Bain the Betrayer

No, but he is selling a lot of people a bill of goods. Mitt is a chameleon. He may change his colors, but he's still a lizard.

In a word... NO!!!

I think it's hilarious that few complained publicly about Bain or similar companies during past decades. Why not? The same factors were present. Why does it take a presidential campaign to prompt such criticism and scrutiny?

Steven! Steven! but seriously, folks... Ron Paul in 2012! Look at it as carl rove would. Paul cannot be elected (nor can romney) and BHO will reign another 4 years of creeping giveaway, ever 'protesting' as he hands over anything and everything the parasite wants including our children's deaths in Iran. If Ron Paul were actually nominated, what a MESSAGE we would send to the disease. Ron Paul is our only VOICE however much you may despise his overall package. Unless, of course, the fantasy of the Colbert/Stewart ticket were to materialize(!). Anything can happen in this psychotic reality we are currently maintaining and continuation of the status quo looks like the worst scenario at this time. Let go of your fear and live! We desperately NEED to do something different evn if we jump off a cliff because otherwise we will certainly be PUSHED off a cliff. We have a much better probability of a positive outcome with ANY 'unknown' than we have with all of the 'known' options on the table now. You know this and only your fear walls you into the same old corral leading to the killing floor. You KNOW we have to do SOMETHING, and to do it without blood we must act differently than we have so far. Even if Paul were elected, the most he could do might be to decrease the power of the Executive which, alone, would justify his election. Our slate so far, in order of apparent preference, is FEAR, Ron Paul, and a distant third, the rational/absurd Colbert/Stewart candidacy. Let go of Fear!

It is clear to me Romney would make a terrible president for so many reasons. I hope the public pays attention to helpful information like this.

A Capitalist scum will lie if it makes them a profit. My father the small business man in a small town said that if a deal wasn't good for everyone then it wasn't a good deal. Don't guess things like that get much teaching at Harvard and Yale. Just take care of your rich as hell friends and do as little real work as possible but take credit for everything.

If you look at the presidents since Carter, you'll notice that all of them came from the same cookie cutter. What the elites started with Reagan has continued more or less until and including Obama. Ask yourself how different Romney would be from Obama if Obama is just a continuation of Gee Dub? The real question here is not which presidential candidate, but from which class do candidates emerge and whose interests do they represent? In most matters of policy toward the working class and the mal-developed countries, it doesn't seem to make a whole lot of difference which label gets afixed to the presidency. Ask a Haitian or an Iraqi who should be the president of the US. I think that would be a more interesting answer than the quadrenial circus we have to suffer through inside the US. To those that matter, the presidency is not broken or misinformed. It represents the centers of power quite nicely. Why else would they consistently cough up enormous quantities of money to keep the whole charade going?

I'm kind of enjoying the circular firing squad Republican attack ads have become, it kind of shows the tactics they try on everyone.

I am anxious, though to get far beyond the circus and start working on getting progressives elected in every national, state, county, and local office we can. We've been bamboozled by the massive money put into the off year elections where the Republicans and Tea Party knew where they could grab more power and leverage, especially during a census year that impacts redistricting.

It seems similar to a tag team wrestling match where one side has two team members (perhaps a third outside helper for dramatic impact), but the opposition has 22 pairs, owns the referee, the arena, and all the security. This is not a fair match, and the American people have been set up as the losers even before the first round. We need to step up during the primaries and contest every seat they are trying to buy. I believe some figures that seem to indicate about 690 seats became more crony conservative, after $4.5 billion was spent across the nation in all the races. Although not spent on a single candidate, that makes each position gained come out to $6.5 million each. Does this mean I can call each of those individuals the $6 Billion Dollar Crony Conservatives?

The dirt on Romney and Bain has been out there since 1994 when he ran against Ted Kennedy. Kennedy was down in the polls and his team was very worried that the people of Massachusetts might be sick of old Ted. So the Kennedy campaign team went out to places where Bain had screwed people over and found people willing to talk about their lives after Bain came to town. No scripts were required, just regular folks telling how their lives were ruined by Romney and Bain. Jobs lost, homes lost, pensions gone. Those same ads will be run by Obama's campaign - over and over again in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin... and they will be very powerful in this economy.