As the Washington Post reports, things didn’t get any better yesterday for Mitt Romney following his ill-fated trip to Craig, Colorado in an unsuccessful quest for something to complain about.
Next stop was Vegas, where Donald Trump was waiting to keep it even realer…
Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign collided with Donald Trump’s “birther” rhetoric on Tuesday as the reality television star hosted a fundraiser for the Republican while claiming again that President Barack Obama is foreign-born…
“A lot of people do not think it was an authentic certificate,” Trump told CNN of Obama’s birth certificate, just hours before he was set to host Romney’s finance event at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas.
Such allegations have been repeatedly proven false. The state of Hawaii recently re-affirmed that Obama was born there.
Trump’s comments, repeated in several media interviews Tuesday, overshadowed Romney’s visit to Nevada, one of a handful of swing states expected to decide the presidential contest in November…
Romney did not address the issue directly at separate events in Colorado and Nevada, but on Monday night he told reporters aboard his campaign plane that Trump is entitled to his opinion.
We haven’t heard reaction yet from Rep. Mike Coffman, whose increasingly groveling apologies for his own caught-on-tape “birther” rhetoric earlier this month have thrilled his Democratic adversaries and dismayed fellow Republicans–but we would hope Coffman’s on the phone with Mitt Romney today, reminding him how “every time we talk about this, we lose.” This includes the hosts of your fundraisers, as Rep. Cory Gardner can speak to from experience.
After the morning Romney had in Colorado, where the whole purpose of his campaign stop was embarrassingly debunked in real time, a worse evening would have been tough to pull off.
But once again Trump, and by extension Mitt Romney, has outdone himself.
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be responsible for everything every supporter says, Dems should start running all the video going back for well over a decade in which Rs loudly demand that one Dem candidate or another publicly denounce and renounce some stray person considered left leaning, not even a favored endorser or fundraiser, over some remark. I bet there are hours worth of video featuring self righteous righties making those demands available.
Trump is a great businessman. I don’t care what his personal opinions are, you can’t deny that Trump has done great things in his life.
But I would like to talk about yesterday’s stop in Craig. I was too busy yesterday to intervene in the Pols smear party, but a few liberal media sources carping doesn’t a flop event make. Romney reached thousands of people in Craig, and received a lot of positive press. Coal miners need confidence that the government is not going to close down their mines, and Obama hasn’t given them any. How much better would our economy be if we had a President who cared about growing the economy?
It’s not just about what Obama has done, it’s about what he’ll do with a free hand if reelected. The thousands of people who came out to see Mitt yesterday get it. Pols can’t change their minds with insults. Pols can’t tell them they’re doing great and shouldn’t complain when they know better.
turns into 1500 by Mittens, and now “thousands” by our own GOP boy wonder. You people have such a hard time with reality and facts.
I do give it to Mittens though – he sure got out there and shored up that non existent problem that nobody else even saw (well, because it wasn’t there). Thank God for that.
Mining regulations are like secret Muslim caliphates.
But do you have to lie about everything?
http://www.craigdailypress.com…
They would never make such a generous estimate to generate a good headline. No, no, heavens no.
Can you or anyone back up the “estimate” with anything meaningful at all ?
I love the phrase ” Some say more ! ”
“GOOBER SAYS IT WAS MORE LIKE 5000 !” Really. Thats what he saw.
Does the Secret Service miscount?
then refuse to pay them.
Your point?
Here’s the quote from the Craig Daily Press:
A) The article claims an estimated 2,000 people attended the event.
B) These people passed through metal detectors staffed by Secret Service agents at security checkpoints
Where does it say the secret service counted the number of attendees who passed through the detectors ?
Where ?
where Romney stands on regulations that affect the profits of mining companies.
I didn’t hear him talk about regulations that protect miners, like mine safety and black lung benefits.
Fill us in. Where does Mitt stand on protecting miners?
Another drive-by?
Where does Romney stand on regulations that protect the lives of miners?
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics…
Great businessmen and women wouldn’t lend this guy a dollar. Trump has as much credibility on economics as my Uncle Doug. However, my uncle is less of a blowhard.
Four bankrupt companies, but he still has money in his own pocket. Isn’t that how the rich measure a “great businessman”?!
it’s no more than sleight of hand. . . .
All those people in The Apprentice dying to work for him too.
You know that list of complaints he had about all the policies the President put in place directly stifling his business.
Oh wait…he couldn’t come up with any.
Or the ex-miner Mayor who seemed quite pleased with the state of the city, with the exception of the regulations imposed by the state, not the federal, government.
And what’s with the GOP trying to scare everyone with what the President “might” do in a 2nd term? Is his record so unassailable that you guys have to invent a far more radical version of a ridiculously moderate president in order to bridge the cognitive dissonance?
Remember when ArapaGOP posted an entire diary solely to declare that because one scummy guy was merely “in the crowd” (not running) the Occupy protests, he’s “The Face of Occupy Denver” (title of diary); to arap, his mere presence alone implied guilt by ass’n for the slew of other protestors — “serial fraud Rick Strandlof is the face of your movement.” (http://coloradopols.com.lb.soapblox.net/diary/16575/meet-the-face-of-occupy-denver). Obviously Romney sharing a stage, and peddling a dinner, with Trump is a much closer “association” than “protesters were in the same crowd as this dude.”
Arap, before you mouth off, do you expend even one firing neuron trying to figure out, “am I going to sound like a f’ing idiot because the thing I’m blasting [eg guilt by ass’n] is exactly someone I’ve just argued myself?”
A day after Mitt Romney aligned himself with the toxic Donald Trump in Las Vegas, the presidential hopeful is campaigning in California today – with a CEO who just announced plans to lay off 27,000 people.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/s…
Should every CEO be burned at the stake then? Are there any you would spare?
Unless you’re creating jobs in China.
But beyond that, we all know that small, young companies create jobs, not big ones, not old ones. So the Republican worship of CEOs is just another religious belief based on faith, not fact.
I would submit that, in the words of a young business owner I heard on NPR, the only thing that really creates jobs is “customers”.
Out of work workers aren’t very good customers.
HP’s management incompetence has only been exceeded by Yahoo’s. Management like that hurts our country and reduces jobs. So can we at least not celebrate them?
If you want to celebrate job creating companies, as ajb said, celebrate the small young companies. We’re the ones creating jobs. And Romney’s proposals would hurt us.