Roger Simon at Politico: Memo to Mitt Romney: Kick some butt (actually a savage takedown)

[cali]

Not what I expected.

<snip>

But the convention turned out to be a prelude to disaster. A videotape of Romney at a private fundraiser surfaced. In it he said that 47 percent of Americans “believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it.”

Forget everything except the mention of food.

Maybe it’s just me, but I think everybody in America, no matter how young, how old, how sick, how mentally ill or physically disabled has a right to eat and not starve in the streets because he can’t earn enough money to buy food.

Call me Karl Marx, but I think the greatest nation on earth, which is what we are, should be willing to feed its hungry when the need arises.

It doesn’t trouble me that a presidential nominee should think otherwise. It troubles me that a caring human being should think otherwise.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/81879.html#ixzz288bBncXV

[Iggy]

1. Mormons don't do takedowns

if Willard attempts this during the debate, I doubt it will come off well.. it will likely look comical and
ridiculous-- as Romney in fact is

[magical thyme]

2. love the last line....

"But at least he will have shown that he can kick some butt. Even if it’s just his own."

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/81879_Page2.html#ixzz288eOI0gA


I've said over and over again that every time he winds up a huge punch in the nose, he ends up hitting himself in the face. Go for it, Romney! Bring it on!

[KharmaTrain]

3. Something's Gotten Into Rotten Roger's Cornflakes...

...maybe it's been his difficult battle with cancer that's changed his world view. Somehow he's recapturing the compassion he once had about 40 years ago. Simon is the one who released the article last week mentioning the rift between Rmoney and Lyin' Ryan and now is hammering him with this. Hmmm. Methinks he hasn't been getting the first class accomodations he was used to when he was a bigger beltway player (or aspired to be)...he's been as ruthless on Willard as he used to be on Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Go figger...

[cali]

4. go figger indeed.

maybe it's personal? he really seems to loath rMoney.

[CanonRay]

8. Another deathbed conversion ala Lee Atwater?

Maybe they start to see how much harm they've done.

[Aerows]

5. My favorite comment from that piece

The Romney campaign is not in a state of disarray. It never got arrayed in the first place.

[rfranklin]

6. ZINGER: "Are there no poorhouses?"

'Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don't make merry myself at Christmas and I can't afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned-they cost enough; and those who are badly off must go there.'

'Many can't go there; and many would rather die.'

'If they would rather die,' said Scrooge, 'they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."


---from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

[vanlassie]

7. Indeed. A whole lot of Republicans

need a visit with the Ghost of Christmas Future if Romney wins.

[barbtries]

9. how about shelter?

and if a person is not entitled to food or shelter, is that person then entitled to a patch of land on this planet where he or she can make those things happen?
where do you draw the line on heartlessness? in the wealthiest nation in the world. so sad.