Romney Bus Circles and Honks At Obama Once Again
Talk about lowering the bar on the behavior of a major candidate. Here we go again:
For the second time in as many weeks, Mitt Romney’s campaign taunted President Barack Obama outside a speech.
Romney’s campaign bus circled Obama’s fundraiser at Boston Symphony Hall Monday night several times, according to Romney deputy press secretary Ryan Williams and verified by several onlookers who said it was honking its horn as it passed.
Williams told BuzzFeed that the bus made “a few” laps before local police closed the roads around the venue before Obama’s arrival. They plan on bringing the bus back after Obama leaves to attend another fundraiser.
A question for Romney’s advisors: could you imagine Ronald Reagan allowing that to happen? Or even Richard Nixon (Nixon would have made sure it was not a bus clearly from his campaign)?
Or Dwight Eisenhower?
Or Barry Goldwater?
Or Gerald Ford?
Or George H.W. Bush?
Or Bob Dole?
Or George W. Bush?
Or John McCain?
Am I a bit wrong here or is this a campaign for President of the United States and not for college student body President?
Mr. Romney: take my advice. Put that bus driver and those who advise him on the roof of the bus — or throw them under the bus. ASAP.
How do you think this will go over with those in the crowd who may be wavering?
What image do you think independent voters will get from this?
But it fits in with the way our partisan politics works now: it’s in your face, aggressive stunts. Waging a campaign on the basis of assertive policy debates is so borrrrrrrrrrrring..
FOOTNOTE: And if the Dems retaliate in kind then they’re demeaning their candidate just as much as the GOPers involved are demeaning theirs.
Share This
What a pack of children.
Exactly…my first thought was “How childish!”. My 6 year old behaves better than that.
Kinda reminds me of Clinton’s staff taking all the “W’s” off the computer keyboards when 43 was taking office.
The missing W’s is a great story if not true, but it never hurts to bring it up one more time.
The GAO report, after interviewing 79 Clinton aides and 72 Bush aides, determined there was $20,000 in replacement damages. The GAO says the damage included 62 missing computer keyboards, 26 cell phones, two cameras, ten antique doorknobs and several presidential medallions and office signs. About the same amount of replacement costs between Bush I and Clinton. The GAO investigator took 9 months on the inspection and found no evidence of vandalism, no evidence of wires slashed, no evidence of equipment damaged, and no evidence or anything to match the allegations. No record of the cost of employing this investigator is available.
Or, Clinton. Nah.
Send a drone over the bus with a can of red paint, sez I.
No amount of bad behavior on the part of the Romney campaign will surprise me. Negativity is really all they have. It isn’t like they can run on record or substance.
This is dangerous behavior, very reminiscent of the bullying tactics of nascent totalitarian parties in pre WWII Europe. It’s not the time to scold these thugs as children, but to condemn them as the extreme right wing foot soldiers that they really are. The media must rise up in unison to condemn them and lead the outcry to stop them.
Zephry, “No amount of bad behavior on the part of the Romney campaign will surprise me. Negativity is really all they have. It isn’t like they can run on record or substance.”
Exactly. Romney supporters seem to support him because he’s not Obama, he will get rid of Obamacare (if we still have it after this week), he will create jobs and balance the budget…. Though they (Romney’s supporters) have no idea how he will accomplish the last two bits.
And if the SCOTUS upholds some provisions of Obamacare, then will Romney get rid of those provisions the Supreme Court upheld in its ruling? With a SCOTUS ruling that allows some provisions of the healthcare law to continue, suddenly one of the main arguments of conservatives to do away with Obamacare (that it’s unconstitutional) is no longer valid. The argument becomes slightly more difficult to justify any presidential or Republican override of the remaining healthcare provisions.
Zephyr, sorry for the transposition of the last two letters in your name in my above posting. No way to edit these days.
“Am I a bit wrong here or is this a campaign for President of the United States and not for college student body President?”
You are too kind.
A friend of mine was running for student body president in college. Down at the library in the center of campus, he was at one end of the square, shaking hands and introducing himself to anyone who’d talk to him. His opponent was standing at the other end handing out flyers and telling everyone “don’t forget to vote today.”
Of course, that was back when that dirty RINO Ronald Reagan was busy making deals with that commie Tip O’Neill.
No problem StockBoy. I agree with your comments – of course.
I agree with drbob10001–this is reminiscent of the brutality tactics in Germany (by Nazis and Communists) in the late 1920′s and early 1930′s. This is not just some stupid prank. Romney’s campaign seems to have “planned” this (although I will hold my opinion on whether or not Romney himself knew). This must be condemned in the harshest terms.