Romney demands Obama cease Bain attacks

[maddezmom]

Source: CSM

Mitt Romney demanded Monday that President Barack Obama back away from his persistent attacks on Romney's record at Bain Capital, advising that it would be better "if you spent some time speaking about your record."

"What does it say about a president whose record is so poor that all he can do in this campaign is attack me,"Romney said in a nationally broadcast interview.

Obama said an interview that he has run mostly positive campaign ads but said they have not been given much attention in the media.

In his interview on Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends," Romney was asked whether Obama should apologize for a series of statements and campaign commercials suggesting that Romney has not been truthful in his accounts of his record as head of Bain Capital, a private equity firm.


Read more: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2012/0716/Romney-demands-Obama-cease-Bain-attacks

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[Drale]

1. I DEMAND THAT MITTENS CEASE HIS PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN!

We can all demand stuff but we hardly ever get what we demand.

[robinlynne]

6. no. keep him there. He is the perfect Gop candidate to run agianst Obama. couldn't be better.

[Kablooie]

38. And he needs to apologize to Obama for running against him!

[no_hypocrisy]

2. "demands"?

[livetohike]

7. I guess he thinks being a CEO means something - like complete adherence to his "demands"

Big cry baby.

[no_hypocrisy]

31. Romney sounds like Boehner with his "demands" . . . .

[kysrsoze]

32. So it's obviously working. I say, "Tough shit, Mitt."

[Rambis]

3. Stop! Quit it! Mom he is touching me!I know you are but what am I"

Mittens whines like no other!

[AllyCat]

17. That's what I was thinking. Sounds like a little kid.

[freshwest]

33. +1.000! Zing!

[katsy]

4. He's such a funny guy.

Demand?

bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

[patrice]

5. Up to this point, Willard, PO has don't nothing but talk about his own record. That's why you are so

"shocked".

[Blue Meany]

8. This from a man who has offered no policies beyond "I know why jobs

come and why they go..."

[Retrograde]

37. Is it because the trees aren't the right height?

Has Romney ever come out with a policy statement other than "It's our turn"?

Given what I know about his background, I really think this is one of the very few times that people are standing up to him and telling him he does not automatically get what he wants right now. Growing up with Gov. Daddy to smooth the way, getting the cushy mission in Paris because of pull in the Mormon establishment, the no-risk-to-him job at Bain - I see a person who's never had to fight his way into something, who always had friends backing him. Now he's up on a very visible stage and his business and church buddies, try though they may, can't do all that much to help him.

ETA: he's always operated within a fairly rigid hierarchy, and he's been lucky to be in the higher rungs of those hierarchies. Having people talk back to him must be a novelty.

[yardwork]

51. I was thinking the same thing. Nobody has ever contradicted Mitt in his life.

[tinrobot]

9. Yeah? Some long haired guy at Cranrook demanded Mitt stop his attacks.

Of course, that didn't happen.

Payback's a bitch. Mitt.

[MiaCulpa]

10. Breaking News! Romney takes Time out from Attacking Obama to Demand Obama Stop Attacking Him

Good Lord this guy is just oozing elitism.

[progressivebydesign]

23. haha! best post all morning! :) n/t

[magical thyme]

11. what does it say about a candidate when all that he can do is issue orders and whine

when others ignore them?

Ok, here's another apology for ya, Mittens.

Sorry, but YOU AREN'T A CEO ANY MORE! YOU ARE NOT THE BOSS OF ME!!!!!

[Iggo]

12. The Onion?

[AllyCat]

13. Because all he has to run on is Bain and Obama has figured out it is his Achilles' heel.

All I've seen is attacks from Romney. He has nothing to run on so he must attack Obama. Again, projection from the right.

[still_one]

14. or what? Are you going to hold your breath until you turn blue? Not only don't you answer the

discrepancies in you time at bain, but you cannot even tell the public what you want to do

You want to repeal the ACA in its entirety, but have no alternative. You believe we should continue indefinitely fighting the wars, but for what purpose?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

15. What's Romney going to do?

Retroactivately hold down Obama and cut his hair?

[maddezmom]

20. Zing!

[magical thyme]

16. oh, and Sorry your cheap, knockoff ad is a FAIL.

[otohara]

18. Whine and Lie = Romney

Gawd, this is all he has to offer.

[yesphan]

19. Can you imagine what the media would do

to Obama if the shoe were on the other foot ? If Obama were calling on the Romney campaign to
stop attacking his record . Jeeze, it would be 24/7, "if he can't stand up to romney, how can he stand up to (fill in the blank) ?"

[randome]

21. Four years ago, I told my daughters we would never see a campaign as tragically comical...

...as the one that featured Palin.

I was wrong! This reaches new depths of idiocy! And I think they will plumb the depths for even more!

The GOP has fallen! Let's make sure it can't get up again!

[progressivebydesign]

22. Uh oh!!! Is he going to hold his breath??? Is he going to count to THREE??? lol.

He is in NO position to demand anything! Is he going to demand that the media stop picking on him?

Geez Romney, it's not like President Obama is holding you down and assaulting you with scissors trying to cut your hair (if it is your hair.)

[Pericles0753]

35. Release or delay?

Just wondering: is it better for the Dems that Romney release his taxes now, or have Romney continue to delay so the liberal and conservative protests rise higher and higher? In other words: follow George Will's advice and release them immediately or stir the shit storm?

[onehandle]

24. Crybaby In Chief. nt

[C_U_L8R]

25. Willard cries Uncle

he can dish it out but he sure can't take it.
What a spoiled child.

[coalition_unwilling]

50. +1,000,000. I'd like to think that somewhere in heaven

John Lauber (and maybe Seamus) is smiling!

[nolabear]

26. I'll see your challenge about my record, and raise you a retroactive retirement.

C'Mon. Obama's record as president is there for everyone to see. He'll run on it in time. Right now, he's calling and raising. Let's see what you got, Mitt.

[adigal]

27. Fox and friends - for the same audience as Barney and Friends

But the audience for Barney is much smarter.

[Happyhippychick]

28. On November 10th he will retroctively stop attacking you, just be patient.

[barbtries]

29. oh please

every time i hear snips of rmoney on NPR he's talking about what a failure the president is, without ever offering a concrete plan to improve upon obama's record. because all he's got is bushism and we all know how successful that was.

sounds like he's whining, which is so fucking typical for republicans. they can dish it out like nobody else in the world but they sure as hell can't take it. gawd DAMN i hate them.

[Scuba]

30. LEAVE MITTNEY ALONE (sob)...

[Smilo]

34. Go Obama - keep hitting

Bain, er I mean Rmoney where it hurts.

Some good cartoons here:

http://selfdeprecate.com/political-cartoons/mitt-romney-bain-capital-outsourcer-chief-2012/

[maryellen99]

36. Mitt is the male version of Veruca Salt

"Daddy I want the presidency and I want it now!"

[get the red out]

39. Sorry about your hole Mitt

You can either run on your record at Bain, or admit to being ahead of the curve on healthcare reform in Mass. It's your hole, the President is just pointing out that it's there.

The Emperor's New Clothes

[Brigid]

40. Obama to Romney:

In the words of a certain WWII general whose name escapes me at the moment, "nuts."

[msanthrope]

43. McAuliffe. nt

[MIDNITERIDER1438]

46. General Anthony Clement "Nuts" McAuliffe

On December 22, 1944, at Bastogne, during the "Battle of the Bulge"

[Rosa Luxemburg]

41. Romney to IRS: I didn't know I had to pay taxes

[Javaman]

42. lost mitten's is desperately flailing.

He can't scrape his bain history out of the headlines no matter what he does. LOL

he's done.

Deep down in his lizard like brain, he also knows he's finished.

what we are witnessing is the vein struggles of a drowning man.

[flamingdem]

44. Jeeves, I say Jeeves bring Richie Rich his hanky posthaste!

He's terribly upset and tearful over this dreadful bbb Bain matter!

[MIDNITERIDER1438]

45. He ain't nothin' but a hound dawg, Cryin' all the time !

http://serpline.blogspot.com/2012/07/romney-raves-to-have-ones-cake-and-eat.html

You know the old saying: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel" (Dr. Samuel Johnson, 1775) ?

That's the deal. He planned that jump to the Olympics so as to deny any knowledge of his actions,

plausibility, his "mission impossible", with the help of his brethren in Salt Lake.

He knew he'd be a sight with that Olympic outfit over his magic underwear. Wrapped in the flag, of course.

[Elliemama]

47. Demands?

Demands? Romney demands President Obama......................... In your dreams Mittens.

You may have run the out-sourcer/company-killer, job-killer Bain, but you do not call the shots outside of your nice, tax-free, sick world.

You are not in a position to demand anything, especially of our President

[lsewpershad]

48. Getting desperate Mitt?

Maybe an anxiety attack?

[Fearless]

49. Ohh not so hard!

[Epiphany4z]

52. pfft Silly Mitt..

Obama can do both at the same time...talk about saving the auto industry and attack Mitt on his Bain record...talk about the affordable health care act and ask Mitt for a few more tax returns...

[truthisfreedom]

53. Wow, it's amazing that he insists on campaigning so far back on his heels!

He is always on the defensive. What's up with that?