Grover Norquist: Obama Won Because He Called Romney A 'Poopy Head'
Grover Norquist, founder and president of Americans For Tax Reform, has a new theory about why President Barack Obama won -- he portrayed Mitt Romney as a "poopy head."
"The president was committed; elected on the basis that he was not Romney and Romney was a poopy head and you should vote against Romney and he won by two points," Norquist said on CBS' "This Morning" Monday. "But he didn't make the case that we should have higher taxes and higher spending, he kind of sounded like the opposite."
Host Norah O'Donnell pushed back. "Well, I'm not sure that's what the president called Mitt Romney, Grover," she said. "That's not the debate that was had ... he said very clearly throughout the debate that the wealthiest Americans should pay more and he won eight of the nine battleground states and Republicans failed to reclaim the White House or the Senate."
"What about the exit polls that show a broad support for raising taxes on the wealthiest americans. Are you wrong?" she asked.
Norquist pointed to negative advertising against former GOP nominee Mitt Romney.
"Well, again, you saw those ads that suggested Romney gave people cancer in Ohio for months and months unanswered. You can trash an individual and get people to vote against him," he said. He then touted Republican governors who won elections pledging to phase out state income taxes. O'Donnell replied that those were state issues.
The ad Norquist is referring to -- a spot by pro-Obama super PAC Priorities USA, tying a Bain Capital-controlled steel mill's closure to a lack of health care for an employee's wife, who eventually died from cancer -- aired mistakenly, according to Priorities USA. The ad was sharply criticized for being inaccurate.
Other Republicans have struggled to explain Obama's win. Karl Rove echoed Norquist recently, saying that the negative ads succeeded in "suppressing the vote."
When asked if any members of Congress who have signed Americans for Tax Reform's pledge not to raise taxes would accept new revenue, Norquist said, "The pledge is to the American People not to me."
"So they don't need my permission to vote," he said. "They made a commitment to the people in their states."
The Video is Here. It's only a minute long. The TP article has embedded a longer version of it here.
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OP: Norquist ... has such a way with words. How did this man convince people to sign this pledge? "Only poopy heads don't sign it!" or something?
Grover Norquist, founder and president of Americans For Tax Reform, has a new theory about why President Barack Obama won -- he portrayed Mitt Romney as a "poopy head."
"The president was committed; elected on the basis that he was not Romney and Romney was a poopy head and you should vote against Romney and he won by two points," Norquist said on CBS' "This Morning" Monday. "But he didn't make the case that we should have higher taxes and higher spending, he kind of sounded like the opposite."
Host Norah O'Donnell pushed back. "Well, I'm not sure that's what the president called Mitt Romney, Grover," she said. "That's not the debate that was had ... he said very clearly throughout the debate that the wealthiest Americans should pay more and he won eight of the nine battleground states and Republicans failed to reclaim the White House or the Senate."
"What about the exit polls that show a broad support for raising taxes on the wealthiest americans. Are you wrong?" she asked.
Norquist pointed to negative advertising against former GOP nominee Mitt Romney.
"Well, again, you saw those ads that suggested Romney gave people cancer in Ohio for months and months unanswered. You can trash an individual and get people to vote against him," he said. He then touted Republican governors who won elections pledging to phase out state income taxes. O'Donnell replied that those were state issues.
The ad Norquist is referring to -- a spot by pro-Obama super PAC Priorities USA, tying a Bain Capital-controlled steel mill's closure to a lack of health care for an employee's wife, who eventually died from cancer -- aired mistakenly, according to Priorities USA. The ad was sharply criticized for being inaccurate.
Other Republicans have struggled to explain Obama's win. Karl Rove echoed Norquist recently, saying that the negative ads succeeded in "suppressing the vote."
When asked if any members of Congress who have signed Americans for Tax Reform's pledge not to raise taxes would accept new revenue, Norquist said, "The pledge is to the American People not to me."
"So they don't need my permission to vote," he said. "They made a commitment to the people in their states."
The Video is Here. It's only a minute long. The TP article has embedded a longer version of it here.
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OP: Norquist ... has such a way with words. How did this man convince people to sign this pledge? "Only poopy heads don't sign it!" or something?
Edited at 2012-11-12 08:11 pm (UTC)
God, grow up dude.
WHAT?
This seems to be a spin-off of the "Obama isn't a real adult (.i.e.boy)" meme combined slyly with the erroneous downplaying of the actual election numbers. (Doesn't over 3,355,000 million and counting = 3.3 points?)
Oh bitter ugly gop just sit down and stfu already.
Yeah, because, when I want to be the "better person" and prove myself the adult in situations like this, I normally pull out the time tested "you're so stuuuuuuuuupid!" and then push the other person down! XD! Right?
There should be a law against stupid people trying to say witty things. It just ... hurts the soul, you know?
My main thought was, "Oh, people listen to this asshole? HE'S NOT EVEN AN ELECTED OFFICIAL"
Then I turned to Dial M For Murder.
Hmmm....well, Romney RAN on the basis that Obama was a poopy head and you should vote against Obama, and Romney lost. So there.
Also, even if that one commercial shouldn't have run, when someone tries to make overturning health care reform the #1 issue of his campaign, I don't think it's saying 'Romney gave people cancer' to show the cause and effect between people not having health care and not getting the medical care they need. Romney and the rest of the Republican party chose this, for inexplicable reasons, as their hill to die on. Now they keep acting like it was cheating for the Democrats to fight back.
Of course Obama didn't mean that and they know it. I think the only people who believed that crap is Faux News watchers.
This was a clever ploy on Romney/Republican side to throw that turd away from them, and it worked. It's just a distraction. Repub's are horrified at Obama and Dem's are angry/annoyed at the spin masters (and will try to set the Repub's straight -- which most won't believe.) Both frothing and neither paying attention. XD~