Romney was damned if he did, damned if he didn’t. If he didn’t speak out, the media would have pounded him for that too.

Romney said the right things, and I think Erick nailed down what the criticisms should be.

Did anyone notice that Obama used some of George W. Bush’s speech from September 11, 2001? He blames Bush for everything and now he’s stealing his words.

Goodgovernance is right on. Mitt looks juvenile, desperate, and unpresidential. If only he had waited but no his timing is way off.

Everything you said, proudmarinemom, and more. Romney speaking out forced Obama to say something, and he’s the one who ended up looking un-presidential. Because, of course, he is.

Thanks Melody. Carol

So exactly how should an American citizen react to a picture of a United States Ambassador being dragged through the streets?
Barack Obama is so incredibly far out of his league, I am surprised more American citizens haven’t been killed before now. Maybe he should go to an intelligence briefing once in a while so he won’t look like the fool he actually is.

I’ll tell you who looks desperate – any idiot who tries to defend with worthless sack in the White House. That includes you, pal.

To hell with the press. They’re all howling because they’re part of Obama campaign. Romney should kick this President, at every opportunity, until he stops wiggling. Exactly Erick, BO must be pressed on his cozy relationship with the radical Muslim Brotherhood. His foriegn policy to reset Russian relations has been an epic fail, has led to Putin bullying all the former Soviet satellite states. Weakness in the US Presidency has always invited the World’s preditors to move closer.

Blah, blah, blah.
Maybe the mere fact that we have a leaderless country makes this situation so dangerous that it would be dishonoring to those who serve it to remain silent?

It’s not a foreign policy crisis. That would assume we have a foreign policy.

Leftist Democrats who say they are Republicans. Like marky-mark.

Maybe you should read what you are writing. Your ignorance is blinding.

And your blindness is … annoying. Backatcha.

Troll #FAIL

So my my Navy husband is still at work, doing whatever he does when there is a crisis, yet the President is off speaking to his adoring throngs in Vegas. Something ain’t right.

55555! Good one Jack!

I found it comforting that Mitt spoke up. Someone had to act like the President of the USA and stand up for American principles. I’m sick of this appeasing pathetic excuse for an American leader.

Go home to DKO’s. If you’re trolling for free, you’re overpriced.

More trash to take out.

absolutely spot on. I think Romney blew this one big time. There was absolutely no need to say anything about obama or his policies on this day. He should have said “there are many valid criticisms to be made about obama policies. But today is not the day to do that. Today I stand with the American people in condemning this barbaric attack. We will put pressure on the local govts to bring the perpetrators to justice”. and then wait for a few days until violence subsides and talk about specific obama policies that are bad, instead of jumping at every violent event to criticize obama. There is plenty to criticize in obama foreign policy. But by jumping at these tragic events to criticize obama, Romney looks like he is doing crass politics at a time of tragedy, even if Romney is right.
THis man is running one of the worst campaigns in history. It took him until the convention to show that he is more connected to and has helped more ordinary people in one day, than obama has done all his life. He let axelrod define him to be a heartless man, while Romney is the guy who has actually served the poor and the down on luck people in his private life. Obama talks about it. Romney lived it. This should have been pounded on the airwaves, before axelrod defined Romney. Even now I dont see or hear any of Romney’s character witnesses anywhere. In addition Romney comes across as somebody who desperately jumps on both national and international events to criticize obama, instead of expressing concern at the event for a day or two and then clearly articulating why that particular event was precipitated by obama policies. He keeps saying obama’s policies are making things worse, without doing a bill clinton like clear explanation of what specic things are getting worse by which policy. The economy is in the tank. The job numbers are actually worse than the offical number (Romney doesnt talk about that either). Woodward says this man never showed leadership in one of the biggest leadership testing exercises during the debt limit extension negotiations. Romney should be winning by 10 points. INstead he seems to be on track to lose by 10 pts. Maybe he will eventually win. But if he does, he has to thank Obama, not his campaign. I havent seen a more incompetent campaign ever. I know you folks here dont like to hear it. I say McCain campaign was better than this mans campaign.
I say Murdoch is right. This man needs better campaign operatives, which he wont change now and as a result will most likely lose. And Murdoch is right about the fact that he is still playing to the choir (his base). What the hell? this is september. The base isnt going to vote Obama by any stretch of imagination. He should be attracting other voters, whether it is independents or sympathetic hispanic voters or Reagan democrats. Erick is crazy to suggest Romney should keep taking potshots at Obama on the day when they are chasing americans in the middle east. This most certainly comes across as desparation on a day like this. IT looks like there is absolutely no one in the republican party who can run campaigns anymore. I say make KarL rove the permanent campaign manager for all campaigns from now on. This is just ridiculous. Like Laura said, if republicans cant win this election in a landslide, might as well give the country to the socialists and shut down the party. There is no better opportunity to take the presidency and the senate (and hopefully not lose the house) than this year. If I dont see another campaign run by inept idiots from Boston for the rest of my life, it will be too soon. I know you folks here dont like to hear it. I dont care if you pile on to call me a troll and anything else. But between Bush and Obama this country is screwed for 16 years, while China is reaping all the benefits (not to mention the pile of cash from every last trinket they sell here) of these two incompetent idiots ruining the country for successive terms. Maybe Christy should somehow get on the ballot. I think he might win. And definitely will run a better campaign than Romney. I get the feeling he will govern better than Romney as well, given how well Romney is running his campaign.

It’s unthinkable that US embassies in the MENA were guarded by mercenaries, not US Marines. This alone may have cost Ambassador Stevens and his staff their lives, and is further proof of this administration’s fecklessness.

As for Romney’s response the MSM would have crucified him either way, whether he commented or not.

We are far from the end of this new eruption of violence and it will have a major impact on the election. And I’ll stick to my assertion that Carter solved the Iran hostage crisis by losing to Reagan. Hopefully, history will repeat.

Good point. This is how the left operates. They control the message and timing, and try to paint Romney into a danged if you do, and danged if you don’t box. I am proud of Romney’s initial statement. Now if we could just get him to have an empty chair sitting next to him when he breaks out the “Our POTUS misses over half his intelligence briefings” statement, and “this chair represents what the intelligence chiefs see when they hold a daily briefing to inform the POTUS of such threats as radical Islamists are planning riots at the embassies, and advising him that we should increase security immediately.”

Well, thank heavens that Obama is doing just that….bringing people together as a nation and mourning the dead – from his latest fundraiser in Las Vegas! OMG! That’s what we call a President????

I don’t recall any Republicans encouraging Obama to drag us into Libya’s wars – ever! Obama does those things on his own because he feels that he is God!

Then America is lost. If Americans (men, especially) don’t have the stones to work up righteous indignation over a bunch of crazy muslims pillaging on our sovreign territory, then there isn’t much left worth saving anyway. I’m not “mourning” over those lost, because I do not know them. I hate it for their families, but my primary emotion is fury.How dare those animals attack OUR embassy and kill OUR ambassador.
Your p~$$y approach to things has worked out so well for our country and our party in recent years…. That republicans have always been careful with their words is one of our biggest problems. 99% of party leadership lacks any boldness at all. The few who have courage are treated as outcasts.
For once, Romney got something right. He’ll probably backtrack on it if he holds true to form.

Obama running off to Vegas to raise money so he can continue to be our ineptest president – Obama’s house of tarot cards are coming down around him – unions on strike in his “own” town of Chicago with his handpicked Mayor, now the Arab Muslims are killing our ambassadors – sent by Obama and Hillary. His failure to listen when everyone said he was feeding the Muslim Brotherhood – well – maybe that was his plan.

there is NO country in the world like the Constitutional Republic of the United States of America, there are some that are close, perhaps, like Canada and Australia. But NO WHERE is there the Liberty and Freedom guaranteed by our constitution to every one of our citizens, male, female, black, white, red, yellow and even religion. We are very tolerant to all religions, we may say many things, question even God, but we don’t go around killing people for what they believe or what they say. That Americans think the rest of the world is like us only means they are ignorant of the world. Someone was yammering last night about how we had “liberated” the people of Libya – bull, out of the frying pan and into the fire of the Muslim Brotherhood and Sharia law to the hilt. We did those people no favors. Obama did the same thing with Egypt, knowing that the Muslim Brotherhood was the only real organized entity that could take over from Mubarak. We are in the same process of trying to turn Syria over to the Muslim Brotherhood

at what point to you let Shiia and Sunni kill each other and protect ourselves. Don’t tell me about Muslim extremism – they are ALL extreme – and they chanted yesterday exactly how they all feel about the USofA and western culture. they HATE us and wish us dead. What part of that doesn’t Obama understand.

Romney should walk carefully and merely point out that this is Obama’s making, Obama is the Democrat President, it is his problem – just as it was Carter’s problem with Iran – and the similarities are remarkably similar. A pacifist, appeasing President with no hint of what to do. He is a little child still playing in the sand box with grown ups that play with guns.

Yes, Romney should take the Reagan approach – let Obama hang on his own petard.

The Muslims KNOW Obama – chicken poop coward appeaser that he is. Obama is NO commander in chief – I would not be surprised if a top general took him into custody for a military court martial – CIC indeed – Obama couldn’t lead a pack of dogs to a bone.

I’ve a better one – go to Egypt or Libya.

This is the bad dream of a Carter rerun.

McCain – does that speak for it

warmongers – McCain remembering his glory days as a POW with his girlfriend Jane – and the ever anti-war gunboater Kerry.

and essentially spit in the face of our oldest enemy and greatest ally – England.

good point…

ROMNEY ABSOLUTELY DID the right thing to show a contrast — that there are adults in the wings capable of filling the empty Oval Office and chair. Notice the polls swing? The liberals are not only livid but scared. The strategy to show a man who could be President worked. I believe Erick is correct, that future President Romney appear at major points when Obama is MIA to contrast but allow surrogates to do most of the next administration’s bidding.
I had posted on the need for him to show the US electorate some Presidential chutzpah in an our that Obama was sleeping (right after his critical 9/11 radio interview with “Pimp the Limp” in Miami.) 8 hours before Romney trumped the incompetent occupying the WHite House.
The mainstream media conspiracy that occured at Romney’s presidential-like morning briefing not only trumped an MIA Obama but was an awesome event proving to even the most ignorant how the liberal deck is stacked – come hell, highwater, or incompetency, the liberal communications industry is in bed with itself — and the Ivy League children they help elect.
See post 12:54 AM 9/12 counseling Romney to do this for additional insights: http://www.redstate.com/jamesmpratt/2012/09/12/romney-must-offer-daily-leadership-to-america-or-where-is-the-president/

“Romney should kick this President, at every opportunity, until he stops wiggling.”

GOOD ONE!
Romney should be making 5 stops a day, laying down a steady barrage on Obama’s anti-constitution, job-killing, debt-growing, economy-damaging, freedom-destroying failed, bankrupt kleptocratic policies.