Mitt Romney: GOP Primary Debates Were 'Nuts,' Networks 'Liberals Beating The Heck Out Of Us'
Source: Huffington Post
Mitt Romney slammed the Republican primary debates, and the media, in the same call to donors in which he made his infamous "gifts" comments.
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"We had 20 Republican debates, that was absolutely nuts," he said. "It opened us up to gaffes and to material that could be used against us in the general, and we were fighting these debates for a year, and the incumbent president just sat back and laughed."
Romney benefited from the primary debates more than, say, Rick Perry, but the forums became more well-known for elevating the Herman Cains of the party, as well as highlighting primary crowds that booed gay soldiers and applauded executions.
Romney also said that the networks that hosted the debates were working against the party. He said that next time, the GOP should "agree that we're gonna do, you know, I don't know, eight debates, and we're gonna, we're gonna do one a month, and we're gonna pick stations that are reasonable, it's not all gonna be done by CNN and NBC, alright, I mean we're gonna try and guide this process so that it's designed to showcase the best of our people as opposed to showcasing liberals beating the heck out of us."
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/17/mitt-romney-gop-primary-debates_n_2150830.html
Poor little victimMitt. Call the wambulance...
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barnabas63
(1,214 posts)
RandySF
(84,314 posts)In 1992, the Democrats participated in primary debates sponsored, conducted and broadcast by LOCAL news stations.
Grins
(9,459 posts)Both parties should go back to a past practice - to let all the debates be run by the League of Women Voters that ran them very well for years. The media sat in the audience/studio and was not allowed to participate.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)well, I enjoyed watching it. 
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Really...
So now he's gonna blame his complete and total defeat on his colleagues? (he's blamed it on everything else but sun spots)
Like he's DIFFERENT from any of those other clowns.
Again, clueless and arrogant. I mean, it's mind boggling!
bluerum
(6,109 posts)to. But I suspect that like Dubya, he's going to be exiled to some unknown wilderness. Cons are quickly distancing themselves from Mittens and asking him to please shut up.
calimary
(90,021 posts)Yeah, I think that's probably correct. He has loser stench all over him. He may not have the huge financial donor largesse at his fingertips anymore. NOBODY likes being connected to a loser. Glad you're here! We need to make sure we build on the gains we made, and HOUSECLEAN the House in 2014!!! As well as keeping the Senate.
Thanks for the welcome calimary.
I had the same thought in regards to 2014. I'm delfintely hoping a few more of the jokes in congress will be packing up and going home.
It's baffling that these idiots profess hatred for government and decry compromise. I want representatives that believe government can do good and who are ready and willing to compromise. There is a relationship between the president and congress somewhat like an arranged marriage. What relationship can survive, let alone thrive without compromise?
Wouldn't it be great if we could motivate and mobilize liberals and leaning liberals to vote in 2014. We have the numbers on our side. I think it was Howard Dean who said "when democrats vote, democrats win". If the wing nuts continue on their present course, maybe enough voters will realize what's at stake and cast a ballot.
NYC Liberal
(20,453 posts)From what I can tell he just wanted to get the hell away by the time he left office. He's happy to be left alone in Dallas to get drunk or do whatever he enjoys. It's not like being president was really his life's goal. He was pushed into politics by mommy and daddy -- a big part of the reason he was such a fuck-up in the job.
Skittles
(171,716 posts)bush was a coward to the end
NYC Liberal
(20,453 posts)or see his mug on TV.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)
coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)"Romney is now a toxic asset to unload," the historian Jack Bohrer remarked Saturday. "The only interesting thing left to his story is how they dispose of him."
http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/why-republicans-want-to-make-mitt-romney-go-away
aletier_v
(1,773 posts)Massive entertainment may still be in store until 2016.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Republicans, your party, is just crazy.
Democrats could have held 20 debates held by Fox News and they would still have appeared sane and more attractive than you and your party.
Mitt, dear, your problem is that you did not release your income tax returns in the midst of extreme controversy about your role in outsourcing and shipping American jobs overseas. That was your real problem. You are just the epitome of everything most Americans don't like. Face it. The Republican philosophy is a loser because it is insane. It doesn't and never has worked. And those who believe it are doomed to lose in a sane, can-do country.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)was letting people see who he is.
Not releasing the tax returns was just the icing on the cake of the Imperial Candidacy that he & Empress Anne ran.
Those People just lacked the class to properly appreciate and defer to royalty.
Andy823
(11,555 posts)The more people learned about him the less they liked him. He simply can't admit he was on lousy candidate that his own party didn't really like. He came off as an arrogant rich white man who felt "entitled" to become the next president of the U.S.A., and now he simply can't fathom how he lost when he himself "knew" it was in the bag, and all he had to do was continue to avoid talking about actual "plans" to fix things, keep on lying his ass off, and it would be all his! To bad that didn't work out for him. Now he has to lay the blame on everything but the truth, and the truth was he sucked!
CanonRay
(16,171 posts)It is just not in him to admit fault. He was born, and remains perfect, in his world.
2naSalit
(102,798 posts)the last guy for whom hamRove purchased a presidential election, only that one won, which is why we could smell the stink on that stuff this time around.
Squinch
(59,522 posts)"the forums became more well known for elevating the Herman Cains of the party"
They were ALL the Herman Cains of the party. Romney was no better than Cain. He was just less funny about his idiocy.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)
calimary
(90,021 posts)So THAT'S where it went! My husband has been invoking the WAAAAAAAAMBULANCE ever since Election Night!
Glad you're here! Let's make sure we have our President's back - throughout his second term! Lots of bad guys still lurking around - who have to be chased away.
liberalmuse
(18,881 posts)Everyone but himself is to blame for his loss. 
aletier_v
(1,773 posts)OMG, I thought we were done with Mitt.
Holy shit, he really does not have a clue.
nuxvomica
(14,092 posts)It's not their "gaffes" that lost them the election, or their failure to communicate the conservative message properly. They did communicate it and the majority of Americans didn't want what they were selling. Heck, 20 or 30 years ago, most Republicans wouldn't have gone for it. You'd think "businessmen" would be able to figure that out.
madamesilverspurs
(16,512 posts)that it is NOT everyone else's fault that he sucks pond scum.
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zbdent
(35,392 posts)they were all great practice for him, right???
Scuba
(53,475 posts)
PatSeg
(53,214 posts)but he refuses to take responsibility for his part in the loss. He was a terrible candidate and the nonstop lying didn't help either. I STILL want to see those tax returns. No candidate for president should be able to get away with that kind of evasion.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)Poor Mittens lost for once
And Mitt was used to being able to BUY whatever he wanted. I think he really believed that all it took was enough money. He has no concept of what democracy is.
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)illusion that he has some sort of power within the rethug party. He might want to check in w/ rushbo about that.
amandabeech
(9,893 posts)That is, until he met Barack Obama and the Obama campaign team.
Go away, Mitt. Please lick your wounds in private.
highplainsdem
(62,148 posts)
Kingofalldems
(40,278 posts)montex
(93 posts)Let that sink in for a moment.
calimary
(90,021 posts)No kidding. That's one of the most astounding little factoids of this campaign. Too bad she wasn't completely hosed outta there. Unfortunately she gets to return to her job on Capitol Hill. What are those constituents THINKING??????? 
Glad you're here. Maybe you can help us figure that out...
Lasher
(29,577 posts)Wasn't he a governor or something about a decade or so ago?
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Mittens is blaming everyone but himself who lead a fucked up campaign. Typical GOPper tho, never take any blame for anything. The present GOP party is in a downward out of touch free fall.
crazylikafox
(2,925 posts)
StrictlyRockers
(3,934 posts)The more he opens his mouth, the more Rethuglicans look like out of touch losers more interested in pointing fingers and blaming others than in taking personal responsibility.
The more he talks, the more I say, "This guys just DOES NOT GET IT!"
Tarheel_Dem
(31,454 posts)with this clown. Romney is walking, breathing proof that money can't buy class. He's a loser.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)as the British would say "piss orf"
Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)
2naSalit
(102,798 posts)
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)And your party needs to do a better job (than it did) in selecting WHO gets to vote!
crim son
(27,552 posts)to see what a bullshitter he is. He lost because he is a liar with values that shift with the wind, who furthermore couldn't care less about the vast majority of the people in this country. That's why he lost, and it's time for him to just shut up about it.
Bainbridge Bear
(155 posts)"Talk to the hand." Well, we are finding out what a whiny son of a bitch Willard really is when he doesn't get what he wants. What an absolutely appalling president he would have been. We definitely dodged a bullet on this one.
2naSalit
(102,798 posts)It was more like a full on mortar attack. I bet he's still having outright temper tantrums by the hour. Maybe he'll do himself in during a fit of apoplexy...
Cha
(319,079 posts)it's his own performance in those neverending gopropaganda primaries(thank you for those, btw)?
"Severely Conservative" to wrapping himself around Pres Obama in the 3rd debate? 
http://theobamadiary.com/
wordpix
(18,652 posts)
alsame
(7,784 posts)having an epic meltdown.
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njlibguy_19656mm
(24 posts)What a sore loser Mitt is
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Sorry, Mitt, but it was only nuts because the candidates were nuts.
Chipper Chat
(10,870 posts)His stupidity cost Mitt about 2 million votes.
calimary
(90,021 posts)I don't know what pissed me off more - that there were pigs in that audience who had the gall to boo a soldier IN THE ACTUAL FIELD OF BATTLE at that very moment, putting his life on the line in harms way at that very moment, simply because he was gay, OR that those worthless pieces of shit on the stage just stood there like so many steaming piles, and said NOTHING. NOT ONE of them, wrongney, gingrich, santorum, bachmann, rick perry, herman caine, not ONE of them spoke up and scolded the audience for its unpatriotic lack of respect. NOT ONE. NOT ONE!!!!! Oh heaven forbid we step forward and make any waves with the precious fucking teabaggers. And a nice little crowd of chickenhawks up on that stage, at that. Pretty chickenhawks all in a row. I bet NOT ONE of them ever served.
Every one of those worthless bums up on that stage proved himself or herself totally and absolutely UNFIT to be Commander-in-Chief at that moment. They stood there in utter silence while those yahoos in the audience were booing that soldier. So impressed (NOT!!!!!) with the type of crowd these candidates attracted. The "let 'em DIE!" crowd. The cheer-all-those-executions crowd. The boo-a-soldier-on-active-duty-in-a-war-zone crowd. UNWORTHY. TOTALLY AND ABSOLUTELY UNWORTHY. They just disgraced themselves that night, in my opinion. The whole disgusting lineup of them.
That was a national disgrace. What's that old saying - "by thy friends art thou known"? That night, I saw a totally repulsive, treasonous, disgusting crowd of so-called people I don't want ANY part of.
toby jo
(1,269 posts)2naSalit
(102,798 posts)once someone is able to map the genetic disparity that identifies this psychological malady, perhaps we can label them as a subspecies that need not be recognized.
The Old Creak
(238 posts)was the party of personal responsibility......?MY BAD.
sakabatou
(46,149 posts)
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)"We had 20 Republican debates, that was absolutely nuts," he said. "It opened us up to gaffes and to material that could be used against us in the general, and we were fighting these debates for a year, and the incumbent president just sat back and laughed."
A rare moment of clarity from Mitt. Of course he subsequently descended into the usual nonsense.
rocktivity
(45,006 posts)Because All Of Its Candidates Were Nuts
rocktivity
MjolnirTime
(1,800 posts)
pasto76
(1,589 posts)John2
(2,730 posts)maybe Mitt don't think the Republican Party has fired him? He might think he is still the Boss. He has never been fired from a position before. He really didn't get the job as President, but he still had the job as the Presidential candidate of the Republican Party. Don't forget, he bought some of them off by promising them gifts. After all the donors are his share holders. He never failed at getting profits before. This is a complete failure for Mitt as a businessman.
jmowreader
(53,194 posts)Only about half Mitt's deals were profitable, and 22 percent of all his deals went to bankruptcy while Bain owned the companies. (A lot more went to bankruptcy after Bain put the companies back on the market.)
2naSalit
(102,798 posts)those were all carefully orchestrated "harvesting" events from which he made millions while everyone else involved was left circling the bowl.
Third Doctor
(1,574 posts)I guess he thinks a fair network is Faux News. The debates just exposed more of his flawed character then he would have liked. These are just dumb excuses to avoid the obvious. Mitt is probably one of the worst candidates for POTUS in the last half century or more.
DallasNE
(8,008 posts)He was kept in a bubble where nothing bad was ever allowed to penetrate that bubble. It was so absolute that he was so sure of victory he didn't even write a concession speech, never mind that he lost in a 332-206 landslide. And now we see the true Romney come forward and it is the same Romney we saw earlier in his infamous "47% speech". I said throughout the campaign that Romney reminded me of Nixon as a person. It turns out he was even worse, if that is possible.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)I'm gonna have to listen to that enormous sack of shit for another election cycle, aren't I?
aletier_v
(1,773 posts)
ballaratocker
(126 posts)But I also believe he isn't helping himself. He should now try to work within the party to take it back from the fringe rather than whine about losing.
xtraxritical
(3,576 posts)2naSalit
(102,798 posts)It looked to me that the fringe had to lean waaaay out there to bridge the distance between them and his position that was even further to the right, after the curtain was pulled back and the phony wizard willard was exposed.
Zambero
(9,990 posts)With a crowded field of GOP primary candidates engaged in prime time hatchet fights trying to kill each other off as quickly as possibly, not to forget the reprehensible "applause lines" eminating from the audience, I don't believe that the demeanor or "bias" of moderators weighed in too heavily with the viewing audience.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)
appleannie1
(5,457 posts)aletier_v
(1,773 posts)I thought he'd ride off into the sunset but no, he has to make an even larger ass of himself by pursuing 2016, oblivious that even republicans dislike him.
Rob H.
(5,851 posts)Shorter Mitt: "If only people hadn't seen how awful I am, I might've won!"
Even shorter Mitt:
tanyev
(49,297 posts)I do not think it means what he thinks it means.
patrice
(47,992 posts)
BattyDem
(11,075 posts)I'm fed up with you and your self-absorbed, arrogant, "it's-everyone's-fault-but-mine" attitude! You are a lying, conniving, sorry excuse for a human being! I am very happy and relieved that you will never, EVER be our President!
vlyons
(10,252 posts)For Romney, the penultimate marketing guy, it's all about presenting candidates in the most favorable light. Well you can pur haute couture clothes on a manakin, but it's still a manakin. And you can present a turd on a plush velvet pillow, but it's still a turd. They just don't get that their policies and ideas are the problem.
DallasNE
(8,008 posts)He got more white voters than McCain did. But there just are not enough angry, old white men around to carry him to victory. Not even the voter disenfranchisement efforts could save him. They may have saved a Senate seat in Arizona, however.
TomChicago
(29 posts)
JHB
(38,213 posts)"I mean, isn't it obvious that us speaking in public makes us look bad?"
zonkers
(5,865 posts)
iemitsu
(3,891 posts)The campaign went south quickly after he took over. Mitt, no doubt, would like to just walk over to Tagg and smack him in the face.
Seriously though, I thought throughout most of the campaign season, that Mitt didn't really care if he won the office. He made so little effort to appeal to the public that I couldn't see anyone voting for him. He said and did stupid things like insulting the crowd at the NAACP convention.
Then, after the first debate, when Romney morphed into Romney v.01, I was certain he would lose support (as I cannot stand a liar and feel certain that others hate them too). But, as we all know, the media ignored his prevarication and acted as if Romney had been anointed by his astounding performance.
As election day neared and finally on election night, while watching Rove meltdown on Fox, I feared that the fix was in and that that explained Romney's apparent lack of concern about his image earlier in the campaign.
I still think a planned "fix" was in the mix and partly explains why Romney thought he would win. Its possible, perhaps probable, that Romney didn't know about a fix and was just told he was doing well and a shoe-in for the job, or that he really did think Americans would overwhelmingly back/trust him over a man who had already been tested on the job.
Evidently many republicans accepted the same notion too, that enough of us who voted for Obama in the last election were so mad at him that we would vote republican. Or they believed that enough racists would climb out of the woodwork and vote against the black man, that any republican could win. Or something related to them having their heads up their asses way too far.
What they don't get is that we (or at least I) would never vote for the republican candidate just because I didn't like everything about the democratic one. Their ideas and values are repugnant to me.
Romney didn't win because people are seeing the light about republican politics, that when Republicans rule bad things happen to good people.
maxrandb
(17,428 posts)The primary was an look inside of his party.
N-U-T-S!
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)aw, ick.
Mothdust
(133 posts)Before making his $10,000 bet in front of the whole world !
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)
GeorgeGist
(25,570 posts)
Not Sure
(735 posts)He is going to try to insinuate himself into the Republican dialogue over the next election cycle. That's a good thing. Keep him, Ryan and Rove and all their little idiot friends talking. They are digging a hole. Let them dig. People will leave them in droves.
aletier_v
(1,773 posts)It could bollocks the Republicans
but I don't think they'll let it happen again.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)Freedom of the Press? What an absolute idiot.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)You didn't have to jump on the crazy car, Mitt. John Huntsman didn't (of course, he didn't get the nomination either, but he maintained his integrity, which is more than you have.)
Twenty debates too much for you? Barack Obama had an even longer primary season in 2008, with as many debates. Of course, only difference is, he was on stage with a whole slew of excellent people, and fought it out with a stellar opponent to the end. And he never complained. They kept it classy. And all the while Fox News and the rest were treating him like a criminal alien: the Reverend Wright thing, the Muslim accusations, the questioning of his nationality. And he never complained or blamed anyone.
You know why? Because he has integrity, and you don't. And that's why he won and you didn't. Take a look in the mirror and face the truth.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)What a fuck'n asshole.
And I just cannot believe that this dick, will not STFU and go away.
2naSalit
(102,798 posts)Palin disease. If people would not open articles which include his name that appear in online web sites, he'd keep sinking to the bottom of the pages and become irrelevant and eventually silenced due to the fact that he doesn't generate interest. As Palin is losing her appeal, so would he if we ignore him enough. He's already losing his appeal with his benefactors. Sooner or later, someone will just stop giving him a megaphone and a soapbox. The biggest challenge is that he has a lot more money and all the lack of tacit knowledge, intellect and class than Caribou Barbie...
"I know money doesn't buy everything, but what it won't buy, I can't use..." Might be one of mittens' mottoes. So if he's denied what money can't buy, maybe he'll go away.
PS... this also prove princess Anne's lie that she wouldn't let him do it again, or he's lying about it.
Berlum
(7,044 posts)A liar. A greedhead. A Chickenhawk draft dodger. A FAIL Freak. And a Whiner.
The Wielding Truth
(11,433 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)
liberal N proud
(61,194 posts)Happyhippychick
(8,422 posts)
bushisanidiot
(8,064 posts)if he couldn't even handle republican primary debates.
what kind of SERIOUS candidates wants LESS debates in order to avoid GAFFES????
He and the entire republican offering, with the exception of Jon Huntsman are
no where fit to run the U.S. The entire republican base should be ashamed and
embarrassed that their party has no substantial leaders who the base won't demonize
as RINOs.
Botany
(77,324 posts).... wanted Obama to win Mitt?
Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)Then break them up and sell them for scrap.
We all win.
joesdaughter
(243 posts)olegramps
(8,200 posts)Only person less qualified to be in line for the presidency was Palin.
madmom
(9,681 posts)enki23
(7,795 posts).
aandegoons
(473 posts)It was the debaters that were nuts.
agentS
(1,325 posts)That's your own fault.
OK, so the Republican party base being a bunch of fuckwits didn't help either. But hey, you're a businessman- you can't always choose your customers.
LeftishBrit
(41,453 posts)showcasing liberals beating the heck out of us'
Why do I suddenly get these flashbacks to Pravda in the days of the Soviet Union?!
Most of the world is very glad you did NOT elect him as your president!
Madmiddle
(459 posts)wants the rules tweeked to suit himself. Who'da thunk it. He wants only a republican propaganda network, with soft peddle questions, all wrapped with dollar bills with his face on it, to present the debates, like maybe it is a Miss America red carpet peagent.
No, all the networks had to do was turn on the cameras and the republicans screwed themselves with their hatred. You said, let people die that don't have insurance. Give one percenters another twenty percent tax breaks. Kill social security. Privatize medicair and medicaid. Get rid of planned parenthood. Romney? People were watching you say this, in your own words, on national TV.
PennsylvaniaMatt
(966 posts)"and the incumbent president just sat back and laughed."
Yes he did! I can picture it now! "Michelle, grab the popcorn, Mitt and Rick Santorum are about to make an ass out of themselves!"
itsrobert
(14,157 posts)n/t
Uniblab
(25 posts)Is obvious to all except themselves. Most Americans did not agree with their disdain for women, minorities, the unions and the middle class. Oh, we heard their message loud and clear alright. And guess what? Most Americans don't agree with them. They sad thing is ......they blame their loss everything imaginable except the truth. HEY, GOP.... WE DON'T LIKE YOUR HATEFUL MESSAGE. IT'S THE MESSAGE STUPID!
azbillyboy
(56 posts)Kolob needs you.
Please go home.
NOW!
yellowcanine
(36,792 posts)You are finished. Deal with it and STFU already.
CoffeeCat
(24,411 posts)...and Ivy-League education can't buy wisdom.
Mitt blames what was said at the extreme right-wing primary debates on the NETWORKS?
Seriously. What in the hell does that even mean?
Americans heard your right-wing bizarro beliefs and rejected them. Flat out.
Dear Mitt--America is just not that into you. Deal with it.
Man, I have never seen such rock-solid denial. Mitt is behaving like Charlie Sheen in his "winning" phase.
Enough. 
eyewall
(674 posts)Well, it's after...
adicortez
(47 posts)"Get back to work fixing the economy and creating jobs instead of trying to assign blame in an old situation. Unless of course you are incompetent and unable to fix the economy and create jobs. In that case, you can simply resign and let someone in who can fix it."
No Elephants
(37,279 posts)If so, he is even more out of touch than anyone imagined.
Then again, the right thought showing police brutality to civil rights demonstrators in the 1950's and 1960s proved that media leaned left.
No, they just ever so briefly leaned human.
Pakid
(478 posts)its the Republican party who has gone nuts!
On the Road
(20,783 posts)No way Romney can spin this to blame all the debates on the Democratic Party.