Obama Team Gangs Up on Romney, ‘Political Gymnast’ Who ‘Doesn’t Have a Core’
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President Obama’s top campaign strategists today doubled down on Democrats’ personal, pre-primary attack on Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney as a man without character.
“When it comes to his public character, he doesn’t have a core,” David Axelrod told “Meet the Press.” “It has nothing to do with his personal life. I honor his personal life, I respect his personal life, but this is about how you behave in the public arena.”
Former White House press secretary turned campaign adviser Robert Gibbs called Romney a “political gymnast of the highest order.”
“He will say virtually anything to get elected to any office,” Gibbs said on “Face the Nation.”
“The one thing that is certain in this Republican primary, if you don’t like where Mitt Romney is today, just wait until tomorrow,” he said. “It’s a little bit like the weather. ”
Both men, who helped orchestrate a similar line of attack against Hillary Clinton during the 2008 Democratic presidential primary, rebuffed the suggestion that the negative and personal campaign is improper.
“He seems to think that every day is a new day, that he can simply change all of his positions depending on who his audience is or what the political circumstances. And that is not what you want in the president of the United States,” Axelrod said. “So is that an issue? Yes, that’s an issue.”
Romney defended himself against the “no core” charge in an interview with ABC News last month, insisting his record as a businessman and governor “demonstrates what I believe.”
“I understand that politics is politics,” he said at the time. “People look for some edge they can get. But — but people know how I’ve lived my life and what I believe on the major issues of the day. And frankly, I’m in this race, because of the failure of President Obama to turn around this economy. ”
Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus today, appearing after Axelrod, picked up on that theme, saying that if character is a 2012 campaign issue then Obama won’t pass the test.
“He made some promises in regard to the debt, which he didn’t fulfill. He made some big promises in regard to the deficit. He said he would cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term and what did he do? He passed, or he put forward, the biggest structural deficit in the history of America,” Priebus said.
“What I think is going to be the bigger problem for this president, people in this country don’t think that this president is real anymore. He’s not genuine anymore,” he added.
As for news overnight that Newt Gingrich has surged to the front of the GOP pack in Iowa and made a huge leap forward in New Hampshire, Team Obama signaled they still aren’t ready to expand their offensive to include the former House speaker.
“I think Newt Gingrich is … somebody who has been a party favorite of the Republican Party going back to the mid-’90s,” said Gibbs, who called the Gingrich candidacy and rise to the top “very much for real.”
“He’s obviously a man with expansive thoughts and ideas that he expresses widely, and we’ll see how that plays,” Axelrod said, declining to go further.
Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul called the near-exclusive focus on the former Massachusetts governor an indication of how formidable a challenger Obama thinks he will be.
“President Obama has presided over an unprecedented 34 straight months of 8 percent or higher unemployment, so it’s no wonder his campaign is desperate to distract from his failed economic record,” Saul said in an email. “It is clear the White House does not want to face Mitt Romney and be forced to defend three years of high unemployment and runaway spending. Rather than focusing on job creation and helping the middle class, President Obama and his campaign are focused on attacking Mitt Romney.”
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I just love it when Axelrod speaks seriously. The marbles in his mouth slow down for awhiile….and we can clearly hear the ummmmms and errrrrs. I did have a laugh hearing both he, and the other guru of Obama’s campaign, though………..just put the word “obama” in where one of these guys put in the name of a GOP future incumbent…..apt description for soon-tp-be-on-vacation (long one this time) President-in-Absentia.
Posted by: justj joey | December 4, 2011, 2:14 pm 2:14 pm
Awesome. I can’t believe that Gingrich would win against Obama. His defining moment (railing against Bill Clinton on the issue of family values) was undercut by the revelations of his own “intern problems.” Put that guy on the top of the ticket, and the ads will just write themselves. Nevermind the fact that the guy is a lobbyist who spends half his time talking about how brilliant he is and how awesome it is to have a Ph.D.
Posted by: blip | December 4, 2011, 2:24 pm 2:24 pm
Romney doesn’t have a core. Obama doesn’t have a core or a backbone either. Gingrich lives in an alternative universe. …I’m going third party or write-in.
Posted by: whatever | December 4, 2011, 2:39 pm 2:39 pm
Stop letting the MSM tell you what to think and who to vote for. Think for yourself people.
Posted by: sensible99 | December 4, 2011, 2:40 pm 2:40 pm
That’s alright. Obomatron doesn’t have a clue.
Posted by: newcountryman | December 4, 2011, 2:44 pm 2:44 pm
The truly sad and incredible part of all this is that Romney is the most electable of the current GOP field. The rest are totally unfit or unqualified for the job, with major character problems, ethical baggage, or lacking in the necessary intellect.
Posted by: Dr. Bubba | December 4, 2011, 2:45 pm 2:45 pm
Anybody would be better than that campaign promise breaker, (with his feet up on my furniture, yah, that’s right. It’s my furniture) who’s in there now.
Posted by: Daniel Smith | December 4, 2011, 2:48 pm 2:48 pm
It’s not very often that you get to run against an incumbent who had the misfortune of inheriting the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. But, the Republicans are clueless. They don’t have a single candidate that is electable.
Posted by: plantain_11 | December 4, 2011, 2:56 pm 2:56 pm
WELL OBMA DOES NOT HAVE A SOUL
Posted by: DANNY | December 4, 2011, 2:59 pm 2:59 pm
I liked what Axlerod said about how the banks and wall street were being allowed by congress to write their own regulations leading to the meltdown. This goes to the very essence of the current economic crisis. Lobbyists have and will continue to utterly corrupt our government, and the advantage goes to the rich at the expense of the middle class, big time, every time. Great to hear sensitivity to this. Hope to hear a call for a constitutional amendment banning lobbyists from DC. This would slam dunk his re-election.
Posted by: sameagain | December 4, 2011, 3:21 pm 3:21 pm
“Hope to hear a call for a constitutional amendment banning lobbyists from DC…..” Much more likely that angels should fly out your….
Posted by: newcountryman | December 4, 2011, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm
Obama team is right. Romney doesn’t have core and neither does Obama or most politicians. The only one with a solid core is Ron Paul but he’s not viable until America wakes up. I believe one day someone like Paul will be elected and the country will go through a transformation. Until then, we have a corrupt system where the Dems and Reps take turns screwing America.
Posted by: Lejaune | December 4, 2011, 3:54 pm 3:54 pm
It is better not to have a core rather than to be “rotten” to the core! The Obama Reelection Team’s vicious slanderous attacks will not fool anyone!
Posted by: Common _ Sense | December 4, 2011, 3:57 pm 3:57 pm
Well Obama said anything to get elected ! his core is is a big void. no soul ! He would do (anything) to get re-elected!
Posted by: Dawn | December 4, 2011, 4:10 pm 4:10 pm
The NitMit crew doesn’t have a core, it doesn’t have intelligence, it doesn’t have a basic understanding of what this country needs. The comments made in Maureen Dowd’s column last week about Perry’s iintelligence applies to NitMit too; “If his [Perry's] intelligence were elastic, he wouldn’t have enough to make suspenders for a parakeet.
Posted by: neastsider | December 4, 2011, 4:12 pm 4:12 pm
POSTED BY: COMMON _ SENSE | DECEMBER 4, 2011, 3:57 PM 3:57 PM
I don’t think you know what the word ‘slander ‘means.
Posted by: James | December 4, 2011, 4:14 pm 4:14 pm
Watch the movie Wall Street about corporate raider Gordon Gekko the ruthless and legendary Wall Street player and you will see how Mitt Romney made his money. These people do not create jobs they destroy jobs. He and Newt Gingrich the frontrunners for the Republications are going to do one thing and one thing only; help their rich and powerful friends. Beware America the Republican Party wants to destroy the middle class and kill off the poor.
Posted by: T Trump | December 4, 2011, 4:28 pm 4:28 pm
I really dont like to see people crap on Romney. For all these complaints about Romney, one thing you can’t deny is that HE DOES A GOOD JOB AT RUNNING ANYTHING HE TOUCHES!!! He was my governor, and while plenty of liberals here hated his more conservative views, EVERYONE acknowledges…he does good work. He gets things does, he improved our economy, improved our bond rating, and brought in jobs. For all the blah blah blah in politics today, I dont understand one bit, why republicans would not embrace such a stellar track record. If he does different things at different times, perhaps, that’s because the occasion called, eh? There is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all in the real world. Wouldnt it be nice to actually elect someone who is pragmatic ????
Posted by: GrannyNosBest | December 4, 2011, 4:42 pm 4:42 pm
He and Newt Gingrich the frontrunners for the Republications are going to do one thing and one thing only; help their rich and powerful friends—-Newt is dumb man who thinks he’s smart. The worse kind of hypocrite who gets blow jobs in between in cries of outrage that Clinton got one. No kidding on that one. Newt has never done anything well, including write books, which he does, ad nuseum, and they are terrible and say the same things over and over and over. beyond boring. I’m sure you will hear him say his overused buzz words …”cross roads” “window of opportunity” ugh. Romney did a good job as governor. He’s not a horn bag who cheats. He did make our economy better and he did improve our bond rating and he did bring jobs here. You cannot compare the two.
Posted by: GrannyNosBest | December 4, 2011, 4:48 pm 4:48 pm
Newt pressed his first wife to sign divorce papers while she was still in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery.
Posted by: GOPhasnomorals | December 4, 2011, 4:53 pm 4:53 pm
but wasn’t Newt the guy who was getting a bj in the parkinglot from HIS intern??—no, he was seen getting ‘serviced’ by the wife of one of the men working for him. His kids were nearby. He has been far far far sleezier than any politician in recent history. I mean, do we really need these stories to be churned up again??? Do republicans have no memory? You want his wives to come back and recall what a dirt bag he was, his first wife, with cancer,cheating on her, not paying support to the point where the utilities were nearly shut off, this rich man, his ex-wife with cancer, he not only cheats on and abandons, he leaves for broke while she’s trying to raise his children?????? Or the second wife, who again, he cheats on, and how he sleeps with the wives of his workers. Seriously? Do we really need to re-hash this stuff, again? He was a lobbyist for Fannie and Freddie! how can you have ANY problem with anything democrats have done when Newt has not only done those things, but MUCH MUCH worse! This has to be some kind of joke.
Posted by: RUKiddingMe | December 4, 2011, 4:57 pm 4:57 pm
I find it offensive, as a human being, that anyone would compare the total sleeze bag Newt to a good decent man like Mitt Romney. Newt is a TOTAL lack of moral sleeze. Google what Newt did to his first two wives. And children. Mitt’s been married to one women all his life and did a good job as governor. Newt was lousy at everything he’s done. He writes books. Yeah, so does Cain. Blow hard boooks that say nothing. gee, let’s make every bad author who cheats on their wives president, I guess. HOw can you hav ea problem with Cain when Newt is so much worse? odd. And you dare compare him to a good guy like Romney??????
Posted by: Johnnyboy | December 4, 2011, 5:02 pm 5:02 pm
Is this all Axelrod could come up with? What a joke.
Posted by: Jujo | December 4, 2011, 5:03 pm 5:03 pm
how awesome it is to have a Ph.D—it’s really not that hard to have a PhD in blah blah blah. It’s not like he has his medical degree or law degree or engineering degree. He has degrees in fluff, which means, he basically, had money enough go to college to read books and write papers on them. ooooooo. What genius! please. I have an engineering degree. Newt coudln’t get passed freshman physics, I promise you!
Posted by: NotURAverageJoe | December 4, 2011, 5:05 pm 5:05 pm
Nevermind the fact that the guy is a lobbyist who spends half his time talking about how brilliant he is
and how awesome it is to have a Ph.D. *****Yes, Newt Leroy Gingrich has a PHD, acronym for
Piled High and Deep. LOL!
Posted by: michael | December 4, 2011, 5:09 pm 5:09 pm
this is from a president that votes “present” or stays away from controversial decisions, or waits to make crucial decisions until after elections. PLEASE WE ARE NOT STUPID VOTERS
Posted by: mablanco | December 4, 2011, 5:10 pm 5:10 pm
Whats Obami’s core? Lie to the public, increase the national debt 35% in a few years? Divide the country? Pass bills the majority of americans don’t want. His core is the loony left!
Posted by: jonny | December 4, 2011, 5:13 pm 5:13 pm
Whats Obami’s core? Lie to the public, increase the national debt 35% in a few years? Divide the
country? Pass bills the majority of americans don’t want. His core is the loony left! POSTED BY:
JONNY*****************According to you hypothetical claims, there is only one out of four that he
did. the other three were done by Bush.
Posted by: michael | December 4, 2011, 5:21 pm 5:21 pm
increase the national debt 35% in a few years?
POSTED BY: JONNY | DECEMBER 4, 2011, 5:13 PM 5:13 PM
Have to be suspicious of any poster who apparently has little or no understanding of the effect of the major economic collapse on Bush’s watch on the ongoing budgets, deficits and debts of the country.
Posted by: Charlie | December 4, 2011, 5:23 pm 5:23 pm
I’m not going to spoon feed you liberals. Look up the national debt yourself!
If you have no understanding of simple math, that’s not my problem.
Posted by: jonny | December 4, 2011, 5:28 pm 5:28 pm
Let’s see, Obama’s core: Fast and Furious, Solyndra, Lightsquared, Black Panther Voter intimidation, ACORN, OWS, Jerimiah Wright, Bill Ayers, George Soros, Obamacare, U.S. citizen assasination without due process, out of control TSA, 15 trillion debt, no budget, unaccountable czars, chevy volt, need i say more?
Posted by: Jo | December 4, 2011, 5:31 pm 5:31 pm
Core for Romney, you have to be kidding, President Obama preached transparency in government, but there is little to none. He elected czars to bypass Congressional scrutiny. I believe Americans are smart enough to realize the unemployment figures are grossly underestimated. By the time we account for those no longer looking for a job and the severely underemployed and part-timers, the actual unemployment rate is on the order of 12%+. People working at 1/3 to 1/2 of their previous salary puts them on a treadmill that will take time and a new administration to correct. Now Reid is proposing to raid the Social Security trust with more red ink to pass extensions of benefits. American workers are now paying the price and seniors will, once again, take the hit. Disappointment abounds not only for what Obama would couch as a do nothing Congress does not detract from the fact that he has been in charge the past 3 years, and has a record, one that he will run away from, then aggrandize, and take credit for, the few accomplishments made, despite his leadership. It is no longer sufficient to blame Bush for everything and voters are not quite as stupid as Obama would have them. If you are looking for the perfect candidate, down the line, then don’t bother to vote. There are none. There is more than a lack of confidence in government, there is a crisis in leadership, candor with the American people and the willingness of ANY of them at present to present a real, clear, responsible budget that is required by law, hopefully balanced, and NOT full of creative accounting and outright lies. It does not surprise me the cynicism, disgust and disappointment in the some 12 million or so folks out of work. The current political climate is exactly the scene that reminds us that a clean broom sweeps clean. To call Romney lacking core is the epitome of hypocrisy. My sense is Americans are now ready for hope and real change, and deserve no less.
Posted by: curtis41 | December 4, 2011, 5:37 pm 5:37 pm
Well we better just be ready for four more years of Obama. The really sad thing is that this used to be a great country. Sadly the best days of the United States are past her. I am afraid that we as a nation can not stand four more years of this. I used to look forward to retirement now I just pray for an early death.
Posted by: Brian | December 4, 2011, 5:40 pm 5:40 pm
Hmm,… I would offer that Obama doesn’t have a clue!!!!
Posted by: Matt | December 4, 2011, 5:44 pm 5:44 pm
The really sad thing is that this used to be a great country. Sadly the best days of the United States are past her.
POSTED BY: BRIAN | DECEMBER 4, 2011, 5:40 PM 5:40 PM
And you actually don’t think that has everything to do with the economic corruption and the major economic collapse under the last president?
Posted by: Dave | December 4, 2011, 5:50 pm 5:50 pm
HE’LL say anything to get elected! That’s rich. Sounds a lot like Obama, does it not? People elected Obama based on a bunch of very flowery speeches. The guy had no credibility as a US senator or State senator. He campaigned more than he served as a senator. Kind of like now. Only now we’re supposed to have a leader in the Oval Office but his people know he can’t accomplish anything if he keeps on proposing more of the same, failed economic policies that haven’t yet worked in nearly three years. So, it’s campaign mode for the last 14 months of his only term in office. What a waste.
Posted by: s | December 4, 2011, 5:50 pm 5:50 pm
No Jo, you don’t. That is quite a list of Obama’s failures. So much so that it is obvious that we or this country can’t take another term. The only thing I would add that Obama has done is divided this nation like none other. I’m sure the only other time in this nation’s history that we’ve been this divided was just before the first shot was fired in the Civil War.
Posted by: Mike | December 4, 2011, 5:52 pm 5:52 pm
Next comes Newt who In Puritan Salem times would have been a witch burner. Of course Newt would have spent considerable time reasoning out his stance against witches. Then years later Newt would have repented. Remember when Newt was excoriating Clinton in virtual sermons for extra-marital infidelities while Newt at the same time was maintaining something on the side himself? This is hypocrisy for which I haven’t heard him repent. Sterling Greenwood/AspenFreePress
Posted by: AspenFreePress | December 4, 2011, 5:55 pm 5:55 pm
Obamey has a core…and it’s green…with envy of all the other presidents that are considered successful…we’re still clinging to our gubs and
Posted by: scott | December 4, 2011, 5:58 pm 5:58 pm
Ok…now that I know my post will post…Obamey has a core and it’s green..with envy of all the presidents that were successful..we’re still clinging to our guns and religion waiting for some change…So let me take a guess…it’s still my fault…sorry sucka…Newt in 2012…I bet he gets something done…
Posted by: scott | December 4, 2011, 6:03 pm 6:03 pm
“American workers are now paying the price and seniors will, once again, take the hit”
If you think American workers are paying the price and seniors will take a hit now, just wait till you see what all the spending cuts, austerity measures, tax giveaways for corporations and the wealthy, and stripping of consumer protections, which all of the Republicans candidates including Mitt are proposing, will do to wording class Americans and seniors.
Posted by: numbers | December 4, 2011, 6:04 pm 6:04 pm
POSTED BY: MIKE | DECEMBER 4, 2011, 5:52 PM 5:52 PM
The country was most divided under George W. Bush. What ended up uniting people was a desire to see him leave office. Seven out of ten people united in thinking he’d done a poor job. No more Repbulicans!
Posted by: Sam | December 4, 2011, 6:04 pm 6:04 pm
“if he keeps on proposing more of the same, failed economic policies that haven’t yet worked in nearly three years”
Meanwhile the Republicans are proposing more of the same failed economic policies–tax cuts for the wealthy and universal deregulation–that haven’t yet worked in nearly 30 years.
Posted by: numbers | December 4, 2011, 6:10 pm 6:10 pm
The Campaginer and Chief has no clue! Not a Clue!
Posted by: Jeff | December 4, 2011, 6:13 pm 6:13 pm
What is Romney’s stand on abortion again? Anybody?
Posted by: Bill | December 4, 2011, 6:25 pm 6:25 pm
WHICH CANDIDATE INCLUDING OBAMA WILL END THE WARS. END THE PRIVATE UNCONSTITUTIONAL FEDERAL RESERVE THAT HAS STOLEN TRILLIONS FROM AMERICANS THANKS TO THE BUSH/OBAMA SUPPORTED ILLEGAL BANKER BAILOUT, RETURN POWER TO THE STATES WHERE IT BELONGS PER THE CONSTITUTION, RUN THE CORPORATE FASCIST CONTROLLED GLOBALISTS OUT OF DC?? WHO IS THE ONLY CANDIDATE THAT HAS DONE WHAT HE HAS PROMISED WHILE SERVING THE PEOPLE OF THE U.S FOR YEARS?? LOOK AT ALL THE BANKS THAT HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE CAMPAIGNS OF ROMNEY, OBAMA, NEWT, PERRY, CAIN THE EX KC FED CHAIRMAN..WAKE UP AMERICANS..THERE IS ONLY ONE ANSWER TO SAVE AMERICA..IF YOU VOTE FOR ANYONE BUT HIM YOU WILL SEE MORE THEFT FROM WALL STREET..MORE WARS..MORE OF YOUR LIBERTIES CONFISCATED..IF YOU DONT KNOW WHO THAT CANDIDATE IS, YOU OWE TO THIS COUNTRY TO RESEARCH THE CANDIDATES THOROUGHLY..
Posted by: KNOCKKNOCK | December 4, 2011, 6:28 pm 6:28 pm
The less we hear from Team Obama the better.
Posted by: Justin Hertog | December 4, 2011, 6:35 pm 6:35 pm
The less we hear from Team Obama the better.
POSTED BY: JUSTIN HERTOG | DECEMBER 4, 2011, 6:35 PM 6:35 PM
Why, you afraid of hearing about Romney’s flip-flops on issues?
Posted by: Dave | December 4, 2011, 6:43 pm 6:43 pm
The minions of this regime are ruled by the one world order elitists along with their secret societies who do nothing but feed the federal reserve. John F. Kennedy gave a speech on these secret societies and was murdered 10 days later.
These secret societies have been working for years, manipulating undercover just as they secretly pushed the “federal reserve act” (woodrow wilson, 1913), and then comes along FDR and his “new deal” another incrementally pushed, more government. They have also manipulated wars, because wars are money and it also manipulated elected officials and presidents who did not go along with the 20 year banking charters. These actions have caused the American citizen to be slaves to these banking elitists.
If the American citizen knew why the Constitution was given to us and the history and principals behind it, and stood up for the responsibilities which the Constitution gives, it would be the citizen telling the government what to do.
Anyone who listens to Obama, is not getting the truth, were are the jobs, were is the defending and protecting the Constitution from this administration?
Posted by: ROHBAR | December 4, 2011, 7:03 pm 7:03 pm
What is Romney’s stand on abortion again? Anybody?—who cares? Abortion is not a matter the government should try to interfere with. You cannot force a women to maintain a pregnancy and give birth against her will. No matter how much you want it, it just wont happen in a free country. Perhaps you should move to the middle east and take up with the Taliban if you hate women that much.
Posted by: NotURAverageJoe | December 4, 2011, 7:26 pm 7:26 pm
Obama knows Mitt is the only man who can beat him. Newt is the guy who was getting ‘serviced’ in his car while he ranted about clinton. Obama does NOT fear Newt. He fears Romney.
Posted by: GetReal | December 4, 2011, 7:29 pm 7:29 pm
“Once more, a short civics lesson”
Don’t forget to mention in this ‘lesson’ that the Bush tax cuts, the cost of the wars, and the effects of the financial crash, are amongst the biggest drivers of our deficits. Don’t try and pass the buck to the Democrats on that as usual.
Posted by: numbers | December 4, 2011, 7:39 pm 7:39 pm
Romney may not have a core, but I think that may be better than having a core that is rotten, like Obama’s. And for you idiots, and if that sounds harsh, I’m glad, anyway, for you idiots who say I’ll go 3rd party or write in, just go ahead and check Obama’s ballot box because that is exactly what you will be doing. 99% of the black vote, and 100 % of the idiot liberal vote, 100% of the welfare loving bunch is going to go to that thug. If you can’t find the perfect candiate this time, elect the one that is not Obama, we can slowly work our way out of this mess. I am a Christian, but the Christians who did not go to the polls last time because Paul or Silas was not running, are the very reason Judas is in the Whitehouse.
Posted by: robin fletcher | December 4, 2011, 7:48 pm 7:48 pm
Obama has little room to talk………he is the “actor playing a role”. who couldn’t accomplish anything except what that PEOPLE DIDN’T WANT!
Posted by: Rick McDaniel | December 4, 2011, 8:19 pm 8:19 pm
Funny to hear all the liberals and their “no GOP candidate is electable”. I guess they can’t see how unelectable their guy is……………
Posted by: dgh629 | December 4, 2011, 8:34 pm 8:34 pm
You cannot force a women to maintain a pregnancy and give birth against her will. No matter how much you want it, it just wont happen in a free country. Perhaps you should move to the middle east and take up with the Taliban if you hate women that much.
POSTED BY: NOTURAVERAGEJOE | DECEMBER 4, 2011, 7:26 PM 7:26 PM
You can remove abortion from legitimate medical services forcing women into the back allies again for abortions – which is what a lot of Republican right types would like to do. What is Romney’s position on abortion again?
Posted by: Bill | December 4, 2011, 9:01 pm 9:01 pm
Newt doesn’t poll well with women even among Republicans. In the general election, he’d be a very hard sell to the female electorate. A man who left his first wife on her hospital bed while she had cancer surgery, his second wife while she had MS, and ran off with his 3rd wife who had been his mistress and over 20 years his junior won’t play well with many American women. It’s no wonder that a large plurality of women polled disapprove of him, even in his own party.
Posted by: soldiergirl | December 4, 2011, 9:13 pm 9:13 pm
Leave it to the moronic Axleshaft to spout out more garbage and propaganda on the liberal Meet the (liberal) Press show! How unsurprising to see AxleStooge was given staged questionsd by David Gregory. But, when it was Priebus’ turn, Gregory conveniently interupted him in the typical Chris Matthews style. Tim Russert must be turning over now!
Posted by: Tularockstar | December 4, 2011, 10:06 pm 10:06 pm
It is true. Romney has no core. Gingrich is a joke. Obama is the worst President ever, but the Republicans messed up big-time for this election because they won’t nominate a decent candidate. Christie 2016 – our best hope for cleaning up the Obama disaster.
Posted by: Jan | December 4, 2011, 10:37 pm 10:37 pm
Dang, they could be describing President Flip Flopper!
Watch yasself Mitt…you know what these thugs did to Hillary.
Posted by: CajunW | December 4, 2011, 10:39 pm 10:39 pm
What is Romney’s position on abortion again?
Posted by: Bill | December 4, 2011, 9:01 pm.
That depends. What day is it, and who is he speaking to?
Posted by: Searambler | December 5, 2011, 9:37 am 9:37 am
“Watch yasself Mitt…you know what these thugs did to Hillary.”
Made her Secretary of State? What a bunch of “thugs.” (I am kind of sick of people calling Obama a thug. I mean, yeah, he is pretty aggressive in the War on Terror…. but he doesn’t strike me as a thug. He compromises too much with the Republicans to merit that label. Unless it’s just sort of a racial thing that Republicans can’t help saying. But I thought you guys were beyond that. I mean, a “thug”? The great compromiser… a thug?)
Posted by: blip | December 5, 2011, 10:10 am 10:10 am
“The great compromiser… a thug?”
Apparently so..along with being the great anti-business leftist who is really in the back pocket of Wall St., a silver spoon elitist community organizer who travels the world arrogantly bowing and apologizing for America; who abandons the poor and the unemployed in his attempt to build a welfare state. And yes of course he’s a wimpy thug.who coddles terrorist extremists by killing them, a weak leader with no conviction who shoves legislation down people’s throats and hasn’t lifted a finger to help create jobs…besides that stimulus which created millions of jobs.
With such blatantly contradictory opinions such as these there should be little wonder that Republicans find hardcore opportunistic flippy-floppers like Gingrich and Romney to be so perfectly acceptable.
Posted by: numbers | December 5, 2011, 10:48 am 10:48 am
“I am kind of sick of people calling Obama a thug.”
Change the channel. Barry is a thug.
Posted by: foggy | December 5, 2011, 10:54 am 10:54 am
“Don’t forget to mention in this ‘lesson’ that the Bush tax cuts, the cost of the wars, and the effects of the financial crash, are amongst the biggest drivers of our deficits.”
- they are the Obama tax cuts now. Own them.
- Barry approved of and accelerated the war in Aghanistan and Libya.
- Darn the luck of Obama inheriting the first downturn in history that couldn’t be recovered from. Unless your one of Barry’s fat cat banker pals at Goldman Sachs where they practically invented income inequality.
- tax cuts to not drive deficits. Spending does. And we are spending historical highs as a percent of GDP. But Barry can’t get re-elected in unemployment is in the nines so spendspendspend….(Barry’s tool box is limited)
Posted by: foggy | December 5, 2011, 11:01 am 11:01 am
“- they are the Obama tax cuts now. Own them.”
Absolutely not. Obama wanted to extend them just for people making under 250000. The Republicans insisted on their extension in entirety. That’s called an Obama compromise on behalf of the middle class [sorry, no thug], while Republicans continue to diligently and obediently guard all the wealth in the top percentiles…their true top priority.
“- tax cuts to not drive deficits. Spending does”
That’s pure ideology, not accounting. Spending and revenue are like two sides of a see-saw. Adding or subtracting from either side will tip it either toward the red or the black. And the Bush tax cuts definitely tipped us into the red,………. very very red, like trillions of dollars red
“(Barry’s tool box is limited)”
And the Republican toolbox has nothing in it but fake junk tools….the same failed policies, tax cuts and deregulation, which they’ve been trying to pass off as real tools for 30 years. That toolbox is empty.
Posted by: numbers | December 5, 2011, 11:25 am 11:25 am
If tax cuts don’t drive deficits then why are the Republicans insisting right now that the payroll tax cut extensions be “paid for”? -these guys shoot themselves in the ideological foot one way or another every single time
Posted by: numbers | December 5, 2011, 12:04 pm 12:04 pm
“The Republicans insisted on their extension in entirety.”
You mind is putty in the hands of Axelplouffe.
“the same failed policies, tax cuts and deregulation, ”
Your political philosophy is mob rule. It goes back to the days of the cave man. Find somebody that has stuff you want and take it from them.
Posted by: foggy | December 5, 2011, 12:05 pm 12:05 pm
We prefer to call the mob ‘citizens’, and citizen rule Democracy.
Posted by: numbers | December 5, 2011, 12:48 pm 12:48 pm
Willard Mitt Romney is the most contemptible phoney, flip-flopping, two-faced fake I’ve seen in politics in ages. He is worse than George H.W. Bush who crawled on his yellow belly to the radical right-wing neo-fascists who now run the Republican Party. Some deluded people think Romney is a “moderate.” He appointed the legal fascist Robert Bork as his chief advisor on judicial and legal matters. Mitt Romney is devoid of integrity, personal honor or rectitude. God help this country if this human CHAMELEON becomes president. At least the other Republicans believe the crap they say–I except poor Gov. Huntsman from that last comment. He ought to wake up and realize he is in the wrong party.
Posted by: elliot stamler | December 5, 2011, 2:25 pm 2:25 pm
Team Obama regarding Romney: ‘Political Gymnast’ Who ‘Doesn’t Have a Core’
Don’t you just love it how these politicians psychologically project their own, worst qualities unto each other?
Posted by: Ron | December 5, 2011, 2:36 pm 2:36 pm
Please keep in mind that both Gibbs and Axelrod are paid tools in the Obama re-election campaign. I didn’t read the “core” comment until I re-read it again and realized that the latter tools were dishing dirt again…their usual routine, and on first reading I assumed that they must be talking about our President-in-Absentia.
Posted by: justj joey | December 6, 2011, 12:05 pm 12:05 pm