Just as Andrea Saul “doesn’t believe in” addressing the things the ad says. Is she a Romney spokesperson or a Romney concern troll?

(Nice tag line on that ad, BTW.)

How dare that uppity blah person tell the truth about my business practices! Next thing you know he will be accusing me of being anti-American for aggressively avoiding paying taxes on my millions in income.

Mittens and the rest of the MOTU are getting themselves ready for their appointment with Mme. Guillotine.

“Every day, President Obama hits a new low. It is sad and shameful that President Obama would mock America the Beautiful,”

Maybe if Mitt Romney wasn’t singing it like a taunt, replaying it wouldn’t sound like such a mockery?

Willard is lucky; The alternate soundtrack was him singing this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGwqJZWow3A

Shorter Andrea Saul:

Repeat after me, dittoheads: I’d rather have a Diet Tab with Mitt Rmoney than a beer with that blah in the White House…

I’m feeling pedantic today, so I’ll just say that Tab is a diet drink to begin with, having used artificial sweetener since the beginning of time. And it’s full of caffeine, unless you opt for something called Tab Clear, which sounds like a really yucky version of water. If Mitt drinks regular tab I think he gets demerits at the secret meetings.

Also too Andrea Saul had a really awful job to do and did a really awful job of it. Is that a win-win for Mitt? I can’t tell any more.

Best political ad since Daisy?

I meant “Decaf Tab,” even though I have no idea if such a, uh, concoction exists (and could care less).

Great ad; hope we see lots more like it. I’m still waiting for the one where they draw the line between Romney’s millions and what it cost taxpayers to bail out the pension funds Bain looted on the way to driving companies into the ground. If God smiles on me, it will include a line about how you shouldn’t hold that against Mitt Romney, because he needed it for a car elevator.

Maybe if Rmoney could sing it without sounding like a car going 70 miles an hour that’s lost a rear wheel and is scraping along on a bare brake drum. Really, you never know if this guy is serious or just doing self-parody, which is what you can say about pretty much every Repubican out there these days.

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh, snap! That’s one mean, mean ad!

I have always hated Tab.

Diet Dr. Pepper (sans caffeine) however is sum fine, fine drinking.

unless you opt for something called Tab Clear

Tab Clear Romney, Mitt’s ultra-pure son….

I’m waiting for that to hit the light of day too. ‘Course the republicans vetting right now is most likely for a replacement for Romney at a brokered convention so we may not hear it.

The ultimate dream scenario is a replay of 2004 — Mitt withdraws, Alan Keyes steps up, and Obama wins with 70% of the vote and an unprecedented electoral college sweep. (Yeah, right.)

But really, I dont think the Republicans can dump Mitt for, well, being exactly who everyone has always thought he was. And I do think the Obama campaign has more of these to come, but possibly none better.

So, wait — playing a tape of the presumptive GOP candidate for president singing “America the Beautiful” is mocking “America the Beautiful”?

How does that work, exactly?

I really do think Ace McCain hates Romney enough to have slipped Harry Reid that little gem about Willard not having paid taxes the last 12 years. Ace is just that bitter and evil, and has never hewed the party line. I mean, this is a guy who had Mitt’s financials laid out in front of him, the last 20 years — and picked Sarah Palin.

And, I’m sorry. But America is not ready to elect a president who doesn’t pay taxes. That just ain’t gonna happen.

Romney’s next lie: I never had any desire or intention to run for the office of president. I’m just a legitimate businessman.

Let this be a lesson to all who aspire to public office:

If you can’t sing, don’t do it in public, and certainly don’t stand on a stage with a microphone and do it.

If you say you are qualified because of your business acumen, then maybe your business acumen should include something besides knowing how to line your personal pockets at the expense of others.

If your opponent is smarter than you are, then maybe you should hire people who are smarter than you as well, so your defenders don’t come across as such fucking stupid crybabies as Romney’s do.

Great commercial; who knew Democrats could be so mean? I think Mitt wanted to go down to Wal-Mart and punch a baby after watching it, but they talked him off that ledge.

Moar of theze, plz.

Mittens appears to be a victim of Swift Yachting.

Interesting. Do you have a link for that?

NYT commenter on Rmoney: After 1999 I did not have fiduciary relations with that company.

Have you actually listened to that? Makes Roseanne Barr’s rendition of the Star Spangled Banner sound good.

Clever…NPR news did have a commenter saying this stuff is the swift boating b/c R’s high card, supposedly, is his business expertise. So they have truly turned his “strength” against him….Such meanies. But the parallel is a good one. Couldn’t happen to a more phoney guy.

I REALLY really want to sue Rmoney – for the crappy singing! I’ve been irrevocably damaged, for EVAH!

“Every day, President Obama hits a new low. It is sad and shameful that President Obama would mock America the Beautiful,”

Umm…bad news Andrea: that was Willard singing…

NPR news did have a commenter saying this stuff is the swift boating b/c R’s high card, supposedly, is his business expertise. So they have truly turned his “strength” against him….Such meanies. But the parallel is a good one.

No it isn’t…the swiftboating of Kerry involved having people who weren’t even there LIE THEIR HEADS OFF about him and his combat experiences/wounds.

This stuff about Romney happens to be TRUE. Very, very important distinction.

See the thread on Captain Mitt….the guy’s in big trouble but cannot see, or admit, it….Not so unusual for him, of course.

Don’t be absurd. The swift boaters lied about Kerry’s war record but the Obama campaign is telling the truth about Willard’s lying and being an offshoring, outsourcing, tax sheltering, rich guy. How are those in any way analogous?

So? That claim does not knock out the analogy he was making….about having one’s strength claim blown up. Thanks for the contrast.

I usually ignore ads, but that ad is a work of art, a beautiful thing, a shining light……. carry on!

There sure are a lot of Republicans trying to get Willard to release more income information too. All of the Republicans who only reluctantly supported Willard when his nomination became all but inevitable are salivating at the chance to help make him too toxic to run.

I FINALLY get it:

Gluehorse does not like Dancinghorse.

Sorry, sometimes it takes me forever.

Swift Yachting.

Phrase acquired. Thanks.

You made me choke on my martini. Praise God, I didn’t spit it on my keyboard, but had the foresight to spit on another unsolicited prospectus.

x2

“Planet Kolob Dancing Horse Underwear” – now available at a new Bain start-up called “Mittoria’s Secret.”

That’s hilarious. Gluehorse vs. Dancing Horse.

Also Teddy’s Ace McCain reference.

Or, better, I’m just a retired businessman on a pension.

Hey Mr. preznit! How’s that new trade deal, TPP, comin? They are BOTH pond scum. Neithe Obomber or Mittens give a rat’s patootie about any of us.

Hey – Mittens is 65 – has he filed for Medicare yet? Social Security?

Jeb wants Mittens to come clean on his landscapers.

The Villages is a community made up of primarily rich retirees whose income is from stock and Wall Street.

Oh, you’re in the wrong place. The Whining, Crying and Unappreciated Conference is down the hall…

I also heard that exchange between NPR’s Guy Raz and James Fallows. Fallows brought up the Swift Boating campaign as an example of a previous campaign trying to use an opposing candidate’s supposed strength – in John Kerry’s case, his military record – against Kerry, in a ju-jitsu kinda way. Raz proceeded to say (paraphrasing here) ‘so, do you think the Obama Swiftboating effort will work?’ (something like that). Fallows appeared to very quickly realize how ineptly Raz was handling the point he had just tried to make (although Fallows could have probably set it up more carefully, or maybe chosen a less dangerous analogy), and brought things back on track (mostly). That link above contains a link to the audio – runs about 4 minutes.

Guy Raz has his good moments, but he seems to me to have gotten really sloppy and lazy of late; dunno, maybe his new baby is keeping him from adequate sleep? He pimped that NFIB shill Joe Olivo last weekend (here, here, and numerous other places),* and some months ago I got on his case on Twitter about the loving tongue bath he gave Michelle Rhee, the Alan Greenspan of education reform – complete with fawning media s/he-can-do-no-wrong accolodates, all the while setting up a multiple vehicle flaming pile-up with numerous casualties (she would see it herself, but she’s apparently not into that whole looking-in-the-rearview-mirror thang).

Ahem, but I digress (I really, really despise Greenspan, as well as anyone trying to wreck the education system, especially by attacking teachers).

I suppose at this point it’s become obviously pointless to cry out ‘Better Media, Pleeez!’ Apparently it ain’t gonna happen.

*Doing background research for this comment, I see that the NPR Ombudsman weighed in on the Olivo business, with what I think is a pretty good response. And to give Raz his due, he relied on his producers – pretty common in news broadcasting, as I understand it – to come up with interviewees, and he had no idea about Olivo. He was apparently not a happy camper to find out about it afterward, according to the Ombudsman’s account.

Why not? He’s already used:
1. It was all Ann’s idea,. . . and
2. My faith compels me to . . . yadda, yadda.

A link for what, exactly? What I think? No, there is no link for that.

A link that McCain vetted Romney for Veep in 2008 and didn’t pick him?
Here ya go.

Or about Romney not paying taxes? I rely on Harry Reid.

selling robot insurance to the olds

One my favorites SNL clips. Reminded me so much of the Bush Administration.

Don’t you have an important Drum Circle For Freedom/Rage Against The Obvious meet-up to attend?

A link for what, exactly? What I think? No, there is no link for that.

I want a link for what you think. Stop stonewalling and invent the technology to provide one. Pronto!

“And when they grab you with their metal arms, you can’t break free, because they’re made of metal, and robots are strong.”

The precogs were pretwittertwatting while you slept…

I know!

I’ve never had someone insist on a link for a comment that begins, “I think…”

I mean, what does s/he want, exactly? I provided links to the facts I presented, but it really seemed like s/he wanted a link to what I think.

I’ve never had someone insist on a link for a comment that begins, “I think…*”

* I blame rickhill….

That is So Wrong!

Go to the corner, and stay there till we let you out.

————————————————————->

The corner with Yin Ling?

Okey-dokey-diddley-doo!

“Oh my…”
/Takei

Heh – she is SOOOO going to make you take 24 hours on the Dragon Dildo Chair.

If you were smart you would RUN! RUN LIKE THE WIND!

And hilarity ensued…

In an America where the media is not fucked, any Romney spokesbot that used the phrase “apology tour” would be greeted with a honk of a horn and told to shut the fuck up right now. It’s part of how the Rmoney campaign carpet-bombs of the political narrative with lies.

RUN LIKE THE WIND!

And risk being blowed’ed up by an Obummer drone?

How about this?

It was the Reid link I was interested in. I appreciate the response.

2004, my ass. I want a photonegative replay of 1984 where Obama takes every state but Utah.

OT-
TBogg, I know you’re a big fan of rising star journamalist Luke “Legacy Hire” Russert, so you might appreciate the clip posted here – as well as Jay Rosen’s accompanying commentary – of Martin Bashir gettin’ all uppity and actually asking Young Luke questions requiring thoughtful responses. The nerve!

Nervous fratboy giggles and deer-in-headlight looks for everyone!

“Swift yachting”…..golf clap, sir!

Best political ad since Daisy?

Best political ad since forever.

It doesn’t blink, doesn’t pull the punch, and doesn’t miss.

Maybe there’s a lot of that going on, but my brother, a retired police detective, has lived there for 15 years along with a number of his working-class friends from up north. What’s sad to me is that my parents were among the original inhabitants of the place back in 1985 when there were about 5,000 people living in a nice little retirement community outside the tiny town of Lady Lake and there was no such thing as The Villages. Then, sometime in the 90s, Gary Morse, wealthy friend of Jeb Bush and prominent–and secretive–Florida Republican, bought the place and all the land for miles around and started throwing up the cultural moonscape we see today.

Personal note: my brother drives Gary Morse’s limo.

Well, I didn’t post the link to her website.
http://www.mostsexy.net/

It calls for the old hysterical passenger remedy.

I was referring to Obama’s 2004 victory in Illinois, which certified him as the luckiest tough guy around

Andrea Saul is Saul Alinsky backwards. At least sideways. Using Republican logic, she is an America hater.

I myself had an Uncle Jim who died, which I’m sad to say was a relief.

SO MEAN!

The Obama campaign has been putting up a lot of these types of ads in the swing states (like Colorado). Each one has been totally on the money and Romney is losing support in all these states.

I especially love it that Romney’s people are crying big crocodile tears over this when Willard’s entire approach to campaigning in the primaries was to plaster the airways in the respective states with negative attack ads. Typical bully behavior. Run away crying when someone hits you back.

Ma belle watertiger is now referring to Mittens as the Outsorcerer. Voila!

The amazing thing about the GOP is that they had a real chance to run against Obama — Obama is very much a failed President. None of the problems that he faced at the beginning of his Presidency have gotten much better.

But they put up possibly the very worst candidate they could have chosen, someone who is so obviously part of the sickness that even a Quisling like Obama looks like a hero in comparison.

I wish Clinton had been faced with enemies this incompetent, back in the day. What a difference 20 years makes.

My Uncle Jim is still alive, and he’s an asshole. But I digress.

Mitt is not showing well in Boulderistan, with my wingnut pals. They’re starting to realize that they really aren’t in ‘the Club’, and they sure as hell aren’t going to get there soon.

Didn’t Rove the Lying Scumbag tout the ‘turn their strengths into weaknesses’ line of attack? Except he used lies and fabrications to do it, and while that was pretty successful, this use of truth (and a little technology) is even better.

Mitt/Rove- ’12!!! Let the brutality begin!

I had an Uncle Jim, who is now dead, but he got mentioned prominently here at least once. (I don’t think he was responsible for the crap that had his name on it, though.)

Shocking that this ad strikes Mitt in his strong place and turns it into a weakness. Before this, he probably thought he’d get into office on the basis of his singing.

Wow. And all this time I thought it was because Palin gave Gluehorse wood. (As opposed to Tim Pawlenty, who is merely a mullet made of wood.)

To be fair to Obama, he was already beating Jack Ryan by double digits months before the divorce court proceedings were aired:

Fox story on Ryan’s June 2004 pullout referencing the fact that Obama was leading since the March primaries

May 2004 Democratic Underground piece: Poll shows Obama with 16-point lead (this is a month before the Jeri Ryan revelations).

The Jeri Ryan scandal was a godsend for the Illinois Republican Party. Without it, they would have to squarely admit that their best candidate, their golden boy Jack Ryan, was no match for a charismatic black guy. With it, they can pretend that Obama lucked out because Ryan took himself out.

That probably didn’t hurt her chances any, although I’d describer her as more of a shiny, delicate-looking spider – with a good supply of venom.

I think that’s giving her too much credit. She’s really like one of those yappy purse dogs. Very loud and beligerent from their safe perch, but at ground level when she has to back up the bluster, she turns tail and runs (1/2 term Guv).

She’s only dangerous because she has delusions of competence (to stupid to realize the true extent of her ignorance and/or sloth).

He fights when he thinks he can win.

Futile gestures aren’t good politics.

Besides reduced unemployment, averting a Great Depression, the first Universal Healthcare law ever, settling two active wars, eliminating Osama Bin Laden, improving our image abroad, LGBT rights victories, settlements for Indians and black farmers, and CAFE standards, you mean? Or did you think we weren’t paying attention? Move along now…

I wish Clinton had been faced with enemies this incompetent, back in the day.

Yes, he could have deregulated the financial industry that much more quickly.