I love this summation of the GOP race to date….
Republican voters are now the political equivalent of Mitt Romney’s famously abused dog Seamus. Mitt has put voters on the roof of his car, and he’s driving for the nomination whether they like it or not. More accurately, he’s sputtering toward the nomination as the roof-bound electorate periodically poops on his parade.
via Mitt Romney has the GOP strapped to the roof of his car – The Week.
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Hasn’t he already embarrassed Virginia enough?
This man is seriously crazy- which is normal for Virginia Republicans…
Now it seems he is taking his crazy on the road…
Thank god, Goode finally lost his Congressional seat to the great Tom Perriello and we thought we were rid of him. Unfortunately, Tom lost to that dim bulb Robert Hurt who currently occupies the VA 5th District seat and is, at least, a much quieter embarrassment than Goode.
Now, it seems, the national GOP just isn’t crazy enough for Virgil, so he’s going to try to make a comeback….
God, help us…
It will take at least a century for Virginia’s image to recover from this- especially if the current right-wing lunatic governor with really bad televangelist Republican hair ends up as the GOP VP nominee…
The good news, is there are a few people crazy enough to vote for Virgil Goode, at least in Southside Virginia, so he will at least pull a few dozen votes away from whoever the GOP nominates….
From The Washington Post:
Virgil H. Goode Jr. — the former Virginia congressman and state Senator who switched from Democrat to Independent to Republican during his time in office — is apparently interested in the nation’s top job. Goode filed papers with the Federal Election Commission last week to create the Virgil Goode for President Campaign Committee.
The form does not specify which party’s banner Goode will run under, but in 2010 he was named to the executive committee of the Constitution Party, and last year the party unanimously adopted a resolution calling on Goode to run for president. He said at the time he would “consider it.”
via Ex-congressman Virgil Goode eyes presidential bid – Virginia Politics – The Washington Post.
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And even more good news from Yahoo News!
Let’s have the Election today, before anything goes wrong…
I never under estimate the Democratic Party’s talent for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory by doing something incredibly stupid….
For reference, see the 2010 Elections and how they embraced deficit reduction instead of a larger economic stimulus, screwed up the messaging on the Economic collapse and blew the chance to launch a new New Deal….
With fewer than nine months to go before Election Day, The Signal predicts that Barack Obama will win the presidential contest with 303 electoral votes to the Republican nominee’s 235.
How do we know? We don’t, of course. Campaigns and candidates evolve, and elections are dynamic events with more variables than can reasonably be distilled in an equation. But the data–based on a prediction engine created by Yahoo! scientists–suggest a second term is likely for the current president. This model does not use polls or prediction markets to directly gauge what voters are thinking. Instead, it forecasts the results of the Electoral College based on past elections, economic indicators, measures of state ideology, presidential approval ratings, incumbency, and a few other politically agnostic factors.
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More good news from Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire….
By the time the Election rolls around, the GOP may have pissed off so many people that only the 1% votes for their candidate and even their loony base is too demoralized to turn out….
Their actions this week in the War on Women have certainly driven women back to the Democratic fold and fired up the Democratic Party Base….
Keep it up, GOP!!!
A new Democracy Corps (D) survey finds the Republican brand “is in a state of collapse — over 50 percent of voters give the Republican Party a cool, negative rating. The presidential race and the congressional battles are interacting with each other to drive down their lead candidate, the party, and perceptions of the congressional Republicans.”
Meanwhile, Mitt Romney “may be on the edge of political death. The shift against him is one of the biggest in the polls and he now competes with Republicans in Congress for unpopularity. In the summer of 1996, Bob Dole essentially was disqualified in voters’ eyes and never really recovered his footing.”
Most interesting: Voters who gave Democrats their victories in 2006 and 2008 “have returned in a big way” led by “a resurgence and re-engagement of unmarried women.”
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It seems Mitt Romney’s dog has recorded his own music video….
This story says so much about Romney’s character- or lack there of–I’m really glad it won’t go away….
I’m also glad Seamus finally gets to put forth his point of view of the infamous episode….
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I really don’t blame Romney for trying to lie his way out of this horrible story…
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: How people treat their pets is the biggest indicator of their true character….
And Romney strapping his poor dog on the roof of the car in a pet carrier was, at best thoughtless, at worst cruel. I think both…
This is a very serious character flaw..
He just doesn’t care about other living creatures unless they are rich Republicans like himself…
This man shouldn’t be dogcatcher, much less President….
From Politicker:
Mitt Romney may not have told the whole truth about the scandalous tale of his Irish Setter, Seamus, being strapped to the roof of his car during a 12-hour family road trip to Canada. According to a trusted Politicker tipster, two of Mr. Romney’s sons had an off-record conversation with reporters where they revealed the dog ran away when they reached their destination on that infamous journey in 1983.
Mr. Romney’s wife, Ann, has previously said Seamus survived the trip and went on to live to a “ripe old age.” As of this writing, Mr. Romney’s campaign has not responded to multiple requests for comment on this story.
Seamus’ story first came to light in a 2007 Boston Globe profile of Mr. Romney that told the story of the voyage to his father’s cottage in the gated Beach O’ Pines community on Ontario’s Lake Huron:
“The white Chevy station wagon with the wood paneling was overstuffed with suitcases, supplies, and sons when Mitt Romney climbed behind the wheel to begin the annual 12-hour family trek from Boston to Ontario. … Before beginning the drive, Mitt Romney put Seamus, the family’s hulking Irish setter, in a dog carrier and attached it to the station wagon’s roof rack. He’d built a windshield for the carrier, to make the ride more comfortable for the dog.
According to the Globe, Mr. Romney told his family he would “be making predetermined stops for gas, and that was it,” but one of his sons, Tagg, eventually noticed something was amiss:
As the oldest son, Tagg Romney commandeered the way-back of the wagon, keeping his eyes fixed out the rear window, where he glimpsed the first sign of trouble. ”Dad!” he yelled. ”Gross!” A brown liquid was dripping down the back window, payback from an Irish setter who’d been riding on the roof in the wind for hours.
Mr. Romney responded to his dog’s defecation by “coolly” stopping at a gas station where he “borrowed a hose, washed down Seamus and the car, then hopped back onto the highway” with Seamus strapped back on the roof.
The Globe initially presented the story as an example of Mr. Romney’s “emotion-free crisis management,” but the incident has enraged many animal lovers and caused many issues on the campaign trail. Seamus inspired an attack ad from Mr. Romney’s Republican rival Newt Gingrich, a “Google bomb” coining “Romney” as a verb meaning “to defecate in terror,” a mocking Tweet from President Barack Obama’s advisor, David Axelrod, and, of course, an angry statement from PETA.
via Did Mitt Romney’s Dog Seek Asylum In Canada? | Politicker.
This really is shaping up as a pivotal election in the social and political history of the US….
And the 1% know it….
They will do anything– and spend anything– to stop President Obama’s re-election or the 99% from gaining any ground in through House and Senate elections.
They will try to take over the airways with propaganda and lies trying to drive down turnout and stomp down Democratic turnout and motivation….
And thanks to the Roberts Supreme Court and the “Citizens United” decision there is nothing we can do about it….
We are about to see if an election can truly be bought in the USA….
From the Huffington Post:
At a private three-day retreat in California last weekend, conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch and about 250 to 300 other individuals pledged approximately $100 million to defeat President Obama in the 2012 elections.
A source who was in the room when the pledges were made told The Huffington Post that, specifically, Charles Koch pledged $40 million and David pledged $20 million.
via Koch Brothers, Allies Pledge $100 Million At Private Meeting To Beat Obama.
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Well, if it wasn’t clear before, this certainly makes it clearer….
Mitt Romney is the Chosen One of the 1%….
I just hope the 99% of the rest of us turn out to vote against this out-of-touch, elitist schmuck…
From the Washington-Post:
One of Mitt Romney’s strongest assets as the GOP presidential front-runner is also a potentially serious liability in the race: his heavy reliance on a small group of millionaires and billionaires for financial support.
A quarter of the money amassed by Romney’s campaign and an allied super PAC has come from just 41 people, each of whom has given more than $100,000, according to a Washington Post analysis of disclosure data. Nearly a dozen of the donors have contributed $1 million or more.
The preponderance of mega-rich supporters poses a political challenge for Romney, who has struggled for weeks over questions about his vast wealth, his history as a private equity manager and a series of gaffes that seemed to highlight his privileged station. He stumbled again on Wednesday when he told a CNN interviewer that he was “not concerned about the very poor, because they have a safety net.”
via Mitt Romney relying heavily on small group of super-rich donors – The Washington Post.
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I’ll keep saying it over and over: There is no reason to vote for a Republican unless you are a millionaire only interested in trying to protect your own interests.
Here, American’s favorite Billionaire, calls Romney out on that point:
From ThinkProgress.org:
Last week, Mitt Romney finally admitted that he pays a tax rate of 15 percent, lower than that of many middle-class families. Romney is taxed at such a low rate because, as he freely admits, all of his income comes from investments, and is thus subject to the top capital gains tax rate of 15 percent, rather than the top income tax rate of 35 percent.
However, Romney has refused to sign on to the Obama administration’s “Buffett rule,” which aims to ensure that millionaires can’t dodge taxes to the extent that they’re paying less than teachers. Today, billionaire investor Warren Buffett himself was asked about Romney’s tax rate, replying that letting millionaire investors like Romney pay such low taxes is “the wrong policy” because he makes his income by just “shoving around money”:
He makes his money the same way I make my money. He makes money by moving around big bucks, not by straining his back and going to work cleaning the toilets or whatever it may be. He makes it shoving around money. I make it shoving around money. If you look at the 400 highest incomes in the United States, they average $220 million. Something like 90 of them are effectively unemployed. They have no earned income, and that number has gone up over the years. […]
It’s the wrong policy to have. Nothing wrong about [Romney] doing that. He will not pay more than the law requires. I don’t fault him for that in the least, but I do fault the law that allows him and me, earning enormous sums to pay over all federal taxes at a rate that is about half what the average person in my office pays.
My Liberal Arts Education is showing again…
Only I would connect Newt Gingrich with a Sylvia Plath poem as representative of his interaction with the women in his life…
I was thinking of Newt and his wives and when the famous Sylvia Plath quote from her poem “Daddy” came to mind:
Every woman adores a Fascist,
The boot in the face, the brute
As I read the poem, it just seemed to be more and more applicable to the situation.
And, ultimately, “the brute:” is destroyed by the Woman and the Village…
Have wives One and Two read Plath?
Based on her recent statements, I think Mrs. Gingrich Number Two has….
You stand at the blackboard, daddy,
In the picture I have of you,
A cleft in your chin instead of your foot
But no less a devil for that, no not
Any less the black man whoBit my pretty red heart in two.
I was ten when they buried you.
At twenty I tried to die
And get back, back, back to you.
I thought even the bones would do.But they pulled me out of the sack,
And they stuck me together with glue.
And then I knew what to do.
I made a model of you,
A man in black with a Meinkampf lookAnd a love of the rack and the screw.
And I said I do, I do.
So daddy, I’m finally through.
The black telephone’s off at the root,
The voices just can’t worm through.If I’ve killed one man, I’ve killed two—
The vampire who said he was you
And drank my blood for a year,
Seven years, if you want to know.
Daddy, you can lie back now.There’s a stake in your fat black heart
And the villagers never liked you.
They are dancing and stamping on you.
They always knew it was you.
Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I’m through.
Here is a link to the full poem:
http://www.sylviaplathforum.com/daddy.html
Discuss among yourselves…..
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