Mitt Romney's campaign is degenerating into a ridiculous parody of the George W. Bush days. Tightly scripted messaging, a serious lack of spontaneity, and a total lack of specifics. Taking into account these comments from Haley Barbour, it seems the Romney campaign is designed that way. Don't give specifics -- presumably because any civics student could dissect Romney's policies as meaningless in short order. Watch it.
If Romney got specific...........it would turn away voters................so Mitt will just keep hiding his hidden agenda!!!!!!
Rob, Oregon
7/9/2012 10:46:37 AM
" During the Reagan campaign, the New York Times reported that a Barbour aide complained about "coons" at a campaign event. Barbour, embarrassed that the comment was overheard by a reporter, told the aide that he would be "reincarnated as a watermelon and placed at the mercy of blacks" if he continued making racist comments."
Are we talking that Barbour? Of course we are. What do you expect from an ex guv of Mississippi and a lobbying whore for big tobacco and several other Big Corp$. Romney can't be specific about anything. He should run on that slogan. "If elected I promise to be non specific about everything and solve nothing" Except of course to line the silk pockets of the wealthy with double stiching to hold all the cash coming their way.
miblue
7/9/2012 8:22:58 AM
It is smart. If America knew anything about his draconian plans for the Oligarchy (or is it Oily-garchy) it would further lower his chances of being elected. The final battle of class warfare is on the horizon - duck and cover!
ron mariposa
7/9/2012 8:05:18 AM
Rex these are the very points I try to bring up to the right side here where I live but they just wont listen. I even bring up what some forget about and that is the equipment we have gotten in the last few years from the grants to fire departments. Then I tell them under ryan's great plan that robme wants to have as his budget you can kiss your grants good by, you will see more cuts to public service like fire as they dont want to pay pensions for the dead beat fire fighters and police. Try to tell them that the right will have them riding horses and lighting the homes with candles they just laugh and if you ask how do you like the pot holes we have now soon you will be driving on dirt and in the winter no need to go out as the roads wont be plow off unless you do it yourself and they still wont listen.... the are so hell bend on defeating this evil man they will give up everything.
Rex, Moorhead
7/9/2012 1:02:44 AM
Romney needs to be specific because his "the economy is bad so vote for me" tells you precisely nothing of value. First of all, the corporate economy is actually quite good. Large Wall Street corporations and multinationals are reporting record profits both this year that could top last year's $2 trillion. The Dow Jones is at 12,500 plus up from 6,000 points when President Obama has taken office. Corporate taxes are also quite low. Most corporations hardly pay any or no corporate federal income taxes. Two thirds of Fortune 500 taxes pay no federal income taxes at all despite profits. For over 27 months we have created about 4.4 million jobs for consecutive growth. Manufacturing has also shown consistent growth and we are also seeing a modest recovery in the housing market. An improving housing market has traditionally pulled a slumping economy back into more robust growth.
The problem is the Main Street economy that is driven by commercial activity. The middle class in this country have had stagnant wages and salaries for at least the last 30 years. Net job growth for the Bush administration was essentially negative. We also are seeing huge wealth inequality with the richest quintuple of American households owning 85% of the total net worth and 93% of the financial wealth in 2007 (Domhoff 2010). The richest one percent of households owned 34.6% of the net worth and 42.7% of the financial wealth. The bottom four-fifths of American households own just 15% of the total net worth and a mere 7% of the financial wealth.
The bottom line is that the middle class in this country is shrinking while the upper class is getting richer. When the middle class has no money and fewer financial resources or lines of credit to borrow. Middle class net worth went down nearly 40% during the 2008 recession. Mutual funds, pension funds, retirement accounts, and home equity all shriveled up. It will take a much longer period of time for the middle class to recover than any analysts are saying. We should anticipate another couple of years of slow economic growth. The 2008 recession was the Great Recession because for many Americans it was the Lessor Depression as Paul Krugman calls it.
We need about a $3 trillion dollar infrastructure investment in this country. We should bury all of our power lines and start replacing our electrical grid. We need to replace our 104 old nuclear plants with fast neutron breeder reactors. We also need to replace our $2.2 trillion worth of infrastructure repairs and maintenance that the American Society of Civil Engineers says we must replace. We also need to start a long process of building more solar, wind, and geothermal sources of energy. Germany in May produced 50% of its electrical power during midday hours with solar power. This achievement is very profound because it proves that solar, wind, and geothermal energy along with a major biomass program can account the bulk of Germany's energy consumption. If Germany can do this so can America. Germany does not need to invest in nuclear powered carrier task force groups to secure its energy supply lines in the Middle East. Germany uses solar panels, wind farms connected to smart grids to produce most of its power. We need a jobs program in America. German green energy and modern infrastructure are what we need to do right now including mass transit bullet trains and buses here in America.
donnajoy
7/8/2012 10:20:21 PM
The GOP keeps thinking that the public is stupid. Romney has already disclosed what he will repeal on his first day if he were President. Also, Mitt said he thought that the Ryan Plan was "marvelous." So we do have an idea what Mitt thinks. Also, we see who he has chosen for his advisers, especially for his foreign advisers-most served under G.W. Bush. He, like many of his conservatives allies, is attempting to portray himself as the good guy. He will tell the public what he thinks they want to hear and then like the GOP governors, push the libertarian ideology of profit, profit, profit and survival of the fittest. His 59 point plan is not the answer. We saw how well deregulation and increased tax benefits for the wealthy and large corporations worked. Why would we want more of what did NOT work? Insanity is doing the same thing but expecting different results.
Linda S Houston
7/8/2012 8:09:02 PM
You know things have seriously deteriorated in a campaign when THIS GUY becomes the spokesman! The convicted murderer's best buddy!
The truth is, the entire GOP and the TP are extremely unhappy with their candidate. That's why they have to keep making up twilight zone stuff to justify that he is even their candidate. Kind of like the Wizard of Oz, just close your eyes, keep clicking your heels together and saying over and over again, "There's no candidate like Romney".
The next scene will be Kansas, Auntie Em and Uncle Henry's farm will have been foreclosed on, they'll strap Toto to the top of the wagon as they have to pack up all their worldly goods and look for a homeless shelter. All the farm hands will have been laid off. Dorothy will have to give up college and work at the nearest Walmart for minimum wage.
Welcome to life in Romney's world.
Puyallup Girl
7/8/2012 6:39:00 PM
Excuse me Barbour, what you just said here doesn't make one bit of sense. I guess that is par for the cource, with you stupid people, in that party! If you are going to say that the other guys policies are wrong, then you have to lay out some of your own, to give people an option, or a reason, to vote for you, and that is that!!!You cannot go around and hide in secrecy, and then lower the boom on people once you are elected. People are way tired of that kind of thing! That is why those of us on here need to keep talking, and talking, maybe some out there are listening.
Scotty_Mac
7/8/2012 3:44:07 PM
The GOP lie machine (kinda rhymes that does) is rather slow moving at times but when it builds up a head of steam it really goes. Obama and his team are keeping them off balance for now and it is working to their advantage. If they can keep attacking so that Mittens has to keep changing topics every week or so then Mittens will make more and more mistakes (I think the Rombot doesn't have enough memory to hold more than 1 Gig of memory and the GOP doesn't want to pay for an upgrade on him!!)
Now if only the Right wing media would start to question the Rombot when he lies instead of continually letting the GOP have a free pass then things would get interesting.
The media and the SCOTUS has things stacked against Obama but he may just pull this one out of the bag ;)
ron mariposa
7/8/2012 2:06:54 PM
the reason robme hasnt laid out a full plan is because his puppet masters havent given him the script yet. All these people say their polls show robme in the lead, but I guess when you poll 99% gop or tea baggers you will get alot of good numbers. Robme has given us a hint of what he wants, ryan budget is great and a great model for us and the states, bush's policies will lead us back to greatness, defund and deregulate, make us a waring nation around the world,(shock and awe Iran) cut the taxes again for the job creators, and need I say more. I am waiting for the puppet masters to add to this list. But the minions of the right will cheer for their own demise. just my humble views
