Comments on: :: DOES NO ONE LOVE MITT? Romney’s Persistent “Parsemony” Provokes Media Dawgs http://www.bloggernews.net/113203 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:10:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Hosers2 http://www.bloggernews.net/113203#comment-198799 Hosers2 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:45:04 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/113203#comment-198799 to Larry Paul. 1. Fee increases: Fees hadn't been increased to reflect the laws that passed them in the first place. 2. Tax loopholes are just that: Loopholes that the clever and tax evaders use to pay less taxes than the rest of taxachuchettes citizens. Why wouldn't anybody want to close tax loopholes? 3. The rest of your blog sounds like congratulations are in order for Mitt, doing his job, doing what a Republican should do. BTW: Is shrillery, Obama, McCain, Thompson, Huckelberry, showing up to do their jobs while campaigning. At least Mitt didn't run for a second term because he intended to run and didn't want to leave the great Socialists Republic of Massachusetts without a governor. to Larry Paul.
1. Fee increases: Fees hadn’t been increased to reflect the laws that passed them in the first place.
2. Tax loopholes are just that: Loopholes that the clever and tax evaders use to pay less taxes than the rest of taxachuchettes citizens. Why wouldn’t anybody want to close tax loopholes?
3. The rest of your blog sounds like congratulations are in order for Mitt, doing his job, doing what a Republican should do.

BTW: Is shrillery, Obama, McCain, Thompson, Huckelberry, showing up to do their jobs while campaigning. At least Mitt didn’t run for a second term because he intended to run and didn’t want to leave the great Socialists Republic of Massachusetts without a governor.

]]> By: Jared Price http://www.bloggernews.net/113203#comment-198627 Jared Price Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:51:23 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/113203#comment-198627 To compare what Mitt Romney has done with Bill Clinton lying under oath and questioning the meaning of the word "is" is enough to discredit your entire article. To compare what Mitt Romney has done with Bill Clinton lying under oath and questioning the meaning of the word “is” is enough to discredit your entire article.

]]> By: Hoser2 http://www.bloggernews.net/113203#comment-198469 Hoser2 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:02:28 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/113203#comment-198469 "Romney’s clever pars-e-mony, which I wrote about at length way, way back in the Fall of 2005, continues to be his ruin. Might this suggest that the people around him are giving him terrible advice? Or, that Romney is refusing to listen? Or, both?" No RB Scott, he just isn't listening to you. Get over it! “Romney’s clever pars-e-mony, which I wrote about at length way, way back in the Fall of 2005, continues to be his ruin. Might this suggest that the people around him are giving him terrible advice? Or, that Romney is refusing to listen? Or, both?”

No RB Scott, he just isn’t listening to you. Get over it!

]]> By: Larry Paul http://www.bloggernews.net/113203#comment-198428 Larry Paul Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:15:13 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/113203#comment-198428 I wonder if Mitt Romney will abandon the United States for 212 days As he did to Massachusetts when he decides to run for Emperor of the World. I think it is that vapid smile! By the editorial board of The Boston Herald Article Last Updated: 01/05/2008 03:20:58 PM MST Seduced and abandoned - that's how Massachusetts voters feel about former Gov. Mitt Romney. This former titan of the private sector, the man who saved the 2002 Winter Olympics, came into office promising tax cuts and a no-nonsense approach to governing. What we got were $259 million in fee increases and another $350 million or so in tax "loophole closings." Sure, there were glimmers of what might have been. There was the swift and dynamic way he arranged for shelter for more than 100 refugees of Hurricane Katrina and the reform of the state's transportation system in the wake of the Big Dig ceiling collapse. But the moment Romney got bitten by the presidential bug, he turned on the voters who thought they had elected a moderate Republican. He vetoed a bill designed to encourage and regulate stem-cell research in this biotech-driven economy. (The Legislature overrode his veto.) On his way out the door, he discovered illegal immigrants among us and empowered State Police to arrest and detain them - a policy never actually implemented. The signature accomplishment of the Romney administration - a system that mandates health-insurance coverage for every citizen of the commonwealth - was indeed a bold idea, but one that passed in large part because of the efforts of private-sector players. Romney's bumbling effort to recruit Republicans to run for the Legislature managed to lose seats. His decision to anoint his lieutenant governor as his successor succeeded in losing the governorship for the GOP, too. During his last year as governor, Romney spent 212 days out of state, essentially abandoning the day job. During this primary season, Massachusetts voters are expected to return the favor. I wonder if Mitt Romney will abandon the United States for 212 days
As he did to Massachusetts when he decides to run for Emperor of the World.

I think it is that vapid smile!

By the editorial board of The Boston Herald
Article Last Updated: 01/05/2008 03:20:58 PM MST

Seduced and abandoned - that’s how Massachusetts voters feel about former Gov. Mitt Romney.
This former titan of the private sector, the man who saved the 2002 Winter Olympics, came into office promising tax cuts and a no-nonsense approach to governing. What we got were $259 million in fee increases and another $350 million or so in tax “loophole closings.”
Sure, there were glimmers of what might have been. There was the swift and dynamic way he arranged for shelter for more than 100 refugees of Hurricane Katrina and the reform of the state’s transportation system in the wake of the Big Dig ceiling collapse.
But the moment Romney got bitten by the presidential bug, he turned on the voters who thought they had elected a moderate Republican. He vetoed a bill designed to encourage and regulate stem-cell research in this biotech-driven economy. (The Legislature overrode his veto.) On his way out the door, he discovered illegal immigrants among us and empowered State Police to arrest and detain them - a policy never actually implemented.
The signature accomplishment of the Romney administration - a system that mandates health-insurance coverage for every citizen of the commonwealth - was indeed a bold idea, but one that passed in large part because of the efforts of private-sector players.
Romney’s bumbling effort to recruit Republicans to run for the Legislature managed to lose seats. His decision to anoint his lieutenant governor as his successor succeeded in losing the governorship for the GOP, too.
During his last year as governor, Romney spent 212 days out of state, essentially abandoning the day job. During this primary season, Massachusetts voters are expected to return the favor.

]]> By: Hoser2 http://www.bloggernews.net/113203#comment-198091 Hoser2 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:15:36 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/113203#comment-198091 TK, CoachNY, gfors,Twapee, and Rich: I couldn't have said it better myself. Oh wait, I already did. TK, CoachNY, gfors,Twapee, and Rich: I couldn’t have said it better myself. Oh wait, I already did.

]]> By: RB Scott http://www.bloggernews.net/113203#comment-196990 RB Scott Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:24:42 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/113203#comment-196990 Twapwee: Reporters are supposed ask tough, nettlesome questions. GLen Johnson was doing just that. Perhaps he should have saved the question until the formal Q&A period (if there was one), or not. His report of encounter -- and his subquent reporting on Mitt Romney -- has been remarkably even-handed. Check it out. Johnson is from the AP's Boston bureau, so he has been traveling with the Romney folk for about a year now and, of course, worked with them when Romney was governor too. People have love-hate views of the media: the love reporters and tough questions when they agree with them. RBS Twapwee: Reporters are supposed ask tough, nettlesome questions. GLen Johnson was doing just that. Perhaps he should have saved the question until the formal Q&A period (if there was one), or not. His report of encounter — and his subquent reporting on Mitt Romney — has been remarkably even-handed. Check it out. Johnson is from the AP’s Boston bureau, so he has been traveling with the Romney folk for about a year now and, of course, worked with them when Romney was governor too. People have love-hate views of the media: the love reporters and tough questions when they agree with them.

RBS

]]> By: Rich http://www.bloggernews.net/113203#comment-196582 Rich Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:55:22 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/113203#comment-196582 I hate the media and I don't trust anything they report. They are nothing but snobs. I hate the media and I don’t trust anything they report. They are nothing but snobs.

]]> By: Twapwee http://www.bloggernews.net/113203#comment-196497 Twapwee Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:34:30 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/113203#comment-196497 Dear AP & other Media Folks One word of advice to the media - DON'T ABUSE YOUR POWER. ONCE YOU DO 7 ONCE YOU LOSE YOUR OBJECTIVITY - YOUR WRITING DON'T MEAN A THING. If media folks are biased and writing reports and analyses based on their prefrences and biases - what value is there in their reporting. If media folks - go out of line - who is there to get them in line. In Glen Johnson's case - it was obvious the guy was trying to "be troublesome." If it were Guiliani or Thompson - Glen would have been "booted out" quickly. The media should look at itself and the role it plays - currently the public don't have a very good image of the media. Glen Johnson serves to remind us of the reason why. Dear AP & other Media Folks

One word of advice to the media - DON’T ABUSE YOUR POWER. ONCE YOU DO 7 ONCE YOU LOSE YOUR OBJECTIVITY - YOUR WRITING DON’T MEAN A THING.

If media folks are biased and writing reports and analyses based on their prefrences and biases - what value is there in their reporting.

If media folks - go out of line - who is there to get them in line. In Glen Johnson’s case - it was obvious the guy was trying to “be troublesome.” If it were Guiliani or Thompson - Glen would have been “booted out” quickly.

The media should look at itself and the role it plays - currently the public don’t have a very good image of the media. Glen Johnson serves to remind us of the reason why.

]]> By: RB Scott http://www.bloggernews.net/113203#comment-196485 RB Scott Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:27:18 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/113203#comment-196485 TK: When a respectable publication announces that "The Whole Associated Press Hates Romney" you can assume that something's wrong with the Romney press relations team. Mitt handled the questions from the AP reporter reasonably well; his chief flack did not, IMO. GFORS: There are lots of idiots out there then. Romney does some goofy things (like strapping the dog and cage to the roof of the family's stationwagon), and his life may have been little TOO charmed until now. However, there's no question that he's got the intellectual depth and breadth of experience to be commander in chief. The frustrating thing is that he seems determined to undermine himself. RBS TK: When a respectable publication announces that “The Whole Associated Press Hates Romney” you can assume that something’s wrong with the Romney press relations team. Mitt handled the questions from the AP reporter reasonably well; his chief flack did not, IMO.

GFORS: There are lots of idiots out there then. Romney does some goofy things (like strapping the dog and cage to the roof of the family’s stationwagon), and his life may have been little TOO charmed until now. However, there’s no question that he’s got the intellectual depth and breadth of experience to be commander in chief. The frustrating thing is that he seems determined to undermine himself.

RBS

]]> By: gfors http://www.bloggernews.net/113203#comment-196446 gfors Sat, 19 Jan 2008 02:44:46 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/113203#comment-196446 tk - although what you say about the media is trueish, in the case of Mitt it doesn't take precedence. I mean the guy strapped his dog to the roof of his car and drove to Canada. You either hate him or you're kind of an idiot. tk - although what you say about the media is trueish, in the case of Mitt it doesn’t take precedence. I mean the guy strapped his dog to the roof of his car and drove to Canada. You either hate him or you’re kind of an idiot.

]]> By: CoachNY http://www.bloggernews.net/113203#comment-196434 CoachNY Sat, 19 Jan 2008 02:32:21 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/113203#comment-196434 Ever wonder why people can see the EXACT SAME CLIP and come to completely opposite conclusions? Some find Romney to be coolheaded and adept at clarifying his intended meaning and the role lobbyists have in his campaign while others see him as angry and evasive? Well, I saw an interesting article today that may be related. It answers why Mitt is stuck with the label flip-flopper depsite that his competitors have changed their positions just as much. Have a look: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/news/releases/2008/1/18/vanderbilt-poll-explains-why-romneys-flip-flopper-label-sticks-political-scientist-says-anti-mormon-bias-finds-cover Ever wonder why people can see the EXACT SAME CLIP and come to completely opposite conclusions? Some find Romney to be coolheaded and adept at clarifying his intended meaning and the role lobbyists have in his campaign while others see him as angry and evasive?

Well, I saw an interesting article today that may be related. It answers why Mitt is stuck with the label flip-flopper depsite that his competitors have changed their positions just as much. Have a look: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/news/releases/2008/1/18/vanderbilt-poll-explains-why-romneys-flip-flopper-label-sticks-political-scientist-says-anti-mormon-bias-finds-cover

]]> By: tk http://www.bloggernews.net/113203#comment-196357 tk Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:08:54 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/113203#comment-196357 I think you miss a very large base of American people that no longer trust the media. They have seen stories distorted and manipulated all the time. I think a lot of Americans who see the spat are saying "Yea, go get him Mitt!". The world does NOT revolve around the media, although they like to think so and use the power in very abusive ways to further their personal careers. I think you miss a very large base of American people that no longer trust the media. They have seen stories distorted and manipulated all the time.

I think a lot of Americans who see the spat are saying “Yea, go get him Mitt!”.

The world does NOT revolve around the media, although they like to think so and use the power in very abusive ways to further their personal careers.

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