Paul Begala (@PaulBegala)
5/25/12 7:44 AM
Newt: Romney is like Eisenhower. 'Cuz we all recall Ike making a quarter-billion from screwing working folks. Let's compare & contrast...

5/25/12 7:44 AM
Ike = Saved the world in WW II; Mitt = Saved $10 million for Bain by taking FDIC bailout.

5/25/12 7:45 AM
Ike = Created Interstate Highway System; Mitt = Drove on Interstate Highway with Dog Strapped to Roof.

5/25/12 7:46 AM
Ike = Sent troops to Little Rock to enforce integration; Mitt = Wants to amend Const. to force discrimination.

5/25/12 7:49 AM
Ike = Top Tax Rate of 91%; Mitt = Pays 14%. Wants even more tax cuts for the rich.

5/25/12 7:50 AM
Ike = Described self as "militantly progressive." Mitt = Described self as "severely conservative."

5/25/12 7:52 AM
Ike = Bald. Mitt = Ken Doll hair.

5/25/12 7:58 AM
Ike = Ended Korean War. MItt = Opposed end of Iraq War; opposes end of Afghan War.

5/25/12 8:02 AM
Ike = Balanced 3 budgets; Mitt = would add $3 trillion to debt thru cutting taxes for the rich.

5/25/12 8:08 AM
Ike = After public service bought small farm in Gettysburg; Mitt = After private equity bought 4 mansions; installing elevator for his cars.

BlightOnBirther ‏@BlightOnBirther

George Will called @realDonaldTrump a "bloviating ignoramus" on #ThisWeek Romney campaign prefers 'single most significant surrogate'.
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“Now, I know Gov. Romney came to Des Moines last week, warned about a ‘prairie fire of debt,’” Obama told a crowd gathered at the Iowa State Fairgrounds. “That’s what he said. But he left out some facts. His speech was more like a cow pie of distortion.”
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“What my opponent didn’t tell you was that federal spending since I took office has risen at the slowest pace of any president in almost 60 years,” he said. “By the way, what generally happens -- what happens is, the Republicans run up the tab, and then we're sitting there and they've left the restaurant, and then they point and – ‘Why did you order all those steaks and martinis?’”
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Returning to the prairie fire analogy, Obama brought up the $5 trillion tax cut Romney has proposed, “which includes a 25% tax cut for nearly every millionaire in the country.” (Politifact has recently checked a similar statement, in which Obama said Romney’s tax cut would give millionaires an average tax cut of $250,000, and rated it “true.”)
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“Five trillion dollars in new tax cuts -- that is like trying to put a fire out -- a prairie fire with some gasoline,” Obama said.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nati ... 7492.story

The topic of this thread is:

Mitt Romney the 2012 GOP Nominee - Bring It

Well, he brung it, but to somewhere else called "Amercia"

Seems Mittens has a "With Mitt" iPhone app out that lets ya snap a pic with a "I'm with Mitt" overlay that you can post to the intertubes.

Only they don't spell check too good. Here's the very first overlay that's available:



http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/05/30/r ... ty-ensues/
http://www.buzzfeed.com/zekejmiller/rom ... iphone-app

The comments on Twitter are hilarious.

The app is still in the Apple AppStore, version 1.0. I dunno when 1.01 will be released.

Romney Campaign bus - emblazoned with Romney Campaign logo - is driving around Pres Obama's speech site honking its horn.

GOP delegates sue to be free from Romney



Don’t count your delegates before they’re hatched, Mr. Romney.

The Republican Party is being sued by over 120 GOP delegates who say campaigns have been conducted “like organized crime syndicates.”

Charges include “threats of violence,” certification of “unlawful slates of delegates,” forced “affidavits of loyalty to Romney under penalty of perjury and even altered ballot results to make sure the national convention is stacked with delegates who will vote for Romney.”

Just in time for the 40th anniversary of the Watergate scandal …

Click here to read the full article. http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/gop-delegate ... om-romney/

At one level this is simply another illustration of the “bitch slap” politics which rumbles beneath so much of presidential politics. And of course emotion always plays a big role in each side’s take on the political opposition. But the animus against President Obama isn’t just tied to his positions. There’s a deeply rooted sense on the right that Obama has been protected, coddled — that no one has really taken it to him in a down and dirty way. This is what’s behind the talk that he never got ‘vetted’ back in 2008. And if you remember back in the primary debates, there was a recurring theme of which contender was the guy who could really bring the full primal scream mojo to Obama at the debates. Not so much even which guy could beat Obama but which would have the cajones (and I use that term advisedly) to hit him with the full socialist-African-terrorist-lovin’-debt-meister smackdown that would somehow just leave a shattered Obama grasping blindly for his teleprompter.

The Romney folks know that pretty much nobody — not the Republican base or really anyone else — is going to be convinced that the candidate is a down-the-line conservative. But he can appeal to them by playing the bad ass card, getting in Obama’s grill, disrespecting him. Not in highly public ways and not the candidate himself — that could be damaging. But in slightly out of the way ways, the sort of stuff that really committed political types do see.

In other words, expect to see a lot more of this. And in purely practical terms, if it can be segregated from the stuff the broad middle of the electorate sees, it’s smart politics.

... but which would have the cajones (and I use that term advisedly)...

cajones/cojones

Typical Fogbow: ideas in posts are ignored to nitpick about spelling, grammar and word use.