Poll: Does Mitt Romney have the character to stand up to the conspiracy theorists in the GOP?
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Remember willard thinks the poor have a safty net,
and he can make a $10,000. bet
against the fact he doesn't have money hidden
while most us feel that he is fibben,
because the info on his taxes we can't get.
If you would or maybe you have already have,Write a note to the President he has had a very tough time with all of this BS and a few words of your faith in him would go a long way.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact
He may have a handle on it xxx........
We do not have to think that human nature is perfect
for us to still believe that the human condition can be perfected. We do not
have to live in an idealized world to still reach for those ideals that will
make it a better place. The non-violence practiced by men like Gandhi and King
may not have been practical or possible in every circumstance, but the love that
they preached -- their fundamental faith in human progress -- that must always
be the North Star that guides us on our journey. For if we lose that faith -- if
we dismiss it as silly or naïve; if we divorce it from the decisions that we
make on issues of war and peace -- then we lose what's best about humanity. We
lose our sense of possibility. We lose our moral compass.
BARACK OBAMA, Nobel Lecture, Dec. 10, 2009
Thanks xxx ooo and T-Mom
Mitt can't get elected without the "crazies"!
Mitt has two types that will vote for him, 1%ers and crazy tea baggers. He'll be lucky to get 35% of the vote.
Yeah.....he fits those categories....kochroaches, alec, paranoid, insane, insecure, and evangelical, hard right, haters.
I am also reassured that women make up 52% of the electorate!
No woman in her right mind would vote for that soulless creature.
Here's something no one should miss:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/28/1086839/-North-Carolina-NAACP-launches-unprecedented-media-campaign-against-Amendment-One
Now that's impressive.
Mr Mitt is a Glutinous, Soulless, Whore. He has no problem Fireing people who are stopping him from making a lot of money Fast. Just like he did with my job back in the late 80's. I wouldnt vote for that man is I was prommised heaven.... He doesnt have the Stones to be the President any way. And If you vote for him you are part of the problem in this country.. Not part of the Solution.. We need Less Republicans Not More!!!
He couldn't even stand up for the former high ranking aide in his campaign who was openly gay, so how can we expect him to stand up for what's right when the crazies go after the President? As Chris Matthews pointed out earlier today Romney already flirts with the birther nuts when he makes those moronic comments that the President doesn't understand our country and the American way of life. His standing silent when a supporter makes the outrageous comment that the President is commenting treason against the nation and Constitution is no surprise. Now had a Democrat said the same about Gingrich, Paul Ryan, Cantor and those other Republican big wigs who made the plot from day one to stand against Obama at every step even on issues they sponsored or proposed before the Congress, Republicans would be calling for that person's head faster than the words leave his mouth.
Play it again .....willard.
http://thelastword.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/07/11584427-fischer-romney-pushed-around-by-yokel
Romney is so stiff and nervous that if the 3 am phone call came...he'd wet the bed. But fortunately we won't have to worry about it.
Obama/Biden !!!!
I find it offensive that President Obama was accused of treason by an audience participant at today's rally. I thought about this for awhile, and I came to ask myself a question: Why haven't Carl Rove and his Tea Party followers been charged with treason? The Tea Party members have signed an oath to obstruct any "Obama" bill. This places obstructionism ABOVE their sworn oath to truly represent the people of these United States. How anti-American and against our internal national security can it get?
As for Romney, he as a very dangerous joke, and anyone who votes to place him in the White House will, if he gets there, find that he and his followers will be having the last laugh.. as we watch our nation drown in the greed we have allowed!
Be sure to vote!
Probably the only black women in that audience and she had to say something stupid like that.
All of us share this world for but a brief moment in
time. The question is whether we spend that time focused on what pushes us apart
or whether we commit ourselves to an effort, a sustained effort to find common
ground, to focus on the future we seek for our children and to respect the
dignity of all human beings.
BARACK OBAMA, speech, Jun. 4, 2009
At least there is one black man who makes a better point with the words he speaks.
Maybe a plant?
Brian Fisher pulled a fast one on Robme. Thank you, Brian!!
Robme, you're a tool! Five fingers and can sign his name?
And Grover sucks !!!! Now there's somebody who needs to be charged with treason.
I believe that those 87 illegitimate congressional FRESHMAN are at least bordering on treason! And as Kathe just said, so is Grover Norquist, the creep.
If you want to take down the president and harm the country, that should qualify.
"Which Way" Romney has no messege for the 98% ers. His "so called" speeches are full of negativity against President Obama...nothing else...
I'm still waiting for Grover Norquist to come out the "closet".....we all know he's gay. Why is he hiding it?
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/09/07/313068/romneys-tax-plan-cost-6-6-trillion/
By Philip Rucker and Karen Tumulty, Published: September 6, 2011
The Washington Post
NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. — The far-reaching economic plan that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney put forward on Tuesday relies heavily on the premise that reviving the economy depends on getting the government out of the way of corporations.
Romney’s prescription for the country’s ailing economy includes overhauling federal tax, regulatory, trade and energy policies. His is a collection of business-friendly ideas that fit neatly within the mainstream of the Republican Party, with a few innovative proposals sprinkled throughout, namely tougher stances on China and labor unions.
The right answer for America is not to grow government or to believe that government can create jobs. It is instead to create the conditions that allow the private sector and entrepreneurs to create jobs and to grow our economy. Growth is the answer, not government,” Romney said as he released the plan, called “Believe in America.”
That may be a questionable concept at a time when businesses are seeing record profits but have not put them into the kind of hiring and investment that could start a national economic recovery. At the same time, though, polls show that voters are losing faith in the Obama administration and its embrace of government as a solution to many of the country’s problems.
So in many ways, the terms of engagement between the president and Romney, as well as the rest of the Republican field, are set. “The politics of contrast are pretty simple here,” conservative economist Douglas Holtz-Eakin said.
Channeling the management consultant he used to be, Romney presented the outlines of a 59-point plan, published in a 160-page book. His aides boasted that it is the most specific proposal any presidential candidate has offered.
Romney spoke without a prepared text under a banner that read, “Day One, Job One,” inside a sweltering North Las Vegas truck warehouse. He laid out 10 actions he said he would take on his first day in the Oval Office that would create more certainty for businesses.
They include five measures that would: lower the corporate tax rate to 25 percent from 35 percent; implement free-trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea; expand domestic energy exploration; consolidate worker retraining programs and turn them over to the states; and cut non-security discretionary spending by 5 percent. (President Obama supports those three trade agreements, although he has been accused of dithering to satisfy the demands of organized labor.)
If elected, the former Massachusetts governor said he would issue five executive orders on Inauguration Day. They would roll back Obama’s health-care overhaul; eliminate Obama-era regulations; issue new oil-drilling permits; reverse a number of policies that favor organized labor; and sanction China for currency manipulation.
“I’ll clamp down on the cheaters, and China’s the worst example of that,” Romney said. “We can’t have a trade war. But we can’t have a trade surrender, either.”
He said he would cut the size of the federal workforce by 10 percent through attrition, possibly by hiring only one employee for every two who leave.
Romney said his approach would boost annual economic growth by 4 percent, create 11.5 million jobs and lower the nation’s unemployment rate to 5.9 percent over four years.
That level of growth would be somewhat higher than it has been in the past few decades, in which it has averaged slightly more than 3 percent.
Although aides said that Romney’s prescriptions would add certainty to the business environment over the long term, there was little to provide an immediate jolt to an economy whose growth has been hampered by low consumer spending and an overhang of mortgage and other personal debt. It would take years for measures such as new free-trade agreements and leasing more land for oil drilling to affect economic growth.
That is a conundrum for both parties at a time when the imperative for austerity has made it nearly impossible to propose new government spending as a stimulus.
“That’s the challenge for Republicans and everybody else. We actually have to create some demand,” said Neera Tanden, a former official in the Clinton and Obama administrations who works for the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank
for American Progress, a liberal think tank.
Even as he touted the comprehensiveness of his plan, Romney left out some important details — such as setting personal income tax rates — that at least one of his opponents, former Utah governor Jon M. Huntsman Jr., has detailed in his own economic plan.
Huntsman’s proposal calls for eliminating taxes on capital gains and dividends, lowering the business tax rate, and instituting a tax holiday for repatriating corporate profits earned overseas. He also said he would repeal Obama’s health-care law and roll back regulations on financial firms and the environment.
Romney proposed an overhaul of the tax code, including eliminating taxes on interest, dividends and capital gains for individuals who earn less than $200,000. Over the longer run, he would explore lowering individual income tax rates and closing corporate loopholes. He also pledged to retain the George W. Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003.
In introducing his plan, Romney unleashed a blistering critique of Obama’s economic stewardship and offered himself as the only Republican presidential candidate with the management skills and business know-how to lift the country out of a long recession.
At one point, Romney held up his iPhone to castigate Obama’s economic policies as outdated. “President Obama’s strategy is a pay-phone strategy and we’re in a smartphone world,” he said. “What he’s doing is taking quarters and stuffing them into the pay phone and he can’t figure out why it isn’t working. It’s not connected anymore, Mr. President.”
The Obama campaign was quick to respond.
“Governor Romney repackaged the same old policies that helped create the economic crisis: boosting oil company profits and allowing Wall Street to write its own rules, more tax breaks for large corporations and more tax cuts for the wealthiest,” Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt said in a statement.
The president is scheduled to present his own jobs plan in a prime-time address to a joint session of Congress on Thursday.
Romney also came under fire from some of his Republican presidential rivals.
“As governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney failed to create a pro-jobs environment and failed to institute many of the reforms he now claims to support,” said Mark Miner, spokesman for Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
Perry has eclipsed Romney in national polls in part by touting his record of creating jobs in the Texas, but he has not outlined a specific jobs plan of his own.
I have the Rev. Dr. Barber's recent speech on my avatar page. It's worth listening to. So brilliant. It is the one where he says we are asking the wrong questions. Re: N. Carolina's amendment.
I heard me some preachin', India!!!! Could this be the "MLK Jr." for this space in time? Hallelujah, if it is!!!!
LOGOUT: In six weeks the days start getting shorter.
I wondered where all my time was going.
Farrrrrruh! GOne......
I just got an image in my head, that would make a great editorial cartoon...
Mitt and Ann tolling down the road in a station wagon marked "the Presidency" with a kennel tied on top, holding a terrified man in a suit, labeled "Middle Class"...
I just sent MD and email composed of some Romney cartoons and photographs....there was a dog holding a picture of romney with a circle with a cross bar on it.
Romney homes.....Remember Ann is a stay at Mansion Mom.
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/908797/obama_campaign_video%3A_seven_mitt_romney_lies_in_two_minutes/
It's amazing how Liberals despise success and look to Hussein Obama to take from one group to give to another. Envy just oozes from Liberals.
What is really amazing is that you assume Liberals despise success ...... ? No one said they were against it. They just don't think if you are successful you should deprive the poor and middle class by taking jobs from them, and taking any benefits that they have earned from them. You need to get your information straight. There is no envy , it is that they do not realize that we do not have the advantages they EXPECT.
I also expect people to obey the rules of the vine, not reregister them selves over and over again. Do you know how to respect others?
Romney, like Obama and Rubio, isn't a natural born Citizen.
George Romney, Mitt's father, was born in Mexico to expatriated Mormon parents who left the jurisdiction of the United States to avoid recently passed polygamy laws (Miles Park Romney-Mitt's great, grandfather). Under the Immigration laws applicable at that time, if Miles Park Romney stayed out of the US jurisdiction for more than five (5) years under these circumstances;, he would have lost their US citizenship without a formal hearing.
Miles Park Romney as an influence member of the faith, and was thus designated to go to Mexico, become a naturalized Mexican citizen in order to create new outposts
Miles Park Romney could not have accomplished this mission without becoming a Mexican citizen. When Miles-Parker Romney brought his eldest son, Gaskell, to Mexico with him, he too, would have lost his US citizenship by 1890.
What this means is that when the Romneys came back within US borders, they were illegal aliens. To date I have found no naturalization documents to suggest that George Romney, who was born in Mexico, ever became a US citizen either before or after Mitt's birth.
If anyone has any evidence that Gaskell Romney somehow managed to retain his US citizenship after a sojourn of 25 years in Mexico; please let me know.
ex animo
davidfarrar
Sorry but Obama was born in the United States so he is a natural born citizen.
So was Mitt Romney, although his father probably wasn't when he ran for the Presidency...
Whom, he was talking about Romney, not Obama...
David his first sentence was
"Romney, like Obama and Rubio, isn't a natural born Citizen."
Willard an anchor "baby"?
There was at least one State that was going to make a law that both parents of a candidate had to be natural born Citizens only to get on their ballot. Gee, why bother to become naturalized if your children will still be considered second class citizens? When I heard that a few months ago, I thought Willard would have some explaining to do.
What do you think of GOP legislatures creating a law like that Willard?......
No answer. He's not real big on scutiny when he's in the hot seat. <s>
Kathe remember IOKIYAR
Constitutional rights.....whom does it apply to? Do we want to go backwards or forward.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywImcNViPtc
Right of the Individual....that was what our Vice-President conveyed so well when he spoke on LGBT Rights on Meet the Press. Our Framers wanted a secular Government. No doubt in my mind.
If a person doesn't like LGBT people, they can leave them alone...their loss.
Did everybody see Oral Roberts' Grandson on Hardball? Good kid.
So now Mitt Romney is taking credit for the Auto Industry recovery, what's next with this guy? Next he will be saying he made the decision to go after bin Laden, he lead the Navy Seal team, he was the one who actually shot bin Laden. Mitt Romney has no problem with lying, and you can't trust a liar. Oh I can create jobs? How can you Mitt? Let's hear it. How would you see to it that 500,000 jobs a month are being created. Because from what I read as Governor of MA, that state rank 47th out of 50 states on jobs creation. And as head of Bain Capital, Mitt job wasn't to create jobs, it was to make money for himself and his rich friends. Instead of creating jobs, he fired people.
Mitt likes it when he can fire people...
He can even fire companies... Look how many he put into bankruptcy...
Mitt must be so proud David. He and his Vulture Capitalist buddies are responsible for more unemployment than any other single force of our society. Now that's patriotism - ex pat riotism. He should go live with all the money and jobs he has taken from America and Americans.
This coming from "Vulture Liberals" that prey on their fellow citizens tax dollars. And WHY should any defend a guy that has willingly flaunted the Constitution in the name of Liberalism? And perhaps you should take an interest in how Capitalism works...even if you detest it...it would be good for you to understand it's principles.
Hussein Obama did exactly NOTHING for the Auto industry. Ford (sans Government handouts)is leading the way for auto manufacturers. And BTW..how IS the Volt selling? His interference in the auto industry only decided which Americans would become unemployed. Nothing more.
Right because you say he didn't it must be true. Poor psycho babblers stuck having to defend a mormon vulture.
Much easier than defending a Liberal government program vulture.
All suit. No substance. All rhetoric. No reality. tsk tsk tsk
If he can't withstand the Christian Conservatives and would let their preferences dictate that outed-gays on the Campaign Staff are unacceptable and effectively force Grinnell to quit, how would he deal with the Corrupt Karzai or Ayatollah Khameinei, much less Putin, who's a throwback to the old KGB?
And he certainly did a lousy job of repudiating the woman, at one of his recent fund-raisers, who challenged him vis-a-vis Obama being a Traitor guilty of Treason. Romney doesn't have guts like McCain showed 4 years ago.
Romney has as much Spine as a jellyfish.
You are so right Cosmic Chuck !
Aww comon folks Mittens is just an average guy! Just flag down one of his & Anns cadillacs and ask him! Or better yet catch them in their 4 car elevator!
I said it once I'll say it again President Obama has already gotten his 2012 birthday, Christmas, and New Years present this year , Mitt Romney the best the right has to offer!! Gee that pretty much says it all about the GOP doesn't it ?!? lol
LOL RE. I have been saying that too that Willard Mitt Romney is the best thing to happen to the Democrats since GW Bush ! Obama / Biden will win in a landslide in many places around America in 2012 !!
And Hussein Obama caused the quickest turn around of Public opinion in recent history. Everybody was allegedly sick of GWB, and Liberals had a super majority and how long did it take one Hussein Obama to turn the tables on the Liberal tide? Both houses and the Presidency this cycle...How do you get a Liberal out of office? Put one in. He will do the rest. Liberalism is an utter failure and does not take long to collapse on it's own failed ideas.
LOL
scott you need more work on your delivery as you are just not reaching that comedy level the others has. but you do have some funny stuff, so keep trying.
PS scottie is funny in the same way as that local nut that got thrown out of a mental hospital and now walks the sidewalks cussing at invisible people is funny.
Sounds like your bio.
Wow. The brilliant repartee Scott. Just so not amazing.
When was the last time that Willard "corrected" a non-candidate in this GOP vetting process? The last time I saw and heard it was when he had his "corporations are people too" moment.
Once again, Romney proves his lack of any leadership skills. Keep it up, man !!
Obama/Biden - 2012 !!
Who needed"correcting"?And Since when is being a Citizen a Constitutional requirement?lol...And HOW does one "evolve" into deciding what has been considered "Deviant" behavior by organized religion pretty much forever... into mainstream behavior backed by Government Benefits?
And I am still having a hard time understanding how it is that your preferred sexual Partner somehow makes you a protected class...
Making phoney statements like this are beneath you. Being denied the same civil rights as others makes Marriage Equality the issue that it is.
Radical, Right-Wing, Republican, Social-Engineers are not happy to simply be free to be who they are. They must be destroying the lives of others with whom they disagree. They use God as a weapon and Jesus as a mascot and hate like a sword.
The Right are a dying breed and they know it. Every statement they make, every hateful action against others they take pushes them farther over the cliff of their own making.
So, no explanation on how your preferred sexual partner puts you into a protected class? And of course all of these people in the 17 states with Laws that define marriage are obviously bigoted. There are many ways for same sex partners to have every opportunity as married couples WITHOUT Government wading into this non-issue. Don't try to push that crap. Marriage is a religious institution and this is just one more way to try to push Liberals wacked out views on the majority....nothing more. Nobody cares what happens in the bedrooms of the nation until Liberals try to make Religious individuals approve of or sanction deviant behaVIOR.
Bears repeating : The Right are a dying breed and they know it. Every hateful statement they make, every hateful action against others they take pushes them farther over the cliff of their own making.
What you lack in substance, you also lack in clarity.
Thank you for illustrating my point that you have no intentions of learning anything new or backing up anythings you say except with lame opinions.
Thank you.
And besides, this is just minutia to get the ball off of the economy and gas prices and food stamps and the welfare rolls. The day people step into the ballot box....it will be their wallet that decides the day.
This is what you on the Right are in such a panic about and why after decades and decades of American citizens voting without using ID ( 40 years for me ) in 2012 the Republicans are blocking votes by requiring ID, blocking Sunday Voting, blocking early voting, blocking mail in voting.
You
Are
In
A
Panic
Because
Even with all the Republican cheating, vote blocking and dirty dealing President Obama will wipe the floor with Vulture Capitalist Romney !!