The Neocons Advising Mitt Romney Just Killed His Campaign

[Ikonoklast]

And they will now fail in getting us to go to war with Iran for Israel.

[flamingdem]

1. Put a fork in it Willard n/t

[Blue Owl]

2. Well the Neocons are good at killing things

Yep, it's "what they do," pretty much...

[Ikonoklast]

5. The next person advocating for war, with anyone, needs to send their family members FIRST.

Funny how those that want us to bomb Iran, an act of war, have no skin in the game.

[avebury]

10. They just don't always hit their intended target.

[calimary]

18. As effective as Saddam's misbegotten scud missiles.

They never hit anything meaningful during Desert Storm. Always wide of the mark. And the much-vaunted Republican Guards of Saddam turned out to be much ado about NOTHING. Yet ANOTHER indicator that the wrong-wing and the neoCONS are Lox On Toast when it comes to giving foreign policy advice. As bad as they already proved themselves to be during the bush/cheney years.

"...allowing events to control him." "So nakedly political..." - Howard Fineman on wrongney's premature ejaculation, on "Hardball" today.

Good Lord! wrongney isn't even ready for DAYTIME, much less prime time.

[jmowreader]

26. Remember Sam Kinison's Scud joke?

We have the smart bomb, which will take out exactly what you want. The Iraqis have the Scud Missile. You fire it, then turn on CNN to see what it hit.

[Barack_America]

3. Aw, come on, give the old boy some credit...

...he was already doing a pretty damned good job of killing it on his own.

[Ikonoklast]

7. His ecomonic bullshit policies are all in a shambles, he thought...

"I'll use my vast foreign policy experience and massive intellect to score some points! I'm a rich guy, so that makes me smarter than everyone, they HAVE to listen to me!".

The S.S. Mitt just ran into a slight problem with public opinion, however...

[thelordofhell]

4. Thank you John Bolton

You could tell that mustachioed fuckin' creep was behind Mitt's "press conference" remarks. Shitt Onmey is toast!!

[DippyDem]

8. Shitt Onmey.... lol that's a new one! I like it

[ewagner]

11. Stealin it!

with attribution of course!

[Ikonoklast]

9. Bolton was salivating over the thought of using this as a "Gulf of Tonkin" moment.

I want him to live a long, long time because every minute of it will be spent watching his work get destroyed as the American people repudiate the Neocon Agenda.

A few profited from the deaths of millions.

[smorkingapple]

12. Shitt Onmey LMAO

great!!!!

[tomm2thumbs]

17. bwahahah - that's great

not using it but admiring it!

[KansDem]

6. I don't understand why they think they can pull their shtick a second time!

We know now that the Iraq invasion was based on lies. Do they really think we'll fall for it a second time?

This rerun just won't go! They need a new script writer!

[JHB]

19. Because they got away with it by sheer brazenness

Both during and afterwards. None of them faced any real consequences.

Thst's how.

[DemKittyNC]

13. This is the best entertainment on earth

just about. Every day I come home from school I get on here to read the latest fuck-up of the day from Rmoney (sometimes many fuck-ups in one day!) and he just gets worse and worse each time. I can not wait for the debates this is better then any reality show on TV and I love trolling the teaparty forums to see them justify and distort all these Rmoney goofs into something imaginably positive that they can tell themselves in order not to have their tiny little minds blow up

By the way I just wanted to say how sorry I am to hear of the deaths of those people and feel so terrible for their family and friends. It is not really a laughing matter I know and I can't believe how they are trying to calm things down over there but Rmoney is so thick as to try to stir shit up again with his thoughtless remarks. He is truly a bastard!

[BumRushDaShow]

14. It seems the necons were the puppet-masters moving Rmoney's mouth

although it seems the timing was WAY off for this vitriol.

[Melinda]

15. Dan Senor plus our good friends from PNAC:

With Mitt Romney's comments on Libya drawing attention today-specifically, his criticism of Obama-it's worth examining whom Romney listens to on such matters.

Dan Senor is one of Romney's closest advisers on foreign policy. Since Paul Ryan has been selected as the GOP's vice presidential candidate, Senor has been traveling with Ryan-but today, he left the trail because of the "foreign policy developments" and is in Boston and NYC.

Senor is the former spokesman for the American government in Iraq (the Coalition Provisional Authority at the beginning of the Iraq war under George W. Bush) and is a particularly close adviser to Romney on the Middle East. (He has traveled with Romney to Israel three times, as well as written a book on Israel that Romney often cites). With Ryan, he consults on domestic and foreign policy issues.

Last month, the New York Times described Senor as an "advocate of neoconservative thinking that has sought to push presidents to the right for years on Middle East policy." Senor led a foreign policy briefing for Ryan on the plane yesterday from Seattle along with Jamie Fly, executive director, Foreign Policy Initiative and Reuel Marc Gerecht from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

More:

http://news.yahoo.com/whos-advising-mitt-romney-foreign-policy-181704612--abc-news-politics.html

The article goes on to discuss his other advisor's including 8 others (Bill Kristol) with PNAC

[Renew Deal]

16. They destroyed McCains campaign too

By making him pick Palin.

[sad sally]

20. Why is Romney buying into this advice? These people - John Bolton, Robert Kagen, Eric Edelman,

Dan Senor, and Dick Cheney - were/still are the architects of a failed policy. The very same advisers that led this nation into two off-the-books war want more. Romney would simply be another puppet-head president doing and saying whatever his masters wanted. One can only imagine the worldwide chaos this group would stir up given a second chance.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

21. "Why is Romney buying into this advice?"

Because he's not a leader.

He's a follower.

[Meandering1]

22. Pretty much on the mark there Spitfire

Like someone else does I occasionally watch the wing nut sites just to see them spin all the Romney mistakes. To see how they can explain his flip flopping on every major Conservative issue.

There has never been a major issue Romney hasn't changed his stand on 180 degrees. From immigration to abortion to Gay rights. This is as you say a "follower" not a leader.

If I had the stomach for it I'd go over to one of those nutter forums and post that clip of Ted Kennedy referring to Mitt as "multiple choice" on the right to choose. But other than for my own personal humor there is no sense in doing it. Those people make me sick actually.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

23. "Those people make me sick actually."

That's because they're all followers too.

It's like I said a while back:

There's a REASON Republicans use an elephant for their symbol.
Elephants grab the tail of the one ahead of them and blindly follow behind an asshole.
This is also why most Republicans are assholes,...
...they think that's what it takes to be a leader....

[sad sally]

24. Right and all those he's following want a second chance to start more unnecessary wars and commit

other chaotic actions they didn't accomplish before.

Romney has once again proven he is just a puppet-head.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

27. They miss the days when America lived in fear and they presented themselves as our heroes.

[LiberalAndProud]

28. I'd like to know, definitively, why.

We could surmise that Romney is a hawk at heart. I think he is. We could also consider that many of the people financing this campaign are war profiteers. War is good for business. I wonder if Romney would make a buck or two himself if we started another war or two or three.

There is a reason Romney thinks our military budget should be increased by 50% and I suspect it has exactly nothing to do with making America more secure.

[Myrina]

25. He showed the world what a puppet/tool he is

... Anyone with 3 active brain cells and a smidgen of critical thought capabilities would have looked at the talking points and thought twice. Not Mittens. Shows what a "leader" he'd turn out to be - can't decide to take a crap unless the puppet masters allow him to.