He's No Leader

OldPilot 8 months, 1 week ago

Better a leader who marshalls the facts, thinks out a response and uses a teleprompter to deliver his response than one who would like to lead but shoots off his mouth without knowing the facts, albiet without a teleprompter, and in doing so embarasses both himself and his country.

fugitiveguy 8 months, 1 week ago

" one who would like to lead but shoots off his mouth without knowing the facts, albiet without a teleprompter, and in doing so embarasses both himself and his country."

Thats enough, I am tired of this piling on of Joe Biden.

dustyrhoades 8 months, 1 week ago

The ability to speak eloquently into a teleprompter does not a leader make.

Guess you're not voting for this guy, then:

by dustyrhoades

dustyrhoades 8 months, 1 week ago

Romney Finicky About His Teleprompters In Tampa

TAMPA, Fla. -- Mitt Romney stood on stage at the Tampa Bay Times Forum for several minutes Thursday afternoon while his teleprompters were adjusted ahead of his big address to delegates later in the evening. Every speech on stage at the RNC has been run through prompters, save for Condoleeza Rice's address, which she read from notes. Conservatives -- including Paul Ryan, who also used a teleprompter in his convention speech -- have long mocked President Obama's use of the devices. Romney was one of the few Republicans to defend the practice and he appeared to take pains to make sure his prompters were just right.

dustyrhoades 8 months, 1 week ago

Romney on video talking about why he uses a prompter.

"It keeps you from saying something you don't mean, you get the message out precisely the way you want to get the message out." Romney says he has used a TelePrompter "maybe five times" in the campaign. Romney in recent months has tended to use a teleprompter for most major speeches. "It's smart," Hannity agrees. "You're right. You don't want to make a mistake. I'll tell you, they're out to just eviscerate anybody who makes a mistake."

clarabelle 8 months, 1 week ago

"Ed Duffy from Pinehurst"

save a few right wing loonies - who gives a crap what you think?

clarabelle 8 months, 1 week ago

Too funny - the flip-flopper king has been using the teleprompter for quite awhile.......

I pointed this out months ago when another right wing loonie (FG) used it as a talking point!

No wonder the republicans keep losing elections!

dustyrhoades 8 months, 1 week ago

The RNC even had the outcome of their rules vote up on the prompter....before the vote was taken.

These are the rules that froze out the Ron Paul delegates.

http://thepilot.com/users/photos/2012/sep/16/20357/

Video of RNC Teleprompter Showing Results of Scripted Voting Before Voting Finished by johnperna2

geoffcutler 8 months, 1 week ago

"No wonder the republicans keep losing elections!" Belle

You out of country for the 2010 Congressionals?

Pappy 8 months, 1 week ago

Remember "you didn't build it"...!!!! Ya'll are funny...

AFCHIEF 8 months, 1 week ago

clarabelle on the personal attack again.

fugitiveguy 8 months, 1 week ago

Did the Democrats have a debt clock at their convention?

dustyrhoades 8 months, 1 week ago

Read it and weep, wingnuts--this is the most conservative Electoral vote counter:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/2012_elections_electoral_college_map.html

And it gets worse for you. Three of the states listed on that map as Toss-Ups are places where Obama's ahead by 3 to 4 points: Ohio, Nevada, and Colorado. He takes those, it's over for Romney. He takes Florida, it's over. Virgil Goode drains off a couple of percentage points from the far right in Virginia, Obama takes Virginia, and then he only needs one other state, then it's over.

There are multiple paths to electoral victory for Obama. Mitt's got to run the table. Highly unlikely, given his ham-fisted campaign so far. If you're counting on Obama to blow the election at the debates, you're really clutching at straws.

fugitiveguy 8 months, 1 week ago

" He takes those, it's over for Romney."

Its over for all of us. Your clients will be trying to pay you with a chicken, a stolen chicken at that. Do you like chicken? You're not one of those vegatarians are you?

dustyrhoades 8 months, 1 week ago

Love chicken. Do you like crow? 'Cause odds are, you're gonna be eatin' some.

dustyrhoades 8 months, 1 week ago

Even Karl Rove has Obama in the lead, and he's ignoring the fact that the President's up by an average of six points in Michigan and four points in Ohio.

fugitiveguy 8 months, 1 week ago

"'Cause odds are, you're gonna be eatin' some. "

What are you talking about. To my knowledge I haven't made any predictions. After 2007 I will not underestimate the gullibility of an uninformed electorate.

dustyrhoades 8 months, 1 week ago

After 2007 I will not underestimate the gullibility of an uninformed electorate.

Ah, the bitterness begins. And so early...

geoffcutler 8 months, 1 week ago

Gallup polling today put Obama ahead of Mitt Romney by 4 points after the godless DNC Convention.

Back in 1980 Gallup had Jimmy Carter up over Ronald Reagan by 4 points in mid to late September… And, Carter was up 8 points in October. In fact there was a published Gallup poll showing Carter up six among likely voters in a poll conducted Oct. 24 to 27. (Gateway Pundit, Sept. 8th)

Not worried, Dusty. We've seen this before.

clarabelle 8 months, 1 week ago

Damn - I cant wait until obama creams the flip-flop king - the grand poobah of pander in Nov.

Multiple suicides - and gnashing of teeth. I wonder if the righteous repubs will take to the streets and occupy anything. NAH - they couldn't miss Fox news at 11.......

clarabelle 8 months, 1 week ago

Carter had sub-30 percent approval ratings and most experts point to having only ONE debate.

Do you really think the panderer supreme will do better than obama in the debates.

To be honest - neither candidates should be given any questions prior to the debate. I would love to see romney stutter his way through that.

clarabelle 8 months, 1 week ago

" geoffcutler - "No wonder the republicans keep losing elections!" Belle You out of country for the 2010 Congressionals?"

well geoffie - I was here in 2008 :)

dustyrhoades 8 months, 1 week ago

Ah, yes, that old graveyard whistle about Carter and Reagan. Sorry, Geoff, Mitt ain't Reagan., Not by a long shot. The more people saw of Reagan, the more even his opponents liked him. The more people see of Romney, the less they like him. And that's just going to be magnified at the debates.

And despite all the attempts to spin it, Obama ain't Carter, either. He's staying on message and his people are running a very tight disciplined campaign, laser focused on the states he needs. And it's working. I'm not taking a victory lap just yet, but things are definitely looking good for another term.

coffecreme 8 months, 1 week ago

Wow real insightful letter to the editor. Lol.

dustyrhoades 8 months, 1 week ago

Oh, and Geoff? You can look at the national polls all you want, but elections are won and lost in the Electoral College. And the President's leading in the states that matter there.

dustyrhoades 8 months, 1 week ago

Meanwhile, the MittBots are abandoning their core message and looking for a new one:

OLDSMAR, Fla. — Mitt Romney’s campaign for president appears to have quietly abandoned its guiding assumption, that the election would center on the struggling economy, and has visibly begun to feel for a new message. Romney and — particularly — his running mate Rep. Paul Ryan, have spent a week road-testing alternatives, going positive and going negative, swinging at the president on everything from faith to foreign policy. The new efforts mark a shift from a summer of fruitless discipline and a convention in which attempts to present a friendly, moderate tone trumped any policy substance. And campaign planners said their moves mark a new campaign consensus. “No one in Boston thinks this can only be about the economy anymore,” one top aide said last week. “The economy narrows the gap and puts us in contention, but we have to bring more to the table.” The core factor in the search for a new message, aides say privately, was the August jobs report. The anemic job growth was widely viewed as bad news for Obama even as the unemployment rate dropped due to people leaving the workforce. But the national shrug confirmed Romney campaign concerns that the most visible economic indicator would remain muddled through Election Day.

There's more, I encourage you to read it. Ryan apparently wants to be "unleashed"... Yeah, that'll work.

Here's a hint: when you're looking for a new message in mid-September, you're in trouble.

geoffcutler 8 months, 1 week ago

For now... still not worried. Convention bump in polls taken immediately following. We'll just have to see, but history favors Romney/Ryan. Oh... and I'm not looking at the polls. You are.

dustyrhoades 8 months, 1 week ago

Shorter Geoff:

Animal House - All Is Well! by jovichick7908

geoffcutler 8 months, 1 week ago

???

AFCHIEF 8 months, 1 week ago

And dusty complains about me posting videos. LOL

skylinefirepest 8 months, 1 week ago

Oldpilot, clarabelle, Dusty, coffee....would one of y'all who can speak without calling names and talking trash please explain to me what it is about Obama that has you bowing at his altar??? Bowing to Islamic foreign leaders, saying the U.S. is not exceptional, deserting Israel and our European friends, six trillion in new debt, apparent doubling of the lowering of our credit rating, lying repeatedly, abortion, Muslim ties....Jeez guys, I just don't see anything about this man that makes me proud of him!! I could add a couple of pages of things that are absolutely miserable about Obama but you've heard it before, you know it's true and yet you are giddy with wanting to give this charlatan another four years to finish off our credit rating, put us in the poorhouse, and give Russia whatever it is that Putin and Obama were talking about! C'mon guys, this president and his administration is a joke, he's a piece of trash, and by all accounts he has no regard ( with his wife, by the way ) for the country that allowed him to become a millionaire! Have you and your party no shame????

clarabelle 8 months ago

dear skylinefirepest ........

to be honest - i am lukewarm to obama........ but I have seen romney a plethora of times and imo - he has to be the biggest panderer in the history of the civilized (and maybe uncivilized) world.

I cringe at times when he is giving his "teleprompted" speeches - seeing a man that will say ANYTHING to appease anyone that can vote. he has changed his positions more times than a yoga instructor (i made that up)......... and to be honest - i dont think even he knows what he stands for.

I am certain you right wingers feel the same way as all you do is knock obama because you have nothing good to say about your candidate.

btw - the following statements are too stupid to even respond to:

Bowing to Islamic foreign leaders, saying the U.S. is not exceptional, deserting Israel and our European friends, six trillion in new debt, apparent doubling of the lowering of our credit rating, lying repeatedly, abortion, Muslim ties

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