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September 12, 2012 05:53 PM UTC
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implies decision making in the absence of weighing the consequences. Mittens is simply clueless and vacillates from the emptiness of his being.
I was told that “loose cannon” comes from an actual phenomenon. Back when warships were wooden sailing vessels, it was possible for them to come loose when on the high seas, rolling around the deck completely out of control, smashing everything to bits as the boat pitched on the waves. It was possible for the ship to be destroyed and sunk by a loose cannon.
That imagery doesn’t go with even the flawed thinking process you describe. It goes with a person who is profoundly reckless. Consequences aren’t just absent; they’re inconceivable to the loose cannon. Exactly the way Mitt Romney strikes me.
And probably a little bit pedantic on my part. 🙂
Lurker19, whatever words we choose, we seem to be fully on the same page regarding Mitt Romney.
for uninformed attacks on the administration in the wake of the tragedy in Libya, ascribing criticism of the inflammatory anti-Muslim YouTube to the aftermath as if offered as an excuse for the violence when, in fact, those statements were made prior to the violence. All in all, the man would be a bigger foreign affairs disaster in the WH than GW, hard as that is to imagine. Romney’s ignorance even more profound.
This crass and, again, fact free response to the shocking death of a US ambassador is beneath contempt.
I’ll update the diary to reflect that.
I should have included a link.
Romney is his own Saturday Night Live skit.
of Japanese World War II holdouts in Guam in the 1970’s, thinking the war is still going on. The dude is just lost.
All the same people hooting and hollering about “socialism” and “wealth redistribution.” Like those are even credible concerns.
It’s the way these people think. They’re paranoid.
His foreign policy advisors read like a GW Bush fan club.
http://www.realclearpolitics.c…
but those Japanese soldiers were found in a number of jungles within the Phillipine archipelago. I think the last one was found in the ’60s
When Obama ran for President, McCain’s foreign relations experience eclipsed the junior senator’s.
However, President Bush’s foreign policies had turned Russia, Europe, Asia and South America’s opinions against the U.S. Obama represented a fresh start with his rhetoric of tolerance and diplomacy.
So, even with McCain’s exponentially greater amount of insight and intelligence on foreign matters, voters and the world wanted Obama because McCain echoed much of what Bush had done over the last eight years and Obama wisely stuck with broad promises (end the war…listen to neighbors…develop trade not bombs…).
The Republican party, and their mouthpieces Romney and Paul, don’t believe that after years of wars and nation building, the American people want to focus on building our nation instead.
If Obama is weak on the economy, he levels the playing field with his foreign relations experience (and comes out ahead as long as Romney keeps parroting outdated Republican policy arguments).
If he said anything, it should have been for the sadness at the loss of life and would support the Untied States as it analyzes a response.
if antipathy to Obama is so deep-rooted with the GOP that statements like that would even be considered?
More likely, it’s just that the campaigns are going into overdrive and things have not gone well for Romney since the GOP convention (thanks, Clint Eastwood!). There’s probably a point where the competition simply overrides any expression of loyalty like that.
But the GOP has been a disloyal opposition IMO, since the midterms at least. They’re well out of the habit of saying anything supporting the government because they can’t stand anything reflecting well on Obama. I can’t help but think that their reflexive response was rooted in that as much as their growing anxiety about how the campaign is going.
has so saturated the mindset of the simple-minded right, they see him as the government and somehow believe that he is personally responsible for anything the govenment does they don’t like.
They are like rabid animals who have lost the ability to see and react to the real world around them, reduced to wandering aimlessly, snarling and snapping at anything and everything that reaches through their limited senses. They are completely ruled by their disease.
THAT kind of measured, respectful response would have resonated very well with independent voters who are wondering – especially after the London Olympics kerfuffle (love that word) – how good a statesman Mitt Romney really is.
But Romney pandered to the right, yet again. And this time it is going to cost him dearly. Most Americans don’t like people blatantly politicizing things like this.
Romney’s remarks, paraphrased: “In America, we’ll say whatever the fuck we want to say. Deal with it.” Which I agree with, but it’s by far not the best response when responding to angry protesters. It’s a lot like telling an angry person, “I’m not touching you. I’m not touching you.” It’s true, but does absolutely nothing to diffuse the situation.
He’s so busy condemning the protests, did he even stop to think that the killings may have had nothing to do with the protests? Pro-al Qaeda group seen behind deadly Benghazi attack – CNN
it’s one of those helpful things that Republicans do least best . . . and, Willard is again showing himself to be the least least-best the Republicans have ever offered.
Romney shoots first and aims later. I would have said “shoots from the lip”.