Did Willard Romney Jump The Shark With His Recent Comment On The M.E. Situation?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

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[rfranklin]

1. Jumping the shark has jumped the shark...

Romney sodomized the pooch.

[oldhippydude]

5. in plain sight....... on the car roof?

[C_U_L8R]

9. Strapped the dang shark to the car roof

and danced around the car in flaming magic underwear
while lying for Lord big time.

[rfranklin]

20. Now that was funny!

can't top that!

[oldhippydude]

2. wwonder how soon

Nate Silver will shoo how bad........3 days?

[cynatnite]

3. They were saying on MSNBC that Rmoney's statement on Libya cost him the election...

Alex just called Rmoney "a dangerous amateur".

[tjdee]

4. Depends on who heard it and how the media spins it.

Most people are at work and didn't hear it. They won't be aware of it til they get home and turn to the news outlet of their choice.

Anyone who watched it in person has to realize that it was one big screwup.

[deutsey]

8. I'm at work and only know about this through DU

It will be interesting to see how it's spun. I recall Bush coming across terribly in live speeches only to have the media slice and dice it so he sounded good.

[tjdee]

14. Exactly.

They make these people sound reasonable when they report on what was said. :/

[Proud Liberal Dem]

6. So far nobody is really defending/supporting his response (other than Reince Priebus)

When Mitt can't even get Congressional Republicans like Boehner, Cantor, McConnell to back him up, he has to realize that you're on the wrong side of public opinion on this one. Rush Limbaugh, Hannity, and teabaggers may whoop and applaud him but it doesn't look like any serious politician and/or pundit seem to be behind him on this---and rightfully so IMHO!

[k2qb3]

7. I don't know how it plays out yet.

Like almost everything else Republicans and Democrats are living in alternate realities, it isn't just that we have different opinions...we have different facts. This isn't going to hurt him a bit with the FNC crowd.

I think he's run out of credibility with the middle, I'm just not sure this has a big impact either way.

[deutsey]

11. Yeah, the old saying "Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not to their own facts"

seems so 20th century.

[ecstatic]

19. Yeah. Sadly, freepers are ecstatic

one even had the audacity to say that this will turn out to be a good thing for Mitt!!! In disbelief, I checked the replies to see if the poster was challenged by at least one person... nothing.

[Democrats_win]

10. Romney jumped the gun.

Romney's flub makes us forget about the original attacks.

I'm very angry that the people we helped free in Lybia are now attacking us! THEY should be apologizing to US--not that Obama has done the apologizing that Mitidiot claimed. Lybia should pull out their wallets and pay not only the families of the victims but also the people of the United States for all of the help we gave them in their "revolution." Romney really jumped the gun. There is something to criticize here, but Rommey got it wrong.

[sufrommich]

12. I think when you go on television and smirk

at the American embassy for attempting to establish calm in the face of a mob and then use the death of 4 Americans to score political points, you have not only jumped the shark, you've shown your true self to be a sociopath .

[polichick]

13. Sociopaths rise to the top in Republican circles - it's amazing!

[beac]

15. And look how HAPPY he is leaving the podium:

(found here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021327066)


He thinks he hit a home run. Bet most people will find your shit-eating grin more than a liitle inappropriate, Mittens.

[denverbill]

17. I'm sure that's the same look the movie producer had on his face.

[gkhouston]

16. The shark got tired of being jumped by Romney a long time ago and is on vacation. n/t

[ecstatic]

18. He jumped it way before this, before even the birther comments

Everytime he opens his mouth, a shark is jumped!

[spanone]

21. he jumped the whale

[LynneSin]

22. I voted 'No' and here's why and I think many of you would agree.....

'Jumping the Shark' was first defined when a long-running popular TV show does something hugely stupid and after that moment the show pretty much sucked. It goes back to Happy Days, once a very popular staple of American TV viewing, when they had the Fonz jump a shark tank. There are websites devoted to 'Jump the Shark' moments in TV including when shows add a new baby to the show, when too many popular characters leave a show or when a popular show adds Ted McGinley to their cast; there are many many reasons as to why really good shows start to suck.

'Jump the Shark' has been used for decades even beyond TV shows to justify how something was once very popular and then turned to crap because of a stupid choice made.

To imply that Mitt Romney has 'Jumped the Shark' means that at one time Mitt Romney was actually a decent, viable candidate that was well liked by Americans. I don't think he was ever well liked even by the people who voted for him. I think for many Mitt Romney was simply 'Anyone But Obama'. The absolutely racist type hatred towards Obama has made these right-wing nut jobs settle for Romney because after that long, drawn-out primary season all their favorite candidates pretty much took turns shooting themselves in the foot and dropping from the race.

So to me Mitt has not 'Jumped the Shark' because he's not even close to the Fish Tank where the shark swims and his motorcycle is busted to pieces.

Nuff said.