Newsweek
Mitt Romney confronted accusations of being a "wimp" while traveling in Israel over the weekend.
"If I worried about what the media said I wouldn't get much sleep, and I'm able to sleep pretty well," the presumptive Republican nominee said in response to Newsweek's name-calling cover story.
Michael Tomasky's article, titled "Mitt Romney's Wimp Factor" questions whether Mitt is fit to be president based on his history of snubbing reporters, not standing up to right-wingers, and being shady over his tax returns among other things. His string of "astonishing faux pas" during overseas trip only adds to speculation by critics that he can't handle challenges on the job — at home or overseas.
"He's kind of lame, and he's really... annoying. He keeps saying these... things, these incredibly off-key things," the article reads. "Then he apologizes immediately — with all the sincerity of a hostage. Or maybe he doesn't: sometimes he whines about the subsequent attacks on him. But the one thing he never does? Man up, double down, take his lumps."
The article is a spin-off of the mag's controversial 1987 "wimp" cover, starring then-VP George H.W. Bush.
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Time for a voice of sanity from the past:
http://www.history.com/speeches/johnson-signs-medicare-bill-into-law#johnson-signs-medicare-bill-into-law
He puts the GOP to shame.
At least he didn't have to ask his wife if he could donate to his own campaign. Talk about a wimp.
From the way you look the last few weeks, my guess would be that's exactly what has happened. The best thing you can do is shut your mouth and go hide out in one of your many houses.
Let me see, mentioning two problems with security that all the world's press had been focusing on is a faux pas? Abd mentioning that he had met and been briefed by the head of Britian's M1-6 intelligence service that all the world knows the existance of since World War II (their version of our CIA that briefs all of our Presidential candidates) is a faux pas?
Give me a break! I've never seen anything sillier than that since Nixon's being assailed for the gift of his dog Checkers as our nations Vice President. But when you are desperate to get the eyes off of the incumbant president's disasterous policies that are sinking our economy into a growing black hole of consumer and worker and businessmen and women's despondency, you will go to the absured in your efforts. Nice Job, Michael Tomlinson, you NYC media metrosexual whimp!.
Man, Grandpa, your history teacher's ghost is gonna haunt you in your dreams tonight after that Nixon shinola. The charge against against Nixon wasn't about his accepting a puppy: it was about his accepting campaign money for later government favors, and he used Checkers as the biggest slab of red herring you ever saw to cover his hiney...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkers_speech
Such a fund was not illegal at the time, but it exposed Senator Nixon, who had made a point of attacking government corruption, to charges he might be giving special favors to the contributors.
Now let's tell the kids the rest of the story of about that wonderful, wise, and honest President Richard M. Nixon... How he brought the Vietnam War to a successful conclusion, gave us a stable and growing economy with lots of jobs, and served out his two terms with dignity, as did his vice president, Spiro T. Agnew.
Romney has been defined: Mitt the Wimp... Nothing's changed since he led a groupof prep school bullies in that hazing episode of a gay student...
Strawman. This is a discussion of Mitt Romney, not Richard Nixon.
Mitt Romney, wimp. Mitt Romney, bully. Mitt Romney, too rigid. Mitt Romney, too flexible. Mitt Romney, unfeeling businessman. Mitt Romney, not a REAL businessman. Blah blah blah.
Mitt Romney will be the next Bill Clinton. He will bring prosperity back to America. Let's give him a try.