Mitt Romney NH: Romney blows off Paul supporter's questions

[Napoleon's Shadow]

planting people in the audience to "appear" to be Romney supporters is what I was referring to.
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I don't think anyone was "planted" by anyone. A guy with a camera was asking questions, he just happens to be a supporter of RP according to him.

 

[Teaser Rate]

I think Romney handled the situation perfectly. There's no reason why he should even acknowledge an antagonistic person's presence, much less try to answer complicated questions on the way to a speech.

When there's nothing to be gained from answering a question, the right thing to do is to just keep on walking and smiling. I hope that Ron and Rand would do the same if ambushed by questions about drugs or the CRA.

 

[LibertyEagle]

What I don't get, is why anyone thinks Mitt is electable. The middle angry Tea Party types won't vote for him and would just stay home with the SoCons like they did with Dole and McCain. The liberals will support Obama if he was caught texting his wiener. So, Mitt is probably, along with Pawlenty the most unelectable of them all, just based on known historical voting trends. Not to mention that if he did win and governed mostly identical to Obama, the media would call him a far right extremist and blame us for all his back worse than Bush policies. Look at that far right wacko the media now hates: Scott Brown. He practically sells his soul to the Dems and they curse him for it. RINO's are worse than worthless because they undermine our very principles.

Scott Brown is "far right"? He seems like far left to me. He's a big government guy.

 

[Nate G.]

Nate, they are fair questions. It doesn't matter who asks them. Do you not agree? Don't you think the American people deserve to know? Don't YOU want to know the answers? It's not like they are cheap shots.

I didn't say they were cheap shots. They are free to ask the questions, and Mitt is free to ignore them if he chooses.

 

[Nate G.]

I don't think anyone was "planted" by anyone. A guy with a camera was asking questions, he just happens to be a supporter of RP according to him.

LOL. How can such statement I made be misinterpretation so many ways? I didn't say that you planted anyone. It was what you were saying you should do.

 

[low preference guy]

I think Romney handled the situation perfectly. There's no reason why he should even acknowledge an antagonistic person's presence, much less try to answer complicated questions on the way to a speech.

When there's nothing to be gained from answering a question, the right thing to do is to just keep on walking and smiling. I hope that Ron and Rand would do the same if ambushed by questions about drugs or the CRA.

LOL!!!!

Whether the debt ceiling should be raised and whether title II of the CRA should've been passed are not comparable issues in the minds of voters. If you don't answer the question of whether the debt ceiling should be raised, you lose votes.

 

[Teaser Rate]

LOL!!!!

Whether the debt ceiling should be raised is and whether title II of the CRA should've been passed are not comparable issues in the minds of voters. If you don't answer the question of whether the debt ceiling should be raised, you lose votes.

Name one politician who lost because he didn't answer enough questions directly.

 

[low preference guy]

Name one politician who lost because he didn't answer enough questions directly.

I can tell you that any politician who doesn't answer this question directly will lose votes, but a politician who ignores the CRA will not lose votes.

 

[Teaser Rate]

I can tell you that any politician who doesn't answer this question directly will lose votes, but a politician who ignores the CRA will not lose votes.

Romney was asked the question last night and didn't answer it. No one seemed to be bothered by his non-answer.

The Treasury Department says the United States will hit its credit limit on August the 2nd. Do you believe we will ultimately have to raise the debt ceiling?

ROMNEY: I believe we will not raise the debt ceiling unless the president finally, finally is willing to be a leader on issues that the American people care about. And the number one issue that relates to that debt ceiling is whether the government is going to keep on spending money they don't have.

And the American people and Congress and every person elected in Washington has to understand we want to see a president finally lay out plans for reining in the excesses of government.

You've heard on here a whole series of ideas about entitlements. And that's about 60 percent of federal spends. That's a big piece. That's a big chunk. Ideas from all these people up here.

Where are the president's ideas?

Each person has different ideas here. We can try them and try different ideas in different states and different programs at the federal level.

But why isn't the president leading? He isn't leading on balancing our budget and he's not leading on jobs. He's failed the American people both in job creation and the scale the government.

VAUGHN: Governor --

ROMNEY: And that's why he's not going to be reelected.

VAUGHN: Governor, what happens if you don't raise it? What happens then? Is it OK not to?

ROMNEY: Well, what happens if we continue to spend time and time again, year and year again more money than we take in?

What we say to America is: at some point, you hit a wall. At some point, people around the world say, "I'm not going to keep loaning money to America to pay these massive deficits pay for them because America can't pay them back and the dollar is not worth anything anymore." In that circumstance, we saddled our future -- the future of our kids in a way that is just unacceptable.

And so, you're going to see Republicans stand up and say, "Mr. President, lay down plans to balance this budget." If he does so, if we gets Democrats to come at that time table and honestly deal with the challenges we have, with the entitlement challenges, with the spending and discretionary accounts, with our jobs issues, and finally say you know what? We really can't afford another trillion dollars of Obamacare.

Based on that answer, I have absolutely no idea whether Romney would raise the debt ceiling or not if it was his call to make.

...and these kinds of answers are why he's the frontrunner.

 

[steph3n]

Seems to me that Dave is too well known to the Romney staff, that one guy while he was walking backwards telling him not to hit that table...

Seems to me to be even more arrogant when they know exactly who it is(rather well known in political circles indie media) and could use it as a point to win over people and not piss off.

Ridley's style is a bit odd to me, especially the ads. Ahh they get on my nerves. I don't mind a good ad at all but the weird voices on them go to my skull and make it rattle.

 

[smtwngrl]

I think Romney handled the situation perfectly. There's no reason why he should even acknowledge an antagonistic person's presence, much less try to answer complicated questions on the way to a speech.

But, first of all, the person asking the questions was not antagonistic. He was just asking the questions. And they were perfectly acceptable questions. If Romney didn't want to answer questions right then, he could have said "No questions now", or some such thing. This would have at least have acknowledged the person's presence.

Not to do so, but to ignore him as though he wasn't there, all the while walking on and talking to others around them, comes across as arrogant and condescending. And this isn't the first time I've seen Romney coming across as arrogant and condescending.