Tag: Campaign 2012

1,556% – How Much Etch A Sketch Sales Are Up in 24 Hours

Trish

Etch A Sketch

What’s all bad for Mitt Romney is all good for the makers of the Etch A Sketch. In the time since Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom opined the following on CNN, sales are through the roof.

“I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign. Everything changes. It’s like Etch A Sketch; you can shake it up and we start all over again.”

Romney, of course, has been accused of doing a lot of starting over, so the Etch A Sketch reference might not have been the best one to make in discussing the candidate’s strategy. But knowing this guy is a Romney “adviser” explains a lot about why the Republican front runner can’t seem to go a whole week without some kind of whopper blooper. Lord help us if he wins and takes this talent global.

But some positive is coming from Ferhnstrom’s remarks.

Although the Etch A Sketch — available since 1960 — had the biggest percentage increase in the past day, it ranks just number 91 among all toys Thursday, up from number 1,507.

Sales figures aren’t the only numbers to elevate. Etch A Sketch makers Ohio Arts Company saw its stock triple Thursday morning, Bloomberg reports.

We suggest that Romney’s folks check the Amazon listing for the magic drawing machine. When we did, we found the image shown.

Romney Praises Bailing out ‘Too Big to Fail’ Banks, Credits Bush with Saving U.S Economy

Jon Ponder

The teavangelical base of the Republican Party are going to love this latest assertion from their party’s putative nominee:

Mitt Romney offered an unprompted defense of the 2008 Wall Street bailout on Wednesday, crediting President George W. Bush and the preceding administration for averting an economic depression.

Answering a question during a campaign event in Maryland, Romney both condemned the 2009 bailout of troubled automakers engineered by President Obama while praising the Troubled Asset Relief Program authorized in fall of 2008 to prop up the financial services industry.

“There was a fear that the whole economic system of America would collapse — that all of our banks, or virtually all, would go out of business,” Romney said. “In that circumstance, President Bush and Hank Paulson said we’ve got to do something to show we’re not going to let the whole system go out of business. I think they were right. I know some people disagree with me. I think they were right to do that.”

Romney: The Etch-A-Sketch Candidate

Jon Ponder

American Bridge PAC:

Today top Romney aide Eric Fehrnstrom said of Romney’s transition into the general election campaign:

“It’s almost like an Etch-A-Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all of over again.”

While the quote may have just been uttered today, Mitt Romney has “shook and erased” his views on the issues over and over again in Etch-A-Sketch fashion.

Santorum Pledges to Ban Porn If Elected Pope, Er, President

Jon Ponder

A montage of Rick Santorum's face made from porn photos
A montage of Rick Santorum's face made from porn photos
This ought to go over great with the GOP’s white male base:

The Republican presidential candidate and staunch social conservative wants to ban hard-core pornography. He calls it “toxic to marriages and relationships” in a new statement posted on his official website.

“America is suffering a pandemic of harm from pornography,” the former Pennsylvania senator writes. “It contributes to misogyny and violence against women. It is a contributing factor to prostitution and sex trafficking.”

He demands a crackdown on the distribution of hardcore pornography on the Internet, in addition to material on cable/satellite TV, hotel/motel TV, retail shops and through the mail.

What qualifies as “hardcore” remains unclear.

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Dumb and Dumber Vs. Obama on Afghanistan

Trish

Mitt Romney, chanelling Sarah Palin when it comes to the difficulty of forming coherent sentences, and vividly demonstrating that he hasn’t been paying attention:

Certainly it’s time on a regular basis to review our mission there, and not to make decisions based upon some actions by a crazed gunman. We don’t determine our foreign policy based on something of that nature, but of course from time to time we have to assess what the process is there. I’m very disappointed that the president has not over the last year or two talked about what’s happening in Afghanistan, what progress is being made, describing a time table, or why his timetable makes sense or not.

Rick Santorum, hysterically demonstrating that he is an idiot (the “enemy,” had nothing to do with the recent killings by the U.S. troop), but he pays more attention than Romney:

The president putting a timeline in place has made a very winnable operation very, very difficult. It continues to unravel because the president has given something to the enemy that we should have been able to deny them, which is hope.

Pres. Barack Obama, calmly demonstrating once again that he is the only adult in the room.

I have put us on a path where we are going to have this war over by the end of 2014. That our troops will be coming out, but will be coming out responsibly. We don’t rush for the exits in a way that could end up leading to more chaos and more disaster not just for Afghanistan and the Afghan people but also for the entire region and for our own security and safety.

O’Reilly: Next Time You Hear a Politician Say He or She Will Bring Down Oil Prices Understand It’s Complete [Bull Shit]

Jon Ponder

Next time you hear a politician say he or she will bring down oil prices understand it’s complete [bull shit]. Americans want lower gas prices — cut back. Sell those SUVs. Ride a bike when you can. If every one of us bought 10 percent less gasoline, prices would fall fast. That’s what the candidates should be saying. We need a strong leader who’s honest, smart, courageous and willing to explain dubious associations. That’s what we need.

– Bill O’Reilly on Fox News, March 21, 2008

Florida Evangelical Leader Calls on Romney to Renounce ‘Racist’ Mormon Religion

Jon Ponder

O'Neal Dozier
O'Neal Dozier
It was not surprising that Rev. O’Neal Dozier, the spiritual leader at the WorldWide Christian Center in Pompano Beach, Fla., endorsed Rick Santorum in the Florida primary campaign earlier this year. Dozier and Santorum are both rabid anti-gay activists who have made offensive statements about gay people that are so nutty that they would be funny if they weren’t so hateful.

Santorum famously compared consensual gay relations with “man on dog sex,” and Dozier once said that homosexuality was “something so nasty and disgusting that it makes God want to vomit.”

Now Dozier, who is Santorum’s honorary Florida chairman, has become the first prominent evangelical leader in this cycle to make an issue out of GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney’s religion. In a press release last week, Dozier — an African-American who sees no irony in the fact that he has built his career by promoting anti-gay bigotry — called on Romney “to openly renounce his racist Mormon Religion,” because of passages in the Book of Mormon that are blatantly racist:

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