Romney Squares Off With Hecklers in Iowa
**Written by Doug Powers
If humans had the technology to instantly time travel from year to year, Mitt Romney could heckle himself given his flip-flops over time, but since Team Obama reportedly plans a “ferocious personal assault on Mitt Romney’s character and business background,” maybe they’re behind today’s little bit of fireworks. Who knows.
Ah yes, the campaign season is officially under way:
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s (R) exchange with a few hecklers turned into something of a shouting match while he was stumping Thursday in Iowa.
Romney faced aggressive inquiries with a liberal bent at the top of the question-and-answer segment of his soapbox speech, which was organized by the The Des Moines Register and broadcast on C-SPAN.
He also waged a defense of low taxes for corporations with a response — “Corporations are people, my friend” — on which Democrats quickly seized.
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Democrats giddily circulated coverage of the comment; Democratic National Committee (DNC) communications director Brad Woodhouse emailed reporters an article about the remark with the subject line “BRUTAL.”
Rest assured the “corporations are people too” line has already been worked into t-shirt and bumper sticker designs and is on the way to the DNC printer as we speak. Selectively applied I’m sure the DNC might agree with Romney. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a corporation — are they people? The DNC is a corporation — are they people? Even Ben & Jerry’s is a corporation. People? You just know liberals would think twice before dehumanizing the folks who made “Yes Pecan!”
I didn’t hear anybody attacking Romney’s jeans here, so things are only destined to get uglier in the future:
Update: I changed the video source because the first one was glitchy.
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I don’t trust Romney not to engineer this sort of confrontation to build up his “conservative” bona fides.
This will be a regular feature during the election season. All the candidates should expect and be prepared for it at all public events.
Entirely within the realm of possibilities.
Romney is a RINO. He created the same public welfare/medical ponzi scheme that is called Romney care. That has been an utter failure and cost boon doggle. He is likely to support Obama care and not do one thing that leads to repeal.
Don’t trust Teflon Mitt and his perfect hair!
Romney is a RINO. He created the same public welfare/medical ponzi scheme that is called Romney care. That has been an utter failure and cost boon doggle. He is likely to support Obama care and not do one thing that leads to repeal.
Don’t trust Teflon Mitt and his perfect hair!
He actually did an ok job in responding to the heckler. But a RINO is a RINO. He can wear his conservative suit as much as he wants, we already know what he is under the skin.
Not a big Romney fan, but ashamed to say I live in the same state as these idiots shouting at him.
I worked with a guy who was a corproate VP. The corporation was a Persian Rug business. It had one employee and three board members. The one employee was his wife who was President, CEO, and Treasuser. Her mother was the Corporate Secretary.
Most corporations are similar to that for tax purposes.
My favorite comment from him was, “The pay is lousy, but I get to sleep with the President.”
Assuming they were from Iowa…..
RINO=Romney. I saw Fox tonight playing the clip time and time again and Neil was so proud of the fact. Go home, Mit
Quote from Romney’s speech today?
For all we know, they may be part of Sarah’s entourage.
Last night on Hannity, Sean asks Mitt on his personal opinion for Connie Macks proposal bill.
Mitt replies” I haven’t looked at it yet.”
Nothing to see here folks, move on, move on.
I hope y’all don’t get your shorts in such a knot that if Romney wins the nomination you’ll decide to sit it out. He may not be as conservative as you’d like, but most independents think you’re too conservative. Like it or not, we need independents, and so far its going okay for us. Just sayin’. What we don’t want is Obummer for another tour to seal the country’s fate. For the record, I think Perry has a better than even shot of beating Romney and winning the nomination, so it’s just academic. But don’t crawl out on a limb with a saw and cut off your only escape route.
That is what the primaries are intended to do, weed out the less desirable candidates so we don’t resort to crawling out on a limb. Its the open primaries in many states that seem to throw a wrench in the works.
BTW, no matter who our nominee is, we’d better take the Senate back and keep the House. Controlling one leg of a three-legged stool is so frustrating and just about useless from what we’ve seen so far this year.
Any candidate is going to have to handle these situations better. Doing OK just means they have material to rip you on.
Obama is going after any opposition with full fangs bared as personal attacks are the only ammo he has left.
hawkeye54 is correct — open primaries are the devil’s spawn. That’s how we got McCain, and it could be how we get Romney unless some major mojo gets behind Perry or your_choice_here.
And after that…he’ll pivot his focus to jobs.
And after that…he’ll pivot his focus to
jobsanother vacay and golf.Flyoverman,
Beautiful. The Left is very disingenuosly hammering, hammering, hammering making this about Evil Mega Bank/Evil Mega Corp when they know full well nothing will change at that end of the food chain.
The $250k bar is a face plant for every dentist, chiropractor and contractor in the country! For all their whining, goind after EMB is a head fake.
Yup, thousands of “evil” corporations which are really only small businesses will bear the brunt of taxes and legislation. Any annual income under $500,000 is really in the realm of middle class.
Tell me about it…
Texas Gov. Perry Bilderberg’s Ace in the Hole?
Just what we need
I can see Romneys point about corporations being people. Its probably not the best wording but if bad phrasing had any real implication, Obama and Biden would be gone by now.
Liberals rail on the big corporation. Well, lets just get rid of them all so we have no more evil. Of course, all those people who work there would also be gone. Are liberals saying all the people that work at corporations are evil or are they just talking about selected people at the corporation?
I guess liberals just plan on having the government take over the business so the people stay employed. Corporation or Govoration it would still be the same people.
A corporation does nothing. The people in the corporation do everything so he has a point.
On August 11, 2011 at 04:42 pm, Ron said:
Cue PasadenaPhil calling Perry a RINO… Love ya Phil
I refuse to vote for any candidate that looks like a televangelist.
Where have I heard that?
Hangfire: that attitude will get you a monkey by default!
Is Doug getting dyslexic? That should read “R-Money Heckles With Squares in Off Iowa”
Ooo, that hurt.
The Independents don’t have anywhere to go, so we don’t need to settle for someone that won’t do what has to be done to recover this great nation. We don’t have to settle for Obummer-Lite.
Ron, have to agree with your comment. I would rather see Palin get it but Romney is a heck of a lot better than Obama.
He is a genius with economics. He is honest. He may be a RINO regarding social stuff but at this point in time I feel we need the economy. Get some more tea party folk in senate and congress and it may be okay.
I know some of you hate him but I will keep saying until you take me out that he was a genius with taking the disaster Olympics and turning them into the best ever. I watched it up close and personal. He is good.
Not was much as we need conservatives to show up at the voting booth. It’s so sad that the “Silent Majority” is still silent.
We need a George Washington, not a Mitt Romney. Romney can be the heat deflector for the candidate we really need. We need someone who will win the election by having solid principles and a love for the Constitution. We don’t need another “it’s my turn” candidate winning because the dems suck so much a dead fish would win. The GOP doesn’t win because they have better ideas, they win because they electorate has turned on the dems. I don’t trust what Romney would become after the election. I saw what happened to Reagan. Reagan got off to a good start then caved. We are still suffering from that amnesty. We have to have someone who will go to DC and clean it out, putting the citizens and the Constitution first.
Hawk, especially in places like DC, NYC, SF etc. That may look ‘huge’ in Keokuk, IA but I’ve had sales asst’s back in NY that were making $70k a year, we’re splitting a 1br and taking the subway to work.
Obie knows this and so do his Prog minions like Erica Payne. She’s more dangerous than we think.
WTF will Progs say when 30, 50, 70% of the people that fall into the Alternative Minimum Tax are government employees! Hell, His & Her GS Positions on the upper end would def. put you there. Explain THAT proggie?
Where do you want to go?
Sizzler?
Olive Garden?
Krispy Kreme?
Perhaps Reagan naively believed, or just hoped, the conditions of enforcement in the legislation would be acted upon, and that amnesty would never be brought up again.
He couldn’t live up to his own admonition, “Trust, but verify”, because once he was out of office there was nothing he could really do about successive administrations and CONgresses lack of interest in following up properly.
Politicians are never to be trusted. And that can be verified.
Hangfire
lol
Even back in the late ’70′s when I had a summer job with a federal agency in the Los Angeles area, the office often temporarily transferred employees from the DC area to work for several months in the LA area, and even then, the DC transfers found it difficult to cope with LA area housing costs compared to what they were used to in DC on their DC scaled salaries.
All economies are local.
Milt (sic) Romney will lose to Obam if nominated. Who really thinks Romneycare can beat Obamacare?
Gov. Goodhair (Perry) is the latest amnesty candidate trial balloon for the establishment, since all the others were quite leaden, Barbour, Pawlenty, etc. One more amnesty and this country is finished folks.
Bachmann, Cain or Palin (if she recants on amnesty, which she’s still on record as backing).
Until Palin announces, its Bachmann or Cain, preferably Bachmann.
Bachmann/Cain 2012 is good.
The establishment will be working against their success.
True.
Here in Honolulu, we have a used-shopping cart dealer.
Hawk,
I worked for a Bank of New York intro-firm during 9/11. Just mos. prior they had moved their clearing and acct’s data backup to WI.
They were… rightly concerned about natural disasters, concentrating data storage AND… the cost of labor is a ‘bit’ cheaper than NYC. Turns out it was a brilliant move.
My big disappointment is that the concentration of wealth continues to flow into NYC and DC at an alarming rate. Watch any episode of House Hunters and invariably it’s in DC! Why you’d hardly know there was a global financial meltdown going on?
Add’l burdens on the 250k crowd will only accelerate that wealth transfer. ( My cousin was the accountant for Stone Container in Keokuk so I knew how to spell it )
Don’t need ‘em here in L.A. Evidently, carts are provided free of charge….at least that’s what the homeless around here think the stacks of ‘em in front of stores are.
From what I’ve seen, Chicago and Atlanta seem to be popular locations as well. Any connection?
i thought he handled them well, but he has explaining to do over that romney care thing. if he is the nominee, he will win, but he won’t get my vote in the primary.
Maybe he means take him out for good as in Romney Mortis.
ABC radio news is reporting that Perry is throwing his hat in on Saturday.
His hat should be able to beat Obama’s empty suit.
Hawkeye54 said<
Employed people..?
Obviously the producers want to steer clear of abandoned subdivisions like LV, PHX etc.
How long before DC rivals NY as wealth concentration center. Why don’t they just move Wall Street down there and make it one big group grope already?
He doesn’t think enforcement would be good for Texas as Gov., does anyone believe he’d favor enforcement as President? He’s another “compassionate conservative” when it comes to illegal aliens. My son (genuine natural born citizen) would have to pay out of state tuition to go to a Texas school, but illegal aliens get in state tuition.
We must elect someone who WILL enforce the laws, while we still have any.
And people don’t see how that is just wrong.
For me, if I had to primary vote today, it would be Bachmann and Cain would be second choice. We still have a long time to go.
Not a big Romney fan but the leftists who showed up to scream were complete and utter morons.
They honestly believe that corporate profits don’t got into retirement accounts, they aren’t distributed to shareholders, they are given to 3 guys smoking cigars sitting in a dark room. They are stupid and they vote.
Socialists aren’t people. They are professional thieves and should be treated as such. These good time grifters better get ready for some lean times ahead. One way or another, their salad days of ripping off the working American are over.
No, it’s secret Evil Rich gold mines that they have. The corporations are just a front. Damm those corporations. If we could just find out where they hide those mines…
I tell you this, if Obamacistas or Trumkatons try strong arm crap at any rally I’m attending, the s*it will definitely fly. Euro trash tactics will not be tolerated.
RedDog,
+1
Last night Bill had Erica Payne on and I mean to tell ya’, very slick very slimey.
http://agendaproject.org/about.html
Blech! She had the nerve to claim “the notion that businesses all over America are on the verge of disolving was preposterous!” ( para )
Further she claimed to “have run a business for 10 years”. Sorry Erica, but lapping up taxpayer gravy in various ‘consulting’ positions for the Prog-aganda doesn’t qualify as a ‘business’ in most people’s minds?
Love your anger btw.
Great line for all the Progs in your life. And you’re fitting ‘me’ for a tinfoil hat my friend? Btw way ‘evil’ Monsanto makes seeds “that only work w/ THEIR fertilizer!?!?!”
Like Ford parts should bolt right up to a Chevy.
LikeLike Drive in.
Too bad parking is so tight there.
I miss Jolly Roger and KC drive-inn.
Cancel Likelike….No mo’ I porgot.
>>KC Drive- inn.
Wanna know why the Drive – Inns in the islands dominate? They all compete and still do well.
They cater to the customer. They know what they want. They give ‘em.
Niche restaurants come and go like a flys in the summer heat.
Speaking of flys in the summer heat…
Let’s get back to Prezidente BuzzKill.
I met the wife 34 years ago at Anna Miller’s in Pearlridge. Been married for 32 now.
I’ve already said I don’t want Perry to run, but let’s clarify this statement of yours. According to the legislation Perry signed, only students who have lived in Texas for at least three years prior to graduation from HS are eligible for in-state tuition. That does include illegals, which many, if not most, Texans oppose, but it also includes children of parents who have moved out of state as long as the child has continued to reside in the state (changed via SB1528, Sep 2005). The same rules apply for all applicants. If your son isn’t eligible, it’s because he isn’t/wasn’t a Texas resident, not because he’s a citizen.
In a properly functioning economy of low taxes with reasonable prudent and fair regulations, corporations provide lots and lots of good paying jobs and an expanding economy. The Obamacrats just don’t seem to get what makes the private sector grow, which is why we’re in the mess we are in…
Am I the only one who noticed that Romney, ultimately did NOT answer the question he was ASKED?
Saying what you’re not going to do is not the same as saying what you will do…
Hey, Og, how do you define “heck of a lot”? I define it, in this context, by mashing my index finger against my thumb as hard as I can. It’s thiiiiiiiis muuuuuuuch.
Romney has a politician’s never-ending smiley-smile. He’s got his own version of John Edwards’ hair. He’s got a RINO’s resume. It appears the only thing he’s got going for him is that he’s not Obama. I won’t suggest that that’s not an improvement, but we need more from our candidates.
Romney couldn’t even beat Ted Kennedy. Ol’ (drunken lecher) Kennedy successfully nailed him as a flip flopper in the ’94 senate race. Even then, Romney had no solid principles he wouldn’t discard for expedience.
Romney was the conservative choice in 2008. Now, he’s the polar opposite. It just goes to show the attitude of the country and the rise of the Tea Party.
Romney had great answers for the hecklers but, does he believe what he says to them?
It didn’t take Obama long to turn lose his rancid, slime bag leftists on the GOP candidates.
I don’t think he had to turn them loose. Like pack of wild dogs they were ready.
Found out last night the idiot WAS from Iowa. I hang my head in shame.
How business illiterate are these f’ing yokels. A corporation, just like a union, just like a partnership, are a legal entity giving people within these legal fictions certain rights and priviledges. JUST AS IN MARRIAGE, THE STATE (GOVERNMENT) GIVES YOU CERTAIN RIGHTS, AND IMPOSES CERTAIN DUTIES AND RESTRICTIONS. But people are the these entities, just as the left is so fond of saying, get rid of guns and we will be safe. Guns don’t shoot people, people with guns shoot people. This garbage only proves the point that these morons should not be allowed to vote on anything more important than DANCING WITH THE STARS.
Not to worry, every village has its idiot. So Iowa has its share.
BTW, a sign with this message on it is on someone’s front lawn in Atlanta:
“If you voted for Obama in 2008 to prove you were not a racist, then vote for someone else in 2012 to prove you are not an idiot”.
By default, maybe. There were 3 left in the race by the time VA voted, McAmnesty, Huckabee and Romney. Had conservative states gone first, Duncan Hunter would have been shown to be the conservative choice. The establishment could not let a no amnesty candidate emerge, just like this time.