Reporters blast Romney’s “Hurricane relief” stunt

[UCmeNdc]

I wrote last night about how it seemed that Mitt Romney was planning on using Hurricane Sandy to camouflage a political event today in Ohio (and similar ones in WI for Paul Ryan). It turns out I was right. Reporters on the scene of the “charity” event are horrified by the politicking they’re seeing. They’re even apparently giving out anti-Obama t-shirts at the “non-partisan” charity relief rally.


I warned last night that Mitt Romney was planning on using Hurricane Sandy as an opportunity to get around his promise to not hold any political events today, by holding fake Hurricane “relief” events in states that didn’t even get hurricaned like Ohio and Wisconsin, but which do happen to be important swing states.

And they did just that.

While Mitt Romney is infamous for his flip-flops, and the lack of value to his “word,” he also has a growing infamy for using human tragedy as political opportunity. You’ll recall that in the 47% video, Romney said that he would keep his eyes open for an “opportunity” like the Iran Hostage Crisis – he actually called that crisis an “opportunity” – that he could use to help his campaign.

And Romney’s campaign admitted that they saw the murder of Ambassador Chris Stevens in Benghazi as yet another “opportunity” for their campaign.


http://americablog.com/2012/10/romney-shows-campaign-video-at-hurricane-sandy-relief-event.html

[tblue]

1. Opportunity? I could throw up.

Who could vote for that guyt????

[ObaMania]

7. Who?

Apparently, 49% of likely voters.

[msongs]

2. romney and his gang are gonna make a lot of $$ from this hurricane thing nt

[NBachers]

3. Look at how giddy with delight he is over the attack and deaths in Libya- another opportunity

Romney gloats over death and gory bedlam



If you want to read Charlie Pierce eviscerate wRongney, read here:

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/obama-romney-hurricane-sandy-14261227

[Cha]

6. Thanks for the link to Charlie's piece, NBachers. And, that

illustration of mitt unmasked!

That part cracks me up about those warning Pres Obama not to politicize the Hurricane. That's all the complainers are doing..is politicizing it. They're all so freaking jealous that he can do the job.

[reflection]

10. wow brutal takedown.

Thanks for sharing that.

[NCLefty]

11. OMG yes.

Super brutal:

Look, America, you've had your fun. [Snip] It was a tremendous, rolling good time to follow this year's Republican primary, in which, while the rest of the world likely looked on in horror, one of our two political parties allowed a veritable Wrestlemania of political dementia to produce the most singularly soulless and mendacious nominee since it allowed Richard Nixon to rise from moldy earth again. It was great good jolly fun to come right up to the edge of n-bombing the president and then, giggling like schoolboys caught wanking out a window, run away.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

4. I have run out of ways to insult the candidate. nt

[Cha]

5. Yeah, it's a challenge. mittload always tries to stay at least

two steps ahead on Vulgar Opportunism while insulting people who are trying to actually help others.



http://theobamadiary.com/

[Yul A]

8. I hope ENOUGH reporters are angry about it

The media has let Mittwit away with too damn much in the past 4 weeks!

[AsahinaKimi]

9. This should prove right here and now that He can not be trusted...and

Republicans want him in the white house? Day Three after he has the Presidency, he would sell it to China and leave for the Caymen Islands to Retire.

[NCLefty]

12. I remember when the Brits dubbed him "Mitt the Twit."

Everyone outside of the right-wing echo-chamber can see this huckster for what he is.

[lunatica]

13. Somebody has to point out the obvious

Because we've seen what happens when the obvious is ignored. We're living the results right now.

This is like living in a bad dream.