2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumReporters blast Romney’s “Hurricane relief” stunt
I wrote last night about how it seemed that Mitt Romney was planning on using Hurricane Sandy to camouflage a political event today in Ohio (and similar ones in WI for Paul Ryan). It turns out I was right. Reporters on the scene of the charity event are horrified by the politicking theyre seeing. Theyre even apparently giving out anti-Obama t-shirts at the non-partisan charity relief rally.
I warned last night that Mitt Romney was planning on using Hurricane Sandy as an opportunity to get around his promise to not hold any political events today, by holding fake Hurricane relief events in states that didnt even get hurricaned like Ohio and Wisconsin, but which do happen to be important swing states.
And they did just that.
While Mitt Romney is infamous for his flip-flops, and the lack of value to his word, he also has a growing infamy for using human tragedy as political opportunity. Youll recall that in the 47% video, Romney said that he would keep his eyes open for an opportunity like the Iran Hostage Crisis he actually called that crisis an opportunity that he could use to help his campaign.
And Romneys campaign admitted that they saw the murder of Ambassador Chris Stevens in Benghazi as yet another opportunity for their campaign.
http://americablog.com/2012/10/romney-shows-campaign-video-at-hurricane-sandy-relief-event.html
tblue
(16,350 posts)Who could vote for that guyt????
Apparently, 49% of likely voters.
msongs
(67,433 posts)NBachers
(17,134 posts)Romney gloats over death and gory bedlam
If you want to read Charlie Pierce eviscerate wRongney, read here:
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/obama-romney-hurricane-sandy-14261227
Cha
(297,503 posts)illustration of mitt unmasked!
That part cracks me up about those warning Pres Obama not to politicize the Hurricane. That's all the complainers are doing..is politicizing it. They're all so freaking jealous that he can do the job.
reflection
(6,286 posts)Thanks for sharing that.
NCLefty
(3,678 posts)Super brutal:
Look, America, you've had your fun. [Snip] It was a tremendous, rolling good time to follow this year's Republican primary, in which, while the rest of the world likely looked on in horror, one of our two political parties allowed a veritable Wrestlemania of political dementia to produce the most singularly soulless and mendacious nominee since it allowed Richard Nixon to rise from moldy earth again. It was great good jolly fun to come right up to the edge of n-bombing the president and then, giggling like schoolboys caught wanking out a window, run away.
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)Cha
(297,503 posts)two steps ahead on Vulgar Opportunism while insulting people who are trying to actually help others.
http://theobamadiary.com/
Yul A
(94 posts)The media has let Mittwit away with too damn much in the past 4 weeks!
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)Republicans want him in the white house? Day Three after he has the Presidency, he would sell it to China and leave for the Caymen Islands to Retire.
NCLefty
(3,678 posts)Everyone outside of the right-wing echo-chamber can see this huckster for what he is.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Because we've seen what happens when the obvious is ignored. We're living the results right now.
This is like living in a bad dream.