BunkoSquad: cman: Put yourself in his shoes for a second. Some crazy ambushes you and starts spouting off idiocy. How would you have handled it?

Like this

fosborb: Want to see this come up in the debates.

"So, did you get a chance to look into whether or not I've committed treason, Mitt? How'd that go for you?"

Although I love this idea with all my heart, there's no way the Mitt campaign will agree to any debate where the President gets to question him directly. It would be embarrassing, especially if Mitt reflexively agrees with everything the President says.

And when Romney back peddled he only said Obama shouldn't be "tried" for treason. Not that Obama hasn't committed it.

What an ass.

HMS_Blinkin: Philip Francis Queeg: HMS_Blinkin: Romney couldn't have done much better in the situation, but he/his campaign could have prepared better for an eventuality like this.

Bullshiat.

All Romney had to farking say was "I don't think that making claims like that are helpful. Let's keep this campaign respectful to our opponent and focus on the issues."

The asshole was either too cowardly to say that, or is happy benefit from that type of rhetoric.

My point was that running over to yank the mic out of her hands wouldn't have been a great way to handle that either. Prepare for the crazy, and get ready to either physically take the mic out of someone's hand, or have the sound guy ready to kill it at a moment's notice.

Or he could of just said "no I don't think he should be tried for treason". That seems pretty easy.

Cinaed: cman: Put yourself in his shoes for a second. Some crazy ambushes you and starts spouting off idiocy. How would you have handled it?

I think this was one of those Romney moments where he had no idea what the fark to do.

The way Obama handled Joe the Plumber?

You mean by answering "Joe's" the original question instead of being led off on a tangent by a flat-tax change of subject? Or by providing Faux New footage that they could air with the sound cut so they could talk about him as if he were saying the things they want you to think he said?

Difficult to avoid the latter.

cman: RexTalionis: cman: Not the best answers he could have given

That's sort of like saying that the Kent State shootings was a bit of a blooper.

Put yourself in his shoes for a second. Some crazy ambushes you and starts spouting off idiocy. How would you have handled it?

I think this was one of those Romney moments where he had no idea what the fark to do.

Just like when in one of the debates when he was asked what what was the biggest misconception about him and he answered with something completely unrelated and then was just rude to the moderator.

If you can hit him with a strong enough question outside his programming you can force a compiling error which will cause him to recite the Pledge of Allegiance while he reboots in safemode. If you interrupt him during that he will chew your face off.

Two things are a given for any GOP nominee now. He needs to pander to the absolute craziest nutjobs in the Tea Party to get the nomination. Then he needs to desperately drag himself back toward the center for the second half of the campaign. It's inevitable that he will get the exact kinds of questions you'd expect from the base he had to pander to. It's the one certainty for which he should be totally prepared. There's no excuse not to be. Either he's running a terrible, flat-footed campaign, or he simply has no moral center and "contentedly saying nothing in the face of evil crazy" is his authentic response. Or both.

Why would anybody expect anything but mealy-mouthed pandering from this out of touch plutocrat?

mrshowrules: If you can hit him with a strong enough question outside his programming you can force a compiling error which will cause him to recite the Pledge of Allegiance while he reboots in safemode. If you interrupt him during that he will chew your face off.



"How could you do a thing like that ... when I was just going to give you coffee."

I know it's been said, but there really is no there, there, is there?

I mean, Romney'll say anything, any time, to anyone if he thinks it'll slightly improve his chances of winning. There's no core, there's no central being, there's nothing of substance you can grab ahold of and say, "THIS is Romney". There's just smoke and sound. Amazing.