Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney's much-heralded economic speech flopped Friday, overshadowed by a gaffe over luxury Cadillacs and his choice of an over-ambitious venue, the Detroit Lions' football field.
Romney opened himself up to derision for choosing a 70,000-seat stadium which attracted just over 1,000 people, many of them school children bussed in to help fill out the crowd, tucked into a corner of the astro-turf pitch.
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The small crowd underlined again his inability to draw large numbers of supporters and to excite the conservative base.
Jesus, I saw more people than that stopped alongside of the road to watch a moose strip the bark off of a tree over near the high school. Though to be fair, a moose eating bark is MUCH more entertaining than anything Mitt Romney has to say.
And THIS my friends, is the man the Republicans are very, very slowly choosing to go up against our President.
Here is some video taken by C-SPAN of the "event."
It is only seventeen seconds long so you MIGHT be able to stay awake until the end. But nobody is going to blame you if you doze off. Did you make it? Yeah me neither!
Gee I wonder how Romney's ability to draw a crowd stacks up to Obama's ability to draw a crowd?
Nelson Rockefeller had a very savvy advance man, who usually booked Rocky into rooms just large enough, or maybe a little smaller, to hold the crowd. Thus, it looked as if he was always speaking to capacity crowds, with more people straining to get in.
ReplyDeletebtw -- speaking of SP's possible learning disabilities, Governor Nelson Rockefeller was dyslexic. Yet he learned to memorize his speeches, and concentrated on numbering his points, so he could remember each separate item as he ticked them off.
Note to Sarah and Rick Perry: it can be done with commitment, application, and a lot of hard work.
And, oh yeah, Rockefeller was elected to four terms as Governor of NEW YORK STATE (population 16 million, Sarah), and resigned only to become Vice President under Gerald Ford.
ReplyDeleteThey were the old kind of Republicans -- smart, dedicated, innovative, principled. Oh yeah, elitist, too ---
Rockefeller went to Dartmouth, and, if you want to dismiss him as just a rich boy, look at Gerald Ford, a poor boy adopted at birth, got himself through Yale Law School.
Let me repeat: they were smart.
Let's not get complacent. One of the "Game Change" writers says here (2.25.2012) that if Romney can't prevail to become the GOP pick, the GOP might look to “Sarah Palin . . . . She’s an outsider, she has no Washington or Wall Street baggage, she’s electric—-and she’s waiting, because if Romney doesn’t win, she will be welcomed in.”
ReplyDeleteScary to hear this from that source. G-Man: can't you bring us whatever "Fred" was going to say? I assume he had some newer info or conclusions beyond what the earlier books had?
I've been saying for a couple of years that the GOP plan was to shove insane, immoral, incompetent, idiots into their primary and then to roll out Jeb Bush for president. Who is Jeb? He fixed the vote to enable W to destroy America ranther than have Al gore elected. He also was one of the architects and founders of the Project For the New American Century.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1665.htm
Everyone should watch the movie, Dark Century which exposes some of the shady activities of the Bush Crime Family:
http://thedarklegacy.com/
There will be far less time to vet any candidate from a brokered GOP convention. and the airwaves will be saturated with propaganda.
Here is another possible candidate: Clarence Thomas
http://tinyurl.com/8yka9wz
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Sadly, Santorum can get the megachurch people to fill a stadium. And they will come, on buses. That means the rest of us CAN NOT BE complacent.Support Pres OBama.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I watched Inside Job last night and am pretty pissed off right now by his lack of Wall Street reform and his appointees.
Same old Same old. There was no CHANGE there.
Priceless!
ReplyDeleteNY Times columnist Gail Collins article with a great Willard punchline. Read it you won't be disappointed.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/25/opinion/collins-republican-truth-or-dare.html
Talk about thrusting satire!
ReplyDeleteAmong the Republican candidates, Gingrich currently enjoys a sizable lead in Georgia, his home state, whereas Birmingham, Alabama alt weekly The Weld is reporting, “Santorum comes from behind in Alabama three-way.”
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This is from na article that says Ann Romney will sit in for Willard in future debates.
Newt was here in Tri-Cities last week and at first they said the crowd was 600 then 500 then 400, every report had a different number, more than likely it was 200 if that! I didn't see any pics of the crowd.
ReplyDeleteHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....HEHEHEHEHEHE!
ReplyDeleteThe Detroit Economic Club meets for luncheon speeches. Many years ago when Lloyd Bentsen was running for vice-president, I heard him speak at the DEC. The meeting was in a very large room in the local convention center. This would have been a much more appropriate venue for Mittens. Ford Field in Detroit in February! Not only would no Detroiters show up but you would never know what the weather would bring. Someone did some bad planning there!
ReplyDeleteThis evening, Oscar night, Mittens is showing up in downtown Traverse City where the local movie theatre, the one that Michael Moore saved from oblivion several years ago, puts on an annual Oscar night extravaganza. I think the local Republicans planned their location to mess up with the parking for all of those (including us) who will be attending the Oscar event. I'm wearing my Obama button - don't want anyone to be confused about why I'm downtown on a chilly (and potentially - if the weatherman is right - windy ) evening.
And, to confuse things more today, Rick Santorum is showing up at a large local bar this afternoon! Santorum in a bar - it's probably designed to show people in northern Michigan that he's just another ordinary guy.
"Though to be fair, a moose eating bark is MUCH more entertaining than anything Mitt Romney has to say."
ReplyDeleteAw Gryphen, this is why I love you! LOL.
R in NC
In all fairness to Romney, this campaign speech planners were never expecting a stadium full of supporters, and only set up seats for about the same number of people that came. It's should be obvious to anybody who see this picture and how they set up the chairs they were expecting the number of people who showed up.
ReplyDeleteAlso, it's unfair to compare this picture to the one that showed a full stadium for a Obama campaign speech. The speech was a campaign speech after he was nominated by the Democrats, and close to the election.
Gryph thanks for the Obama pic from 2008. The scene is under the Gateway Arch and its surrounding park in St. Louis MO. Crowd estimates were over 100,000. That was an epic day :-)
ReplyDeleteChris Christie was on Face the Nation, this morning.
ReplyDeleteI interpreted his performance as the Grand Old Party doing what's necessary to shut down Santorum.
Christie insinuated that Santorum does NOT speak for the rest of the Republican Party regarding contraception for women.
Damage Control.
Christie, on the other hand, was 1000% behind Mittens and could not stress it enough.
8:44 AM
ReplyDeleteStop being ignorant. The people sitting were supposed to be privileged who get to sit close to their leader.
HAHAHAHA
They even put up a flag on the bleachers to take up seating space. Surely he thought he had thousands of admirers.
HAHAHAHAHA
8:44 am. They still had to bus in loads of school children (I hope none of them were my grandchildren) to fill the few seats that had been set up. Pretty pathetic turnout for the state's supposed "native son."
ReplyDeleteOh yeah it's unfair that you compared the crowd of romney who has been running for president all his life to the crowd of Sen. Obama who just started to make waves as a leader.
ReplyDeleteAll I can say is....OUCH...and....BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
ReplyDeleteAnd 8:44AM...yeah...sure...whatever you say!
What the GOP candidates can't compete with is babies like President Obama.
ReplyDeleteOnce Boe gets in campaign mode then it's a wrap. Romney treated his dog like a dog.
The Bushes and Karl Rove claim to be very close to the Romneys. Is it possible that they have infiltrated (and, er, 'helped out' with) Romney's campaign to date, only with the thought of a brokered Jeb-convention down the road – and with Romney even acceding to the idea (knowing by then that he is just unelectable on his own)??
ReplyDeleteOT, but has anyone else seen this email cirulating? I can't stress how much i agree with it!
ReplyDeleteWinds of Change....
Warren Buffet is asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise.
In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed
around.
_*Congressional Reform Act of 2011*_
1. No Tenure / No Pension.
A Congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no
pay when they're out of office.
2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social
Security.
All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the
Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into
the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the
American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.
3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all
Americans do.
4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise.
Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
5. Congress loses their current health care system and
participates in the same health care system as the American people.
6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the
American people.
7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen/women are void
effective 1/1/12. The American people did not make this
contract with Congressmen/women.
Congressmen/women made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in
Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers
envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their
term(s), then go home and back to work.
If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will
only take three days for most people (in the U.S. ) to receive
the message. Don't you think it's time?
THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!
I believe fixing Congress would go a loooong way towards fixing America.
Advice to Anon 10:52 AM: don't get liquored up before posting a comment that makes no sense at all...
ReplyDelete"What the GOP candidates can't compete with is babies like President Obama.
Once Boe gets in campaign mode then it's a wrap. Romney treated his dog like a dog."
Yeah, 8:44 everything's unfair!
ReplyDeleteOn what planet is it half sane to rent a jet hangar to park a Yugo?
Take away the Osmond Family, bussed in kids, and blow up dolls, and you have Romney's appeal. Empty folding chairs on a football field.
"I love the trees here, they're all about the right size, I love the lakes, not only the great lakes, but the many small lakes dotting the landscape. I like cars, I drive a ford mustang and my wife drives two Caddilacs. I like pastries, you know, especially the ones covered with that powdery stuff, yeah I believe it's confectioners sugar...."
He he he.... what a buffoon!
I was in the crowd watching the moose strip bark. It was awesome! Romney? Meh, not so much.
ReplyDeleteThis has been going on too long, it’s a good start but our law enforcement has a long way to go.
ReplyDeleteWhen someone hides behind religion to do or say something that is wrong we should stand up and point it out (right the wrong).
When I was a kid I lived in Utah, and the Boy Scouts was taken over by Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS Church). This, so called religion, practices underage polygamy, they send the boy s off on missions to divide the underage sisters among the dirty old men of the clan. Now when these underage girls get pregnant, these same dirty old men, send them to the state to get their welfare checks. You should see some of the palace homes that are paid with welfare checks. By the way this is the newest religion that was created right here in United States of America.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iisl-xH3Xs