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Friday, February 3, 2012

2012 What Happened in Vegas: Mitt Romney Tries to Pretend Donald Trump's Endorsement Never Happened

Posted by on Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 11:26 AM

Yesterday, Barack Obama's official Twitter feed tweeted video of Donald Trump's endorsement of Mitt Romney. The only comment, before the link to the video: "In case you missed it."

You don't have to be a political expert to know that when your opponent posts your message without any kind of spin, you've made a terrible mistake. An even bigger sign that the Romney campaign has made a huge mistake? There's absolutely no reference to yesterday's Trump endorsement anywhere on Romney's official Twitter feed. The feed mentions endorsements all the time. But if you're just looking at official Romney materials, it's like the Trump endorsement never happened. It's not on the Romney site's home page. A quick search of that site just turns up one lonely press release from yesterday. (John McCain, by contrast, pulls up multiple hits.)

Romney's trying to have it both ways, here. The Trump endorsement, as I said yesterday, was necessary to shore up the fringe, idiot base of the Republican Party. But Romney knows that Trump is a joke, so the official campaign spin is to pretend it never happened. The motherfucker is twisting in the wind, right now, and Newt Gingrich's comment that Romney "is counting on us not having YouTube" is seeming more true every single day.

 

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Supreme Ruler Of The Universe 1
BEST SEX I EVER HAD!


Mitt should bain Trump's ass.

Bain him, Mitt!

Bain him!!!
Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe http://yrihf.com on February 3, 2012 at 11:36 AM
Will in Seattle 2
God, I am so sick of those ads on all the business channels, drive me crazy.
Posted by Will in Seattle http://www.facebook.com/WillSeattle on February 3, 2012 at 11:51 AM
dirac 3
I am not seeing how this is a HUGE mistake. To me it almost never did happen because I don't care who supports Romney much less a fake billionaire who's bankrupted 'his' companies more times than I've started a new job.
Posted by dirac on February 3, 2012 at 12:02 PM
Vince 4
It's like a Richie Rich comic book.
Posted by Vince on February 3, 2012 at 12:04 PM
You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me 5
Mitt will survive this. Obama survied Jeramiah Wiright, Bill Ayers and Louis Farrakan...
Posted by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me on February 3, 2012 at 12:34 PM
Phoebe in Wallingford 6
I don't any element of the GOP particularly likes Trump. You'd get the same downplay from Gingrich, Santorum, or Paul if one of them got Donald's nod.
Posted by Phoebe in Wallingford on February 3, 2012 at 12:39 PM
blip 7
Trump's endorsement won't singlehandedly destroy Romney but it dovetails nicely with the whole "I like to fire people" / "I don't care about poor people" meme. It's alarming how tone-deaf Romney is.
Posted by blip on February 3, 2012 at 12:48 PM
8
America to Romney: You're fired!

America to Trump: Get a job!!!!
Posted by sgt_doom on February 3, 2012 at 3:11 PM
9
Wasn't Trump supposed(or expected) to endorse Newt? Brilliant! The only way for him to do that is to stain Mitt with the battshit stamp.
Posted by Curtis Interruptus on February 4, 2012 at 2:04 PM

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