Hey, look, a guy called Mitt Romney on the cover of Newsweek!
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Hey, look, a guy called Mitt Romney on the cover of Newsweek!
Hmmm...there's no such thing as bad publicity, right?
A couple of thoughts about this. For one thing, a guy called Mitt Romney may not exactly ooze testosterone when he tries to pretend to like NASCAR or when he boasts about his prancing horse to Sean Hannity, but it never occurred to me that his problem (of the many) is that he's a wimp. The knock on his tenure at Bain Capital is that he was ruthless in pursuing profit over people...revolting, but not wimpy.
Also, I may be a contrarian on this, but I think something like this Newsweek cover helps Romney more than it hurts him. I felt the same way this weekend when there was so much clucking on Twitter and in certain corners of the media about Romney's verbal gaffes in the UK. It was a lot of fun and a lot of laughs -- for a bunch o' liberals who weren't voting for Romney in a million years.
I do indeed think the gaffes were a low point for diplomacy and another clue that Romney would be a terrible (if not wimpy) president. But the small handful of voters who are actually are undecided are more likely to vote on whether or not they or their close relatives have a job this fall, don't you think?
Meanwhile, headlines like "the wimp factor" will rally conservatives who already think the liberal media is against them. The Newsweek cover is a tribute to one of its most famous covers of all time, in 1987, featuring George H.W. Bush.
Remind me again how that turned out.
What is really sad are the wimps on both side of the political aisles who are too afraid to put away their differences and do what is right for this country. And yes, Time, Newsweek, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Daily News are irrelevant.— FletcherT- Hey look! A "media" outlet as pathetic as Will Bunch!! Clearly, Newsweek has an office on the planet Bunchatron in the very far Leftwinglooney galaxy.
Much like Will Bunch, Newsweek is sooooooooooo insanely far to the left, they cannot be taken seriously. Ever. Quite frankly, they are a complete joke.— kelprod2 - For one thing, a guy named Will Bunch may not exactly ooze testosterone when he pretends to like ( or understand) baseball.Fixed it for you, Will.— Yankee Air Pirate 12
- Profits over people..what a load of horse manure...What's next..'corporatist', 'bankster'...'1 per center'...Jesus Will..you're like a child.— bannedrepublican
- I would take Mitt Romney in a fight against 99.9% of all Liberals. Will "Porky" Bunch or........Mitt Romney? Please Romney smacks him around like a Red Headed Step Child.
"Tough Liberal" = "Quiet New Yorker"— Manny Trillo - Hey Look! A Muslim called Hussein Barrack Obama in the closet. Wipe the drool off your mouth Willy boy.— dogman5
- This will be one of the last Newsweek covers ever--they are going all online. Good luck!— Archimedes
- "Then why do race fans support him 10-1?" Because he's white. Because they think the incumbent is a NWO Muslim plant? "Hey Will I've watched some of the Olympic games and all that I see are empty seats at the forums. Could Mitt Romney have been right?" You are completely off-base, as per usual. There has been poor attendance at some women's soccer, dressage (whatever that is), and some nonsense preliminary boxing bouts. Then again the attendance at rowing, archery, shooting, gymnastics, swimming, USA basketball, judo, and handball for crying out loud has been above expectations. So your inane observation is worth nothing.— Murrayman
- Will and the remaining 40% of likely voters who still plan on voting for Obama, here is a handy milestone list that you can use to track your progress:
1) Denial
2) Anger
3) Bargaining
4) Depression
5) Acceptance
Where are you on this path?— Mr. Smith - "Meanwhile, headlines like "the wimp factor" will rally conservatives who already think the liberal media is against them."
Has there ever been a piece of black propaganda or psywar as brilliant as the megacorporate mouthpieces convincing the less intelligent among us that the those mouthpieces themselves are the Liberal Media? Heck, even Goebbels would have said, "No way you can pull THAT off!"— Hamlet - Hamlet is in Stage 1.— Mr. Smith
- Mr. Smith was screaming from the chair, "Noooo! Not Ludwig van!!!!"— Hamlet
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