(CNN) - The chairman of the Republican National Committee unveiled his latest attack on President Barack Obama on Sunday, comparing him to the captain of the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship.
When asked if the infighting in the GOP presidential primary race would harm the eventual nominee's chances against Obama in November, Reince Priebus said the party would unite by then in an effort to win the White House.
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"In a few months, this is all going to be ancient history and we're going to talk about our own little Captain Schettino, which is President Obama who's abandoning the ship here in the United States and is more interested in campaigning than doing his job as president," Priebus said on CBS' "Face the Nation."
Priebus added the president is "fleeing the American people," just like Schettino allegedly fled his cruise liner.
The ship rolled onto its side in shallow waters off an island on Italy's Tuscan coast on January 13. Seventeen people are confirmed dead and 15 people remain missing while Francesco Schettino is under house arrest and faces possible criminal charges of manslaughter, shipwreck and abandoning ship.
Following the jab, CBS host Bob Schieffer seemed caught off guard by Priebus' comment, asking with a laugh: "What did you just say? What did you call President Obama?"
Priebus was defiant in his response.
"I called him Captain Schettino, you know the captain that fled the ship in Italy," Priebus said. "That's our own president who's fleeing the American people and not doing his job and running around the country and campaigning."
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aint that the truth...good new is the obama experiment is coming to an end...
Arent u glad racism is dead. Yo mike steele, first WHAT UP!!!! what do u feel about this? This guy priebus would have been marching with DR KING RITE? neice king?
"I called him Captain Schettino, you know the captain that fled the ship in Italy," Priebus said.
What a comment!
RNC chairman is the caption of Republican Party. Party approval rating going down after he become Chairman actually his ship is sinking
RNC chairman sitting in side watching his passengers fighting, GOP establishment going after Newt equal to RNC chairman watching tea party drowning
The GOP maiking light of the tragity off the coast of Italy by referring to President Obama as the GOP's Capt Schettino just show how out of touch they really are with real people. Because real people lost their lives in that tragity.
Michael Steele was replaced by this big blossom, aka blooming idiot, from Wisconsin?
I think Reince will be history after the big republican defeat in November.
OBAMA 2012!
Using a tragedy for a political gain. People lost their lives for crying out loud! How dare you insult their memory to take a poke at the President. Have you no conscious, no empathy for people at all?
No wonderObama will win in 2012.
Now, now, Mr. Priebus, don't get carried away with your name calling. We'll just add you to the, "where's Bill"; "you lie"; etc. nattering nabobs groupies list.
watta big jagoff and thats the nicest could say about this empty suit.
What an idiot! Let's not forget that the repubs are the ones who sunk the ship.
Huh, you really forgot who ran our economy to the ground?? He left the office too, just a hint, in case your memory is as short as that of a rat!
WOW!!! What is this guy thinking? Republicans sure are playing their base for being stupid. One thing though, many of their base won't even have a clue as to who this Captain is. Way to go Priebus using a tragedy for political purposes, Republicans have a knack for doing that.
The ship was already wrecked before Obama took over. Most of the job losses in this recession (almost 8 million) happened in 2008 and in the first half of 2009. Republicans used to said that it was unfair to blame Bush for 9/11 because he was on the job for 8 months. Of course, Republicans also blame the 2009 budget, the first budget with a trillion-dollar deficit, on Obama. The budget was passed in 2008, before the 2008 election.
How disrespectful his comments are to the families of the people who died on the ship. This is an example of how low the extremists in the republican party will stoop. I hope the families of those who died realize that not Americans are as ignorant and insensitive as this so-called Christian man!
Mr. Priebus, the GOP leader, aquainting the shipwreck with President Obama clearly shows where the once-proud Republican party is today. Their candidates, the ones who advertise themselves as members of the "Christian Party of \Family Values", find no truth-stretching too far, no hurtful comment too distasteful no character assination of their fellow candidates too over the top. They have lost all sense of decent behavior and, in no way, reflect the Christian values I hold dear. If one of them would be honest enought to say that Bush left a train-wreck for President Obama and only the President's efforts have halted the country from financial disaster and, that the sole aim of the Republican party, clearly advertised, was to do everything to make the President fail knowing full-well that the country will also fail, then maybe this ounce of honesty might make me have a little respect for a party that I no longer have any respect.
Not so – that guy was George W. Bush – R.
Once again, Republicans prove they have no clue. And that's why the American people currently approve of the job Obama is doing by a more than 2-1 margin over the job Congressional Republicans are doing.
Why does it surprise anyone that the head of the GOP would be using a tragedy to try to bolster his party? You have to remember that they are the party that ran the government in the ground in the first place; now, they are blaming the president for not being able to clean up their mess. He is about as disingenuous as the two front runners for the GOP nomination.
What are this man's credentials other than chairman of the Republican Party? The Republicans have not given much credence to their Chairperosn in the past. What is different about thisman? In other words who is he?
Like Anthony said, "The ship was already wrecked before Pres. Obama took over." In fact, it has been the refusal of the Republican Party that exemplifies the behavior of abandoning ship. And, then they blame the wreck on the rescue workers for not getting it cleaned up fast enough. It is always faster and easier to destroy, than to it is build.
Mr. priebus
I first of all agree with the shamefulness of taking a personal tragedy and using it for political attack Next, what was your role in the walkergate offenses in Wisconsin? Would you like to addrss that or wait for further indictments?
He is just another right wing nut who is using this tragedy for political gain, what an idiot.
This man has difficult to understand like it is to pronounce his name. Since when an adult with the right thinking will use a tragedy comparing with anything. Quite silly!
Just like the Republican party, always making jokes of real people lives.
Mr. Steel is a man thati did not agree with but I respect this guy is the evil spon of Rushbo. When the DixieChicks said they were not proud of President Bush the whole republican party boycotted them . Comparing our President to a person arrested for manslaughter it just shows how mush they hate and how the republican party thinks that because they think he is somehow not one of us they can say or do anything . And if I hear this is the same as how the left treated President Bush it just show again how they lie.
WOW ! They just get dumber by the day. I can not even imagine using a tragedy like what happened to that ship to try to make political points. Does this idiot think people dying on this cruise ship is funny ? Do you Republicans out there not see what your party had become ? They have no clue and anyone who supports them doesn't have a clue either.
Why is it that the democrats get to decide who is and who isn't being politically correct?
If anything, Obama is mre like the first mate left to try and deal with the captain's mess. Like with that ship, his best efforts didn't stop some from dying, but only after Bush and cronies got everything out of the war and Congress they wanted.
It's easy to blame Obama because 3 years have passed. but it is still more logical to say that Bush had 8 years to make the mess and we all know cleanup from a disaster takes longer than the actual event.
Let's see his great RNC under his leadership has an 11% approval rating, we sure need to listen to anything this guy has to say. Keep staying in your bubble and watch what happens in Nov.
Classy individual. However, this comparison might be appropriate. Just rush to conlusions based on assumptions.
Mr. Priebus should look to his own "ship". Support for the GOP, and by association, the RNC, is sinking fast. Support = $$$ in this country and without $$$, the RNC won't be able to hire comedians or buy lap dances in strip joints...
Good ole' Republicans...still as out of touch as they've ever been. You don't make statements that tick off Independents if you want to win the White House.
That is a very immature and dishonest statement. But what do you expect from someone with a name like "Reince Prebus." Always seems like he has to rinse his prebus....something is not smelling good. Since 2008 they have tried every possible trick in the book to discredit this black president but it does not work and it will not work in this election. God does not like ugly and the Republican/teapartiers are the ugliest I have wintnessed. No wonder their earlier mantra was "I want my country back." Are these the type of leaders Americans need to take our country back to Jim Crow? Isn't that the main reason they are so upset with this president and have congress block him in every way they can.
Having a Reince Priebus is like having a hemmroid and it is best to have them removed. Priebus is the most repulsive person in politics and I am guessing he will be removed from the RNC by the end of this year, and the Captain that abandoned the ship was non other then GW Bush
LOL...this idiot doesn't remember Capt. Bush, who saved his fiancial buddies with the TARP bailout after they sanked the ship and he hightailed it back to Texas, while working Americans suffered under the Tanked Economy, 2 Wars and 800,000 jobs per month losses, a busted housing and stock market. Bin Laden still running around threatening this country and he had the nerve to say, "I not thinking about Bin Laden"....his justification of going to war in the first place.
These people sure think their lack of supporting Education, firing teachers and closing schools are WORKING!!! Lets give them the TEST in November. Obama/Biden 2012!
What a dip3hite this Priebus is The Republican party tried to push the American economy off a cliff for political gain/to hurt6 Obama, but Obama stopped them. Now, despite everything the Republican party is doing to try to stop it, the economy is rebounding. I have still have a private-sector job because of Obama, my adult daughter still has a private-sector job because of Obama.
The only jobs the Republicans want to create are Peasant/slave worker, Gestapo police officer, and Concentration Camp guard.
The Republican party is a malignant cancerous tumor that needs to be excised from the nation.
Priebus: Obama's our Capt. Schettino
Pathetic, really pathetic. The republican party, the republican congress and it's presidential candidates can only dream of having approval ratings as high as President Obama's.
Their will be THREE[3] embarassed GOP'ers in November, Gingrich ,Romney and the Genius who allowed this to happen . The most person responsible for this disaster will be PREBIUS who is head of the GOP group of nothings. What would you expect from another Wisconsin GOP'er who is out of his league,for this election. Once known as the dairy state could now be referred to as The TURKEY State based on the GOP'ERs in this election cycle.Dumb is as dumb does and the GOP has been great at screwing up this year.
What a dirtbag.
Because of rhetoric like this...the GOP will always find it difficult to obtain and maintain minorities in its party. To compare the president with a cowardly captain is upright disrespectful.
Speaking as an independent, why would I support such an organization.
That is a very immature and dishonest statement. But what do you expect from someone with a name like "Reince Prebus." Always seems like something is not smelling good ....rinse prebus. Since 2008 they have tried every possible trick in the book to discredit this president but it does not work and it will not work in this election. God does not like ugly and the Republican/teapartiers are the ugliest I have wintnessed. No wonder their earlier mantra was "I want my country back." Are these the type of leaders America needs? They always use what they know what is wrong with them and use it against the other guy. The ship sunk with Bush and we have been trying to recover. No way can we put thes people back in power. Americans be smart, we have tried this rich guy thing before and it run us in the depression.
I wonder if Gop is "Stupid " enough to think they have a chance in November??? They will lose the Senate and House also! Get prepared for a landslide "VICTORY" for DEMS!!! Obama-Biden 2012!
How ironic for the head of the RNC to use a sinking ship analogy. Also, equating the President with a killer: classy.
I wouldn't have expected anything Else from the gop. Truly November cannot come fast enough
Obama 2012.
That was in poor taste. And every president in the past has campaigned while in office. Just proves the GOP is clueless, and would complain about President Obama no matter what.
Not surprizing at all that Reince Priebus is just as confused and disfunctional as the party he represents. WHat have you accomplished that's positive lately, Reince? Yep. That's what I thought. Zip.
How soon people forget it were the president who stayed on his post in 1781 when all others fled when the country were under attack from the worst recession since 1929 look like history repeating itself all over again. Said enough.
hey dick that italian captain murdered people including two of our own. OMG you people are as worthless and un-American as they come.
Reince Preibus = RNC PR BS after removing all the vowels.
"I called him Captain Schettino, you know the captain that fled the ship in Italy,"
And I call Priebus, Michael Steele's backstabber or comeuppance. Actually Wrench Previous's betrayal of Steele pretty much showcases the nefarious personality of his party. Now he has ammunition to belittle the Obama administration? Uhm, I think not. "I think you got nothing but a freak show and I cannot believe that people have been applauding that cast of characters that the Repub PAC is trying to pass off as leadership. Good luck, Judas."
HAHAHAHAH I think this Preibus kid is utterly confused. He meant to say ROMNEY is our Schettino. he his a spoiled, sniveling, spineless, coward, job cremator. SCHETTINO = ROMNEY.
....excuse me, and what politician does not campaign for their next term while still in office?
This guy is always an insult to people who think differently than he does. He is appealing to his base - and he is not funny. He is just cruel to citizens and the President. Shall he vanish from the public as should his dishonest people running for the presidency. He owes us an apology.
What a tool. Sorry Reince, the ship already hit the rocks when Obama took over. He came in when the Capt bailed and kept the ship from completely sinking. What Reince hopes is that there is enough ignorant misinformed people out there who will vote for whatever the Republican candidate is because the economy is not improving fast enough. The financial disaster was 40 years in the making and only a fool would think it was going to recover that quick.
Our society is impatient. Instant gratification is what they want. Our country became great because we worked hard and didn't expect instant results. America needs to go back to getting rich slowly.
Go Obama!!!! We've got your back!
This guy will be crying in his soup in November.
Every republican politician is disgusting, vile, and mean spirited!
Priebus's comment is really offensive.
I didn't – and won't – vote for President Obama, but what a stupid comparison. President Obama doesn't represent my values, but I don't believe he's a coward or is trying to destroy our nation. He certainly hasn't resigned his post – unlike Sarah Palin, who did quit in the middle of her term in office...
what an idiot
Wow. The level of disrespect for this president is unsurpassed. I can't beleive this...any outsider looking in will know that this comparison is as bad if now worse than saying he was born in Kenya.
Preibus' remarks means: Like Capt. Schettino, Obama deliberately wants America to Fail and has done everything in his power to do just that. Because that is what the Capt. did. Which we know is not true of Obama. He is doing what he really feels is best for the countryk.
WOW!!
If Obama abandoned ship by suddenly resigning, then Priebus would have a point. But Obama is not abandoning anybody; he is still working hard as president. In fact, he wants a second term. What's the comparison? It's just not there.
Comparison to the captain of the wrecked cruise ship? He's talking about GW Bush, right? and God knows how hard it is for Obama's or anyone for that matter, to get that ship up and running again!
Actually, if the comparison is to be made, I think Bush is a more likely candidate. He steered the country directly into war, refused to levy the taxes needed to support the effort, oversaw the disaster in the financial systems, watched as millions lost their jobs, and then abandoned ship, claiming his two terms were over and he had no further responsibility. Apt comparison, but the wrong Captain! At best, Obama was the Coast Guard guy on shore, demanding that Bush accept the responsibility.
Sheesh, typical. He just joined the ranks of Beck and Limbaugh.
Hey! I made this exact comparison in my post on this site weeks ago! How about at least recognizing Four and The Door, huh?
In any event, it is uncanny not just the visual of a ship laying on it's side half full of water, but the few die-hards who still think Francesco Obama has any chance of being the guy to rescue it. C'mon, really? His cruise is over, people!
I wouldn't let your chairman of the Repub committee walk my dog,o ya,I don't even have a dog thank God.Is he the white Micheal Steele,crusader of the ignorant,defender of the brain dead followers of the teabagger party.He's smart because if he opens his mouth too much his head may cave in,no brains that create a vacuum between his ears.POTUS Obama has got us out of the ditch you Repubs drove us into 11years ago,remember,or you like @Truth,who has selective memory,don't want those rememberences...DO YA...Your party is ready to implode,just telling you to keep you on your toes,I'm a nice guy really,Democrat,and one of those UNION GUYS you speak distastefully,all the time.
Well, at least, the idiot chairman cannot with confidence say that their nominee can beat President Obama in November which is telling...
Just because your angry doesn't mean you can say what ever you want. I'm tired of everyone talking about the Republican anger and allowing irresponsible statements to go unchecked. Yesterday in the NY Post a man commented on an article about a NY residents suicide, saying "he should have taken a couple of Upper West Side liberals with him. Then he would be a hero." You don't make progress by being angry, making threats and offensive comparisons. You make progress by ideas. Obama has had some ideas that have worked and some that haven't, but he is taking this country in the right direction. The Republican front runners have no ideas. They just criticize and then want to go back to the way things were. As an independent I like Obama but would vote for someone if I felt they could further move the country in the right direction. Right now only Obama has ideas that make sense. It's too bad the Republican party has become such a joke. I once looked to them as a serious group of leaders.
This is Priebus rubbish and twaddle, nothing more. He should be ashamed for disrespecting the President. If the shoe were on the other foot, I expect he would be howling to the heavens. Stop the rubbish, Priebus, grow up, become an adult, and talk about the real issues. Insinuation and character assassination demonstrate only how low your own standards are, and they reflect poorly on the party you lead.
Captain Bush steered the ship into the rocks and Obama has been trying to right it ever since.
Oh, my, Reince (why do all these rich kids all have names like "Reince" and "Mitt"?) . You just created a new round of grass-root contributions to the Democratic Party.
The Republican Party is a complete laughingstock, completely kowtowing to the rich. How much longer will working class Republicans tolerate vapid, spoiled, spineless, pre-adolescent little jerks like Reince Priebus and Mittens Romney?
What is this guy smoking? The GOP Congress has blocked every effort to right the ship after Bush/Cheney ran it aground. President Obama has continued to do everything he can possibly do to work around their selfish, politically motivated obstructionism while the American people are struggling. Their leaders are an ethically challenged blow-hard who refused to accept responsibility for his behavior, a businessman who refuses to admit that he likes Democratic policies, and a religious fanatic who plans to put the American Taliban in charge of controlling women! Priebus, you're a damn fool!
Priebus, the Republic Party's male Palin...
NOT funny...Captain Flint
...and Priebus is like Captain Flint of a pirate ship, the Walrus, Flint was responsible for burying an enormous treasure (approximately £700,000) on an island located in the Spanish Main. After the treasure was buried, he murdered all six of them and left the corpse of Allardyce with outstretched arms pointing to the location of the treasure.
This sounds exactly like Romney and Gingrich in their dealings with Freddie mac...and the subsequent suffering of the investors who are left to fen for themselves.
No wonder the RNC and the GOP has such historic low ratings in the polls.
It's not funny at all for Priebus to make mockery of such a tragedy, of which the victims,even some Americans, are currently suffering. He should be more sensitive.
It's clear their is NO sympathy for the sufferings of the victims here....
The current GOP continues to destroy the heritage of a once-principled political party. Thanks to Mr. Priebus, I'll be writing a contribution check to the President's re-election fund today.
I'm from Wisconsin and always thought conservatives (Priebus, in particular) were a bit soft in the head. This proves it.
Pubis is a little man. It is as if all the republicans have gone mad. I think they are suffering from an acute form of guilt for running our country into the grinder. If they were to just admit to all of us that they made a big mistake and move on from that in an intelligent, respectful, and helpful manner instead of blaming others and blocking movement, then perhaps we could gain some ground in a true recovery.
I've voted Republican most of my life, but it's fools like this (and Gingrich/Romney/et al) that leave me shaking my head.
Mighty tall talk from the head of the party that wrecked America with its two wars, tax breaks for millionaires, etc. etc. What a hateful pig. I am voting for Barack Obama.
This guy is a loser.
Obama is the Coast Guard having to ckean up the mess of your Captain of the US ship Georgie. You sir make me sick to my stomach. I can't wait to see your face on election night.
It seems to me that the Republican Party is abandoning ship. All the rich people into the life boats and to hell with everyone else.
They sure have strange group of GOP in Wisconsin.
At long last, GOP, have you no sense of decency?
We, the voters, will give Mr. Priebus and his Grand Old Party the answer this November. We will see then who feels like Capt. Schettino – Obama or Priebus.
Captain Flint
This is really NOT funny making fun of a tragedy
...And I call Priebus Captain Flint in collaboration with Romney and Gingrich. The ship is the RNC and the GOP is the entire crew. Can we recall what happened? Well, the loot was buried and people were killed and the Captain and his crew gained...the victims murdered...suffered.
Doesn't this sound like Romney and his activities at Bain Capital, and Gingrich at Freddie Mac?????
This guy have no sense of respect and integrity. He is not really doing a good job anyway as his party chair. Instead of this hateful party to clean up their house before they could open their mouth about this Loving Hardworking Inteligent President of the United States Of America.
God Bless Obama/Biden, God Bless America.
These wackjobs on the right are just plain unAmerican. They don't care what harm they cause this coutnry, as long as they win. I guess that's their definition of family values.
Quite the contrary, President Obama has worked tirelessly to contain and reverse the damage from the recklessness, negligence, and excesses of Bush's years in office and by any reasonable measure, he's done a dam n good job.
The comparison Priebus makes is disgraceful, dishonest and manipulative and suggests that Tea Party goons have a chokehold on the Republican Party.
I wonder if Reince has received his subpoena yet from the John Doe investigation in Wisconsin. He's in it as deep as Walker. Tsk, tsk, tsk, Reince.... you should learn to follow election laws. Say hi to Duke Cunningham from us!
Comparing Obama to Captain Schettino is not a fair. Obama is a complete failure that has accomplished nothing. At least the Captain had a job. Obama is a worthless failure.
We know who was in the White House when Wall Street ran the global economy off a cliff. Bush and his Secty of Treasury and economic team had 8 years to avoid the disaster, but didn't. We know Obama is 100 times better than Bush-Cheney.
The question is whether Mitt Romney would be better at pulling us out of the ditch. Haven't really heard any plan out of Mitt or Newt or Santa. Ron Paul
Clearly, the Republicans have chosen an idiot to chair their party.
What does this have to do with racism? The ship captain was white, and people in Priebus' position had said far worse about George Bush. I also don't get why its offensive to compare Obama's tenure to a tragedy. Look at all the Americans suffering right now because of Obama's policies, isn't that a tragedy as well?
Priebus is preoccupied w/ political posturing and hence if any sensible comments are expected from him, it ain't gonna happen. This is the most moronic, megalomaniacal melody coming from an imbecile who is callously capitalizing on the cruise ship tragedy to his party's partisan advantage. Somebody oughta knock him on the head.
This is what the Republicans do when they don't really have a plan or a solution to the problems that face America today. They resort to name calling.
Too bad Priebus wasn't on the ship
The republicans are so desperate it is pathetic. If you want seafaring analogies that make sense–Newt Gingrich is Captain Ahab and Mitt Romney is the Skipper from Gilligan's Island.
I want to give this guy a forehead slap.
OBAMA.......2012
This moron would have us believe that President Obama is the first sitting president in the history of the U.S. to have the gall to actually campaign for reelection. Yes, the GOP is living in there own little fantasy world. Nothing is getting done because of the GOP. The Congress, not the President make laws, pass budgets, etc.
The Chairman of the Republican National Committee's comments can only be described as nasty – repulsive – abominable – revolting – foul – wicked – offensive. Crawl back into the hole you came out of. How disgusting!
NOvember 2012 – Always the class act aren't you?
That an obsucre GOPer would compare Schetino to the POTUS due to their 'perception' (read hope for political gains) that the economy is going from bad to worse was something quite predictable...
...But not as much as that some guy(s) would agree (in public) with him or her and throw any respect (that was left) about his/her opinion in the...
Another mind less fool who will say anything! W and GOP policies sunk the ship stupid! Their continued strategy of not helping the president in an effort to win back the white house has cost americans billions in revenue, lost jobs and slowed the recovery. Independent voters recognize this and the results will be a huge democratic victory in november.
It is interesting that the Fox New web site so far has no reference to the RNC Chairman's disrespectful comments about the President. I wonder why?
FIrst off – we are better off now than how the GOP boy wonder ("W") left us. From day one the GOP attacked everything... literally everything Obama did. And despite the fact that the GOP did ABSOLUTELY nothing to help the economy and tried to stop EVERYTHING that would improve the economy... Obama pulled off a recovery.
The WORST recession in 80 years – CREATED by the GOP. And Obama saved us. That is the fact.
I am sick of GOP lies and obstruction. They are the party of hate and blame. They would rather see the country ruined than to see a democrat succeed. Typical GOP, party before country.
I'm no fan of Obama. But if anyone makes a good comparison to Capt. Schettino, it's that derelict G W Bush who drove this country into the ground and walked away from it in smoldering ruins.
Well this ship hasn't sunk, though Bush got it awfully darn close. It was nearly under when Obama took over, but he has been in there bailing it out bucket by bucket and we are steaming along once again. No thanks to half the disgruntled crew that continues to rock the boat as hard as they can hoping it will sink.
Priebus, you sir are the lowest of lows. How you can even sleep at night is a mystery.
The GOP has gotten so ugly and negative and they're killing this country. I voted repub for most of my life but now?.... I'LL NEVER VOTE REPUBLICAN AGAIN!!! UGLY UGLY "ALL- ABOUT- ME" TYPE PEOPLE!!
Is this the fearless leader of the GOP? What a shame! No wonder the Republicans are bickering and bashing one another the way they are now, this guy is their childish leader. The once impressionable, suit wearing Republican party has been reduced to not only the "party of no", but also the party of lost and confused individuals dragging down the tubes anyone who are fooled by their foolish rhetoric. It has left a lot of Americans, including Republicans, scratching their heads in shame and disbelief. WOW!
Way to be classy GOP.
Reince Priebus has a very comendable background, based on hard work, intelligence, and discipline. Aside from the hard work, he seems to have sunken with some of those in politics to slinging mud in public, every chance he gets. By now he's seen as a week Tom Hanks look-a-like on some strange kind of potion.
For anyone to so openly, shoutingly disparage anyone in the Office of the President of these United States, especially this far out of the elections, is a poor attempt at distraction from in-house problems at the RNC. A look at the variety of debates show desperation, surely, and not leadership of any sort.
Reince, take care of your problems at home, or President Obama will surely deserve a second term.
I love it – the Dems and loony left are getting nosebleeds, they are so far up the moral high ground.
And these are very ones who endorse the systematic mutilation and murder of 50 MILLION bables are suddenly filled righteous indignation and respect for their fellow man???????
The Costa Concord is a terrible tragedy but the writer of this article was talking about a negligent CAPTAIN not the victims.
The Republicans are at an all time low in being any kind of a human. Never seen so much hate and lies coming from this group. They will say anything, talk from both sides of their mouth and flat out lie. What a bunch of low lifes.
the republican party runs like bernie madoff's old company. where are the assests – just inflated rhetoric trying to make the country think they have the goods to back it up
I'd still rather have Obama.
This is very sad. Is this all the republicans have, insults and mud slinging? The voters are having to vote for the one who can out insult the other one and throw more mud. I wish someone would ask them what they will do besides lower their own taxes. How will they fix things? All I am hearing is who has the most money and who profited more from other people's misery. Obama is no different from other presidents who have gone on the campaign trail.
Very sad that the Republican party cannot find some other analogy where people have not died. It's tragic the lack of compassion for families who have lost loved ones. This is not a game to them. Republicans talk about family values, etc., faith, etc, but there actions do not support the rhetoric. Shameful
Republicans just love to exploit tragedies to get votes. Just look at 9/11!
Can't the republican leadershp sink any lower- does
riebus have ANY personal morals that temper what he says - We all know that politics is an 'anything goes' sport, but THIS? Its a sad day for republicans, but of course, many 'christian values evangelicals won't blink an eye to all of this. I am a family values military officer veteran, and I DO NOT APPROVE OF THE REPUBLICAN MESSAGE
Such a silly little man, Mr. Priebus. Can't we locate a mature Republican? They all seem so childish and demeaning . By the way, what did Reince think of President Bush's work ethic?
No that would have been "W". Obama was left to clean it up. Look at the employment chart–it took 7 years of growth to get the jobs we lost in late 08/early09.
Republicans...!!!What a shame!!!!!
Oh, and I forgot to add, what next will they be calling Obama– the devil? the Antichrist? wait, they have already done so....
The Southern Lady is so right! ("...aquainting the shipwreck with President Obama clearly shows where the once-proud Republican party is today.") So sad to see the once glorious Republican party become the party of nitwit leaders.
And I though Stormfront was full of hate. CNN takes the cake.
The truth is that it was Bush who crashed into the rocks and then handed off to Obama to correct his mistakes. It is amazing how memories are so easily manipulated!
Even Bob Schieffer, a well known Republican, thought the remark was silly and over the top, laughing and saying "what?".
If anything, Obama is getting in trouble trying to give TOO MANY lifeboats, not too little.
Typical Repug response. When you having nothing to contribute to a healthy political discourse, you attack instead of initiating programs to support Americans. What jobs program has Boehner's House come up with? Just more empty rhetoric from the Right and the electorate has caught on. Hopefully they will be swept out of office in November.
Where does it stop? Do these people have any respect or dignity whatsover? I really hope people are able to see through their unbridled hatred of a president that is doing his best to repair the damage the GOP has done to this country, and re-elect President Obama to a second term.. Then, in a fit of despair I hope all these trolls take a hot bath with a sharp razor.
When you dont have any ideas, any concrete plans this is what you resort to. Inappropriate and disrespectful name calling.
Have you no shame sir, have you no shame?
Mr. ReiNCe PRieBuS needs to look in the mirror if he wants to see what a failed captain fleeing a ship looks like. Virtually the entire GOBP deathcult has fled their obligations as elected officials. They have abandoned the average American, leaving them to fend for themselves while the cowards on the right care only about protected their wealthy benefactors at all costs.
What's most amazing, is that this moron actually thinks what he said is perfectly acceptable.
Cute and pathetic high school like comparison, Mr. Priebus! Shades of W's lack of intelligence at work again the Tea/Repub Party.
Mr. Priebus ... the last thing you should be wanting right now is for any spotlight to be put in your direction. Your comparison was completely distasteful. I suspect the American people are going to be looking very closely at you and your words as more information into the FBI investigation of Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin are released.
Yea... lets make light of a tragedy thats claimed the lives of 15 people for a bit of political humor...
What really amazes me is the self rigtheousness this guy has.. And I bet he tells everybody that he believes in God.. All republicans are full of hate.. They are judgmental and narrow minded. This guy has no class neither has the brains to realize that he is using a tragedy in which some people died hoping he could make some points. The only thought that comes to my mind, as how ro define this pour soul.. he is MEDIOCRE. Most of republicans supported a president, G. Bush who lied and deceived us and because of their lies.. 4,320 young soldiers died and more than 36,000 are physically and emotionally wounded. Now Bush is riding his bike in his ranch and Cheney is collecting money from Halliburton.. Cheney is a CRIMINAL and Bush is a neophite... same as Sarah Palin.
Hey Reince, what happened to your first name? Someone accidentally gave you two last names!
Never imagined my party would be this stupid! They say Obama cannot run on his record and that he never talked about his achievements on SOTU speech. I watched it just like million others and he talked about his effort on improving economy. His opening statement was that he killed Osama. Same day,he rescued our citizens in Somalia. He talked about his Obamacare,Auto industry and border security. He said that he has so far depoted many illegals more than Bush did in 8yrs. GOP thinks can beat Obama by telling lies? We gonna lose in NOV and we are likely to lose the house because we have done worse than Demos. Look at Congress poll numbers under Boehner leadership.....pathetic.
Disgraceful comments from the head of the RNC. Their only goal is to defeat this President. They have denied him the ability to appoint his own people and refused to pass just about anything, even if they thought of it in the first place.
They have used the veto or threat thereof, only used about once every five years in the past, on almost everything. My only hope is that the party nominates Mr Gingrich, which will truly be the end of them. Sad commentary on our country in a time of great need.
Same old name-calling, fear-mongering, finger-pointing Republican Party....getting more and more desperate. Tricky Dick and the Watergate boys would be applauding this kind of demagoguery. I'm an Independent, but I think that Newt Gingrich is a demagogue, mean, nasty and sneaky. I wonder how those who lost relatives on that ship like this kind of senseless comment. It's also an analogy accusing Obama of murder. It's a bad analogy guy who comes off to me now as a lout.
Slandering, bad-mouthing, finger-pointing, complaining, demonizing . . . these are the tools of the Republican Party.
Notice there's a glaring absence of "great ideas" in that tool chest . . .
I miss George W......now that was a guy who loved the USA.
That is a disgusting comment.
What a joke. Obama has done everything in his power to help while the GOP has deliberately steered the ship towards the reef in hopes that the prez will be blamed, and they'll regain political power.
Let me see here, it wasn't Obama that was asleep at the wheel on 9/11, it wasn't Obama that invaded not one but two countries with no plan and no way to pay for it, it wasn't Obama that destroyed the economy 2001 – 2008. It was a Red Neck Right super majority.
Pres. Obama has not "turned and run" from the mess he inherited! Do believe that ship captain did that very thing. The pres. has fought very hard to bring this country back with no help whatsoever with Reps. in congress. Michael Steele makes this guy look like a first class idiot.
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
Amazingly stupid comment. But, nothing the GOP says anymore really amazes, does it? It is just one more idiotic comment, gesture, distortion, or slam against someone who is cleaning up one of the greatest debacles of our lifetimes..the last Bush presidency. I am stunned by the element of our society that votes in these swamp people. Well, not really because they have a complete lineup of news ones, too. Get the vote out in 2012. Sweep Congress and elected our President to a second term.
And Republicans wonder why they are universally held in contempt... The bottom line is NOT ALL REPUBLICANS ARE BAD PEOPLE, BUT ALL BAD PEOPLE ARE REPUBLICANS.
A comment like that from the party that steered us in the ditch we're in is halarious. America is sick of the party of NO, the party thats keeps obstructing the healing process from the devestation caused during the Republican/Bush ERA. And now the other 99% suffer beacuse the republicans are bad sports that America elected Obama. They shoud be held in treason for obstucting the healing procress. Bush would of had them all in Gitmo if the situation was reversed.
Sadly, we live in a country where someone can make such ludicrous comparisons, and not feel disgraced.
Wow, the GOP can come up with some whale sized lies. Fortunately, the American people has awakened to their lying ways. The GOP has done nothing to help America because they are so focused on making Obama a one term President as their boss Rush told them.
Typical response by a high placed idiot. Go ahead and use tragedy to poke fun at the President. I am sure people wh o lost loved ones on the ship appreciated your classless comments.
If the RNC is wanting to use the shipwreck scenario they should look no further than the congress... they have fled the wrecked ship that Bush put aground and pointing their fingers anywhere but themselves. Besides who in their right mind would use this tragedy to compare our President...
This type of rightwing political garbage may have worked during the midterm elections but better hold your propaganda because it ain't goanna work in the general election. Fool me one, fool me twice but you ain't goanna fool me three times!
rEINCE pREIBUS – Another done nothing in life, footnote in the history book, hyper-critic and jealous of obama type
...but can the people unite behind the nominee after all the dirt that's been heard about each of them?
This is what the Republican Party has become. They caused the shipwreck of the American economy. They refused to help save the passengers – the working class Americans. Now they're trying to blame the mess on somebody else. Conservatives created the "swift boat" politics and continue to operate without honor.
You know, I've had enough. The GOP has no ideas other than tax breaks for billionaires and taking away the voting rights of American citizens. And all it is day in and day out, ad nauseum, is attack attack attack. They have no honor. They have no decency. All they offer is hate and division. And we're allowing it. What's wrong with us.
Obama is worse than the Italian Captain Obama has destroyed MILLIONS of lives; millions of families; destroyed companies. The Italian Captaini was having dinner with his girlfriend. Obama was palying golf and going to fund raising events. The US cannot afford four more years of the Community Organizer - Mr Obama, step down and go play golf with Clinton
Wire Palladin SF – I think he may be gone sooner depending on how that Milwaukee WI investigation goes. Of course that's no guarantee seeing as how we have criminals in elected positions way more important than his.
All of the bodies haven't been recovered yet, but it's never too early for the GOP to be insensitive.
Just imagine what they would say if 9/11 happened when a democrat was president.
THESE are the people that want to lead the country?
Right, the republicans sink the ship, the Dems jump on trying to save it, and despite the best GOP efforts to blast more holes, the ship actually starts floating again. Thank you Fire Chief Obama! Looking forward to another four years!
The GOP will say ANYTHING...the more outrageous the better. With Romney and Gingrich, where do they THINK they are going? OMG...I'm waiting to hear that Obama started the Chicago fire, took down the Twim Towers, started WWII, etc. Not ONE vote will they get from me-totally wrong and out of touch!
The Republicans' two front runners both ran away and deserted their country when it came to serving in Vietnam. Romney was kicking back in France. And Gingrich got five student deferments–i suppose he thought that his mighty brain was too important to be risked in combat.
What's so shocking about the comparison between Obama and Cpt Schettino? Pretty much dead on, it's just that Obama has managed to sink what was once the greatest country in the world instead of a mere cruise liner.
In the same idiotic class as "Drill, baby, drill!"
Amazing how a "1-minute sound bite" is able to demonstrate how insensitive and stupid a person can be.
And along with everything else, the analogy doesn't even make sense. If he were doing the equivalent of abandoning ship, Obama would be resigning, not trying his hardest to get re-elected.
Why does the President have to be in DC to be doing his job? Going out and speaking with the people, sharing his message with a more personal touch I would think is part of his job. Republicans are freaked because they have no viable candidate and those great Republicans in congress have lower approval ratings than a snake. While I am not surprised, I am always amazed at the stupidity pouring from Republican's mouths.
In the same idiotic class as "Drill, baby, drill." Republicans remind me of children who lash out simply in spite.
It's a shame that a republican would use such a comparsion to this ship wreck to obama when so many lovely people lost their lives....How low can you go...Disgraceful
The republicans are absolutely shameless,
While I'll certainly admit that Obama has made mistakes – such as hoping for fairminded or functional compromise from the Party of Fail, the otherwise comic amusement of this imbecile and his minions is sad fantasy. This will not destroy our country, no matter how hard they pursue their agenda of pandering to the stupid. It's weird they would stay this course, given the certainty of a historic collapse and ultimate disintegration of the republican agenda as a relevant player in national government. As was once said, evolution is optional. Survival is not mandatory. Good riddance to these psycopaths.
Amazing how a one-minute sound bite is able to demonstrate how insensitive and intelligence-challenged a person can be.
The ship began sinking in 2001 when George Bush took over. He squandered a HUGE surplus on a large tax-cut plus two UNFUNDED wars in which thousands of Americans have died.
Obama is the rescue captain trying to right the ship, because the original captain and crew were asleep at the wheel.
What nonsense! Obama is supposed to sit by while these two Republican clowns fight it out and use HIM as a punching bag? BS! Hey..if the Republicans don't want him campaigning, why don't they hold off THEIR campaigning until a month before the Republican convention? Don't pollute our airways with THEIR nonsense, than complain when the other side responds! Typical Republican blabber!
I don't know whether to be horrified by the ignorance and thoughtlessness of the comment or delighted that he is the Republican leader.
I wouldn't say he's "Abandoning ship" whilst he's on the campaign trail early. I would say he is looking out for the crews/passenger long term future by ensuring a right wing fanatic doesn't get a turn at the controls.
Good Political seafarring in my eyes.
Once again the GOP shows so much disrespect for OUR President and this out of touch man, who relates these two issues is out of his mind and out of touch. They just show me more and more everyday that OBAMA will win in 2012 and they are going to the ones to help him win.
Someone needs to remind Capt. Previously a nobody that the Republican approval rating is 9%. Although the Democrats are not much higher I would be worrying about my own house with ratings like that. He must subscribe to the Gingrich plan that if he throws enough bs at the wall maybe some of it will stick. Problem is, what sticks stinks and what doesn't gets stepped in and then you have to clean your shoes. This guy needs to realize that ignorance can be cured but stupidity is forever and with comments like that he is showing just how stupid he is. Paul2012
first we have the finger in the face, next we have someone who is so clueless to compare our POTUS to a tragedy that is still painful to many families who have missing relatives and lets not forget the entire libetarian/gop bubble that are running against a person who doesn't even exist. I'm surprised that noone has come out with a target on the WH. Oh wait. they did.
will it surprise anyone if OBAMA2012 is a bigger landslide than OBAMA2008?
The Republicans are great at insults. This is a really good one, Mr. Priebus. I'll think of your tasteless remark when I'm in the voting booth.
The GOP is too rich and too heartless for their own good. I can't believe this guy used a real life tragedy for his own humor and political gain. I hope that their blind followers will gain enough sense to step back and realize how awful this is. Maybe they'll start to realize how much bs they are fed from their party's leaders.
Much to the chagrin of the Republican party, Obama will be president elect in November 2012. Also, the Senate will have the 60 plus democrats and the house will swing to the democrats ensuring the end of the Tea Party!!! Can't even count how many state legislatures especially in the North will swing back to Democrat!!! Keep it up Republicans. You are definite showing your true colors in this election!!!!
I thought it was the Republicans that sunk the ship. We voted in a new Captain who didn't manage to save all the passengers that were "underwater" and IMO is trying, but the old captains crew is loyal to the old captain and want to see the new captain fail at any cost and don't seem to care about the passengers at all. They keep talking about all the passengers that didn't pay their fair share and deserved to die because they were envious of the first class passengers.
It's just standard GOP propaganda to me. I'm sure the Democrats would do the same if the positions were reversed though.
The GOP has become delusional.
The more comments like this they make the more the American people are disgusted.
You want to know who is really abandoning ship? It's the voters jumping of the GOP barge of lies.
The party that shut down the government under Gingrich and constantly threatens to do so is the shipwreck. And the captains are the greedy Corporations that have made the GOP nothing more than the yes men of special interests. The party that talks about principles and votes only the interests of the 1%. The party that lies and cheats the American people out of their legacy and their rights.
They're namecalling like fourth-graders in desperation. Very dignified. Look at the polls, pals. In 2012, the GOP gets laughed out of contention for the presidency once again.
Stay classy GOP.
Here we go again, iit's a race issue. Guess this means that he gets a free pass on every move he makes. The fact's are that he has put this country in dire straights, both economically, and in racial terms,
and he not even a 100% African American. The left leaning press allow's this administration to go unchallenged and the left loves it....Mindless fools!
And this the supposed Party of Christians and values?? What lying hypocrites. Guess they will cheat, still try to push voter suppression tactics, send out false letters with the wrong election day on it, call seniors and give them non-existent addresses for absentee ballots – like they got caught doing in WI and FL.
Truth always wins out in the end. We the People don't vote for traitors, liars, and cheaters. President Obama will win in a landslide and bring a wipeout of the obstructionist Republican Congress along with him.
A personal best in the Republicans' race to the bottom (and that's saying something after Allen West said Liberals should get the hell out of the United States). Whether Gingrich wins or loses the primary he has left his stylistic permanent marker on what has become the party of uncompromising pettiness, intolerance and hatred.
Do you have any idea how shockingly big the Democratic/Obama victory will be in 2012?
Indecent Behavior. Very inappropriate, animalistic.
Behold the singular reason why the Republicans will lose the presidential election ....stupid men like this
I cannot believe this, As a Canadian I am so glad I am one. The only way I think that the United States will prevail is if Obama remains the president.
Wight ship – wrong captain. My Captain Obama is setting sail real clear. He has rescued the sinking ship Bush left us. Have people really forgotten where we were just just 3 years ago. Yes, I said three. Obama has NOT been in office 4 years yet.
I'm a Christian but I have to admit that sometimes even my fellow christians scare the hell out of me. I just don't know how
some people would call themselves CHRIST likes but behave like the pharisees and the sadducees, people that spoke ill will of JESUS and even conspired to kill him. rick santorum, newt gingrich, michele bachmann, mitt romney, herman cain as
well as others including this vitriolic chairman priebus are not true Christians, they are more like the pharisees and the sadducees because no matter how sanctimonious they claim to be they have the same characteristics towards Obama
just like the pharisees and sadducees have towards JESUS CHRIST.
I wonder how the families of the victims would feel, heck, the world would feel, to know that this strange name sounding man has compared our President with a captain who left the ship when it was sinking and people died.
To me that sounds like the previous president, but hey, that's just me.
Just because that out of the millions of Americans who call themselves, shamefully, teapublikans you people couldn't find one candidate worthy to be our president doesn't mean that you need to resort to name calling. Then again, since 2008 and that witch from AK this is all that you people can come up with.
A agree with mccallen23 – stay classy party of hell no!
Republicans = pathetic little people
WOW! What a disgusting, disrespectful piece of work Mr. Priebus is. The GOP is clearly imploding before our eyes! Time to step back and regroup for 2016. My prediction is the House and the Senate will lose a significant number of seats in the upcoming election. The GOP will have to reinvent themselves if they hope to remain viable in the future.
How in god's name do you make a political statement about a tragedy that is still unfolding?!!??!
The shipwreck is the GOP, which has run aground and is listing heavily under the weight of Tea Parrty extremists who are far out of touch with common-sense Americans. When in doubt, play the fear/stupidity card. It's all they got. He forgot to call Obama the Anti-Christ.
A laughable comparison, since it was George W. Bush who helped steer our country into financial danger! The collapse occured during Bush's watch and President Obama has been trying to pick up the pieces. I sincerely doubt anyone could have done better, especially since the Republicans in Congress made it their job to try and make the President fail, even if it meant failure for the citizens of our country–that's how much they care about us–not one bit!
Reince Priebus is low mentality, devisive and hateful tool of the GOP. What a disgusting fool. Serious news shows shouldn't even consider interviewing him. There is nothing important he has to say and he is a terrible example for our children and grandchildren.
Obama 2012. My greatest satisfaction will be the millions of DUMB GOPers, so out of touch with reality, that they will be scratching their heads how they lost. The reason you lost is because you guys nominated newt and romney. hahahah how dumb are you people?!!
Not really much you can say about an idiot talking like an idiot. At least he is entertaining. I will say that he and the rest of the republicans will hopefully realize that America is made up of two parties and independents. We all don't vote republican and we sure don't all like them.
Rience Priebus is a total jerk. I Want him to show his birth certificate, with a name like that, he can't be an American. His name sounds French.
Such a statement just demonstrates the utter desperation of the GOP. They know Obama will win and are running scared. Priebus is the worst chair they've ever had and this statement proves it. The "shocking news" is that Obama leads all the opposition. A new poll shows him 9 points up on Romney in the critical state of Florida. Expect the GOP to act in even more vile, extremist language throughout the year, but Obama will be reelected.
I don't care if your state is red or blue, if you believe in trickle down, or bottom up and I don't care if you like the President, whether he's Republican, Democrat, or Tea Party, you don't show this kind of disrespect in a public forum toward the President. It shows no class and makes us all a little less than we otherwise could be. This isn't the first time this has happened during the Obama administration. It would be nice if it were the last.
"Reince Priebus said the party would unite by then in an effort to win the White House."
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So they will get together for the photo op of an election and then get back to their self-serving agendas, and that of their rich supporters.
Priebus is our country's Vidkun Quisling.
This is an appalling comment, regardless of what party or politician is is being disparaged. This disrespectful idiot should be ashamed of himself. Anyone around him should be outraged. This is an example of the depths to which our political process has plummeted. Have we lost all sense of honor? The Republicans have raised 'hate talk' to an art form. Just look how they speak about each other, let alone about their 'enemies.' I hope Priebus toads a long Mediterranean cruise...and very soon. Find a party chair with some dignity, for our country's sake.
Not a shocking comparison but rather a shocking similarity between two heads of ship who abandoned their commands - one casued losss of life on the high sees; the other caused loss of hope, lose of faith, loss of jobs, loss o fhomes. loss of savings, and in some cases – loss of lives.
Mr Priebus was just named as one of the people caught communicating on an illegal wireless router set up 25 feet from governor Scott Walker's office when Walker was Milwaukee County exec and Priebus was Wisconsin Republican Chairman.
The problem was that the router was used for illegal campaign work by Walker aides while they were supposed to be doing work for the taxpayers.
I suspect that Mr Priebus will be deposed soon (if he hasn't been already) to see whether he knew that what was happening was illegal.
If he knew, he may be implicated himself.
And this from the Party of George W Bush and Dick Cheney – who ran up our debt to its present level, murdered more than 5000 soldiers in a fraudulent war to grab Iraq's oil. Committed treason and international war crimes on torture. Karl Rove outted a CIA agent because her husband would not lie before Congress about non-existent WMDs. That's a federal crime of 20+ years. Destroyed our economy and the lives of hundreds of millions of Americans. The GOP really thinks we would vote any of them back in office again? They are insane extremists. I will stick with President Obama who stands up for ALL Americans and has accomplished great things for the PEOPLE. President Obama has something no Republican has – honor, character, integrity, real values, and actually works for the PEOPLE every day. He is and will continue to be my President.
"Caribou Barbie" Palin is more Like Schettino. If I recall correctly she abandoned her office before the end of her term. The big difference is Schettino left a tragedy, and Palin's leaving was a blessing to the citizens of Alaska.
Read the yahoo news story about how conservative thinking, prejudice and low IQ are linked...
That is such an AIRHEAD comment. No question that the current regime messed up quite a bit by throwing too much money around without having any control in place. BUT I suspect that the Republicans would have done no better and based on history substantially worse.
"In a few months, this is all going to be ancient history and we're going to talk about our own little Captain Schettino, which is President Obama who's abandoning the ship here in the United States..."
Good lord – and I thought Michael Steele was an idiot! Why can't the GOP find a guy with half a brain to chair their little party?
Well that settles it. If that's what the GOP's paid spokesman says, we just have to accept the truth of the matter: republicans simply have no shame.
I think a better analogy is that Obama took over the ship after it had already half capsize, and while the president keeps trying to right the vessel, republicans keep pumping water into it.
Yeah. Because Bush didn't campaign at ALL for his second term. He mostly hid out at his heavily fortified ranch and cleared brush.
It the Republican that has jump ship on America ,and not President Obama. The Republican Control do Nothing Congress Isn't Letting him do anything to get America going again. But he Is still getting It done because thing are getting better slowing but getting better and with out Republican help at all. The Republican only care about the Republican Party and not about America or the American People.
Uh..NO. Your precious DUH-BYA was Schettino – HE took the ship onto the rocks, then fled after his term was over. Obama was the Coast Guard captain, trying to get all the republicans responsible back on board, instead of watching from the lifeboats and waiting for America to fail.
'nuff said about the teavangelical repub party...loud-mouthed liars, disrespectful and un-American, ultra-right religious fanatics, etc. This man is the poster child for hate, racism, elitism, and division...through all the rhetoric of the party of "NO" and the ugly face they put on American politics, we Democrats have to do only one very important thing...we have to go to the polls November 6, 2012, encourage our friends and family to do the same, and vote President Obama in for another 4-year term in office. We also need to do everything in our power to sway others to not only vote for the only man for the job, but we all need to get behind any and all Democratic candidates for Congress...we need to clean House, send a message loud and clear, and give President Obama a House and Senate that is forward looking, that is FOR the people, ALL the people, and not just the rich who bankroll the party of "NO" candidates. We WILL take back America from those who would take us all back 50 years!
I'm pretty sure Priebus threw out his back coming up with that analogy.
I believe the GOP has become two parties. Each of there agendas are so different from each other, that to have the losers stand behind the party values and beliefs of the winners, means they will have to "compromise". Imagine that...saying "yes" to something they don't believe.
The use of the Schettino comparison, besides being in poor taste, demonstates an even bigger problem. The "no" mantra has left this party without the ability to imagine solutions or, in this case, to describe the problem.
Respect in America.....R.I.P. It's a sad state of affairs when individuals of apparent importance in American politics can equate the president with such a character as the "runaway ships captain" or wag their finger at him on the tarmac of an international airport. This is really sad.....You don't have to like him.....how about just a little more respect for his office.
Talking about American values...uhhhh!
With a name like Rience Priebus, he'd better be producing his man card.
GOP needs to figure out whats its going to be – organized political racist, pro-money with a dash of morality when its fashionable or striaght up stupid. I feel bad for the GOPers who are actually trying to find a middle ground to fix this situation. Those are people who need to organize and step up.
Wasn't the the guy that was captaining the ship when it ran a ground? Remind me who was President when the economy tanked? Remind me again who was President when we started losing 700,000 jobs per month. Now tell me who has been President for the last 24 months of private sector job growth. Sounds like our Capt. Schettino was GW and President Obama is more like Captain Sully who landed our economy after its engines had failed and kept us out of a depression.
Bush is our captain Schettino.
Greed stupidity cowardice dereliction = republican
What is wrong captain priebut, can't find the ladder?
This guy, it seems, has a lot to learn, making stupid comparisons and meaningless comments.
Yes, you are right, Republicans simply have no shame. And - judging by the RNC chairman's comments - no brains either.
This statement is the reason why an independent like me and my independent friends and colleagues will never support this GOP and its leadership. To somehow equate our President with a cowardly ship captain is repulsive.
The entire republican congress is our real Capt. Schettino!
Both the republicans and democrats abandon ship along time ago and have left the American people out to dry.
He is a 39 year old fund raising political wannabe who lost his first election. Look at his education and career, he has been grooming himself for political office since birth. These words and the disrespect will haunt him in later elections. He looks and sounds like someone from a large second tier state university young republican meeting.
There is one constant that occurs with Republicans and conservatives. When there is no controversy or reason to oppose the current administration, they will create one. That does not mean they have to factual, just as long as they create opposition...Obama will be re-elected. A large majority of Americans have made note of the opposition and will vote accordingly. Republicans in the mid term elections ran on "job creation" didn't they? Where are all the jobs? They will remember that fact also..........and they will not blame Obama for business off-shoring funds.
that is funny...
If that's the best they can do, it's not going to win them back the White House.
I guarantee you if you were to ask most people on the street what "Reince Priebus" refers to, I doubt most people would know. Their first guess might be a disease or something.
This guy will be crying in his pribus come November.
OMG...did he really said that ?
Priebus = America's Quisling.
Oh pullll-eze! So the best prescription for the nation is to elect another Republican president, right? Ok; I'll play that game for a moment. I predict that Newt is elected president, an Iranian faction attacks the US and in response, Newt orders the invasion of Canada. Who knows with Republicans? It could happen!
Not so bright coming from the committee leader of the clowns running for office for Republicans.
This guy is spewing garbage and his comments are offensive which I am sure is his goal.
Priebus, please come to Compton, California and say that.
You have a open invitation to come down and express your political views to the team at anytime even after November 2012, I promise you will have our complete attention....... we will take time off work to accommodate your arrival.
The President has to be politically correct but hey, I don't and I am getting feed up.
Brewer with her finger in the President's face and now this coward. Brewer gets a pass because she is a female you do not, you are a male coward.
Come on down so we can discuss unemployment stats,foreign affairs wins, debt. ceiling road blocks, dream act, DADT, Positive impact of the stimulus, Bush tax cuts and their negative impact, and what's up with the "Do Nothing Republican House".
With regards,
D.
Is there an email contact address where fools of this sort can hear back from the American people?
Really? He must have forgotten all the others who campaign while they still have a job. For example, who was playing Governor of Texas while Rick Perry was on the campaign trail costing TX taxpayers millions?
Rience – Thanks for reminding me why I stopped voting republican when George Bush was selected as the nominee – too much stick your head in the sand insensitive ignorance.
THANK GOD FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA'S LEADERSHIP. This man must not be able to read or understand where we have come from in the last three years.
Every time this empty suit opens his mouth, he confirms that republicans are not electable. This kind of rhetoric is in poor taste at best, and downright ugly at the worse. How many lives have been lost in the accident, and what makes this moron think its okay to make light of it, in a taudry attempt to get air time for the republican candidates. Pathetic.
Keep talking GOP... show us how much hate rules your heart. Let us see more of the true face of the Ultra Conservative.
As an independent.. i can assure the GOP that this kind of nonsense is going to push more of us in the middle further away. I haven't been a huge fan of Obama, nor agreed with all of his policies, but I think when compared to what the GOP is putting forward, he looks by far to be the most respected man running for President. You would have thought that 8 years under Bush would have opened up the eyes of many in the GOP – but it seems as though many are just closing their eyes more tightly.
Pure GOP Class !
The comparison is a stretch, even if someone is trying to be sarcastic. Just shows you how desperate and off the mark Republicans have become. Mitt Romney is your frontrunner? Good luck with that. I can understand the desperation.
All you Media Matters people can only concentrate on one thing – the reference to the Italian Captain. What is really being said is "where is our Commander in Chief and Chief Executive Officer of the USA" when this country is in dire need of POSITIVE leadership". He is out campaigning and absent from his primary duty. A serious offense in the military the he now feels such affinity for. Also, he has a billion $$$ warchest. Why does he still need to fund-raise. I guess liberals can never have too much money. Oops, excuse me, that just slipped out. How come the Occupiers don't find that offensive but heaven forbid Romney "legally" (not like Geithner) paid 15% tax plus another 6.5 mil to charity.
Hmm, the jerk is proudly featured on his own Facebook page. Maybe the American people should message him and let him know what they think of his repulsive comments.
Priebus strikes me as a pretty boy, which is very unusual for the Republican Party. Come out, Come out, where ever you are Mr. Priebus.
So, this guy is the LEADER of the Republicans...he can't even find his way on to the ship. This stuff just keeps getting better and better.
Steve...you've got it right: Wasn't the the guy that was captaining the ship when it ran a ground? Remind me who was President when the economy tanked? Remind me again who was President when we started losing 700,000 jobs per month. Now tell me who has been President for the last 24 months of private sector job growth. Sounds like our Capt. Schettino was GW and President Obama is more like Captain Sully who landed our economy after its engines had failed and kept us out of a depression
it is not quite shocking as you think .
Sounds like ALL the Republicans are drinking the same nut-juice these days.
This is a DISGUSTING comment. Why is it that this party will say anything, do anything, BE anything simply to rally their base. He should be ashamed of himself...and the Repuplican Party should expect WAY more of their leaders. Again, Disgusting. People were killed in this. Family members. Remember???
Outrageous, and like so much else coming out of the Republican party lately, completely perverse. If there were a shipwreck analogy, it would have to one in which the captain valiantly stayed on board while more then 1/2 the crew was busy punching holes into the ship (while putting out the story that the captain was causing the vessel to sink.) Thankfully, the real American vessel, despite Republican obstruction, is still moving forward, albeit haltingly. One can only hope that all those poor souls being successfully hood-winked by the Republican party and being successfully manipulated to vote against their own self-interest, will wake up and see what the real narrative has been for the past 3 years and that the only true objective of the Republican party is to deliver our country and our economy back into the hands of those that really did almost wreck the ship.
I hope the repubs can see that comment for what it was, and act accordingly regardless of who they vote for in the end. When Clinton blew it with Monica(or was it the other way around) I was mad at him for hurting the party. Whenh W started his junk, the repub voters supported him blindly.,..the beginning of a facist state. I can only hope there are some decent repubs left that can reclaim their party to what it once was. I voted for Reagan because by dad told me to. I was 18...what can I say. If Reagan were alive today I dont think he'd recognize his own party. Yes he was the start of this junk but dont think he ever wanted it to go this far.
It sounds like fair crticizm of Obama to me. Whats everybody whining about? You can't play the cace card or the repect the presidency card every time Barack is criticized. At least half the negative responses I've read so far have been insulting and offensive.
By the CNN, Try to avoid words like shocking unless you apply them to both sides of the political
At least Schettino didn't say "It could be worse".
Good to see that almost all the comments are common-sense criticism of the latest pathetic attempt by the out-of-touch Republicans to vilify the President.
Priebus is a limp wristed Log Cabin Republican who doesn't understand that the captain who drove our economic ship onto the rocks was another Republican named GWBush.
Yes, because Obama is the first president in history to actually campaign for his second term. We know that all the others didn't do a thing, and just at at the whitehouse twiddling their thumbs.
No matter which side of the issues you're on, we deserve a better dialog in these crucial elections than we get though petty name calling and belittling. Imagine an election cycle where candidates and party bosses actually compare ideas instead of "clever" and irrelevant one upmanship sound bites.
The lack of civility shown by the leadership of the GOP/Tea Party towards the office of the Presidency is a disgrace.
The Republican Party used to mean something, stand for some general principles about politics, commerce, citizenship, foreign policy. I voted for some Republicans over the years. Now . . . they are a meaningless, disconnected, wandering, bunch of little tribal groups that have no manners, no understanding of history, no respect for each other much less anyone else, and seem to be getting more trash mouthed daily. This constant invective and personal attacks serve no purpose but to further divide the citizens into adult or a spoiled child's choice.
There is just no substance to the Republican Party anymore.
Hmmmm this guy'a gonna get dumped by his party pretty soon I think... as Bugs would say...What a maroon!"
By the way has everybody notice this Priebus is like the ugly thing that comes out from the nose, which is phlegm or snot. Wipe it out before it looks more unbearable.
I can't wait for another four years of Obama – maybe by then he can dig us out of the mess he was left with. I actually consider myself an independent, and in the past have considered voting for the Rebuplican candidate – but not this time around. Hate, rage and bitter finger pointing is all this group seems to be able to do. Good job GOP – way to bring your message to the people. Despite what you may believe – most "thinking" people do not react to hate-speech the way you want them to . . .
What a terrible comparison. Captain Schettino hasn't had the audacity to ask for four more years and didn't say the shipwreck was George Bush's fault.
George W. Bush is the captain who ran our ship of state aground. The Obama administration is the group that saved the passengers and is trying to right the ship. This nerdy little right-wing weasel, Priebus, doesn't have any facts to use against Obama so he has to make things up. His game is just as weak as the slate of Republican Presidential candidates.
More character assassination from the brain dead "family values" party.
No comparison is too vile for some of these Tea Party nuts.
Liberals are funny creatures. For 8 years we had to sustain comparisons of Bush and his camp to everything from the Devil to Hitler, but you make one comment about a coward who abounded his ship and wow the outrage!!! Really??
Clearly Obama is in charge of this ship, to go along with their comparison. I heard this guy on Face the Nation and am more surprised SChieffer didn't call him on that preposterous accusation, although is not the first time Bob Schieffer let republicans get away with vulgarities. Had that been a democrat doing this kind of nonsensical accusations, Schieffer would have been all over asking him or her to apologize.
Had Obama not been at the helm the republican teapartiers would have succeeded sinking this ship, they have tried in almost every kind of way. Another stupidity this repub chairman said in that program is that Obama had not answered the proverbial 3:00am call, when he knows better than that. Their man W tried to make a circus of military operations, real or imagined but it took pres Obama to effectively pursue this military strategy/offensive against those fanatical groups headed by bin laden and other right wing extremists threat to this country, hiding behind a religious mantle.
Come on people, let's be fair: Raunch Previous (sorry, couldn't resist) didn't pick his name. His dippy parents did.
Look, folks. He's like all those other GOP doofuses. You only need to remember one thing: if you throw a stick, sometimes they'll go away.
Will the GOP ever run out of such fools? Guess it's fitting that he's their Grand-Poopa (how did a classy guy like Michael Steele put up this nonsense?) His demeaning comparison of the President w/ the ship's captain is in the same genre as Brewer's finger in the face, or Joe Wilson's shout during the State of the Union address. So at least these folks are being consistent...
First, the United States of America is not going down. Many things in the country will be different after this economical downturn. However, let's look at the whole picture. We fought a war and never budgeted one cent for it. Is it any wonder that we have financial problems? It has been a very difficult three years for many people. Things are beginning to look up.
Just look at what we do have – freedom. This President, like those before him, has kept us a free nation home to people of many different nationalities and religions. Those who have fallen on hard times need to know that we will make this nation stronger and better.
This leader of the Republican Party is crude and rude. He has insulted the President and every other person who believes that we treat all people with respect. We can disagree but that does not open the door to this behaviour which is rampant in the Republican Party right now.
This is the guy who has Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum fighting to be the to be the nominee of his party? Obviously, stupid runs deep in the Republican Party
Thanks for convincing me to vote for Obama...
As Bugs would say, "What a maroon!"
During Obama's time, Much of the hiring time increases came in the departments of homeland security, justice, veterans and defense. Ok and the republicans want to do a budget cut... shall we do it HS? Justice, VA, or defense. Please pick one or all. This if right out of White House's Office of Management and Budget (Source of my input CNN article)
The GOTParty, a disgusting party of excesses: excess hate, excess hyperbole, excess ego, excess air. This man is a disgrace.
That's a ridiculous comparison. Everyone knows that if Obama was the captain, he'd have sunk the whole ship and blamed the first mate.
Regardless of how much you do or do not agree with a president's policies, comparing the Commander-in-Chief to the equivalent to abadoning ship is beyond inapppropriate. Simply put, he owes President Obama – not to mention, the Presidency – an apology.
Hey Priebus.....have you no decency? If that kind of comparison is what the Republican Party is all about and especially, with someone like you as chairman, you are surely going down in very real defeat come November. Your statement is pathetic.
Actually, Obama's more like Sullenberger. He took a malfunctioning ship and landed it safely on a dangerous 'airfield' and is keeping it afloat despite the fact sharks like the GOP are circling and trying to capsize the plane.
Recall captains priebut and walker.
I would think this man is the captain of a sinking ship, the Republicans who are going to be voted out in droves in November. I have never seen so much anger and bickering in an election. It's like a three ring circus of pit bulls all trying to kill each other.
that was my first thought when I look at that ship lying there ,,, CAPTAIN OBAMMA.,drowning country.
The ship that is the U.S economy was run aground by none other than G.W. Bush (R). The new captain has done a tremendous job keeping it afloat. Given a few more years, we will be "sailing" again !!
Why do republicons always latch on to tragedy to twist it into something good for them? Because the only way they've gotten this far is by scaring the heck out of all the people who continue to vote for them. Republicons thrive in fear and deception – they are the root of what's evil in America today.
oh oh, one cheesehead has gone to curds and whey over the top. Dairy Spill you can cry about!!
Obama is more like the leader of the rescue party who is getting blamed for all the dead and failing to recover the ship in a timely fashion.
They never cease to amaze me with their rudeness and lies.
This guy is living in his own fantasy land. Here is another example of a Republican who does not care if his remarks have any basis in reality so long as they cast negative dispersions on the President. The GOP is getting desperate for material if all they can do is lash out against the president with the first thing that pops into their heads. It's like a man falling off a cliff and all he can do to get back at the guy who pushed him off is to hurl any insult that pops into his head as he falls.
People died in that tragedy,..and this idiot is trying to score political points from it?...I beg to differ Pubis,.. Obama is Captain Sully of the Hudson miracle.
Bush was the guy driving to boat when it went aground. Obama's the one getting her off the reef.
Typical of the Republican Party. Mean spirited, unkind, disrespectful and inaccurate. How pathetic.
Priebus sounded and looked like a total clown laughing at his own joke. This is the head of the RNC? I don't think President Obama has anything to worry about. The caliber of the republican party, top to bottom, is indeed a big joke.
Preibus + The Newster = 2 bomb throwers. Is it any wonder people have such a bad opinion of the Gop?
Recall priebus or whatever it is we do to traitors.
God help us from morons like this clown and the rest of the GOP. They have no principles whatever – just insults, and a very bad case of amnesia about their giving us and supporting the worst president in American history...George Bush.
Wow. This is what's wrong with politics and why the R party (the party of Gingrich) won't be back in power in the near future. The R's have a real self-awareness problem. I truly believe they don't think they realize how much damage they do with statements like this. The Ds have their issues also, but they pale in comparison.
rance is in a panic- he knows the numbers and they are awful- he is the capitan of the republican ship and will be held responsible for the oncoming disaster that will last for years- his name will become the new term for failure- bohner will be ranced!
Who IS this turkey? I've never heard of him! I once was a Republican but I got smart and now I'm a registered Independent. Thank goodness I saw the light, I would not THINK of being a associated with a person like this!
Leprechaun
This is the worlds greatest nation, we can elect a man of color and criticize him when he has failed and not once mention his race.
Trash talk from a potty mouth.
What a heartless thing to say.
Just more blather from the party who puts the GOP First and America Second. Besides, we all know that the Real train wreck was ex President Bush. So blaming President Obama over and over again might sway the GOP rank-and-file, who sadly are very susceptible to Jedi mind tricks, but know one else.
Thank you, Priebus, for making this independent's vote for Obama that much easier. You don't think the President can get any work done when he's out on the road? And, please enlighten me as to what work for the "people" the four Republican candidates are doing while they're out on the road. Oh, that's right, none.
That is such a clueless thing for Priebus to say. 8 years with the GOP trying to convince us that GW Bush was a good president, then they try to con us into thinking Palin (or anyone who would pick Palin) is appropriate for higher office. To think that McCain/Palin would have done a better job with the mess this president inherited is nonsense.
The far right is wrong about climate change, they are wrong about trickle down economics, they are wrong to get in the way of healthcare reform while basically doing nothing to make it better, they are wrong that big business needs less regulation and more blindly trusting them (it's what got us in this financial mess actually). America needs to wake up so we can shift the whole conversation away from the Fox News echo chamber, and into a more productive, reality based arena.
Long over surprise by how immoral this party of losers has become. Nothing – nothing whatsoever – matters but power. Disgusting animals, anymore. Sad – a principled debate is good for this country. The circus that has become the GOP, turning Barry Goldwater over in his grave, is a travesty.
What a thing to say
COSTA CONCORDIA laying in the water like that is what our country condition is today.CAPT. obamma,TY
The republican Rented Prius makes me want to support Pres. Obama even though I was leaning Republican this time.
Every day the GOP sinks to lower depth because of their utter desperation. Can't wait to see all of them voted out in the coming election.
I will remember the party that promoted these types of insults – and respond accordingly – in the voting booth.
What the heck happened to the GOP? Fat heads , the whole lot of them. A complete and utter example of failure.
You want us to trust you to take care of our country ? You can't even take care of yourselves.
It is difficult to believe that a Republican in power actually made this comment! Bush got us in this mess and President Obama has work extremely hard to get us back on the right track. He also maintains his class and good sense of humor despite all of the criticism thrown his way from people who are not doing their homework. President Obama will prevail next November because enough people know that he needs the time to finish what he is trying to do. And BTW, which president in history did not campaign for the next election??? I don't see how he has a choice!
your ODS will end in January 2017 . . .
"aint that the truth...good new is the obama experiment is coming to an end..."
You can dream...but republicans seem to forget that its they that are the failboat captains...whats our republican choice? A mormon or a multiple philanderer who doesn't have an ounce of character in his body.
Will enjoy you crying in your truffle soup come this fall..
The republicans are all about every man, woman, and child for themselves. Sounds like Capt. Schettnio is a republican.
and whats with the "little" part of the comment? "and we're going to talk about our own little Captain Schettino, which is President Obama."
I think that the job of POTUS is a bit more important than captain of a cruise ship. Hence "little" makes zero sense here, much like the rest of the statement. What an idiot. Obama is going to win so big in November, I know that the repubs haven't come to terms with that yet, but it is so true. Their party is in a free fall.
Go to any supermarket in any state, red or blue, in the United States. The people coming out are worried about the economy, worried about keeping their jobs, and hoping that things get better. Many are disappointed in President Obama, and are looking for a better alternative. Notbut a very small handful believe he's a sociaist muslim, that he's Captain What's His Name, or that he hates America and what we believe in.
The more that the GOP relies on vapid and snotty insults and avoids presenting the American people with a solid, positive alternative. the more the American people will turn their backs on wild rhetoric and empty leadership. They may not be in love with President Obama, but they'll reelect him resoundingly over the chorus of nonsense the GOP presents.
Wrong, fatso, it was the shrub that left the U.S.S. United States on the rocks in 2007.
President Obama was handed a bucket after Paulson started bailing and told to continue bailing.
The President has done a fine job, righting the ship, given that the GOP is a band of heartless, heathen pirates, trying to keep the ship onshore.
Wow, this is fascinating. The Republican capacity for what a psychologist would call "transference" continues to astound.
If the United States has ever had a Captain Schettino act-alike as President (after Republican Grover Cleveland), it is George Bush II. George Senior was an OK President. Clinton a great President. Barack Obama didn't run the economy aground, and admittedly, in three years he has not quite recovered it from the shoals Bush left it on. Nor has he yet figured a rational way out of the Bush quagmire in Afghanistan.
But he has gotten us out of Bush's crazy little war in Iraq, which left Iran with greater influence in that country than us. A SEAL team did get bin Laden on Obama's watch, after Bush's failure to put enough troops on the ground in Tora Bora cost us ten years of war in Afghanistan.
So who is really our Captain Schettino? It's fairly obvious. And it's equally obvious that this fellow in charge of the Republican Party is a not case.
I am not very happy with President Obama' performance, but I do not understand when we have lost our civility.Why do not concentrate on issues and only wanted the cheap political stunts? This negativity will push me and people like me to not to vote for a republican candidate!!
Reince Priebus is irrelevant.
What a mean little BOY. He must have got chased home every night after school because he's such a wuss.
Well, this is exactly the kind of wacky crazy that is going to deny the GOP a victory in 2012. These guys are not serious. They can't be trusted with high office. Look at what they did to our economy, to our standing in the world, to our credibility and to our credit! Enough of these clowns.
obama or romney , they are one in the same
Nice try dude. Behold the ugly American.
Which president and party deliberately and recklessly abandoned and prolonged the Afghan war to start their illegitimate Iraqi war, murdering thousands of our troops in the process in both conflicts? Which president and party left the American people to fend for themselves with the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression? If you guess GWB and the GOP you're right! Talking about abandoning ship!
How many of those here pretending to be offended by this rather mild critique of the president are equally offended by the Chairwomen of the Democratic National Committee spending the last year claiming that it was conservatives who were responsible for Jared Loughner's shooting spree in Tucson? I'll bet you all cheer her on, even though you know what she says is an outright lie and far more vile than what Priebus has said.
And the Republican's have Captain Corporate Raider,Captain Pervert,and they had Captain Nut (take your pick there) Bachmann or Palin or Paul.Go Republicans.......please just go.
In many foreign countries, including some in the Western Hemisphere, this fool would have been arrested for a comment like this. We could learn something from them. When does Free Speech become Treason? I think that we're past the transition line.
His words are in-line with the insane rhetoric from the GOP and right wing talk shows ever since Obama won.
This GOP'er will send his money and vote to the DEMs again this year until the GOP regains its sanity.
Too bad the clowns in the GOP circus have no chance.
It was Bush who crashed the ship and Obama who took over the recovery efforts. Seeing as we did not sink into a depression, as predicted by some, but stabalized was a good and lucky thing. Could Obama have done better if he had hindsight? Probably. Would a Republican have done worse? Most likely.
The only Republican that I think could do better next term is Ron Paul. If he is not nominated, my vote will go to Obama once again in November.
Republicans=Obstructionist
Republicans=Dr. No
Republicans=The Party of No
Obama 2012
Firstmate Priebut, now that you have abandoned the Walker ship, how goes it on the sinking of the GOP?
If Walker is convicted of felonies in the impending John Doe indictments, are you going to share a cell?
Will he be indicted before being recalled?
AHHHH! Nothing like a little tragedy to make a political point. Hey
Mr. Priebus, 11 yrs ago the twin towers were knocked down and over 3000 people perished.
You may want to try that one next time, I'm pretty sure that won't come off as TOO SOON and AWKWARD
The ship analogy absolutely nails it on the head, we had Bush as captain of the U.S.S. Economy for 8 years and he ran the boat aground and severely damaged its hull on the rocks then proudly declared "mission accomplished" tossed the keys to Obama and walked away. Since then Bush's loyal shipmates (the republicans) have publicly blamed the shipwreck on Obama and talked about the debt incurred to the country while not allowing anything to be spent on repairing the hull of the ship, and described him as ineffective at getting the ship back out to sea, despite all of this the Dow is back up over 12,000 and unemployment rates are starting to ease down, now how will they spin that? No doubt they will ask us to drink the kool-aid while they drink the expensive grog.
Republicans have no ideas, no plans of any worth. The moon? lowering taxes on the super RICH even more? So, they think up smart alec remarks to gain attention. They have tried to belittle everything Obama has done. From saving General Motors to killing Bin Laden. The republican party is dead. You can tell by who they have running for POTUS.
Let's see, when exactly is President Obama going to present a balanced budget?
How mature. The GOP is a bunch of disgruntled playground brats.
Reince Priebus? I had never heard of him until somebody told a very bad joke that Rance Priebus' father skippered Hitler's catamaran during World War II. I previously had thought he was a made up cartoon character. Where do these people come from? Is this person Priebus some type of slapstick comedian? His joke about the President and the Italian cruise ship tragedy is simply racist and the one about his father Mr. Priebus skippering Hitler's catamaran in WW II is also out of line. Let's keep the clowns in the circus.
Yet another example of scorched earth Republican politics, willing to make any insulting and rude comment on what amounts to their own failings.
i'm done with obama, he is a waste, to bad he cant be jusr removed by his peers immediately, he is hated and needs to GO!
When some one close to this man dies in a horrific way, let's use it to make fun of someone. This guy and his party are a bunch of sociopaths! Or psychopaths ...they have no sense of what is real, what is right or wrong, they simply hate
This guy sounds like a side effect of electile dysfunction, as in "if you experience a Reince Priebus lasting more than 30 seconds, vote Obama 2012". Remem, like herpes, there's no cure for conservatives!
The republicans have lost all human dignity. As long as ordinary people realize who the GOP is for they will vote for Obama and not the ultra wealthy, religious creeps, and big oil.
...and when asked about the latest floundering of the Republican Party, Priebus said, "Oh, that was Michael Steele's fault, I inherited these problems."
The republicans have lost all human dignity. As long as ordinary people realize who the GOP is for, they will vote for Obama and not the ultra wealthy, religious zealots, and big oil.
I think we hit rock bottom with Capt. Geo W Bush at the helm... or rather out to lunch!!!
What a low life,name calling is typical for Republicans, no surprise!
Wow, classy, cracking jokes about an event that killed a dozen people.
Too soon, GOP. Too soon.
and the whole country says collectively about Priebus "WHO?".... the GOP finds yet another talking head who looks as awkward in his skin as I've every seen a person. It's almost like the leaders of the GOP sign their soul to the devil and then can barely stand to go through with it. So sad... OBAMA 2012!!!
and to whom does he compare the Republican members of the House who have spent more time on the re-election trail than they have in session...the Nazi Concentration Camp guards who looked the other way because they were only following orders...??????
Republicans are masters at manipulating people with this kind of talk to get the emotional reaction they want. Their base will eat this up because they won't actually think about what he's saying and realize how stupid it really is. If anyone should be compared with Schettino it should be Bush. It was Bush who was at the helm when the housing bubble grew and burst and we fell into the worst recession since the Great Depression. You'd think no one would be dumb enough to be taken in by this, but million of Republicans voters prove otherwise.
This is very tasteless and classless ... even for a Republican.
@Steve
Excellent analogy about President Obama being like Captain Sully. They both have the same attributes – calm under extreme pressure, focused and determined. Classy too.
Wake up America. Like it or not, we have a president who has raided the national debt faster that any president in our history and a bobble head vice president. Yes our great country is sinking. We have 50 percent of people who want something for nothing and the other 50 percent who work. Guess what, the numbers just don't work. NOBAMA 2012.
Hey Reince, this is what the Republicans are paying you to do? Using a tragic accident to spew toxic hyperbole worthy of an eight year old, and then twisting it in to a lame metaphor, just so you can take a potshot at Obama? You’re quite the boy genius. When does the hair pulling event begin?
Bush took over a good ship from Clinton
bush let two planes crash into it.
Bush crashed it on the rocks.
Bush and friends escaped in luxury boats.
People died.
RNC Jerk , thanks for the reminder....
Obama is sinking America and all these people on this site supporting him must be board with their occupy wall street job. Their only job,,,,,,,, cannot wait until we kick Obama to the curb
The Republican party of today is so embarassing. I cant stomach what my party has become and this guy just makes it all the worse. We really are looking to go the way of the dinosaur. Who thought this would be a good comparison?
If Obama is Captain Schettino, the GOP are the N stooges. Except that Mo, Larry, and Curley, were actually likable.
Every time it seems the GOP can't get any worse, they do. We have Santorum claiming rape babies are a gift from God, Newt claiming a lunar colony will be the 51st state of the Union (I have news for you Newt: the first lunar colony will be set up by Beijing), Romney arguing for and against everything while focusing ever more on his glossy hairdo. Everyone of these jokers is for less Government, unless it's a matter of a woman's body, and then the Government and the Church have every right to intrude. Each of them support lower taxation for their corporate overlords, while the illiterate peasants who support them chant in homage – while struggling to put food on their own tables.
Obama is going to laugh all the way back to the Whitehouse in 2012, while Newt and Romney take each other down. Santorum? Don't make me laugh any harder.
Give it up guys. The reign of idiocy ended with W, 2008. It isn't coming back any time soon. Obama 2012.
It appears there is no bottom within the cess pool the right wing of the GOP continues to helplessly swim. What a tasteless, ugly analogy that shows how empty the party leader's sense of decency is. The past chair, Michael Steele, a bright spoksperson for the GOP will surely apologize for the statements and hope to show how using the tragic deaths of so many for policital foddder is indecent at the he very least.
This man is the hind end of a donkey
It's a clear sign of desperation. Stooping that low - making that kind of analogy - is a another example of desperatoion and I'm so pleased to see how many people have recognized. that.
This has got to be the most disgusting reference yet.. How low can Repugnants stoop. The one that this nut should be critizing is your wanna be fakes–either one will not only steer the nation in the wrong direction, but will most certainly arson it to make sure it stays down!!!
More then ever Obama 2012 !!!. i just can't wait..
This is exactly why I left the Rethuglican Party – they have no sense of shame or honesty! Clinton left Bush with a healthy surplus; Bush wasted it by giving it away to the super rich in the form of tax cuts and so ran the economy into the ground and left a shipwreck. Obama has already created more jobs in his first term that Bush did in his 2 terms – and did this without one lick of help from the Rethuglicans...and this man has the gall to make such a statement???
God will punish these liars and wolves in sheep's clothing big time – they will lose the house and Senate. It is not the nature of God to bless liars, adulterer and fornicators... and all of the idiots who support them will be ashamed when they stand before God...
i will only support GOP when I am rich enough to do so..................
More cheap, disgusting rhetoric from ignorant, no class republicans. None of these guys, and certainly not this jerk Priebus, are worthy of shining Obama's shoes.
great story, keep up the good work.
How dare this puppet of the 1 % even bring up this tradgey, much less twist it with his failed politics. PEOPLE DIED in this accident, have you no morals? Please take your losing party and PLEASE get lost in your ship going down!
Rience Priebus, you've had the House for two years, where are the jobs? You and your friends are America's Captain Howdy.
I think Republican party need to reassess itself to stay as a national party of a country like USA, a role model of democracy for the whole world. Most of the candidates of this year and this guy are far below the standard. Well said by SOUTHERN LADY that how come this kind of political party could be based on Christian values. It is the other way round and always it puzzles me which party should be supported by Christians.
The republican party is going down the tube under this guy Preibus and he attempts to make this stupid comparison. Where is this guy from? Really?.
Regardless of one's political persuasion this is shamefully bad statement.
First of all, the use of the word "little" to refer to his president is uncalled for. I am surprised no one comment on this. Furthermore, to say "our little..." is just respectful. It is not meant to sound like "our president" more like "our little boy."
Secondly, the analogy makes no sense! Even if you disagree with his policies Obama is no abandoning ship. He wants a second term. He has not acted in a cowardly way. He has been more militaristic than the left would prefer. He is not the cause of the economy, things were not good before he took office. Even if you think he could have done better, the analogy with a captain who made a mistake and abandoned ship is poor.
Finally, it has been remarked upon before, it is in bad taste to refer to the tragedy in Italy this way for some minor negative political rhetoric.
This is just sick and disrespectful to the families of those lost in the shipwreck. This is also exactly the kind of rhetoric I would expect from today's Republican party, which has totally lost its moral compass (since nautical references seems to be their thing now). He should look to his own party's obstructive behavior in Congress and then ask who the real "Capt. Schettino" is, although I would also strongly recommend that Priebus try to be a little more sensitive and foot-in-mouth stupid. But then again, this is the Republican party we are talking about, so....
that's such a disrespectful comment Capt. Schettino should be offended...
As much as i might dislike Obama, I find it very amusing that he is accusing the president of exactly what all the candidates that currently hold an office are doing, which is campaigning rather then doing what he was elected to do....
The irony astounds me, vote them ALL out, red or blue, donkey or elephant, the only difference between these bought and paid for cronies is who signs the checks... and none of those names happens to be "we the people"
No wonder the GOP ship is sinking.
It is easy to see that the campaign of "do nothing" will continue by the Republicans. I watched the "Civil War by Ken Burns" the other night. Everyone should watch the first episode where the reasons for the war are covered. History does repeat itself...especially from the same "traitorous" States as before.
I went to Wiki and read about this little punk. This guy is a real nobody. No military experience or even anything that really stands out in his academics - some stupid college in Wisconsin. I would think after his little smart – *ss remark he would know something about seamanship. Probably would drown just playing int he surf.
sir you are are a very disrespectful and classless person. I don't care what party our President is, you just don't do that. The problem with our society today, including the children are adults like yourself. Such a fine example of leadership. NOT
Do you think may Priebus was born stupid?
More like the House GOP/ tea pardiots are that rock the ship hit. How dare you? Your party drove us into a ditch and you are standing in the way of the tow truck operator complaining that he's not going fast enough.
Is it possible the GOP could be a) More out of touch and b) More disrespectful? Crikey.
Words are cheap. Priebus is a mouthpiece for the Republican Party and will say anything to
disparage President Obama. There are no longer any lines or boundaries of decency
and civility in political discourse. Mr. Priebus has stepped over the line. The next thing he may
say is compare President Obama to Hitler. But a few Republicans have already beaten Priebus to the punch
with this analogy.
If I remember currently, Democrats blamed the shooting of Gabby Giffords and subsequent death of several people SPECIFICALLY on Sarah Palin and "right wing hate speech" against ALL evidence that the guy was an insane anarchist without political affiliation, but all of a sudden a METAPHOR for Schettino is crossing the line? Yeah, I think conservatives ought to be concerned about metaphors when liberals stop blaming innocent people for murder.
Another offensive comment by the head of the RNC. Since when did bashing the President of the United States become a way for getting your party elected? These guys have been a bunch of sore losers and would rather see the President and this country fail so they could say "I told you so." I refuse to tolerate the outright lies and disrespect the GOP now represents. OBAMA 2012!!
Filthy, disgusting words. The republicans should be horribly, horribly ashamed of themselves.
Just proves you can't "you can't teach ignorance.
@DC Observer
"Not a shocking comparison but rather a shocking similarity between two heads of ship who abandoned their commands – one casued losss of life on the high sees; the other caused loss of hope, lose of faith, loss of jobs, loss o fhomes. loss of savings, and in some cases – loss of lives."
-----------------------------------------------------------–If you are refering to George W. Bush you are correct. He crashed the economy, he started wars with no plan, he issued the first bailout to the banking industry and he's been hiding at his ranch ever since. President Obama has been working to pull us out of the mess left behind – with the Republicans obstruction all progress. Republicans filibustered 95 times to block debate and votes. They even filibustered their own initivatives! Don' be delusional – step away from Fox News and think!
Never have I ever seen the rift in any party as wide as the Repubs . It`s a war between the old GOP and the new radical extreme right wing Tea Partiers whose only REAL goal is to keep or reduce the Bush tax cuts even farther for the super rich that have done so well in the last two decades.......... Nuf said........
What a jerk. First, to stoop to that kind of language should be beneath a person in his position. Second, he is picking a very lame battle. Obama inherited a huge mess and has already made great progress toward fixing some of it. .
Reince Priebus strikes me as a little prissy faced know it all who thinks he's better than everybody else. And isn't is painfully obvious just how racist he & his party really are.
I would add first mate Pelosi & Reid to the analogy/
Priebus added the president is "fleeing the American people," just like Schettino allegedly fled his cruise liner. Now Let's rephrase that: "fleeing the Rich and Wealthy American People"...Now it make sense....
The GOP would be soooo laughable if this weren't such a serious situation.
My gosh, LOOK at the 'candidates' these folks are considering to lead our country!
If this is the best they can do, OF COURSE they're spending all their energy making ignorant (not to mention insensitive) comments comparing President Obama to the captain who abandoned his ship.
When one has nothing substantive to say or anything of value to offer, one throws mud.....AND does a lot of wishful thinking.
They'd LOVE it if President Obama 'abandoned ship'! They know that's the ONLY way a Republican is going to be sitting in the White House come 2013!
OBAMA 2012!!!!!
There is something wrong with the Republican mentality... are they all stupid or mentally sick, or what???
This has to be one of the dumbest things I've heard someone say.
The Republicans all suffer from the same disease. They lie, cheat, bully,make up facts, and give new meaning to hypocrisy.
Put another way no one can trust anything they say.
Not one of these fools has an ounce of class.
Does this clown even understand what "fleeing the ship", "left the ship" mean? As far as I know, Obama hasn't left the WH and the WH is in the helm of the ship, right? In fact, he's trying to remain in the helm for a few more years to come. This right after that Arizona governor's figuring at Obama; is there any more GOP who has the decency to show respect to the US Presidency anymore?
The only thing shocking is that the G-NO-P wants to go back to the same policies that wreaked havoc on the American Economy. It's funny that they talk about how taxing the job creators would kill jobs. My question is after 10 years of tax cuts for these "job creators", WHERE THE %^&% are the jobs? The G-NO-P is good at one thing though - saying NO!!! Now the American people need to say NO to the G-NO-P!
Bob Schieffer is way past retirement age, had no clue who Captain Schettino is.
Still, it was a fitting analogy.
Obama has being trying to right the ship every since he took over the mess Bush created with 2 wars, right now the ship that is sinking is the Republican party......these GOP canidates and their bashing and lying about each other and the disrepect they show the President of this country is taking all of them right down to the sewer.......and it's going to take them a long time to recover from this.....
Taking his arguments directly to the people of this country is the only way President Obama can overcome a Congress strangled by the GOP's commitment to defeat him at any cost – including the nation's economic health. Republicans cannot compete against Obama's accomplishments - preventing the Bush financial meltdown from becoming a depression, saving General Motors, severely weakening Al Qaeda, and ending our involvement in Iraq. Instead, they've tried to create a "faux Obama" who has done nothing, and is a "failed President"; like this article, such claims are always completely devoid of facts - because there are no facts supporting this narrative. There is nothing but a package of Big Lies. Josef Goebbels would be proud.
The bodies aren't even cold yet and the Repugs are already using the Italian tragedy for political purposes. How typical.
Incredible comparison. My thoughts are with the families who are mourning and the dive teams who are still recovering bodies. The political use of this tragedy was uncalled for at this time.
Wow. What a weak attack. Who is that supposed to impress?
Why would the truth 'shock' CNN?
Leave it to the GOP to use a terrible incident and compare it to Obama....Families lost loved ones in that cruise accident and the GOP wants to use that in a political ad....What a joke!
Is this the best the GOP can come up with?
All the GOP ever does is using 'code words' (like Gingrich) for spreading racism, name-calling (like Rush and Hannity), and using anything and everything to belittle the President, and at any expense.
The GOP never competes on policy issues, but rather frames it's political dialog on race, social issues, and God & country - you know all the rah, rah stuff. All filled with a whole lotta of hubris, and not much else.
The GOP is a downright disgrace!
Mr. Obama the worst president in history
Please keep this fool at the RNC for as long as you can. He's helping the Democrats more than he knows.
There's brilliance from the Rs . I can only surmise the Rs are desparate and have run out of ways to insult our President.
Just when you thought the GOPTP had stooped to the lowest form of gutter politics...
It will be such a pleasure to see theses guys get their butts kicked in November!
It's a silly comment from Priebus. President Obama has kept the U.S. safe.
Bush let 9-11 happen.
Bush is the Cpt. Schettino.
The Republican VP candidate from 2008 is also like Cpt. Schettino because she quit her governorship 1/2way through – you betcha, Sarah Palin is a Cpt. Schettino.
America – you killed thousands in Iraq and Afghaniatan; sent drones into Libya; invaded another state and killed a sick, old man [yes a diabolical killer but still deserving of due process; you kill off your own undesirables by lethal injection or "O;d Sparky"; you forcibly sterilized your OWN citizens and you are complicit in 50 Million abortions of the most vulnerable – and NOW you're suddenly squeamish about a COMMENT!!!!!!!!!!!
You people seropusly ought to take stock!
Never before in our history has so much disrespect been shown to a US President as as been given to President Obama. I am a white 9th generation Georgia citizen and if you believe racism is dead come on down to Georgia where it is alive and flourishing.
I just read this story. If the RNC chair and the GOP far right continue to show disrespect to the Presidency and the American people they will be hard pressed to keep the House or gain a seat in the Senate. They are fools living in a fool's paradise. However, in November reality will kick them in their butts. Five year olds behave betteer than this.
Republicans just can't tell reality and truth from their self-created delusions and lies!
I just watched a Californian Republican claim that Obama was "gutting" our Military.... When it was pointed out to this buffoon that Obama has INCREASED the Military budget the last 3 years in a row, he IGNORED the FACTUAL EVIDENCE and clung to his belief like a drowning Man clingng to a life raft....
Sheer lunacy reigns when you reject facts in favor of your dogma....
I am voting for Obama.
It looks as if Obama is going to try to ride back into the white house not on his economic policies, which have failed, not on his being able to bring the parties and people together; he's the most divisive president we've ever had, not on great race relations; he's caused an amazing amount of racial hatred, finally, not even on rained in spending; he's added trillions to the debt in fact more than all the presidents who came before him put together. He is going to try to get back into office on the kills he has sanctioned in the middle east and class warfare. What a guy!
Reince Priebus has a funny name and a total lack of imagination. He thinks that the Captain of a crappy ocean liner is a valid comparison for the President of the United States of America? What a bleeding joke! This piece of smelly Greek garbage is the best the Republican Party can do? He needs to return to his roots where they need help but not from him...a a lawyer who could not make a living practicing law. In actual fact the Italian Captain has more in common with the Greek loser, both are cowards, have a mediocre educational pedigree and nothing but a chicken hawk.
I don't see this as being any where close to be accurate. Obama has done things to attempt to get the economy back unlike the GOP which didn't do anything when the problem was growing. Rationalist was correct because George W. Bush didn't understand that he could have kept tax rates the same and slowed spending which would have done so much better.
Shame on this shell of a man.
That was in extremely bad taste and cruel to the families of the wrecked Italian cruise ship. WHAT A TOTAL JERK!!!!
Is this the best Priebus can do? Someone made one hell of a decision. Their hired a boy to do a mans job.
What was he thinking? Even Repubicans have to admit that was one bone headed thing to say.
I'm tired of the party that wants the financial industry to continue to run amuck and bring the economy even lower. I'm tired of my tax money being given to megacorporations that have no vested interest in the United States' success. Once a corporation has gone global, it is no longer a U.S. corporation in behavior or loyalty and should not get tax writeoffs, welfare, nothing. Time to cut them off before they finish what they started with the global meltdown.
Lie. Lie Bigger. Lie until someone believes it.
This fruitcake just described Rick Perry.
What's wrong with rebublicans? This comparison is both absurd and insulting. Schettino jumped a sinking ship. Last time I checked, Obama was still in the Oval office, and our country, with all its problems was not going belly up. This is just bad manners.
yet more conservatives who can't accept facts. they HAVE no worthwhile facts, and so, they resort to name calling. they don't realize they just wind up looking stupid.
One sick loser...President Obama we're with you...A November win will be yours. Let the "r's" bury themselves!!!
Just when you thought the Republicans could sink no lower, this trained parrot squawks and insults the President who has been a true gentlemen and has done his best to help our country while the Republicans have told the country to go to hell for the sake of politics.
I'd say instead of the Schettino, he's more of a Captain Sully. Yes, things are going badly, but he fairly safely stopped the steep descent we were in at the end of 2008.
I'm sure that tommorow he will be saying that he was only joking and telling people that they need to get a sense of humor.Why is it that the Republikan idea of humor is always so downright mean and nasty? I'm 60 and in my lifetime I've never seen such disrespect and meanness directed at the President. Since he is none of the things that they accuse him of being, and they have to know it, it doesn't leave much to explain it, does it?
This is disgusting. I have only voted GOP in the past, but after watching what has happened over the past 3 years I can't say I'll do the same in 2012. We need to purge people like Reince Priebus from the party! They are a disgrace to this country.
Mr Priebus your former boss Mr Bush did not abandon our ship. He literary destroy the ship and try to sink it with Cheney. It's our hero Obama who is trying the save this sinking ship. Shame on you brainless JERK!
Really? Rinse Pubis and all you other Republican yahoos, read the following:
Economy = No Great Depression; 22 straight months of private sector job growth
Security = Out of Iraq; bin Laden gone; al Qaeda greatly reduced as a threat; transitioning out of Afghanistan
Investment = Money here at home for infrastructure, jobs, education, research; rewarding companies that bring back/keep jobs here in the States
Foreign = Improved standing in the world; better cooperation from other nations when needed
Outlook = Positive belief in America, faith in our people, calling on our better natures to stand together and do the hard work to continue moving forward
Fairness = Calling on ALL Americans to do their part and pay their fair share to maintain and sustain our country (with the backing of wealthy folks like Warren Buffet and Bill Gates, among others)
The choice is clear: Obama/Biden 2012
Below the belt, disrespectful and racism lite....classy representative you got there Republicans.
Are there any sane, intelligent people left in the leadership position of the republican party?
Absolutely disgusting . . . Republican party leaders should be ashamed to have sunk so low. Or perhaps they are simply panicked at the inevitability of an Obama re-election.
What happened to the intellectual wing of the GOP? It sure isn't leading the party, what used to be a Grand ole Party has fallen to new lows. Will they ever get their head out of their,...?
after this, I have no doubt President Obama is going to be re-elected.
Hahaha, so much self righteous indignation being displayed but the dems on this comment... of course an off the cuff remark that slighted another party has never in history ever been made by the DNC or any of it's members.... unless you could Harry Reid, or Nancy Pelosi, or Sheila Jackson Lee, or Maxine Waters.... the list goes on.
Before the DNC or dems cloak themselves in integrity – try looking at the history, I recall a great deal of very harsh language and slander from some very flawed politicos in the dem party against many republican presidents and leaders.
.... save the indignation, it does not suit those trying to pull it off as though they were saints themselves.
Same old rhetoric from the GOP. Even moderate conservatives don't believe
that bull . The Republican party is in deep trouble if they think that Obama
is as bad as they say he his...American people aren't stupid.
yeah.. we'll see who's laughing in November!! OBAMA 2012!! LETS GOOO!! Good luck in 2024 GOP.. because the next 3 elections are going DEMOCRAT!
Priebus is such a pitiful little man.
This guy looks like he competes in the Special Olympics.....
To compare our President to that coward is simply disgusting! It proves there is no depth to which the Republicans will not stoop. Seventeen lives were lost and that man will face trial for any number of maritime infractions. He is a symbol of cowardice and betrayal.
All Pres. Obama has done is keep us safe, (shot the pirates holding the Capt. of Maersk Alabama; killed Bin Laden and many, many of his top aides. Gotten us out of Itaq, did a great job with Libya.
The economy would have responded better by now if he had received ANY support from the GOP. But they did the UNPATRIOTIC thing and obstructed his efforts and they screwed us all.
He has brought our foreign policy ahead by light years after the disaster these clowns left. And this is the complete lack of respect which the show the man?? They should all rot !! Slowly........These Republicans are a VERY small minded crew. And for that they will loose and loose BIG!!
Once again, No solutions...only soundbites. People pay attention, these GOP parasites are getting ready to hold the country hostage again over keystone by attaching it to another bill. This oil is to be sold to China, poison our water and leave us with the cleanup costs with no job creation or benefit to our economy. Research this bill, people need to know the truth, and the GOP have been paid off to do this.
Disgusting. Speaking about sinking ships, there seems to be no limit to the depths to which the GOP has sunk.
This guy is simply a horrible chairman. His comment is plain innapropriate.
Priebus just demonstrated that he is the Captain Schettino of the RNC
That's sad. I thought that was W. He was the one that drove us on the rocks after all.
What this insensitive jerk forgets–as well as all the Republicans running or being talking heads right now–is that EVERY president runs for re-election. Did Bush 41 or 43 stay in the White House while the opposition ran? Heck no. Idiots like this guy use lies and rhetoric like this when they don't have any other educated points to make.
And this is why the Republicans will not win the Presidential election: cheap shots about the President "fleeing the American people" then likening it to the terrible tragedy of the Italian ship that sank. The election is nowhere near comparison to the grief the families of the people who died are suffering at this time. Shame on the RNC...
That's ok folks. If about over a dozen dead people in this accident is not important to this idiot, then what is? This is why I get further away from the repugs. The mentality is just daunting.
The GOP's life expectancy is getting shorter and this idiot definitely not helping. I wonder who will conduct damage control? I just cannot imagine Mike Steele or Marco Rubio trying to cover this one up.
Shocking...wait...why exactly is this shocking?
Maybe next time the RNC will elect a leader whose name you can actually pronounce.
ust one more insult from the REAL sinking ship. Look at this whimpand he's all the GOP has to offer??? Oh ya din't forget about off shore swiss bank acoount Mittens Obama will win a second term with a breeze look atthis group of Morons. If I was a rebub I would be embarassed by this type of representation......
Obama was not the captain that fled the ship, obama was like one of the rats that fled the ship once all of the cheese was gone. the taxpayers will give him more cheese to support his habit.
This is what happens when a group like the RNC, chooses a no nothing hack as their "voice". They made the mistake with Michael Steele and now with this yocal. It just shows how scared the GOP is that they put this poor excuse for a spokesman in charge. How dare he compare the President with someone who may be accused of murder. It just shows how low the GOP has sunk...but can it sink any lower with some of the other shipmates, Rush "God I am ugly" Limbaugh, Laura "I am not really a man, even though I sound like one" Ingraham, Ann "I will not look my age" Coulter, Sean "I even look as arrogant as I am" Hannity and Bill "we are really dumb" O'Reilly! Sad day for our democracy when someone can sink this low....did Palin write his schtick?? Sounds like her worthless words...
Reince is consistently one nasty piece of work.
I guess since the GOP candidates are a couple of clowns, their mascot may as well be a joke too.
Childish people with money.
Isn't the Amercian couple lost at sea from this guy's home state? What lack of insensitivity and just what plain stupidity by making ths remark. The GOP are the grande ole party of know nothing, don't know how to be sensitive to others' loss or anything. It's a shameful situation for all of them. I would be ashamed of my father if he spoke the words of this guy and I had to go to school and have people saying I read what your dad said yesterday. What a jerk.
Thank GOD we have Obama as our President. Thank GOD none of the present GOP crazies will be Commander in Chief.
Shame on you, Mr. Preibus for trying to use a tragedy such as that for political gain. This is exactly the reason the Republicon party is in such disarray.
Priebus is as sick as his Party has become. There is no comparison and when someone is as stupid as Priebus the rest of the Party should speak up and show that they have not lost all integrity. The President has never abandoned the ship of State. He may not be sailing it smoothly but he stays with it. He also has been in attendance at every major crisis or catastrophe we have had. He has conducted himself with a lot of dignity. The Ship's Capt lacked that attribute. Lastly, no one with a shred of decency makes light of something as horrible as the Costa going down. When will the Republican Party get back some smart people?
Here we sit listening to another idiotic comment by another republican...THESE are the people that are responsible for dividing the country! Then when theyre called out on it...they blame everyone else and we find ourselves saying 'ok its all of us'..NO its not! Its republicans who sparke the flame, create the fire, burn the house down..then act as if they had no involvement in it! I wouldnt vote for ANY republican..cuz they represent the ugly in this country!
The only difference is Obama is not under house arrest! As long as we get him and his failed policies out, that's what matters.
He was using Schettino as a point of comparison – not making light of people's deaths. 95% of the comments below whine about the context of the point of reference but don't argue against the point that Obama is in fact turning his back on his responsibilities as President to campaign for another term. He has essentially given up on trying to pass legislation through a divided Congress – something that a strong leader and mediator should be able to do – but that should be no suprirse given that passing legislation would actually hurt his campaign message: that it is one party's fault that no agreement can be reached. Wasn't his message in his first campaign that HE was the ONE who could UNITE this country? All I see happening in THIS campaign is him throwing the conservative portion of the country under the bus. Finally, I don't see anyone here complaining about how the liberals / liberal media compared Bush to Hitler. Does that make light of the Holocaust?
Reince Priebus–you coward-your comment comparing Obama to Captain Schettino of the fateful sunken cruise ship,
is an exercise of political convenience for you, being the idiot president of the national republican committee.
If I may, I would like to compare George Bush and the every one of your Republican candidate the
"Pied Pipers" who led the American citizens to wholesale slaughter
Next to Priebus, Newt Gingrish sounds like a very decent gentleman.
Reince Priebus and anyone that agrees with this juvenile comparison is a disgrace to this country. Repuglicans don't have a viable candidate so they'll say anything to discredit PRESIDENT OBAMA!!! Obama 2012, money in the bank.
Just when I thought it was safe to start donating to the RNC again – seriously, do national political leaders even think about what they are saying before they start to speak? It happens on both sides, and it is really amazing. How much sense does it take for a national party leader to know that it's inappropriate to use an ongoing tragedy to illustrate a political point. About as much sense as it would take for a vice president to avoid using a stereotypical foreign accent on camera, I suppose (or off camera, for that matter). Our government needs a reset button.
What is GOP’s values? It is indeed a shocking comparison from the mouth of a GOP. I am independent voter and I don't like this kind of comparison. It is low.
@ Four and the Door...
if you did indeed use the same tragic occurence in Italy where people died and are still lost to falsely compare it to our president you are NO better than this idiot Priebus. Along with Gov Brewer's current disrepect for our president you fit in the same catagory as being PATHETIC. What has happened to a once proud GOP?
How is this "shocking?"
We all know that the repugs will always have negative things to say about any Democratic Party Member. Shame on the loser repugs and continue to beat each other up because you have no one that even comes close to our choice.
GObama!!
What a shameful comment to make about the President of the United States! I am apalled at the disgraceful lack of decorum, by the leader of the Republican party nonetheless. I am absolutely amazed that this man's hate and malice would so trump any semblance of good judgment, and I think that Americans ahould be horrified by his comments.
Republicans are like bedbugs. They're a nuisance that never goes away.
Bush ran it on the rocks and Obama has been fighting to keep it afloat while he makes repairs; while the Republicans do everything they can think of to stop the repairs.
Reince Prebutt is following the GOP playbook, lie, lie and lie again. They have offered nothing to help America succeed and they think Magic Underpants and the philandering historian err lobbyist is the answer. Fortunately, most Americans know better.
I agree with you Keith!
Obama is the rescue captain trying to right the ship, because the original captain and crew were asleep at the wheel.
Definitely!!! Obama 2012!!!
What a petty weasel this guy is.
I love it when they say President Obama isn't working because he's out campaigning...first, every other president has campaigned for their second term so why not Obama? Second, he is working...no matter where he goes and no matter what he does, he isn't very far from the job itself. Air Force one is a flying office for him...his bus that he takes is an office on the road! These clowns wouldn't know how to do two things at once!!! OBAMA 2012!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
His comments only show the irrational hatred the republicans have for Obama. Truth does not hinder their wild accusations. They inhabit another reality entirely which theyhave created to funnel their hatred.
The GOP has said from the beginning that they care more about the future of their party than they do the future of their country.
Mr. Priebus should go back and read the accounts of how the economy got where it was. It was all "W". i'm sure Priebus was very actve in dumping his predecessor (Steele) so to me it appears he feels he can call people of color anything he wants. Then again most Republicans (aka American Nazi Party) feel they can treat this President with condecending disrepect. RACISM, alive and well in the U.S..
This is the problem with conservatives these days. Always over-reaching in their complaints about Obama. Instead of taking on Obama for his real record, they have to invent an alternate reality. It kind of has the opposite effect of what is intended. It makes it at least look like Obama is actually doing a good job, but Republicans have to make up goofy criticisms just to say something. People are noticing the disconnect between Republicans and reality.
Oh and the left and their parasitic media friends were just so civil and respectful of Bush and the so called office of the president......uh huh.....ahh yes, the ever hypocritical left.....
Disband the DNC and the RNC immediately and ban them as organizations. They are both vulgar and destructive to the political process. Nothing but mercenaries. Neither group cares anything about truth. Neither group cares about whats best for the American people..... both groups just care about "king-making", winning and gaining power and influence.
I think Republican is a condition. How else could one understand the communion of so many feeble minds.
And Fired Up! Ready to Go! He's got our 6 votes! Do the math GOP...
Thanks for reminding everybody that it was the Republicans who steered her into the reef.
What a hilarious backfire this will turn out to be.
Bodies are still being pulled from the ship and the GOP leader makes a shameful comment like this
Priebus might want to take a look at his own ship: Republicans haven't been in this much trouble since Richard Nixon.
Seriously, is that their pitch for winning the independents??????? Wow, LOL, funny.
Dumbest comparison ever. Wouldn't running for re-election be the complete opposite of running away? Besides while I am not an Obama fan, 19 debates so far for the GOP. 19.....seriously.......19........plus if you are going to call out a sitting politician for "campaigning" or forgetting their job while in office speak to.........each GOP candidate, Palin and every other politician who has ever ran for their current role.
Reince Priebus, you are dumber than your name, the people who named you and the people who told you throughout your life not to change your name.
George Bush is the one who sank the ship of the United States and abandoned the American People.
Wow. I never thought I would hear anything like "BetrayUs" coming from such upstanding citizens. Guess I'm wrong. Thats $200 to the Re-elect Obama Campaign, along with my apologies.
What happened to our American values of at least respecting the office of the President no matter who is sitting there? I am making a donation to Obama's reelection because I'm just sick an tired of this name-calling by the Republicans.
This just shows how far over the edge the Republican party has gone. Looking more and more like a Democratic landslide in November!
The disrespect heaped upon this President is appalling. With regard to his policies everyone of course has the right to disagree. But he is the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES for crying out loud. It is embarrassing! People need to stop and think before they spew hate. The office should always be held in esteem regardless of your views of the man who holds it.
Hey GOP, news flash from 2008, The ship was already sinking...
Not that Obama was able to or has done wonders, but those who talk like they have all the answers, are they willing to say if they can't fix it they will give up everything? No! Once they get their new job, they will have already forgot all the crap they have thrown, and the promises they have made. I believe that Obama is honest and trying to find the answers. And the wisdom of 4 years of battle and conflicts has harden and toughen him up. Also, since the Rep. know he will not then be able to run for another term, they will no longer need to bash him at every turn and maybe they will be able to make some decisions that include the majority middle of politics. Time will tell.
President Obama is the real hero here, because just as theRethuglican rats left the sinking ship of a 2008 America, they passed the wreck off to President Obama and then poked big holes in his rescue boats to prevent him from doing more to save this country. I think this Priebus guy is doing the Republicans no favors making this comparison. However, smart people know better...and we aren't taking that stinkin cruise again. OBAMA 2012....stay the ships course.
No wonder our country is in trouble. It's because idiots like him can't think an intelligent thought or express themselves with any either. When will politicians get the point that we aren't stupid, don't need to be entertained with ignorant remarks like that. He's as smart as most of the GOP candidates. And then there's Perry! He endorses and it's like the 'kiss of death". LOLOLOL What will they think of next!
Reince Priebus is NOBODY.
The GOP just can't get any more pathetic. They have been on a mission since the day after the 2008 presidential election. What have they done for the country lately? They want tax cuts for the wealthy and, if they had their way, General Motors and Ford would no longer be in business with thousands and thousands more unemployed. The only autos available would be foreign. Of course they have no problem with foreign made products. Nice job GOP!
Funny, I can think of a few Republicans to whom that label would apply, like Sarah Palin, Mark Sanford...
This is from the Party chairman the approval rating of which is going down after he become Chairman; Hey guy, your ship is sinking while you are pointing fingers. LOL.
The GOP is Captain Ahab from the book moby dick. They are obsessed, with destroying the whale,(Obama) and that is eating them alive consuming everything about the GOP.
Yes, so according to the RNC Chairman, it is fun to and virtuous to call commence his party's campaign by calling the president names! This is the kind of foolishness that we are supposed to use to help us make a decision to cast our vote for whomever his GOP end putting on the ballot. I would appreciate any serious effort to define this as anything other than contempt for the electorate that it is.
Yeah, Obama really seems to be jumping ship. More like, he's on deck, trying to save the passengers (the United States) by issuing orders, but the crew (Republicant's) are mutinying, determined to kill everyone on board as long as they get the captain too.
Personally, I prefer the comparison inferred by "Benedict Obama."
I only regret that this kind of attack has become typical from the Republicans. Makes me regret that I used to be registered with them.
"running around the country and campaigning."
Shoot! that's all that Bush Jr. did for 8 years !
Stay Classy GOP. And thanks for the help.
OBAMA 2012!!!
Has any other president ever been hounded to release his birth certificate? Has any other president been interrupted wail addressing congress by a congressman shouting something? Has any president ever had a Governor of a state get in his face wagging her finger at him when they were so pose to accompany the president to an event that the president was speaking at? Republicans wont you to think that Obama is some how substantially different from all other presidents when in reality he is just like them, just look at his handling of being commander in chief, most everyone would say he has done well, but in many ways (Guantanamo ext) his is more or less the same. For his domestic policies he got some big things done but they were more or less in line with what has been talked about for a long time, they were also passed on partisan lines, which never happens-jk. At a certain point with all of this you have to realize that it is almost all about racism.
They keep complaining because the President is campaigning during a campaing year... they would love for him not to campaign because they think it would help their chances... right now i dont think he really needs to campaign because they (republican candidates) are doing a wonderful job at convincing the people why we still need President Obama!
Ah, me (yawn). Just another Republican "leader" offering proof and assurance that we MUST re-elect the President to ensure the safety of our democratic republic. Where do they get these guys? Are they breeding them?
Really?? This guy should be ashamed. Bush caused the ship wreck and Obama has been trying to fix the mess. The GOP is pathetic.
Funny... this story didnt make it on to fox news...
If you are a republican voter with an IQ of around 30 and no schooling whatsoever, then I think Priebuses remarks will make good sense and be really appreciated.
How insensitive and delusional can the republicans get? they're inhuman.
Obama's biggest flaw, if you could call it that, is trying to do too much for people. This is an unfortunate comparison on a number of levels, but primarily because the ship's captain presumably did nothing to help his passengers.
The bumbling GOP once again is digging down deeper and coming up muddier...
Priebus is tied in to that scandal breaking in WI even as we speak. There could be a deposition or warrant in his near future.
Mr. Priebus:
Do you remember New Orleans immediately after Katrina? How did that work out? Please consider your rhetoric before opening your mouth!
Actually, George W. Bush was our Captain Schettino, if there was one. He took this country right down the proverbial toilet.
Priebus is not playing with a full deck. This is an invalid comparison and one that makes Priebus look like a fool. The US has one of the best Presidents in modern history. It is easy to see why Obama will be re-elected this November. Priebus will ive to rue the day he attacked the President with his own delusions. Priebus , obviously, has some sort of mental illness. People like Priebus make us appreciate the intelligence and class our President Obama possesses.
Republicans really have no idea what they are doing to their own image do they?
If Obama is like the ship captain...after ridding the world of a horde of Al qaeda leaders and Bin Laden, and improving the economic mess that the last Republican monkeys created in America...
Then Bush must be like the village idiot who came from a family who could not tell who the enemy was until it was too late...and then stayed friends with the enemy's family after they found out. OH wait....that actually is Bush in real life.
When can we expect the GOP to start showing this Present a little respect.
Gingrich will teach you a good lesson of being fair and just!
This is news-worthy?
I'm not surprised by the rhetoric used here. This man is in charge of leading the RNC to victory in the 2012 general elections. The DNC leadership has said similar things in the past.
I'm not surprised. I'm appalled, but I'm not surprised.
It's always amusing to see people attacking Obama for not bailing water fast enough after their failed policies finally ran the US Ship aground in 08. Quite the contrary: Had it not been for Obama's intelligent stewardship at that time, we'd have easily slipped into a Depression. Look up the facts.
News flash to Priebus – the Republican Party long ago abandoned the American middle and lower classes in favor of big business and wealthy Americans.
Actually, it is great to see the near universal disdain America has for Priebus and his ignorance. Thankfully, I'm not a Republican so I can rest easy knowing this moron doesn't represent me.
That is about the stupidest analogy I've ever heard. Not surprising coming from a lump like Priebus.
What is a priebus anyway? He just makes a fool of himself with such a stupid statement. He needs to right his own "ship of fools" before opening his pie hole.
It's a take on the Willie Horton adds. The Republican Party began to decline under the first President Bush and has now hit rock bottom. It is doomed in November – neither Romney or Gingrich will win, and the question is will it hold on to the House of Representatives.
Where in this guys comments did he offend anyone but Obama?
What do the GOP call the treason they have committed the last three years?
another day another republican clown makes another funny ignorant statement. This is news? And the republican supporters writing comments cant even spell correctly.
i see, obama tours the country promoting the plans he announced in the sotu address and he is "jumping ship on the american public". funny that every single president does the same thing every single year. these lies just make republicans look all the more pathetic. can you not come up with a legitimate criticism?
The GOP is so furious that they couldn't lie, cheat and steal their way into the presidency ( like they did in 2000 and 2004 ) they would rather destroy our country than to see Obama re-elected.
Take Priebus down. He isn't worthy of the position,
Its very sad to see such disrespect for our leader, our Commander in Chief. It is uncalled for to compare him to the cowardly ship captain that deserted his crew and passengers. Is this the type of leadership the GOP wants? This will surely help sway swing voters AWAY from the GOP. Cant believe they can't figure that out. Karma will catch up and the GOP is likely to pay a price for such reckless words.
Priebus is a pig.
Maybe if the media would take 15 seconds off their adoration tour for the incompetent Obama they would notice that he is wrecking the country.
Funny how Bush was the guy who sank this ship and didn't even step out to address the American people for a while when the markets were crashing. He then got out of office and hasn't appeared since.
We've seen the GOP has nothing positive to offer. They spend time attacking each other and attacking Obama. Negative hate won't win the election for the GOP. Their only solutions involve going back to past GOP initiatives – giving rich people more money and deregulating. It didn't work before, and it's not the solution to today's problems.
Hate, lies, and fear. It's the backbone of the GOP. America can see through the fraud.
This knuckle dragger and any such person that would support this clown should be shown the exit from public view. This country doesn't need to be represented by idiots.
Zaphod Beeblebrox is alive and well
This kind of bizarre, almost idiotic, comparisons is just par for the course. It is a typical strategy to deflect the attention from the utter lack of |leadership" within the GOP. The contenders who had some potential are sitting it out and center-stage is an unprecedented mud-wrestling competing with utterly irresponsible and regressive policy sound-bites. Newt or Rick Santorum are trying to revive medieval-era social stances...lesser said the better about Mitt Romney, who has none.
This is why I've given up on Republicans. They say the most outlandish things that they lose all credibility. I didn't even finish the article this time. Not worth the time!
This guy should change his name to Gobbels, bottom feeder.
These Republicans will say anything. I wish they'd go find their own country to destroy.
These cowards are saying this because the truth is they're all terrified to up against President Obama our Nija President. He's going to rip whoever gets the nomination, and I can't wait! Go Obama 2012!
An odd comparison for the GOP (Give Others Poverty) to make. After all, it was George W. Bush who was piloting the nation's ship when it veered way off course and crashed into the rocks. Nearly every federal dime spent since then has been on recovering from the shipwreck that was Bush-Cheney.
Looks like Rinse Peinis is the Captain Kangaroo of American politics.
obama is hurting the job market in the USA. what a fool to shut down ALL drilling in the Gulf of Mexico last year. If there was one airline crash, would he shut down the entire airline industry? And the refusal to go with the pipeline will cost up to 60,000 jobs. obama is a social worker, not a president
Nothing "shocking" about the comparison that I could see. What 's shocking is that Obama and Holder haven't been indited
Once upon a time there were intelligent Republicans. I didn't agree with them, but I did respect the smart ones. Now that's over. They live, eat and breathe hatred. All out of their mouths is foul. And their handful of "moderates" sit quietly by, afraid to challenge the disgusting mob they are part of. May they drown in their own vomit.
This coming from a political party where the leading GOP nominee wants to put a base on the moon with 13,000 Americans within the next 9 years. Yup, that about sums it up.
THIS?...THIS is a guy heading a national political organization? You have GOT TO be kiddin...THIS guy? Is this the best Republicans can find? OMG, what an embarrassment.
The useless suits in the Republican party have spoken. If that's what Obama is, then what are the Republicans? I know useless citizens.
Shocking...no. What is shocking is all the clueless Obama lovers. Obama and the Dems are ruining this country. They think the gov't deserves a say in everything we do with our lives. Whether it is what we put in our refrigerators or what we have in our bank accounts, thy want their hands in our daily lives. I say NO! No more Obama!!
Haha that's a good one Priebus. What? Too soon?
It's the typical 'conservative' poutrage, that we've come to expect from the GOP.
This is just part of the ongoing Republican strategy. After all, "people are generally stupid", or so some people might believe. This is just their way of appealing to the "ignorant masses". Say stupid, hateful things like this and you'll attract a whole bunch of people–all stupid and hateful themselves–perhaps a huge bunch to your side. The Republicans already hate the media calling it liberal. The media is based at its root on literature, meaning you have to be literate in order to be involved in it. The type of people the Republicans seem to be trying to appeal to tends to leave people like this out. The Republicans hate college professors cause they're "liberal". Whole college campuses are liberal. Pretty soon, they'll be hating everyone with an IQ over 60, as they'll all be liberal because the GOP has collected everyone else all on their side.
"I called him Captain Schettino, you know the captain that fled the ship in Italy," Priebus said. "That's our own president who's fleeing the American people and not doing his job and running around the country and campaigning."
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When Obama participated in the rescue of the two folks held by the pirates, did he abandon the American people? When Obama gave the SOTU address and propose consolidation of some major agencies, did he abandon the American people? This guy will make the Repubs long for the days of Mike Steele. He proves that the RNC is captive to the party's right wing.
As an independent with a fair number of very partisan, conservative, Republican friends, I've observed a big problem with some Republicans. When they make these sort of over the top and frankly, lame, jokes, they think they're being clever and they don"t understand why normal Americans are laughing at them and not laughing with them. On the other hand, I observed similar behavior from some of my more liberal friends during the Bush years (although for whatever reason, lberal cracks tend to be a little funnier and a little more rooted in reality that conservative jokes).
This why this clown was elected as the Gop Chairman, "Reince is committed to uniting the Republican Party to reach our common goal – electing Republicans. With sound fiscal stewardship, a dedication to conservative principles." You see someone like Mitt Romney who has been running for the last 7 years! Mitts helped elect Preibus, and all the other Republican governors who like cutting ribbons without crediting where the money came from.
When will the RNC chairman finally come out donning Nazi regalia?
That's rich coming from THIS guy as we watch the war between the establishment and the rank and file GOP. Shut up Priebus, you're worthless!
Obama is the most expensive leader in mankinds history adding over $5 trillion to our national debt in less than 3 years! Even 8 years of G.W. Bush never even came close to down grading our bonds and devalueing our currency ("O"bucks) that's killing americans at the grocery store and at the pump! The Costa Concordia at least had a cowardly capt. that made sure he wasn't in harms way after he wrecked the ship and it went down, but Obama isn't even that smart! Our Bozo president is trying to tell us why he sank our boat and expects us to understand and ride it all the way to the bottom! ...maybe someday he"ll explain his foriegn student loan to us as Kenyan student at Occidental college! ..it'll be a whooper too!
From the mouth of their great leader Ronald Reagan< "There you go again."
The current Republican party is rabid with hatred. Hatred for Obama, )Hatred for gay people, hatred for liberals, hatred for anyone not like them. The educated fiscal conservatives within the party should be frightened. Increasingly the party is becoming so far right with the tea party influence as to be almost anarchist in nature, mixed with social phobias.
And you, Mr. Priebus, are the leader of the rats fleeing the ship. You wrecked it. You abandoned it. You blamed the crew that took your miserable place and righted the vessel. You give no credit, only selfish pleas for your jobs back.
Go jump in a lake.
Priebus reminds me of the little snot on the playground who calls people names and then runs to stand beside the teacher.
The chairman of the Republican Party is way out of line. Instead of running on the difference of policies, he has to engage in personal attacks. What he said about President Obama is untrue, and the chairman should be ashamed of himself. It is because of these dirty personal attacks, that I hate the Republican Party with all of my heart. President Obama will win re-election in 2012, because he does not stoop to level of the Republican Party.
Like Bill Maher said; " I can understand if you are one of the 1% to be a republican but, how in the world the 99% support and endorse the republican party when they work, undoubtedly speak and legislate against your interest?
Obama IS Captain Schettino.
I think ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY AND WITHOUT A DOUBT ACCURATE!
How's he going to distance himself from the violent racist Occutard movement?
This is all they've got.....it's pathetic really...Obama/Biden 2012
As proven yet again, all the GOP has are a bunch of lightweights who simply can't come to grips with the fact that they have no ideas and no viable candidates. All they can do is toss out garbage like this in hopes that their knuckle-dragging base will lap it up. Pathetic.
He's trying to blunt earlier comments that the GOP is willing to sink the ship in order to sink the captain. The Republican party has put themselves above America for decades now, and it is going to cost them this November.
That's just random grasping at straws...very inneffective, especially for a guy named Reince Priebus.
Well, actually, Priebus, communicating with the American people IS part of the President's job, and that is exactly what Obama is doing. Nice try, though. Seems like the Republicans are getting desperate, grasping at straws.
Why doesn't CNN do a QUICk VOTE on R. Priebus outlandish statement made on the FACE THE NATION.? Let Americans vote on that insensitive comment/
truth hurts
An apt comparison, since the policies Obama has tried have failed all over the world, just like this captain thought he could get away with sailing the same course tried in the past. I've had an epiphany about liberalism: if you read their talking points closely, it's all about how the rest of us need to think more like them, in essence be re-eductaed, much like what happens in dictatorships and communism. They are anti-freedom.
I I think Obama tried to do his job! everything Obama tried to do for American citizens failed to a republican controlled house.
It's hard to pass a bill on a 2 party system. there shoud be an off set like having a third independent party get involved.
I see so many liberals wringing their hands on this board this morning and spewing hate. "How dare anyone deviate from the path the rightous one (Obama) has set for us". We are a free country and not everyone agrees with liberal group-think. We see the policies being tried and we see those same policies having already failed in other countries. We see out of control spending and no budget from the Democratic Senate and Administration in over 1,000 days. Keep spewing your hate – it doesn't make you right or smarter.
This is embarrrasing for a person in his position to make such a vile comparison....signs of desperation!
Translation: "The heck with the American people, the heck with the economy, the heck with everything else- the only important thing is that we get that black guy outta the white house!"
Just goes to show how far the GOP has fallen.... Just when you think they've hit rock-bottom, they pull out shovels and start digging deeper!
Republicans are the rock the ship hit.
I know this man makes his living by disparaging anything that isn't Republican right-wing orthodoxy but this comparison is repulsive as well as false. The Italian captain crashed the ship and then fled. Obama came aboard after six years of Republican control and Republican policies crashed the ship. Obama has tried to right the ship while the right wing in Congress has sat on their hands and done nothing. The reason the comparison this man makes is because it is blatantly false and this man either is too shallow or too cynical to care.
Just for a moment consider this. What if the Repulican Party does not want to be in power? Would you blame them if they didn't want to take the responsibility of America right now? Look and analyze their actions through this lens. Well, what if the Democratic party is not too keen either. It then becomes the classic scenario where the game is passing around the ball until the music stops. So, the loser is the one who ends up with the ball. Are we all playing the same game? One thing is common, everyone wants money and thats the bottomline. You do whatever it takes. The poorest earn their living by cleaning the rich man's mess. Thats the law everywhere.
It is so sad to watch the level to which the Republicans have sunk in their hatred of Obama. The Good Ship America was wrecked by Captain Bush and his crew. The Republican congress and Republican senate with a few exceptions are the ones who abandoned ship by refusing to do their jobs. Talk about cutting your nose off to spite your face.
It appears that they are so blinded by hatred of the president that instead of helping to bale water, they are punching holes in the buckets. You see, they are so intent on drowning Obama that they will sink the ship with all aboard just to achieve that goal. How sad and shortsighted.
That is the stupidest thing I ever heard. I anything George W is more like that captain than Obama. Obama has been trying to steer the ship clear but the Republicans have been blocking every turn to head us right into the rocks.
Seriously if you think things are bad now wait till the GOP gets its way with us.
The next story is "Obama to Host Google Talk-in." Now how is the comp to an Italian ship captain shocking...and how is it racist?
Looks like he's taking a page from Rahm Emanuel here & not letting a serious crisis go to waste. Surprised the Chicago Machine didn't think of this first. Oh well, fight fire with fire I guess. There'll be much worse in the coming months from both sides.
Why do you have to remind us again and again that GOP is a party full of people without grey matter. Not only we in US but the whole world knows. We learnt it when Bush was president. We learnt it when Sarah Palin was going gung ho (shooting from her hip and mouth simultaneously and not to be seen when action is actually happening), we learnt it during all the debates and actions in trying to block the Obama administration, we have learnt it now once again in the Primaries where all the dirty linen is getting washed in public.
Obama has been able to get the country out of a very difficult and trying situation. But it requires brains to understand that which unfortunately GOP guys do not have. So Sir, go to your ranches and tend the weed and animals there. That is all you guys can do.
Anyone who will stood so low as to compare a President to a very sad disaster, is sick! Maybe he was trying to be funny, but I am sure there are plenty of families that would disagree. What other disaster is this nut going to compare with? His lack of intelligence is embarrassing....
Running around the country campaigning? These fools are totally lost in space. What have we been forced to listen to for the past year? Seven dwarfs, soon to be reduced to three stooges, all clamoring for a shot at the Presidency. As if...
It's reasonable for people to have disagreements on policies, so it would be okay for him to say that he believes the President's policies are not good for the country. But to equate the President's behavior with an act of cowardice is totally absurd. If the guy can't intelligently add to the political discourse, he should just keep his stupid mouth shut. Instead, like too many Republicans, he will do and say anything to hurt the President, even if it hurts the country, since their avowed goal and only priority is to defeat Obama.
What a class act Previously Rinsed has turned out to be eh? Who was the braintrust that came up with that analogy, using a tragedy to try and take a poke at our President? I'm sure the family of those that perished in said tragedy really appreciated his sensitivity to their loss.
Reince should realize that he came across as a callous, disconnected member of the GOP elite for nothing, as the GOP's dissappearing, and insulated base is probably not even aware of the event that he is referencing.
Meanwhile, how about those cuckoos in Georgia hellbent on keeping the POTUS off of the ballot in November 2012, huh?! You gotta hand it to those unibrow Birthers, they are nothing if not pitbullish, no matter how mistaken,in their endeavors.
Obama 2012.
Excellent comparison. Why did CNN say this was shocking????? Seems obvious to me
Shame on the RNC for making such an analogy. The American people see that the GOP doesn't want to benefit the American people, they only want to win the White House back. They are doing this at the expense of the American people whose votes they are courting, all the while they have blocked any progress by being the party of NO!
Someone needs to rinse his priebus out with soap. Another disloyal neo-conservative.
Eric//"This statement is the reason why an independent like me and my independent friends and colleagues will never support this GOP and its leadership. To somehow equate our President with a cowardly ship captain is repulsive."
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Please, you were OK with all of the things Dems called Pres Bush? You're not really an independent, are you?
If President Obama is Capt. Schittino, then President GW Bush was Capt. Hazlewood of the Exxon Valdez.
Blah, blah, blah...more baseless accusations and diatribe from the Republicans. I get tired of the hypocricy of Washington. If a Democratic President campaigns to win his next term, the Republicans say he's ignoring his duties. If it's a Republican President, it's the other way around. It must be nice to be blind to your own parties faults.
News Flash, politicians: We're not that stupid. We can see right through your petty, selfish games that BOTH of you play. Only people that are drinking the kool-aid from one side or the other believe anything that either political party says anymore. Priebus had a chance here to stop this trend and be the better person by acknowledging that Presidents on both sides campaign for their next term and that it's perfectly normal, but he blew it.
I can't believe Michael Steele was replaced with this little snagapus of a GOP chairman. It's comment like his that will ensure Pres. Obama's re election.
That's the problem with a drowning man. He always tries to drag someone else down with him. Good luck with that strategy.
This guy's name sounds funny to me. May I see your birth certificate, Mr. Probeus? You don't act like a real American. You must be from France or some foreign country like that where the men carry purses.
Fleeing the ship? You must mean the Republicans who sole purpose the last 3+ years was to find a way to defeat the president. Nevermind that the US economy was in trouble or that millions of people were out of work or that you caused it. You're just concerned about you're wealthy puppeteers getting more money for themselves. Bush cut taxes, cut capital gains tax and let corporate america repatriate $360 billion. Where are the jobs the American people were promised. The Republican answer to the job situation today? Why it's to cut taxes, eliminate the capital gains tax alltogether and letting corporate american repatriate $1-$2 trillion! This love affair that you Republicans have with making the wealthy more wealthier in order to create jobs will be your downfall not in just the Presidential election but in other elections as well.
To Southern Lady
So well said about the current Republican Party. How can we vote for a Party whose purpose is "to do everything to make the President fail knowing full-well that the country will also fail". GOP does not deserve our respect, let alone our vote.
The comparison is apt; Kudos to Mr. Priebus for coming up with this description. I suspect Bob Schieffer was simply caught off guard and was trying to remember who Captain Schettino was.
I don't know why the tag labels the comparison "shocking". It doesn't hold a candle to the things that the leftist Democrats were calling George Bush.
"It begins with us!"
Obama/Biden 2012
The GOP must be really getting desperate. It's finally dawning on them that no matter if if it's Mitt or Gen-grinch their starting the race with a 100 pound handicap. And lord help 'em if Ron Paul goes 3rd party – the few votes they would've gotten will be split into tiny fragments.
You want Obama's pipe.
It is jerks like this guy that give a bad rap to the party they belong. We don't need another tongue lashing Gingrich for the party.
I love watching this dog and pony show...goat rope...cluster fruck!!! Brings new meaning to that adage/acronym ROFLMAO. Its like having a whole big family of "Dubyas" dodging shoes!
Republicans are getting desperate. After they eat one another in this presidential election the voters will finish the job. They are now changing the law in states to make it more difficult for the poor and minorities to vote. Florida and South Dakota are examples and it is not going over big with the people. They are fighting back. The GOP is in trouble and they no it.
"For 8 years we had to sustain comparisons of Bush and his camp to everything from the Devil to Hitler..." urmm yeah – and anyone saying something like that about His Holiness (on a mission from God) was instantly branded a terrorist-traitor-unAmerican-Communist!
Miguel, did any Democrats make jokes about 9/11? Just because you feel Democrats have made inappropriate remarks about GOP presidents is not a reason to excuse an ill-considered remark from the GOP chairman. What analogy will you use about Priebus if he is connected to the corruption proble of Scott Walker? What tragedy will you exploit then?
shocking?, um , okay
I guess it is shocking to the lapdog media that anyone could complain about obama. if we get a 2nd term of him, no doubt it will be a crime.
What a puke bag, this is one of the reasons I can never see myself voting for a Republican.
Once again, the GOP shows it's arrogance and ignorance! This will be the elections arrogance costs them! This was a nasty, cheap shot that denigrates the seriousness of the lives lost in this tragedy. Way to go GOP...name calling...are you 2?
Disgusting Republicans with their hatred, vile, disrespect. The Dems will be back in November! Thank God.
I'm sure Priebus thought this was a witty thing to say but it's really not. More like insensitive, stupid, and most of all, not grounded in facts. Never mind the fact they are still pulling bodies out of the wreckage. The nutbags have all but killed the republican party. This becomes even more evident when reading some of these incredibly stupid posts.
When you're the Captain of a Ship of Fools, (Congress), is there really any other direction you can turn?
The Captain guides the ship. If half your crew refuses to work with you, of course, disaster will follow.
If any Democrat had ever said something like this about George W. Bush, the outrage from the right would have been off the charts. Truly amazing how someone in his position can exploit deaths from a tragedy for political gain. Even more amazing is that people on the right think this is perfectly OK.
Y'all better rein-c ths oy in , Repubs! He speaketh with forked tongue and is quite dumb!!!
@ratatatat
Excellent analysis!!!
If, Obama is Captain Schettino then Republican Party is the Costa Concordia as this party has run aground years ago with no way of moving forward and no new ideas to get them off the rocks.
I think that these tactics are driving undecided and independent voters right back to obama. All of this sound byte nonsense and stunts like gov brewer in AZ, it all looks like silliness. The republicans do not have the look or feel or record of "saviors" to the dying middle class. They all treat the sober and serious business of restoring prosperity for the "rest of us" as game. For those who believe ABO, this works for them. Those kinds of voters are not demanding a plan from the republican party just another warm body to take over for obama. That's not enough for this country. We need an upgrade at the position, not just another butt to sit in the chair in the WH.
Instead of asinine, unsensitive analogies about the President, why does he not tell us what the Republican party will do for the nation? This is not a reality show folks. Our nation is facing serious issues.
This turkey Preibus is just one more outed racist GOP'er. Anyone with a name like this guy probably would be at home if he lived in San Francisco. A two bit joker.
Rience Priebus is a pathetic weasel POS
. Priebus, Boehner, Cantor, McConnel...they're all hateful, vile little people and they always look like they're smelling something bad. It seems hatred is the only thing they have to sell the American people.
What a totally insensitive and inaccurate thing to say, I guess the Republican party of 2012 epitomizes unchristian values and behavior like never before.
wow, what a liberal snakepit, with so many failures on his plate it is ashame he had to use that as an example of how barry is destroying out great country , as always its bush that did all this 3 years later and trillons down the drain right.
jim jones has returned and set up a kool aid stand here. maybe we can find out the truth behind the imposter in chief, if
he would only not think he's above the law and just submitt to the request of georgia courts , he's got nothing to hide right?, should be easy? thats right hes too busy running the county , please what a joke !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Hey, when you got no candidate, no argument and no credibility, all you can do is spew filth. Of course the GOP is pretty good at that, they have been practicing that for the last four years.
It was W who ran the ship aground. Obama has been trying to patch the hole and make it seaworthy, while the Republicans keep blocking his efforts.
As a conservative republican, let me just say this guy is a moron. There is plenty to criticize Obama for, but this isn't the way to go about doing it.
Oh waaah ... take off the diapers Priebus. This is one of the most immature talking points yet, and the party duel has yet to take place. Sure, it would make your life a lot easier if he just didn't campaign at all and let your party take over on downs.
I just can't imagine why he wouldn't just take that route. <– WARNING: falling sarcasm
@GaryB I agree with you and have an answer to your comment "although for whatever reason, lberal cracks tend to be a little funnier and a little more rooted in reality that conservative jokes": It's because liberals tend to be funnier and more rooted in reality than conservatives.
Its really sad to watch or hear a republican who really thinks that their party has a chance at the White House in November. Its almost as sad as comforting a fawn as it dies after it was hit by a car, a real tear jerker and there is nothing you can do to help it. I feel sorry for their weak over propagandized minds.
Pretty smug words from the Genocide Over Policy (GOP) regime of liars and mass murderers.
Actually, wouldn't Obama be the coast guard in this case since he's had to tell congress to get back to Washington to do their jobs numerous times? If anything, Boehner is the ship's captain and he has abandoned reason and accountibility to appease the 10% tea party caucus.
Its interesting: I finally spotted a comment equating liberalism with communism this morning, and how liberals supposedly indocrinate people. Well, after watching the Right spew their hate over the years and set litmus tests for being loyal to the country, I have to conclude the Right knows far more about indocrination than the Left ever would. Everything they say uses the same buzz words, like liberty and freedom, or they use a convenient tragedy to try to divert attention away from their lack of solutions and obstructionism. Its amazing that they ignore their own history and create an alternative reality where only they ahve the Truth, and the rest of us are jsut too stupid or devious to accept taht we must obey their words. They believe in being Ideologically Correct, in spite of all evidence to the contrary. By the way, I hope Preibus has his lawyers ready for when he gets called in the Walker Corruption Probe.
The GOP chairman making a statement that has the same import and validity of any ignorant troll on any comment board... How surprising. Why is this news, CNN? Next!!
well, we know what is said about opinons, who is the priebus, another roach that crawled from a crevice, obama, has brought the soldiers home, stopped qaddafi, bin laden, what more do the extremist americans want
What incredible arrogance and lack of class! To make political hay out of that tragedy is the height of insensitivity!! This is why folks are turned off by the GOP! Shame on him!!!!
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012!!!!
RNC/GOP = Masters of Disasters
Great Depression, Savings & Loan Debacle, Great Recession
Attack Democratic cleanup efforts instead helping the 99% deal with their blow-ups
Party 1st, Country 2nd – and ever-spinning myths of patriotic superiority and competence
Wake up from the dream voters – See the reality.
A virtual NOBODY gets his 15 minuets of fame to be remembered as an obnoxious somebody...Great job bone head and thanks for the embarassment of being a republican affiliate. You've just convinced me for the need to become an independent.
What a stupid analog – does he have sh for brains?
LOL – more propaganda for the Goebbels of the GOP.
a very apt analogy. quite astute.
President Obama has done a remarkable job turning our nation away from the cliff Republicans and their policies led us to. Now Republicans are getting more and more desperate (and more and more extremist and deranged) because it's clear our nation is recovering. This scares them because they crave power more than they love their own country. I'm voting for Obama and the GOP fanatics like this remind me why everyday.
That comparison is inappropriate and disrespectful to the victims of that tragedy.
It's fine to disagree on policy and want your party and ideology to have control, but garbage like this is over the line, and a perfect example of why everyone hates politicians.
I am appalled by the stupidity of these people. How did they make it to where they are, is beyond me. Before Mr Priebus opened his mouth, didn't he have a clue that the mere mention of a wrecked ship would evoke the image of the famed GW Bush who left office with a record deficit, collapsing financial and housing markets, high unemployment and the top terrorist Bin Laden still at large?
It's a perfect comparison. Both refuse to accept responsibility for anything. Less than one year left of this horrible hopey dopey change experiment.
Very good analogy.
Absolutely disgusting.
Every election, the other party tries to cast negativity on the sitting President by claiming "running a campaign instead of running the country," but this takes it to a whole new level.
FWIW, I am an undecided and unaffiliated voter...Mr. Priebus has just done a fantastic job encouraging me to support Democrats.
Polls showed that after watching The State of The Union address, people were asked if they felt President Obama was working for the American people, and the percentage went way up there. The problem with our country is the God-awful Repub. party. Just look at what is currently going on with them. The majority of them are total hypocrites. They have caused the problems in this country since former Pres. Clinton's term ended. They don't give a "tinkers damn" about the welfare of U..S. citizens, except for those who line their pockets; that's obvious. Every time the president mentions big business should pay their fair share of taxes, the Repubs alway say "Oh, no, that would be a "job-kliller." Common sense is people need jobs, but the other part of that sentence....businesses need workers, too, for without them there would not be a business for them. Thinking Pres. Obama should stop campaigning....they wish! And the president is far from being a wrecked ship!
These folks just can't give Obama credit and feel that they can say or do anything to him, I suspect, because he is a Black man. They give him less respect than they did Bill Clinton at the heightg of the Monica Lewinsky affair. They are a primarily white elite trying to hold onto yesteryear. I know because I grew up in the same area that Prebius is from.
Went to law school with Preibus. Not a very bright guy. His smile and personality took him farther than his brains ever could. Now he is loosing his personality. He'll just be a talking balloon with a smile. He is UM's Captain Kangaroo.
You know, I was rinsing my prius the other day and thought how much GW Bush was like that boat captain, namely a lot of people died for his stupid mistakes but he was safe in a lifeboat the whole time. When are we going to get around to arresting him?
Lame metaphor, Priebus - I don't see how America, with rising employment, increasing growth, bullish market, and great hope for our future, is ANYTHING like that ship. Again, shows how the Republican leadership either doesn't know those facts, or is simply lying to pretend these trends don't exist. One may want and vote for a different path, but to compare our nation to this tragic ship is quite a stretch.
Priebus makes even less sense than Michael Steele.
Typical republican response because they are losing.
Actually, Obama is more like the coast guard. If I recall, someone else ran the economy aground, leaving Obama to refloat it.
You know, I really don't care that the GOP can unite. Because they AREN'T the majority. And if they keep making stupid comments and keep up the imbecilic, adolescent behavior, the lies, and the sheer ignorance and stupidity they have come to represent, there aren't many independents that will wish to associate with the dregs of society at their core.
This is why I can't take Republicans seriously. They say ridiculous things like this. Even if you don't like Obama or think he's doing the wrong thing, claiming that he's running from problems or abandoning ship is ludicrous. Republicans simultaneously want to claim that Obama is running roughshod and making too many changes and leading us to "socialism"... then they want to say that he's hiding from problems and doing nothing.
Just shut up, Republicans. Even if I'm not satisfied with Obama, you're definitely no alternative. You've become a party of lunatics who base everything on lies and propaganda, and your followers are dangerously unquestioning. You do not deserve to be leading the country. Hopefully a 2012 defeat will marginalize the far-right for good.
Nice try Priebus. But the narrative works much better this way. The "Captain Shettino" is W, who ran the ship of state aground. W then left the ship on a presidential pension, and went to Texas. Fits much better, doesn't it?
I don't like Obama either, but no need to be so disrespectful to either Obama or the incident where people lost their lives.
With a name like 'Reince Priebus', I don't think he should be calling ANYBODY names!!
AT least he didn't call President Obama the worst name possible......a republican!
Comments like these are why the GOP is going extinct...
Just saw the reference to the Dixie Chicks issue. Why is it that when left said "unpatriotic" things about Bush, it was horrible to the point they pushed for boycotting the Chicks music. Now, with incredible disrespect the GOP shows toward Obama, it's become the norm? This guy is sickening and I'm sure the rest of the world is laughing at him.
Jules says not so that was GWBush actually if that were the case the comparison would have to be the Titanic
Abandoning the ship you captain is actually a very 1%er kind of thing to do – using your status for personal gain at the expense of others. More of a Bush/Romney/Gingrich thing, when you think about it.
This, from the Party who lied to the United Nations, and fired missiles into women in children during ‘Shock and Awe’; while they clutching their Christian Bibles and American flags in one hand and pleasuring themselves under the table with their other hand.
It is always nice to come here just to read the ignorant things you left wing liberals have to say about every one but your dear leader. Obama in your views has never done anything wrong. Obama is still the lord to most of you cave dwellers. You left wing liberals must have never heard your dear leader that said “ never allow a good tragedy go to waste” when I read the nasty things you on the left have to say about the right it makes me wonder where you get off thinking you are so much better then every one else. I’m sure your Dear Leader would be so proud of how many ignorant people he owns on the left these days. I will be so happy when your Dear Leader is gone next year! Sad he cannot take the rest of you with him.
Ever notice how all the detractors of the president trumpet a laundry list of things he is doing to destroy the country. But, when asked a simple question like "What are the things on the list?" you never get an answer or you're given something that was passed in the previous administration (and can easily be proven) they either call names or completely divert to another topic.
Just when I thought the REPs couldn't stoop any lower and be any more immature. The reality is this ship was sunk by the previous admin and only a complete ignoramus wouldn't realize it or acknowledge it. Yes, completely sunk and still being brought up from the depths. That is a fact that is indisputable. How could anyone take Priebus seriously?
Obama is more interested in campaigning that doing his job? The GOP has been campaigning for the last 3 1/2 years and haven't done a thing.
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have some great new material to work with.
These people have some nerve. I don't think these are even republicans anymore. These republicans would string Reagan up as a socialist. They are now just plain corrupt crony capitalists, afraid they'll lose their jobs...no other reason to demagogue a standing president of the united states. When you don't have any facts to agrue, the results are name calling. Next thing we'll hear is that Pres. Obama is really related to Hitler and Trump wants proof he's not. Sad state of affairs for GOP. Who are the real facists and dictators?
This is not right.....people die and still missing. for the GOP to compare our President to that This is wrong. The chairman better look into his own back yard. How much he was involved with Scott Walker of WI. Some of you think its a joke, but it not. Think about if your parents, sister, brother or love one is one of those that are missing. Would you be laughing ???????? GOP is a joke .....this just prove that they don't care about anything or anyone .........The President will win again because people don't like that kind of behavior. He has been call so many names and been dis respected through his term and he is still standing with his head high. That tells you want kind of man and President he is. The one that our country needs not clowns.
If Obama wins in 2012, it will be 4 more years of gridlock. If the left honestly believes they'll have enough wins in the House and Senate to get Obama's agenda through, they're delusional. Oh yeah, Expat American, I wish you were the mouthpiece for the Democratic Party – then we could get every one of them out of office.
Whereas Reince Priebus is the Republicans' Captain Who The Heck Are You Again? Supposedly the guy presided over some Republican tidal wave in Wisconsin... which was apparently so terrible that they're now holding a recall election to get rid of the governor he worked to elect. He tied the RNC to the Tea Party, which was a complete failure in the Mid-Terms. Sure, they picked up seats and took the House, but most of their supposed Tea Party candidates were loons who couldn't get elected, like that chick in New Hampshire who had to make a campaign ad denying that she's a witch.
So if anyone is the captain of a sinking ship, I'm pretty sure it's Priebus.
This guy is a coward. He knows they can't beat the real Obama, so their method to defeating President Obama is to create this fictional character to run against when it comes to his policies and character. The GOP has distorted is presidential record, stripped away from him his citizenship, collegiate accomplishments, and now they compare him to the coward Italian captain! During the general election, Independents are going to get more exposure to the candidates and their records, and to some its going to be a wake up call when they realize some of the accomplishments that this President has made. If Mitt or Newt managed to attract voters based on some false reality of the President, they may respond negatively in voting for the Republican party.
The Nazi chairman
The new GOP slogan "lies and insults in the pursuit of the White House is no vice".
Just when you think they can't get any lower they fool you.
Priebus keep saying stuff like this....thank you for helping re-elect our first class President. You under estimate the power of stupid words.
A disgusting statement from the chairman of the Party of Hyperbole.
This conservative wants to know what has happened to the Republican party.
I am sick and tired of outrageous, outlandish, and exaggerated claims passing for political discourse by people who think that the days of civility and decency are dead, and that we voters are too stupid to understand this.
Republicans are SICK! This is why after voting Republican for 35 years prior to 2008, I will NEVER vote for a Republican again!
You republicans become more repulsive every day. The lack of class from the right is staggering.
That's the GOP in a nutshell. Vulgar, tasteless, cluless, disrespectful, hatefull. Gotta love em. I hope this guy is unemployed in December 2012.
I'll bet Newt put the words in Priebus's mouth since Reince is not very bright ...deja vu of the Bush_Rove duo.
A more appropriate nautical metaphor might be the GOP candidates brawling like drunken sailors on the deck of the Titanic and ignoring the iceberg looming over the bows.
Obviously another teacher has failed (maybe more than one to produce this dunce).
Just look at that face – smug, self-righteous, condescending – this is the face of the new GOP. The old GOP looked the same but there was a brain behind the eyes.
There they go again. Criticizing the liberal media and Obama because they have zero ideas to work with...
Absolutely correct! The ONLY thing Obama has done the past several years - is CAMPAIGN. He's an embarrassment to this country and the presidency. He's nothing more than the soundbite guy behind the teleprompter, running up and down the stairs of Air Force One day after day (on whose dime???).
Reince Preibus: Our Gilligan.
The GOP are the rocks that sunk the ship. SS America can move forward as long as the GOP are around.
On top of the lousy slate of Primary candidates to choose from, now I get this guy whose name is more aptly spelled Prepuce. Cross-voting in November here I come.
This pathetc clwon has to be desperate, look who he has to support and defend! The Walking Brain Dead Republican Cirucs, uh, I mean Party, ROFLMFAO! If ANYONE should be compared to Captain Shettino is the WHOLE Walking Brain Dead Republican Circus of Brain Dead Twits. I guess when you KNOW you do not stand an ice cube's chance in Hell you will grasp at ANYTHING that will draw attention away from the most failed, corrupt, and biggest bunch of liars to ever contend for the WH. This is beyond laughable, it is truly pathetic and truly shows how desperate the Republican party is getting. Why don't they just admit to the American public that there is NO one in the Circus they can run for President and save the country the cost of throwing all of these losers to the curb?
Is this the best that the Republican Party has to offer the country? Sophmoric name calling?
Ummmm, no. It was the REPUBLICANS that ran the country into the ditch 4 years ago, and have ben doing EVERYTHING possible to keep us there. DESPITE their cynical attempts, the stock market is coming back. Unemployment, will still high is BETTER that it was when GWB left office. And GM, which the Grand Old Tea Party likes to denigrate as "Government Motors" is back as the number ONE car manufacturer in the world. Obama and the country have done pretty well in the face of the unreasoning obstruction by their opponents in the Republican party. Imagine what is possible if the Republicans decide, just once, to put the country's needs ahead of their own?
Republicans are drilling holes in the bottom of the ship, and mining the harbor, doing anything to scuttle the ship so they can blame the captain for the sinking. The American people aren't going to buy that. They're not stupid.
replace Preibus's head with a raw pot roast, look ma, no difference.
more like capt Sullenburg taking over for bush
i've had it. i was going to wait until the fall to make up my mind but this has gotten ridiculous. i can't, in good conscious vote for any republican if this guy is their leader.
You talk about a sinking ship. The republican party with you at the helm has already suck.
Let me see, someone who ran the ship aground and then fled the scene; sounds a bit like Retire and Run Palin to me...
Not only can't republicans do anything better than campaign against a decent man with a fervor he reserves for hunting down Osama, but they can't even make a good metaphor. No wonder they don't support education.
What a truly disgraceful comment to make. There is a terribly destructive disease which is infecting US politics , and in particular the GOP party. This is one example of it. The media should take him down hard for this.
If BHO wins in November, have your passports updated. There will be a mass exodus. High request of work visas for other countries. USA will become a third world dictatorship with a marx bent.
Thank you Ronmey for ruining the Republican election for us.
Dirty campaigning, has made me rethink my party choice.
a NEW LOW even for the GOP. Shame on you Priebus .. SHAME!
Barack Obama = Jimmy Carter.
Comparing President Obama to the guy that sunk his ship and then abandon ship. Ha! That's funny. Wasn't it President Obama the guy that jumped on the sinking ship to save it while those responsible for the sinking did everything they can to stop him?
I am so shocked ... It is shocking ... Really? Who the heck can be so shocked today ... This is turning into a "Potemkin Village" in here ... how long are you going to defend this guy? What it is that he has done? This is not working and your condescending tone to anyone with different ideas or the TRUTH for that matter is not helping (you ... CNN staff) either ... You'll just need to lighten up and say it like it is ... and get over it.
I like how the GOP tries to draw comparisons between the president and negative situations that have nothing (as in zilch, zero, nada) in common with anything remotely related to the presidents actions or state of the country. Their efforts in coming up with appropriate adverse metaphors display an utter lack of creativity and are simply lazy. Your comparison is abandoning ship by campaigning?? Really?? That's the best you can do?? The only thing insulting about that brilliant zinger is the laughable lack of time put into it.
This comparison is shameful. I get the GOP want's a good tag-line against Obama, but this one is not accurate or appropriate.
As usual, Republicans don't want to address the issues, they just want to attack attack attack. With lots of name-calling and character assasinations, it's the Republican way.
The Republican party used to be the party of fiscal responsibility and business growth. Republican politicians used to try to keep government out of the personal lives of people. Republican politicians used to remember that the USA is a Federation of States – and the states are supposed to govern at a low level (while the Federal government was supposed to hold things together).
Today, it seems that Republican means "Christian far right." It feels like Republican means "obstruct, deny, destroy." It feels like Republican means "un-elect Obama at all cost – don't worry about solid policy and sound governing." It seems like Republican means "destroy the hopes of the many to benefit the few."
I'm really sad. The USA is an awesome place that used to be balanced between moderate Republicans, moderate Democrats, and just enough third-party folks to keep things on balance.
I'm a Democrat who sorely misses REAL Republicans – the ones who were part of balance in government...
What an incredibly offensive and ignorant remark. Over the top even for the GOP, who will do or say anything for power. Even they should realize this and fire him.
And Priebus is just a corrupt as Newt. Just google priebus and see what a dirtball he really is.
The Republicans run the ship aground and then blame it on the rescuer?
Repugnant they are.
Well, Obama sure has run the country onto the rocks... Considers it a succces, after all, it could have been worse. He could have sunk it. Just give him another 4 years and he will succeed in sinking it.
what a dolt! This comparison makes absolutely no sense but when you're politically bankrupt as the repugnicans I guess anything goes.
You might as well compare him to Nero. That, too, would be an accurate assessment.
Well done Preibius, you make Michael Steele look good.
@GOP,,,Spot On!!
Priebus has crossed a desperate line.
When words no longer have meaning, as is the case in a post-Gingrich GOP world, words are nothing more than weapons. Truth is irrelevant, a casualty of ambition and fear. This is the context of Priebus' comments. Like the dog that revels in licking it's privates, he made the connection to Schettino because he can.
If he wants to go down that path I suggest other possible connections. Priebus is the Joseph Goebbels of the GOP. Or perhaps the Casey Anthony of the GOP. How about the Jerry Sandusky of the conservative movement?
This is the genie that Priebus has let out of the bottle.
"Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord".
"And we helped" said the little girl in the Shake and Bake commercial.
We will vindicate all the trash, and disrespect that has been heaped upon THIS President by re-electing him and providing him with a functional Congress this November 2012.
Why should President Obama hang around D.C. waiting for a DO NOTHING congress to do nothing? Republicans have been campaigning for months. Did former Republican presidents campaign for a 2nd term??
Thanks Preebus, I've been meaning to donate to Obama 2012. I'll do that today.
All I can do is laugh when I see the leader of the Republican resorting to name-calling. He knows that, right now, they don't have a chance in "h-e-double hockey sticks" of winning in November.
Obama 2012!
Priebus – another stellar member of the republican party – NOT!!! The fact is there are no stellar members in the party! While Sarah Palin is in no way noted for her brain power, she hit the nail on the head when talked about the cannibalization in the republican party. It began in November of 2010 and continues on today. If they weren't such nasty, cantankerous weasels and liars, I'd almost feel sorry for them. ALMOST is the operative word here!
I just sent President Obama another contribution toward his campaign. America can't survive another Republican administration.
"Blucorsair – maybe someday he"ll explain his foriegn student loan to us as Kenyan student at Occidental college! "
I can tell you that now Blu, and I cant believe some people actually believe that nonsense......it was an April Fools joke, its not true. The organization mentioned in it does not exist, the press agency that supposedly released it have said it wasnt them, and the release date of the article, and this is the big clue, was April 1st. Its all out there if you care to actually research it.
The Republican Party is the crew of the Titanic locking the 99% in the belly of the ship to drown while they escape to the lifeboats.
I think a better comparison would be with our illustrious, intelligent, articulate (not) former Pres. Bush in this case. I think Mr. Priebus' smug, limpy smile will fade fast when he drops out of the 1%...
I can't believe this is what Priebus thinks is being witty! For this statement alone he should be fired from being the chairman of the GOP. Such blatant disrespect for the loss of life, disrespect for the grieving families, disrespect for those injured and traumatized by the ship sinking.
But then again I guess that's what makes him perfect for the job! The GOP doesn't really care about people, they only care about corporations!
This is a pattern really. A Repulican says somthting borderline to stupid that the general media (and moderate to left people) will get outraged about. Meanwhile, the fact that center&left are pissed further energizes their base. People in comment sections repeat the stupid statements ad nausium – in a netative way. However, the statement gets repeated 1000s of times – getting it higher in the web ratings (the fact that one says: the guy is a moron to have said – is lost in the ratings) Then everybody gets upset about this and the focus is off of the Republicans. Seems to happen every few days...
Technically, you could say that leading from behind is the same as jumping off the ship and leading from the shore while the shiip sinks.
The real Captain Schettino would be George Bush, of course. He is the one who steered the economy into the rocks and then was planning his own political rehabilitation strategy as the economy was sinking.
Walter, its not a question of "if", but " by how much". The only reason we have had gridlock is that a Democrat in the White House runs counter to the alternate reality the GOP lives in, where cutting revenue and increasing spending results in a balanced budget: thats what the GOP has advocated for over 30 years, even though they are incapable of cutting things they support. Its obvious the GOP love fiction, since dealing with the real world, with all its inconvenient problems and issues is beyond their ideology/theology. Thier answer? Create a world where the president is plotting to destroy the world, the Democrats are both devious and incompetant, and where millionaires with offshore accounts are heroic-NOT!
So magnificently thoughtless.
I have been a registered Republican for years. Today, as a result of the vitriolic personal attacks and lack of positive information on plans for improvement of our national condition by the candidates and the kindergarten mentality of the RNC, I will reregister. (My apoligies to kindergarteners everywhere).
This is a disgusting lack of respect for the President of the United States. We are all Americans first and foremost.
Clearly the Republicans have nothing constructive to offer the American people this year. Somehow, I think they are going to need something a little more compelling than this character. Obama may not be a superstar, but he offers a lot more than these people.
I am so sick of these Repubs coming up with all these derogatory names for our President. When I heard him say this on TV yesterday I was livid as it was his party that caused the economy to crash and President Obama is the one steering it back on track. They are getting desperate and trying anything that will stick. President Obama will be re-elected!!
"Bruce Bryant – Why did CNN say this was shocking????? Seems obvious to me"
Yep, its obvious to anyone as to why this was shocking, though apparently not to you.
"Wake up – if he would only not think he's above the law and just submitt to the request of georgia courts"
Jeez, still a birther huh? too funny. Here is a prediction for you......absolutely nothing will happen.
Funny coming from a Republican whose party is more interested than seeing Obama fail than governing.
Priebus ? Sounds like a poorly made hybrid from N. Korea.
Just like Gingrich sent out a list of "key words" to plant in the lemmings of their party's heads this guy is continuing with the words of failed economy – when it is getting stronger, losing jobs when they are slowing coming back. If you believe and use those words to continue the ludicrious republican patter you lose credibility among those of us who can see the facts.
ThisSerious wrote:
This guy is a coward. He knows they can't beat the real Obama, so their method to defeating President Obama is to create this fictional character to run against when it comes to his policies and character.
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Which is exactly what they did with the ACA, Affordable Care Act, and health reform. They even gave the myth a phony name that contains the Presdient's name. And, I'm scared of it. We should all be scared of the mythical monster. It has death panels. Takes over my life and all of government., Etc. All manners of evil stuff. Good thing I know it's just as a myth.
Tasteless and obscene comment from yet another Republican dope
These horrible people can say what they want – they are pathetically flailing about in their own impotence. Their attacks are bald-faced racism. And all those who follow this heinous party line – remember you will be judged for your hearts and words too, and you will have earned it too.
This shows the level that the Republican Party has sunk to. If you want to make this kind of comparison a more appropriate one would be Reince Priebus and Joseph McCarthy who accused many honest Americans of being communists in the 40s and 50s. Priebus leads a party that likes to call people names based on their paranoia just like McCarthy. Thank goodness they don't have the power that McCarthy did. Americans need to make sure that they never get that power so they cannot reinvent a era based on some of our ugliest history. The politics of dirty one liners can, has and is doing damage to this country. Stop it now. Don't let it get out of control again. Vote for intelligence over red meat.
He is absolutley right. 1-21-13 cannot come fast enough with President Paul.
Old Rancid Peaches speaks again. You are the captain of the Titanic, a.k.a. GOP. I would not be talking I were you.
Mr. Priebus: Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?
RNC Chairman Priebus's stupid, insensitive analogy is an outrage. In obvious contrast is President Obama's classiness, intelligence, and devotion to the betterment of our society. Obama continues to impress me every day. When he was introduced at the State of the Union address, I thought to myself, "Whatever the Republicans do or say, they can't take this away from you. You are our President. " Obama makes me proud again to be an American. The Grand Old Party isn't so 'grand' anymore. Oftentimes, their behavior is vindictive, selfish, and mean-spirited. This may help re-elect a President I admire, but they shame themselves and embarrass me in front of the rest of the world.
Really? Obama is Captain Schettino? Wasn't Bush at the helm when the ship began to sink? Didn't Obama board the sinking ship and try to plug it with stimulus packages that brought back our car industry and reversed the downward trend in economic growth? Isn't America growing again? Last time I checked, it was. No thanks to the GOP, whose only accomplishment is to say no to everything. And shame on you for this type of rhetoric. Why don't you spend some time on proposing solutions that have a good chance at obtaining a consensus in both houses, rather then pathetic extreme proposals that you know are dead on arrival.
The people who believe this guy are probably the same people who believe that were Gingrich to be elected, job growth and capital investment would happen overnight – just because a Republican was elected. Pretty ridiculous
I find it interesting that the party of "Christian Values" continually shows that they aren't Christian at all! I would say they are more like Darwinists with no conscience. His comment about the tragedy in Italy exemplifies their values and the lows that they will sink to for their own ends. The really sad part is that many people buy this rhetoric hook line and sinker. I agree with many of the Republican ideals, but I have yet to see a Republican in congress or running for president be an example of those. And this rat race of an election is just getting started. Sad!
You are all crazy. Very typical response, blame it all on GW. Obummer has taken no responsibility at all during his presidency. He has either blamed GW or just ignored it all together. Some say it's congress' fault. Obummer had a democrat controlled congress and still couldn't get a budget passed, let alone any other legislation that could help the situation. We need to shrink the government, not grow it. We need to get people doing for themselves instead of the government taking care of everyone. When you don't have to work for what you have, you stop respecting what you have and you become a drag on society. That is what Obummer has created, a bunch of slugs dragging the economy down the pipe.
LOL. The GOP is highly delusional, methinks.
Wow! If I was a republican, I would avoid metaphors around 'running ships onto the rocks'.
This is exactly why the repos will loose in November. I watched the interview and when asked who Captain Schettino was he looked like even he couldn't by the comparison. The longer this circus goes on with the repos the better for the democrats. They make one blunder after another.For the party of family values they have sure said and done some pretty awful things. The American public is tired of their inactivity and shameless stance for the wealthy. Obama/ Biden 2012
You know what's worse??? CNN comparing President Obama in full headline font to that horrid Nigerian Goodluck Jonathan. SHAME on YOU CNN. I expect it from the RNC, but not from what I thought was an actual news organization.
What a disgusting, disgraceful, and disrespectful thing to say. How much lower can the "leaders" of the GOP actually go?? If Mr. Priebus wants to see a gutless cretin, he need only locate a mirror...
Is it true that the GOP have a higher rate of Alzheimer's ?
Correct me if I'm wrong , wasn't it Caption Bush who ran the USS America on to a reef ?
Obama 2012!
And here I thought it was Captain George W. Bush who ran the ship aground and then initiated the bailout!
I guess GOP revisionism survived the crash...too bad!
Even when he explains it, the snarky attempted insult doesn't make any sense.
What a master comedian – one who has to explain his own jokes. Talk about a stretch. And it's not even funny. Typical of GOP attempts at humor. Next time, make a quip about the death penalty. Or people who are without health insurance. Those are already proven to get big laughs from Republican voters.
Priebus must resign today.
Of course this proves yet again that all the Republicans can offer is grade-school insults.
Wow, how's that for name calling from a guy who shouldn't be throwing stones. Thanks Penice Pubice for your dreadful insight and using a tragic life claiming incident so flippantly. Say goodbye to your job.