What Romney said HE would have done

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Wednesday September 12, 2012 · 12:38 PM PDT

2012/09/12 · 12:38

I watched Romney's presser, the one with the famous smirk. Just before the famous smirk, the last reporter to ask Mitt a question before he abruptly shambled off the stage (smirking) asked (@ 9m:00s into the linked video):

"How specifically, Governor Romney, would a President Romney have handled this situation differently than President Obama did? You spoke out before midnight when all the facts weren't known, how would you have handled his differently than President Obama did?"

Romney responded, smacking his lips:

"I spoke out when the key fact that I referred to was known... Which was that the embassy of the United States issued what appeared to be an apology for American principles. That was a mistake. And I believe that when a mistake is made of that significance, you speak out."

Remember, this presser was given AFTER it was known that Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans had been killed in the US embassy in Libya; Romney himself stated that the embassy statement in question had been issued after the embassy had been breached.

Let me cut right to the chase:

Romney's response to a statement issued after the embassy's defenses had been breached, and before the embassy's US Ambassador and three other Americans were about to be killed, would have been to "speak out" against "what appeared to be an apology for American principles."

This f*ucker is DANGEROUS and should not be let anywhere NEAR the White House.

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Wednesday February 22, 2012 · 8:46 AM PST

2012/02/22 · 08:46

Quickly:

Rick Santorum's newly discovered "electability" has us grinning ear-to-ear for the effect it's having on Mittens' chances. We know he's actually unelectable, but is the right about to have this "learned into them" too? Are we being set up for the Big Pivot To The Center that we know must be coming for Mitt sooner or later?

As I see it, all it would take is a "fresh look" at, and a media-backed pushback against, Rick's unpopular-with-the-mainstream Radical Christianist views and platform for Mitt to initiate the Big Pivot, even before the Republican primaries are locked up. Santorum is Mitt's last hurdle, there's no cannon-fodder left... I can't see another Non-Romney candidate who's ready for yet another round of the fifteen-days-of-fame-then-flame phenomenon (even knowing I've been fooled about how many times the phenomenon could possibly reoccur.)

If Wingnut Media starts to portray Santorum as a crazy radical, Mitt gets to A) differentiate himself as the "not crazy" candidate, and B) do so in a way that naturally leads to the Big Pivot, by heading away from the crazy and towards the mainstream.

It doesn't really matter to Republicans if he has to flip and flop a few more times... Discarding his "crazy" baggage will be seen as "a feature, not a bug" thanks to help from Wingnut Media.

It's happening now, folks... Be prepared for it.

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Thursday January 26, 2012 · 12:35 PM PST

2012/01/26 · 12:35

Here we find Mitt talking about how he's really not just taxed at 13.9%, but rather closer to 40% or 50%:

ROMNEY: Well, actually, I released two years of taxes and I think the average is almost 15 percent. And then also, on top of that, I gave another more 15 percent to charity. When you add it together with all of the taxes and the charity, particularly in the last year, I think it reaches almost 40 percent that I gave back to the community. One of the reasons why we have a lower tax rate on capital gains is because capital gains are also being taxed at the corporate level. So as businesses earn profits, that’s taxed at 35 percent, then as they distribute those profits as dividends, that’s taxed at 15 percent more. So, all total, the tax rate is really closer to 45 or 50 percent.

Bulls**t Mitt, for several reasons! Read More

Mitt, you're full of s**t

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Sunday January 15, 2012 · 12:20 AM PST

2012/01/15 · 00:20

"Greed is good"

Isn't that what Representatives of Raw Capitalism like you tell us? That Greed motivates us to raise our goals and shoot for the moon, and when we succeed, everyone around us benefits as well?

Mitt, if Gordon Gecko were corporeal, and you needed a brain transplant, wouldn't he be the perfect donor candidate?

And that picture! You and your Raw Capitalism Reps all posing with enough bills inserted into various gaps and seams to make a stripper... Envious?

I'd like to chat for a moment about a couple of issues I perceive with your campaign...

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Wednesday March 18, 2009 · 9:09 PM PDT

2009/03/18 · 21:09

Why can't Republicans get their message straight re: AIG? On one hand, we have Chuck Grassley's team, siding with the 99%'ers (i.e. the 99% of the country that is NOT morbidly rich) calling for AIG execs to do the honorable thing and commit seppuku, while on the other, we have Rush Limbaugh and a seemingly much smaller cabal bucking the populist trend, defending the bonuses with the usual ideological idolatry of Small Government Conservatism.

Why the schism? Why the departure from the usual Republican talking-point synchronized media blitz?

Jumping fold in 3... 2... 1...

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Wednesday November 05, 2008 · 9:22 AM PST

2008/11/05 · 09:22

Connectecut had two questions regarding its constitution on the ballot:

Shall there be a Constitutional Convention to amend or revise the Constitution of the State?

This is prelude to CT's "Prop 8." Conservatives want to hold a convention which gives them a shot at banning gay marriage through a change in the state constitution. (Boston Globe...)

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Wednesday October 29, 2008 · 10:47 PM PDT

2008/10/29 · 22:47

This is my first diary, so I'll keep it short and tight, and let the subject matter do the talking.

Add another item to John McCain's incredibly poor judgment; it seems as if his hasty decision-making and need to politicize every significant event has bitten him in the ass again.

August 2008: Russia attacks Georgia who is using force to quell a separatist movement in South Ossetia...

McCain jumps headfirst into bed with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili: (MSNBC)

Using the Georgian president's nickname -- although mispronouncing his last name -- McCain said he spoke with President "Misha" Saakashvili today and reassured him that "the thoughts and the prayers and support of the American people are with that brave little nation as they struggle for their freedom and independence."

"And he wanted me to say thank you to you, to give you his heartfelt thanks for the support of the American people for this tiny little democracy far away from the United States of America," McCain said of his conversation with Saakashvili. "And I told him that I know I speak for every American when I say to him, 'Today we are all Georgians.'"

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