January 29, 2012 2:03 PM

RNC Chair Priebus compares Obama to Captain Schettino

By
Dan Farber
Topics
Campaign 2012

The fight for the GOP nomination has become rough-and-tumble, with Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich throwing verbal jabs at each other on the campaign trail and debate stages. And when they aren't beating up each other, they are jabbing at President Obama, calling him a failure and a socialist.

It's part of the campaign circus - candidates and their surrogates slinging mud to sway voters. But Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus took the bashing to a new level in comparing Mr. Obama to the captain of the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship, in speaking with Bob Schieffer on "Face the Nation" Sunday.

"In the end, 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 is abandoning the ship here in the United States. He's more interested in campaigning than doing his job as President," Priebus said.

Democratic National Committee Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who also appeared on "Face the Nation," couldn't top that line of attack. The best she could do was call Mitt Romney "out-of-step" and "extreme."

"Mitt Romney is so out of step with the priorities of Floridians, I mean I've stood in line behind senior citizens in my district who had to leave one or two of their prescriptions at the counter because of the donut hole in the prescription drug program," Wasserman Schultz told Schieffer. "Mitt Romney would repeal the Affordable Care Act - any of the Republicans would - and that would mean we would reopen the donut hole and seniors would have less affordable prescription drugs again."


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by babygeorge123 February 1, 2012 12:26 PM EST
Prebus,should resign he is unfit for this Job, maybe he should go back to being the Houseboy of the Wisconsin Governor,
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by noloyalisti January 31, 2012 2:56 PM EST
I wouldn't hire this Republicon clown to clean my toilets. Comparing the President to a criminal. Good job numbnut, airheaded Republicon tool.
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by leftyintexas January 31, 2012 6:49 PM EST
You're right! I really believe that the Republican politicans in our government don't give a damn about The United States. They just want to bring down Obama even if it means bringing down the whole country as well. They, and especially the tea baggers, are mean spirited bigots who in another era would be running around wearing white sheets and hoods. I was especially turned off by their Nazi tactics of disrupting the town hall meetings held to inform our citizens about the new healthcare program. It made me more determined to vote against their supporters' agendas in Congress. Judging from the opposition, Obama has nothing to worry about in the November election.
by noloyalisti January 31, 2012 7:23 PM EST
We also need to make sure we keep or take both houses of Congress if we are to have any hope for the future.
by Xeppo January 31, 2012 10:16 AM EST
A more adept analogy is that the republicans with Bush at the helm, ran the United states onto the reef/economic disaster and are trying everything in there power to make Obama from getting the ship/country off the reef.

While blaming Obama for the cost of getting off the reef and blaming him for being on the reef.

It is too bad the american voter has the attention span of a 2 year old in a candy shop
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by jgg00010 January 31, 2012 1:58 PM EST
seriously, when does obama take ownership? He's been in office longer than JFK's entire presidency. When does he stop blaming everybody else and start taking responsibilty?
by noloyalisti January 31, 2012 2:54 PM EST
It takes a while to clean up the disaster of the 8 year reign of terror of the Bush Crime Family. As Obama said, we lost 4,000,000 jobs in the 6 months before he took over and since then has created 3,000,000 jobs. That's a 7,000,000 job swing.
by 24zen January 31, 2012 9:37 AM EST
Just the kind of moronic line I would expect to hear from a leader of the GOP. In fact, barbs and insults, not any modicum of substance, is all you ever get from this anti-intellectual, superstitious, hypocritical bunch. Obama, in fact, has had the courage to take on big challenges, at his peril, from both his own party and the GOP. For someone like the Chair for the RNC to compare him to a cowardly ship captain, shows just how lame-brained, desperate and cowardly the RNC leadership and, most likely, most of the GOP at large really is; remember the "Swift Boat" baloney?
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by catmomtx January 31, 2012 2:01 PM EST
well said.
by sweetcakesmaria January 30, 2012 6:58 PM EST
One of the greatest tragedies in the history of this country was the ill advised assault on a country (Irag) that couldn't do anything to defend itself. That ill advised assault destroyed the infrastructure of Iraq and left that country in turmoil. It also contributed to the financial destruction of America. Until Bush and his cronies are brought to justice for this crime against humanity, Republicans show their ignorance when they direct this type of stupidity at this President.
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by crazytimesrhere January 30, 2012 8:02 PM EST
well said, sweetcakesmaria ... the legacy of the dandy duo (George Bush and Dick Cheney) has established a new bottom!
by chonder2 January 30, 2012 5:35 PM EST
by NologyV January 30, 2012 10:51 AM EST
Don't give up your day job chonder2 if you have one. Your Maritime stories are sinkers and stinkers
Let's just Hope Obama and crew/Democrats are the only ones to go down with the Costa Obama.
God Save America from Captain Bligh Barry.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

"If you have one"?

I get it...Democrat always means to you..."on the dole" "welfare cadillac" "unemployed".

Idiot.
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by noloyalisti January 30, 2012 4:58 PM EST
What is mentally wrong with that guy Priebus? Maybe he got beat up too much as a kid by his parents or fellow students.
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by noloyalisti January 30, 2012 3:42 PM EST
I can understand why a pasty white, rich, racist and greedy corporate CEO would vote for a Republicon. But why would anyone else? All you are doing to voting to be robbed from by Wall Street.
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by noloyalisti January 30, 2012 4:57 PM EST
Do YOU have any good reason that would make sense to a smart liberal?
by Zann-Zel January 30, 2012 5:27 PM EST
99% of us aren't rich enough to be Republicans!
by snertly-2009 January 30, 2012 1:24 PM EST
If that's the best zinger the RNC can come up with, they should do everyone a favor and spend their convention time drafting a concession speech instead of wasting time on "presidential" candidates.
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by leftyintexas January 30, 2012 12:37 PM EST
Hahaha! I have to laugh every time some Republican like Priebus makes such an ridiculous comparison. The truth is, Captain George W. Bush SUNK the U.S.S America with help from fellow Republicans like Mr. Priebus. So it's ironic that Priebus would be so stupid as to compare President Obama to Schettino. Priebus where were YOU during the years 2000-2008? Were you in a drunken stupor or what? Hahaha!
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by louiville12 January 30, 2012 1:19 PM EST
Oh and Chris Dodd was still telling everyone in 2008 that Fannie and Freddie were in great shape. That the housing bubble started after democrats took over congress with first mates Reid and Pelosi telling the captain we were in deep water full speed ahead to liberal land.
by Zann-Zel January 30, 2012 1:29 PM EST
George every President except for George Washington stepped into the office having to deal with what the past Presidents did....including Obama.
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