May 21, 2012
Archive: Verbatim
To pick a VP thinking it will be a game-changer is highly unlikely.
— Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R), in a CBS News interview, downplaying expectations for Mitt Romney’s running mate search.
One of the lasting effects of the Post’s story is that Ann Romney will probably stop telling us that her husband is still “the boy that I met in high school when he was playing all the jokes and really just being crazy.”
Dan Amira, writing in New York magazine a post called, “Mitt Romney Apologizes for That Horrible Thing He Can’t Remember.”
I do not believe Romney has no memory of this. I believe he is lying. His absurd statement that he has no memory of the event but that he didn’t target the boy for being gay is hilarious for its self-contradiction. A boy who routinely snickered ‘Atta girl!’ when one young gay kid in his class spoke up is not just bashing hippies. I went to an all boys high school in the 1970s. What Romney did was a gay-bashing.
— Andrew Sullivan, writing in the Daily Beast.
With Dicks in, all 6 WA congressional Democrats favor repeal of gay-marriage ban
— Seattle Times, with a reference to Rep. Norm Dicks (D-WA).
Sometimes dads should lead their family in the right ways of thinking. In this case, it would’ve been nice if the President would’ve been an actual leader and helped shape their thoughts instead of merely reflecting what many teenagers think after one too many episodes of Glee.
— Bristol Palin, unwed teen mother and “Dancing with the Stars” loser, commenting on President Obama’s justification for supporting gay marriage. Yo, Bris, where’s Levi?
I give my full support to Mitchell Romney. He has the makings of a great dictator. He is incredibly wealthy, but pays no taxes. And it’s not much of a leap to go from firing people to firing squads, and from putting pets on the top of a car to putting political dissidents on top of them.
— Sacha Baron Cohen, in character as “The Dictator,” endorsing Mitt Romney at a mock press conference. The movie is out on May 16.
You’re gonna be left with a party that is very pure and increasingly inconsequential. And a political system that is increasingly unable to get off the dime.
— Former Sen. John Danforth (R-MO), in an interview with ThinkProgress, if ideological purges continue in the Republican party.
I think it’s going to work for or against the President on its own. Republicans should stay the heck out of it.
— Rudy Giuliani, in an interview on CBS News, on President Obama’s decision to support gay marriage.
In the zero-sum world of what’s likely to be an airtight campaign, any day Obama can redirect the national conversation away from the economy is a good day in Chicago and a bad day in Boston. Romney can’t get back the last three days and will probably lose most of Thursday in the analytical aftermath of Obama’s embrace of gay marriage. … It may sound cynical, but this math is real. The focus on gay marriage allowed Obama to speak to a key voting bloc, one that also punches well above its weight in terms of campaign dollars. Obama’s recipe for reelection is melding motivated constituencies. This isn’t 2008 and waves of enthusiasm. This is micro-targeting and constituent corralling. In the gay community and among those sympathetic to its agenda, Obama has earned their energy, votes, and dollars.
— Major Garrett, writing in the National Journal.
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