dajafi wrote:It's amazing to me that these neocon fucking psychos are allowed to speak in public, much less are taken semi-seriously. Liz Cheney is on This Week right now and spewing utter madness. At some point, shouldn't there be some consequence for having been wrong about everything?

dajafi wrote:It's amazing to me that these neocon #$!&@ psychos are allowed to speak in public, much less are taken semi-seriously. Liz Cheney is on This Week right now and spewing utter madness. At some point, shouldn't there be some consequence for having been wrong about everything?

TenuredVulture wrote:And now you know the rationale behind the name of my long ago abandoned blog.

CalvinBall wrote:

Me: You can laugh or insinuate I am stupid or whatever you are trying to accomplish. You post this kind of vitriol often, and I tried engaging in actually talking about it and not just going "LOL ROMNEY SUCH A DICK." Which, I feel is essentially the point of this audio clip is attempting to do to Obama even though I don't think it says what you and the website say it is saying. I enjoy talking about it but it is hard when all you respond with is more insults.
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Romney’s problem is not that he’s brought too little executive rigor to the job of running for president. It’s that he’s brought too much. He’s behaved too much like a businessman (or a consultant) and not enough like a politician. His campaign has all the hallmarks of being run by someone looking only at the numbers, someone who lacks a true politician’s appreciation for the other dimensions of a race—a feel for the electorate, a convincing long-term plan for the country. Were he forced to defend himself before a board of directors, Romney would actually have a pretty solid case for doing what he has done.
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The problem is that politics is about much more than a tactical, short-term reading of the numbers. Candidate skills matter, and the audience in a presidential election is much more variegated than a board of directors. There isn’t much, frankly, that a stiff guy can do to make himself warm and approachable. (Earth tones, anyone?) The glaring weaknesses in Romney’s campaign—the fuzzy details, the inability to convincingly articulate plan for growth, and above all the weird tics and gaffes—are not ones that a businessman’s skills can rectify.

jeff2sf wrote:Daj, the idea that a businessman/ceo doesn't have a long term plan is laughable. Romney may not have a long term plan but that's not BECAUSE he's a business guy. And if you want to respond with some "manage to wall street, quarter by quarter, rev rec, analysts on my back, insert some woody-isms in here", then the defense is even simpler:

Romney's experience is with non-public companies where you can afford long term plans.
Or, more bluntly, politicians manage to the next poll number and have NO credible justification for criticizing others on long term plans.