Romney takes the low road
It’s likely my standards are low, but I’ve been relatively pleased that the presidential race has featured very little talk about the Lewinsky scandal. Going into the race, I was a little worried the media would be preoccupied with this nonsense, and Republican candidates, anxious to score cheap points, would make hay of the decade-old controversy.
By and large, that hasn’t happened. But leave it to Mitt Romney to take the low road.
“We’ll try and represent ourselves and our nation well also to our kids because I think, I think kids watch the White House and there have been failures in the past in the White House — if you go back to the Clinton years and recognize that — that I think had an enormous impact on the culture of our country,” Romney said. “And we’ll do our very best, our whole family will to — well, if we can’t be perfect, we’ll do our best to uphold and to be a good example for the kinds of values I think people expect from our leaders.”
Wow, that sure is dumb. The Lewinsky scandal had an “enormous impact” undermining American culture? Seriously?
I can appreciate the fact that Romney is in a tough spot right now, but gratuitous references to Clinton scandals in the 1990s only make him look desperate and classless.
but gratuitous references to Clinton scandals in the 1990s only make him look desperate and classless.
Why is this a problem for you?
This guy is nothing but a stuffed suit.
ANY DEM OVER ANY REPUBLICAN 08!
he's always been classless.
Romney looks and sounds like a televangilst who'd swindle your grandmother out of her monthly social security check during his Sunday church sermon then turn around and sell her a used Hyundai with bad brakes for her to drive home afterwards.
Klyde, because we're experiencing a credit crisis, a horribly executed "war", expensive gas, expensive groceries, manufacturing shrinkage, politicization of the Judicial branch, crimes committed (why have a retro immunity bill, when immunity was already provided for? because a crime was committed!), we're at a weak point in history and he's talking about an ex-President.
Can we fix TODAY'S problems?!
wouldnt want to corrupt them courages kids of his with tales of clintons blowjob!
but...but...Dubya & Cheney were going to 'restore morality and dignity' to the White House.
How's that workin out for ya, Mitt?
I really can't think of any long-lasting cultural problems that we have had since the Clinton years.
Is there a bigger douche bag in this primary election?
abarts @ 7:
That is true. The last dynamic duo made pretty much the same promise and that really turned out to be an incredible success.
Guantanamo is good and fellatio is bad?
klyde @ 1:
Umm, because it is 2008?
What do you expect from a guy who said:
"I'm not sure whether Governor Huckabee meant the attack as a joke, but this is no time to be mocking our president, and it's in bad taste, I think that we should come together and recognize the great work our president is doing, and not take our rhetoric or our plays from the Democratic playbook, it's the kind of stuff you'd expect from the Democrats, but it surely is nothing you'd expect from a presidential contender on the republican side."
He is a republican and a religious freak, what do you expect?
The Lewinsky noise may/will start as soon as the general election race does. The GOP has been getting chump change for contributions; they haven't wanted to spend up all of their tough money before understanding who they'll be tearing apart for another six months.
Although I definitely detect a tidal wave of pre-ejaculate from the right over the opportunity to trash Hillary until the dawn of time this year even though she may not win the primaries. CNN's "Broken Government" show chronicled groups out there already spending the time and money designing anti-Hillary media angles with no decided primary. Still, if they could afford it, they would have been much worse by now.
Mit is a nitwit!
Rude Rudy is a worse liar than BUSH!
"HUCK" ain't got the good sense that HIZ GOD gave a crotch louse!
Ol' Strait Talkis so far over the hill he can't find his own butt with both hands!
Frumpy Fred has a lot more ass than an old fart can handle, and wants ta stay home anyhow!
Great bunch of not much, huh?
"Wow, that sure is dumb. The Lewinsky scandal had an “enormous impact” undermining American culture? Seriously?"
Well thankfully we had a scandal ridden, constitution shredding, budget busting, deficit spending, tax cutting for the rich, lie based war starting, ally alienating, enemy embolding, torturing, corrupt to the core, military depleting Republican White House afterwards to bring America back from the Clinton plagued years of peace, record prosperity and international respect.
This "man" truly is a shameless, deceitful, say anything, low life, whore. May he go down in flames.
Their minds will forever be preoccupied with the clenis. For real. And for the Right, it has magical properties.
talk to us about your religious beliefs mitt. americans love bullshit.
"our whole family will to — well, if we can’t be perfect, we’ll do our best to uphold and to be a good example for the kinds of values I think people expect from our leaders"... You heard him muckers! Let me translate, "I have myself, my wife, 5 sons and their wives, and 11 grandchildren who will be at various ages some of whom either now or later will have relationships... PLEASE INVESTIGATE THE HELL OUT OF THEM like you did for Gary Hart all those years ago.... We got nothing to hide."
I hope he realizes that I meant that "Book of Mormon" thing as a joke.
I don't that that Romney should have brought have brought it up. It was low.
I wish the media would have ignored it ten years ago too because it DID have a negative impact in society. Yes, kids were affected. O.S. became an issue for our kids before they were old enough to deal with it.
Oh, yes. The culture of our country. Indeed.
And the children. Let's never, never forget the effect that Bill Clinton had on all the little children. Poor children, with their broken hearts. Alas.
Romney is just tossing out red meat for the primary voters, hoping that they are idiots and can be distracted from further movement in the direction of Mike Huckabee. Nothing better when you are floundering than waving the bloody shirt of the old impeachment battles, eh, Mitt? Brings you right back to the grand ol' days where we spent two years talking about blowjobs and civil perjury being "high crimes and misdemeanors."
Oh ... the moral clarity of those times.
This is predictible and calculated. It is part and parcel of Romney's attempts to build his campaign on appeals to the most conservative elements among the GOP's primary voters. He can do it at no cost at all, and it just might get him something.
Besides, what has Romney got to loose -- his dignity? The man can't possibly behave like a bigger jackass than he already has.
Wow, that sure is dumb. I'm one of the greatest minds to grace, with my presence, humanity of the 20th (and evidently, beyond-the-grave-21st-century) century. But I feel as though this statement is so dangerously stupid, that the my works could even retroactively, retrotemporally even, diminish in quality. I have just now become aware that "Principles of Mathematics" has diminished in length to a mere 50 pages; idiosyncratic grammar of 21st century vernacular have managed to infiltrate my usage from a little over a century ago. "A formal relation, is, like, -you know what I mean?- something I value, as, like, a valued entity that has a marked place, like, in the directness of my platonic realism."
CURSE YOU, MITT ROMNEY!!
This is the man who had the "class" to secure a dog carrier on the roof of his car (with his dog in it). I hope he receives similar sh*t.
Where will it end, George Washington chopped down that Cherry tree, was it a terrrrrist act?
H.W. @ 21:
And let's never forget whose fault it was that this stuff was dumped on us every day, every night, for nearly two years, in a never-ending drumbeat of disgusting prurience. There was literally no escape.
But don't blame the GOP! Blame Bill Clinton! Why ... if Clinton hadn't had those blowjobs, the Republican Party wouldn't have been forced to tell us about it in such detail, over and over and over again ...
Exhibit A of Romney sayanythingness: "When Repubicans act like Democrats America looses"
Has the man has been on another planet during the whole of the Bush/Cheney/Tom Delay years?
A truly shameless cretin.
Bertrand Russell @ 23:
Um, Russell, all you ever needed was a truth table and a correct understanding of tautology. You had an understanding of neither. Romney can't affect the quality of your work; it was always already as much nonsense as Romney could pack into a single punch. Sorry, old friend.
I think it is fair to say for the record that what Clinton did indeed had an impact on America's culture, including the non-right. But it was similar to the fall-out from Larry Craig's indiscretion: a feeling like people had something thrust upon them that they'd rather not have had so much intimate knowledge about, such as the networking systems of bathroom hook-up-cruising gay sex.
And once it's there, it's there... and well, it's difficult to deal with, and I'm sure a lot of people who weren't hardcore right wingers felt caught up in the confusion of Clinton's immoral act. I think the accepted-as-known position the liberal population ultimately took on the issue was that it eroded their ability to believe in him as a role model, but fairness dictates that he be judged on his handling of his job, as was the case before presidential affairs could be exposed, and his indiscretion did not really cross streams in any critical way with his professional ability to function as president, despite its faith-shaking affect on the people.
Wow. That would explain the rash of blow jobs that broke out in elementary schools all over the country after the Lewinsky scandal broke. Little girls, in cute blue dresses, cornering little boys on the playground and getting busy. I don't think we've recovered from that horrible time... [mega snark]
Fortunately, we know from watching beauty pageant queens that America's children don't even know where Washington DC is or that the United States (whatever that is) has a President (whatever that is).
You know what would be bad for America? A cult member in the Oval office.
Know what White House actions an even bigger impact on the culture than a Clinton's blowjob?
Claiming that idiocy is a virtue, that might makes right, and that neither lies nor laws matter. That, I dare say, has had a more corrosive effect on our culture than anything Bill Clinton's penis could ever accomplish.
For democrats to take this BS about Bill Clinton and run with it, shows why our leaders do not have the backbone to fight for our constitution , democracy and bill of rights, they are just doing as the same as their voters.
How can you possibly take these lies and BS about Clinton when Bush , Cheney and his whole d... republican administration has been the most deceitful, corrupted, criminal administration as "any" country in our history.
Clinton was wrong with his actions and lie about sex, but the very republicans that were attacking him like newt and the other republicans were at "the very same time" doing acts that were as bad or worst then that of Clinton.
Are we starting to be sheep just following the posting or the RNC and their corporate news media to attack our ex democratic president which by "far" was a nuch better president even with his errors then the last 5 plus republican presidents.
Take Nixon, Reagan, Bush Sr. Bush Jr , please do because I wish I never see another one like any of them.
They have to be among the worst, if not the worst presidents which America has ever had.
Are the democrats being dumbed down by the news media and RNC or just following the leader like the republican sheep.
mellowjohn @ 3:
... and clueless, and desparate. A trifecta if ever I've seen one!
This is one conservative dissonance I've never been able to fully grasp.
Government can't be trusted. Government can't be trusted to clean the air or the water. Government can't be trusted to education children or to regulate essential services.
Government can't be trust.
HOWEVER...
Government can and should provide moral guidance. That's, in fact, the main thing government should do: tell people how to act.
So, why is it that an institution that cannot be trusted to handle simple, basic, one-size-fits-all things like, oh, say, keeping fucking lead out of children's toys CAN be trusted to espouse universal morality when you can't get three people on this planet to agree as to what that is?
And I thought conservatives were supposed to be no-nonsense, down-to-earth, "results matter" kinds of people. I thought it was liberals who were guilty of foisting unrealistic ideals on the taxpayers.
Or has abstinence-only education started working in the past week?
Ahhhhhhhhhh, yes...the Clinton years; 99 cent gas, budget surpluses, lots of good jobs and I could travel anywhere in the world because the dollar was good and Americans weren't despised. Oh yeah....we were at peace too, but all that means nothing, simply because I guy got a blow job! I swear to God, I want Romney to lose so badly, I'm even willing to support a whacko like Huckabee to get the GOP nomination! Romney's an evil, vile prick and must be stopped!
I think President Bill Clinton's speech at the 2000 Democratic National Convention aptly summed his administration's impact on American culture. We should be very afraid of this slick punk Romney!
http://australianpolitics.com/usa/clinton/speeches/00-08-14dem-conventio...
The Silver Ring Thing has done more for blow jobs than Clinton ever could have done.
WTF is wrong with All the gop? bush/cheney have committed numerous crimes and continue to commit crimes and these fuckers, especially mitt can only reference the clinton years. so, destroying the US Constitution, lying to go to an illegal war and perverting the entire executive branch of the govt. is minor or non-issues with the gop? if god were on the side of the gop, he would have to think he just crapped all over humanity.
Since it hasn't been said yet, allow me.
But, but, but Clinton...(you fill in the rest)
Nathan Avinbl @ 9:
mit and fuckabee are tied for this dubious asslicking honor. maybe they are sparing for a stall next to larry craig or envious of ted haggard and his
boyfriendmale escort.Romney's ship was taking on some serious water. So, his totally unprincipled republican strategy group decided to drop "Mitt, Man of the People", and go with the tried and true republican strategy of dirty politics. Mitt does not look like he needed a great deal of indoctrination, or instruction. I think the boy is cooking his goose. I just hope he does not get the nomination.
Ah. The Clenis. Why not? Everyone else uses it. Why not Mittens?
It's ok to throw out the Constitution and infringe on civil rights, as long as we look like a family!
I love how to these misguided right-wing fools that still a BJ is worse then anything else that could ever happen.
A BJ is worse then almost 4000 soldiers killed for a lie and a business deal. (well, there is a lot of $$ at stake)
A BJ is worse then America running a gulag and black prison sites and torturing innocent people (we never charged them with anything)
A BJ is worse then the failures of 9/11 and Katrina (put together!)
A BJ is worse then what has been done to our Justice dept.
A BJ is worse then going hunting and shooting your friend in the face and then evading the cops until you sober up!
and there are people who just believe this crap. So I guess it's not that I hate all republicans...I guess I hate all stupid people...which includes all the Republicans...so I guess it's the same either way! Cool!!!
Righttttt, Mittens.
..meanwhile Clenis Crusader Dickhead Mellon Scaife and now adulterer still hasn't drowned in his own bile. Is anyone keeping count ?
The sad truth is, that for the Republican base, Clinton was (is still) perceived as the worst president in American history. I don't understand it (actually, I have my theories), but there it is.
Then again the nitwits of the republican base still wear 'W the President' on their SUVs and pickups......which means to me that they always know where to get the cheapest Elmer's glue paste. So who cares what they think. F*ck em.
"I think kids watch the White House and there have been failures in the past in the White House"
Funny. I was thinking the same thing about adults today.
The Republicans are desperate to have Hillary as the Democratic nominee so they can engage the entire country in another national conversation about blowjobs in the White House.
While, I actually agree with him to some extent that the Clinton scandal really DID affect American culture and it did so (arguably) in a negative way... I think the Republicans were also to blame for voraciously dragging that crap out into the public for political gain.
Josh @ 5:
I'm still failing to see the problem of a lying hypocrite making himself look like a lying hypocrite. Unless of course you want 4 more years of a lying sack of shit in the White House then I can see why willard making an ass of himself would be an issue for you.
And anyone who expects any rethug anywhere to fix today's problems is living in a fantasy land.
And? JFK used to rub boots with Marilyn Monroe... so what?
Even dead he's still more than twice the man you are, Mitt.
Clinton was the target of a neocon hit job. He was framed to portray the liberal decay of civilization. What we got was the neoconservative destruction of civilization.
I was thinking about this the other day, how the Republicans tried to claim during the Lewinsky matter that Clinton had corrupted our kids and now they think it's ok to have oral sex, etc. They had no evidence but they kept saying this. If that is the standard, that the President's behavior sets the moral tone for our children, then perhaps Willard Romney should first look with concern to George W. Bush, who has taught our kids to lie, cheat, steal, draft dodge, do drugs, be an alcoholic, waste money, ignore sound advice, and escape all accountability for one's actions.
Dahgrostab'ph-r-i @ 45:
No, but a BJ is surely worse than:
Pardoning a guy in your administration who outed a CIA agent working to uncover REAL weapons of mass destruction to be used against the US.
Tax cutting for the super rich then shifting the tax burden to the poor and middle class to pay.
Having 5 of your party's goons on the Supreme Court installing you supreme dictator of the land
Turning Bill Clinton's legacy of record budget surplusses into record deficits.
Opening the gate for Al-Queda to go into Iraq using stolen weapons and all that oil money to finance another attack against America.
FreeDUMB @ 54:
Well said. The Republican congress, courts and White House have done more, perhaps irreparable damage, to this nation than any Islamic terrorist or Osama bin Laden could have ever hoped to do. Most of them should be tried for high treason against the United States, imprisoned, deported or worse.
You got it Mitt. Those wonderful republican values should be revisited every day until next November.
Starting with the unprecedented corruption, blatant thievery, and complete disregard for our constitution and the rule of law. Plus the wonderful way the GOP has all but destroyed the standard of living for 90% of the population, so that the privileged richest 2% can steal all of the wealth in the country.
Lets also not forget the "compassionate" undermining of every social safety net (for the most vulnerable among us), so that the multi-millionaire's won't have to pay any taxes on their enormous incomes.
Another GOP value that would be a big winner, would be the sending of young Americans to die, so that a sociopathic, spoiled, imbecile-coward could steal the natural resources of another nation; then botching that war through incompetence, so that his cronies could steal the taxpayers blind.
How about the ever popular "denying health insurance to children GOP value," all in the name of parasitic insurance industry/CEO gluttony.
And the list goes on and on and on. Oh, but Clinton got a blow job!
Hey Willard, Mitt, moron, or whatever the fuck your name is; why don't you, and all the other hate-spewing, intolerant, greed-head, SOB lying republican bastards, quit lecturing the truly humane and caring people of this country (LIBERALS), and STFU you pathological privileged loser!
He's an asshole... what's WORSE for the "culture" of our "youth":
1. Clinton's consenting blowjob with a consenting adult
or
2. Bush's illegal war that killed thousands of Americans, for NOTHING, and made the world INCREDIBLY dangerous?
I wonder if any of Mitt's MILITARY-AVOIDING 5 SONS have had consenting blowjobs, that ruined their throat cultures?
What is Mitt's military service record? I haven't heard much about how he avoided military service.
My dad would have said:
The whole bunch are not worth the powder to blow them to hell.
Mitt will do anything to get the rapture bunny vote
On Leno - before Huckabee appeared.
A woman in audience asked a question (made a comment) - "Several years ago I met Mr. Huckabee --- and I told him I was going to vote for him, and he said 'great, but I'm not running for anything', so I'm here tonight ...."
Leno: "This was not like the Monica Lewinsky thing?"
Josh @ 5:
All those problems?
They are ALL Clinton's fault!
Never forget the blue dress!
What is " is is?"
Of course Mittens has no problem with a WH full of pathological liars, or one that starts unnecessary wars, outs CIA agents, or tramples on the Constitution. Yes, Bushy sets a great example for our children. I'd take Clinton any day.
Thank God for Bill Clinton! Before he came along nobody was getting blowjobs. Bill Clinton, inventor of the blowjob.
What this means is that there's a Bimbo Eruption Mitt's worried about. Every time one of these motherfuckers blathers about someone else's sex life you just KNOW it's themselves they're talking about. Mitt's undoubtedly fucked a series of teenage girls and paid for several abortions.
I was just watching a news report that a startling number of youth today believe that it is ok to cheat if it gets you ahead.
Yep. Kids today are watching the Whitehouse.
When you fall on your ass all the way down the side of the mountain to the bottom, there aren't any other roads to take than 'The Low Road'.
Romney takes the low road
The Hershey Road?
With Nuts?
The only thing about the Lewinsky scandal that had an undermining impact on American culture was the digusting Republican witch hunt it lead to.
He'll just practice those good ole fGOPer amily values of animal cruelty, lying, bigotry, back-biting, prostituting his office for the benefit of the highest bidder, continuing torture, wars of aggression and other crimes against humaity....
Well, it did have a profound effect on the behavior of Rudy Guiliani, who probably qualifies as the hound dog in chief for this cycle.
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