Romney's Speech Insures His election

[rareboy]

Watching Ann Romney during the Eastwood address, according to NPR political correspondent Mara Liasson, was like watching “the mother of the bride listening to a drunken wedding toast.”

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Even Joe and Mika thought that Ann's reaction was hilarious. As Joe said...whoever at the RNC thought this whole thing up....DUCK!

 

[palbert]

^ and his speech ???

Didn't see the speech. This election is mostly irrelevant to Mainers: we're so small as to not matter. Most of Maine has more to do with Canada than the US. And Congress doing anything: ha! Sorry, more conceerned about Sen. Snowe's replacement. Have fun with your election.

 

[Benvolio]

From the online dictionary "Definition of INSURE
transitive verb
1
: to provide or obtain insurance on or for
2
: to make certain especially by taking necessary measures and precautions ":

 

[prudyprudestein]

Reduce taxes for the wealthy, call Social Security and Medicare entitlement programs. The ones who screwed the country for eight years. The Gray Old Party is so out of touch and have nothing to offer America except the same ole &*&* as before. They seem to deal in non reality or non truth. Still waiting to hear some fresh ideas from the out of touch, wealthy, elitist party.

 

[CowboyBob]

Mitt hit it out of the park, he gave the speech of his life.

You thought that was a home run speech? okay.....

For someone incapable understanding the term ad hominem you should really consider posting something relevant once in a while. God you're boring, the worst sin of all.

If you think I'm so boring then why do you hang on every word I say?

It's nice to have you back Eddie!

 

[CowboyBob]

Romney is a puppet just like Dubya same dumb look on his face when he wass reading from the words on the teleprompter screen. It's all laid out for him and he still can't get that right. And you all want him running a country?

Here's some things he didn't talk about in his [STRIKE]lie[/STRIKE] speech:

1. Why he won't release more than a year of tax returns. Didn't he provide
something like 23 years of tax returns to McCain as part of the VP 
candidate vetting process in '08?

2. Why he put his money in overseas tax shelters, like the Cayman Islands?

3. Why he feels the need to have a Swiss bank account worth millions of dollars. Why didn't he hold the money in an American bank? Does Romney not 
believe in America?

4. Why he transferred ownership of a shell company in Bermuda to his wife the day before he was sworn in as Governor of MA?

5. Why he bought the computers used in the Governor's office when he left MA, thereby eliminating emails and other official documents from the 
public record?

6. Why he felt the need to lie about his tenure as leader of Bain Capital, which ended in 2002, three years after he claims he left Bain. Or, are his filings with the SEC fraudulent? What is Romney hiding? Why hasn't he come clean on these and so many other questions?

He didn't talk about those topics at all. It makes you wonder: what is Willard Romney hiding?


(there eddie.... is this posting something relevant ?) LOL

 

[rareboy]

From the online dictionary "Definition of INSURE
transitive verb
1
: to provide or obtain insurance on or for
2
: to make certain especially by taking necessary measures and precautions ":

...and that is why, even in accordance with the dumbed down on-line dictionary definition...your choice of word was embarrassingly incorrect. His speech does not insure his election and fails the test of being precautionary. It also only applies to a person place or thing...not an event. Since you like the lightweight on-line dictionary stuff....

Grammar Girl : Assure Versus Ensure Versus Insure :: Quick and Dirty Tips ™

Insure can be done to a person, place, or thing, but it's reserved for limiting financial liability, most commonly by obtaining an insurance policy, as in Aardvark wondered if the caterers were insured against loss. You can remember that we take out insurance to protect our income if we become unemployed, disabled, or injured in an accident. Both insure and income begin with -in.

Ensure is something you do to guarantee an event or condition, as in To ensure there'd be enough food, Aardvark ordered twice as much food as last year. You can remember that guarantee has those two e's on the end to help you remember that to ensure (with an e) is to guarantee something.

 

[chance1]

Heard a lot of clips in the car - riding home from the cape

Listening to msnbc

Good to excellent grades from all

 

[rareboy]

And Loki, that is the problem.

Everyone will remember wacky Clint...but no one will remember what Gepetto's boy had to say.

This should have been the defining speech for Romney...something to inspire not only the people who would vote for him even if he raped a dog or a baby on stage, but to make the rest of the US want to see their country through the lens of his pretty hazel eyes.

A competent speech isn't enough this year.

 

[Benvolio]

As i said in my first post, it was the right speech for the moment. Obama has been such a failure he should lose. Romney's proplem is merely to convince independents that he is competent and reasonably likeable. The speech did accompolish that. People just needed to know him a little better.

 

[rareboy]

Loki, you know you are so right.

And what the fuck was up with those columns?

 

[Kulindahr]

On the scale of what speeches could be, I give him a C. For him, it was an A.

Short on content, long on platitudes and pieties and promises, some of it may as well have been lifted from Obama's speech four years ago.

It used far fewer lies than I expected. The biggest lie was by omission, neglecting to mention that Obama's policies can't be called failures, because they've hardly been tried thanks to a do-nothing batch of Republicans determined to let nothing good happen. All Obama has to do to counter that is to play clips of Romney's speech followed by clips of McConnell and Cantor saying they're going to get nothing done so Obama can't be reelected. His second biggest lie was also by omission, a continuance of the claim that he was a successful businessman, when Bain's success was built on ripping off, via blackmail, the taxpayers and major banks.

Best speech of his life? Probably. Good enough? Only for the base.

 

[opinterph]

… How can [Democrats] expect their bitter, divisive, hateful philosophy to compete?

I am curious to better understand in what way(s) the Democrats’ philosophy is divisive. I have observed other instances in the forum in which one or more posters have mentioned that the Democrats are divisive – sometimes referenced in contrast to how the Republicans “assimilate” (where assimilation seems to be presented as a more desirable outcome).

I have quoted several instances from Governor Romney’s Acceptance Speech (below) in which he also inferred that division is an attribute of President Obama and/or the Democratic Party.

Is this a well-understood or documented association, or is the use of divisiveness to describe Democrats merely an example of provocative political rhetoric?

I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed. But his promises gave way to disappointment and division.

America has been patient. Americans have supported this president in good faith.

But today, the time has come to turn the page.

Today the time has come for us to put the disappointments of the last four years behind us.

To put aside the divisiveness and the recriminations.

And does the America we want succumb to resentment and division? We know the answer.

The America we all know has been a story of the many becoming one, uniting to preserve liberty, uniting to build the greatest economy in the world, uniting to save the world from unspeakable darkness.

 

[Kulindahr]

I am curious to better understand in what way(s) the Democrats’ philosophy is divisive. I have observed other instances in the forum in which one or more posters have mentioned that the Democrats are divisive – sometimes referenced in contrast to how the Republicans “assimilate” (where assimilation seems to be presented as a more desirable outcome).

I have quoted several instances from Governor Romney’s Acceptance Speech (below) in which he also inferred that division is an attribute of President Obama and/or the Democratic Party.

Is this a well-understood or documented association, or is the use of divisiveness to describe Democrats merely an example of provocative political rhetoric?

I winced at his "division" reference, because he has to know the reality: that the moment Obama was inaugurated, the Republicans declared a division, and declared their determination to divide the country.

 

[Benvolio]

I am curious to better understand in what way(s) the Democrats’ philosophy is divisive. I have observed other instances in the forum in which one or more posters have mentioned that the Democrats are divisive – sometimes referenced in contrast to how the Republicans “assimilate” (where assimilation seems to be presented as a more desirable outcome).

I have quoted several instances from Governor Romney’s Acceptance Speech (below) in which he also inferred that division is an attribute of President Obama and/or the Democratic Party.

Is this a well-understood or documented association, or is the use of divisiveness to describe Democrats merely an example of provocative political rhetoric?

The calculated practise of the Democrats and Democrat media is to continually accuse Republicans of racism without justification. The purpose and effect is to drive a wedge between non whites and whites and Republicans in particular. Obama has promoted the myth that the US is divided between the 1% and the poor. Remember, it was his speeches to that effect which gave rise to the Occupy stuff. In fact, our median income is the highest in the history of the world $53,000. We are not a nation of rich and poor as Democrats want you to believe.

 

[FuryOfFirestorm]

The calculated practise of the Democrats and Democrat media is to continually accuse Republicans of racism without justification. The purpose and effect if drive a wedge between non whites and. Whites and Republicans in particular. Obama has promoted the myth that the US is divided between the 1% and the poor. Remember, it was his speeches to that effect which gave rise to the Occupy stuff. In fact, our median income is the highest in the history of the world $53,000. We are not a nation of rich and poor as Democrats want you to believe.

So it's the Democrats fault that Romney used "division" in his speech a few times?

Who knew that mind control was one of Obama's superpowers!?

 

[MisterMajestic]

I agree with a lot of Cable-Commentators when they say this was the Best performance and Speech Romney has ever given. The main thing is that it did lack Soul & Romney still came across as Plastic or Robotic.

To win what he needs is a Strong turn out from Right-Wing Christians and The Bubba Vote(White Men).....If White Men hate Obama more than they like Mitt he will win...

Obama can LOSE the White Vote again and still win the election but he will not win if White Men show up to vote against him in Mega numbers...

 

[palemale]

for me, the most memorable speech of the Convention was from the couple talking about how Romney helped their dying 12 year-old son write his will and delivered the eulogy at his funeral.

long-term, I can only think of a couple memorable speeches.

Sarah Palin in 2008 (a real barn burner for the base, but unfortunately, delivering a speech off a teleprompter was the extent of her capability)
Barack Obama in 2004 (after which TIME magazine ran a cover anointing him the next President)
and Bill Clinton in 1988 (for being terrible )

Ted Kennedy's "The Dream Shall Never Die" speech.
Al Sharpton's Convention speech in which he riffed on the unfulfilled, post-Civil War promise to freed slaves of "39 acres and the mule." He said something like, "we didn't get 39 acres, but we're going to ride this donkey as far as it takes us."

Mario Cuomo's convention speech.

Jesse Jackson's convention speech.

Bill Clinton's opening line in his first acceptance speech I still remember "I never met my father." Very attention getting.

Barbara Jordan gave a great keynote speech in 1976.

Ann Richard's convention speech. "Poor George, he was born with a silver foot in his mouth."

Texas, democratic women give good speeches!

Who can forget Pat Buchanan's convention speech? Very memorable. As the late, great Molly Ivins said, "I'm sure it sounded better in the original German."

 

[loveguys72]

It wasn't great, and it wasn't horrid. It was just meh. Rather like Mr Romney himself.

 

[rareboy]

Ted Kennedy's "The Dream Shall Never Die" speech.
Al Sharpton's Convention speech in which he riffed on the unfulfilled, post-Civil War promise to freed slaves of "39 acres and the mule." He said something like, "we didn't get 39 acres, but we're going to ride this donkey as far as it takes us."

Mario Cuomo's convention speech.

Jesse Jackson's convention speech.

Bill Clinton's opening line in his first acceptance speech I still remember "I never met my father." Very attention getting.

Barbara Jordan gave a great keynote speech in 1976.

Ann Richard's convention speech. "Poor George, he was born with a silver foot in his mouth."

Texas, democratic women give good speeches!

Who can forget Pat Buchanan's convention speech? Very memorable. As the late, great Molly Ivins said, "I'm sure it sounded better in the original German."

Just after I had posted above, I thought of the different speeches that Ann Richard's had given and how memorable they were.