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2019-12-04 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Mitt Romney breaks ranks with his Republican colleagues AGAIN by saying there is 'no evidence' Ukraine interfered in 2016 election but says there's 'ample evidence Russia did'

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Posted by Skidmark 2019-12-04 05:44|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 He's not a republican. He's a liberal who couldn't get a shot in the Socialist Party. See - Bloomberg.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-12-04 08:31|| 2019-12-04 08:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Romney is a (second syllable rhymes with "coal").

Posted by AlanC 2019-12-04 08:37|| 2019-12-04 08:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Once again demonstrating that some of the worst Democrats call themselves Republican.

Posted by Iblis 2019-12-04 11:18|| 2019-12-04 11:18|| Front Page Top

#4 I think there is ample evidence Russia interfered in 2016 election but none suggesting they threw their weight behind Trump or that the interference moved the needle in any way at all.

Posted by ruprecht 2019-12-04 11:40|| 2019-12-04 11:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Indeed, ruprecht. But if I worked at that Russkii troll farm, the Internet Research Agency, I'd be wanting a raise considering how spun-up the Democrats got.

Posted by SteveS 2019-12-04 11:50|| 2019-12-04 11:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Romney is carrying on in the John McCain tradition.

As far as Russian meddling goes, always remember that Baraq Obama had eight years to do something about cyber security but all he ever did was try to blame it on Trump.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-12-04 11:51|| 2019-12-04 11:51|| Front Page Top

#7 Russia had some units working against Hillary by putting anti Hillary websites, tweets, etc. up but they also had units working against Trump feeding non sense stuff to comrade Steele.

Perhaps their intel bureaucracy is as screwed up as ours.

Posted by lord garth 2019-12-04 12:38|| 2019-12-04 12:38|| Front Page Top

#8 Dem Brokerede convention nominee: Mittens; finally taking the mask off.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2019-12-04 14:27|| 2019-12-04 14:27|| Front Page Top

#9 Obama had eight years to do something about cyber security

Hacks of OPM databases compromised 22.1 million people, federal authorities say

Posted by Skidmark 2019-12-04 14:41|| 2019-12-04 14:41|| Front Page Top

#10 The notion that Russian agents, human or algorithmic, had any influence on the outcome in 2016 is ridiculous.

Relative to total ad spend by the campaigns, the total Russian-directed ad spend did not even amount to a rounding error of a rounding error.

In early 2017, when the CIA put forward to Congress their joke of a report on nefarious, subversive, covert Russian activity, all they could come up with was references to RT. A public broadcasting company. A f---ing television station.

Russia and Russians are not dividing this country and trashing our system of government; Americans are.

"We have met the enemy and the enemy is us."

Posted by Lex 2019-12-04 15:08|| 2019-12-04 15:08|| Front Page Top

#11 One could say Russian work during the cold war is still having a major effect on one fo the US political parties.

Posted by ruprecht 2019-12-04 16:05|| 2019-12-04 16:05|| Front Page Top

#12 Relative to total ad spend by the campaigns, the total Russian-directed ad spend did not even amount to a rounding error of a rounding error.

Reminds me of the time in an Austin Powers movie when newly-released Dr. Evil, who has just been released from decades in prison, hatches a diabolical scheme, the upshot of which is a ransom demand for $1m. His flunky gives him a look and points out to him that $1m isn't what it used to be when he first became a guest of the governor.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2019-12-04 19:27|| 2019-12-04 19:27|| Front Page Top

#13 ZF - our local radio guy used that very same audio clip this afternoon in his intro.

Coincidence, or ~~Russian bots~~ aliens?

Posted by Raj 2019-12-04 22:38|| 2019-12-04 22:38|| Front Page Top

#14 Either he hasn't looked into the corruption in Ukraine, or he is just a plain moron or he has business interests in Ukraine. I'd vote for all of the above.

Posted by JohnQC 2019-12-04 23:04|| 2019-12-04 23:04|| Front Page Top

#15 Cofer Black, Romney's foreign policy adviser, sits on the Burisma board.

It's not unlikely that Romney has a sweetheart investment in Burisma, either personally or via Bain Capital.

Posted by Lex 2019-12-04 23:15|| 2019-12-04 23:15|| Front Page Top

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