Romney: Attacks on my business record are personal attacks, should be off limits

[Lief 🗽]

http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/10/13217458-first-thoughts-its-not-an-even-race-obamas-ahead?lite

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Is Mitt Romney ever going to stop being a pathetic whiner? You can't base your entire candidacy on your business record and then run crying to the press about personal attacks when the other side scrutinizes that business record.

[NVGonzalez]

He mad bro.

[Landslide Lyndon]

What a whimp.

[All Along The Watchtower]

For crying out loud,

HE'S  RUNNING ON HIS BUSINESS RECORD!!!

[Politico]

Is it time to for the GOP to hit back with "sources" that say Obama not only experimented with cocaine, but crack cocaine, while attending communist demonstrations at Columbia and Harvard? Or how about "sources" that say Obama's entire academic success was the result of affirmative action? Why won't Obama release his college transcripts to prove otherwise? Maybe "sources" who know Obama had his books ghostwritten? Why won't Obama release all contracts involving his books to prove otherwise?

Reid needs to put up or shut up before this gets out of hand.

If Democrats want a repeat of Lee Atwater-style mudslinging, they better barrel down the hatches.

[Brittain33]

If Republicans thought those kinds of attacks would be successful, they'd do it.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

If Republicans thought those kinds of attacks would be successful, they'd do it.

Obama doesn't have a business record to attack.

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

Is it time to for the GOP to hit back with "sources" that say Obama not only experimented with cocaine, but crack cocaine, while attending communist demonstrations at Columbia and Harvard?

Is he running on that? Is that his entire basis for being POTUS? He told everyone that he did coke, that's common knowledge. Who will that hurt him with? Almost everyone did.

Or how about "sources" that say Obama's entire academic success was the result of affirmative action? Why won't Obama release his college transcripts to prove otherwise?

Is Obama running on that? Because he's black, automatically it's impossible for him to have gotten in because of his intelligence?

Maybe "sources" who know Obama had his books ghostwritten? Why won't Obama release all contracts involving his books to prove otherwise?

Now you're just grasping for straws. You're accusing him of not even writing his own biography? Not that's just plain sad.

Reid needs to put up or shut up before this gets out of hand.
If Democrats want a repeat of Lee Atwater-style mudslinging, they better barrel down the hatches.

So he needs to stop before this hurts Romney? We'd stop if he'd follow his own father and every other candidate's example and release his returns. Hes giving people the chance to guess what's in them by not releasing anything. What's he hiding, and if its nothing, every one will stop. He hasn't released them, so maybe there is something......

[old timey villain]

More proof that Romney had no idea what he was getting into.

I guess he just feels entitled to the position and didn't expect anyone to question his legitimacy or his background. But yeah, this just makes me smile- "I'm running based on my business experience but DON'T YOU DARE QUESTION MY BUSINESS EXPERIENCE, PLEBIANS!!" And I love that he's trying to hide his desperation in a thinly veiled cry for civility. You're not fooling anyone.

[© tweed]

I kissed the bottle
I should have been kissing you
you wake up to an empty night
with tears for two

[mondale84]

Is it time to for the GOP to hit back with "sources" that say Obama not only experimented with cocaine, but crack cocaine, while attending communist demonstrations at Columbia and Harvard?

Why would people care about Obama snorting coke? Most people can only dream of snorting coke and would like to try it.

[RogueBeaver]

Oh FFS, just start throwing some punches.

[Supersonic]

Is it time to for the GOP to hit back with "sources" that say Obama not only experimented with cocaine, but crack cocaine, while attending communist demonstrations at Columbia and Harvard?

Why would people care about Obama snorting coke? Most people can only dream of snorting coke and would like to try it.

Since it shows the public he lacks the character to be Commander in Chief.

[Frozen Sky Ever Why]

Someone doing coke when they are young has nothing to do with their character or their ability to govern the country.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

Is it time to for the GOP to hit back with "sources" that say Obama not only experimented with cocaine, but crack cocaine, while attending communist demonstrations at Columbia and Harvard?

Why would people care about Obama snorting coke? Most people can only dream of snorting coke and would like to try it.

Since it shows the public he lacks the character to be Commander in Chief.

How exactly?

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

Is it time to for the GOP to hit back with "sources" that say Obama not only experimented with cocaine, but crack cocaine, while attending communist demonstrations at Columbia and Harvard?

Why would people care about Obama snorting coke? Most people can only dream of snorting coke and would like to try it.

Since it shows the public he lacks the character to be Commander in Chief.

Romney beat up a gay kid in prep school. Maybe he doesn't have the character to be President either.

[mondale84]

Is it time to for the GOP to hit back with "sources" that say Obama not only experimented with cocaine, but crack cocaine, while attending communist demonstrations at Columbia and Harvard?

Why would people care about Obama snorting coke? Most people can only dream of snorting coke and would like to try it.

Since it shows the public he lacks the character to be Commander in Chief.

People know Obama has the character to be Commander in Chief, he's president and people should respect him even if they don't approve of his policies. Also his having done coke can only help him, it doesn't hurt him.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

If it were just challenging aspects of his record, then sure. But they have gone another step in that process and that is to paint Romney as an evil, vindictive, and rich SOB who despises real people. Is that not the epitome of a personal attack? It is backdoor access with a cloak of a occuring under the umbrella of a letimate critique to be sure, but a pig is a still a pig in the end.

[Adam Griffin]

Is it time to for the GOP to hit back with "sources" that say Obama not only experimented with cocaine, but crack cocaine, while attending communist demonstrations at Columbia and Harvard? Or how about "sources" that say Obama's entire academic success was the result of affirmative action? Why won't Obama release his college transcripts to prove otherwise? Maybe "sources" who know Obama had his books ghostwritten? Why won't Obama release all contracts involving his books to prove otherwise?

Reid needs to put up or shut up before this gets out of hand.

If Democrats want a repeat of Lee Atwater-style mudslinging, they better barrel down the hatches.

Wait, is it 2007? Because I'm pretty sure that everything you mentioned there has already been thrown at Obama ad nauseum by the Republican machine. Republicans have been demanding records, personal information and rewriting their own history for the President that matches their worldview since he came into office.

The Republican attack machine is a very effective tool, but I'm afraid it will not be nearly as effective this go around. It's not as if Republicans have been planning to hold on to any juicy lie they can imagine to spread across two terms; since declaring that Obama will be a one-term President, they've thrown literally everything at him that they can scrounge up these past four years and now nothing anyone hears is new, shocking or outrageous.

The vast majority of the undecided electorate has tuned out the Republican lies, slogans and catch-phrases that have been repeated over and over. If they vote Republican, it will be due to a more nuanced reason.

And let's not pretend Romney is above the fray or has any sort of high moral ground. Romney's campaign and his surrogates - besides completely embracing the extremist elements in the Republican Party that have been pumping out anti-Obama propaganda since 2008 - has directly ran ads and made statements insinuating falsehoods and engaging in personal attacks against the President ("Obama will just send you your check", "he hates business", "Obama is a socialist stoner").

In short: you all have cried "Wolf!" way too many times, and the Republican attack machine is out of gas when it comes to additional persuasion. Enjoy the electorate you (currently) have, for Obama has largely remained calm and refrained from being critical in these ridiculous lies, assumptions and fairytales that Republicans keep trying to sell. That is, until now. We saved our gas, bitches, and we're about to go steamrolling.

[Landslide Lyndon]

If it were just challenging aspects of his record, then sure. But they have gone another step in that process and that is to paint Romney as an evil, vindictive, and rich SOB who despises real people.

You are right of course. Mittens doesn't despise all the people, only those that don't bring a profit to him.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

If it were just challenging aspects of his record, then sure. But they have gone another step in that process and that is to paint Romney as an evil, vindictive, and rich SOB who despises real people.

You are right of course. Mittens doesn't despise all the people, only those that don't bring a profit to him.

Doesn't the nature of business necessitate the liquidating of labor that no longer produce or provide a service in a profitable manner? How in any way can that fairly reflect on the character for the person tasked with undertaking such a necessitated evil as laying people off? More or less lend to a conclusion that he despises such people.