Romney did a great job responding to a heckler, then turned it on Obama telling him to get his campaign out of the gutter. Fantastic.

Consider this your open thread for tonight.




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Gregory Bradford
Gregory Bradford

FING JERK that will not let the people question and or respond to citizens protest!

I would invite them on stage what are you screaming about? If they were to protest Afghanistan, chemical, and biological warfare, the misuse of HAARP, I would embrace this persons first amendment right give them them right to be heard not herded! What a shameful display! THat's not a heckler, that's an American Freedom Fighter confronting the NAZI's of THE NEW WORLD ORDER! WE now have a one world government! SHame on us for allowing them to trash our Constitution!

guppymanster
guppymanster

My health care has gone up by 3,000 dollars and I may not be able to keep my doctpr and Barack Obama is a pathetic liar, over and over again.

HeadHunter54
HeadHunter54

Nothing but class VS a horse's a$$..........

Mike Gutowski
Mike Gutowski

Romney's Team needs to come up with some Zingers for the Hecklers, like:

Shouldn't you be working? Oh that's right, no jobs.

or

How much is the DNC paying you to play the horse's ass mascot today?

or

President Obama's speech is in (name town) today.

or

Vote for me and you can one day heckle a real President.

awfisher
awfisher

I like what I am hearing across many media outlets. The anchors and press core are being questioned and they cannot respond intelligently. If the Romney/Ryan Team keep up this approach, the truth will be told.

Stay on subject and don't bow to the BS.

ali3nation
ali3nation

I have been one of those voters who was not looking forward to having to use my thumb and forefinger to hold my nose while voting for Romney, but now with Ryan on the ticket, I may actually be able to vote and keep my hands away from my face. ROMNEY/RYAN GO.

SPCAndyJ
SPCAndyJ

The biggest insult you can throw at a typical Obama supporter...just chant "USA, USA, USA..." - they hate taking pride in this country more than anything else...

richard40
richard40

I have noticed that Romney seems like a new man the last few days. I think being with Ryan has rejuvinated him. He seems to have a real personality now. If he keeps up this level of energy and personality he will win.

Cathy
Cathy

I totally agree. He's finally looking like a fighter. And he has to be to go up against Obama. Dirty tricks and all. Obama will lose.

Marcus Porcius
Marcus Porcius

Oh no he didn't! I can't believe that's him. Somebody see if he's wearing a mask hehe.

Reality Check
Reality Check

Just gave $50 to Romney. Keep it up, lefties! Keep us angry! Don't let us forget how much we need you out of power.

Gregory Bradford
Gregory Bradford

Try another candidate ,,, Gary Johnson! Tis guys a mess!

crippledoldguy
crippledoldguy

Romney was not my first choice. But once it was obvious he would be the Nominee I supported him all the way. I worked in SLC when he ran the Olympics, he is smart and talented and knows how to bring America back from the brink. Adding Ryan is just a sign of how Intelligent he is. Between the two of them obama/biden doesn't stand a chance. obama cut Medi-care in half to help pay for the ACA TAX. Any old people who vote obama are foolish. Start watching the daily polls especially after any debate. Slowly but surely Romney/Ryan will take the lead. Probably won't be as big as Reagan/Carter but Romney Ryan will win big. Just follow the truth.

TIMERUNNER
TIMERUNNER

Gov. Romney is fired up, this is what Ameicans need to hear from now until November from our Presidential and VP Candidate...sounding American.

tea party patriot

Vote 2012!

ToursLepantoVienna
ToursLepantoVienna

Romney kicking some ass. Good.

Keep the pressure on the charlatan and his clownish veep. They'll wilt.

kong1967
kong1967

Good response, Mitt!

It really pisses me off that the so-called "fact checking" sites call Romney a liar because he says that Obama is gutting work for welfare. They also called him a liar for repeating that Obama said "If you have a business you didn't build that".

Fact checking sites aren't even reliable. If Romney said that Obama was a Muslim earlier in his life they would call him a liar for that, too. I see how it goes. If it doesn't match what the Democrats claim (despite the facts and evidence), Romney is going to be called a liar. Screw the fact checkers.

jmaz
jmaz

Obama doesn't know any other way but dirty to play. He's being financed by some of the most despicable, frightening people on the planet. He's being directed by the most reprehensible political player in the history of campaigns (indeed, he makes Karl Rove blush). Obama has no record to stand on (other than a bad one) so you better believe that Obama and the billionaire socialists that fund him and his "movement" will play every dirty trick in the book - INCLUDING MURDER - to win this race. The manufactured crisis in Aurora; the manufactured crisis in Milwaukee - these are BOTH funded and dreamed up by the Soros machine and they will KEEP HAPPENING unless and until we vote him out of office.

Glitchus Glitch
Glitchus Glitch

I wonder how much the heckler was paid by the Obama campaign?

Mary Thompson
Mary Thompson

The most thrilling part about this was Mitt finally took a page out of Sarah Palin's book and directed that Heckler right back to the source. He finally took on Obama!

dmacleo
dmacleo

somewhat OT,

Scoop how are you getting these quality videos, you recording off tv then transferring?

there are a bunch on youtube of this but none as complete as this one.

searched fox site but did not see it either.

anneinarkansas
anneinarkansas

He did it with class too!!!!!

Welcome back to elegant people in leadership!

actionsspeaklouder
actionsspeaklouder

Yes, finally some people with class and grace and love for America. You can really see the difference - the quality of people the Romneys and Ryans are compared to the low life trash that are the Obamas. The difference is so stark it's almost funny - if it wasn't so frightening.

GeneralAl
GeneralAl

So much for "The Wimp Factor", right MSM?

Vicki Crowther
Vicki Crowther

Being a gentleman with dignity, class, intelligence and grace seems to be taken as a weakness these days. Too bad. I'm sure glad the sleeves have been rolled up!

dk_in_tn
dk_in_tn

Obama supporters will be out there to disrupt all they can. Mitt handled that situation perfectly.

WordsFailMe
WordsFailMe

You are absolutely right! Mitt took the opportunity to turn the issue back to the criminal Barney Soetoro. That is where the conversation should remain.

forgetyoutooo
forgetyoutooo

Obama owns the ICK factor and his supporters prove it.

dmacleo
dmacleo

International Cabal of Kenyans ?

:) :)

yeah he is icky for sure.

Ziv Bnd
Ziv Bnd

Interesting! Conservatives have never had a really good response to extreme leftists disrupting conservative events by heckling, other than frogmarching them out and the left frequently used these techniques to paint the conservatives as being touchy or violent. I really like the use of chanting something positive, something that evokes American victories in the Olympics, to counter an Anti-American technique used mostly, though not exclusively, by the far left.

(I am not a HUGE fan of the USA chant at the olympics, it evokes Team America: World Police just a little too much for me, but it is a heart felt sort of cheer so it does make me smile when it happens, and TA:WP was hilarious to boot, so...)

rplatt1
rplatt1

Obama has nothing left but these mindless, parasitic dirtbags and Romney clearly has the intellect and courage to sink their boats dead in the water.

Lori Patriot
Lori Patriot

Obama the bully mistook Mitt's natural tendency to be mannerly and decent with weakness. Mitt & Paul Ryan have the "right stuff" to get rid of the wrong stuff that Obama has repeatedly shown as President. Blaming others for his failures, dishonesty, cronyism, lying, deceit, corruption, collectivism, dislike of America and Americans, betrayal of allies, not being transparent, failure to lead, poor judgement, low class behavior and disrespect for the office and others. Obama WILL be removed because America recognizes who Obama is. Evil only flourishes when people see it and refuse to combat it. http://www.whyromney.com/praise_new.php Video that shows what Mitt will do and why we must oust Obama. http://youtu.be/qKMDS4cB58U

Whitewolf2009
Whitewolf2009

All that and without a teleprompter too! Romney needs to do more of these kind of speeches. Sometimes he comes across as stodgy and stiff... The above shows him vital, and knowledgeable, in tune with his audience and most of all passionate about his campaign! More like that!

WordsFailMe
WordsFailMe

That's one problem Ryan doesn't have. His speeches reach out and grab you by the throat.

Ritchie The Riveter
Ritchie The Riveter

The only thing that would have made this better: Mr. Romney reminding the world that Mr. Obama has a PROVEN history of vulgar campaigning; clearing the way for his win by "arranging" for scandals to fall upon his opponents.

Nopefull
Nopefull

Obama has set himself up, because the teleprompter doesn't have a compelling story like it did 4 years ago. Obama has never run anything but his mouth, and off teleprompter script, he is just as big a failure at speaking as he is at governing. Americans are tired of anti-exceptionalism agenda and now see his mean-spiritedness that the MSM was able to hide four years ago.

badnewzbearz
badnewzbearz

CBS: Must (snip) . . . keep . . . Mediscare . . . myth . . . alive.

Mr_Miyagi
Mr_Miyagi

I'm hoping the ground rules for the presidential and vice-presidential debates prohibit the use of TelePrompTers. President Pinocchio will lie, of course, and no one in the lapdog media will challenge him on his lies, but perhaps Romney will be prepped well enough to call him out. It would be a lot of fun to see the POTUS sputter, crash, and burn in front of millions of viewers without the TOTUS to feed him a script.

scott osborn
scott osborn

Mitt Romney...I take back all the lack of confidence I had in you. You seem to be hitting it out of the park right and left. You are going to give us a landslide!

bdog57
bdog57

Ya know what would be awesome? If the Romney campaign were to send some hecklers Obama's way. The wouldn't have to interrupt with stupid talking points. They could just chant "U-S-A! U-S-A!" at random moments. Because if there's one thing Team Obama DOESN'T "believe" in, it's America. Patriotism is subversive in their world, so let's aim to misbehave, shall we?

Think of the awesome footage that that would generate: Obama, forced to shout down hecklers shouting "U-S-A". Bwahahaha!

Sara Leslie Griffith
Sara Leslie Griffith

Romney is slightly more or less subtle, depending on your point of view. He sends his bus to drive around the block of an Obama venue, leaning on the horn the whole time. They send cakes that say, "You didn't bake this!" for Obama's birthday. Some have said these are childish pranks, but I don't think so. They are pin pricks designed to get Romney inside Bambi's head and under his skin. I don't know what form future pranks might take, but for sure they will do what narcissists hate most, make them look the fool.

Ritchie The Riveter
Ritchie The Riveter

You mean, get Mr. Romney to live rent-free in Mr. Obama's (and Axelrod's) head?

Seems like a sound investment to me.

It also keeps them honest, by telling them that we are ready and willing to play their game, to give back even better than we get since we have truth and principle on our side ... sending the message "Don't start none, and there won't be none ..."

Chris
Chris

I really don't like the USA USA chant, personally.

I'm sorry but it just seems " frat-boy-ish " to me.

Just my personal taste.

If we had a school system that produced young people who could spontaneously burst out into "America the Beautiful" or "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"...

That would move me to tears.

Until that time, the weak substitute, Olympic-style boosterism of "USA USA" will have to do.

Ignatz Kant
Ignatz Kant

The USA chant was the crowd's spontaneous response to the the heckler.

proudhispanicconservative
proudhispanicconservative

I am sorry but doing that will bring us down to their level and I like to think of us as better people then them

Ritchie The Riveter
Ritchie The Riveter

I respectfully disagree ... we have painfully learned that civility in response to intellectual dishonesty is counterproductive in the defense of liberty, for it allows the dishonest to frame the debate as they see fit.

Subtle, even humorous incivility such as Sarah Leslie Griffith describes above is a great way to get one's message across, and not just to the "target" ... and bdog57's suggestion reminds everyone that Mr. Obama's view is not the only acceptable one out there, even though the MSM - the Ministry of State Messaging - would have you believe otherwise.

We don't have to give as vulgar as we have gotten, but we do have to CONFRONT these purveyors of intellectual dishonesty on every level, in order to overcome the stranglehold they have on mass media ...

... as well as overcome the accepted, conventional wisdom that has allowed them to lead this nation into decline; a conventional wisdom that turns "experts" into the lords of a modern serfdom, where responsibility is assigned according to pocket depth while an artificial "working class" is encouraged to outsource their responsibility, authority, and resources to the "experts". They have had a century to implant that wisdom into our society, and it will not be easy to turn hearts and minds from it.

We need to be as bold and confrontational - and HONEST, a quality which often demands the kinds of confrontation we have avoided as "uncivil" - as the One who, in Matthew chapter 4, confronted the ultimate purveyor of dishonesty with the facts-on-the-ground with a high-and-hearty "IT IS WRITTEN!"

Ziv Bnd
Ziv Bnd

Now that is how conservatives discuss issues. I share proudhispanicconservatives concern about descending to the left's level, but I think ritchie is right too, that we have 'root, hog, or die' in this election. Mitt has to fight on the muddy ground to get to the White House. We can't stay above the fray or we will lose. Mitt looks to be a fighter, as opposed to McCain trying to stay dignified last time.

I think Romney/Ryan looks very good so far.

proudhispanicconservative
proudhispanicconservative

My friend I never saw it that way you have convinced me my fellow patriot we do have to start playing their own game and beat them while we are at it.

Sara Leslie Griffith
Sara Leslie Griffith

Yes, by all means look down your nose at those frontiersmen who ambushed from behind the trees, those ever so proper redcoats, lined up all nice pretty, like ducks in a row. Give me a break! And give me a fighter. We have a country to save!