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While in Colorado, local CBS Denver reporter Shaun Boyd asked Mitt Romney about his position on medical marijuana and the candidate was not happy. Romney became visibly upset about the question. He repeatedly interrupted the reporter and chided her for even asking him about it.
(exchange starts at 2:13)
Reporter: Should marijuana be legalized for medical use and taxed?
Romney: Aren’t there issue of significance that you want like to talk about?
Reporter: This is a significance issue in Colorado.
When Romney did finally get around to answering the question he said that he does think marijuana shouldn’t be legal in this country and that he believes it is a gateway drug.
Romney’s position on medical marijuana is terrible. The small solace you can take from his hostility to being asked a basic question about medical marijuana is that it could be a sign Romney is at least aware how incredibly unpopular his stance on medical marijuana is.
With 77 percent of the country believing medical marijuana should be allowed Romney is in a tiny minority on this issue. If I were a politician and my position on a particular issue was extremely unpopular, I, too, would hate being asked about it.
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Kudos to the reporter for reminding Romney that medical marijuana is a significant issue.
“Marijuana is a gateway drug,” says the Last Clown Standing. Gawd, I haven’t heard that phrase since the 70s.
Willard is no more qualified to be president than I am. He appears to be caught in a time warp – he’s from the 50s and is terribly uncomfortable in the world of 2012.
OT: He doesn’t want to talk about high school bullying either. Wonder how long he thinks he can avoid questions and answers.
Romney’s panicky, dodgy complaint is — marijuana’s illegal, so he’s against medical marijuana.
But on it’s face that’s also a case for legalization.
He’s especially dishonest at the end when he casts it as a state issue, where in fact all the trouble is coming from illegality and from the feds — as with previous failed Prohibition campaigns.
Meanwhile, the tide is turning. Even Congresswoman Pelosi is daring to speak out against the federal raids.
Just last night, Congressional candidate Normal Solomon came out strongly for legalization.
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Yeah, surprising, isn’t it? He ducks the issue just like Obama! One thing I’ll say in Romney’s favor though: His position may be unpopular, but AT LEAST HE’S TRUTHFUL!
That he doesn’t remember? I think he is so confused, addled, and entangled in his own web of circumlocution that he no longer knows the truth…..pretty much makes it up as he goes.
For some reason though that usually doesn’t seem to bother Republicans, so, in that sense, Romeny is…. different, I guess.
I mean, every poll I’ve seen shows huge support for taxing the rich more and little support for extending the tax cuts for the rich. Yet the Republicans proudly proclaim that stance every chance they get.
Likewise, I’m pretty sure their “war on women” stances taken earlier in the year were mostly unpopular, but it didn’t stop them from gleefully talking about them at the time and voting enthusiastically for them. It wasn’t until that majority that disagreed made a loud stink that they felt they probably should tone it down a bit. “It” being of course the rhetoric, not the actually policy you understand.
Medicare for All polls well everytime I see polls, and Republicans gladly take the opposite position. I could go on. In fact, almost every single Republican position is opposed by the majority of Americans, and I’m pretty sure the Republican know it, but they still yell their outlandish, backwards, stupid, and illogical “beliefs” out for all the world to hear all the time.
Nah, I think something else is going on here with Romney. Don’t know what, but something else. Maybe some sort of personal connection to the MJ issue that he doesn’t want out??? Just guessing, but boy, he did appear to not want to talk about this issue AT ALL.
What struck me is the typical level of “journalism” we see in the US. Look at her at the end aggressively assert…
“See! I let you get to your talking points!”
But hell, at least she asked the question and got him on the record – better than many I guess.
It’s a pity she did not follow up on the “gateway drug” comment by asking if LDS is a gateway cult. Turnabout is fair play.
Are you suggesting he might have experimented without inhaling? lol. That struck me both humorous and provocative. I’m only 5 years older than Mitt and I know the lower class experience with pot but not savvy on the prep school crowd’s experience.
I did not know where his school was so I quick-checked Wikipedia and found this interesting piece of info regarding his prep school experience: “Romney was an energetic child who enjoyed largely innocent pranks.”
How is Romney any worse than Obama on this issue? Actually, I think he is more honest. It’s a pity Joe Biden is such an ardent drug warrior. It’s unlikely he’ll “accidentally” say something positive about medical marijuana and thus force Obama’s hand.
It’s not about heaping more wealth and power on the already wealthy and powerful, or about crushing everyone else under his heel, so it is “not a significant issue” to the Sociopath-in-Chief.