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Twenty minutes of Mitt Romney flip-flops

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I think there's a drinking game to be made out of this somewhere.



I just wish it included my favorite of them all:

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When your own campaign manager calls you a Etch-A-Sketch it is pretty hard to deny the flip flops...
 
Crosscheck said:
When your own campaign manager calls you a Etch-A-Sketch it is pretty hard to deny the flip flops...
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I mean, I myself don't particularly care. I think that candidates should be amenable to changing their minds. But Romney is just... bad at it.
 
Or there could be an hour of Obama lies of his campaign promises verses what he actually then did when elected.
 
joko104 said:
Or there could be an hour of Obama lies of his campaign promises verses what he actually then did when elected.
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I love this.

I post something critical of Romney, and I get a chorus of "Oh yeah? But Obama/Democrats/leftists...!"

Then I have to take time out of my day to explain that I don't support Obama, and that I'm not a Democrat.

It gets old.
 
Oh boy, the guy does flip flop all over the place.

I am of the opinion, that Romney has no opinions other than the opinion that will win him the election he is running at that moment in time.

The man cannot be trusted to keep his word or keep to the same opinion if he realizes that another opinion is more profitable for him during an election. He has no true convictions other than the conviction that he will adopt any conviction (no matter how much that is a flip-flop/etch a sketch from his former conviction) that will allow him to become president.

You may not like Obama, but he has a backbone and isn't spineless when it comes to having unpopular convictions or making unpopular decisions.
 
joko104 said:
Or there could be an hour of Obama lies of his campaign promises verses what he actually then did when elected.
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wanting to and being able to are 2 different things. At least Obama has promises that he wants to keep instead of saying "I will tell you after the election" as Romney has done several times.
 
Obama is probably the most cowardly shill the USA has ever had. Just a "yes" man.
 
joko104 said:
Obama is probably the most cowardly shill the USA has ever had. Just a "yes" man.
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Huh?

I mean, Obama's a lot of things, many of them not particularly good. He's relatively inept, for one. But he's definitely not as bad as Romney is at saying "whatever the people want to hear". Obama's not a panderer in the way Mittens is.

And that's why I'm voting for Gary Johnson.
 
Peter King said:
Oh boy, the guy does flip flop all over the place.

I am of the opinion, that Romney has no opinions other than the opinion that will win him the election he is running at that moment in time.

The man cannot be trusted to keep his word or keep to the same opinion if he realizes that another opinion is more profitable for him during an election. He has no true convictions other than the conviction that he will adopt any conviction (no matter how much that is a flip-flop/etch a sketch from his former conviction) that will allow him to become president.

You may not like Obama, but he has a backbone and isn't spineless when it comes to having unpopular convictions or making unpopular decisions.
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I understand why you are confused. You see, an election is actually a contest between 2 or more candidates for the office. Therefore, it is specifically relevant to compare the candidates against each other to decides which is the better one to vote you. Accordingly, if a statement is made for or against one candidate, it is appropriate to contrast this to the other candidate or candidates.

Hopefully I cleared this up for you.
 
Peter King said:
wanting to and being able to are 2 different things. At least Obama has promises that he wants to keep instead of saying "I will tell you after the election" as Romney has done several times.
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I think that is exactly what Obama told the Russian president, didn't he?

And Obama lied.

He said over 100 times we would not sign a renewal of the Bush tax cuts, which would have expired merely by him doing nothing. Instead, he endorsed the renewal of the cuts, urged Democrats in Congress to vote to renew, and signed the legislation. He LIED>

He promised to closed Gitmo dozens of times, that he could have done at any time as commander in chief. He did not. He LIED. Those are 2 examples of LIES, not things he couldn't do.
 
joko104 said:
Accordingly, if a statement is made for or against one candidate, it is appropriate to contrast this to the other candidate or candidates.

Hopefully I cleared this up for you.
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Absolutely. Let's do that.

Mitt Romney lied about lobbyists "running his campaign".
Gary Johnson has never allowed lobbyists in his campaign.

Mitt Romney lied about "being more friendly to gay rights than Ted Kennedy".
Gary Johnson has always been friendly to gay rights.

Mitt Romney has continued to lie about pushing through a tax cut for the bottom 25% of taxpayers.
Gary Johnson will slash taxes for those bottom brackets.

In any direct comparison, Governor Gary Johnson clearly beats Romney soundly.
 
joko104 said:
I understand why you are confused. You see, an election is actually a contest between 2 or more candidates for the office. Therefore, it is specifically relevant to compare the candidates against each other to decides which is the better one to vote you. Accordingly, if a statement is made for or against one candidate, it is appropriate to contrast this to the other candidate or candidates.

Hopefully I cleared this up for you.
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In this case it is Obama against how many Etch-A-Sketch versions of Romney? The thought of Romney being president is downright scary as we have no idea how that Etch-A-Sketch will be shaked his first morning in the White House.
 
When you have two flip-flopping candidates, how in the hell are you supposed to compare and contrast them?

Look, it's quite clear the majority of the left is going to vote Obama because Obama is on the left. What's ****ing hilarious is watching the right swoon over a liberal like Romney.

No matter who wins, America loses. I will give the moonbat award though to the righties who are rallying behind a liberal like Romney though. Must have been something in the water the GOP drank this time around. To go from solid conservatives to a liberal like Romney :lamo
 
joko104 said:
I understand why you are confused. You see, an election is actually a contest between 2 or more candidates for the office. Therefore, it is specifically relevant to compare the candidates against each other to decides which is the better one to vote you. Accordingly, if a statement is made for or against one candidate, it is appropriate to contrast this to the other candidate or candidates.

Hopefully I cleared this up for you.
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No, it has not. My point is that Romney has no political backbone/spine and blows with the winds of political fortune whereas Obama does have a backbone and has a lot more points of view that are much less prone to flipping and flopping. Don't get me wrong, Obama has flipped but with Romney it is a core problem rather than isolated incidents.
 
Eh, the "flip flop" allegation doesn't really strike me as all that damning. I mean, "flip flop" translates to me as "changed ones mind." When did that become such a character flaw?
 
Deuce said:
Eh, the "flip flop" allegation doesn't really strike me as all that damning. I mean, "flip flop" translates to me as "changed ones mind." When did that become such a character flaw?
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Oh, I agree with you. I think a candidate ought to not only be allowed to change his mind, but he ought to be encouraged to do so if facts that argue against his campaign positions suggest they are in error.

That said, I think that what's good for the goose is good for the gander. One of the first things that caused me to question the Republican Party was the frankly disgraceful treatment John Kerry received in 2004 for far less egregious instances of flip-flopping.
 
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