In Op-Ed Gaffe, Mitt Romney Criticizes Obama's 'Peacetime' Spending

[TheNewMe]

Evan McMorris-Santoro | April 25, 2011, 6:46PM

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/...g.php#more

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On Monday morning, Romney told readers of the Manchester, NH Union-Leader in an op-ed that Americans are living in a "peacetime" economy.
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"Sure, foreign policy and national security aren't Romney's strong points," [Steve]Benen wrote, "but as slow as he is on the uptake, I'd like to think he knows what 'peacetime' is, and what it isn't."

Then came a scathing attack from VetVoice, the progressive-leaning veterans groups. Under the headline "Servicemembers: You're not at war," VetVoice's Richard Allen Smith listed the name of 36 servicemembers he said have been killed in Iraq or Afghanistan since April 1.
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"He meant to say since World War II," Romney spokesperson Eric Ferhstrom told Dave Weigel.

This is the op-ed:
http://unionleader.com/article.aspx?head...67005bb838

This is the response from VetVoice:
http://www.vetvoice.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=4713

[Gregory Oliver Sr]

Republicans are kinda frazzled right now as they try to recover from the great overreach.LOL

[RoyGBiv]

I gather the "peacetime economy" comment was not intended as a factual statement.

[TheNewMe]

Nothing is meant as factual any more

[There Is No Spoon]

Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt Mitt !

Stop being a lying idiot!

Oh? You're a Republican?


Never mind.

[Arkana]

Oh, Mitt.

When will you come to terms with the fact that a) Obama is a hundred times the man you are on your best day and b) You will never, ever be President?

[Ikonoklast]

And this guy is the "Smart One" of their choices?


Oy.

[Julie]

I love that they are such idiots.

[Cha]

He really should get his head out of ass..he might be more aware of what's been going on.

[PoliticalTiger]

What a doofus! And his excuse doesn't hold weight.

[DFW]

Maybe he should borrow a phrase from his fellow Republican, Jon Kyl "It was never meant to be a factual statement."

Republicans in general don't seem to be very keen on "factual statements."

Probably because they can't make any without sounding like Democrats.

[Cha]

>snip<

During a brief Q&A after an eight-minute speech, Romney was asked about his economic message. He replied, "I just can't help but notice that -- you remember that during the Ronald Reagan-Jimmy Carter debates, that Ronald Reagan came up with this great thing about the Misery Index? And he hung that around Jimmy Carter's neck and that had a lot to do with Jimmy Carter losing. Well we're going to have to hang the Obama Misery Index around his neck. And I'll tell you, the fact that you've got people in this country really squeezed with gasoline getting so expensive, with commodities getting so expensive, families are having a hard time making ends meet. So we're going to have to do talk about that, and housing foreclosures and bankruptcies and higher taxation. We're going to hang him with that -- uh, so to speak, metaphorically, with, uh, you have to be careful these days, I learned that."

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archive...hp#1928276

Not careful enough Mitt.. the guy who ran from Romeny Care straight into gop gaffe hell.

[nofurylike]

(04-30-2011 10:19 PM)Cha Wrote:  >snip<

During a brief Q&A after an eight-minute speech, Romney was asked about his economic message. He replied, "I just can't help but notice that -- you remember that during the Ronald Reagan-Jimmy Carter debates, that Ronald Reagan came up with this great thing about the Misery Index? And he hung that around Jimmy Carter's neck and that had a lot to do with Jimmy Carter losing. Well we're going to have to hang the Obama Misery Index around his neck. And I'll tell you, the fact that you've got people in this country really squeezed with gasoline getting so expensive, with commodities getting so expensive, families are having a hard time making ends meet. So we're going to have to do talk about that, and housing foreclosures and bankruptcies and higher taxation. We're going to hang him with that -- uh, so to speak, metaphorically, with, uh, you have to be careful these days, I learned that."

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archive...hp#1928276

Not careful enough Mitt.. the guy who ran from Romeny Care straight into gop gaffe hell.

thank you for adding that news to this thread, Cha.

what i found worse, when added to his having said it - and he should have just stopped there and apologized profusely, and humbly! - was his adding "uh, you have to be careful these days, I learned that."

because that is what it always comes down to with them, "oops! did i say that OUT LOUD?!" in adding what he did, he got to point out that his mistake was in saying it, not in what it said. i am sure it took a lot of rehearsing to get the timing right on looking honestly embarrassed - i.e., providing "plausible deniability." that is how dog whistle racism works.
that is how his mob gets away with saying racist, despicable things, again and again.

[Cha]

(05-01-2011 02:31 AM)nofurylike Wrote:  

(04-30-2011 10:19 PM)Cha Wrote:  >snip<

During a brief Q&A after an eight-minute speech, Romney was asked about his economic message. He replied, "I just can't help but notice that -- you remember that during the Ronald Reagan-Jimmy Carter debates, that Ronald Reagan came up with this great thing about the Misery Index? And he hung that around Jimmy Carter's neck and that had a lot to do with Jimmy Carter losing. Well we're going to have to hang the Obama Misery Index around his neck. And I'll tell you, the fact that you've got people in this country really squeezed with gasoline getting so expensive, with commodities getting so expensive, families are having a hard time making ends meet. So we're going to have to do talk about that, and housing foreclosures and bankruptcies and higher taxation. We're going to hang him with that -- uh, so to speak, metaphorically, with, uh, you have to be careful these days, I learned that."

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archive...hp#1928276

Not careful enough Mitt.. the guy who ran from Romeny Care straight into gop gaffe hell.

thank you for adding that news to this thread, Cha.

what i found worse, when added to his having said it - and he should have just stopped there and apologized profusely, and humbly! - was his adding "uh, you have to be careful these days, I learned that."

because that is what it always comes down to with them, "oops! did i say that OUT LOUD?!" in adding what he did, he got to point out that his mistake was in saying it, not in what it said. i am sure it took a lot of rehearsing to get the timing right on looking honestly embarrassed - i.e., providing "plausible deniability." that is how dog whistle racism works.
that is how his mob gets away with saying racist, despicable things, again and again.

Exactly..blame it on the victim not his own stupid gaffe filled mouth. And, this is coming from Mitt..the supposedly smarter of the vicious attack dogs aka republicon nominees for top liar.