With only 33,000 voters showing up for the Nevada caucus (that’s 11,000 less than in 2008), Mittens’ campaign is trying to spin voter apathy into staunch voter support. You see, people didn’t show up to vote because they just love them some Mitt Romney.
Yeah right. From Think Progress:
Posted in Election 2012? Oy vey!, Magic Underpants
Tagged Mitt Romney, Nevada, Republican primary
Fox News contributor Charles Payne proves that just when you think Fox News has gone as low as they can go, they find a hidden basement and tumble ass-over-elbow downstairs:
Fox News contributor Charles Payne defended Mitt Romney’s lack of concern for the poor by saying, “To supposedly alleviate the very poor, and Mitt was right. The very poor in America do have a lot of programs a lot of benefits. People aren’t dying in America. You know, in fact, the very poor suffer from gout. In fact, in the 1920s and 30s that was called the rich man’s disease, but here’s the thing, the very poor have entered into this sort of Faustian deal where they’ve said, ’Ok, you know what? If I can go to my mailbox twice a month and get paid the same amount of money that I could get at a low paying job then I’m not going to take it. Continue reading
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We have 10 more months to go until the election. It’s going to be really fun.
Posted in A Wee Bit O' Hilarity, Extreme Liberal, Magic Underpants, Political Shenanigans
Tagged Jon Stewart, Mitt Romney, Poor, The Daily Show
For those who want a quick and easy re-election for Barack Obama, the ideal outcome of the Republican primary race is to see the president’s supposedly most formidable rival, Mitt Romney, suffer a slow and painful (and scandalized and mortifying) defeat at the pudgy hands of the GOP’s “pneumatically overstuffed” chief narcissist, Newt Gingrich.
#romneystumpspeechfail
And don’t act like you haven’t pictured it: Newt on stage at the GOP convention in Tampa Bay, swiveling his tractor-tire hips as only a fat man can as “Dancing Queen” blares over the loud speaker; his wife, Jackie Battley Marianne Ginther Callista Gingrich standing next to him, the skin on her face stretched back and tucked neatly under her bullet-proof platinum blonde helmet, eyes aglow like polished silver dollars placed over the shrunken sockets of a corpse bride, bleached teeth clenched around an invisible key to her husband’s glitchy chastity belt loving heart in a smile that only the editors of Cosmetic Surgery Magazine could say with a straight face was “natural.”
Hanging behind the podium, a red, white, and blue banner spells out the core of this estranged congressman’s presidential platform—“Big Ideas, Child Slavery, No Blacks”—as Gingrich humbly accepts the Republican Party’s 2012 presidential nomination, his supporters cheering like drunk pedophiles at a “Little Miss Sunshine” pageant.
Is it that impossible a scenario?
If you look at each candidate’s pros and cons, it’s more than possible.
Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney has a problem. A Michigan Problem. It’s not just that he penned an op-ed for the New York Times calling for the bankruptcy of our domestic vehicle manufacturers. It’s not just that he then doubled down on that statement in one of the presidential debates. It’s not just that, as former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm put it, if he had been president in 2009, our state would be far worse off than it is now (and it ain’t in very good shape at the moment as it is.)
No, it’s also because just last December, he mocked the technology behind latest piece of awesomeness to come out of Detroit: the Ford Fusion.
What’s the Ford Fusion? Just the car that won Autoweek’s Best in Show vehicle at the Detroit International Auto Show a couple of weeks ago. It’s a plug-in hybrid electric car and it is beautiful.
Posted in Eclectablog, Magic Underpants
Tagged Auto companies, Michigan, Mitt Romney, vehicle manufacture
***yeah, yeah, it’s the Tweet of yesterday. I told you I’d be backposting a lot of these because — SQUIRREL!!
Posted in Eye of Newt, Magic Underpants, Tweet of the Day
Tagged @elonjames, GOP Debate, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Twitter
Presidential front-runner Mitt Romney didn’t make his millions by double-tapping every dog, cat, chicken and hamster on the block, but if there’s even a modicum of truth to the latest 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll, he’s fucked—and not in the good way.
The question: “Would you kill your favorite pet for $1 million?”
The answer: “Yes, 11 percent; No, 83 percent.”
The implications: For a man accused of “animal cruelty” after caging his dog to the roof of the family station wagon during a 12-hour road trip in the 1980s, having 70-odd million pet owners in America admitting that they’d rather continue housing an intellectually and socially irrelevant furball than pocket a million bucks is troubling news.
Posted in Magic Underpants, Nicholas Wilbur, What the Crap!?
Tagged Mitt Romney, Mittens, primary, primary 2012, Republican primary
He has a personality problem, a likeability problem, and a passion problem—to say nothing of his “consistency problem,” his “1 percent-status problem” and his “Mormon problem.”
He may have a “rugged jawline,” perfectly coiffed hair that has “gone gray in just the right places,” and boatloads of money—which allowed him to make generous contributions to virtually every politician at every level of government in New Hampshire prior to his primary victory there—but Romney comes up short pretty much everywhere else.
Which is troubling, particularly when the only thing a Republican presidential candidate has to do to get elected in this country is smile, kiss a few babies and regurgitate the time-tested talking points of the GOP’s master narrative.
I like following conservative and conservative-ish pundits on Twitter, because A) it’s good to know what the other side is saying and B) they’ve often sometimes got insightful things to say about their cause. Here are some of my favorite tweeted reactions to tonight’s debate from a couple of the nation’s leading conservative thinkers:
