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Romney didn’t save the Olympics

There’s a lot of hype about Willard Mitt Romney’s role in saving the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympics; Mittens of course is trying to showcase his position of “savior” of the games as a natural springboard to the Presidency, but I’m not sure there’s a lot of bobsledding or downhill skiing competitions scheduled through the Oval Office.

Of course Mitten didn’t handle the scheduling of events, or the producing of the opening or closing exercises, or the choice of venues for the events, anymore than he sold concessions, so, what exactly did Romney do?

Romney was asked to step in as a titular head of the committee after his predecessors had been caught in a scandal of providing money and hookers to the Internal Olympic Committee to help sweeten the deal of choosing Salt Lake City. They needed someone who looked squeaky clean in a business suit, and they picked a millionaire businessman, with perfect hair and a Pepsodent smile. Let’s be serious, he made business decisions; he didn’t “save the Olympics”.

As far as his role there preparing him for being President, really? That’s like saying Coach Smith at the local high school set up a great track meet he should be the mayor; or Joe Jones, owner of the local tire store, helped setup advertising for the state basketball tournament he’d make a great governor. Since when does running the business end of a sporting event qualify someone for being President? The short and long answer is it doesn’t, any more than Mittens time as a pirate at Bain Capital has. It’s all resume padding.

Mittens has exaggerated his spot as the head of the Salt Lake Olympics, just like his claim that he was a “severe conservative” governor, or that he was a job creator. One thing’s absolutely clear about Romney; he may not be very good at hyping his career, but he’s good at trying to sell stuff; the key operating word being “trying”.

What’s truly amazing is how Romney can be showered with wonderful accolades for having saved a sporting event, but conservatives won’t give the President any credit for having gotten Bin Laden?

No Right Turns

13 Feb

Mitt Romney wins Maine Caucus – Barely – or has he?

13 Feb

Republican Tea Party (GOTP) presidential bride’s maid Willard Mittens Romney barely – and I do mean barely – won Maine’s GOTP presidential caucuses giving his lagging campaign a very small – as in miniscule – but much-needed boost after losing three straight to Rick Santorum.

Mittens claimed the slim victory with 2,190 votes, or 39 percent, compared to 1,996 – about 36 percent – for Ron Paul, Rick Santorum received 989 votes and Newt Gingrich won 349.

But the “so what” of this victory only proves Mittens can eke out a victory in New England; so what he was the governor of Massachusetts after all. Which begs the question, how does Romney only manage 39 percent four years after he pummeled McCain in 2008 with a 51 percent of the vote victory?

Clearly there is a chink in Romney’s armor, and his rather presumptive claim to be the GOTP’s choice to face President Obama in the fall; fully 61 percent of Maine voters selected anyone but Mittens in a state a mere 20 + miles from his back yard; if can only barely win here, how is he supposed to beat the incumbent president? If he can’t get his own party to like him, how on earth is he ever going to convince the majority of independent voters essential for a Romney victory in November?

But what if Mittens hasn’t won in Maine where the caucuses began 4 Feb 12 and continued throughout the week, and where several communities elected to hold their caucuses at a later date due to severe weather Saturday?

Caucuses in Washington County, where the caucuses were postponed until 18 Feb 12 because of the weather had been told earlier by the GOTP Executive Director Michael Quatrano that county officials had been told the results of that caucus would not count toward the total.

Excuse me, but how do you figure?

I guess voter disenfranchisement is now the standard for the Romney campaign and the “hired guns” in high places in the various states, states like Virginia where Mittens is the only candidate allowed to appear on the ballot; it doesn’t show leadership when you claim a victory by a mere three percentage points when all of the votes haven’t been counted, and when the remaining votes are being thrown out. True democracy in action; yes sir, true democracy.

Latest 2012 Presidential Polls – 10 Feb 12 (pre-Maine Caucus Conclusion) Edition

10 Feb

The current regular season records for the remaining four GOTP candidates are Santorum 4, Romney 3, Gingrich 1 and Paul 0; CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!? Santorum pulled the trifecta – the hat-trick! He swept all three on Tuesday!

Ricky pulled the surprise upset in the Colorado Non-binding Caucus with 40.2% of the vote and 13 delegates; Romney got 34.9% of the vote picking up 6; Gingrich got 12.8% and picked up 2 delegates, while Paul polled 11.8% and won a whopping 1 delegate.

Ricky also dominated in the Minnesota Non-binding Caucus where he buried Mittens with 45% and 13 delegates. Romney actually placed third behind Ron Paul; Paul garnered 27.1% of the vote and 4 delegates; Mittens won 2 whole delegates with an astounding 16.9% of the vote; placing a dismal last was Newton Leroy who took 10.8% of the vote for 1delegate.

In Missouri’s Primary – which awarded no delegates; those will be decided later with caucuses – Rick surged to victory (sending the opposition packing) with 55.2% of the vote; Romney25.3% and Paul came in third with 12.2%. Gingrich – the dimwitted former Speaker – managed not to be on the Missouri ballot.

Maine’s – week long – Non-binding Caucus with 24 Delegates concludes tomorrow and the last PPP (D) poll of registered voters conducted way back in October is likely to be a lot closer – especially where Santorum’s concerned, charging hard from behind Romney.

Michigan’s Hybrid Primary with 30 Delegates – 28 Feb 12; last Rasmussen Reports poll of likely voters conducted 01 Feb 12: Romney 38; Gingrich 23; Santorum 17 and Paul 14 with 8% undecided.

Arizona Winner Take All Primary with 29 delegates – 28 Feb 12; last Rasmussen Reports poll of likely voters conducted 01 Feb 12: Romney 48; Gingrich 24; Santorum 13 and Paul 6 with 9% undecided.

Super Tuesday (6 Mar 12)

Georgia Proportional Primary with 76 delegates; SurveyUSA poll of likely voters conducted 01 – 02 Feb 12: Gingrich 45; Romney 32; Santorum 9 and Paul 8 with 6% undecided.

Ohio Proportional Primary with 66 delegates; PPP (D) poll of registered voters conducted 28 – 29 Jan 12: Gingrich 26; Romney 25; Santorum 22 and Paul 11 with 16% undecided.

Virginia Hybrid Primary (Where the FIX is in and only Romney’s on the ballot) with 49 delegates; Quinnipiac poll of registered voters conducted 13 – 19 Dec 11: Gingrich 30; Romney 25; Paul 9 and Santorum 3 with 33% undecided.

Oklahoma Proportional Primary with 43 delegates; Sooner Poll of registered voters conducted 17 Nov – 16 Dec 11: Gingrich 33; Romney 14; Paul 4 and Santorum 2 with 47% undecided.

Massachusetts Proportional Primary with 41 delegates; PPP (D) poll of registered voters conducted 16 – 18 Sep 11: Romney 50; Gingrich and Paul 5 and Santorum 1 with 44% undecided

Vermont Hybrid Primary with 17 delegates; PPP (D) poll of registered voters conducted 28 – 31 Jul 11: Romney 26; Paul 7 and Gingrich 6 with 61% undecided

The Current GOTP Delegate Count is: Romney 90; Santorum 44; Gingrich 32 and Paul 13. An interesting thought is if Gingrich and Paul were to step out and throw their delegates to Santorum, there’d be a real contest; but the same could be said if Santorum did the same for Newt; Paul is inconsequential as he’s not a serious contender – meaning he has a better chance of contracting small pox than of winning the GOTP nomination, and frankly Newt’s heading that way now too.

The current GOTP Popular Vote Count is:

Romney 1,119,283

Gingrich 838,344

Santorum 430,753

Paul 305,797

Nationally the GOTP Nomination according to the latest Rasmussen Reports poll of registered voters conducted 06 Feb 12: Romney 34; Gingrich 27; Santorum 18 and Paul 11 with 10% undecided.

So, how does each of the Four Horseman of the GOPocalypse stack up against the President? The latest Rasmussen Reports poll of likely voters conducted 07 – 09 Feb 12, if the general election were held today:

President Obama 50/Romney 40

FOX News poll of registered voters conducted 06 – 09 Feb 12:

President Obama 51/Gingrich 38

President Obama 50/Santorum 38

President Obama 48/Paul 38

If the GOTP clown car had finally stopped spinning, and the general election was held today, Willard Mittens Romney would be the GOTP nominee, and he’d lose to President Obama in the general election.

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Posted by PEB on February 10, 2012 in 2012 Election

Tags: 2012 Colorado Caucus, 2012 Election, 2012 Electoral Map, 2012 Minnesota Caucus, 2012 Missouri Primary, 2012 presidential polls, 2012 Super Tuesday, elections 2012, Mitt Romney for President, Newt Gingrich for President, Rick Santorum for President, Rick Santorum wins 3, Ron Paul for President

Is Romney lying or just ignorant?

10 Feb

Willard Mittens Romney recently said during a campaign appearance, “We are the only people on the earth that put our hand over our heart during the playing of the national anthem. It was FDR who asked us to do that, in honor of the blood that was being shed by our sons and daughters in far-off places.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OJ6vTTlM-Tc

Is Mittens really that woefully stupid on foreign policy that he really doesn’t know better – Mister “I single handedly saved the Salt Lake Winter Olympics”? Did he bother to attend any medal ceremonies? Or did you only attend the ones when Americans took first?

Late night comedian Jimmy Kimmel proves Romney’s statement is wrong:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzScCtSBe80

Here’s a few more examples as well:

Honduras

Bolivia

Brazil

China

Columbia

Croatia

Ghana

Italy

Japan

Peru

South Africa

Ukraine

Clearly Mittens was pandering to the far right uber-patriots by making America better than everyone else; it’s the typical conservative rhetoric; and as I said above, he either lied when he said it; or he’s a moron when it comes to knowing anything about other countries.

What’s next, America’s exceptional because we’re the only country that drinks milk?

Liar or ignoramus? Either way, it’s not very presidential; we did the liar route with Nixon, and the woefully ignorant route with W. We don’t need a repeat of either.

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Posted by PEB on February 10, 2012 in 2012 Election

Tags: campaign appearance, conservative rhetoric, jimmy kimmel, medal ceremonies, Mitt, Mitt Romney for President, national anthem, Romney America only country places hand over heart, Romney on national anthem, salt lake winter olympics

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