Mitt Romney Enters Witness Protection Program
Mitt Romney Enters Witness Protection Program
Crossposted from ProudToBeAFilthyLiberalScum.com
The Romney campaign has decided that their candidate should not have to answer questions he may not like.
Via ThinkProgress:
In a stunning interview with Breitbart.com, two top advisers to Mitt Romney revealed the campaign’s plan to largely ignore journalists in favor of right-wing conspiracy websites.
From the beginning of the campaign, Romney has pointedly avoided news outlets who might pose tough questions. The press dubbed it “the Mittness Protection Program.” As the campaign wore on, Romney has refused to answer direct questions about major policy issues central to the campaign. For example, Romney has still not stated whether he would undo Obama’s order ending deportations for many young undocumented immigrants.
This worked for Sarah Palin and Sharon Angle who made a show of avoiding the “liberal” media after initial, disastrous interviews. Palin got away with it because it was a new tactic and the press was terrified of being seen as “picking” on an obvious intellectual light-weight. Angle didn’t really get away with it as the press was not as kind to her. Romney is taking a huge gamble here.
The right wing has spent decades and billions of dollars creating an echo chamber in which they can create whatever narrative they want in a fact free zone. In this zone, Climate Change is a myth, Evolution is “just a theory” and Ronald Reagan never raised taxes or granted amnesty to immigrants. Fox News is the crown jewel of this alternate reality and Republicans often snuggle into the warm folds of extreme partisanship while fielding the softest of softball questions.
On the other hand, this is a presidential election and the public will not be content with softballs. Further, the mainstream media, which has bent over backwards to accommodate the tender sensibilities of the right, will not appreciate being given the cold shoulder. While Fox may be the most powerful news network, they cannot carry the Romney campaign alone. Should the other networks decide to give Romney the Al Gore/John Kerry treatment, Romney will find that all the glowing praise in the world from Sean Hannity will not overcome negative reporting from a spurned mainstream media.
The real question is whether Mitt Romney will be the first presidential candidate in fifty years to avoid the presidential debates entirely. While one of them will surely be run by Fox, the rest will not. Palin barely held it together for her debate and that was only because Joe Biden handled her with kids’ gloves. Romney will be afforded no such courtesy and President Obama is far better at unscripted events. Remember, Obama debated the entire GOP leadership at once. And won. Romney doesn’t even want to talk to non-sympathetic reporters; what’s he going to do when faced with an opponent that is more intelligent, capable and far more comfortable discussing the issues?
My guess? Lose the election.
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1. He has bankrupted our Country.
2. He has put more Americans on food stamps than ever before.
3. He has stabbed Israel in the back.
4. He has attacked the Tea Party while supporting the violence by the OWS.
5. He's a racist.
6. He called Sandra Fluke but did not call Bristol Palin who has been attacked viciously by the left.
7. He has apologized for America because he believes we are evil and are the cause of all of the problems in the world.
8. He has put in so many regulations that no one can achieve any success.
9. Those who have achieved success through hard work are being PUNISHED.
10. He spent 20 years in a racist anti American Black Liberation Theology church.
11. He started his career in a Domestic Terrorists home ~ aka Bill Ayers.
12. He has ties with CAIR
13. He has ties with HAMAS
14. He has ties with SEIU thugs.
15. He has ties with NBPP
16. He has ties with NAACP.
17. He supports Planned Parenthood that is in the business of using taxpayers money to kill babies. This organization that was started by Margaret Sanger who was into cleansing the earth of black people.
18. He voted against the BORN ALIVE PROTECTION ACT in that any baby that survived the abortion would be taken to a dirty laundry area to die.
19. He stopped the Keystone Pipeline that w...
1. He has bankrupted our Country.
2. He has put more Americans on food stamps than ever before.
3. He has stabbed Israel in the back.
4. He has attacked the Tea Party while supporting the violence by the OWS.
5. He's a racist.
6. He called Sandra Fluke but did not call Bristol Palin who has been attacked viciously by the left.
7. He has apologized for America because he believes we are evil and are the cause of all of the problems in the world.
8. He has put in so many regulations that no one can achieve any success.
9. Those who have achieved success through hard work are being PUNISHED.
10. He spent 20 years in a racist anti American Black Liberation Theology church.
11. He started his career in a Domestic Terrorists home ~ aka Bill Ayers.
12. He has ties with CAIR
13. He has ties with HAMAS
14. He has ties with SEIU thugs.
15. He has ties with NBPP
16. He has ties with NAACP.
17. He supports Planned Parenthood that is in the business of using taxpayers money to kill babies. This organization that was started by Margaret Sanger who was into cleansing the earth of black people.
18. He voted against the BORN ALIVE PROTECTION ACT in that any baby that survived the abortion would be taken to a dirty laundry area to die.
19. He stopped the Keystone Pipeline that would have created jobs
20. He lied about the SHOVEL READY JOBS that were not so SHOVEL READY after all .
21. He blames President Bush for his own failures.
22. He aligned his cabinet with self avowed Communists.
23. He was against Gay Marriage now he is for it.
24. He has destroyed the Middle Class.
25. He called the Stanford Police for acting stupidly and then has a beer summit.
26. He interjected RACE into the Trayvon Martin Case because apparently if he had son it would look like him.
27. He has divided this country by stirring up Class warfare and race.
28. He has stayed quiet about the white reporters who were beaten by a mob of blacks.
29. He's played more golf in 3.5 years than any president in recent history.
30. He refused to send the $1 million back to Bill Maher while claiming he wants everyone to be civil when it comes to women. YEAH RIGHT.
I could go and on and on and on.
Nothing about this man is honorable!
31. He was involved with Tony Rezko.
31. Bernadine Dorn
32. Mr Bell a self avowed communist.
33. Threw his own grandmother under the bus (She's a TYPICAL WHITE PERSON?)
He can't think straight on his feet when not mouthing his speech writers words on the campaign trail. He can run now, but he can't hide after the convention. If he tries the mainstream media will carve him up like a turkey on Thanksgiving with all his previous positions and the duplicity they have on tape.
Listen to the Republicans because they tell you exactly what the will do. When President Obama fist took office, Senator McConartist said his number one goal is to make President Obama a one-term president. Nothing about getting people back to work, nothing about fixing wall street, nothing about helping home owners, and most certainly nothing about health care was talked about. Recently when pressed on what he would propose to do with the 30 million people that would lose their health care if he successfully got the Affordable Health Care Act repealed, McConartist said the uninsured people are not the issue and then when on to reiterate his vague "step by step" approach. Weren't these the same people who complained that the other bill, although being over 2700 pages, was a document that no one knew ...
Listen to the Republicans because they tell you exactly what the will do. When President Obama fist took office, Senator McConartist said his number one goal is to make President Obama a one-term president. Nothing about getting people back to work, nothing about fixing wall street, nothing about helping home owners, and most certainly nothing about health care was talked about. Recently when pressed on what he would propose to do with the 30 million people that would lose their health care if he successfully got the Affordable Health Care Act repealed, McConartist said the uninsured people are not the issue and then when on to reiterate his vague "step by step" approach. Weren't these the same people who complained that the other bill, although being over 2700 pages, was a document that no one knew what was in it so they couldn't vote for it?
Willard has no plans of his own, and every plan he has signed onto, like Ryan's economic plan and the Republican's health care plan will be complete and utter failures. Ryan's plan will cut taxes for the wealthy, raise taxes on the middle class, destroy medicare and social security while adding at least 3 trillion to the deficit the first year. Nuns are going after this "Catholic" dumb ass because his plan attacks the poor. The Republican's "Health Care" plan will give access to health care to 3 million additional people by 2019. President Obama's plan will give access to health care to more than 30 million people in the same time frame. Why would they not go with President Obama's plan.
So, Willard can't talk about his plans because he doesn't have any plans.
Romney, on the other hand, looks promising. I think he has the right idea on the economy and to me, the economy is the most important issue in America. We need a change, a change from Obama.
Sorry you disagree.
A few acts and some bills doesn't mean you have a very productive first term. Whats to say he doesn't just do a "few" more with his second term? And what makes you think Romney won't do any better?