There’s Irony, Then There’s DeMintery, Then There’s Defudgery (Now With Added Asshattery)

From ABC News:

Republican Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina, who has yet to endorse a GOP presidential candidate, said today he thinks Mitt Romney needs to work on his empathy.

DeMint dismissed attacks that portray Romney as a greedy capitalist, calling them “political talk” ...

And you can’t have political talk sullying the serious business of choosing a prospective president.

... but he told ABC News Romney needs to better explain layoffs that occurred while he ran Bain Capital and express empathy for those workers.

While we await an upgrade to Mittbot 2.1.1, the GOP frontrunner clown shoes pile-on continues, with Snooki following up Tawd’s lukewarm endorsement of Newt with her own challenge to the heir presumptive, and the WaPo’s laughably inaccurately named “Fact Checker” awarding Newt’s already infamous “King of Bain” ad four Pinnochios:

Romney may have opened the door to this kind of attack with his suspect job-creation claims, but that is no excuse for this highly misleading portrayal of Romney’s years at Bain Capital. Only one of the four case studies directly involves Romney and his decision-making, while at least two are completely off point. The manipulative way the interviews appeared to have been gathered for the UniMac segment alone discredits the entire film.

Approached for a comment, Newt Gingrich said:

More: Rick Perry gets caught in the crossfire:

After Perry described rival Mitt Romney’s work at Bain Capital as “vulture capitalism” (rather than venture capitalism), Limbaugh lashed out.

“That is indefensible!” he said on his EIB broadcast today. “It’s absurd…this is the language of leftists! This is the way Fidel Castro thinks, or says he thinks.”

As you probably know, Limbaugh is no fan of Romney, whom he views as a flip-flopper and a closet moderate. He says he’s irked because Perry and others are going after Romney on “the one thing he’s actually pretty clearly conservative about.” He directed his ire at both Perry and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

“The attacks that they’ve mounted on Romney are indefensible,” Limbaugh said today.

Anybody in the vicinity of Rush Limbaugh is advised to duck and cover.

Posted by YAFB on 01/13/12 at 01:59 PM • Permalink

It’s fun looking at how some of the righty blogs are dealing with this “debunking.” Check out Col. Mustard (not a fan of Romney), and for once I’d highly recommend a read of at least the early comments.

Hey, we’ve outsourced our oppo research!

Politifact isn’t helping (Romney):

We did a nationwide database search of real estate transactions, deeds and tax records. Initially, our search turned up 16 addresses affiliated in recent years with Mitt Romney or his wife, Ann. But further research enabled us to rule out the bulk of these because they either had been sold or because they represented commercial properties rather than residences.

We were left with three properties that appear to be residences currently owned by Mitt Romney or his wife:

• A home in La Jolla, Calif., an affluent ocean front neighborhood adjoining San Diego, Calif. This property, bought by the couple in 2008 for $12 million and assessed at $8.7 million in 2010, has been the subject of news reports that the Romneys plan to tear down the existing house and undertake a significant expansion. We will address that issue in a separate fact check.

• A condominium in Ann Romney’s name in Belmont, Mass., assessed at $773,000.

• A home in Wolfeboro, N.H., on Lake Winnipesaukee, assessed at $4.3 million. Ann Romney is listed as the owner of the 2.3-acre property, purchased for $2.5 million in 1997. A second, 6.3-acre property nearby, also in Ann Romney’s name, appears to be a combination boathouse and stable with living quarters. It is assessed at $2.5 million. News reports indicate that the Romneys upgraded their Wolfeboro property with tennis courts and other amenities.

The Romney campaign did not comment to PolitiFact on the number of houses the family owns.

Wow, that one commenter at Colonel Mustard’s joint had some interesting excerpts from this book to share. Hmmm.

Newt has actually piped up. He’s calling on his SuperPAC to frisk the ad for truthiness or pull it, and calling on Romney to do the same with his widely panned SuperPAC hatchet jobs on Newt.

It’s carnage out there. CNBC thought it had some sort of “Gotcha!” on Obama, but:

A previous story incorrectly reported that Mitt Romney’s former firm, Bain & Co., was part of a team of consulting companies that advised President Barack Obama on a decision to shutter car dealerships during the auto bailout.

Bain & Co. said it has no connection to the “Bain Consulting” firm referenced in government documents.

And Steve Benen’s having a ball with Mitt’s latest defensive ad:

Mitt Romney has a new ad out this morning, which, in addition to moving the job-creation goal posts, defends the candidate’s private-sector business practices at Bain Capital. Hoping to bolster Romney’s record, the commercial highlights an Indiana company called Steel Dynamics.
...

What Romney doesn’t mention is that Steel Dynamics also received generous tax breaks and other subsidies provided by the state of Indiana and the residents of DeKalb County, where the company’s first mill was built. ...

The former governor, on the campaign trail, likes to tell voters that government “gets in the way of creating jobs.” Romney apparently didn’t feel this way when he relied on government handouts as part of his business deals.

The Steel Dynamics example is especially interesting — the community even had to levy a new income tax to help finance Romney’s venture.

However this type of behavior does not really surprise me from someone who would even think of strapping the family dog to the roof of the car and sailing along the highway for a 12 hour trip while the poor mutt crapped himself with terror.

And no wonder Romney won’t release his tax returns.

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