Dusk-You-n-Me: LOL defense by Camp Romney: anonymous advisor is "not authorized" to speak about "Anglo-Saxon" foreign policy. cbsn.ws/LNVICj- Pam Spaulding (@pamspaulding) July 25, 2012

so they're going with "yeah he's a racist retard but we keep him chained in the attic so it's okay" defense?

Diogenes:

Is it Bapp?

Isn't that a Palin?



You're thinking of little Targg Palin. Bapp is all Romney.

MaudlinMutantMollusk: Aarontology: One of the advisers, when asked how a Romney White House would address the European debt crisis, said: "I'm not sure what our policy response is."

Romney 2012: We don't know what we support.

Mitt supports everything. And nothing

/all at the same time

schrodinger's candidate?

someonelse: Special relationship is special.

oblivious candidate is ovlivious

NuttierThanEver: I thought Obama's mother was of English and Irish descent?

And like Superman, his momma grew up in Kansas for fark's sake. Can you BE any more middle-American than that?

LordJiro: DarnoKonrad: Arkanaut: I thought "Godwin" has to specifically refer to Hitler, Nazis / Nazism, or the Holocaust. Did I miss a memo?

I think soundly like a white nationalist qualifies as well.

Last I checked, it was just Nazis.

white nationalists are nazis

Romney doesn't need to articulate an economic plan, or any plan. His running, and how his campaign has been run, isn't about him being good, nor so much the President being bad. In fact the guy can't do anything but radiate clown shoes from all he does. It doesn't matter. Underneath it all is the subtle message that with Mitt in the WH the GOP will stop holding the political process hostage and things will become workable again. Or the opposite, re-elect the President and the process will continue to be roadblocked at every place possible.

This is why Mitt is doing so well, allegedly, in poll and numbers, because it truly isn't about what Mitt is about, just that he exists and fills this role.

dr_blasto: InfamousBLT: Aarontology: MaudlinMutantMollusk: Mitt supports everything. And nothing

/all at the same time

They're running an anyone but incumbent campaign in it's purest form. At least when Kerry tried it, he had policy to propose.

Romney and company honestly seem to believe that because he says something that it should be good enough for the masses, and that he shouldn't have to actually offer an alternative or policy.

It's the out of touch entitlement of being a CEO.

This. I keep asking everyone what Romney stands for, and nobody has any decent answer other than "He isn't Obama." I can't believe the idiocy of that kind of a statement. Castro isn't Obama either, so I guess that means we should all write him in, right? Or Putin? What about Ghaddafi. We can write in Ahmadinnerjacket too, he isn't Obama so he MUST be better. Right guys? Right??

/right?

I keep asking people why they're voting for Romney and why they think he'd make a good president. I never get an answer, though.

Its like the 'Both sides are bad' people who can make an essay of the things they hate about democrats (regardlesd if true or not) but the most they say about republicans is they suck too maybe.

Tigger: beta_plus: You mean the unique anglo-saxon appreciation of limited government, the right to bear arms, and the rule of law? Yep, he sure does.

/Obama didn't make his presidency
//somebody else did that for him
///our form of government comes directly from anglo-saxon philosophers
///get over it

What the merry fark are you talking about?

Are you honestly suggesting that the rule of law is uniquely anglo-saxon? Had nothing to do with the Greeks, Hammurabi or anyone but a bunch of maruading German tribes who scraped together enough brain cells to cross the Channel and intermarry with the blue-stained local nutcases?

History starts for these people at the American Civil War. Everything else is pretty hazy.

Tigger: beta_plus: You mean the unique anglo-saxon appreciation of limited government, the right to bear arms, and the rule of law? Yep, he sure does.

/Obama didn't make his presidency
//somebody else did that for him
///our form of government comes directly from anglo-saxon philosophers
///get over it

What the merry fark are you talking about?

Are you honestly suggesting that the rule of law is uniquely anglo-saxon? Had nothing to do with the Greeks, Hammurabi or anyone but a bunch of maruading German tribes who scraped together enough brain cells to cross the Channel and intermarry with the blue-stained local nutcases?

Which is why our legal system is filled to the brim with Latin terms that still hold to true to this day. Because of King Arthur!

HotWingConspiracy: Tigger: beta_plus: You mean the unique anglo-saxon appreciation of limited government, the right to bear arms, and the rule of law? Yep, he sure does.

/Obama didn't make his presidency
//somebody else did that for him
///our form of government comes directly from anglo-saxon philosophers
///get over it

What the merry fark are you talking about?

Are you honestly suggesting that the rule of law is uniquely anglo-saxon? Had nothing to do with the Greeks, Hammurabi or anyone but a bunch of maruading German tribes who scraped together enough brain cells to cross the Channel and intermarry with the blue-stained local nutcases?

History starts for these people at the American Civil War War of Northern Aggression. Everything else is pretty hazy.

FTFY

Mrs.Sharpier: Shrugging Atlas: Is this article a joke? I'm serious.

Are you asking if Romeny's advisers were joking? I don't know.

As in is this the Brits having a laugh and making up the whole exchange.

As someone who's followed and mocked Romney's campaign since the beginning even I'm having a hard time believing someone could be so stupid as to say the things in that article.

If I didn't loathe Romney and almost every personal and political stance he claims to have on any given day I'd try to contact his campaign and say, "Look, fire that guy and give me his salary. I'm not sure what that person's area of expertise is; however, I'm certain I can take a shot at it and I can guarantee I'll never say something this stupid even in my sleep."

And he'll still come within 4% of winning the popular vote.

/it's like they're trying to lose

Still waiting on his long form birth certificate! Freaking Mexican Mormon trying to usurp the Presidency so he can outsource our jobs and force everyone to give up beer, porn, and Christianity!

rudemix: Romney doesn't need to articulate an economic plan, or any plan. His running, and how his campaign has been run, isn't about him being good, nor so much the President being bad. In fact the guy can't do anything but radiate clown shoes from all he does. It doesn't matter. Underneath it all is the subtle message that with Mitt in the WH the GOP will stop holding the political process hostage and things will become workable again. Or the opposite, re-elect the President and the process will continue to be roadblocked at every place possible.

This is why Mitt is doing so well, allegedly, in poll and numbers, because it truly isn't about what Mitt is about, just that he exists and fills this role.

Your point is likely legitimate. Sen. Turtle flat-out said stalling the Obama presidency was their top priority years ago - not governing, not trying to nudge the economy into an expanding, sustainable state, not even lining the pockets of their campaign donors.

I wonder if someone in the GOP will openly admit this undercurrent of political hostage-taking, and whether it will have any effect on the presidential, House, or Senate races.

"You know, gosh, I've always liked London. The fog is just the right height. Under a Romney administration, one of my first acts of business will be to retroactively not fight the Revolutionary War and become part of England. Have I mentioned that I can pander? Because I can."

Your form of government and law comes from strong Anglo-Saxon ties?


You didn't build that.

Lando Lincoln: Yeah, basically. And tell them that they'll put the bust of Winston Churchill back in the Oval Office. I'm sure the English were really concerned about that and look forward to that problem being rectified.

Wonder if anyone has told Romney's people that the bust belonged to England, it was on a loan, and they said they wanted it back when they gave it to us.

rufus-t-firefly: They still had the FEMA camps and the Communism - "Klinton" and all that.

True, but no where to the extent that you see now.

sigdiamond2000: "We are part of an Anglo-Saxon heritage, and [Romney] feels that the special relationship is special. The White House didn't fully appreciate the shared history we have."

I'll be interested to hear how people who think this is racist are the real racists.

Great Scot! He Pict the wrong week to say this. He may have Celt his chances of winning.

Once again, Romney does not need to cement his relationship with his (paranoid, reactionary, racist) base any further. He needs to reach out to the undecided and independent. These people are, by definition, not paranoid, reactionary or racist--otherwise they'd already be part of his base. Rubbing everyone's nose in his lily whiteness is not going to endear him to the undecided. They may be unhappy with Obama's performance but they will need to hear some substantive policy from Romney to make the switch; and that is precisely what he's unwilling or unable to provide.

Diogenes: "...[they] were unable to provide the Telegraph with "detailed examples of how policy towards Britain would differ under Romney," other than restoring the bust of Winston Churchill to the Oval Office."

Mitt Romney's foreign policy and diplomacy skills are limited to interior decorating.

The crazy thing is that the bust was loaned by Tony Blair to George W. Bush with a statement saying the loan would last until the end of Bush's term. They are making hay out of Obama actually returning it per the terms of the loan rather than make one of his first acts an office be a petition to extend the loan to include his term, too. No way that refusal to return an item owned by a foreign country would get spun as an international misstep on the President's part.

PlatinumDragon: rudemix: Romney doesn't need to articulate an economic plan, or any plan. His running, and how his campaign has been run, isn't about him being good, nor so much the President being bad. In fact the guy can't do anything but radiate clown shoes from all he does. It doesn't matter. Underneath it all is the subtle message that with Mitt in the WH the GOP will stop holding the political process hostage and things will become workable again. Or the opposite, re-elect the President and the process will continue to be roadblocked at every place possible.

This is why Mitt is doing so well, allegedly, in poll and numbers, because it truly isn't about what Mitt is about, just that he exists and fills this role.

Your point is likely legitimate. Sen. Turtle flat-out said stalling the Obama presidency was their top priority years ago - not governing, not trying to nudge the economy into an expanding, sustainable state, not even lining the pockets of their campaign donors.

I wonder if someone in the GOP will openly admit this undercurrent of political hostage-taking, and whether it will have any effect on the presidential, House, or Senate races.

I can't imagine anyone could be so foolish as to admit it as I wrote it, but if any party was foolish, or stupidly bold enough, it would be these guys. I keep hearing about the middle, the undecided, where the true decision will be made on election day, and I wonder if this race more than ever will emphasize that? The Left sees the political hostage taking, the Right overlooks it, but can the undecideds see the process and be offended by it as they should be? So hard to say.

This topic came up on my regular travel forum this morning, where quite a few Brits hang out. One of the usual Tory apologists (a Scotsman) had this addled response:

"Depends who the quote was meant for. It's from a British paper, doesn't seem to have been made to any US reporters and it's perfectly possible the quote was meant for English speakers, rather than American speakers.

"Anglo Saxon" in English (and most other European languages) refers to a political culture, rather than a race one. Ireland, and the Celtic UK provinces, are part of that culture: Germany, Scandinavia and Holland aren't. None of us Celts wastes energy affecting outrage when our culture of the rule of law, free speech, unbridled media and open markets is described as Anglo-Saxon (though I personally get a wee bit miffed when a protectionist tax-dodger like Romney claims to share our values)...

By all means erect whatever neurotic conspiracy theories you want about your toxic political system. But don't drag us into it.


They're adorable when they're acting daffy and above-it-all at the same time.

Racist dog whistle not doing the trick? Time to bring out the racist bagpipes, apparently.

What does a Mexican-American Mormon know about WASPs anyways?

Oh right, he's white.

Jackson Herring: Diogenes: Andelyne

my favorite alt-country album

You misspelled Secret South.

rudemix: Your form of government and law comes from strong Anglo-Saxon ties?
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You didn't build that.

Our system of jurisprudence comes from Gollum?

ArkPanda: rudemix: Your form of government and law comes from strong Anglo-Saxon ties?
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You didn't build that.

Our system of jurisprudence comes from Gollum?

It's all about reclaiming the Precious from tricksy hobbitses.

Hot like a Habanero.

"we anglo-saxons alos agree on polygamy. Did Hernry III not have eight wives! On my first day in office I will inform Ann that she has seven sister wives."

When will Rmoney spokesdroids trot out Gingrich's "anti-colonialist" dog whistle?

Romney also promised help with the chav problem.

Philip Francis Queeg: beta_plus: You mean the unique anglo-saxon appreciation of limited government, the right to bear arms, and the rule of law? Yep, he sure does.


Ohh look, a moron.

The UK has some of the toughest gun control laws in the world. If you want to own a gun, it is very difficult to do so.

Oh look, someone who can't stop worshiping the Obamessiah.

"The Bill of Rights restated the ancient rights of the people to have arms by reinstating the right of Protestants to have arms after they had been illegally disarmed by James II. The bill follows closely the Declaration of Rights made in Parliament in February 1689.[32]
"Whereas the late King James the Second, by the Assistance of divers evil Counsellors, Judges, and Ministers, employed by Him, did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant Religion, and the Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom..(b)y assuming and exercising a Power of dispensing with and suspending of Laws, and the Execution of Laws, without Consent of Parliament....(b)y causing several good Subjects, being Protestants, to be disarmed, at the same Time when Papists were both armed and employed contrary to Law...(a)ll which are utterly and directly contrary to the known Laws and Statutes and Freedom of this Realm..... the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons, pursuant to their respective Letters and Elections, being now assembled in a full and free Representative of this Nation, taking into their most serious Consideration the best Means for attaining the Ends aforesaid, do in the First Place (as their Ancestors in like Case have usually done), for the vindicating and asserting their ancient Rights and Liberties, Declare,....That the Subjects which are Protestants may have Arms for their Defence, suitable to their Condition, and as allowed by Law.
The rights of English subjects, and, after 1707, British subjects, to possess arms was recognised under English Common Law. Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, were highly influential and were used as a reference and text book for English Common Law. In his Commentaries, Blackstone described the right to arms.[33]
The fifth and last auxiliary right of the subject, that I shall at present mention, is that of having arms for their defence, suitable to their condition and degree, and such as are allowed by law. Which is also declared by the same statute I W. & M. st.2. c.2. and is indeed a public allowance, under due restrictions, of the natural right of resistance and self-preservation, when the sanctions of society and laws are found insufficient to restrain the violence of oppression."

/keep playing the race card

Slives: One of the advisers, when asked how a Romney White House would address the European debt crisis, said: "I'm not sure what our policy response is."

I dislike the sound of that question because it would imply that the US is expected to take some action to help Europe with their debt. While I understand our economies are highly dependent on each other and we don't need them to collapse, any expectation that we will be able to take some action to specifically help them out is dangerous. All it will take is a few leaders over there to say something along on the lines of, "Well, we have done all we can. Let's go ask our friend the US for help and if they turn us down we can blame our problems on them."

Massive economic crises do not happen in a vacuum. If Europe suffered a catastrophic economic meltdown, it would negatively affect the world economy and the United States very quickly. This is the kind of thing you'd want to be prepared for, instead of flailing about for solutions at crunch time - that sort of approach brought us TARP and the bank bailouts.

Aarontology: I just don't think that it's the majority. Hyper partisanship would be a better explanation for most, in my opinion.

I have to disagree... The "Southern Strategy" has played too large a role in Republican support and it shows. Republicanism might not be officially racist, but it sure is #1 with racists.