After stumping hard for Mitt Romney in the presidential campaign, several of the Republican Party’s rising stars are now berating him as divisive and potentially damaging to the GOP’s future.
Governors Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and Scott Walker of Wisconsin assailed Romney’s comments this week that President Obama’s reelection was due to “gifts” he lavished on such “special-interest groups” as minorities, women, and young people.
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This is probably the only way Romney understands how and why he lost...it couldn't be the candidate or the issues...
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Good for Jindal,criticizing Mitt's remarks The romney name should now be associated with the term "POOR LOSER" !!!
Mitt isn't wrong. The Democrats divided everybody into neat little groups and played on their fears and wants (medicare, student loans, unemployment etc) and then either scared them that Romney would end their entitlements, usually through lies or half truths or promised them something that someone else would pay for.
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With all due respect, the Republicans have always played the "Fear" way better than the Dems. They played that card this time around and lost, but ther Dems played the "Power" card, and it payed off: women have power, gays have power, young people have power, Latinos have power, working class people have power, etc.
He lost because he can't govern. He can't govern his mouth. Unfortunately for him he lets us in on what a truly nasty man he is when he gets caught talking. He stupidly blabbed his way thru his campaign foreign travels and embarrassed himself. He got caught blabbing his true feelings about the half of us he considers some sort of underclass. Now it's us again...the underclass with our hands out. We are smelling up the place while awaiting the freebies we sold our votes for. This man truly makes me sick. I am SO RELIEVED!!!
Romney is a poor sport and an even poorer loser.
Well said, but I believe they will get shouted down by the far right and probably put in their place. They are governors so they don't have to kowtow to the Tea Party and Limbaugh.
Romney is a liar, a pathogical liar who somehow thought that would be just fine with the voters. Besides, he left people wondering if he was human or Borg...I'm still not sure abot the answer to that one.
But Bobby Jindal is a governor who thinks teaching "creationism" in the schools is jut fine and dandy. And Republicans wonder why voters shun their candidates?
Perhaps Jindal will soften Republican dislike of the poor and middle class better than Romney did.
Soften it or perhaps hide it.
The direction of the GOP over the past 12 years or so, has been to the far right. Catering to a minority within the party: The religious right wing, wwalthy, angry, vengeful white men. The Kochs, The Perry's and Donald Trump. Romney cannot think any differently because he is one of those angry white men. His fellow Mormons rejected him. Does that mean they are "takers" too? Jindal is absolutely correct; until the GOP stops allowing itself to be controlled by the narrow self interest of the few, the many won't vote for them. There just aren't enough extremely wealthy, angry white men to make up a mojority that can win a presidential election. Romney was never the right cadidate to win this election despite the far right wing rationalizing his candidacy and putting him up as presidential material, which he never was. He wasn't even govenor material. He only listens to his own lofty ambition. Which is why he was not a very good governor. He had his sights set on the next rung up the ladder. And never cared about anyone but himself.
Romney is a sore loser, a liar, and worst of all, a racist. He should just go away. Maybe move to Alabama or Mississippi where he will fit in with aall the white angry male racists.
Romney is probably not racist...classist sure but he likes rich blacks and Hispanics...it's the middle class and poor challenging him by actually voting that got him angry. Rich people really do not want more company at the top and that is what the Republicans seek to hide.
The Republicans are marginalizing Mitt Romney because they want to be less blatant about what they actually believe. They do believe that there are too many people unnecessarily dependent on the government. Of course they do not show the flip side. They try with all their might to cheapen the labor of the most productive workers on Earth by paying non life sustaining wages. Besides Bobby Jindal's governance is a sham. So many of the stressed part of Louisiana's population is residing in other states after Katrina. Still the poverty rate in La is 18.3% just ahead of Mississippi and the District of Columbia. Their self serving remarks should be taken with heavy grains of salt. Republicans are not friends of the everyday working stiff. To be lifted out of poverty the minimum wage should be $12.50 per hour not the $7.25 it currently is. Until people are paid properly for their work and deep six this invisible hand of the market myth the Republicans are actually increasing the role of government as the sustainer of last resort for our citizens. If more limited government is a goal then adequate wages are needed so people can truly meet life's necessities on their own.
I respectfully disagree OETKB - while there are many voting R who fit this bill, it is definately not all of them. It's just easier to spout it in grpoups and on-line. Many 'normal people' actually feel true disgust for those who feed at the teat and raise their children to do the same - that (for me anyhow) goes for business owners hiring illegals, greasing the 'right' palms, stashing $ offshore, etc. It's a different crime but it sucks the life out of the US just the same. and yes, I did use "suck" and "Teat" in the same post...
Good for mitt. The moonies like saying "truth to power", but they hate it when its said back to them. (remember that boston police chief who told partents that they were responsible for their childs crimes???? got run out of town on a rail)
As the Iron Lady ( I count myself lucky to have been an adult when there were leaders like Maggy and Ronald Wilson) said:
"The trouble with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."
I also remember the gas lines of the 70's and Jimmy Carter (now 2nd worst president in recent history) telling you to put on a sweater...
Two Bushes, Reagan and Nixon are the four worst presidents in recent American history. Carter's in the middle. Obama will be in the top five when he's done.
We all win if you are right and he turns out to be good..... Lets hope he's got a Michael Mann like "hockey stick" improvement in term 2... I live in South Boston. Got a good job...have worked since I was 14 (back when kids delievered newspapers instead of illegals).... but I can't aford a waterfront place. The government just put up a 6 story public housing high-rise overlooking the water. Folks on the dole are living high (literally) on hog...and I've got to keep slaving away to feed and shelter them, as well as take care of my own family.
One thing is clear: these Republications have a problem with the English language. Mitt, it's "With regard to young people..." not "With regards..." But, I'll give your regards to your English teacher when I see him. Marco, it's "fewer people...," not "less people..." After all, you wouldn't want people to think you're one of the 47% would you?
Can we impeach Romney from his failed governorship after the fact? He is a stain on the human race. We need to renounce him lest history misunderstand Massachusett's role in his political ascendency.
It cracks me up to watch these good-looking, tall, straight white guys, who have had every advantage in life (and they don't even know it) come face to face with the reality that in the modern world they have to compete on equal terms with other people. And then when they have to compete, they lose. It MUST be someone else's fault! It can't be due to some inadequacy on my own part! To watch Scott Brown getting his @ss kicked by Elizabeth Warren was hysterical. You could see it written all over his face - Wait, I'm a tall, good-looking, athletic, white guy and I have to compete for my job with a girl?! Are you kidding me?!
His contempt of her did show through in the debates.
What an ignorant comment. I'd say the opposite is true - too often women and minorities base their legitimacy on the fact that they are not white guys instead of competing on "equal terms". It's clear that toby18 has some strange contempt for white guys, and contempt for anyone based on race or sex is simply wrong.
Of course Fox (Hannity) is talking IMPEACHMENT of Obama, while Oreily blasts Jingal in favor of talking about poor people deserving to die from no health care - he didn't say it that way but that's what he meant - and then there are the racists in the South talking, and signing petitions - 108 thousand in Texas - for secession. Very patriotic bunch there! Republicans of sanity, and there are many, are afraid of all of these mouth breathing clowns. It is so sad that they hate their country so much and want it to fail.
Mitt Romney's comment true and accurate and I guess the truth really does hurt these days.
Even if they were true, which they're not, only a politician who never expects to win another election would say what Romney said. You don't win over voters by declaring your contempt for them.
Further proof that Romney completely believed the conservative media echo chamber. He simply can't understand how anyone wouldn't vote for him unless they were bribed not to.
Jindal had to speak up, since he wants to stay viable in the eyes of the voters. Pure expediency. He's no better than Mitt. He's just as elitist and intolerant. But just smarter at keeping his mouth shut. I can't help but feel that Republicans are all suspect after the way this past campaign was waged. The Democratic Party is becoming the Thinking Man's Party by default. What a waste, since this country needs dialogue to resolve its problems.
Amen!
This is now a nation of "takers" rather than workers. The large cities are mostly political party supporters many who live on government support.Romney pointed many facts that were firmly regected by members of both parties. Politicans need to wake up to the fact that "winning at any cost" is the totally acceptable climate in politics today.When Christian beliefs with high moral standards are tossed into the trash can they are replaced by opposit standards and practices that occur in the current situation.If the truth had been told perhaps the outcome would have been different but I doubt it.
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It's more than naive to suggest that giving 25 billion to auto workers plus a stock interest in the new company, amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants, raising the issue of forgiving education loans to students and a promise that taxing the rich would solve our problem- not cutting federal programs, did not convince more than a few million to vote for Obama. Let's face it, we are already bankrupt by any accounting standards of solvency, so why not continue the gravy train that has already run America off the cliff. It was just wishful thinking that actually facing our problems with someone who was capable of doing what is needed, was worth a try. Most Americans, at least a majority by 3,000,000 would rather see the country go down, than face the financial chaos that politicians have created with their accounting scam of government budgeting, which NEVER accounts for money promised in future years. They only count the down payment and not the mortgages assumed. Even under that method, which makes Madeoff look like a beacon of integrity, they are off by over 1.7 trillion in one year.
A man who cannot govern his own mouth. Again...the excuse of a poorly worded statement. You don't get to have that many poorly worded statements as a statesman. There is a way to correctly say what you mean. Or, perhaps he did say exactly what he meant. This would be fine if he didn't try to weasel out of it.
Again Romney changes positions. When confronted with the infamous 47% recording he admitted to his words being inelegant then put out ads that stated he would be president of all the people. Now he finally admits his original words were the real Romney. This lying automaton has no inner core values, no soul. What a fake! I can only imagine how he and his VP choice, Paul Ryan, would have treated those American citizens who I now believe they purely, simply disdain and hate. Strong words...from Romney, not from me.