No more Texas governors for president
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A new ABC News/Washington Post poll shows that most Americans believe presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney would be a better president for financial institutions and the wealthy while a slight majority pegs President Barack Obama as the better candidate for the middle class.
The poll…
So he’s “haunted” by the verbal gaffes he’s made but he can’t remember cutting off a gay classmate’s hair? (An act which haunted his accomplices, by the way.)
Mitt Romney admits he’s “haunted” by the verbal gaffes he’s made during his second run for president but says he’s the victim of a media environment that encourages “spontaneous” actions, yet pounces on mistakes.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan, Romney acknowledges that he’s forced himself to “be a little more careful in what I say” after mistakes that “make me want to kick myself in the pants.”
Mitt Romney.
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Fine to nail Romney with Bain Capitalism. But let’s not forget Romney’s budget proposal, which mimics Paul Ryan’s. Take a moment to make yourself aware of both, because they’re eye-opening and scary.
Both would restore the military budget, slash Medicare (turning it into vouchers that shift costs to the elderly) and Medicaid (turning it over to the states but without enough money to keep it going), cut programs for the poor (food stamps, Pell grants, etc), and yet at the same time cut even more taxes on the super rich.
According to the non-partisan Tax Policy Center, Romney’s plan would give a $250K tax cut, on average, to everyone now earning over a million dollars a year.
Yet Romney’s plan would also — according to the non-partisan Center for Budget and Policy Priorities — increase the federal budget deficit by more than $3 trillion over the next ten years. (Romney says he’ll close tax loopholes, but he assiduously avoids saying which ones — which means he won’t really close any.)
This is truly nuts, and it represents not conservativism but regressivism — a lurch backward toward the Gilded Age of the late 19th century.
Rejected Ideas from Mitt Romney’s Day One Ad
The Mitt Romney campaign has released its first first commercials, and boy oh boy do they … exist.
- Create jobs that Obama never would have by hiring legal Mexicans to construct ivory tower above White House where Ann and I will reside
- Pin Joe Biden to the ground, shave his fruity haircut
- Fill vault with gold coin pool, work on backstroke
- Purchase Wrangler jeans. Call press conference to announce everyman status, but show up late because of “impromptu” touch football game.
- Pin China to the ground, shave its fruity haircut.
- Secure deal as spokesman for Just For Men (it’s what we in the business world call “Kickstarting the Economy”)
- Strap Obama’s dog to the roof of the car, go joyriding around DC. (it’s what we in the Romney clan call “fun”)
- Avoid saying “I don’t feel feelings”
- Avoid saying “What is this ‘Middle Class’ phrase you keep using? Is that a joke from a television sitcom?”
- Avoid calling dancing “gay walks”
- Avoid saying “Are you sure I won the election? You may want to count those votes again.”
- Accuse cleaning lady of stealing change my change cup.
- Pin cleaning lady to the ground, shave her head
- Deny healthcare coverage for those in need because of new “common sense” policies
Polls: Cell phone users prefer Obama, landline users like Romney:
Political pollsters have been under pressure to make sure their samples include Americans who rely solely on cell phones—and the latest NBC News/Marist polls of Florida, Ohio and Virginia exhibit why.
As NBC’s First Read flags, Romney narrowly pulls ahead in Florida among voters who were polled over landlines—48 percent to 45 percent. But among cell phone respondents only, Obama has a major lead: 57 percent to 34 percent.
In Virginia, the results are similar: Romney leads by 1 point among voters polled over landlines: 47 percent to 46 percent. Meanwhile, Obama has the advantage with cell phone respondents: 54 percent to 36 percent.
In Ohio, Obama does better among both landline respondents—44 percent to Romney’s 41 percent—and cell phone users—47 percent to Romney’s 37 percent.
Oops.
Is Mitt Romney A Unicorn? Arizona Secretary Of State’s Birther Probe Ridiculed
When Arizona’s Secretary of State began flirting with birtherism and suggested that he may not allow Obama’s name on the ballot, the response to his requests for Obama’s birth records from the Hawaii Attorney General was, more-or-less, ‘who do you think you are?‘ but that wasn’t the end. TPM’s Nick R. Martin reports on the continuing ridicule faced by Ken Bennett:
Since he first revealed his conspiracy theory-fueled investigation into Obama’s birth certificate and threatened last week to keep the president off the state’s ballot, Bennett and his staff have been ducking for political cover behind the people they say really started it: the 1,200 constituents who sent angry emails begging him to take up their cause.
It was only because of them, Bennett said, that he began to look into the birth certificate issue in the first place. His spokesman, Matt Roberts, told TPM “with complete and utter honesty” it has nothing to do with Bennett’s affiliation as a Republican or his role as Romney’s Arizona campaign co-chair.
But those excuses apparently didn’t sit well with the legions of the president’s supporters and others convinced by clear evidence that Obama really is a natural born citizen of the United States and therefore eligible to serve as president.
“The reaction has been largely negative since the story broke,” Roberts said. It “balanced out the thousands of people who advocated for Mr. Bennett to keep (Obama) off the ballot in the first place.”
Balanced is one term for it. Tipped the scales might be another. At least one progressive online network, Left Action, took up the cause this week under the theory that if 1,200 emails can convince Bennett to investigate one conspiracy theory, maybe they can cobble together enough support to get him to investigate anything.
As of Tuesday afternoon some 15,000 people and counting had already put their names on Left Action’s online petition asking Bennett to investigate whether Mitt Romney is really a unicorn. (Yes, a unicorn. The petition even has its own domain name: MittRomneyIsAUnicorn.com.) That’s more than 10 times the number of people who asked Bennett to investigate the president in the first place.
Secretary Ken Bennett’s spokesman Matt Roberts said he hadn’t seen the unicorn petition, he’s heard about it through a litany of nasty emails in recent days.
“We have received emails containing that request,” he said, “usually followed by some colorful language suggesting things I don’t think I can physically perform.”
Update: Late Tuesday, Bennett backed off his threat to keep Obama off the ballot and apologized for embarrassing Arizona.
Randy Johnson had a good job making quality paper products at Ampad in Marion, Indiana. But when Mitt Romney and his partners bought the plant, everything changed.
