But Romney’s trailing,

ddrintn on July 26, 2012 at 11:57 AM

Rasmussen today:

Romney 48
Obama 44

I’ve noticed that some ABRs like you who’ve been quite enthusiastic about Romney’s chances have suddenly sunk back into Primary Mode. If you have a point – other than a childish ad hominen – make it.

Basilsbest on July 25, 2012 at 9:47 PM

Still waiting to see your list. No worries I’ll catch you on the next thread. Thin skinned you and I’m the child? Funny!

Pure BS. People vote their wallets and our wallets are empty. Odumbass is history.

woodNfish on July 26, 2012 at 11:47 AM

So why isn’t Romney already walking all over Obama in the polls? And don’t hand me the usual “all the polls showing Obama leading are LYING!!!!!” b.s. Given the state of the economy and Obama’s evident incompetence, and given also the aura of The Only Man Who Can Beat Obama that Romney’s been given over the past four years, it shouldn’t even be close right now. But Romney’s trailing, ‘bot fantasies and rationalizations notwithstanding.

In the referendum model of the election, voters ask themselves two questions: First, do I want the president to be re-elected? Second, is the challenger so unacceptable that I simply can’t bring myself to vote for him?…

Pure BS. People vote their wallets and our wallets are empty. Odumbass is history.

You Mittens would serve him better if you refrained from even commenting on these threads, because your defense of him is laced with insults and only antagonizes people rather than persuading them to your POV.

INC on July 26, 2012 at 11:30 AM

They’re miniature copies of Romney himself. Just as he can get no electoral success without trashing his (Republican) opponents, they can’t defend Romney without trashing, let’s see: TrueCons, socons, “purists” and most of all Sarah Palin. It’s a sure sign of Romney’s fatal weakness.

At this point, anyone not supporting Romney is supporting Obama’s re-election.

bluegill on July 26, 2012 at 1:39 AM

Wrong. Anyone supporting Romney supports Romney.
Anyone supporting Obama supports Obama.
Anyone supporting neither supports neither.

Fact: Some idiot Romney supporters like you accuse those who don’t vote for either of supporting Obama.
Fact: Some idiot Obama supporters accuse those who don’t vote for either of supporting Romney.
Fact: It cannot be both ways, so it is neither way.

Now settle your hash, you elitist, conservative-scorning, proud moderate fanatic.

The fact is that conservatives, Tea Partiers and independents all support Romney. It’s not even close.

bluegill on July 26, 2012 at 1:19 AM

The fact is that you have no idea about conservatism or the Tea Party. Neither like, and few support, Romney. I’m guessing the closest you’ve come to a Tea Party was when you spilled Brisk on the crotch of your pants.

swinia sutki on July 26, 2012 at 6:01 AM

That there, is a reasonable quick analysis of the problem Romney, and his supporters have in understanding why Conservatives and Libertarians aren’t exactly keen on Romney.

I have every reason not to vote for Obama that I need: His political history. It was for that reason that I didn’t vote for him in 2008. It’s only expanded further for 2012. A Crony Capitalism business plan, passing tax laws and tax funding that favor his ardent supporters, leaving the rest of us the bill. Supporting “Freedom” groups that favor freedom oppressing religious laws and also often are responsible for producing Proto-terrorists. Letting the erosion of our freedoms and rights continue. And extremely serious scandals and coverups, Solyndra and Fast and Furious being two of the most notable ones

The problem is, I don’t have every reason to vote for another candidate. For the independent party candidates, it’s because I don’t know enough about them, or they’re just too crazy/lunatics (I’m looking at you, Green party.) For Mitt Romney, it’s because he’s being dishonest about his Conservative “credentials” on various key issues. And simply voting because of someone being “The lesser of two evils” argument, just doesn’t fly with me any more. All that is simply, is Political Talk/Bull for Sports Team Politics. “Vote for this candidate because they wear the Team colors”. I’m not into that, I tried doing that in 2008 and that just left was a figurative bad taste in my mouth, and nothing to show for it. And it’s hard to support a “team” or in this case, Political party, that continues to put out mediocre candidates when it comes to critical elections.

It’s even harder to support them, when the most hardcore of supporters, continue to insult and snipe at you with comments calling people like me who aren’t on board “Stupid” “non-intellectual” “Selfish” “fakes” “Secret Obama Supporter” (could’ve sworn I saw some Mitt bots earlier in the primary telling us we couldn’t support certain candidates due to their supporters) and so on and so forth. A reminder, for the Mittbots. I hear some of those very insults every day from Liberals for not supporting their candidate, and that just gives me further reason not to support them. So please, tell me again how that’s suppose to be any different for your candidate? And no the “Because Mitt’s a Republican/has an R by his name” excuse doesn’t count.

Obama became a symbol of hope and change; Romney, I think, wants simply to become a symbol of competence.

That last word’s what’s scaring me. I’m old enough to remember another former Mass. governor who ran his presidential campaign on it and lost in an electoral college landslide–partly because “I won’t screw it up” is not all that inspiring, and partly because of the smug and pugnacious attitude with which he proclaimed his “competence.”

I got a bad feeling about this.

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and so on. You will both check back on this thread. You are both invested in this thread. List them.

Hmm, no worthwhile points yet from Bmore, but still more childish ad hominen. Keep trying, Bmore. You can do it.

bluegill on July 26, 2012 at 1:15 AM

It’s difficult to comment when holding ones breath to avoid the stench. You are foolish. You defend when no defense is warranted. You attack when no attack is warranted. You are no liked because of these traits. You are a bigot. You stink of rotted thought and rotting fish. You are the gilled one. You are intellectualy lazy. It is why you are as you are. You know little and therefore appear as such. All of you who worship these political figures are the same. Yet he we are. In deep trouble as a Country because of the likes of you. You are the exact same cretin who blindly supports 0. You are cut from the same cloth. You are blind to it and do not smell your own stench. Many around know this of you. You are despised, as you should be.

One thing I really like about you is how are giving everyone a reason to enjoy an Obama victory if it should unfortunately come to that. Just watching you rabid Romneybots weep on election night will take some of the sting out of four more years of Obama.

Very generous of you, very generous.

sharrukin on July 26, 2012 at 1:27 AM

How sad and revealing that you would feel joy after an Obama victory in part because it would upset some random message board commenters you’ve never met. If this is how you find joy in life, then I feel a little bad for you. Maybe you should get out once in awhile. You know, hoping for an opportunity to scream “I don’t you so” on an internet message board is no way to live one’s life.

Unfortunately for you and the other Mitt-bashing fake conservatives on HotAir who would accept or even welcome an Obama victory, Obama will be defeated. Obama’s time is up.

Conservatives and Tea Partiers are united behind Romney. Fortunately, independents also favor Romney over Obama.

At this point, anyone not supporting Romney is supporting Obama’s re-election. We all know it.

bluegill on July 26, 2012 at 1:19 AM

One thing I really like about you is how are giving everyone a reason to enjoy an Obama victory if it should unfortunately come to that. Just watching you rabid Romneybots weep on election night will take some of the sting out of four more years of Obama.

Very generous of you, very generous.

Strangely they always seem shocked when their contempt is returned by those same conservatives.

sharrukin on July 26, 2012 at 1:14 AM

You Palin-worshiping, Mitt-bashing shut-ins don’t represent conservatives nor anyone else but your own sad selves.

The fact is that conservatives, Tea Partiers and independents all support Romney. It’s not even close.

You may try to ignore reality and carry on with your pathetic charade from the primary season, but at some point you have to come to grips with the fact that your preferred candidate from the primary season LOST, and the vastly better man won. Hopefully you realize this sooner rather than later.

If you [Bmore] have a point – other than a childish ad hominen – make it.

Basilsbest on July 25, 2012 at 9:47 PM

You fluffers would be funny if it weren’t for the stench! that’s right gilled one. You are the stench of rotting fish. No one likes the stench of rotting fish. Well few like the stench. Get some perfume creepy gilled bigoted one. You are not well liked yet you thrive on it. Poor, poor Mitt, he smells it too.

Bmore on July 26, 2012 at 1:06 AM

Hmm, no worthwhile points yet from Bmore, but still more childish ad hominen. Keep trying, Bmore. You can do it.

Mitt should be praised for leaving the comfort of Utah to go into the liberal lions’ den of MA and fight those gawdawful Kennedys.

Basilsbest on July 25, 2012 at 10:59 PM

As usual, Basilsbest is 100% right with his/her comments. Seems that the HotAir Mitt-bashing club of Palin-worshiping shut-ins can’t handle the common sense that Basilsbest is throwing at them.

It’s kind of sad to see so many commenters on a right-leaning site lie so much. For example, Aitch748′s lie that Romney supposedly doesn’t want conservative support couldn’t be farther from the truth. People like Aitch748 are apparently still hurting over the primary campaign season, where Romney won more conservative support than ALL the other candidates, despite repeated lies suggesting the opposite. Another frequent lie from often-wrong commenters like J.E. Dyer is that Romney never has a positive. Um, people, why do you think the Obama campaign is using the Bain record and Mitt’s MA record as ways to distract from the disastrous Obama economy? Because these are things that Mitt often points to when positively promoting his candidacy. To suggest otherwise, using straw man argumentation, as Scott Walker and others have done, that Romney is doing NOTHING ELSE but discussing Obama’s record is not being totally honest.

Go look at the Pew poll that Trende links. Fully 90 percent of registered voters say they already know what they need to know about Obama to make a judgment.

Further, the idea that we shouldn’t run so many ads about Obama’s unbelievably bad record because, supposedly, people have already made up their minds about Obama is beyond ludicrous. Enough low information independents and swing voters are still holding out hope that maybe Obama’s economic policies simply need to be given more time or more opportunities to work, but the views of these voters ARE NOT SET IN STONE. We must keep the focus on Obama’s economic record while providing an attractive alternative, which Romney continues to do. That is the key to victory.