Video: Mitt "Frat Boy" Romney Doesn't Look Very Presidential

I don't see a president here. I see a very small man, petty and vindictive after being rocked by losing South Carolina. Romney hasn't fought anyone on the issues. He dissembles when they come up. And we all know his vile attacks on the other candidates began all the way back in Iowa. I don't like what I see in this guy. I really don't. 

 

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[OCBill]

===== Romney embraces statehood for Puerto Rico =====

Yeah, that should work. Well, it should work if we need another true blue state forever. Why I think Puerto Rico would make a dandy new state!

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2012/01/30/mitt-romney-will-puerto-rican-vote-give-him-florida/

Excerpt:
At the end of a long weekend of campaigning in South Florida, where the Cuban American vote has been largely emphasized, Mitt Romneys’ strong embrace of Puerto Rican statehood and an endorsement from Governor Luis Fortuño [emph. added], may signal a shift of momentum in favor of Romney among Latino Republicans in the Sunshine state.

[Rose]

He may offer Puerto Rican's statehood but I guess he doesn't think We the People have a say in that.

He talks about all the people against Newt but I haven't seen any current Republicans with any conservative standing endorse him.

I haven't seen Paul Ryan support Gov. Walker in the recall effort either. Methinks the Republicans are hiding out in panic and they should be in a panic. If they turn out the tea party they will be all done. Many will stay home rather than vote for Frat Boy. They have asked us to hold our nose and vote too many times.

[StrangernFiction]

I can't watch.

[Kaye]

Riehl Levin just played a great recording of Mitt congratulating his colaberator on romney care Ted Kennedy.

[Ferdinand Foch]

"I don't like what I see in this guy. I really don't."

Yep... this guy is Nixon with better hair.

[Dustin]

"At the end of a long weekend of campaigning in South Florida, where the Cuban American vote has been largely emphasized, Mitt Romneys’ strong embrace of Puerto Rican statehood and an endorsement from Governor Luis Fortuño [emph. added], may signal a shift of momentum in favor of Romney among Latino Republicans in the Sunshine state."

Mitt Romney doesn't seem to give a crap about the long term fight. He'll pander on anything, with any consequence, if it helps Mitt.

[m]

I can't watch it. Romney is hurting the Republican Party and he will not get my vote. It is going to be the race for Romney to lose the election in November.

[ljm]

Look at it this way. After he's elected Romney can repent and be forgiven for all of his "sins" against Gingrich. Works for Newt.

Newt's gonna need a little forgiveness himself. Remember this doozy from the Iowa debates?

Newt first insisted repeatedly that he never supported an individual mandate on health insurance, but when Mitt pinned him down on supporting it with the Heritage Foundation, Newt just shrugged his shoulders and said, “All right, you got me on that one.”

Then there was the "King of Bain" movie (hoax) that Newt actually promoted on the debate prior to its debut.

He has been calling Romney a liar since Iowa saying he is "blatantly" and "fundamentally dishonest." He doubled down yesterday calling Romney maniacal. Then he threw in the kitchen sink and turned it up to eleven.

"Governor Romney cut off kosher meals for Jewish senior citizens on Medicaid for $5 a day," Gingrich said. "I think Governor Romney is extraordinarily insensitive to religious freedom in America."

The truth: Massachusetts turned down a request from nursing homes for a 5.00 subside while the state was trying to balance the budget. The nursing home patients still got their kosher meals. The subside was granted later after the state got through the crisis.

I could go on but perhaps these fairy tales are what prompted Romney's Fox and Friends riff.

[gary gulrud]

"He has been calling Romney a liar since Iowa saying he is "blatantly" and "fundamentally dishonest." He doubled down yesterday calling Romney maniacal. Then he threw in the kitchen sink and turned it up to eleven."

This is a criticism of Gingrich? How?

Romney is a congenital liar.

[ltw]

Mitt Romney looks very presidential as in "Lincoln" or prophetic as in "Charleton Heston" on Drudge page right now.

By the way I love Brian Snyder/Reuters photos.

Especially the one here.... http://theweek.com/article/index/219980/why-sarah-palin-isnt-running-for-president-5-theories

....although they missed theory no. 6. Mitt's nightmare.

[Doors Xp]

Romney is a horrible candidate (and a horrible person, we have learned). Yet, if Romney wins the nomination, it will be in large part because of the failure of conservatives to align against the establishment GOP, similar to 2008, only a lot worse because we had better conservatives in the race for 2012.

Funny though, because Romney expects that conservatives will vote for him because "Obama unites the Republican party". He's right that it's the way Romney can win. Hence, a Romney win will be in large part the result of 1ST conservatives' inability to unite in the primary, AND conservatives' willingness to accept such a poor candidate as the lesser of two evils.

I won't vote for Romney because I refuse to validate the GOP elites tactics, on principle. However, I don't have much confidence that other conservatives have enough backbone to do the same. If they did, would we even have to face such a situation in the first place?

Perhaps if conservatives are this strategically incompetent, they don't deserve to be running the country anyway. For example, Santorum's stubbornness to stay in the race is about to give an unearned victory by plurality in FL to Romney. What good is a "true conservative" like Santorum who effectively, perhaps unwittingly, blocks conservatives from any chance to win the nomination. No one can save the people from themselves and the "leaders" they elect or fail to elect.

Furthermore, the failure of conservative icons like Rush, Hannity, etc. to educate their audience about these strategic factors (in an attempt of so-called neutrality), has effectively provided cover to most of Romney's unethical behavior. If these guys don't see the need to risk anything to fight a liberal within like Romney, how can we expect the average conservative to fight it. It's pretty sad.

[rrpjr]

Since you suddenly seem interested in psycho-analysis, Mitt, you might want to know it's called "projection."

[Reaganite Republican]

We need to put some serious pressure on Santorum to hit the showers

Would be the best thing he's ever done for the conservative movement

[EBL]

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/01/31/the_florida_smear_campaign_112973.html Thomas Sowell agrees

[EBL]

Actually if Newt and Santorum (and Paul) stay in till the end, it might be the only way to take out Mitt. The three of them could in theory get enough delegates to deny Mitt the nomination. In a two way race, Romney probably beats Gingrich. Fourway, Gingrich has a chance of building an alliance at the convention.

[ljm]

Because, Gary, Gingrich has a serious truthiness problem himself.

[Kerry]

What a condescending bastard!

[Coffee260]

Dan, I have a sneaking suspicion that much of the republican establishment and some true conservatives support for Romney over Gingrich has a lot to do with image over substance, and Ann Coulter has said as much. Sure they differ on issues but image, appearance, and what they foresee the liberals in the media saying about Newt and depictions of him in political cartoons has them scrambling. Thinking about having to defend an old, chubby, white haired WASP makes them, in my opinion, queasy and embarrassed. I think its almost all about appearance to them. They imagine opening up the WaPo or NY Times and seeing a cartoonish Gingrich made to look like a slave owning, monopoly guy with oil dripping from his teeth and they can't have that. Gingrich, too them, is the Republican version of Joe Biden except with hair. But you won't ever hear them saying, "Ole, that's just Newt being Newt."

[Ragspierre]

Good grief...!!!

This isn't a question of who isn't a flawed human being. THEY ALL ARE...!!!

It isn't a question of lying. THEY ALL DO...!!!

It IS a question of who would make a good POTUS.

Of the choices, Romney would NOT, Gingrich WOULD, and Santorum is VERY IFFY.

[EBL]

http://evilbloggerlady.blogspot.com/2012/01/george-soros-not-much-difference.html George Soros: Not much difference between Obama and Romney...

[Dustin]

"Yet, if Romney wins the nomination, it will be in large part because of the failure of conservatives to align against the establishment GOP, similar to 2008, only a lot worse because we had better conservatives in the race for 2012."

YES.

It's the conservatives who messed up this time and several times in the past. It's not Romney's fault his ugly campaign is still credible. Of course he's going to run that way... he has no record and he's in the wrong political party.

What REALLY happened here was people like Michelle Malkin (whom I respect) TRASHED Perry over incredibly minor stuff like Gardasil, and then endorsed folks like Santorum who plainly are big government republicans (that's Malkin's own description). We rejected all the best candidates again. Every time, it's the actual conservative... the guy who actually wants to balance the budget and reform the entitlements... who gets by far the harshest appraisal.

When we were seeing Perry trashed for Gardasil, did these folks note that it's about a million times less intrusive than Romneycare? Why not focus on Romneycare first, then go to the next most liberal guy, Huntsman, and on and on there? That would make more sense, but instead we see conservatives seek out the most conservative guy so they can explain how even they just aren't good enough.

It's pretty much insane.

[Bill C]

Anyone notice the video cut at about 2:38?

Anyway, one thing this process has done is out all of the fair weather conservatives. I think Malkin is a conservative but her political instincts are crap. Endorsing Santorum now instead of after Iowa? What good does that do? I don't dislike Santorum but there is a time to get out if you are not catching on. I was a Perry supporter but I was really happy he decided to call it quits before SC and throw his support to Newt. That was the right thing to do politically and shows that Perry puts conservatism before himself.

Santorum is going to have to do this soon.