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IggleDoer

(1,186 posts)
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 09:14 PM Sep 2012

Is RMoney just plain lazy?

It's about 4 weeks before the first debate and RMoney is taking a week off to prepare for the debate. Has any candidate ever taken so much time off (and so early) just to prepare? Does that show that he's either unqualified or just plain lazy?

He's been running for President for over four years now and has held no other job. You'd think he'd be ready to debate.

The Repubic party makes fun of Obama playing golf. Why does RMoney take this much time off? Lazy, entitled, needy or just stupid?

He has appeared on Fox and other Repubic friendly talk shows and responds only to softball questioning. What is he hiding from?

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fleur-de-lisa

(14,624 posts)
2. You answered your own question . . .
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 09:17 PM
Sep 2012

to date he has only responded to softball questions. No matter who moderates, he won't get away with that in the debates.

Ilsa

(61,690 posts)
4. Either that, or (shudder) the powers-that-be have assured him
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 09:17 PM
Sep 2012

that the gig is in the bag. Let's hope he's just a lazy bum, and that they haven't been able to guarantee they can steal for Rmoney.

Yeah, I think he's a lazy, "entitled", bully, much like GWB*.

rocktivity

(44,572 posts)
5. And the debates don't start for another month!
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 09:18 PM
Sep 2012
First presidential debate:
Jim Lehrer, Executive Editor of the PBS NewsHour
Wednesday, October 3, University of Denver, Denver, CO

Vice presidential debate:
Martha Raddatz, Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent, ABC News
Thursday, October 11, Centre College, Danville, KY

Second presidential debate (town meeting):
Candy Crowley, Chief Political Correspondent, CNN and Anchor, CNN's State of the Union
Tuesday, October 16, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY

Third presidential debate:
Bob Schieffer, Chief Washington Correspondent, CBS News and Moderator, Face the Nation
Monday, October 22, Lynn University, Boca Raton, FL

link



rocktivity

BumRushDaShow

(128,431 posts)
6. Remember when Ghouliani was running in 2008?
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 09:18 PM
Sep 2012

And how he decided that if he won the one state - Florida, then he was in like Flynn? So he basically only campaigned there?

And then he lost that.

bhikkhu

(10,711 posts)
17. Or like Fred Thompson
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 10:25 PM
Sep 2012

Who's campaign was, at best, a part time job for him. And even that turned out to be more work than he had the energy for.

ecstatic

(32,648 posts)
7. "He's more interested in having the job, than doing the job"
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 09:19 PM
Sep 2012

I'm not sure if it's a sense of entitlement, some dad issues, or if Anne is forcing him to run, but this man isn't running for the right reasons.

 

MichiganVote

(21,086 posts)
8. He's the type of person who will never get why people don't like him.
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 09:23 PM
Sep 2012

Not a good recommendation for a leader of the strongest country on the planet.

IggleDoer

(1,186 posts)
11. People don't even like his surrogates.
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 10:00 PM
Sep 2012

All his life he let his surrogates do the heavy work.

The last thing he did himself was to cut that kid's hair in boarding school. Even then, he had to have help in holding the kid down.

formercia

(18,479 posts)
9. Being a big Poobah of the Church allowed Mitt to spout any BS he pleased.
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 09:23 PM
Sep 2012

there was no fact-checking, dissent or argument. No proof necessary. Now he has to deal with the facts. He just can't get his brain around that.

This is why the 'Founding Fathers' chiseled the separation of Church and State into Stone. It was to protect the Nation from people just like Mitt.

siligut

(12,272 posts)
19. I agree, this is a good part of it
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 10:34 PM
Sep 2012

Mitt has not been exposed to critical thinkers. And you are also spot-on about our Founding Fathers.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
10. Of course
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 09:24 PM
Sep 2012

He's never had to make any effort. It has all been handed to him. He expects this to be handed to him.

Digit

(6,163 posts)
16. He does not want to be questioned
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 10:23 PM
Sep 2012

For one, he does not want to take a stand on any issue. None. It has been this way all along.
Second, I think he resents being questioned.....about anything. His ego doesn't like it.

Using an excuse such as prepping for the debates allows him to be out of reach and away from reporters.
I would bet he will be releasing statements to select media (Faux), but it will only be statements.

He is such a coward.

avebury

(10,951 posts)
18. He probably figure out that he actually
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 10:26 PM
Sep 2012

needed to do his homework. He isn't used to actually having to do any work.

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