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Santorum’s kidnapping the nomination?

28 Feb

According to the Associated Press (AP) Republican Tea Party (GOTP) bride’s maid Willard Mittens Romney says he’s struggling with the way conservative voters are backing rival Rick Santorum because he’s unwilling to make the “incendiary” comments he said they want. But of course he’s not above lying about Santorum, Gingrich or President Obama.

Reporters have increasingly been asking why Romney’s struggling to win over his party’s right wing in Michigan where he was born and raised, and Mittens mewed it’s because he’s not willing to say “outrageous things” like his opponents.

“It’s very easy to excite the base with incendiary comments. We’ve seen throughout the campaign that if you’re willing to say really outrageous things that are really accusative and attacking of President Obama, you’re going to jump up in the polls,” Romney said. Fielding questions from the national traveling press corps for the first time in nearly three weeks, he said: “I’m not willing to light my hair on fire to try and get support. I am what I am.”

That may be true, but remarks highlighting his wealth – like when he said Sunday he doesn’t follow NASCAR as closely as some but has “great friends who are NASCAR team owners” – are definitely hurting his campaign and Mittens has admitted as much.

Romney’s has also reportedly accused Santorum of trying to “kidnap the primary process” by urging Democrats to come to the polls in Michigan’s open primary and vote against the former Massachusetts governor; of course Mittens has conveniently forgotten how he voted in Democratic primaries in Massachusetts in an effort he says was aimed at picking the weakest opponent for the Republican who was running. He said Tuesday he voted “against Ted Kennedy, Tip O’Neill and Bill Clinton,” and that doing so as a private citizen was different than a presidential campaign paying for phone calls.

Let’s see? No, it’s not any different, what’s good for the goose is indeed good for the gander.

At least Romney’s been honest in one thing (which yes, I admit is hard to believe), he says if he loses in the state where daddy served as governor, and where he was weaned, it would be extremely embarrassing and could possibly deal a devastating blow to his campaign, and he’s been playing catch-up in after losses to Santorum on in Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado.

Losing Michigan would deal a strategic blow against Mittens showing a possible weakness to the voters in future primaries and will considerably lengthen an already tiresome primary process which will not help him because if one thing’s for sure it’s that the more of Romney people see the worse off he is.

What’s truly comical is Mittens shouldn’t be in this spot, he should’ve nailed down the nomination long before now, but he’s not liked, and conservatives aren’t sure he’s really one of them.

If he loses Michigan it quite literally could be the beginning of the end of his presidential quest especially since Santorum’s leading in Ohio and second behind Newton in Georgia; winning Arizona will give him a boost but losing his home state would be a devastating hit.

 
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Posted by on February 28, 2012 in 2012 Election

 

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Romney didn’t save the Olympics

19 Feb

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?

 
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Posted by on February 19, 2012 in 2012 Election

 

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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.

 
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Posted by on February 13, 2012 in 2012 Election

 

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No Right Turns

06 Feb

 
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Posted by on February 6, 2012 in Humor

 

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No Right Turns

02 Feb

 
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Posted by on February 2, 2012 in Humor

 

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Reagan raised taxes on corporations

02 Feb

The conservatives of today live in a fantasy world, claiming to be Christian while genuflecting before icons of their chosen Messiah, Ronald Wilson Reagan; all have this vision of the Gipper with his tax cutting sword Excalibur flying through the halls of Congress slashing taxes and blessing the land with myriad tax cuts – reality check, while Reagan cut taxes his first year in office, it soon became clear his doctrine of supply side, trickledown economics was voodoo and that it wasn’t working, hence, for almost every year thereafter he raised one tax or another. It wasn’t the tax cuts that fed the government coffers, and fueled the start of economic recovery, it was the tax increases.

One such tax increase was in 1986, when on the south lawn of the White House under a beautiful sunny fall morning, Cabinet members, leading lawmakers and a large crowd applauded as they witnessed President Reagan sign into law the Tax Reform Act.

In order to get to this momentous bill signing, the President had to go to Capitol Hill to knock more than a few fellow Republicans heads together; all members of the House who had earlier blocked the measure – sound familiar?

“I think all of us here today know what a herculean effort it took to get this landmark bill to my desk,” Reagan said to the assembled crowd.

The Tax Reform Act of 1986 took the largest share of the country’s tax burden off the shoulders of the “really poor” whom Willard Mittens Romney “doesn’t worry about” and the middle class and placed it squarely on the corporations; it exempted millions of households of the “really poor” from any federal income taxes. Reagan called it “a sweeping victory for fairness” where “vanishing loopholes and a minimum tax will mean that everybody and every corporation pay their fair share.” The act was designed to be tax revenue neutral, because individual taxes were decreased while $30 billion annually in loopholes were eliminated and corporate taxes were increased

According to National Public Radio (NPR) it took more than two years to produce that tax code overhaul, and during that time, President Reagan went on the road to plead his case for the plan. At a high school in Atlanta, Ga., in 1985, Reagan said they were going to “close the unproductive loopholes that allow some of the truly wealthy to avoid paying their fair share.”

In Congress, Democrats and Republicans worked together to merge competing proposals for tax reform, and some like Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont says it was a different era.

“We had a lot of grownups in both parties, people who actually wanted the government to work,” Leahy says.

Yes you did Senator; you had what the current crop of Republican Tea Party (GOTP) members’ lack, maturity. The GOTP thinks it’s slick in portraying the uber-rich as the victims of the tax code; a code which allows a multi-millionaire to hide his money in the Caymans and in Swiss bank accounts and pay a mere 13% in taxes. The GOTP needs to read its own history, and see what its hero saw, that the rich don’t suffer under some stifling tax burden, that the economy isn’t struggling because the rich pay too much, but because they pay too little while everyone else carries the load. Reagan’s signature leveled the playing field while George W. Bush made it catawampus, tilting wildly in favor of those who didn’t need help. Reality check, Willard Mittens Romney, and his class – the deified  1% aren’t paying its fair share, they’re paying nowhere close to it and Mitten’s current tax proposal will decrease the current tax levels on his group to zero while raising taxes 60% on the middle class and poor. I had the very great privilege to work for and to know Ronald Reagan, and Mittens is no Ronald Reagan.

 
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Posted by on February 2, 2012 in 2012 Election

 

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Mittens doesn’t worry about the poor?

01 Feb

Republican Tea Party (GOTP) presidential heir apparent Willard Mittens Romney has put his silver foot in his mouth again, saying that he’s “not concerned about the very poor,” citing the social safety net in place for that segment of the populace and adding that he’s focused on the middle class.

“I’m in this race because I care about Americans. I’m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there,” Mittens said on CNN, following his victory in the Florida primary.

“We have a very ample safety net,” said Romney. “And we can talk about whether it needs to be strengthened or whether there are holes in it. But we have food stamps, we have Medicaid, we have housing vouchers, we have programs to help the poor.”

This sounds very familiar, where have I heard another rich man say something similar? Oh yeah, I remember.

“Are there no prisons?”

“And the union workhouses – are they still in operation?”

The problem is that programs in Mitten’s “safety net” are also suffering during the economic recession. Medicaid, for example faces cuts as states attempt to balance budgets at a time when more people are using the program and the GOTP lawmakers in Congress are eyeing cuts in food stamps as food prices rise, even as more Americans are using the program.

According to the Huffington Post, Mitten’s policies call for cutting federal spending and reconfiguring the “social safety net”, as well as an immediate five-percent cut to non-discretionary spending, hitting those in the “safety net” especially hard. Willard’s also proposing turning Medicaid into a block grant program and undertaking a “fundamental restructuring of government programs and services.” He also calls for capping spending at 20 percent of GDP – a significant cut – and adds that he “will pursue further cuts” as spending comes “under control.” Claiming not to “worry” for the very poor actually appears to mean he “doesn’t care” about them.

This though isn’t the first obtuse thing Mittens has said during the campaign, it’s really just one more misstatement in a whole season of previously poorly phrased remarks, “Don’t try and stop the foreclosure process. Let it run its course and hit the bottom,” he said last October in Las Vegas, the hardest-hit metro area by the foreclosure crisis.

In January, Romney said, “I like being able to fire people who provide services to me” to explain why he favored competition among health insurers. “If someone doesn’t give me the good service I need, I want to say I am going to get somebody else to provide that service to me.”

Mittens isn’t someone who should ever speak without prepared statements; in fact, if I were a handler, I’d rather have George W. Bush speaking off the cuff than having Romney do so. He just doesn’t get it; he doesn’t understand every mic is hot, and every time he speaks there’s going to be a camera recording. On top of that, his statements reveal what kind of man he really is – maybe one day he’ll have a Jacob Marley visit him too.

 
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Posted by on February 1, 2012 in 2012 Election

 

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Let them envy while they eat their cake?

11 Jan

Republican Tea Party (GOTP) presidential hopeful Willard Mittens Romney claimed on NBC’s Today Show that concerns about Wall Street, financial institutions and income inequality were the result of “envy.”

Mittens – who not surprisingly crushed his opponents in the New Hampshire primary Tuesday night — attacked the President for promulgating the “politics of envy.” Though his attack was mainly directed at the president, Willard’s “envy” remark came after Lauer asked about the concerns of “anyone who has questions about the distribution of wealth and power in this country.”

“I think it’s about envy. I think it’s about class warfare,” Romney said. “I think when you have a president encouraging the idea of dividing America based on 99 percent versus one percent… you’ve opened up a whole new wave of approach in this country which is entirely inconsistent with the concept of ‘one nation under God.'”

But wait, that’s not all, Mittens also mewed it wasn’t necessary to have a public debate about the inequality of wealth distribution in this country, and claimed the President’s focus on this issue was just “part of his campaign rally.”

“I think it’s fine to talk about those things in quiet rooms and discussions about tax policy and the like,” Romney said. “But the president has made this part of his campaign rally. Everywhere he goes we hear him talking about millionaires and billionaires and executives and Wall Street. It’s a very envy-oriented, attack-oriented approach and I think it’ll fail.”

Now the question is how long will it take for Mittens to scream that Lauer got him with a “gotcha question”? Probably not long; the real issue is that Willard’s shown once again that he’s a Rodney Rich Pig who can’t relate to anyone who’s not from his class.

 
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Posted by on January 11, 2012 in 2012 Election

 

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Mittens likes to fire people

09 Jan

Wow, really? According to the Associated Press (AP) Republican Tea Party (GOTP) guess we’re stuck with him front-runner Mittens Romney has declared, “I like being able to fire people who provide services to me”. What do you know about that, finally something truthful has fallen out of Romney’s lips.

Of course it wasn’t long before rivals shot at him, “Gov. Romney enjoys firing people. I enjoy creating jobs,” said former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman.

But not to be out done, the Reverend Ricky Perry posted a ringtone to his campaign website that consisted of Mittens mewing, “I like being able to fire people,” over and over.

Romney’s remark about firing people was the second jarring moment for the front-runner in the span of less than 24 hours.

On Sunday afternoon, the millionaire businessman told an audience that he understood the fear of being laid off, adding, “There were a couple of times when I was worried I was going to get pink-slipped.” His aides refused to provide details, but that’s not surprising because there were no details to provide; Romney has never been, nor will he ever be someone who had to worry about losing his job.

Romney has repeatedly attempted to tout his career in business as the core credential of his candidacy, saying over-and-over his firm, Bain Capital, created 100,000 jobs as it started some firms while taking over, remaking and then spinning off others.

Newton Leroy Gingrich however disputed Mittens oft repeated claim saying that Bain Capital “apparently looted the companies, left people totally unemployed and walked off with millions of dollars.”

Perry has also been attacking Romney’s so-called business “sense”.

“If you’re a victim of Bain Capital’s downsizing, it’s the ultimate insult for Mitt Romney to come to South Carolina to tell you he feels your pain. Because he caused it,” he said.

“I have no doubt that Mitt Romney was worried about pink slips – whether he’d have enough of them to hand out.”

As proof of his criticism the Reverend cited Holson Burns Group Inc. of Gaffney, S.C., where he said 150 workers who made photo albums lost their jobs. “They looted that company,” Perry said, referring to Bain Capital.

Romney is not one of us, he was born with a silver foot in his mouth and one day he’ll die with the same foot firmly planted there; he’s never created any jobs but has decimated more than one company; his knowledge of how to create jobs might fill the proverbial thimble, while his knowledge of firing people would fill volumes.

 
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Posted by on January 9, 2012 in 2012 Election

 

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