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Wednesday, September 3, 2008 12:00 AM

Mitt Romney, meet George W. Bush

Excerpts of the speech Mitt Romney plans to give Wednesday night indicate that the former governor will be making at least one boldly counterintuitive argument.

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Wednesday, September 3, 2008 01:11 PM

Hmmm. . .

Now I see why Mitt ultimately didn't get the job.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 01:16 PM

Mork

Nahnoo, nahnoo...

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 01:18 PM

Empty suit...

Romney is just Bush without the cowboy hat and garbled english.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 01:20 PM

Change? Reagan Wanted It Obama Wants It

It is not just Romney. When do Democrats point out that in the last 298 years 20 of them have had Republican presidents? isn't it time the Democrats show some toughness and argue that if McCain wants change in Washington now where has he been for these many years?

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 01:22 PM

Do Republicans Whine More When They're in Power or Out of Power?

He probably just wants the hell out of there and doesn't know what he's saying.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 01:27 PM

The only person who enjoys change

is a baby with a wet diaper.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 01:28 PM

Liars lie, then think the rest of us are stupid to believe them

Unfortunately, they are too often correct. I can't believe that most Americans would believe some line about "liberals" being in charge of Washington. But, as they say, no one ever went broke underestimating the stupidity of Americans. We'll have to see.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 01:29 PM

No one cares what Bush thinks

Bush checked out late last year. I doubt he spends 30 minutes a day on the job. He doesn't care, isn't helping anyone and is marking time till the end. Everyone knows this. There's no more prosecutions, Congressional hearings or new scandals. No one cares. There's no one home. Everyone who had an agenda has left and only the retards are left to fling shit at the walls.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 01:35 PM

Did I misunderstand?

Romney said we need change, change from a "liberal Washington" to a "conservative Washington?" What I've always suspected is now confirmed: these people live in a parallel universe.

Wish I could "create my own reality." Wait maybe I can: I am as adorable as Reese Witherspoon; I could beat Michael Phelps - in any stroke - I am that fast; I am wealthier than Bill Gates; I won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986; I invented the question mark.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 01:51 PM

OMG

He is such an idiot and a douche bag. I was really hoping they would put him on the ticket but of course they know how bigoted their base really is and that a Mormon might as well be an alien to them.

Sort of related, I couldn't believe Bush in his speech to the convention referred to the 'angry left'. As much as I have railed against the administration I have always repsected the office. But Bush showed his true colors last night - that he and his party only intend to serve their minority party and everyone else be damned.

Their comtempt is only overshadowed by their utter incompetence. This shouldn't be called an election - it is an emergency- we simply can afford any more of this nonsense!

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 01:58 PM

baffling

This tendency to not only say things that are patently untrue but to insist on them boggles my mind. The first time you hear "Palin has foreign policy experience because Russia is close to Alaska" was kinda funny the first time I heard it when I figured it was just some idiot getting overexuberant. But they keep saying it! As if, if they repeat it often enough it becomes true. Or maybe it becomes true for enough people that it really doesn't matter.

I wonder if they're going to try to do the same with this one?

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 01:59 PM

Isn't this kooky?

1. They say the same things over and over, no matter whether the things are true.

2. Other posters are correct. They create their own fake universes through what they say

3. Their kids will turn against them. In a few years, we will hear all sorts of comedy and therapy about these ridiculous old poops, from their kids and from everybody who is growing up in this nasty fantasy world.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 02:04 PM

@CeliaInSF

I generally consider myself to be tolerant of religions and their adherents, no matter how wacky thier beliefs may seem to outsiders. However, I can say with absolute certainty and seriousness, Mormons are aliens. You can determine this for yourself. Next time you see a Mormon, tempt it with a can of orange soda. It is widely known that no Mormon can resist orange soda, which pretty much proves that they aren't actually human.

Being an alien race sent to infitrate and dominate this planet isn't all bad. At least they aren't Scientologists.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 02:13 PM

@CeliaInSF

You know? I think I agree with you. It's a pity I'm not a citizen so I can't vote...

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 02:28 PM

@missioncreep

Do Republicans Whine More When They're in Power or Out of Power?

They whine when they don't have power that they want. Since we do not (yet) have a Republican totalitarian government, there is always some power they lack. So they whine all the time.

And they need new constitutional amendments to get that power.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 03:02 PM

The plot

Maybe the purpose of picking Palin was to make Romney look like a brilliant Plan B when she is inevitably chased from the ticket for being a mouth-breathing, corrupt and spectacularly unqualified joke.

By God, it's brilliant. Anyone who could make a stiff like Mitt look palatable is a genius.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 03:26 PM

Not surprising, really

To be a good Republican, you have to believe stuff like this. How else to explain the idea that Sarah Palin could go from "Sarah who?" to "Best Idea Ever!" in the space of about 90 seconds?

And I say that as a guy who once worked on a crab processing ship in the Bering Sea, which is even closer to Russia, and by Russia I mean Siberia, than Alaska is. That makes me an expert on foreign relations. I'm waiting for the call to be Secretary of State.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 04:34 PM

Talk about the republican echo chamber.

Because they are immersed in nothing but ditto-head fundamentalist Borg surrounded by phalanxes brown shirted thugs carrying machine guns keeping real citizens at a safe distance, they think that they can say any kind of BS and just because the drones around them applaud they think the rest of country must be buying it.

And these dirt bags want four more years.

(how's that for a run-on sentence.)

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 04:38 PM

Hey elephantboy

Get in here and defend your VP pick. Maybe you can do a better job than the idiots at the repuglican convention.

All you have to do is make any sense at all and you win the frozen turkey (which might be a good metaphor for your VP pick btw) ... which would be a first for you, but I have faith!

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 04:43 PM

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