Jerusalem – Romney: Newsweek Cover First For ‘Wimp’ Critique

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     Republican US presidential candidate Mitt Romney leaving Downing Street after a meeting with British Prime Minister David Cameron 26 July 2012.  EPA/NEIL MUNNSJerusalem – Mitt Romney says that if he worried about what reporters thought of him, he wouldn’t get much sleep.

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    He says he’s sleeping just fine.

    The U.S. presidential candidate tells CBS’ “Face the Nation” that he isn’t sweating the upcoming Newsweek magazine cover that leads with “Romney: The Wimp Factor.”

    He says the media tried a similar criticism of President George H.W. Bush. Romney says Bush “was a pretty great president” who was not a wimp.

    A 1987 Newsweek profile featured a profile of then-Vice President Bush with the title — “Fighting the ‘Wimp Factor.'”

    Asked whether he had ever been called wimp, Romney says the Newsweek cover is a first.

    Romney is in Israel on an international trip set to introduce him on the world stage.


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    Chuna
    Chuna
    11 years ago

    Libera media will stop at nothing. “Wimp factor?” that means you can’t find any dirt. Obama is a wimp vis-a-vis Arab states. So I guess for the libs it takes one to know one.

    Member
    11 years ago

    He will probably get more votes by being called a wimp. It will wipe out that whole bully image of Romney from high school. But really, I would call him a schlub.

    11 years ago

    The whole Newsweek magazine company was not able to be sold for less than the cover price of one issue.
    I predict that soon the print edition will simply cease to exist.
    People want news- not some extreme liberal slanted editorial on every page.

    georgewashingtonbridge
    georgewashingtonbridge
    11 years ago

    Back in 1980, the Boston Globe accidentally published 161,000 weekday papers that had, on the -editorial- page, a complaint about Jimmy Carter titled, “Mush from the Wimp.” This was seen as such an insult to the sitting President that the Globe actually sent trucks around town to recall unsold copies.

    Interesting to see how low journalistic standards have sunk since then.

    11 years ago

    this from the $1 rag that claimed “America is Back” in 2010

    Mark Levin
    Mark Levin
    11 years ago

    Will the same newsweek, a rag I wouldn’t even line a birdcage with ( I don’t have one anyway!) call obama the dimmist bulb in any room? That’s what he is!

    Bobov
    Bobov
    11 years ago

    Well… You do remember that when Newsweek called George H.W. Bush a “Wimp” he went on to win the election…

    PaulinSaudi
    PaulinSaudi
    11 years ago

    Mitt dodged the Vietnam draft by hiding in a Paris mansion for almost three years. I do not require my president to have served in uniform. I simply point out that neither Mitt nor Obama have done so.