How Do We Spend December?
katievs ·
Dec 6, 2011 at 5:16pm
It's a small point, I realize, but it bugs me. I just went to the Corner and read that Romney is declining to participate in the Trump debate. Well and good. Then he explained himself this way:
“I’m not participating in that,” Romney told Fox News host Neil Cavuto in an interview this afternoon. “We have two debates in December that I’ve agreed to participate in. The rest of the month is going to be spent campaigning.”
Couldn't he have said, "The rest of the month is going to be spent campaigning and celebrating Christmas with my family"?
I would have liked him a lot better.
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Aug '10
Re: How Do We Spend December?
I'm sure Mitt will be spending a few days celebrating Christmas with his family, katievs. He doesn't really need to bring it up in this context, does he?
Shoot, I'm just glad he turned down the Trump debacle. I would've been disappointed if he'd agreed to participate. Trump is a celebrity vulgarian and to the extent conservatives give him any credence it is to their shame.
Of course Newt would agree to participate in this debate - it's free advertising and he has little money and no organization. I hope no one else goes and he and Trump look like chumps.
Edited on Dec 6, 2011 at 3:04pmMay '10
Re: How Do We Spend December?
He doesn't need too, no. But it would have been good if he had. It would have been a highly efficient and discrete way of declaring:
1) Religion before politics
2) Family above personal ambition
It would have appealed very much to the evangelicals who have doubts, and to "normal Americans" who see him as too plastic and too desirous of the job.
Christmas is something almost all Americans celebrate. It would have been wholesome and unifying. A reminder that there is life beyond the campaign, and unity beneath the bitter divisions.
It was a lost opportunity.
Oct '10
Re: How Do We Spend December?
And I would've liked him even more better if he'd shown some moxie and said that he wasn't going to participate in a debate moderated by someone who may end up entering the race himself. I mean, that aspect of it should've been his primary, if not only, reason to withdraw. Not "because there's 2 others in December and I've got me some campaigning to do."
Feb '11
Re: How Do We Spend December?
I'm sorry, katievs, but the problem is not so much what he said, but rather who said it. This is the man who couldn't even tell us what book he was reading for pleasure because (this is entirely me) it hadn't been focus-grouped or vetted by his campaign staff. If he acts like a stiff and talks like a stiff and walks like a stiff... I said before and will say again, he will crumble like yesterday's sugar cookie when the attack team of our current president gets its hands on him.
May '10
Re: How Do We Spend December?
Well, I guess that's partly what I mean. What comes out of a man's mouth reveals a lot about who a man is and isn't.
May '10
Re: How Do We Spend December?
My opinion of him would have improved if he planned on removing his head from his behind this December.
Aug '10
Re: How Do We Spend December?
I agree. But I'm also holding a grudge against Florida--this year's Grinch who stole Christmas--on the candidate's behalf. They have extra pressures against family time now that needn't have been imposed.
Re: How Do We Spend December?
To be fair, of all the candidates, Romney is the one most likely to take some time off to celebrate Christmas with his family. As a Mormon friend of mine at Brigham Young University said to me when I was out there in November, "As a Mormon, Romney's the real deal." In so far as I admire Mormonism for its impact on character-formation -- and I do -- I admire Romney. I just wish . . . well, you know what I wish.
May '10
Re: How Do We Spend December?
You mean all the viable candidates? Because I'd be willing to bet Bachmann, Santorum, and Paul Ryan will all be giving some real attention to the Holy Days.
May '10
Re: How Do We Spend December?
I meant Ron Paul. Sorry. Freudian slip.