26 Comments

• Mairin67 | Sep 25, 2012, 04:54 PM EDT

  It may be the GOP standard but Romney plays into it very well (as he plays into everything very well, hence all the flip flopping). The GOP has got to get in touch with the times.

• KatieMurphy | Sep 24, 2012, 04:38 PM EDT

  this sounds like the scene where a priest tried to blame the kids for the molestation. Sorry Mr Romney - if you were decent about it you could well force the issue?.............Or has the tea party gone so extreme they'd rather lose the election rather be shown up for the extremists they are.

• sam maurice | Sep 24, 2012, 12:38 PM EDT

  Mormonism believes woman are inferior to men intectually,spiritually and positionally. They forbid woman to come to the Temple with their husbands because they are not part of the Priesthood..so they are shuffled to the back of the Temple.

• NYCsheridan | Sep 24, 2012, 11:16 AM EDT

  Seanomelb, LOL!

• NYCsheridan | Sep 24, 2012, 11:15 AM EDT

  Saddled with positions? He embraced every one of them, pandered to the idiots with teabags on their hats, just to win the primaries. Never mind that he flip-flopped and lied about it every single time. This is going to be one rude wake-up call for the self-proclaimed "Patriots" and the rest of us (The Silent Majority) are loving every minute of it. Obama 2012. Hillary 2016.

• seanomelb | Sep 23, 2012, 07:27 PM EDT

  Romney's figures are so bad that if he were still leading Bain Capital he would shut himself down and sack his staff.LOL

• The Commentator | Sep 23, 2012, 12:24 PM EDT

  If Mitt Romney is not a Republican, why is he running for the Republican Party? If he walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, he's probably a duck. Saying it's not Romney's fault is moot. He has said many things that appeal to his elitist, arrogant, egotistical, very rich white and wannabe white cronies. His total disregard and disdain for others less fortunate than his buddies who change laws to benefit themselves is shameful. Taking advantage of the poor, paying minimum wages to them and then blaming the poor and disadvantaged for the economic woes of the country is despicable. The goal of Romney, Ryan and the Republican Party is to ensure the tax laws benefit them by taxing their income at lower rates and allowing them to move money to other countries and escape income tax. Their other goal is to ensure the working poor and disadvantaged remain in that position so they do not have to pay reasonable wages. In cases where they cannot escape the wages, they move industries to other countries that have even lower wages. Hopefully the 98% will someday get a conscience and reject the Republican Party, instead of hoping they will become one of the 2%. The Republican moral compass is way off course with their seemingly religious followings, but when it comes right down to it, it's the money cost of the procedures the unfortunate people need that is at the crux of the argument. VOTE FOR OBAMA

• BigDaddy | Sep 23, 2012, 10:13 AM EDT

  Niall, I did not invent spousal abuse but if I spoke in favor of it to get people to vote for me that would be a character flaw, don't you agree? I realize that someone in a position to benefit from Romney being president might try a weak argument like this and given that the candidate is weak, who can blame you? Thumbs up to sean for seeing the issue is not Obama. It is the weakness of the GOP as a political party. Unfortunately, the rich in America own the media, the SCOTUS and the rest of government and if they decide we get stuck with a man who makes Bush look charismatic, then that is what will happen. Democracy be damned.

• Cherball | Sep 23, 2012, 10:04 AM EDT

  We could reelect Oblamyou, if we as Americans want to give up are freedoms so freely. That my ancestors work so hard to get, I know God is on his return trip to call US home. So lets not bow to the Muslim brotherhood anymore, RYAN/ROMNEY 2012

• 1661996usmc | Sep 23, 2012, 08:16 AM EDT

  Mitt was the best of a bad crowd of candidates for the Republican nomination. Is he the best they can offer? The Republican party is controlled by "Right Wing Tea Baggers".

• seanomelb | Sep 22, 2012, 07:25 PM EDT

  Romney's accepted these positions making him just as culpable as the teabaggers.This is what happens when you "shake hands with the devil" you have to live with the consequences.

• SCVMalcolm | Sep 22, 2012, 06:30 PM EDT

  Gimme a freakin' break, Piper Mac. ROMNEY'S 2011 RETURN IS written so that it can be amended and of his charitable deductions they were given to his Moron (OOPS, did I drop an "m"?) and to his Foundation which gives ALL of its $$$ to his Church (which funded the conspiracy to pass Prop. H8 in CA in 2008. The current Administration is simply trying to clean up the horrific mess that Bush left when he was evicted from the White House. BTW, the Mormon Church has ABSOLUTELY NO BASIS IN CHRISTIANITY, whatsoever, despite their use of JESUS CHRIST in their Church name as a sales and marketing ploy. I am voting for our current (and Christian) President! BTW, what about the so-called Christian terrorists who bimb abortion clinics, kill doctors, damned near killed Congressperson Gilford, etc.? Spreading hate is NOT a "family value"!

• Cyn | Sep 22, 2012, 06:29 PM EDT

  PiperMac52 could not be more wrong, and apparently has not done his homework with actual data before shooting off his mouth. Romney is a puppet just like George Bush II. And he is going to lose because of underestimating the ability of poor people, women and non white people to read and learn for themselves without being told to believe lies.

• PiperMac52 | Sep 22, 2012, 05:37 PM EDT

  The so-called war against women, Immigrants, Minorities, Gays...is a figment of the imagination of Democrats who love to create controversy to cover for their failed policies which left unchecked will bankrupt this nation. Romney released his 201q1 taxes showing that he paid over a million in taxes as well as giving about 30% of his income to charity. Of course now the Dems are spinning that as Harry Reid now claims Romney fudged the returns! Give me a break! Romney is a good charitable and caring man who many verify has gone out of his way to help others. The real war against those mentioned groups is committed by Islamists who practice Sharia law, which by the way they wish to bring to all Western nations. The media however goes out of the way to defend the barbarisms committed on a daily basis by Islam. Go figure....

• WoundedKnee | Sep 22, 2012, 03:06 PM EDT

  There is no evidence that I am aware of that Hispanic citizens of the US favor unlimited immigration. On a related issue, there IS strong evidence that Hispanic citizens of the US do NOT favor so-called bilingual education. They want their children to learn English fast.

• Nicomax | Sep 22, 2012, 01:26 PM EDT

  Romney bought into the grand strategy of the GOP campaign which was essentially to mark BHO as 'other', discredit similar 'others' such as Hispanics, Muslims, African-Americans, etc., and then institute voter suppression efforts to discourage 'others' from voting. Mitt joking about his father who ran for POTUS in 1968 was born in Mexico from parents who were US citizens was totally off message with this strategy, and in effect ended any further birther talk about BHO since, as birthers claim, his mother, an American citizen, gave birth to BHO while visiting in Kenya. Ole Mitt is not thinking this whole thing through very carefully.

• weeknocky | Sep 22, 2012, 01:25 PM EDT

  The president had the opportunity in his first two years in office to pass his "Dream Act" when the Democrat Party controlled the House and the Senate. Why didn't he bring it then? C'mon folks, it's all political crap he learned in Chicago from his friends who are all acolytes of Saul Alinsky.

• allentown | Sep 22, 2012, 11:21 AM EDT

  Nial claims: "Massive immigrant campaigns turn off latino voters". When you read this you realize why Romney has to convince voters that most of the media outlets have an agenda. Nial's agenda is to have 50,000 Irish illegal aliens keep their jobs. He refers to that as "The GOP's Massive Anti-Immigrant Campaign". If Romney wins, the illegal aliens are going home.

• eiriamach | Sep 22, 2012, 10:48 AM EDT

  Niall says, "don’t blame Romney" for losing the Hispanic vote? Romney grossly insulted Hispanics with his quip that "it would be helpful to be Latino," as though Hispanic voters vote for the name only, not the policies. Linda Chavez and a few other Hispanics will vote for him despite his insults, his opposition to the Dream Act, his promise to rescind Obama's executive order protecting the adult children of undocumented workers, and his ridiculous plan to encourage "self-deportation." But the GOP has lost most Hispanic voters, with the help of Mitt!

• Eschetic | Sep 22, 2012, 10:45 AM EDT

  Sorry, Arthur, but your premises are hopelessly flawed on almost every point, starting with Romney's "not inheriting" his wealth (are you too young or ignorant of Republican electoral history to remember his father, George!?) and continuing through the lack of understanding that limiting abortion access to "life threatening issues, rape and incest" IS an attack on women's rights (and the Romney Platform goes far beyond that in any case). The Romney who I wholeheartedly supported as Governor of Massachusetts is not the Romney who's running now - and anyone who learned anything from the Bush SR. administration knows that when a politician sells out to the Right Wing they stay bought. Yes, the economy *could* be better - if right wing Republicans in Congress hadn't done everything in their power to block substantive efforts from the Administration to aid it rather than responsibly COMPROMISE and GOVERN - but it's WORLDS better than the last time we allowed "your" people to hold the tiller of the ship of state. The polls will undoubtedly tighten a bit again before election day (Mitt can't stay this honest ALL the time!), but in the words of Lincoln, "you CAN'T fool all of the people all of the time." Most voters are starting to wake up to the Right Wing's blarney and hate & code word campaigns.

• Arthur Cola | Sep 22, 2012, 10:24 AM EDT

  It seems to me that it was the people of VA who elected their State Legislators and therefore they knew full well what those candidates positions were. The left has done an outstanding job in labeling Romney as being too rich and waging a war on women. Both are bull for we've had really rich guys as President before, i.e. Kennedy, Roosevelt, to name two. At least Romeny didn't inherit his wealth, he made it on his own. And as Gov. of MA he certainly did nothing to harm Roe vs Wade decision. This issue is why should we taxpayers pay for abortions. Our birth rate in the US is down. WHY? Has the lack of education as to what an abortion does ever been promoted so that this law of which you write wouldn't be necessary? It is clear that Romney upholds a woman's right to have an abortion in cases of life threatening issues, rape and incest cases. So where's the war on women? The left cannot talk about the economy and jobs because the situation is terrible. So they're using social issues as their banner flag becuase it raises emotions and that's how many people vote. Come November one can only hope that the people will see the forest through this smoke shield of media bias and choose two men to lead our nation, one who is a genius in economics and budget areas, Rep. Paul Ryan and one who proved he can lead and create business, Gov.Mitt Romney.

• handsome68 | Sep 22, 2012, 10:23 AM EDT

  I'll say one thing about youse liberal omadhauns. You seem to be masters and mistresses of selective thinking. If your education did not include that, I'll quote it for you: "Selective thinking is the process by which one focuses on favourable evidence in order to justify a belief, ignoring unfavourable evidence." Romney is flawed, but Obama is more flawed.

• Eschetic | Sep 22, 2012, 10:22 AM EDT

  Talk about the "credibility of a gnat", mike!! I can only question O'Dowd's reasoning this time in that Romney IS responsible, like McCain before him, for turning every aspect of his campaign - starting with a surface pretty but substantively laughable vice presidential nominee - over to the extreme Right Wing which he had catered to to win the nomination from a bunch of other gnat-brained right wing stooges. We gave him the nomination because he's hurt the "under ticket" the least, but it was no bargain. This election *might* have been won, despite a president who pulled the nation back from the brink of a depression caused by the "conservative" agenda and restored international respect to the country with firm leadership rather than the "shoot from the hip" cowboy diplomacy those like "mikehoulihan" seem to favor. (If that's "failure," we need a lot more of it! The country could have accomplished SO much more had it not been for our party's ADMITTED obstructionism over the last four years.) After the deserved debacle we're facing in November, the Right Wing will once again be screaming (as they already are) that they lost because of a candidate who wouldn't dance their dance - even though he hopped to every note they asked for. It's time for REAL Republicans to toss out the Tea Party Twits once and for all and take back the party of Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower and Gerry Ford!

• Frosty38 | Sep 22, 2012, 10:18 AM EDT

  Let me tell you what the newspaper in :THE Home of his mom" is writing about the lower half of the team. Paul Ryan got mixed reactions at ARRP he drew boos and shouts in New Orleans. Bet that made BOBBY G happy

• mikehoulihan | Sep 22, 2012, 09:59 AM EDT

  Niall, you have the credibility of a gnat. Sorry but your agenda is showing. Obama is a failure and will be defeated soundly. Polls are bullshit just like most of the stuff printed in Irish Central.

• tom/peggy | Sep 22, 2012, 09:34 AM EDT

  What nothing about President Obama's interview by UniVision? Now that had substance! By the way Peggy Noonan endorsed Obama in 2008.