Romney Camp Once Again Warns Of ‘Soviet’ Threat

[Newsjock]

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/romney-soviet-threat-again.php

A foreign policy adviser to Mitt Romney’s campaign warned against policies that would aid “the Soviet Union” Wednesday, making him at least the third person from Team Romney — including Romney himself — to refer to a country that hasn’t existed since 1991 in the course of attacking President Obama’s foreign policy.

The Obama campaign has already accused Romney of having a “Cold War mindset” on foreign policy, so it naturally seized on a clip of longtime Republican diplomat Rich Williamson, a Romney adviser, speaking at the Brookings Institution Wednesday. Williamson was condemning the Obama approach to Syria.

He called the country “strategically important to the Soviet Union.”

[RagAss]

1. Here's your Soviet threat..

[Blue_Tires]

34. More like this:

[Diclotican]

93. Blue_Tires

Blue_Tires

Funny you use a picture - with noriwgian text

Diclotican

[maddezmom]

2. these asshats are all in a time warp

[bluesbassman]

6. Mitt can effortlessly move though time and space.

That would explain the retroactive retirement.

Man, I wish I had superpowers.

[nc4bo]

28. Found the vault, grabbed the script and forgot to use find, find next and replace.

That has to be it. How can you make a mistake like this running for POTUS?!

[bluesbassman]

32. Well, apparently his superpowers also include tone deaf and ignoramus.

Funny how money can buy most everything, except common sense.

[Ccarmona]

37. Why do you think

they call it "magic" underwear?

[jberryhill]

3. Romney has already retroactively defeated the Soviets

[struggle4progress]

33. And just in the nick of time, too!

[awoke_in_2003]

58. The Reagan worshippers...

aren't going to be happy about that.

[jberryhill]

65. Reagan was Irish, and not part of our Anglo-Saxon heritage

[awoke_in_2003]

69. DUzy. nt

[Tikki]

4. Does this mean condi and palin are coming aboard..

One has ancient history (which she obviously can't appreciate) and which the other can see.


Me thinks so...
Tikki

[elleng]

5. OMG!

Can they really be this stupid? Can HE allow this to occur? EVIDENCE of his lack of competence. COMMANDER IN CHIEF???

[BumRushDaShow]

17. I keep saying his campaign is a Ponzi scheme

All that money being funneled in is probably being invested somewhere and they are keeping the interest or profits off of it to line their pockets. It's just like that guy on the 17th floor that Bernie Madoff had printing off fake statements on a dot matrix printer - THAT is the equivalent of what his "fake" staff are doing.

[elleng]

25. Good one BUT

to line HIS pockets, that's HIS specialty, taking advantage of EVERY POSSIBLE SCHEME to enrich himself.

[ProSense]

26. Yes,

"Can they really be this stupid?"

...they can.

Romney Foreign Policy Adviser Attacks Obama’s ‘Czechoslovakia’ Policy
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/04/26/471692/romney-adviser-czechoslovakia/

[elleng]

63. And they prove it over and over.

[CTyankee]

91. I was almost ready to mention McCain's mention of Czechoslovakia during the 08 campaign...

I kinda liked that one, him being the big foreign policy expert in the Senate and all...

I tutor a man from Slovakia in English as a Literacy volunteer. I have to patiently explain to him that many Americans don't know where any other country is in the world, much less history about those countries. You should see the look on his face...

[Spitfire of ATJ]

57. Oh, come on.

Those old Cold War Warriors miss all the boozing and broads they got in Russia. Now they've got the Middle East where ya can't even get a beer and the women are covered.

Think about it. They went from this:

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To this:

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[nc4bo]

7. Somebody please make him STFU.

he can't seem to control himself and is in serious need of some help; kotex, box of tampons and duct tape would do in a pinch.

[Posteritatis]

9. Hell no, I want him to keep stumbling like this for at least four more months. (nt)

[nc4bo]

12. I'm going to start collecting bubblewrap...

I need it in my life, probably for the next 4 months. I can just mash as needed.

Ack!!

[KurtNYC]

8. Romney needs to apologize to Reagan

for denying his greatest accomplishment.

Apologize retroactively.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. Please make this into an ad DNC.

Pretty please?

He is the male version of Caribou Barbie because you know, all the trees are the right height and Putin will be rearin' his head just like he did to the last rethug candidates -

[freshwest]

35. Bwahaha!

[mstinamotorcity]

53. Love it

[RKP5637]

11. Great, he can bring back the Russians are gonna get us and a new version of

McCarthyism. Republicans are simply dreadful creatures.

[Hugabear]

13. I hear the Ottomans are aligning themselves with Persia

Damned bastards.

[DefenseLawyer]

19. The Prussians have something they call "artillery"

It's pretty badass.

[Yavin4]

20. Like This?

Meh. Not to my liking.

[Scootaloo]

27. +1

I laughed

[Curtland1015]

29. Bwahahahaha!

[awoke_in_2003]

59. Beware, those are IODs...

improvised ottoman devices

[HughBeaumont]

94. Best post on here.

Mitt continues the stupid and we struggle to outdo him in comedy.

But we get As for effort!

[spanone]

14. well, that's what saint ronnie called it!

[Yavin4]

15. What Is This? 1986?

On the bright side, I'm 22 again. Woo Hoo!

[Wait Wut]

62. Damnit.

My kid is 4 and I'm married to my ex-husband. I'm too old to be in my 20s.

[malthaussen]

95. I think I'm just about old enough to be in my 20s...

... damn, I could save myself so much grief. And I'd be sure to invest a good bit in a struggling new startup called Microsoft.

-- Mal

[Odin2005]

100. I war BORN in 1986, LOL.

[DefenseLawyer]

16. Do you know when fluoridation began, Mandrake? 1946!

How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works.

[awoke_in_2003]

60. Ever see a commie drink water? nt

[socialist_n_TN]

83. What's funny is that I was actually DRINKING water........

when I read your post.

[awoke_in_2003]

84. It didn't end up...

all over the monitor, did it?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

18. Not to mention the threat of the Ottoman Empire and Byzantium.

And, how about the invading Mongol Hordes?

[Hugabear]

23. Here's another threat that nobody is expecting...

[awoke_in_2003]

61. I wonder if they have a bigger rack yet?

The one they used on Carol Cleveland was much too small (at least for her)

[Voice for Peace]

64. thankyou, perfect

I just love DU some days so much

[phantom power]

21. the party of re-fighting the 60s still fighting the cold war - makes sense

[ThoughtCriminal]

22. Soviet Troops! This looks like a job for...

Retroactive Man!

[lpbk2713]

24. Fear mongering is what matters to them.

They don't care if what they say is true or anywhere near accurate.
Just as long as they can put a sense of fear in weak minds.

[Yavin4]

38. Yep. Any Justification for a Bloated Defense Budget Will Do

Soon, they'll be warning about the Huns.

[xtraxritical]

88. The people Romney is pandering to will not understand the difference

between Russia and Soviet Union or that Czechoslovakia has not existed for 20 years. He can say whatever he wants.

[Initech]

30. I hear Sauron is threatening Mordor again.

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[rwsanders]

89. Too current...

Morgoth is once again occupying Angband and threatening Beleriand. After all, Sauron lived in Mordor. But I think that was after Led Zeppellin went there.

[arely staircase]

31. when everyone knows the real threat is the freemasons poisoning the wells nt

[DFW]

36. Be reasonable here

They haven't had a new idea since 1991, so it's only logical.............

[Ccarmona]

39. I'm waiting

for Mitt & his team to call for a replay of the last 3 seconds of the '72 Gold Medal basketball game.

[Jessy169]

40. Just more pandering to the base is all

Romney's "Soviet Threat" message is directed at all those good 'ol boys and country hicks living out in the vast American wastelands. They've all been hiding out near their nooklar bomb shelters since August 1962, still waiting for the Soviets to attack.

[FiveGoodMen]

41. He has followers. He has a shot at the White House.

Americans will hear this -- and all his other stupidity -- and still vote for him.

That is why we suck.

That is why we can't save ourselves.

Romney's no damned good, but it's your friends, neighbors and coworkers who are making this cluster-fuck possible.

[SylviaD]

42. I think this is more serious than a lot of you are taking it...

Does the Republican nominee for president not understand that the Soviet Union has been defunct for 20 years?

Does he consider all Russians "Soviets"? Does he believe Russia is a communist country?

Is this the scope of his geopolitical knowledge?

If so, he is so ignorant he makes George W. Bush look like Cyrus Vance.

How is this not front page news on every website and newspaper? Instead is treated as a fairly humorous joke? We're supposed to grin and say "oh, that crazy Mitt!"??

I'm a little confused.

[progressivebydesign]

50. you're right. Add that to the weird "Anglo Saxon" comments, and it's frightening. n/t

[treestar]

70. Right! One is so astonished by the racist nature of the Anglo-Saxon comment that

one forgets to note that it is a stupid, short cut way of thinking in its own right. Diplomacy with the UK is a lot more complex than just claiming the common heritage. The Mittwit and his minions think they can get all of Europe to go along on any diplomatic question just because of common race. As usual they are intellectually lazy. He's not sounding any smarter than Palin when he does this type of thing.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

72. He's trying to make Dubya look intelligent

[surrealAmerican]

43. He's recycling Nixon's speeches.

I guess we need to ask who's writing his material.

[Ikonoklast]

80. I hear Pat Buchannon has time on his hands.

The stuff Rmoney is currently spouting sounds a lot like vintage racist warmongering Pat.

[tanyev]

44. Then you'd better pick Palin for VP, Mitt.

Seriesly. Go for it.

[thesquanderer]

45. Because "Soviet Union" sounds so much scarier than "Russia"

and as always, nothing works for Republicans like fear.

[Ken Burch]

46. In America, you find a party.

In Romney campaign, party find you.

[hifiguy]

47. What about the Golden Horde of Chinghiz Khan?

Now there's somethin' to be freaked out about!!

[progressivebydesign]

48. OMG. he IS Tricky Dick Nixon! Are his advisor's like 90 or something??

First it's the "Anglo Saxon" thing, now this.

[KamaAina]

49. Romney/Bush '88!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

73. The Reagan corpse raises its ugly head again!

[pinboy3niner]

51. Goddam commies! Vote Romney!1!!

[Smilo]

52. Romney/McCarthy 2012

Those Soviets are everywhere............... quick Ann look under the bed.

[tclambert]

54. He meant that retroactively, of course.

Somehow Obama's policies would go back in time and help the Soviet Union at a critical juncture, possibly undoing the time Ronald Reagan conquered them. You don't remember Reagan conquering them? You see? Obama has undone our greatest President's most glorious triumph!

[rurallib]

55. Next: Stopping Hitler and the Nazi threat.

and a word to the Kaiser: you better be ready - Commander Mitt is on to you

[neeksgeek]

85. The Kaiser! What about Frederick the Great? Napoleon?

Heck, we might even need to get ready to fight off Julius Caesar.

Mitt *does* have a time machine, right?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

56. Makes sense.

After all, Chuck Grassley claims the prostitutes in the Secret Service Scandal were actually Russian Spies.

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(and people wonder why these guys are called a bunch of old leches)

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0412/75534.html

[ecstatic]

66. That belief is tied to his religion

“Because he hasn’t talked much about his faith, people have gone online,” Hall notes of Romney, and they have found things like the “White Horse” prophecy, which have concerned many. Dovere explained that the Church does not officially endorse that line of thinking, that they have repudiated it and found it untrustworthy, as it came from someone who said he was near Joseph Smith when he said it but waited decades to reveal it. “What it predicts is that there would be a time when the Constitution is hanging by a thread and at that point a wealthy Mormon would rise up and raise the Republican,” explained Dovere of the White Horse prophecy, which concludes with “and Armageddon-style war against Russia.”

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/tamron-hall-and-guest-romneys-silence-leading-to-concerns-with-mormon-white-horse-prophecy/

[BOG PERSON]

67. R.I.P. USSR

[treestar]

68. Incompetents that must not be allowed access to any power whatsoever!

Are they really that uneducated?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

71. Maybe Romney dresses up in his Soviet Union Army uniform

[Motown_Johnny]

74. I believe that is a Retroactive threat.

[DCBob]

75. Obama took out OBL and most of the other AQ leadership.

so they need a new boogeyman.

[ailsagirl]

76. Time warp, indeed

What the hell is up with team romney-- don't they know anything?? He's an embarrassment to all of us. I hope people across the pond realize he's an incompetent, out-of-touch nincompoop who is not well-liked in this country.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

79. That's why you have to Tweet this worldwide!

[Bossy Monkey]

77. THIS is why you don't hire Yakov Smirnoff as your national security advisor!

Didn't anybody learn anything from Buckaroo Banzai?

[KansDem]

78. Oh, no! Not the "Commies" again!!

They went out of vogue in 1989!

[muntrv]

81. That's right, Mitt! We gotta watch out for that Yuri Andropov!

Or is it Konstantin Chernenko?

[Hugabear]

101. It's the ABC's of Dead Russian Leaders...

Surely somebody around here has heard that song before

[Doc_Technical]

102. "A" they're atheistic

"B" they're big shots
"C" they're communistic
"D" they're dead

[HockeyMom]

82. Hit under my desk against "Russia's Bomb"

50 years ago. More? No, thanks.

[B Calm]

86. Republicans always have to have a boogey man. .

[AllyCat]

87. Wait a minute. What century is this now?

I thought we were in the 21st, but I guess I was dreaming.

[StrictlyRockers]

90. Vote for Romney-Christie in '52.

He will save us from the red menace!

Romney will start a space program so that we can beat the USSR to the moon, too!

[Ganja Ninja]

92. This just reflects on the type of stupid people Mitt wants to appeal to.

People that are still living in a pre-civil rights time warp of denial. They refuse to come to grips with any of the changes of the past 40 years.

[tjwash]

96. worst.campaign. manager. ever.

[rtracey]

97. what?

He needs to move out of the 1980's. If Mitt thinks the Soviet Union, which really doesn't exist anymore, is our number 1 threat, he is a bigger ass then I thought before

[Javaman]

98. Next up: lost mittens claims to have a list of known commies in US government. nt

[Odin2005]

99. Hey Dipshit Mitt, many of us are too young to remember the Cold War.

[caseymoz]

103. Repub leadership had declined.

If there's one lesson they took from Reagan, that's dumb is not just acceptable, it's beautiful.

Man, the world will be pulling its hair out if Romney wins. Not to mention half the US.

[Nevernose]

104. Romney has to generate 1.21 gigawatts

So he can leave 1985 and get back to the future!