Mitt Romney has had a week as bad as any I have ever seen in a political campaign. The funniest part is that they were all self inflicted wounds that could have been easily avoided if this man had any common sense at all. From day one, I saw trouble on the horizon for the former governor as he ran away from all his accomplishments and that worked so well for Al Gore when he did exactly the same thing with Clinton's record. A smart man, a leader, would have championed his health care plan as one that works, because it does, and slam his opponents for demonizing what is essentially their plan. A leader leads, and as the Republicans are so fond of saying, Romney is leading from behind. He takes no stance on anything that would upset his lunatic fringe supporters and, by doing so, is alienating everyone else, making this election a fore gone conclusion at this point.
True, there are still six weeks of campaigning left and anything can happen, but Romney's numbers haven't budged in months in his favor. The debates are unlikely to win him any new converts with his "wait until after the election for specifics" plan that only the feeble and stupid can stand behind and advertising is not helping no matter how much money he has. People like Karl Rove are already saying privately that the Presidential election is lost and they might be better spending their money winning House and Senate races instead, a prospect the democrats don't relish considering how close some polls are.
Romney started off last week badly as he failed to name any specific tax loophole he would cut or how he would rectify the fact that his budget is never going to work according to well, everyone who isn't a kool-aid drinking republican. He came across as evasive and aloof, two things people HATE in a presidential candidate and Ryan's inability to say the truth about anything is becoming more and more like an anchor on his chances.
Florida is going to be a tough sell due to their highly unpopular voucher for medicare system, Ohio is trailing badly due to the GOP badmouthing the auto bailout which let people keep their jobs and Virginia has a competing third party that is guaranteed to siphon votes away from Republicans. Lose any of those three and Romney goes home and his chances of grabbing all three are next to zero odds at this point.
After his badly chosen time to attack the president (something Michael Moore found out about during the Oscars, even if he was right), the GOP propaganda machine, particularly Fox News, went into overdrive slamming Obama and polls show it did work as people looked at his foreign policy much more critically. However, a lot of people on the right were also disgusted with his playing politics at a time of national tragedy so the gains may ultimately be a wash. For all those idiots out there criticizing the president I ask you, "what else should he have done?" True security could have been beefed up, but I also remind you, WE ARE FUCKING BROKE. People want the budget under control but have no problem spending willy nilly on things we can't afford. As for news that the President might have known days before hand of an attack, the higher ups get reports like this every day, everywhere across the planet. Should we spend hundreds of billions on security for places that will eventually bankrupt us? Terrorists could spend the next decade leaking false info about attacks to which we respond until we have no money left for anything BUT the military. Contrary to popular belief, we cannot spend like a drunken sailor and then pay off all our credit cards with no money coming in.
Any positivity that the Romney campaign could have hoped for were dashed with the release of a new audiotape that contained damning statements that has put his on the defensive again. The timing of this tape is questionable but does not make it any less damaging to Romney and the GOP.
Let's take a look at some of the absolutely stupid things he said before the big whammy:
"The other is just about my heritage—my dad, you probably know, was the governor of Michigan and was the head of a car company, but he was born in Mexico. And had he been born of Mexican parents I'd have a better shot at winning this, but he was [audience laughs] unfortunately born of Americans living in Mexico. They'd lived there for a number of years, and, uh, I mean I say that jokingly, but it'd be helpful if they'd been Latino."
"And around this factory was a fence, a huge fence with barbed wire, and guard towers. And we said, "Gosh, I can't believe that you, you know, you keep these girls in." They said, "No, no, no—this is to keep other people from coming in. Because people want so badly to come work in this factory that we have to keep them out, or they'll just come in here and start working and try and get compensated. So, we—this is to keep people out." This is an amazing land. And what we have is unique, and fortunately it is so special we're sharing it with the world."
"One is the one which I've had for some time, which is that the Palestinians have no interest whatsoever in establishing peace. And that the pathway to peace is almost unthinkable to accomplish."
"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what. And I mean, the president starts off with 48, 49, 48—he starts off with a huge number. These are people who pay no income tax. Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax. So our message of low taxes doesn't connect. And he'll be out there talking about tax cuts for the rich. I mean that's what they sell every four years. And so my job is not to worry about those people—I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives. What I have to do is convince the 5 to 10 percent in the center that are independents that are thoughtful, that look at voting one way or the other depending upon in some cases emotion, whether they like the guy or not, what it looks like. I mean, when you ask those people…we do all these polls—I find it amazing—we poll all these people, see where you stand on the polls, but 45 percent of the people will go with a Republican, and 48 or 49 for the democrats…"
So let me get this straight: Romney wishes he was Hispanic, thinks prisons around corporations is a great idea, believe the Palestinians, who he already insulted on his horrible foreign travel junket, do not want peace and that 47% of this country are lazy, shiftless bastards who sponge off the government teat. Sigh.
Let's look at that last statement that is giving him such a headache and rightfully so. That 47% number included retired people on a fixed income, rich people gaming the system, military on combat duty, really poor people and middle class individuals using tax credits the Republicans champion. 60% have jobs but don't make enough money and still pay payroll taxes that the rich are exempt from. After all that, the numbers drop dramatically to a few percentage points, just like their voter fraud nonsense which is not occurring on the grand scale they make it out to sound. Most of the people Romney mentions in that 47% ARE REPUBLICANS anyway. The states with the highest percentage of people who benefit from not paying taxes are in all the reddest states meaning their hypocrisy is deafening as the always vote Republican. How dumb can you be? Romney insults you, tells you you are worthless, lazy bastards, and yet you will still vote for him over the guy who is NOT trying to put you in the poor house. In the graph below, red states take the most money from the Federal government, blue states the least. Notice a pattern.
By the way, every American IS entitled to things like food, health care and a place to live. If you said cell phones, X-box and cable, I would agree but the three things you mentioned are necessary for survival so unless you are planning on implementing a Hunger Games style show to weed out the undesirables, we aren't going anywhere. And if millions of people start starving because you got rid of food stamps, get your passport ready because there will be no safe haven anywhere in this country from the angry masses.
Mitt Romney has all but tattooed on his forehead that he hates the military, old people, minorities and especially, poor people. Anyone in these groups voting for Romney might as well shoot themselves now because he has told you how badly he wants to fuck you over and still you vote Republican. Wise elders, GAG, like Rush Limbaugh have come out and said Romney should stand by his comments so some of you should call Rush's show and ask him why he hates our troops in combat so much. And grandmas. And the middle class. Whoever is still listening to this fat fuck (who should have been fired for his idiotic statements about Sandra Fluke) is really nothing more than a racist whose white sheets are in the wash.
Romney is going down and going down hard. Remember that for all those national polls that show a close race, they mean nothing. The electoral college shows a a huge advantage for the President with most odds now putting Obama to win at plus 90%. He's up in almost every swing state and Romney, along with many running Republicans, are watching their leads diminish. Let us hope because these backward hicks will get us all killed.
A quick word about death as a French newspaper has decided to throw a tanker truck of gasoline on the Middle East with their questionable decision to publish anti-Mohammad cartoons. One one side, this is near suicidal with more unrest sure to break out because of this. On the other, they are standing
up for free speech which is under attack from religious radicals. In the end, I have to go with free speech as if we start not allowing certain forms of speech because of pissing someone off, we could wind up in a much more dangerous place. At some point, a war will start because Muslim and Western ideals are not compatible. And history shows that when two competing ideologies are thrown together, only one will survive. I wouldn't be putting any money on the Middle East as stone age technology versus space age is not much of a battle. The moderate Muslims of the world better start separating themselves from the radicals, as we do here with Terry Jones, Fred Phelps and anyone on the Jersey Shore. You don't want to be on the wrong side of history when the bombs start falling.
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