Retroactive. Wow, that's funny as shit!

lol

Senior Mitt Romney campaign adviser Ed Gillespie = Counselor to President Bush, Enron lobbyist
http://www.democraticunderground.com/125156161

Bwahhhh!!!

ROFL.

This is so ridiculous.

That is about the most rediculous thing I have ever heard.

It takes a LOT of work keeping this twit propped up ...

No farcking way, Ed.

Great! Think of the pension money's that are due to retroactive retirees!!

I don't think this spin will benefit Rmoney or Gillespie much ... just a Reagan Retroactive Retread Rmoney Spinmeister.

and now you want to make that a crime too?

LOL, just fucking lol with a head slap

If he has no problem scamming the Olympics Cmte, he has no problems scamming the rest of us.

If anyone believes any of this I have a beautiful bridge in London for sale. Will consider any offer.

What was Romney’s position at Bain? Did he set-up the policies and procedures? The business plan that cut jobs etc or not? If he did then he is still in charge. If people are following your orders even if you are not there to oversee directly you are still in charge, you have just delegated.
Does he still own the company? If it was in his a "blind trust" when he became governor then it was not a "blind trust". Who took control in 1999/2002? What happened before 1999? Did he do hostile take overs before 1999? If so he is Gordon Gecko in real life and he IS the problem not the cure.
We need to answer these questions. He was the sole owner and managed the company. Owned all stock and created the board. How can he not take responsibility? What kind of manager/owner lets people do huge deals without some knowledge.

behavior. "Retired Retroactively" has got to be one that will survive the test of time. Does that mean he also gave the money back?

You have got to read this hilarious diary and comments on DailyKos. Funny stuff!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/15/1110158/-The-Next-Great-Meme-Retroactive-Mitt

Enjoy!

that if this kind of bullshit would have hit the media circuit Kerry and Obama would hve been laughed out of contention..Do Republicans really think they can sell this bullshit..Wolf Blitzer is probably rehearsing the script now...

southpaw ?@nycsouthpaw
Conquered nation retroactively consents to invasion, Romney administration announces


southpaw ?@nycsouthpaw
BREAKING: Ed Gillespie retroactively canceling these morning show interviews. Please stop using them in your tweets.


southpaw ?@nycsouthpaw
RT @BenLaBolt: If you "retire retroactively" do you return your income and profits from that period?

# retroactively......I would imagine it will be used commonly
in our vocabulary from now on as sarcasm.Of course, those who
are not into politics will think I have lost my mind when I use it
that way!

from four-year-olds with cookie crumbs on their lips.




rocktivity

before he was against it? No wait, Romney was against working for Bain before he was for it?

Ok I think I've got it - "Mitt Romney was against not retiring from Bain before he was for it."


Flip Flopney flips again....

Sounds great. When do I start?

You know they want to stay focused on job creation. Retroactive retirement is the new Works Progress Administration for the neoliberal order.

Who knew?

FORWARD-looking fashion styles?

Do we have a rim-shot smiley, or is that the closest thing?

If it would have happened 4 months after the fact, but 4 years later -- give me a break. It sounds like a focus group tested talking point being fed to Gillespie by Frank Luntz.

Frank Luntz is cringing right now, because he knows exactly how such a laughable notion will play with ordinary voters.

pesky isn't it? Something like $400k that he conveniently never returned...

And the comments about having to be in MA for business trips and such.

But yeah, this is probably the best excuse they could come up.

What delightful lunacy!

All the other shit doesn't work... birthers are now labeled as lunatics by the majority of the country... so going back to Obama's roots in Chicago is their next tactic. But it's ridiculous because most of the US doesn't have anything against Chicago. We love Chicago, here in the Midwest. The thugs have run out of ways to paint Obama with a broad brush, so they're trying anything left over to see if the can find something that sticks. But it won't, because Obama and his team are to damned smart and have already prepared methods of dealing with any conceivable attack. Look at the beginning of rMoney's campaign earlier this year... he was harping about gas prices. What happened to gas prices? The dropped like a rock when they should have gone up during the summer travel period. Obama's got this.

We love you, too.

You're right. There is a bizarre solidarity in the Midwest. Especially between WI and Chicago. Despite our decades old pokin' at each other, you screw with WI and you've got a fight with Chicago. That's our damned backyard. Can't say the same for Indiana. No love there.

Until football season. Then Wisconsin is on their own. Fuck the Packers.

Chicago is the new capitol, dontcha know. I wish them luck with this fight. That's my home city and there are a lot of people there with big mouths that will now find new and improved reasons to take this asshole down. I know I've found a new level of irate after reading this.

Hey, Romney, Gillespie and any other tool that thinks picking on one of the largest cities in this nation, one of the cities that helped BUILD this fucking nation is a good idea...fuck you. Your phony bullshit and lack of a soul would get you kicked to the curb in a minute. And, they'll do it with a grin and a pat on the back.

Love or hate Mayor Emmanuel, I bet he's got that kicked back Chicago grin on his face as we speak.

He retroactive filed taxes in Massachusetts in order to "prove" he was a resident of Massachusetts. "I was a resident of Utah before I was a resident of Massachusetts". Don't hold him responsible for anything I don't want to accept. He will sign bills and declare it was only because they sent them to me, I could not help it. Now he can retroactive return to the tax payers the pensions we had to pay for him, stand up Mitt and right the wrongs you have done.

Fucking unbelievable. He gets paid to go on TV and say shit like this?

Yeah, Rmoney is a Born-Again Venture Capitalist Politician trying

to erase his record!

Don't read his lips, read his resume!

The PREPOSTEROUS ARROGANCE of these GOP Talking Heads is OUTRAGEOUS!

Gillespie should retire - RETROACTIVELY!

Methinks yes.

stop the lying please. Once you lie to cover up another lie you lose.

Come forth with your tax returns, at least 12 years like your daddy, and let the American people judge you. Shit you want to represent us than give us, the American people a reason why we should vote for you, although I personally know why the GOP base is voting for you because these "Christians" HATE Pres O so much.

to "leave" the life and wife he loved so he could save America and save the olympics.



Reading over on KOS, it looks like a still untouched but potentially rich vein of more lies and bullshit is directly connected to Romney's "sacrifice" and "service" to America in "saving" the olympics. Who wants to bet that the sacrifice and service ends up being something more like underhanded and self-serving deals? I've got my fingers crossed.

So he really did serve his country without going to Vietnam

can now stop denying that Romney told lies about when he left Bain, and switch to explaining to all of us libtards that Romney retired retroactively. That makes complete sense -- to a right-wing loonie -- but none whatsoever to me.

You see Mitt met this guy with a Delorean.

That one ranks up there with Ron Ziegler's declaration that previous White House statements concerning Watergate were "inoperative."

You mean he ran Bain, which made money running businesses into the ground, until 2003 and then retired retroactively to 1999? Is that how he decides his stands on issues, too? He supported a woman's right to choose while running for governor of Massachusetts, and then became pro-life retroactively to to 1980? He supported an individual mandate in healthcare while governor, but then after Congress passed the ACA without a single GOP vote, he opposed it retroactively to 1993? And he supports being kind to animals retroactively to the moment he strapped Shamus onto the roof of his car?

To anyone foolish enough to be a Teabagger, using big words like "retroactively" is all you need to make it legit.

it STILL makes him responsible for all those jobs that got outsourced during that period. Which is what he was trying to avoid to begin with. So not ONLY is he trying to be a duplicitous bastard of the first order, he just proved that he's stunningly BAD AT IT.

For as much as he tells stretchers, he's not very good at it. Maybe he'll bring back Ari Fleischer as White House press secretary.

Don't misunderestimate the American public. Horsepucky! was the overwhelming reaction to Zeigler's famous "all previous statements are inoperative" declaration. If Clinton's "I did not have sex with that woman" was met with a wide outpouring of yawns it was because few cared if he did or didn't, not because anyone believed him when he said he didn't. And who really thought the Frat Boy's mission in Iraq had been accomplished?

"but officer I'm sober retroactively."

Oh, wait. No. ... Really?

So, after leaving Bain leaderless for three years, and after the 2002 Olympics finished in February, Rmoney discovered that "the challenges of the Olympics led him to 'retire retroactively.' ?"

Let's use it to go back to 2000 so we can unsteal the election.

or was picked as the best liar

And to kill Sarah Connor.

This makes no sense at all. Retire retroactively ... Really?

So he "works" for a few years after he supposedly retired (signatures prove it) then when he gets caught in a lie, his rescuers come up with this crap.

My kids have better excuses and they are 7 years old.

I don't see why Mitt can't rewrite history too, if it suits him.




There's a little similarity ...

How did they end up with the turd in the punchbowl? No one really liked him...

Cited and discussed here.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=166786

I said: He's using 'legal wiggle words' to assert 'truthfully' that he had 'retired from Bain in 1999!'
I'm a lawyer so I'm not mocking legal language, just his 'expectation' that his fancy footwork will go over well with the 'public.'

wtf

Don't forget you're talking about Enron Ed Gillespie. Who in their right mind would believe anything he says.

Maybe I could use that to "retroactively retire" from the Army.

"He left a life he loved to go to Salt Lake City and help a country he loves more, and somehow Chicago… is trying to make it something sinister".

These assholes are pathetic. How much time did it take for Rmoney to write checks for the Olympics anyway? More tax write offs is ALL he was looking for.

But can you imagine the love that many CEOs of big corporations have for an idea like this? Think of all the CEOs out there who have made absurd amounts of money and have run their companies into the ground or done all kinds of illegal garbage who would love to be able to say "Oh wait, that's no longer my responsibility...I retroactively retired before it happened." Think Ken Lay would have liked this? How about Carly after her disastrous HP run?

This is the kind of business wrangling horseshit I can actually see the wealthy trying to get through the SEC. Most of these jerks need as many Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free cards as they can get. I hope there is a rule in place that says "if you sign documents as a board member, CEO, CFO, COO, or any other company-leading position or you continue to get paid in one of these positions, you assume all responsibility for that position. No exceptions."

Retroactive is assigning a date in the past to coincide with the actual event.
Backdating is assigning a date in the past prior to the actual event.

You might be saying that romney's problem is not that he retired retroactively but rather he backdated his retirement. I'd agree with that. I have no problem with the concept of "retroactive" and so I don't think there's anything intrinsically wrong with the concept of "retroactive retirement".

It could be useful to describe romney's retirement as "backdated" instead of "retroactive" but as this thread illustrates there's more than enough misunderstanding of "retroactive" (time machines!?) so that it probably isn't necessary.

and corruption. He should know that.

Or did he just stop showing up to work but still putting his name on things sometimes.

Do I get to choose when?

You know, so we can undo the damage.

the olympics. Then all of a sudden Bain changed their whole way of doing things - and became villians that helped moved jobs to China, etc

Only people with Freeper mentality would believe this.

No wonder he doesn't want anyone to see his tax returns.

What else do you expect from the driver of the clown car, people?

reads like something written on an Etch A Sketch.

Nice try-- at least it's alliterative

I do so look forward to the debates...

Surely, he would have done that, right? Also, what did Romney claim in 2002 to satisfy his residency requirement for his run as Governor -- that he took a temporary leave to run the Olympic Committee. Looks to me like he wants it both ways.

I'm beginning to wonder now, what happens if a candidate for President is charged with a felony? No doubt he will continue to campaign while out on bail. He would insist the federal felony charges are just "technicalities" and trumped-up political theater. His legal team would delay the trial until after the election. He won't be elected, but in theory, he could be convicted after taking the oath of office. Then he could pardon himself!

" .... somehow Chicago… is trying to make it something sinister."

not retired.

Does this mean I can be a virgin again?

Mitt should retroactively retire as a Presidential candidate ....

or retroactively release his tax returns.

and somehow Chicago...is trying to make it something sinister."

Seems like Ruhpublicans really have it out for Chicagoans, don't they?