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<p>I find this absolutely appalling.</p>
<p>What I find appalling is a flop-flipping candidate who won’t even take pride in his home state and the people who elected him.</p>
<p>Wonder if he feels the same way about Americans generally speaking.</p>
<p>So that level of rudeness is ok with you? Ok.</p>
<p>It’s not rudeness. It’s “oppo” punching. Odds are this was a plant from another campaign.</p>
<p>Running for president is (and should be) a tough thing to do. That’s the way we test the candidates.</p>
<p>BTW, I think Multiple Choice Romney has gotten a free pass so far. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a candidate so willing to repeatedly change any and all positions. He truly is the Stepford candidate.</p>
<p>“It’s not rudeness. It’s “oppo” punching. Odds are this was a plant from another campaign.”</p>
<p>I don’t know about that. There are some very harsh opinions about Mormons, so I don’t think a plant would be necessary. By the way, I’m neither a Mormon nor a Romney supporter.</p>
<p>That’s just par for the course. </p>
<p>Don’t you think if George W. Bush or Bill Clinton… or any prospective presidential candidate went up to the wrong person with their hand outstretched, they would run an equal risk of being rebuffed for a variety of equally stupid reasons? I dare say there are conservatives who would give Jimmy Carter a piece of their mind right now if given the chance. And those who think Hillary is the devil wouldn’t make nice either.</p>
<p>Politics requires a thick skin and no expectations of fair treatment.</p>
<p>“So that level of rudeness is ok with you? Ok.”</p>
<p>Nothing close, not even in the same universe, as Romney’s “rudeness” toward the people – the Americans – who elected him. One is a guy at a breakfast nook; the other claims he should be President of the United States.</p>
<p>Reminds me a bit of Leberman’s run for president when he was at a resteraunt stumping for votes. Hey man, some people just want to eat at resturant. Maybe the guy was having a low blood sugar momment. ;)</p>
<p>I used to love Phil Harman’s “jogging Clinton” parody. The one where BC jogs into a Micky D’s. “hey are those a super sized fries?”</p>
<p>What’s going to be fun is watching the “oppo” plants try to provoke responses from Guiliani and McCain. Both are well-known for their tempers. So far, Guiliani is hiding what a despicable, mean-spirited man he is. McCain just can’t help himself.</p>
<p>One of the fun things about presidential races is trying to read between the lines and figure out who is doing what. For example, some political veterans suspect that Clinton’s campaign leaked the advance copies of the two new Cllinton biographies to the Washington Post last week – to get the stories out the day before a holiday weekend and pre-empt the coverage when the books actually hit the newsstands. I suspect that the Clinton campaign also leaked the “maybe we should skip” Iowa memo. And, of course, we have the Bush administration leaking right and left on the Friday before Memorial Day about more bogus planning for a troop drawdown in Iraq.</p>
<p>A random heckler doesn’t bother 1/10th as much as a President who lied about a war and hired crooked officials.</p>
<p>If you can’t deal with rudeness in a campaign, you shouldn’t be there</p>
<p>If you want to deal with rudeness, how about all the people that were taken off voter rolls for no reason, oh wait, most of them happened to be black</p>
<p>I don’t like the remark, but I find some other things even more appalling, but have been ignored in the press</p>
<p>This wouldn’t surprise at all, sounds much like a Rove tactic to me</p>
<p>“Don’t you think if George W. Bush or Bill Clinton… or any prospective presidential candidate went up to the wrong person with their hand outstretched, they would run an equal risk of being rebuffed for a variety of equally stupid reasons”
I absolutely loathe Bill Clinton, but when introduced to him a few years ago (three?), I shook his hand and said hello. Not everyone is lacking in common courtesy.</p>
<p>“If you want to deal with rudeness, how about all the people that were taken off voter rolls for no reason, oh wait, most of them happened to be black”</p>
<p>Can’t see the difference there, can you, CGM?</p>
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<p>No, but most campaign “oppos” are. My guess is that they are probably working in two man teams these days. One to try to provoke a response, the other shooting video for YouTube. I’m sure they are dying to get video of the guy in the “Flipper the Dolphin” costume walking up to Romney at one of his campaign stops.</p>
<p>Failing that, they’ll just do push polling in SC asking voters whether they approve or disapprove of Romney fathering an illegitimate black baby.</p>
<p>zoosermom - as I said…‘the wrong person’. Clearly you are not that person…;)</p>
<p>“Not everyone is lacking in common courtesy.”</p>
<p>Tis true. Too bad the Presidential candidate who happens to be a Mormon does, and toward the very people who elected him.</p>
<p>(But, to give credit where credit is due, he didn’t leave two sick wives for new honeys (and carry on affairs in the middle), and he didn’t have hot sex at taxpayer expense while his young daughter was in the house, or allow his police chief - a former bodyguard and personal limo driver - to use 9/11 funds to set up a “honey house”.)</p>
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<p>You forgot my favorite Guiliani moment: informing his second wife that he was filing for divorce in a live press conference on the steps of city hall. Now, that’s a ■■■■■■■.</p>
<p>Hey, at least he didn’t do it from the Gracie Mansion bedroom, with his daughter at his side (oh, wait! the judge ruled he couldn’t have unsupervised visits with his daughter - don’t know if that qualifies…)</p>
<p>But you were the one personally dissed by Romney…</p>
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<p>And believe you me, it’s a gift that keeps on giving. There isn’t a day that goes by when my lovely wife and daughter don’t remind me that I voted for Romney. I bought that social moderate, pro-choice, gay rights charade hook, line, and sinker.</p>
<p>And, don’t believe the nonsense about balancing the state budget, either. Massacussetts is set up with a system where the towns rely on state funding distributions. Romney “balanced the budget” by gutting the distributions to the towns. There’s was a state proposition enacted in 1980 that prohibits towns from raising property tax valuations more than 2.5 % a year (even if the property values are increasing much faster, which they have been) without an override referendum (virtually impossible). So, when the state funding ended, the towns were paralyzed.</p>
<p>Our local high school, like many in the state, has had to, in turn, gut the educational programs – languages, arts, etc. Several of my daughter’s best high school teachers are gone. The same thing has happened across the state, including Williamstown…even though property values have been skyrocketing.</p>
<p>If anyone has any doubts. Mitt Romney is a total fraud. The old question and answer joke certainly applies: How can you tell when Mitt Romney is lying? When his lips are moving…</p>
<p>“zoosermom - as I said…‘the wrong person’. Clearly you are not that person…”</p>
<p>Wow. That was really nice. Thank you. (Although I do confess to finding him icky.)</p>