Its not Romney’s fault they found more ammunition to use on Palin than they did on Romney. It certainly wasn’t for a lack of effort on the media’s part.

thecountofincognito on April 22, 2009 at 4:01 PM

The intensity level to smear Palin vs that to smear Romney wasn’t even comparable. No way. And ammunition? Everyone provides plenty of that, if the media is willing to hammer at it. Even Ivy League grads with executive and managerial experience, with great hair and a Gleem smile.

Like I said, I don’t dislike Romney at all. But believing he will beat Obama in 2012 is sheer fantasy.

Yeah because Romney wasn’t slammed by the press or anything during the primaries…
They dug up and spun a story about his dog from 25 YEARS ago to try and make him look bad.

They camped out in front of his house for months and interrogated landscapers!

Its not Romney’s fault they found more ammunition to use on Palin than they did on Romney. It certainly wasn’t for a lack of effort on the media’s part.

RobCon on April 21, 2009 at 9:58 PM

O would that it will be so!

Romney is a remarkable man. Wish we could have a guy with his logic and intellect in the whitehouse.

My thoughts during the primary.

dmann on April 21, 2009 at 10:50 PM

Good analysis, but I’ll change one point:

They won’t stop when we submit. They’ll only subject us to dhimmitude, which is basically cultural (if not physical) genocide in slow motion.

Basically, it won’t stop until we’re dead.

It’s odd that he’s hitting The One on his actions abroad: Obama’s been much better there than on domestic policy

Obama hasn’t been better. He is being better received by our enemies, at least until he leaves town.

Obama is apologizing for the US, taking blame for the world’s ills, and signalling he may not be as tough as the last President if challenged. For the wimps in EU, he not only agrees there is global warming, he blames the US

We have no idea what he is saying behind closed doors. I assume he says little to the EU wimps since he despises them apparently. I assume Obama tries to be ‘One’ with the leftist third worlders, and islamic potentates. Obama may truly be ‘One’ with them or he may be the jackass they lead by the nose. Hard to tell

He has created an image of arugula eating leftist who laps up third world insults like candy. Is this a Scarlett Pimpernel making world cutting deals with Raul and Abdallah behind the scenes?

I have my opinions. I do consider him to be a man of little depth and much rancor. A narcissistic Count of Monte Cristo who may not have endured a hellish prison and escape but may believe he has. Meanwhile various nations will revise their actions based upon his public image

This image creation is what Romney is writing of.

Romney is running for office. Good. We need someone who can read history as well as Marx

Here is a thought let’s just nominate a real conservative ESP a fiscal conservative. Palin comes to mind

Even so — dude, he’s running.

So is Newt.

We can’t afford a war in Asia, in any sense of the term, so lying low and hoping for the best re: North Korea’s missile launch seems to me to have been the smart thing to do, even if it made us look weak superficially. I appreciate Romney wanting to remind Kim that all options are on the table, including the military one, but that bravado would be a cold comfort if it spooked that nutjob into attacking Seoul. Let’s deal with Iran first, yes?

I have to agree. Although I think he should have used the new super tracking radar there was no chance this darn thing was going to fly anywhere of consequence. In principle I agree with this NYT Op-Ed.

As long as we keep NoKo bottled up we should just ignore the little freak.

Anyway, I’m sort of scratching my head, trying to make sense of Allah’s puzzling criticism here. Hopefully he won’t have a similarly snarky theme every time Mitt talks about issues of national security. As for N. Korea – he clearly said that while military options should not be off the table (which is, you know, reasonable) that there were many things that could be done, like cutting off credit, yadda yadda yadda.

I couldn’t agree with you more. I applaude Israel and its people for the strength that they hold and the alliance that they have with the U.S.

Obama is definitely a neophyte and has no backbone. He’s more concerned with being well-liked, than being confrontational in order to defend his country and its allies.

His stance on Iran worries me too. People here, especially left-wingers, don’t seem to understand the gravity of the situation that is brewing in the Mid-East. If Iran gets a nuke, we’re all screwed…Israel, being the first in line. If we lose Israel, we lose a valued friend, incredible people living within (some friends) and the entire region.

Your “harshness” bears facts that are a breath of fresh air. It’s not all rose-colored glasses and the Left doesn’t understand this. You can’t talk your way out of ALL situations. Sometimes you have to fight but they are apparently afraid of breaking a nail.

I’m hoping that Obama has only 1 term. The damage he’s already done is irreparable and it hasn’t been 100 days. I can’t stand the thought of 4 years, let alone 8.

Let’s hope that he has only 1 term because of his economic policies and not his lack of action in defense of nations…yours and ours.

This will go down as a short term win for Israel and a long term loss for both Israel and the US.

ckoeber on April 21, 2009 at 10:27 PM

Sir, your endless apologist pump into this thread is astounding.. I’ve never seen someone so misread a situation. I can’t counter all your points because there are so many and each & every one of them is imho wrong on every level. Let me just state a few quick facts..

A) Allowing Iran to develop nuclear weapons will alter the balance of power ON THE WHOLE planet which is unacceptable for not only Israel, but the western world including almost EVERY single arab nation in the region who are all ONBOARD and consider iran a greater threat than Israel. I might add that the USA views such an event as a national strategic threat of the highest order.

B) An Iranian nuclear weapon is guaranteed to end up in the hands of terrorists, making all your ‘increased terrorist points’ seem absurd in light of the fact that inaction would lead to a nuke going off in Israel, and possibly in the USA..by terrorists. These are catastrophic events! Even in your worst case scenario (which is wholly erroneous I might add), we are comparing increased conventional terrorism VS nuclear terrorism. Absurdity.

C) You have totally disregarded the fact that when Israel engages terrorists terrorism drops monumentally, it does not increase as you state. After Sharon’s defensive shield terrorism in Israel dropped by an order of 90+% from the west bank. After Israel took on Hezbollah, there has not been a terrorist incident in 2+ years. Your points are all factually incorrect.

D) I think you are totally oblivious to the situation in Israel regarding our public & leadership, we will not allow a nuclear Iran period end of story. We will fight anyone & EVERYONE if necessary. This is the basic founding principle of the State of Israel, never again. It is the whole reason the state exists!?!

E) We already have plans and full capability of striking. American assistance is a great benefit, but we are perfectly able & willing to do without if forced. We are leading the world in intelligence on the Iran nuclear issue, and we have all the weapons required for the job. We give your President some time out of respect for our ally but when that time is up, we will strike with precision & ferocity no matter what he says about it.

F) Israel can SIMULTANEOUSLY engage the entire region at once militarily, and has done so on multiple occasions already, in this scenario the region is with Israel.. Whatever reaction there might be will be for the newspapers & platitudes. This is the Arab way, in reality they are in full support.

G) Israel already struck a nuclear target in an Arab Muslim country, not once but twice now, just last year again in fact.. Where was the terrorism, world outcry, where are all the scenarios you outlined? None of them manifested, no one said a word in fact, in actuality we invaded MUSLIM airspace to do it on top of it all (Turkey). Further, in this case Iran is Persian, not Arab.. There would be less fallout than previous strikes which as outlined above led to NO fallout whatsoever.

H) We can blow up the whole planet if necessary, we are the regional superpower by orders of magnitude and guardians of the gate to the west.. Not only does everyone know we will strike Iran if we deem it necessary, they expect it.

I could go on & on.. but what is really going on here to my eyes is you apologizing for your very weak President who has in reality alarmed the entire region with his actions & inactions on this issue.

I would like to add that 95% of the American Congress supports Israel as an ally fully, and that over 70% of Americans have open sympathies with your ally Israel. Many Americans pray daily for our success, just as we pray for a strong vibrant America here. Obama is the one out to lunch on the issue, even Europe is scratching its head and making noises of disapproval – Not with Israel but with Obama’s pronouncements on the Iran issue.

If his administration were to challenge Israel after a strike as ‘punishment’ as the left gets all wet about, I promise you the fallout would be not a rock solid 60% support level that you quip about after 3 months.. but a single term in office.

The President of the United States is on a path to make the biggest mistake of his thus far short, and WHOLLY unimpressive career.. The only person left flapping in the wind will be President Obama, not Israel. He has shown himself to be a foreign policy neophyte thus far, and is on track to challenge carter as the worst President on foreign policy ever.

His bumbling policies are an international embarrassment and make a mockery of the leader of the free world, the United States of America. He has in 3 months turned the greatest country in the world into a lackey on the international stage with his endless apologies and appeasement to the dregs of our planet. Don’t worry, we will pick up the slack and defend American interests in these matters for you, that’s what alliances are all about.

I apologize if my post seems harsh, but we are facing possible nuclear anihilation and you are talking about some Palestinian & Hezbollah terrorists.. My friend, we kill these people for a living. We have been hunting & killing terrorists around the world for 60 years now – we are not scared of them, they are scared of us..

if Mitt would like to get elected, he should follow Newts lead and convert to either Catholicism like Newt or some form of evangelical christian.

just saying, its the politics of the matter.

jp on April 21, 2009 at 9:43 PM

HA HA HA HA HA HAH AH AH AH AH A HAH A HAHA HA HA HA!!!!

Where does HotAir get these clowns.

Yeah, Mitt is going to convert from Mormonism to Catholicism or evangelicalism in order to have a better chance of POTUS.

The only problem with your crack analysis is:

1) He believes in his church.

2) He wants to spend eternity in heaven…not hell.

Romney’s speech at CPAC was underwhelming,

Translation: Romney talked about technical things that usually require a good high-school education to understand. I prefer Palin talking cuz I understand her and she’s purdy too

I have a huge family spread out around NC, SC, GA, and AL. All solid Republicans–not one would vote for Mitt and tell me their friends would not either.

Translation: ” My family is spread out amongs the backwoods…you know sorta like Deliverance. In fact, I dont understand what was wrong with the people in Deliverance that were having some fun with them out-of-towners.

I get my big ol brains and stuff from my family…we are dumb together….and we dont understand them big words that Mitt Romeny uses and he thinks he is all smart with those fancy duds.”

howIroll on April 22, 2009 at 12:35 AM

Great post dude. Thanks for admitting your Mensa membership. HA HA HA

The overwhelming majority of Obama voters supported him because he was young and cool and black and the Un-Republican. Hope and change, baby. They didn’t know–or care–what Obama’s policy positions were.

How could they? Obama himself doesn’t know what his policy positions are. He’s making it up as he goes along, God help us.

Hawthorne on April 22, 2009 at 12:52 AM

Well said.

RAH RAH PALIN
RAH RAH HUCKABEE
RAH RAH RON PAUL

We tear apart our own people like they are scum and electing them would be worse than Obama. Frankly it is a JOKE!!!!!!!!

When one of our guys steps up and says something helpful get behind them instead of throwing spitballs. I back EVERY Republican that is saying the right things. I do not plink at them just because I have some kind of petty agenda about 2012. It’s ridiculous.

What Romney said is on target. He is just flat right. So get behind him and cover his back like a good conservative Republican should. If Palin says the right thing back her too. Same for every leader in our party. If we ever want to get out of the mire we are in we have to stop0 this petty garbage and start acting like we are together on something.

The One will have screwed up our foreign policy so badly by 2012, we need a nominee with brass ones….big ones…seriously.

The problem with a executive is that they work to drive consensus to move the organization ahead. In a corporation, that’s an admirable quality. In a country where you can endlessly go into debt and print money, that’s bad.

We need a staunch conservative, who will make no compromises on fiscal responsibility. I don’t think that’s Romney.

There is no need to be nasty about Mitt. I was his supporter, I don’t think he’ll run again. Unless there is healing in the party, that obviously has not even begun. I think he just wants the Country back on track.

I wish reality was such that he was President during this bank crisis, car crisis… etc. Mitt would have been the right person but that was not to be.

I don’t think he is running again. Why should he put himself through that again? Mitt Romney has an actual life.

Yeah, you are right. He has done nothing but talk his entire life. No accomplishments…no executive experience…absolutely nothing…just a talker.

Unlike ckoeber who is a REAL DOER!!! YEAH, CKOEBER IS A DOER BUT MITT ROMNEY IS JUST NOTHING BUT A TALKER.

Palin/ Huckabites are deffo low IQ types, arent they???

The Wall on April 22, 2009 at 12:00 AM

Your point is stupid.

When I same Romney is just a talker it means that he will say all kinds of things just to please the base but never really stand on principle on his points.

A person like Ron Paul actually introduces legislation and VOTES on his principles.

You can call Ron Paul all kinds of stuff but he votes and acts on his principles. Unlike a good percentage of politicians out there.