As you’ll see in the video, Romney allows the back and forth to continue for a bit until a man in the crowd comes up with the one line to which the occupiers had no response at all:
“Go to work!”
The occupiers wanted to create a disturbance, but they ended up unifying the audience and making their target look good. That’s bad stagecraft on their part.
A few minutes later, I saw a camera crew interviewing the lead occupier outside Competitive Edge’s building. He was exactly what you would expect: Young, unkempt, evidently unaccomplished. He told the interviewers that he and his friends were there to get their point of view across to contradict Romney’s “support for all these wars.”
The occupiers’ point of view was obvious enough tonight. They’re children, unable to comprehend or accept that not everyone agrees with them. They go for the heckler’s veto, trying to embarrass and shout down opposition. They tried to disrupt the Romney campaign’s carefully planned stagecraft. But at this event, they were owned by an anonymous man in the crowd.
(Read Bryan’s other posts here and here, and stay tuned throughout caucus day for PJ Media’s reports from on the ground in Iowa.)
It will be fun to track, over the next 10 months and four days, how many OWS protests target Republican presidential candidates — who have no control over the current economy – versus how many protests target the appearances of President Obama, who has been running things as of this moment for two years, 11 months and 13 days. My guess is by the time this is over, the GOP vs. Obama ration will be somewhere in the 10:1 range, while the total number of OWSers in Tampa for the Republican convention this summer will dwarf the total who show up in North Carolina for the DNC event to protest the actions of the current administration.
What makes you say that?
I thought the OWS were equal opportunity annoyers.
Remember, the Tea Party is Dangerous and needs to be watched, but OWS is a “beautiful expression.”
“Remember, the Tea Party is Dangerous and needs to be watched, but OWS is a “beautiful expression.”
Yes is no, hello is good bye, war is peace, freedom is slavery, etc.
“OWS Loons Try to Disrupt Romney Speech in Iowa, and Fail”
Obama 2012 loons try to disrupt etc.
There, fixed that for you.
You wrongly suppose that the state of the economy has anything to do with it.
When you decide the world owes you a living and that somebody MUST hire you with a six-figure salary with your community-college degree in Lesbian Studies (or the equivalent) or else THE WORLD IS EVIL and YOU’LL TAKE YOUR BALL AND GO HOME, it doesn’t matter if the economy has a 10% or a 1% or a 0.1% unemployment rate — chances are you’re one of the unemployed in any case. If anything, they’re more likely to support an unemployment-causing president, since the more people are out of work, the less like total failures THEY feel.
Problem is that the OWS crowd not only has no ball to take away from the game but they also have no brains, or no clue or anything worth consideration, they just want free stuff, and the problem is they haven’t learned yet that if you don’t work you don’t eat and soon die!
Remember this…if you want unfair harassment, staged anger, paid for disturbances, a “show” trial in the court of “public opinion” against anyone who doesn’t abide by the small c communist credo…what do you need?
A community organizer.
Check your local finger-smudger’s want ads or Craig’s list. ACORN/SEIU will show you how to make money being nothing more than a loudmouth wastrel.
“Civil disobedience” it will be called. For best optics, it helps if you look like the neighbor’s college aged kid or maybe a boomer hippie, you can move up to middle management loudmouth wastrel.
Getting the crowd angry enough at you to overreact scores big points. Getting the candidate to interact with you at all…is huge. Getting the candidate to react angrily to you…gets bonus points.
The propaganda machine will play up your “protest” if any of those things happen.
It takes a community organizer…and one who loves dirty tricks. And a propaganda machine ready to pounce in his pocket.
Dirty politics never had it so good. This is going to be the dirtiest of all time. And the victims of this slime are going to have to sit there and take it…because it’s the angry reaction that they want. Just sitting there and taking is the next best thing. They win either way. That’s the point…of a community organizer.
If the sequence of events in future campaign-trail stump speeches go down in similar fashion as those seen in the video above, these OWS losers are going to get rather frustrated, as they will see that their senseless protestations aren’t really going anywhere. They may resort to violence which will serve to make them look even worse. I really don’t think they are going to have a whole lot of impact on the process.
I’ve always found the best way to deal with overly-serious know-nothings is to wait – briefly – for them to make their point or lack of one, then laugh at them. Makes ‘em so mad they become even more ridiculous.
Want to solve the debt crisis?, start issuing a national open season hunting permit to thin out the OWS herd.
Let’s leave the “kill our political foes” rhetoric to the other side. All that really needs to be done is to cut off their — and their colleges — government funding …
Let’s not.
Hats off to both Mitt and the anonymous man for turning the OWS rant on its head. I’ve never heard him speak before, by the way, so thank you in a different sense for introducing me to yet another candidate Bryan.
Who would have thought that the simple phrase “Go to Work” would be like Kryptonite to these losers?
See my response to #3 Skeptic! They do not really want a real job they just want easy money or free money.
Wow look an ad for just going to a political event and causing a fracas and I get $250.00 bucks, sell alright here I go…do they get the money up front or results of some kind necessary?
(Occupiers) go for the heckler’s veto, trying to embarrass and shout down opposition.
Exactly the tactic of the Code Pinkers when they show up at congressional hearings and so forth.
These people don’t get around, from the Rose Parade to Romney’s speech, without the financial backing and support of some well heeled subversive support groups.
They will be dropped as rapidly as Cindy Sheehan was dropped when her own useful idiot-ness wore thin.
I believe Patriots at Republican events should carry around plastic bags with cat and dog poop along with a dye that takes at least a week to wash off which they probably then they will be readily identifiable to law enforcement!
Plus the added insult that those that hit them with the sye filled shit bag won’t be prosecuted for self defense, just make up a story like the democrat marxist liars always do!
– the counter-chant ought to be: GET to work! (To rub it in and hurt their feelings even more.)
Good speech! I wanted to hear more.
There’s hope for us yet.
I am now full of HOPE and Change I hop that we whange the current president for a new one and kick the Marxist ides out for good!
No doubt about it, Romney is smooth. Seems like Obama said the same thing in 2008 about debt and borrowing from the Chinese. I think Obama said something like, “It is criminal to be borrowing against our grandkid’s future.” Yep, and we all saw how well that turned out. Do I think Romney would do any better than Obama? Probably not, UNLESS he has a Republican Congress to back him up. Unless we have a Republican House and a Republican Senate to actually steer this country in another direction, not much is going to change. So I have no problems with what Romney is saying, but it isn’t going to mean much unless he has a Republican Congress to actually turn what he wants into law. We have a lot of work to do in 2012, and not all of it is for the presidency. Elections for Congress matter too, a lot.
Good point. It is just as important to take the senate, and hold on to the house, in 2012, as it is to take the presidency. We need all 3 to really undo the damage of Obama/Pelosi/Reid. Even that may not be enough if the dems retain enough senate seats to filibuster, although at least we can force votes and constantly put the dems on the spot, and can pass responsible budgets which do not require 60 votes, and perhaps get a filibuster proof senate in 2014.
As for whether Romney will really change things, its for sure that Obama will not, and it is at least worth giving him a chance. I have even less faith in Santorum than Romney, since he looks like a Bush era “compassionate conservative”, conservative on socon issues, but a possible sellout on big gov and spending, although even Santorum is better than Obama. I am willing to give Romney a chance, but if he and the repubs go back to their Bush big spending ways, we may have to look to forming a fiscally conservative 3rd party, or perhaps elect Ron or Rand Paul as the repub nominee in 2016. I dont think the country is ready for Ron Paul now, but if the repubs get another chance, and also fail to control spending, and the dems remain as they are now, nothing but tax and spend and regulate, then one of the Pauls may be the only way out.
Look, I’m not a Romney supporter and I will vote for him if he is the nominee but I would not put it past his “Staff” to have staged this whole thing. I know, I know, this displeases a lot of you but Romney has become a master at diversion and nasty attacks from his PACs. I could be wrong but it smells to me.
@inspectorudy
“I know, this displeases a lot of you but Romney has become a master at diversion and nasty attacks from his PACs. I could be wrong but it smells to me.”
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I’m glad to hear you’ll at least support the Repub. candidate against BO. However, I think on this you are indeed wrong. The OWS idiots are showing up everywhere/anywhere these days w/o any prompting from Repubs! I’m looking forward to the televised IA caucus this evening for all kinds of reasons, not least of which is that we’ll no doubt get more sneak peeks at the incomprehensible dirty zoo freaks, and their nonsensical “tactics”.
I saw the lead OWSer outside afterwards. He looked and talked like the real deal to me.
Mitt does not roll that way. You can underline that for emphasis if you’d like. I will eat a straw hat like the rookie Gehrig in Pride of the Yankees if I am proven wrong.
Bryan, it wouldn’t be Mitt himself that devised such a plan and notice I said staff. His PACs are throwing out stuff that is at the bottom of the decency pile as I write. This is what the Obama campaign did to Hillary and pure and sweet Obama never had to say a word against her. How hard is it to find a stupid, out of work, incoherent, filthy college dropout to play himself? I do not believe Mitt would sink to such depths but some of the things being said about Newt by his PACs approach derangement.
Do you have some evidence of malfeasance, or links to past malfeasance by Romney staff to cause them to be suspicious? Or is your nose your only evidence?
He is probably thinking of the way Romney successively did in Perry/Cain/Newt. Sure some of Romneys attack PACS were a bit underhanded, but politics is not a gentlemens game. Personally I dont mind it, since Obama will pull every trick in the book, and we now know that Romney knows how to fight back, and will not turn out to be a country club milktoast like McCain. And from everything I have seen, Romney is fairly honerable in both his personal and business life, and I think he will try to do the right thing if given the chance.
I doubt that this was staged by any Romney operatives. These OWS clowns have pulled this sort of thing on numerous other occasions, and this group looked exactly like previous OWS brownshirts. No need to invent something like this with political operatives that could wind up getting exposed, when you just have to wait for the real thing.
Mindless and loud, uncouth and uncivilized, perfect progressives and just like their elders, who save their wolf pack tendencies for reportage, editorials, and of course their crude, force centered politics. The inevitable children of degenerate forbears who in turn hail and support this trash.
So, the OWSers were there to contradict Romney’s “support for all these wars”, but said not a word about Obama?
I don’t trust Romney, but if he gets the nomination he’ll get my vote, because the alternative is another disastrous four years of President Lead From Behind.
I pray that these OWS losers go to every single Republican event, from now until November. Every single undecided voter that gets a look at these OWS’ers, and then understands that these are hard-core Obamorons, will walk away less undecided. There isn’t much sympathy among hard working middle class voters for kids who want their entire college debt paid before they work a single day. What sympathy they might have had two months ago, will melt away every time they pull these temper tantrums.
If he was sincere about, what he says in this speech, I would support him.
@4 – Check your local finger-smudger’s want ads or Craig’s list. ACORN/SEIU will show you how to make money being nothing more than a loudmouth wastrel.
So true. Out in Washington on December 19, there appeared an ad on the SEIU website – http://www.seiu.org/2011/12/senior-internal-organizer-home-care.php – which by today is gone, replaced by a request for you to get on their list.
But in its glory it solicited an organizer, whose job description included, under ‘Leadership Development’, the training and leading of members in civil disobedience, such as occupying state buildings and banks, and peaceful resistance. And under ‘Member Mobilization’, to plan and execute strategic direct action field plans including banner drops, bank takeovers, and capitol occupations with membership, other local unions, and coalition partners.
The dues skimmed by SEIU off our public employee paychecks are on offer to this organizer up to $65K for those duties.
If you don’t think it will be a long hot summer, with countless events staged for MSM cameras by such well-planned ‘spontaneous uprisings’, think again.
All these groups are like viruses, seeking to take hold within the body politic, looking for a suitable host inside of which they can thrive, without completely killing the host.
At least not initially.
Idea: Upload a compilation of SEIU want ads of this type, interspersed with video clips of the ‘bots in action at various events (especially the ones where they get owned by the speaker or someone in the crowd), to YouTube. If well done, might go viral!
These OWS guys are typical leftists, very concerned about free speech for themselves, but with their hecklers vetoes they are not too concerned about allowing free speech for others. I hope they keep it up, since their extreme tactics are making the Tea Party look better by the day.
I also have to say I liked this stump speech by Romney. He showed some real passion, with some credible specifics, on cutting spending. If he keeps that up he will earn my vote.