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Open Thread: Romney Responds to a Heckler

By: Jake (Diary)  |  August 13th, 2012 at 03:30 PM  | 

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Some of you have probably seen this already, but Mitt Romney gave a nice response to a heckler at the Paul Ryan “Homecoming” rally in Waukesha, WI, this weekend.

The best embeddable version of Romney taking it to this heckler that I can find is this:

Breitbart has a full video feed of the incident here.

Romney’s exactly right about Obama, too. He needs to take his campaign out of the gutter and focus on the real issues that concern Americans. Of course, I don’t actually expect Mr. Obama to heed that advice, since he has no real record of dealing successfully with those issues to run on. Nevertheless, it’s still good to remind people of this fact.

Also, this isn’t the first time Mitt Romney has done this sort of thing. He gave a nice response to a contraception heckler back in March.

Mitt Romney: He eats hecklers for breakfast.

Consider this an open thread.

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  • wintermute

    about volunteering. I am so stoked about this one and its going to be important here in Va. I hope I can get alot done.

    • Melody Warbington (rwm52)

      Don’t wait on them to get back to you. Find out when their next meeting is and show up. Find out what it takes to become a member (if you’re not one already), i.e., do you have to pay dues, fill out a form, etc. Then volunteer for any grunt work that comes up whether it’s working a booth at a local event for voter registration or stuffing mailers. Register to help GOTV campaigns for local/state candidates.

      You may already be further along than what I’ve mentioned, but just in case…

      • wintermute

        thanks for the suggestion

        • audax

          Here are two Diary’s about getting involved:

          http://www.redstate.com/audax/2011/01/05/want-to-be-a-decider-show-up-at-your-monthly-county-gop-meeting/

          http://www.redstate.com/audax/2011/01/04/be-a-precinct-delegate-how-i-did-it-in-mi-tx-and-co/

          Wishing you the best in your efforts to make a better GOP and America!

  • rbdwiggins

    If you’re using the old embed code, which you did, you can change the size of the player by editing the ‘height’ and ‘width’ in the code.

    By changing to (width=”450″) or less (in both places of the embed code), the player will fit within the margins of the post.

    Go smaller than (width=”450″) if posting in a comment. Careful though… Proportionality becomes an issue.

    • http://jakespeaks.wordpress.com/ Jake Walker

      I just forgot to alter it in the code. Thankfully, one of our moderators did so.

  • lineholder

    What is the second on the list???

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/what-paul-rya-n-and-shirtless-have-in-common/2012/08/12/72b0e872-e419-11e1-a25e-15067bb31849_blog.html

    • Bill S
      • lineholder

        They had an article up at Legal Insurrection about the turnout in NC on Sunday with Romney/Ryan. A joke was made about how many women turned out (shocking, isn’t it?)

        And a Big Government article about the same event recorded a tweet from someone saying “You’d think a boy band walked into thousands of teenage girls”.

        But until today, it never once crossed my mind that Ryan had…groupies.

        Bet a lot of men are wondering why their wives are suddenly interested in politics!!!

        Seriously, I’m glad for the interest, and I hope Romney/Ryan will capitalize on it.

        • lineholder

          The numbers posted for the High Point, NC, Romney/Ryan event were 10,000+ The numbers for Mooresville, NC event were 4700, but they turned people away because of fire regulations.

          Biden draw in Durham, NC….approximately 700 people. In Durham. There are three strongholds of liberalism in NC. Durham, Raleigh, and Charlotte. To have only 700 show up in Durham….oh, yeah, that was a hard-blow punch to the Obama campaign if there ever was one.

          http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/13/biden-campaigns-before-a-crowd-of-660-in-north-carolina/

  • Viet71

    Not polished, but honest and to-the-point.

    Too bad so many see him as evil incarnate.

    He should be able to slaughter Obama in the debates.

    • Common_Cents

      Did ya see the lineup of debates and moderators?

      WHAT on EARTH are Republicans DOING? Agreeing to these HACK moderators?

      You know the questions and format will be set up to do the most damage to Romney/Ryan. Do you think there will be even ONE question in Ryan’s wheelhouse?

      I just don’t get why the GOP is oblivious to the outright lying media propaganda war being waged on them. The media is the DEMS achilles heel, if we target it, alinsky the media elites, we can expose the DEMS huge and largely neutralize their media weapon.

  • Melody Warbington (rwm52)

    Why can’t Romney enlist Rubio, Fortuno, Martinez and others with ties to Hispanic communities to campaign for him in areas outside of their own back yards? Send them to other states with the specific mission to communicate our message or make ads with them and blast them over the airwaves in areas where we can most likely increase our percentage of the overall Hispanic vote?

    • checkmate2012

      looked up on MittRomney.com again, knowing he had a Hispanic Leadership Team, with all the names you cited. It’s call Juntos Con Romney.

      It’s a who’s who of Hispanic conservatives and they need to be out there front and center at whatever venue they can either attend or drum up.

      I looked at the website again thinking that there would be some events I could attend. especially to hear Rubio or Fortuno. Plus, while TX will deliver the second most delegates, we get no action whatsoever here…taken for granted. But Republicans should be courting our Hispanic population here as we are nearing 40%! This is not a state to take for granted for ever!

      Here’s the leadership list from www.mittromney.com:

      National Chairmen:

      Secretary Carlos Gutierrez
      Jose Fuentes
      Hector Barreto

      Honorary Co-Chairmen And Co-Chairwomen:

      Gov. Luis Fortu?o (Puerto Rico)
      Gov. Brian Sandoval (NV)
      Gov. Susana Martinez (NM)
      Sen. Marco Rubio (FL)

      National Advisory Board:

      Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL)
      Former Sen. Mel Martinez (FL)
      Former Gov. Jeb Bush (FL)
      Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA)
      Former Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart (FL)
      Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (FL)
      Rep. Raul Labrador (ID)
      Rep. Quico Canseco (TX)
      Former Interior Secretary and Former Rep. Manuel Lujan (NM)
      State Sen. Anitere Flores (FL)
      George P. Bush
      Rudy Fernandez
      Josefina Carbonell
      Cari Dominguez

      • Melody Warbington (rwm52)

        At one of our more recent GOP events, those in charge let us know that the Romney campaign would be focusing $ and materials where most needed and most effective.

        Since Alabama is a pretty sure bet, we’re not likely to get much in the way of signs, buttons, etc., although Romney is heading our way on Wednesday for a high-priced fundraiser. Knowing how important it is that we win those swing states, I understand spending the money first and foremost in those areas. In fact, as I’ve mentioned before, my local tea party is sending folks to Florida to help GOTV, and AL-GOP is focusing efforts in helping Florida, Virginia and NC.

        • checkmate2012

          so maybe taken for granted was a bit strong. I think we agree that this great Hispanic Leadership team should be out there and I haven’t seen any evidence except for attending a Romney stop in their state or when Rubio was in Vegas by himself for a fundraiser.

          We all know that we need to win with a large margin and getting more of the Hispanic vote in every state, even red states, would help alot.

          And I’ll repeat that TX can’t be taken for granted forever. The GOP needs to court and win over the hearts and minds of Hispanics now before it’s too late as the population changes and the Dems have a near monopoly.

          Note, I’m not saying and I don’t believe that Hispanics are a monolithic group but we know from polling and past elections, their propensity is to vote Dem.

          • Melody Warbington (rwm52)

            and I hope they take our advice. What’s the point of having a Hispanic Leadership Team if you don’t send them out, right? Maybe things will pick up after the convention.

          • reclaimit

            Great point about Texas. Demographically, it may well be that white male influence at the polls is no longer the determining factor in national elections. We can’t take it for granted in Texas, as if it’s forever. Best to make inroads into the Hispanic communities now rather than later. We may find ourselves running an Hispanic candidate in 2016, and grassroots work is work that can never begin too soon.

  • proudmarinemom

    We have been on a foundering ship since that terrible day in November, 2008 when we saw the shoals ahead, but could not stem the treacherous tide. We have been frozen and stiff with fear and pain. We have been stranded so long, we cannot trust the sight of a light onshore. Slowly, cautiously, we are clambering down the ropes toward real hope,

    It has only been a day (or has it been two?) and we are still clinging to old doubts. But wait until we get our land legs and raise our fists against the deep, and shake heaven and earth. Just wait, Mr. Obama.

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