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Sid9
Aug 30, 2012, 3:47:02 PM8/30/12
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August 29, 2012
Will They Decipher the Cipher?
By MAUREEN DOWD
TAMPA, Fla.
Mitt Romney doesn't elicit passion, as Ronald Reagan did in Detroit. Or
respect, as Poppy Bush did in New Orleans. Or excitement, as W. did in
Philadelphia. Or admiration, as John McCain did in St. Paul.
The emotion he evokes is pity. Romney slogged and spent his way to the
G.O.P. convention his dad craved for himself only to find that his role is
not so much leading man as forgotten man.
Following an adulatory promotional video about himself, Chris Christie
splashed in the Narcissus pool, giving a preening keynote speech that gassed
on for 1,800 words and 16 minutes before he even deigned to mention "our
actual nominee," as Sarah Palin sardonically put it on Fox News.
Christie, who has already said he may run in 2016 if Romney loses, urged
"sacrifice" and "tough choices" even though the blurry Romney beckons with
an all-you-can-eat buffet of defense spending and tax cuts.
When TV cut away to Mitt in the hall to capture what should have been a
thrilling moment, he looked as though his jelled skull might burst into
flames.
He must have been fuming over why his high-priced mercenaries, who vetted
Christie's speech two weeks ago, failed to ask the New Jersey governor to
cool it on the solipsism. In a conflict of consultants, the Romney adviser
who's helping run the convention, Russ Schriefer, is a once (and future?)
Christie strategist.
Do Romney's consultants, like some other conservatives here, have a thinly
veiled disdain for an animatronic aristocrat who insists on being in a
business he has no business in?
This synthetic convention aches with the enormity of the effort involved in
trying, and failing, to make Mitt alluring and compelling, the fruitless,
endless hunt for the enigma code that will decipher the cipher.
It's absurd that Romney is still working tirelessly to show who he is given
that he has spent the past six years running for president. Ann Romney was
straining so hard to come up with heartwarming, personal anecdotes about
Mitt and her family, she actually hit on one with CBS News about her son
mourning her miscarriage that a startled Mitt said he had never heard.
Even when conservatives try to defend Romney, they manage to insult him.
"If you've just been diagnosed with a brain tumor," Mike Huckabee told
Howard Kurtz of The Daily Beast, "you honestly don't care if your
neurosurgeon is a jerk."
David Brooks of The Times mocked press critiques of Romney, but the satire
slashed the candidate, too: "Romney owns many homes without garage elevators
and the cars have to take the stairs."
If conservatives think Reagan is a candidate for Mount Rushmore, Romney
brings to mind a Sisyphean rock.
As Bill Kristol put it on Fox News, hailing Paul Ryan as Romney's savior:
"It feels less like a couple of hundred people in Boston working very hard
to kind of push the boulder up the hill and more like a genuine exciting
cause." (Mitt's dad urged him to "be bold," not boulder.)
Charles Krauthammer dryly suggested on Fox News that to be more likable,
Romney "should go out on stage with the dog that he had on the roof of the
car and have the dog endorse him right there ... Seamus and Mitt." (Except
Seamus is dead, and Mitt is struggling to prove he's alive.)
Romney is seen more as ma�tre d' than nominee, ushering the party to a
better table in the future. In Politico, conservatives referred to the
placeholder Mitt as a transitional figure and "an ideal segue."
When Mitt awkwardly came out on stage at the end of Ann's speech in what was
supposed to be a crescendo, the room went flat. The few ripples of
excitement in the Ward Cleaver-Betty Crocker convention with the generic
music and anesthetized delegates have centered on younger 2016 prospects.
On the convention floor Tuesday night, Rick Perry told Chuck Todd of NBC
News that he would "absolutely" consider running in 2016.
On "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart hailed Marco Rubio as "Charisma Boy,"
saying it was good that Marco had dodged the problem of being Mitt's running
mate because, if he wins, "it would have been uncomfortable for you to run
against him in 2016."
After Condi Rice, glamorous in a salmon suit, impressed the crowd Wednesday
night, Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic and GQ tweeted: "OK, HRC v. Condi in
2016 is on."
And, of course, there was the evening's main course and future, Ryan, who
brought the zombie convention alive with a zowie speech - building up Romney
and tweaking him about what's on his iPod, "which I've heard on the campaign
bus and on many hotel elevators."
Ryan's deft speech conjured the president's nightmare - that disillusioned
voters might decide it's time to try something new.
-
"We've given all you people need to know."
What is Romney hiding?
Anne Romney's arrogance?
Will They Decipher the Cipher?
By MAUREEN DOWD
TAMPA, Fla.
Mitt Romney doesn't elicit passion, as Ronald Reagan did in Detroit. Or
respect, as Poppy Bush did in New Orleans. Or excitement, as W. did in
Philadelphia. Or admiration, as John McCain did in St. Paul.
The emotion he evokes is pity. Romney slogged and spent his way to the
G.O.P. convention his dad craved for himself only to find that his role is
not so much leading man as forgotten man.
Following an adulatory promotional video about himself, Chris Christie
splashed in the Narcissus pool, giving a preening keynote speech that gassed
on for 1,800 words and 16 minutes before he even deigned to mention "our
actual nominee," as Sarah Palin sardonically put it on Fox News.
Christie, who has already said he may run in 2016 if Romney loses, urged
"sacrifice" and "tough choices" even though the blurry Romney beckons with
an all-you-can-eat buffet of defense spending and tax cuts.
When TV cut away to Mitt in the hall to capture what should have been a
thrilling moment, he looked as though his jelled skull might burst into
flames.
He must have been fuming over why his high-priced mercenaries, who vetted
Christie's speech two weeks ago, failed to ask the New Jersey governor to
cool it on the solipsism. In a conflict of consultants, the Romney adviser
who's helping run the convention, Russ Schriefer, is a once (and future?)
Christie strategist.
Do Romney's consultants, like some other conservatives here, have a thinly
veiled disdain for an animatronic aristocrat who insists on being in a
business he has no business in?
This synthetic convention aches with the enormity of the effort involved in
trying, and failing, to make Mitt alluring and compelling, the fruitless,
endless hunt for the enigma code that will decipher the cipher.
It's absurd that Romney is still working tirelessly to show who he is given
that he has spent the past six years running for president. Ann Romney was
straining so hard to come up with heartwarming, personal anecdotes about
Mitt and her family, she actually hit on one with CBS News about her son
mourning her miscarriage that a startled Mitt said he had never heard.
Even when conservatives try to defend Romney, they manage to insult him.
"If you've just been diagnosed with a brain tumor," Mike Huckabee told
Howard Kurtz of The Daily Beast, "you honestly don't care if your
neurosurgeon is a jerk."
David Brooks of The Times mocked press critiques of Romney, but the satire
slashed the candidate, too: "Romney owns many homes without garage elevators
and the cars have to take the stairs."
If conservatives think Reagan is a candidate for Mount Rushmore, Romney
brings to mind a Sisyphean rock.
As Bill Kristol put it on Fox News, hailing Paul Ryan as Romney's savior:
"It feels less like a couple of hundred people in Boston working very hard
to kind of push the boulder up the hill and more like a genuine exciting
cause." (Mitt's dad urged him to "be bold," not boulder.)
Charles Krauthammer dryly suggested on Fox News that to be more likable,
Romney "should go out on stage with the dog that he had on the roof of the
car and have the dog endorse him right there ... Seamus and Mitt." (Except
Seamus is dead, and Mitt is struggling to prove he's alive.)
Romney is seen more as ma�tre d' than nominee, ushering the party to a
better table in the future. In Politico, conservatives referred to the
placeholder Mitt as a transitional figure and "an ideal segue."
When Mitt awkwardly came out on stage at the end of Ann's speech in what was
supposed to be a crescendo, the room went flat. The few ripples of
excitement in the Ward Cleaver-Betty Crocker convention with the generic
music and anesthetized delegates have centered on younger 2016 prospects.
On the convention floor Tuesday night, Rick Perry told Chuck Todd of NBC
News that he would "absolutely" consider running in 2016.
On "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart hailed Marco Rubio as "Charisma Boy,"
saying it was good that Marco had dodged the problem of being Mitt's running
mate because, if he wins, "it would have been uncomfortable for you to run
against him in 2016."
After Condi Rice, glamorous in a salmon suit, impressed the crowd Wednesday
night, Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic and GQ tweeted: "OK, HRC v. Condi in
2016 is on."
And, of course, there was the evening's main course and future, Ryan, who
brought the zombie convention alive with a zowie speech - building up Romney
and tweaking him about what's on his iPod, "which I've heard on the campaign
bus and on many hotel elevators."
Ryan's deft speech conjured the president's nightmare - that disillusioned
voters might decide it's time to try something new.
-
"We've given all you people need to know."
What is Romney hiding?
Anne Romney's arrogance?
Sid9
Aug 30, 2012, 4:15:25 PM8/30/12
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"Padraigh ProAmerica" <ogr...@webtv.net> wrote in message
news:6772-503...@storefull-3172.bay.webtv.net...
> Dowd is a poor, bitter wretch; a third-rate writer who woudn't last a
> week at a properly-run newspaper; the only reason the Times keeps her is
> she's a mirror for the political peculiarities of the editors.
>
> --
> "We the unwilling, led by the unknowing, doing the unnoticed for the
> ungrateful, have done so much for so long with so little that we can now
> do almost anything with virtually nothing."--
>
> Unknown
>
But you fear her words!:
clairbear
Aug 30, 2012, 4:36:33 PM8/30/12
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"Sid9" <sid9@ bellsouth.net> wrote in news:k1ohl1$2q3$1...@dont-email.me:
> "Padraigh ProAmerica" <ogr...@webtv.net> wrote in message
> news:6772-503...@storefull-3172.bay.webtv.net...
>> Dowd is a poor, bitter wretch; a third-rate writer who woudn't last a
>> week at a properly-run newspaper; the only reason the Times keeps her is
>> she's a mirror for the political peculiarities of the editors.
>>
>> --
>> "We the unwilling, led by the unknowing, doing the unnoticed for the
>> ungrateful, have done so much for so long with so little that we can now
>> do almost anything with virtually nothing."--
>>
>> Unknown
>>
>
> But you fear her words!:
Deleted the words of a hack do not indicate fear Padraigh padraigh is just
conserving band width. Imagine that a conservative being more green than a
senile lieberal
> "Padraigh ProAmerica" <ogr...@webtv.net> wrote in message
> news:6772-503...@storefull-3172.bay.webtv.net...
>> Dowd is a poor, bitter wretch; a third-rate writer who woudn't last a
>> week at a properly-run newspaper; the only reason the Times keeps her is
>> she's a mirror for the political peculiarities of the editors.
>>
>> --
>> "We the unwilling, led by the unknowing, doing the unnoticed for the
>> ungrateful, have done so much for so long with so little that we can now
>> do almost anything with virtually nothing."--
>>
>> Unknown
>>
>
> But you fear her words!:
conserving band width. Imagine that a conservative being more green than a
senile lieberal
Sid9
Aug 30, 2012, 4:51:55 PM8/30/12
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"clairbear" <SidIsOffHi...@msn.com> wrote in message
news:XnsA0BFA8EEE...@216.196.97.142...
In a cardboard box?
What bullshit!
RRRs can't stand the truth so they delete OPs word!
Every time you do it you are admitting failure and defeat!
Oglethorpe
Aug 30, 2012, 7:14:53 PM8/30/12
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"Sid9" <sid9@ bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> August 29, 2012
>
> Will They Decipher the Cipher?
>
Cypher is another term for ZERO, which is another term for Obama.
>
> Will They Decipher the Cipher?
>
clairbear
Aug 30, 2012, 6:14:19 PM8/30/12
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"Sid9" <sid9@ bellsouth.net> wrote in news:k1ojpf$h3n$1...@dont-email.me:
>
> "clairbear" <SidIsOffHi...@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:XnsA0BFA8EEE...@216.196.97.142...
>> "Sid9" <sid9@ bellsouth.net> wrote in
>> news:k1ohl1$2q3$1...@dont-email.me:
>>
>>> "Padraigh ProAmerica" <ogr...@webtv.net> wrote in message
>>> news:6772-503...@storefull-3172.bay.webtv.net...
>>>> Dowd is a poor, bitter wretch; a third-rate writer who woudn't last
>>>> a week at a properly-run newspaper; the only reason the Times keeps
>>>> her is she's a mirror for the political peculiarities of the
>>>> editors.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> "We the unwilling, led by the unknowing, doing the unnoticed for
>>>> the ungrateful, have done so much for so long with so little that
>>>> we can now do almost anything with virtually nothing."--
>>>>
>>>> Unknown
>>>>
>>>
>>> But you fear her words!:
>>
>> Deleted the words of a hack do not indicate fear Padraigh padraigh is
>> just conserving band width. Imagine that a conservative being more
>> green than a
>> senile lieberal
>
> Where does he save the bandwidth?
> In a cardboard box?
Seems irony is wasted on the weak minded liberals
> What bullshit!
Point proven
> Every time you do it you are admitting failure and defeat!
>
Yeah go right ahead a tell yourself that lie It won't make it any truer
But the it is just a little lie
>
> "clairbear" <SidIsOffHi...@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:XnsA0BFA8EEE...@216.196.97.142...
>> "Sid9" <sid9@ bellsouth.net> wrote in
>> news:k1ohl1$2q3$1...@dont-email.me:
>>
>>> "Padraigh ProAmerica" <ogr...@webtv.net> wrote in message
>>> news:6772-503...@storefull-3172.bay.webtv.net...
>>>> Dowd is a poor, bitter wretch; a third-rate writer who woudn't last
>>>> a week at a properly-run newspaper; the only reason the Times keeps
>>>> her is she's a mirror for the political peculiarities of the
>>>> editors.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> "We the unwilling, led by the unknowing, doing the unnoticed for
>>>> the ungrateful, have done so much for so long with so little that
>>>> we can now do almost anything with virtually nothing."--
>>>>
>>>> Unknown
>>>>
>>>
>>> But you fear her words!:
>>
>> Deleted the words of a hack do not indicate fear Padraigh padraigh is
>> just conserving band width. Imagine that a conservative being more
>> green than a
>> senile lieberal
>
> Where does he save the bandwidth?
> In a cardboard box?
> What bullshit!
Point proven
> RRRs can't stand the truth so they delete OPs word!
RRRs?
> Every time you do it you are admitting failure and defeat!
>
But the it is just a little lie
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