2012 republican presidential nominee III: can romney get santorum out of his hair?

Mitt was nice enough to walk over and give him a handful of twenties.

Listening on the radio and I can really hear the audience. Someone hollered out something when one of the moderators mentioned that Romney's father was born in Mexico.

Think someone was also just yelling "Go home!" at Ron Paul.

Paul had to stop two or three times during his last answer, the booing was so vociferous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1mJDdPyluM

Over. I guess I'll look in on the spinning circle for a while.

She's back!

Putting "dumb" in quotes here makes her sound even dumber.

she really really really hates andrew sullivan

she's not alone in the blogosphere

Andrew Sullivan "annoys" her

they deserve each other imho

During a Fox News segment on Sullivan's article on Monday, the network blurred out Sullivan's name when showing the Newsweek cover.

wtf

conservative liking Obama make Fox viewers' brains explode

oh, the Sullivan article has started gay civil wars on some blogs, liberal on lefty

to conservatives, sullivan is very much not one. that was obviously an act of disrespect

lol you make them sound like mobsters

liberal on lefty

gay lib porn

Looks like Romney may now give in re releasing his taxes now, but here's the reason he does not want to--his rate based largely on the wonderful fact that investment income gets taxed lower than earned income:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/post/romney-to-release-tax-returns-estimates-rate-at-about-15-percent/2012/01/17/gIQALiQf5P_blog.html

What’s the effective rate I’ve been paying? It’s probably closer to the 15 percent rate than anything,” Romney, a GOP presidential candidate, said. “My last 10 years, I’ve — my income comes overwhelmingly from some investments made in the past, whether ordinary income or earned annually. I got a little bit of income from my book, but I gave that all away. And then I get speaker’s fees from time to time, but not very much.”

Rick Perry, superstar:

The crowd of about 30 attendees seemed satisfied with his pro-military pitch...

Oh and his appeal on the Virginia decision was denied.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/barack-obama-the-food-stamp-president/2011/12/07/gIQAzTdQdO_blog.html

earlier discussion of this (that may have been discussed upthread)

Superb Rick Perlstein column on George and Williard Romney. I didn't know this about George:

His calling card was his shocking authenticity; his courage in sticking to his positions without fear or favor was extraordinary. In January of 1964, for example, the second-year governor received a letter (downloadable here) from a member of the top Mormon governing body reminding him of the "teachings of the prophet Joseph Smith" that "the Lord had placed the curse upon the Negro." Drop your support for the 1964 civil rights bill, the elder warned, arguing that God might literally strike Romney dead for his apostasy: "I just don't think we can get around the Lord's position in relation to the Negro without punishment for our acts," the letter said. Romney only redoubled his commitment – leading a march the next year down the center of Detroit in solidarity with Martin Luther King's martyrs for voting rights' in Selma, Alabama. In 1966, the Republican Party staked its electoral fortunes on opposing open housing for blacks. Romney begged them, unsuccessfully, not to. "This fellow really means it," an amazed Southern Republican said when Romney toured Dixie pushing civil rights in his presidential campaign; after America's worst riot broke out in Detroit under his watch, the governor said that America could respond with a crackdown on law and order – "but our system would become little better than a police state."

i know, romney sr. floats thru nixonland like a bizarre, unbelievable ghost

I don't remember reading about his liberalism in there but I probably missed it.

most often he gets lumped in as a second after rockefeller as the Last of the GOP Liberals

yeah I don't remember that being covered at all xp

From ABC/Washington Post pollster Gary Langer: "Questions about Romney's background at Bain Capital may show bigger teeth in a general election campaign. By 55-35 percent, more Americans express concern about the economic system favoring the wealthy than about overregulation fettering free enterprise, likely a sharp point of contention between Obama and whatever Republican he faces.

There are major partisan divisions on the question: 79 percent of Democrats see unfairness in the economic system as the bigger problem; just 30 percent of Republicans agree, but 52 percent of independents side with the Democrats. So do significantly more young adults, women, racial minorities, less well-off and the least-educated Americans, compared with their counterparts."

Romney Sr. is still mostly well liked and fondly remembered in Michigan -- the same cannot be said of Mitt.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/the-book-on-mitt-romney-here-is-john-mccains-ent

What in the

http://gawker.com/5877207/

jesus i didn't know any of that. so sad.

doing the lord's work

Fb buddy linked to this today:

OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
Let Detroit Go Bankrupt

By MITT ROMNEY
Published: November 18, 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/opinion/19romney.html

IF General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye. It won’t go overnight, but its demise will be virtually guaranteed.

if only

lol

Fuck both of you.

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fwiw I was lol'ing at Mitt Romney - the "business man" - being completely wrong about a business.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/what-mitt-romney-learned-from-his-dad-20120117

He's still inauthentic – but with, I think, an exception. Every time he opens his mouth on the subject of capitalism, he says what he sincerely believes, which happens to fit neatly with present-day Republican ideology: that rich people deserve every penny they have, and if people complain about anything rich people do, it's only because they're envious...

That's another rebellion against his late dad. Not only was George Romney, that loser, ironclad in his ideological commitments; his vision of how capitalism should work was in every particular the exact opposite of the one pushed by the vulture capitalist he sired. (If George Romney's AMC was around now, Mitt Romney's Bain Capital would probably be busy turning it into a carcass.) A critic once said he was "so dedicated to good works his entrance into politics is like sending a Salvation Army lass into the chorus at a burlesque house." As a CEO he would give back part of his salary and bonus to the company when he thought they were too high. He offered a pioneering profit-sharing plan to his employees. Most strikingly, asked about the idea that "rugged individualism" was the key to America's success, he snapped back, "It's nothing but a political banner to cover up greed." He was the poster child for the antiquated notion that corporations have multiple stakeholders: the workers that breathe them life, the communities in which they are situated, and the nation to whom they owe a patriotic obligation – most definitely and emphatically not just stockholders, as Mitt and his defenders say.

In the video above, today's Romney insists there is no reason to question the distribution of wealth in America except for envy of the rich – did his rich dad question the distribution of wealth in America out of envy for the rich? – and that it was a subject only appropriate for discussion in "quiet rooms." (His dad didn't talk about it in quiet rooms; he talked about it at a Sunday worship service at the 1972 Republican convention, praying, "Help us to help those who need help.") Even if Mitt Romney is not the most right-wing candidate for the nomination, when he wins it, in a Republican Party becoming more extreme with every passing day, he may still be – because the party won’t have it any other way – the most right-wing nominee in the history of the country.

Yeah, I quoted from that Perlstein post yesterday: edifying!

lol that must be where i read it first, whoops :)

Every time he opens his mouth on the subject of capitalism, he says what he sincerely believes

i mean, yeah

I'm finding it bizarre to watch multi-millionaire Gingrich attacking zillionaire Romney over tax returns featuring a 15% capital gains rate that Gingrich and the rest of the Republicans supposedly whole-heartedly endorse, if not want to make even lower,

Gingrich wants to abolish the capital gains tax altogether fwiw

Gingrich: Nixon was a wuss.

By 55-35 percent, more Americans express concern about the economic system favoring the wealthy than about overregulation fettering free enterprise

By 55-35 percent, more Americans express concern about the economic system favoring the wealthy than about overregulation fettering free enterprise

By 55-35 percent, more Americans express concern about the economic system favoring the wealthy than about overregulation fettering free enterprise

By 55-35 percent, more Americans express concern about the economic system favoring the wealthy than about overregulation fettering free enterprise

By 55-35 percent, more Americans express concern about the economic system favoring the wealthy than about overregulation fettering free enterprise

By 55-35 percent, more Americans express concern about the economic system favoring the wealthy than about overregulation fettering free enterprise

By 55-35 percent, more Americans express concern about the economic system favoring the wealthy than about overregulation fettering free enterprise

who the fuck are the 35 is my question

"If the court makes a fundamentally wrong decision, the president can in fact ignore it," said Gingrich to cheers.

He loves that word!

http://www.petshopboysshop.co.uk/media/AbstractArticle/image/WarehouseArticle-17120/Pet-Shop-Boys-Fundamental.jpg

Perry is dropping out.

I just saw that! I am a little sad, I'm going to miss the lulz.