Thread: Mitt Romney

Originally Posted by buriramboy

^Are whites still the majority in America??

That's a Big YES, buddy!

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Romney has a 20-point advantage among white voters.

BM, your link seems to require registration to read it.

Anyway, it's Rasmussen. His stuff is about as valuable as a poll of Daily Kos contributors.

Originally Posted by buriramboy

Are whites still the majority in America?

Yeah, which is probably one of the driving forces behind all the new voter ID laws being pushed through...

Originally Posted by quimbian corholla

Yeah, which is probably one of the driving forces behind all the new voter ID laws being pushed through...

You gotta have a photo ID to take a shit anywhere in the world so what's the beef with having to have one for voting, eh?

Unless, of course, yer stuffing the ballot box with dead and illegals...

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

You gotta have a photo ID to take a shit anywhere in the world so what's the beef with having to have one for voting, eh?

Nothing if it's free and easy to get. If it's not free then it's a poll tax and the 24th Amendment would like a word with you.

Originally Posted by S Landreth

Simple deduction, Obama wins second term.

If the election were held tomorrow maybe, but it ain't over till Nov 6th.

By that time there's a very good chance all those lean Obama states could go Rmoney.

Poor Mitt the Twit, the Gaffe Count it climbing all the time. I think he's fucked before he even starts.

1. "Corporations are people, my friend… of course they are. Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to the people. Where do you think it goes? Whose pockets? Whose pockets? People's pockets. Human beings, my friend." —Mitt Romney to a heckler at the Iowa State Fair who suggested that taxes should be raised on corporations as part of balancing the budget (August 2011)

2. "I like being able to fire people who provide services to me." –Mitt Romney, using an unfortunate choice of words while advocating for consumer choice in health insurance plans (January 2012)

3. "I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there." —Mitt Romney (January 2012)

4. "He [Obama] says we need more firemen, more policemen, more teachers. Did he not get the message of Wisconsin? The American people did. It's time for us to cut back on government and help the American people." —Mitt Romney at a campaign event in Council Bluffs, Iowa, June 8, 2012

5. "I'll take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry's come back." –Mitt Romney, –Mitt Romney, on the American auto industry, despite having written a New York Times op-ed in 2008 titled "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt," in which he said if GM, Ford and Chrysler got a government bailout "you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye"

6. "It's hard to know just how well [the 2012 London Olympics] will turn out. There are a few things that were disconcerting. The stories about the private security firm not having enough people, the supposed strike of the immigration and customs officials, that obviously is not something which is encouraging." –Mitt Romney, insulting Britain on the eve of the Olympics by suggesting the country is not ready, NBC News interview, July 25, 2012

7. "I'll tell you what, ten-thousand bucks? $10,000 bet?" –Mitt Romney, attempting to make a wager with Rick Perry during a Republican presidential debate to settle a disagreement about health care (December 2011)

8. "I should tell my story. I'm also unemployed." —Mitt Romney, speaking in 2011 to unemployed people in Florida. Romney's net worth is over $200 million.

9. "[My wife] drives a couple of Cadillacs." –Mitt Romney, campaigning for president in Michigan (February 2012)

10. "I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that's the America millions of Americans believe in. That's the America I love." –Mitt Romney (January 2012)

Bonus Quotes:

"PETA is not happy that my dog likes fresh air." —Mitt Romney in 2007, responding to criticism from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals following revelations that he had once put the family dog in a carrier and strapped it to the roof of his car during a 12-hour road trip

"I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners." —Mitt Romney, after being asked whether he follows NASCAR racing (February 2012)

"There were a couple of times I wondered whether I was going to get a pink slip" –Mitt Romney, attempting to identify with the problems of average folk (January 2012)

"I'm not sure about these cookies. They don't look like you made them. No, no. They came from the local 7/11 bakery, or whatever." —Mitt Romney, visiting a local bakery while campaigning in Pittsburgh, PA, April 17, 2012 (The owner of the baker later told MSNBC he was offended by Romney's remarks.)

"I like those fancy raincoats you bought. Really sprung for the big bucks." —Mitt Romney to a group of NASCAR fans wearing plastic ponchos at the Daytona 500 (February 2012)

"We have a president, who I think is is a nice guy, but he spent too much time at Harvard, perhaps." —Mitt Romney, who has two Harvard degrees (April 5, 2012)

"I love this state. The trees are the right height." —Mitt Romney, campaigning in Michigan (February 2012)

"I'm running for office for Pete's sake, we can't have illegals" –Mitt Romney, recalling his reaction when he learned that there were illegal aliens working the ground on his property, employed by a firm that he subsequently fired (October 2011)

"I get speaker's fees from time to time, but not very much." —Mitt Romney, who earned $374,000 in speaking fees in one year according to according to his personal financial disclosure (January 2012)

"It's not worth moving heaven and earth, spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person." —Mitt Romney, speaking in 2007 about killing Osama bin Laden

"Who let the dogs out? Who, who." –Mitt Romney, during an with a group of African Americans kids at a Martin Luther King Day parade (January 2008)

"I'm Wolf Blitzer and yes, that's my real name." —CNN's Wolf Blitzer at the beginning of a November 2011 Republican presidential debate
"I'm Mitt Romney—and yes Wolf, that's also my first name." —Mitt Romney, getting his own name wrong (his first name is "Willard," and his middle name is "Mitt")

"I'm not familiar precisely with what I said, but I'll stand by what I said, whatever it was." —Mitt Romney (May 17, 2012)

Originally Posted by Mr Earl

By that time there's a very good chance all those lean Obama states could go Rmoney.

a very good chance, eh?

what is that based upon?

a hunch?

i'd be really interested to read how you see romney taking nevada or oregon, for example. have you even looked at the internals of the polling data about these toss up states, or again....is this just a hunch?

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and btw, let's take a moment to reflect on romney's disastrous international fund raising trip.

openly mocked and scorned in the UK

confirmed that he's a rank amateur in foreign affairs who doesn't know the first thing about nuances and intricacies that weave together to make up that part of the world

but i suppose comparatively things did go pretty well in poland... besides his press aid losing his shit.......but c'mon.....let's be honest, the only good think about that stop on the trip was the photo op with lech walesa.....a former union leader.

so this is what it's turned into for romney---touting photo ops with former union leaders.

ouch.




now then, let's get back to those unreleased tax returns, shall we?

Originally Posted by raycarey

let's get back to those unreleased tax returns, shall we?

Sure-

Harry Reid: Bain Investor Told Me That Mitt Romney 'Didn't Pay Any Taxes For 10 Years'
"You guys have said his wealth is $250 million," Reid went on. "Not a chance in the world. It's a lot more than that. I mean, you do pretty well if you don't pay taxes for 10 years when you're making millions and millions of dollars."
Harry Reid: Bain Investor Told Me That Mitt Romney 'Didn't Pay Any Taxes For 10 Years'

Mitt's pappy, a wealthy man, released ten years of tax returns when he ran for President. Mitt just plain can't, because he has been lying. If that wasn't the case, he would release his returns- given the enormous political damage it is causing him. His overseas 'like a president' visit was, to put it politely, an unmitigated disaster.

What a silly egotistical man, running for President. Anyway, his campaign is pretty much in tatters as it stands.

Quite funny actually, Obamas presidency can hardly be called a success but he's more than likely going to win by a landslide in November. If only the Republicans had got with the program and voted Ron Paul as their candidate..........

This is what letters to the editor read like:

Dear Editor,
Rush Limbaugh once called Liberalism a mental disease. The more I see Liberals continue to ignore the realities of what economic disasters Obama has precipitated on America, the more I am inclined to agree with Rush. How can anyone be surprised at high unemployment rates and climbing debt when Obama continues to sick his governmental agencies on businesses and threaten to increase capital gains taxes! Obama has done more harm to this country by lying his way into power than all the enemies this nation has faced since its inception in 1776! Obama criticizes Romney for being successful while Obama squandered trillions lining the pockets of his friends on unsuccessful solar, algae oil, electric car projects while sabotaging our gas, oil and coal resources!

Originally Posted by Mr Earl

June unemployment
Nevada; 22.1%
Oregon; 19.6%

Shocking. And libbie states, no? How ya doing Harry Reid? Oregon...well, those dope-smoking tree-huggers think work is protesting to save spotted owls and redwoods.

Originally Posted by Mr Earl

facts

this isn't FOX news

here are the facts,.........

When did that failed Bush president leave office and leave America in one of the worst condition it has ever been into? 09?

Oh look! The unemployment rate is coming down in both states.

It will take a while to clean up that idiots mess especially when you have a congress that is doing everything it can do to obstruct the progress.

Nevada: Nevada Unemployment Rate Chart
Oregon: Oregon Unemployment Rate Chart


More bad news for Dim Mitt: EXCLUSIVE POLL: Obama back in front

Michigan
Obama 48%
Dim Mitt 42%

Where those returns?

^those pretty charts don't tell the whole story.

Although Nevada's unemployment rate is 11.6%, more than one in five people, in the Silver State, do not have a full-time job. The U-6 unemployment rate is a broader measure of unemployment that includes people who have stopped looking for work, and part-time workers who want a full-time job. Nevada's rate is the highest in the nation at 22.1%. Those numbers are continuing to improve, but very slowly.
Job growth, in the Silver State, is basically flat. The unemployment rate hasn't changed in two months, and the "actual" jobless rate is down just .2% through the second quarter. That means there are still many discouraged workers in Nevada.

And in the real world inhabited by Scott Pickard and many others no longer counted as jobless, actual unemployment is far higher. Pickard, 49, of Tigard, lost a human-resources job in early 2009, exhausted his unemployment benefits and moved in with his mother in February.

Pickard scrapes by. He earns a few bucks coaching other jobless people on interviewing skills. He falls into a broader government measure, called the U-6, of under- and unemployed people.

Some label this figure, a whopping 19.6 percent in Oregon during the year that ended March 31, the real unemployment rate. Oregon's "U-6" rate is fourth highest in the country, behind Nevada, California and Michigan. It's far above the national 16.5 percent U-6 level.

Those are the hard facts, Jack!

Originally Posted by Mr Earl

^those pretty charts don't tell the whole story.

Are you saying the numbers are not improving?

Originally Posted by Mr Earl

Those numbers are continuing to improve, but very slowly.

Yes! very very very slowly, any slower it would be going backwards!

and the "actual" jobless rate is down just .2% through the second quarter.

Originally Posted by raycarey

now then, let's get back to those unreleased tax returns, shall we?

Let’s, cause the American public would like to know

Do you think presidential candidates should publicly release several years of tax returns, or is releasing only one or two years of tax returns necessary, or don't you think it is necessary for presidential candidates to release any of their tax returns?

Florida (Several years) 53%
Ohio (several years) 51%
Pennsylvania (several years) 54%

Link: Presidential Swing States (FL, OH & PA) Poll

Originally Posted by Mr Earl

Yes! very very very slowly, any slower it would be going backwards!

and the "actual" jobless rate is down just .2% through the second quarter.

You could have made your post look even better by breaking down the report period down to weekly.

Fact remains,……..shortly after that dangerous crazy republican Bush left office unemployment started to improve, in spite of congress obstructing Obama.

question to you remains unanswered,........

Originally Posted by raycarey

what is that based upon?

Originally Posted by S Landreth

Fact remains,…….

Yep all them lovely charts and graphs don't change the fact that a heap of folks out there are out of work and are pretty disgusted.
The U6 jobless rate reflects that the situation is indeed much worse than is being represented by the current unemployment rate.

And after a four year of tenure, the man left holding the bag isn't GWB this time.
That's just a fact, Jack!

GWB is out cruising his mountain bike with wounded vets and others.
Blame Bush doesn't play well this time.
That's just a fact, Jack!

No matter how the POTUS tries to spin it .02% job growth doesn't amount to a substantive success worthy of re-election.
That's just a fact, Jack!

Originally Posted by Mr Earl

^those pretty charts don't tell the whole story.

Although Nevada's unemployment rate is 11.6%, more than one in five people, in the Silver State, do not have a full-time job. The U-6 unemployment rate is a broader measure of unemployment that includes people who have stopped looking for work, and part-time workers who want a full-time job. Nevada's rate is the highest in the nation at 22.1%. Those numbers are continuing to improve, but very slowly.
Job growth, in the Silver State, is basically flat. The unemployment rate hasn't changed in two months, and the "actual" jobless rate is down just .2% through the second quarter. That means there are still many discouraged workers in Nevada.

And in the real world inhabited by Scott Pickard and many others no longer counted as jobless, actual unemployment is far higher. Pickard, 49, of Tigard, lost a human-resources job in early 2009, exhausted his unemployment benefits and moved in with his mother in February.

Pickard scrapes by. He earns a few bucks coaching other jobless people on interviewing skills. He falls into a broader government measure, called the U-6, of under- and unemployed people.

Some label this figure, a whopping 19.6 percent in Oregon during the year that ended March 31, the real unemployment rate. Oregon's "U-6" rate is fourth highest in the country, behind Nevada, California and Michigan. It's far above the national 16.5 percent U-6 level.

Those are the hard facts, Jack!

This is but one chart that cites the facts:





How fast is the federal deficit rising? In every second of 2011, the federal government spent $41,210 that it didn't have.

No agenda. No party line. Just facts. More facts at Face the Facts USA. A project of The George Washington University.


Barack Obama is the worst jobs president since the Great Depression.
Barack Obama owns the largest four deficits in history.
Barack Obama added $5 trillion to the US debt in just over three years – another record.
The GDP is sliding each quarter – this last quarter the GDP slid to 1.5%.


The Bro Gotta Go


And, of course, it's ALL Dubya's fault!

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

And, of course, it's ALL Dubya's fault!

Yes of course it is, after all the Messiah gives that warm tinkly feeling down yor leg.

I hope Chris Matthews was wearing dark pants!

The MSM isn't much more than a squad of Obama cheerleaders.

Originally Posted by Mr Earl

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

And, of course, it's ALL Dubya's fault!

Yes of course it is, after all the Messiah gives that warm tinkly feeling down yor leg.

I hope Chris Matthews was wearing dark pants!

The MSM isn't much more than a squad of Obama cheerleaders.

Well, the Lib media won't admit that Romney is correct that Culture matters. When Mitt was in Israel and made the statement that the Jewish culture was superior to that of the Pali's, man, did the Lamestream Media have a fit! It seems that Liberals don't want to acknowledge that a culture of celebrating Life just might be superior to that of a culture of celebrating death as the Pali's do, eh?