Romney bombs BIG in Detroit

**Detroitdave** · February-26-12, 11:21 AM

Originally Posted by SteveJ

I would take Romney 100x more than that loon Santorum. He called Obama a snob yesterday because Obama wants all Americans to have a chance to attend college. The Republicans may have the biggest amount of whack jobs ever. We have anti-education, anti-gays, anti-everything. Obama can come out and be anti-abortion tomorrow and they will change their stance to pro abortion. Its ridiculous.

LMAO Steve you made me laugh ! because it's totally true ! The current Republican delegates will say ANYTHING if they think it will get votes. they are running around in circles with the tea party and the far right , they don't even know what they believe . It's crazy ! what next ? Obama can come out as a far right wing, tea partier tomorrow and they will become tree hugging Democrats , hippies . wtf ?

**j to the jeremy** · February-26-12, 03:51 PM

Originally Posted by Detroitdave

LMAO Steve you made me laugh ! because it's totally true ! The current Republican delegates will say ANYTHING if they think it will get votes. they are running around in circles with the tea party and the far right , they don't even know what they believe . It's crazy ! what next ? Obama can come out as a far right wing, tea partier tomorrow and they will become tree hugging Democrats , hippies . wtf ?

Nah, they'd just go back to the 50s and make racism legal again

**FlyingJ** · February-26-12, 06:03 PM

Originally Posted by j to the jeremy

Nah, they'd just go back to the 50s and make racism legal again

Ignorant, much?

**j to the jeremy** · February-26-12, 06:26 PM

Originally Posted by FlyingJ

Ignorant, much?

just sarcasm

**Detroit Stylin** · February-26-12, 07:24 PM

Originally Posted by mwilbert

George W. Bush was an empty suit. Romney is not. But Bush was a better politician.

And that is really not saying alot about Romney becuase Bush was pretty much just a figurehead with the world's most expensive toys....

**Cincinnati_Kid** · February-27-12, 10:18 AM

Romney is a shyster, and flip-flopper. What is America thinking backing this guy for President?
And Santorum..... we won't even go there. The elephant party will have their work cut out for them picking someone viable from this group, wait, there is no one viable.

**Cincinnati_Kid** · February-27-12, 10:21 AM

Originally Posted by j to the jeremy

Nah, they'd just go back to the 50s and make racism legal again

As quiet as it's kept, It's still legal on many perspectives.

**Mikeg** · February-27-12, 12:47 PM

"Romney bombs BIG in Detroit"

Only to his left-of-center partisan detractors, of which there are no shortage in Detroit or in the national media.

Even the lefty NY Times admits in that linked article that, ".....the stadium had been selected because 1,200 tickets had been sold, and the original site could hold only 700 people. And the campaign had not selected Ford Field — that decision, aides said, was left to the Detroit Economic Club."

So the facts of the matter are that:
a) this was not a campaign rally or a fund raiser, it was a speech to the members of the Detroit Economic Club, which had extended the invitation for Romney to speak.
b) so many members of the Detroit Economic Club wanted to hear Romney speak that the Club had to find an alternate location.

By the loose standards being applied by Romney's detractors regarding the venue and attendance for his Detroit speech, the then-candidate for the 2008 Democratic Presidential nomination, Barack Obama, must have BOMBED REALLY BIG TIME when he accepted a similar invitation to speak before the Detroit Economic Club, since they didn't need to find an alternate location for his speech. The optics from that speech don't look so good, either:
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I'm no supporter of Romney, but at least he had the guts to accept the invitation, particularly knowing that there were very few primary votes to be gained locally by coming here to give that speech.

**Danny** · February-27-12, 02:30 PM

When Romney sez... "Detroit should go bankrupt!" That's it. I'm not voting for this nut for the executive office. A prime duty for a politicians is not to be virtual inappropiate to any American independent culture. Give Americans what they want and they will support you for power.

**bopcity** · February-27-12, 02:50 PM

Originally Posted by Mikeg

Only to his left-of-center partisan detractors, of which there are no shortage in Detroit or in the national media... I'm no supporter of Romney, but at least he had the guts to accept the invitation, particularly knowing that there were very few primary votes to be gained locally by coming here to give that speech.

Does it really take guts to make a campaign appearance before a largely sympathetic gathering of business people, most of whom I would presume vote Republican and live in the surrounding suburbs??

Slightly off-topic but ever see anyone look as uncomfortable as Willard does when he's hobbling along in a pair of blue jeans? Too much starch or what?

DETROIT — Mitt Romney set out on Friday to deliver a sweeping and sober vision for how to revive the American economy in a major policy speech here. In the end, he delivered something else as well: an unintended lesson about how poor visuals and errant words can derail a candidate’s message in this modern political news culture...

Mr. Romney’s aides were quick to dismiss the clinical dissection of the candidate’s words and the location of his speech on Friday ... But their pushback did little to change the dynamics of the day. By the end of Friday, reporters had posted pictures of President Obama’s stadium speeches given at a similar point in his primary campaign four years ago.

One, at a stadium in Hartford, was almost filled to capacity — about 16,000 seats. Mr. Obama rallied with 14,000 in Boise, Idaho, 18,000 in Minneapolis and more than 20,000 in St. Louis in February 2008.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/25/us...eats.html?_r=1

But at a moment when Romney wanted to project bigness and command, the optics of Ford Field did not help. Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, Romney’s state campaign chairman, told reporters that Romney “lit up the house at Ford Field.”...

“The pictures of an empty Ford Field are not helping Romney,” tweeted conservative radio host Laura Ingraham. “Poor staging and tepid response from hometown crowd.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politi...mYR_story.html

**Whitehouse** · February-27-12, 05:57 PM

I vote Brewster.

**poobert** · February-27-12, 06:36 PM

Originally Posted by bopcity

Does it really take guts to make a campaign appearance before a largely sympathetic gathering of business people, most of whom I would presume vote Republican and live in the surrounding suburbs??

Slightly off-topic but ever see anyone look as uncomfortable as Willard does when he's hobbling along in a pair of blue jeans? Too much starch or what?

Seriously. He gets props for a speech in front of the Detroit Economic Club?? This wasn't the Nation of Islam. What's next? A fist pound for speaking at the Grosse Pointe Yacht Club? I get the feeling that people just feel bad about what a goddamn awful and unlikable cyborg he is, or compare him to his goose-stepping, snake-handling Republican rival, which, I guess, he does look good compared to, but not when you compare him to an actual homo sapien.

**Jimaz** · February-27-12, 06:49 PM

Originally Posted by poobert

Seriously. He gets props for a speech in front of the Detroit Economic Club??...

I bet he didn't wear jeans there. LOL!

**Mikeg** · February-27-12, 08:49 PM

Originally Posted by bopcity

Does it really take guts to make a campaign appearance before a largely sympathetic gathering of business people.....

Originally Posted by poobert

Seriously. He gets props for a speech in front of the Detroit Economic Club??........

No, no, no, no!!! You're supposed to be perpetuating the partisan propaganda that he bombed BIG in Detroit because he can't attract a crowd and therefore got humiliated when he spoke to a bunch of empty seats!!!

**firstandten** · February-27-12, 10:08 PM

Originally Posted by Mikeg

No, no, no, no!!! You're supposed to be perpetuating the partisan propaganda that he bombed BIG in Detroit because he can't attract a crowd and therefore got humiliated when he spoke to a bunch of empty seats!!!

The reason he bombed is because his handlers should have been smart enough to know the media would jump on a speech made in a empty stadium and not allowed there candidate to speak in such a venue.

Anybody would have the same result speaking in a venue such as Ford Field. A serious candidate such as Romney with a strong organization should have never let himself speak in such a way.

**ridgeabilly** · February-28-12, 07:51 AM

Romney missed the boat at the Ford Field "rally". The should have handed out free beer like they did up on Mackinaw for their youthful followers, and had Kid Rock open for them. They could have chartered buses from the trailer parks.

**bopcity** · February-29-12, 11:22 PM

Originally Posted by firstandten

The reason he bombed is because his handlers should have been smart enough to know the media would jump on a speech made in a empty stadium and not allowed there candidate to speak in such a venue.

>> Mitt Romney needs to be left alone to limp across the finish line, so he can devote his full time and attention to losing to President Obama... Asked in Michigan why he couldn’t excite the base, Romney said he is not willing to make “incendiary comments” or “light my hair on fire.”...

The apogee of apathy for Romney was on Friday, when the man who says he’s an expert manager spoke to a mostly empty football stadium in Detroit. Stephen Colbert defended Romney, saying he connected with the sea of empty chairs because they, too, were “plastic and uncomfortable.”

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/29/op...gedy.html?_r=1

**bopcity** · March-01-12, 08:51 AM

>> E.J. Dionne: Romney needs Santorum to keep doing his exotic fan dance on social issues because the stage act diverts everyone [[especially journalists) from examining the reactionary and regressive ideas that Romney is cooking up on substantive questions. If Romneyism is what now passes for “moderation” in the Republican Party, no wonder the authentically moderate Olympia Snowe decided to end her distinguished career in the Senate. There is no room anymore for proposals remotely worthy of the moderate label.

Romney’s plan is simultaneously extreme and very, very boring. It draws on the one and only idea that today’s conservatives offer for solving any and every problem that comes along: just throw yet more money at rich people.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...y.html?hpid=z3