Tag: Campaign 2012
Paul Ryan’s Private Sector Experience: Driving the Weinermobile in College
True story: Paul Ryan’s only real for-profit, private-sector job was in college as a salesman for Oscar Meyer, for whom he drove Wienermobile at least once:
Presence of A Second Midwestern White Guy Thrills Republican Base
$3.5 million
The amount the Romney campaign says it raised in the first 24 hours after announcing Rep. Paul Ryan as the running mate. The announcement came before 24 hours was up, so the figure will presumably increase.
And It Already Smells Bad
#RomneyRyan2012 is not so much a slogan as an expiration date.
@HermanCainsHat, commenting on Twitter.
So Many Things to Do Before the RNC Convention
I’m redoing my breasts and I timed my surgery around it because I wanted to make sure I wasn’t going to be recovering during that time.
“Mary,” a high-end professional escort interviewed in Tampa, who is gearing up for the Republican National Convention at the end of August. “Mary” has also revamped her web site to offer not just sex but “experiences.”
Flashback: Romney VP Pick Paul Ryan Calls Romneycare and the Heritage Foundation’s Individual Mandate a ‘Fatal Conceit’
The Romney campaign underwent heavy bombardment from its own right flank this week after it flip-flopped from its longtime stance of pretending that Romneycare does not exist to promoting it as a solution for enabling laid-off workers to keep health-insurance coverage after they lose their jobs.
But now that Romney has picked Rep. Paul Ryan to be his running mate, the campaign is going to have to somehow walk back Ryan’s thorough trashing of Romneycare — including the individual mandate, which was created at the Heritage Foundation, a think tank so right wing that it sponsors Rush Limbaugh’s show — including his labeling of the system as a “fatal conceit.” Transcript follows:
GOP VP Nominee Paul Ryan Voted in Lockstep with George Bush to Explode U.S. Debt
At a closed-door fundraiser on April 14, 2011, Pres.Obama criticized Republicans in Congress for using the budget process to “enact their political agenda under the guise of cutting spending.” He singled out Rep. Paul Ryan, chairman of the House budget committee and now Mitt Romney’s nominee for vice president, saying:
PRES. OBAMA: When Paul Ryan says his priority is to make sure, you know, he’s just being America’s accountant, trying to be responsible …This is the same guy who voted for two wars that were unpaid for, voted for the Bush tax cuts that were unpaid for, voted for the prescription drug bill that cost as much as my health care bill — but wasn’t paid for. So it’s not on the level.
Politifact rated the president’s statement as “Mostly True”:
Romney’s Overseas Bungling Was Caught in the Glare of Wall-to-Wall Coverage of the Olympics, Now His Support Among Independents Has Fallen
All the caveats apply: Election Day is three months off, and any number of things could happen to upend the Obama campaign; polls this early out are a snapshot in time; and most of the independent voters who will decide the election if it is close haven not yet engaged — except for those who were watching coverage of the opening of the London Olympics.
Keep in mind that Obama-Biden beat McCain-Palin by 7 points in 2008.
More about that in a bit. First, three new polls released this week have produced remarkably similar results — and all show voters, particularly independents, moving away from Mitt Romney.
The new CNN/ORC International poll finds Pres. Obama with an 11 point lead over Romney among independents, 53 to 42 percent. The president leads by 7 points overall, 52 to 45 percent. The Reuters-Ipsos poll also released yesterday found the same 7-point gap among all registered voters, 49 to 42 percent.
The Fox News poll also gives the president an 11-point lead among independents, up from 4 points last month. He has a 9 point lead over Romney overall, 49 to 40 percent.
Here’s a key point of reference: Obama-Biden won the 2008 election over McCain-Palin by 7.2 percentage points.
So what is behind Romney’s slippage? […]
Romney Hid His Returns in 2002 Mass. Governor’s Race, Too – and When One Secret Came to Light, It Proved He’d Lied about His Eligibility to Serve
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As George Will said about Mitt Romney’s refusal to release his tax returns, “The cost of not releasing the returns are clear. Therefore, he must have calculated that there are higher costs in releasing them.” Last week we learned that whatever it is he is hiding may not be new.
Rachel Maddow and her producers did a little digging and found that, in 2002, when he was running for governor of Massachusetts, Romney was equally adamant that he would not release his tax returns. A key issue then was Romney’s eligibility to serve as governor. Massachusetts law requires that in order to serve as governor, candidates must have resided in the state for the previous seven consecutive years. Because Romney had lived in Utah full time while he ran the 2002 winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, it seemed obvious he did not meet that requirement.
