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Mitt Romney’s Gary Hart Moment
In 1987, with rumors circulating of affairs, Gary Hart challenged the media to follow him around. They did and soon found out that he was having an affair with Donna Rice. In an article published Sunday, Mitt Romney revealed that he had an anonymous Twitter account. The reporters looked for Romney relatives who had few followers and soon found out that the account was named “Pierre Delecto.” It’s now been made private, but people took screenshots. I assume that these have not been doctored.
Talk about an unforced error. If Mitt had not revealed the existence of the account, it’s very unlikely that its existence would ever have been discovered. It was established in 2011 and no one had commented about it. It only took reporters a few hours to figure out its name. He looks like a hypocrite, attacking Trump for acting unpresidential while using an anonymous account to defend himself.
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That, and the money I contributed to Pierre Delecto.
100% agree. It’s funny how many allegedly grown men do such childish things.
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We may not have uncovered Mitt Romney’s secret Ricochet account but I believe we’ve found David French’s nom de plume.
We may not have discovered Mitt Romney’s secret Ricochet account but I believe David French’s nom de plume has been revealed. David, we do not need you, you’re the subject of endless ridicule and scorn, just go away. (My favorite dig is calling your followers, such as they are, French Davidians).
I liked Pharisee French until I heard French Davidians and that moved to the top.
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That’s quite clever.
John Kerry reacts . . . in the most John Kerry-ish way possible:
John Kerry. Pheh.
Another insufferable “public servant.”
Yeah and promising “We will have a plan on day one” for years while fundraising and shilling for votes like the GOP congress did is a job an entire colony of chimps were good at. Too bad for them they ended up having to actual produce because Trump unexpectedly won.
Throw them out of the GOP and their next convention won’t need even a tent. It will fit in a Porto Potty.
My vote, my time and my money.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., wearing a clean suit, crawls through a hatch while touring space shuttle Discovery at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday July 26, 2004. The “bunny suits” are required dress for anyone coming in close proximity to Discovery, currently being prepared for flight on the next Space Shuttle mission.(AP Photo/photo released by NASA)
Don’t get @gldiii started.
Perfect. Two smarmy, insufferable, plastic politicos. Kerry is the kiss of death to Mittster.
I’d post an image, but add media is non-operative.
Reporting for duty!
Seriously, if you can’t be a furry like Beto, this is probably the next closest thing….
They did produce. Point is, they had to satisfy people that wanted opposing things. But as Trump says…..”nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated”. Passing laws is also so very complicated. And now Trump is embracing ACA, with tweaks.
Meanwhile, Trump can’t do squat on that Mexican wall he promised, fundraised off of and got elected on…….but Trumpers won’t ever care. He gets that “seriously, not literally” pass on all his political fantasy promises.
They had eight years to get together on this. The ACA is like one of those Chinese finger traps.
John Kasich threw zillions of people on to Medicaid without a care. It happened all over the place.
They must have been doing this for the PR value, or the contamination requirements were minimal. I don’t see him wearing a mask, and nothing ruins your cleanliness environment than the crap you exhale.
I feel bad for the techs that have to come behind him and do cleaning wipes and particle counts to make should he did not leave anything to foul up space.
I always felt that Romney should have been elected in 2008 since we were in a full-blown financial crisis in this country and badly needed a man with a career in finance and banking at the helm rather than a community organizer with a law degree. McCain was not a good choice at that particular time. Romney’s 2012 campaign was an embarrassment as we watched the press intimidate him, and he didn’t know how or wouldn’t fight back.
That’s okay. The Mexicans are paying for border security now.
No they didn’t. And when they finally got around to passing something (long after “day one”). “Maverick” John McCain Rino Extraordinaire killed repeal after running for reelection promising he would vote to repeal. As usual for him.
About a mile of border wall along the border with Mexico is constructed each day, according to the Pentagon.
The Army Corps of Engineers awarded about $2.5 billion in projects in April and May to build 129 miles of the border wall in New Mexico, Arizona and California.
He’s done more than the Rino’s in charge have done after a decade of promises.
Even without the bunny suit, having your candidate down on all fours is not a good look. Hopefully the PR person who put that together has found a new line of work. Or is working for Elizabeth “I’m gonna get me a beer” Warren.
My favorite parody of this poem is Allahpundit’s, back when he just went by Allah, called Jihadprints.
Goldberg has layers of incorrect assessments of Trump that propel him to be more and more uncharitable.
A minor example of this would be pointing to Trump’s use of a family crest that he plasters on everything. To Goldberg this is evidence of Trump’s narcissistic obsession with being seen as nobility. But it’s obvious to anyone who has read Trump’s book that he is just trying to strengthen and promote his brand.
Right. I get that he is doing some of this. What I’m talking about is his model of governance and economics.
So many of the Republicans that hate Trump either don’t get the dysfunction of big government or are they are effectively for it. It drives me crazy.
True, but I don’t think Mitt would have been any stronger in 2008 than he was in 2012.