{"id":7710,"date":"2012-05-08T11:21:40","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T18:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7710"},"modified":"2012-05-08T11:21:40","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T18:21:40","slug":"romney-shows-his-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/08\/romney-shows-his-character\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney Shows His Character"},"content":{"rendered":"

I bet most of you remember that during a 2008 campaign rally for John McCain, a woman who had fallen for one of the standard GOP lies, called Obama an Arab.  McCain, who had so many character defects that I nicknamed him McConJob, at least had the integrity and character to stand up against the hate speech.  On the other hand, in similar incidents during events featuring Sarah Palin, aka Drill Baby Dingbat, she catered to the hate-speakers.  Mitt Romney has demonstrated that he is a Palin, not a McCain.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"8Treason\"Some of Mitt Romney’s best moments on the 2012 campaign trail have come during town hall meetings when the candidate, long criticized as too uptight on the stump, strays off script to take questions from voters.<\/p>\n

But the freewheeling nature of voter forums can have its drawbacks. Romney has faced hostile questions on everything from his wealth to his religion. And on Monday, he experienced another awkward moment, when a supporter stood and declared that President Barack Obama should be "tried for treason."<\/strong><\/p>\n

The comment came during a town hall meeting in Cleveland. Taking the microphone, a woman told Romney that Obama had been "operating outside the structure of our Constitution." Pausing after her question, she remarked to another member of the audience, "I agree, he should be tried for treason."<\/p>\n

Turning back to Romney, she asked what he would do to "restore balance" between the three branches of government and "restore our Constitution." She did not specify why she believed Obama should be "tried for treason"\u2014a comment that received a huge applause from the audience. And when it was his turn to respond, Romney ignored her suggestion about "treason"<\/strong> and instead spoke about how he would "respect the different branches of government."\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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By ignoring her hate speech, Romney gave it credence. <\/font>Ed Schultz covered this political atrocity and interviewed Maxine Waters and Richard Wolfe.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Romney clearly lacks both the courage and integrity to stand up to hateful lies. Therefore he also lacks the character to lead this nation.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I bet most of you remember that during a 2008 campaign rally for John McCain, a woman who had fallen for one of the standard GOP lies, called Obama an Arab.  McCain, who had so many character defects that I nicknamed him McConJob, at least had the integrity and character to stand up against the […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}