Karl Rove: Romney Blew It In London (“You have to shake your head.")

[kpete]

Source: Talking Points Memo

On Fox News Friday, Rove became the latest to share in the collective astonishment:

“You have to shake your head. Gov. Romney went to the London Olympics at invitation of the International Olympic Committee. It was a great opportunity for him to talk about his experiences, look, he stepped away from the leadership of Bain Capital for three years in order to step in and save the floundering Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in 2002. I bet there is lots of stories he could be talking about what a wonderful experience that was and how uplifting and inspiring it was. Instead he got stuck making a, somehow or another that the comments the Brits took as insult, and walked it back pretty quickly and walked it back adroitly but nonetheless the damage was done."

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[awoke_in_2003]

1. Somehow or another they were insulted?

Quit spinning, asshat. He was insulting and actually made your ex boss look likes genius in comparison

[AtheistCrusader]

9. No, he meant 'somehow or another Romney got both feet stuck in his mouth'.

[awoke_in_2003]

15. Well, he may be topping George...

in that regard

[cstanleytech]

55. Which is a major accomplishment when you consider that

he managed to do that while his head was still firmly lodged up inside his own ass.

[progressivebydesign]

13. and it was so much more than the american media is reporting on...

it's not just the Olympics insult.. it's just insult after insult, and pretty much every word out of his mouth.

[savannah43]

24. Here is the really important part: Romney and his wife think they're

the ones who are superior to all those who think he's a great big ass. They both have their heads so far up their own asses that they don't know how clueless they are. I would say that Mitt isn't fit to be a dog catcher, but that's so apparent, it goes without saying. President? Puhleeze!!! Even Rove is backing up. This makes me happy.

[kenfrequed]

17. Yeah, that would be a fail.

Passive voice BS. "Somehow or another they were insulted..." It sounds like a nice try at disconnecting it and spinning but it utterly fails the english language and shows that, despite his evil-weasel guile, Karl Rove would fail english comp.

[WCGreen]

33. Those fucking Limey's...

Forcing Mitt to make an ass out of himself...

[awoke_in_2003]

38. You have to keep an eye...

on those Brits

[Mendocino]

39. They are tricky they are,

letting Romney speak. DAMN THEM!

[awoke_in_2003]

41. They should have been rude...

and interrupted more. That way, Romney wouldn't have said as many stupid thing.

[roguevalley]

60. rove is almost as sorry a soul as rmoney

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Dear Karl, by now you should know that Mittwit is a master of insulting others.

[mazzarro]

23. Haa haa! Mittwit?

I love that - ha haa!

[savannah43]

25. Just not insulting them on purpose.

He's oblivious. Mittwit? Good one.

[sofa king]

3. Dear Karl Rove: I still hate you.

[liberal N proud]

4. He just can't bring himself to say it - Romney is an unqualified, idiot

[emulatorloo]

5. Unqualified Idiots are Karl Rove's bread and butter.

[liberal N proud]

8. This guy is such a turd that good ol' Turdblossom himself can't take the stink off.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

10. lolol!

[kenfrequed]

19. Well...

He has all of Bush's weaknesses and none of his "strengths."

Rove knows that Romney cannot be sold as a common man or a hero to such or a guy you can have a beer with.

Expect the subtle and not so subtle race baiting to continue.

[SmittynMo]

50. Dear Mittwit Mittens Rmoney

Open mouth, insert foot. Gee, last night looked pretty much perfect to me. You were spot on, idiot. You and George Bush should go on Wheel of Fortune and guess puzzles. Note: No vowels allowed!!! And unlimited amount of "X"'s are allowed. The show should last for hours. LMAO

[Jumping John]

6. I keep thinking Romney is a novice at politics. Then I remember he was

the governor of mass. and I have to wonder why he is behaving as he is?

I can only think it is a deliberate act by him and his wife.

It makes no sense at all. to me.

[Jessy169]

12. Not deliberate -- you have to look at How and Why he became Governor

Short story: Mitt won on LIES, LIES and MORE LIES aided significantly by MONEY, MONEY and MORE MONEY

That formula worked SO GOOD for him, he naturally thought it would work this time around to. He's just finding out that things have changed a little since 2003 and that we've wised up to his style of dirty tricks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_romney

In 2002, Republican Acting Governor Jane Swift's administration was plagued by political missteps and personal scandals.[146] Many Republicans viewed her as a liability and considered her unable to win a general election.[150] Prominent party figures – as well as the White House – wanted Romney to run for governor,[148][151] and the opportunity appealed to him for its national visibility.[152] One poll taken at that time showed Republicans favoring Romney over Swift by more than 50 percentage points.[153] On March 19, 2002, Swift announced she would not seek her party's nomination, and hours later Romney declared his candidacy,[153] for which he would face no opposition in the primary.[154] In June 2002, Massachusetts Democratic Party officials contested Romney's eligibility to run for governor, citing residency issues involving his time in Utah for the Olympics.[155] That same month, the bipartisan Massachusetts State Ballot Law Commission unanimously ruled that he was an eligible candidate.[156]

He again ran as a political outsider.[146] He played down his party affiliation,[149] saying he was "not a partisan Republican" but rather a "moderate" with "progressive" views.[157] He touted his private sector experience as qualifying him for addressing the state's fiscal problems[154] and stressed his ability to obtain federal funds for the state, giving his Olympics record as evidence.[139][141][158] He proposed to reorganize the state government while eliminating waste, fraud, and mismanagement.[149][159] The campaign was the first to use microtargeting techniques, in which fine-grained groups of voters were reached with narrowly tailored messaging.[160]

To overcome the image that had damaged him in the 1994 Senate race – that of a wealthy corporate buyout specialist out of touch with the needs of regular people – a series of "work days" were staged throughout the campaign, in which Romney performed blue-collar jobs such as herding cows and baling hay, unloading a fishing boat, and hauling garbage.[159][161][162] Television ads highlighting the effort, as well as one portraying his family in gushing terms and showing him shirtless,[161] received a poor public response and contributed to his being behind his Democratic opponent, Massachusetts State Treasurer Shannon O'Brien, in polls as late as mid-October.[159][162] He rebounded with ads that accused O'Brien of being a failed watchdog for state pension fund losses in the stock market and that associated her husband, a former lobbyist, with the Enron scandal.[149][162] During the election he contributed over $6 million – a state record at the time – to the nearly $10 million raised for his campaign overall.[163][164] Romney was elected governor on November 5, 2002, with 50 percent of the vote to O'Brien's 45 percent.[165]

[Politicalboi]

27. I think it's because he thinks

He is entitled to be President. He may feel he is already President because he has been running so long.

[vinny9698]

46. Yes, entitled

He can't believe his is losing to a "Muslim, Kenyan born, teleprompter speaker, food stamp pedigree, black man"
He really believes the made up tea party persona of Obama.
Just wait till the debates, Romney will not be able to answer in platitudes but be specific. The more people get to know Romney the less they like the guy

[Jessy169]

29. Just one really good lie is all he needs

Based on Romney's history, it is a pretty good guess that Romney believes that all he needs to win the presidency is just one really good smear ad, strategically timed and targeted in a multi-hundred-million dollar media blitz. Sadly, given the American electorate, it is not outside the realm of possibility that such a low-life dishonest tactic might work.

[byeya]

7. Ibogaine

Ibogaine is what Hunter Thompson accused Edmund Muskie of using during the latter's ineffective
campaign for the White House. Maybe Ibo is a New England thing, ya think?

[progressivebydesign]

11. And he could talk about how the taxpayers saved the Olympics...

or about the secret dealings with the Church and their companies in Utah. Oh.. but then they'd have to release all the info that is sealed at the University in Utah for that to happen.


And sorry Karl.. you guys put your billions on the biggest twit in candidate history. Hell.. Pat Paulsen would have been seen as a viable candidate against Mittwit.

[Iliyah]

14. I'm still waiting on those handcuffs for KKKarl Rovvveee

and Darth Cheney, et al.,

This man is full of shit just like his precious party of hate.

[lunatica]

16. Romney and adroitly in the same sentence?

Sure Karl..

[florida08]

21. lol

my thought exactly..it takes skill to screw up what was suppose to be a stress free PR appearance. The only way that can happen is if you don't ask the moneyman anything

[Raster]

22. SNAP!

[LynneSin]

18. Last time Karl got that negative about a republican was Christine O'Donnell

I don't think a full 5 minutes passed after O'Donnell upset Mike Castle in the GOP Senate Primaries in DE that Rove came out and said because of that one election the Demcrats would keep the senate in the fall. And he was right.

Not the biggest Karl Rove fan but when he questions a republican he's usually pretty dead on accurate!

[savannah43]

26. He's despicable, but he's not stupid.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

49. It's unusual for them to chew on their own in public

Rove is highlighting the doubt the GOP has in its presidential candidate

[spooky3]

20. Bad advice from Karl for Mitt to talk about his experiences

No one wants to hear him talk about those during this trip. That would have come across as very narcissistic and an attempt to draw attention from the hard work people in London are putting in now.

With advisers like Karl, no wonder Mittens is unable to overcome his own gaffe-proneness.

[xxqqqzme]

28. He 'got stuck making...'

He did? I don't recall seeing any pictures of someone twisting his arm or forcing him to read a script. He did it all by himself.

I guess Saurove will now be funneling all that GPS cash to congressional/senate races since rmoney is a beyond help.

[catbyte]

30. I love how Rove tries to spin this as some sort of perception problem

on the part of the British people instead of the tone deaf, clueless, ham-handed comments they actually were. Not even Rove can make this look like anything than it already is--a diplomatic disaster unworthy of a candidate for president from one of the two major political parties in the United States.



Diane
Anishinaabe in MI & mom to Taz, Nigel, and new baby brother Sammy, members of Dogs Against Romney, Cat Division
"Dogs Aren’t Luggage--HISS!”

[Octafish]

31. Hey, Karl! So what ARE the Koch brothers getting for their millions?

If that's all you can do for them, you might want to get into another line of shirk.

[amuse bouche]

32. Hey Karl

isn't it amazing that Myth Romney is creepier than W?

[catbyte]

34. I didn't think it was actually possible, but yeah.

It IS amazing!

Diane
Anishinaabe in MI & mom to Taz, Nigel, and new baby brother Sammy, members of Dogs Against Romney, Cat Division
"Dogs Aren’t Luggage--HISS!”

[lovuian]

35. You picked him Karl now you

have to live with him

[INdemo]

36. Rove talks like this now but when he talks out of the other side of his

mouth he will be the so called "fixer" for Rmoney just as he did for Bush with so many issues and one was his cocaine habit..

[billky]

37. Romney blew London

Let's not forget, ever forget, that these crazy Republicans elected crazy Bush twice. I won't rest until the election is over. I'm really scared we're going to have Mr. Crazy Robot as president. Sad.

[juajen]

57. He was not elected. He was forced down our throats once and then it happened again

thanks to two Johns.

[Marr]

40. LMFAO-- Mitt Romney now "saved" the 2002 Winter Olympics?

As in, 'it wouldn't have happened without him'? And he took a break from that altruistic, Job Creating outfit, Bain Capital, to do so?

Asinine. The only thing "genius" about Rove is that he can think at the level of the lowest common denominator.

[wordpix]

42. hey KKKarl, Rmoney's always "walking it back" & that's why he's Candidate Etch-a-Sketch

"Instead he got stuck making a, somehow or another that the comments the Brits took as insult, and walked it back pretty quickly and walked it back adroitly..."

Poor Rmoney "got stuck" as if he didn't put his own foot in his own insulting mouth.

[Kablooie]

43. I predict that Romney won't be the Republican candidate.

I can't see any reason that the Right Wing Honchos would publicly tear down their candidate unless they want to dump him and get someone else.

It'll be an interesting convention, I'll bet.

[Nay]

48. My 1st thought as well, Kablooie. I think there's a bait-and-switch going on. At the convention

'something' will happen, Romney will be dumped, and some other candidate (who'll be fresh and new) will emerge. He will be latched onto by all the dumb RWers, who really don't like Romney and will be full of enthusiasm if he is removed. That is the worst-case scenario for Obama, IMHO. The pubs can crow that their convention "worked" and the best man for the job was picked by popular vote at the convention. RWers will be newly infused with joy at getting rid of Romney, and will all get out and vote.

[Kablooie]

52. Wow. You're right.

We may have a Republican president after all.
God. What a disaster.
The Dems better stop laughing at Romney and start to prepare for a serious battle.

[JoeyT]

53. The only problem with that is

a bunch of the right wingers actually genuinely like him. Hell if I know how or why, but they voted for him in the primaries over the rest of the nuts.

Suddenly switching candidates will put off a huge "You vile peasants will goddamned well vote for who we tell you to vote for!" vibe, and seriously piss off all the people that supported Romney. I think it would cost them more to do that than to write off this election and hope for a win in 2016.

[lonestarnot]

44. And the as the elephant stepped on a rock and said ouee, piss ant to said elephant he just

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happened to be screwing, "suffer you pig." Red Rover you are both pigs.

[randome]

54. Whoa! That post made me dizzy!

I think I forgot my name.

[lonestarnot]

59. Snort!

[Monk06]

45. Romney talks just like all rich right wingers talk at their private lunches and parties

when the camera isn't on them. They are oblivious to their privilege and bigotry.

Romney is just being honest.

[yardwork]

47. "walked it back adroitly." I don't think so.

[unblock]

51. whoops! this is what's known in the political consultant world as a "late notice".

the rmoney camp should pay rove's latest invoice pronto....

[Gman]

56. I've been getting the impression for several weeks now

That they've already written off the WH and will focus on Congress, governorships and state houses.

[micraphone]

58. Back handed support is there though..

Did you notice "he stepped away from the leadership of Bain Capital for three years" (from 1999) when he was on the books till 2002 (at least).

Keep up the narrative Rover....