Excerpt: "In this Presidential campaign of 2012, a Mitt Romney spokesman may have invented a slogan that is just as simple and is, unintentionally, the clear and unvarnished essence of the Romney campaign."
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in Jerusalem July 29, 2012. (photo: Ronen Zvulun/Pool/UPI)
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johnson? If I would vote for him, they won't do it. Jeb the Bush? They might, but they want a candidate to the right of the devil himself, which is really far right, like maybe in Cheney's neighborhood.
Well said!!!
:D
Only taxpayers are true Americans.
Here's an even better idea Barbara K! Let "We The People" each take our turn to "kick his ***" on Election Day...OBAMA 2012!!!!
This could definitely happen if someone who knows the facts and has the proof that Romney lied to the SEC about Bain Capital would come forward with that information. It would nail his coffin shut because THAT is a felon.
Not to mention if the IRS could, indeed, show that Mr. "Kiss My Ass" did not pay 10 years of taxes!
Then, we could say, "Don't let the door hit you in your ASS as you go out," a favorite of my father's to people he didn't care to ever see again.
I'm not holding my breath for this to happen, but it would be SO great! The guy is a pariah at best.
He would completely ruin what's left of our democracy. GET HIM OUT NOW!
N.
1. Mitt Romney and other Republicans are promoting policies similar to or often worse than those that had such disastrous results during the Bush administration, including converting a three-year major surplus, which was on track to completely eliminate the total federal debt, into a major deficit, creating very few net jobs (none in the private sector), and leaving the country on the brink of a depression, with an average of 750,000 jobs being lost during its last three months.
2. Republicans have obstructed efforts to get our country out of the tremendous ditch they left us in by voting no on and sometimes filibustering many Democratic proposals, some of which they previously supported and sometimes even co-sponsored. Hence, it is not surprising that a recent poll showed that 49% of Americans believe that Republican Congress members are purposely sabotaging the U.S. economy in order to defeat Obama and other Democrats, while only 40% disagree.
3.. Republicans support continued tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans and highly profitable corporations, while basic social services that middle class and poor people depend on are being cut and teachers, police officers, fire fighters, and others are losing their jobs.
4. Republican legislators have voted against providing funds to save jobs of teachers, police officers, and fire fighters, providing unemployment benefits to long-time unemployed people, and providing medical benefits to 9/11 responders.
5. Republicans are generally in denial about the tremendous dangers from climate change, in spite of a very strong consensus in peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals and statements by scientific academies all over the world that climate change is a major threat, largely caused by human activities, and the many wake-up calls we have been receiving in terms of severe storms, tornados, floods, heat waves, droughts, and wildfires,. Anyone who thinks that climate change is a hoax promoted by liberals should visit the website of the “Republicans for Environmental Protection.” (www.rep.org) . This conservative group was only able to endorse four percent of Republicans in the 2010 U.S. midterm elections because so many Republicans are in denial about climate change and other environmental threats.
6. The Republican Party has moved far to the right under the influence of the Tea Party. There are very few moderate Republicans in Congress today.
8. if the congressional stalemate continues under obama or -- god forbid -- advances under romney, it's not going to be pretty. we already have a disgruntled, frequently homeless middle class comprised of people who thought "it" would never happen to them. if stripping social services continues and no works programs are implemented, i suspect it's in fact gonna be ugly.
He might have continued, "And some people are corporations- like me, my friend."
He's been a CEO and Sole Owner so long, he thinks and behaves like a corporation.
As for the election, the puppeteers have once again pulled off a heads I win tails you lose game. We are offered a choice between Globalist Bankster Capitalism with a modernized visage and reduced looting, or a vulture capitalist- a corporate double-down and full speed ahead on that looting.
Either way, life for the 99% is going to get worse. The two-party system is a duopoly functioning to preoccupy, distract, and entertain while the looting goes on at varying speeds, sometimes in bursts, but unabated.
"Pretty bloody awful!"
What should we do? 3rd party alternatives are still not very convincing, and a significant 3rd party progressive vote would likely give it to Rmoney. How many electoral rounds of GOP victories would it take for a 3rd party to reach say 40%, a plurality? Maybe we could reach it on the second round, in 2016. Of course, by then Jeb Bush will be there, if Rmoney isn't, and you know how America loves the Bush Family. So maybe we're looking at 2020? Or 2024?
Unless Rmoney makes it so suddenly worse that everything changes. That's one of the reasons given for deserting Obama, who has gotten away with corporatist policies without a peep from 'the left'. But can 'everything' ever change when the media is controlled by the Corporate Power? Is it too late for America to right itself? To course-correct? Does a society like ours become at some point fixed? When all public discourse is controlled and manipulated by the Corporate Elite to maintain and reinforce their profit-power in the status quo? I'm having some difficulty trying to be optimistic.
One: When a tsunami/tidal wave hits, the first thing it does is pull back from the shore leaving the fish flopping around on the sand.
Two: I think this is where we are right now. Things have drastically changed, the safety nets and country we know is gone, there's a lot of flopping around, but We the People are gathering out there on the horizon of tomorrow (like the Green Party).
Four: The glide path the Republicons have us on is unsustainable. People are not going to give up their TVs, sports, beer, week-ends and rides so that 17 greedy old white men can tell themselves they're gods and abuse everyone and everything to prove it to themselves.
Five: If you read the history of this country (check out "The Academic American")you will see that we have been here before and if we are vigilant we will work ourselves out of this hole, too.
Six: The biggest danger with this lunatic Far Right is, if they get in they will remove all systems of elections, courts and any other avenue we use to redress wrongs.
Seven: These people are dangerous and we'd better not kid ourselves, take them lightly, or give them half a chance to do what they do best; destroy everything and make the most vulnerable (in an ever widening circle) miserable.
Romney is the epitome!
Hardly, he claims that he would be Bush on steroids, which utterly disproves your theory.
yes, exactly.
Make them and pass them around.
N.
Obviously you never knew Tom Dewey.
Full of waste, but who is there to protect us. We need cops who don't attact peaceful protesters. Big Ag and big oil are destroying our land and we all know the root of it all is M O N E Y ! Can Romney give us back our country? I doubt it. VOTE Democratic! At least then, we have a chance!
Romney 2012-It's none of your business
Romney 2012 - Kiss My A**!
The men at the top of the Far Right are abusive Aryan Nation skin head types (or is that Ayan Rand Nation types?) Anyway, the Right-wing constituents identify with this abusive mentality and this is why they vote for them; they are familiar to their human template and lock in to them comfortably. It's really quite sick. These people at the top are a clinical poster for mental illness in their attitudes toward all life (and the only reason they would give a hoot about an unborn fetus is because it represents future workers, business and revenues.)
and on and on.
he may apply to me personally, and prove three times that he knows the meaning thereof and can demonstrate such on my very own sweet lefty patootie. If he passes this test, we may negotiate...
Not unless raw money can buy a convincing majority of voters. From what I've heard recently, wall to wall political ads are already counterproducti ve. So, the money war may not win the election.
And Romney, so far, is such an unconvincing candidate: a robber baron.
That's what we've got to hope for, anyway. Obama and the D's may be less than we'd like, but at least they're rational and know that lower taxes for the wealthy will NOT create jobs when the wealthy already have huge amounts of cash and the economy lacks necessary demand to make investments attractive.
The R's are the party bought and paid for by the billionaires; the D's may be attracted to all that money, but they are only petty practitioners in the great game of bribery and extortion: the Republicans are the craven go-fers for the thieves.
My thoughts exactly Byron!
Lord Romney? HELL NO!
I am sad and I am scared.
Romney knows what he is doing and doing it well.
Most are too disgusted to vote. But the people Romney is ass-kissing are rearing to go.
A huge attitude in the country is I guess I have vote for Obama because Romney is worse. But on election day comes some will still be planning to reluctantly vote when the poles close. Obama constantly compromises in the direction of those who are attacking him.
In Israel he kissed Netanyahu's rear so hard that most American Jews found it disgusting but the few Jews that are one issue only were inspired and will do everything they can to get a neighbor naive about politics to vote for Romney as well.
The Democratic Party machine believes that progressive 3rd parties take votes from Democrats. But something like 1/3 of the people planning to vote Green will in the last minute get cold feet and Vote Obama. If instead they sadly and disgustingly thought they had to vote for Obama, more of then will in the end stay home and defeating both Obama and anyone half progressive as well
Sorry, I meant to say, "Romney kissed Netanyahu's . . ." unfortunately some readers might think I meant both Romney and Obama.
I too am over 65 and only voted Republican once, and that was when I was temporarily Republican to vote Ron Paul in the closed PA primary.
However I live in senior housing. In the 2010 election maybe half or 1/3 of the senior voters proudly wore the “I voted” buttons passed out at the polls. Philly in Dem territory. But those proud and happy to vote I'm not sure how they will vote. If a 3rd party was in the news more people would be arguing and voting instead of staying back in their rooms.
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