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Juan Williams Questions Ann Romney’s Credentials After Mitt’s Wife Talks About Eating Tuna While Living Off Stock Options
Wow. Add Juan Williams to the growing list of mainstream journalists who have had it with GOP lies, distortion, and spin. Williams wasn’t buying Ann Romney’s assertions at the Republican convention that she and Mitt struggled early on. Mitt was the son of a governor (who ran for president).
California Republican Protests ‘Romney’s Racist Heart’ with 14-Foot Neon Sign
Deep in the Conejo Valley, Steven Showers has put up a very tall neon sign in his front yard that flashes “Romney’s Racist Heart Dotcom. Save the GOP.” Showers tells the Ventura County Star that he is Republican and Christian and that, upon Mitt Romney’s apparent nomination for the presidency, he “was stunned to find out that the Mormon religion is a white supremacist, anti-black, racist ideology.” He launched the Romneys Racist Heart website (which warns that “You Are About to Read About the Most Gigantic Fraud Ever Perpetrated Upon the GOP in U.S. Political History”) and spent most of August designing and building the 120-pound billboard, which required a crane to mount.
The sign itself is ten feet tall and sits on a four-foot concrete foundation. The lights went on on Thursday and the first complaint came into Ventura County on Friday (Showers says he didn’t check to see whether the sign might be violating any codes). According to the LA Times, “On Friday, a Ventura County code inspector dropped by and left a notice that the monument was a violation of zoning laws.”
Meanwhile, you can buy your own smaller version for just $800. And a rep for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints points out to the Star that the religion let black people join the priesthood starting in 1978.
Shower’s site is here.
Why Does Romney Not Expect to Be Asked About His Birth Certificate?
Yes, he really said this:
No one has ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know that this is the place that we were born and raised.
And these people said this about the remark:
- Take a moment or two to think about that, what he’s actually saying, and what it says about Mitt Romney. — Jim Messina, Campaign manager, Obama for America
- [Romney] wasn’t using prepared remarks. — A Romney campaign aide quoted by CNN
- The governor has always said, and has repeatedly said, he believes the president was born here in the United States. He was only referencing that Michigan, where he is campaigning today, is the state where he himself was born and raised. — Kevin Madden, Romney senior adviser
- It’s one thing to give the stage in Tampa to Donald Trump, Sheriff Arpaio, and Kris Kobach. But Governor Romney’s decision to directly enlist himself in the birther movement should give pause to any rational voter across America. — Ben LaBolt, Obama campaign press secretary
- I thought it was great because why should we have to worry about whether the president has a birth certificate or not? — Guy Myers, a Romney supporter from Clarkson, Mich., who witnessed the remark
WSJ/NBC News Poll: Ryan Pick Has -1 Impact on Likelihood to Vote for Romney – Compares with Dick Cheney’s +2, Palin’s +8
The new Wall St. Journal/NBC News poll finds that 22 percent of likely voters say that Mitt Romney’s decision to put Rep. Paul Ryan on the Republican ticket makes them more likely to vote for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, while 23 percent say he makes them less likely to vote for Romney; 54 percent say the pick doesn’t affect their vote either way.
That margin (-1) compares with the last five vice-presidential picks like this:
| Year | Candidate | Party | VP | Helps Ticket? |
| 2012 | Mitt Romney | GOP | Paul Ryan | -1 |
| 2008 | Barack Obama | Dem | Joe Biden | +8 |
| 2008 | John McCain | GOP | Sarah Palin | +9 |
| 2004 | John Kerry | Dem | John Edwards | +21 |
| 2000 | Al Gore | Dem | Joe Lieberman | +13 | 2000 | George W. Bush | GOP | Dick Cheney | +2 |
The approval rating for Congress is at 12 percent, according to the poll, with 82 percent disapproving. This may be a part of the reason that Congressman Paul Ryan also has a remarkably weak favorable/unfavorable rating: 33 percent/32 percent.
Paul Ryan Co-Sponsored ‘Forcible Rape’ Bill Last Year with Missouri Tea Party Senate Candidate Rep. Todd ‘Legitimate Rape’ Akin
AKIN: Well you know, people always want to try to make that as one of those things, well how do you, how do you slice this particularly tough sort of ethical question. First of all, from what I understand from doctors, that’s really rare. If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.
But let’s assume that maybe that didn’t work or something. I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child.
This was not a gaffe. It reflects a policy position, and Akin — who is running to unseat Sen. Claire McCaskill — is not alone in advocating misogynistic views on rape. Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan co-sponsored the bill with Akin last year that introduced the term “forcible rape” into the political lexicon:
Romney Was Arrested for Disorderly Conduct in 1981
According to what Romney told the Boston Globe in 1994, he had taken his family off to Wayland, Mass.’s Lake Cochituate, about an hour outside Boston, for a summer excursion. As Romney prepared to put his family boat into the water, a park officer told Romney not to launch because his license appeared to have been painted over. The officer told Romney if he put his boat into the water he would face a $50 fine.
Fast Forward
Can’t we just skip to the part where Obama’s halfway through his second term and Paul Ryan’s on Dancing With the Stars?
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A Political Cover Song for Our Times: ‘Keep on Lying, Mitt Romney’
An adaptation of “Keep on Rockin’ Me, Baby,” by Rocky Mountain Mike for the Stephanie Miller Show that you will hear playing in your head every time you hear Mitt Romney speak.
