Two Late Romney Campaign Snapshots: Fraudulent, Ugly and a Meat Loaf-like Mess

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I think the two items below — one graphic and one video, both from late last week — sum up the state of the Romney campaign, at this date in time, as well as anything else I’ve seen. Neither have anything to do, either way, with whether they’ll win (legitimately or otherwise), but both strike me as representative of the state of his campaign and, more broadly, the Republican Party as a whole at this moment in history…

First, there was this poorly Photoshopped photograph of a Nevada rally posted by the Romney campaign last Friday. Buzzfeed’s Zeke Miller (who also has the original posted at the site) breaks down some of the elements of the fraudulent disaster:

John Aravosis at AmericaBlog has a few more thoughts and evidence of the mess here above right here.

Then there was the following video, as posted at CNN last Thursday, which may the single best emotional metaphor for Romney’s campaign that you’re likely to find, and not only because it’s filled with Meat Loaf. It speaks, I think for itself:

Romney could still very well be announced the “winner” a week from this Tuesday — or by the U.S. Supreme Court several months later. But, if he does, it will have been done ugly, very ugly, in all of the ways, and more, illustrated by the above.

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Two Late Romney Campaign Snapshots: Fraudulent, Ugly and a Meat Loaf-like Mess

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  1. 1)
    GWN said on 10/28/2012 @ 9:09pm PT: [Permalink]

    Everything is fake about ROMNENEY.
    The comments are very good on AmericaBlog and DailyKos.
    One that made me :)the most…
    “Maybe it’s like one of those Mad Magazine fold-ups. Fold it just right and it reads “ROMNEY SUCKS!”. by Scott Bard (AmericaBlog)

  2. 2)
    David Lasagna said on 10/28/2012 @ 9:22pm PT: [Permalink]

    Wow. That’s a cluster fuck if ever there was one. They better be passing out the dramamine with that one.

  3. 3)
    John said on 10/29/2012 @ 12:33am PT: [Permalink]

    If you can’t manage a campaign, you obviously cannot run a country. Secondly, if you have to lie through your teeth, you can never be trusted. It’s over Mitt, wasn’t meant to be.

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    WingnutSteve said on 10/29/2012 @ 7:25am PT: [Permalink]

    Wow, the horror! Meatloaf?? A claim of a photo shopped picture??? You’re obviously grasping at any left wing straw you can find Brad.

    Answer this. How many of his Ambassadors has Romney ineptly watched be murdered on real time TV? I thought so. Why focus on real shit, Brad? I mean hell, there’s a photo shopped picture…

  5. 5)
    David Lasagna said on 10/29/2012 @ 9:11am PT: [Permalink]

    steve,

    You wouldn’t know real shit if it hit you in the face. Which it will if you just go out into a stiff headwind and open your mouth.

  6. 6)
    WingnutSteve said on 10/29/2012 @ 11:51am PT: [Permalink]

    Wow. I don’t even know how to respond to such a well thought out, cognitive, and completely relevant comment. Do your parents know you’re on the computer David?

  7. 7)
    kalifani6 said on 10/29/2012 @ 12:39pm PT: [Permalink]

    ROTFLMAO!!!

    Further proof that y’all GOPers done lost y’all damn mind.

    Now that’s GOP entertainment!

    (We are doomed if we let them steal this election.)

  8. 8)
    David Lasagna said on 10/29/2012 @ 12:46pm PT: [Permalink]

    Now Steve, don’t go all well thought out, cognitive, and relevant on me here. I wouldn’t recognize you. Do you know who your parents are?

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    Brad Friedman said on 10/29/2012 @ 1:00pm PT: [Permalink]

    WingnutSteve said @ 4:

    Wow, the horror! Meatloaf?? A claim of a photo shopped picture??? You’re obviously grasping at any left wing straw you can find Brad.

    First, I believe that would be “Democratic Party” straw, if you’d like your silly attack to be anything close to accurate. Not sure what “left wing” has to do with any of it. That said, if you are suggesting that a blatantly photoshopped photograph put out by the Obama campaign would be ignored by either Republicans, the Rightwing or you, you are more in denial that your hard swing to the denialist right here over the past year would indicate.

    Answer this. How many of his Ambassadors has Romney ineptly watched be murdered on real time TV? I thought so. Why focus on real shit, Brad? I mean hell, there’s a photo shopped picture…

    By “real shit”, do you mean more pretend Rightwing “scandals” that even the folks at Fox (including Geraldo, Shep Smith, Juan Williams) and even your sainted David Petreas have all found to be baseless and without evidence?

    Did you get tired of chasing your tail on the pretend ACORN “scandal”? Pretend Fast and Furious “scandal”? Pretend “Obama never said terror” and “sympathized with terrorists” in Benghazi “scandals”?

    I had long ago come to expect much better of you, Steve. I have long ago been proven wrong, time and again. Thanks for the reminder. Now you get out there and let everyone know Obama’s birth certificate is a fake! K?

    Sigh…Got a nice bridge to sell ya, Steve. It’s a little water damaged today, so I can lower the price even further. Especially for you. I know you’re way to smart to pass up such a golden offer!

  10. 10)
    WingnutSteve said on 10/29/2012 @ 1:50pm PT: [Permalink]

    Friggin’ brain washed left wingers are so predictable. Don’t like the truth, label it a pretend scandal. Who cares if the pretend scandal, oh pick out Fast and Furious, left scores of pretend dead bodies in it wake. They were brown pretend dead bodies. Who gives a shit about those brown people huh Brad. Just throw out a Fox News reference, it’ll all be fine.

    Congratulations, even thinkprogress.org doesn’t take you seriously.

  11. 11)
    Big Dan said on 10/29/2012 @ 3:04pm PT: [Permalink]

    TAGG ROMNENEY TWEETS: “COOL! DAD JUST PICKED UP THE BIG ARCHIE’S ENDORSEMENT! TO GO ALONG WITH MEATLOAF, KID ROCK, & TED NUGENT! POP’S IS REALLY RACKING UP A LOT OF ROCK ‘N ROLL POP MUSIC GROUPS! I HEARD OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN LIKES POP, TOO!”

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    Big Bill said on 10/29/2012 @ 3:53pm PT: [Permalink]

    Steve:

    Wingnut is the rigth moniker for you. You’re skill at psychological transferance is breath taking. To think you…you of all people…mention brain washing. It would be hialrious if it weren’t so pathetic.

  13. 13)
    WingnutSteve said on 10/29/2012 @ 5:26pm PT: [Permalink]

    Big Bill, sticking your head in the sand or putting your hands over your ears shouting “lalalalalalalaIwon’thearthingsIdon’tlikelala” is no way to go through life. There’s a whole world out there beyond what you are told to think.

    Think about it. You “progressive” folks are hardwired to believe that EVERYTHING you disagree with is a lie, usually with a Fox News angle… maybe rush Limbaugh. How closed minded and simplistic is that?

  14. 14)
    WingnutSteve said on 10/29/2012 @ 5:29pm PT: [Permalink]

    Wingnut is a ridiculous moniker for me, but its mine. On most social issues I’m likely as liberal as you.

  15. 15)
    David Lasagna said on 10/29/2012 @ 7:23pm PT: [Permalink]

    steve,

    You emphatically demonstrate again and again why you are described(by Mark Crispin Miller) as being part of a projective movement.

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