the stonewalling, dicking around and behaving like idotic babyish morons, blocking this and that and whatever they can think of, whether it hurts America or not, just so that they can get to the throne?

Yeha, probably NOT, Mitt.

[flakey_foont]

2. Adlai, your comments?

“If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.” - Adlai Stevenson

[ananda]

17. Great quote.

Adlai Stevenson was a very fine mind.

[Ruby the Liberal]

3. This is priceless!

He is really out of his element. Never had to be accountable to anyone before, surrounded by yes-men and entitled to anything he wanted. Dude thought he was just going to buy the whitehouse and have his staff move him in. None of his counter-attacks are landing, so now he wants to cry because his campaign staff is made up of cronies who have no idea how to run a national campaign.

I love it.

[arely staircase]

28. his language stinks of entitlement

looking smug while the same time begging for mercy is probably not a good quality in someone seeking the presidency.

[Enrique]

4. good luck with that

[Autumn]

5. That man is dumber than a fucking rock

Fuck Mitt Romney.

[sadbear]

6. Toast.

Chessmaster Obama is methodically lining up his pieces against Romney's king. He'll be in check very soon.

[mercuryblues]

31. the thing is

the Obama team have only moved their pawns so far.

[sadbear]

36. Ain't that a shame, too?

[Justice wanted]

7. Romney is basically crying Uncle and he isn't the offical nom yet.

Can't wait to see what it is going to be like when the movie trailer's stop and the Movie (in this case the election) gets started.

[get the red out]

8. Is this the ONION?

Seriously? He thinks he can ask his opponent to lay off his record? WTF??? This can NOT be serious. If pointing out his record in business, and his reluctance to come clean on his taxes hasn't destroyed him this certainly will.

This man is SO WEAK!

[bemildred]

9. What a sissy. nt

[Siwsan]

10. Willard has some VERY serious entitlement issues.

[ProSense]

11. This

after releasing his smug ass ad this morning: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021105006

[malaise]

12. Fuck you WiLLiARD Rmoney

Fuck you!

[Chiyo-chichi]

13. "Family"??

How has the Obama campaign attacked his family?
By pointing out that his father released many years of income tax returns?
By noting the large tax deduction he took for his wife's dressage horse?
I guess he construes those as attacks on his family.

[get the red out]

14. His treatment of Seamus was outed

I guess that was an attack on "family". Of course he outed it himself trying to be a regular guy because everyone puts their dog in a crate on the roof of a car......................................................

[BumRushDaShow]

15. Is this the Onion

or is he that stupid to think that people who are not cartoon characters like himself are going to fall for this? Besides, his Super PACs are gearing up for a $100,000,000 spend (and the rest of the money will evaporate in his pockets from his Ponzi scheme campaign).

[madaboutharry]

16. What a baby!

He isn't tough enough to be the president.

Can you hear it?.....Oh, Mr. leader of Iran, please don't be so mean......

What a schmuck.

[maddezmom]

18. he's pathetic

when he's not being a bully, he is being a whiny baby.

[JBoy]

19. Sounds to me like

[MrSlayer]

20. Fuck this guy.

Seriously, what a fucking buster. Go after him harder. Step on this son of a bitch's neck.

[Tom Ripley]

21. No Man Knows My History Redux

[madinmaryland]

22. President Obama's response was caught on camera...

[hifiguy]

23. This is almost Pythonesque.

And now for a real Python sketch illustrating the Obama v. Romney contest, in which Obama is played by Ken Clean-Air System (John Cleese) and Mittens is played by schoolgirl Petula Wilcox:

[maddezmom]

24. LOL

[woo me with science]

25. ROFL!

Well you can't blame the guy for trying... If the wars and the growing police state can be off limits, why not business, too?

[arely staircase]

26. "Our campaign would be helped immensely...?"

He is screwed beyond help. The fact he is appealing to the Obama campaign and Democrats to do something and prefaces it with that speaks volumes about not only the political lethality of the Democratic attack but The completely naive and unearned sense of entitlement Romney has.

[NightWatcher]

27. ya got him hurtin Rock, dont let up now

[RillyKewl]

29. Ok, Let's talk about your record as Governor!

Should we start with healthcare?
How about your various positions on abortion?
What did you promise the gay community when you ran for Senate?

Did you ask the Olympians at the Utah Games to applaud the people that helped them "get where they are today," because they "didn't do it all by themselves"?

[renate]

33. he'll be calling for all that to be off-limits next :)

Welcome to DU!

[lpbk2713]

30. Obama to Romney (by way of lpbk2713) "Blow it out your ass"

Would Mittens give Obama a break if the tables were turned?
Not a chance in hell. The GOP record speaks for itself.




      [big] "WAAAH!! No fair!!" [/big]

[applegrove]

32. He's doing the wounded bird routine mama birds do to lure predators towards themselves.

I still think there is nothing major to be found in Romney's taxes. It is all just to bait obama into frothing at the mouth over Romney's taxes... and then Romney will release boring taxes that show he paid 15% over the years.. and it will make Obama look foolish. Again and again it is republicans who start the news cycle of Romney's income taxes. And if Romney comes out with clean income taxes at the end of it - or when Obama has bitten the bait - it will be a non issue, Obama will look foolish and a whole lot of time that could have been spent on Obama attacking Bain will have been lost. I mean we were almost not talking about Romney's taxes yesterday and looky-see: Romney brings them up again in a way that makes him look weak.

[Zoeisright]

34. Okay, let's talk about the issues.

You'll lose, R(money). Because you are wrong on every single issue out there. And you lie about it.

[HopeHoops]

35. Obama to rMoney: "Yo, Mittens. Shut the fuck up, asshole."

[malaise]

37. No fugging truce

Yah lil wimp - this is the big league you scumbag ReTHUG.
Release your fugging tax returns

[NNN0LHI]

38. He should had thought about that before prancing around on stage with head birther Donald Trump

Too late now.

Don