April 23, 2012 - Pensito

Of Americans say things are going well in the country, up a whopping 19 points from August, according to a new CNN/Opinion Research survey. That said, 57% still say things are going badly.

— George Will, saying there’s no way Mitt Romney will pick former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) as his running mate.

Rubio ‘Obvious Choice’ for Veep

April 23, 2012 Buck Banks

If Rubio passes the vetting process, assuming he does, I think he’s the obvious choice. And if he says he doesn’t want the office, he’ll find a horse’s head in his bed. The next day he will accept. Romney’s not going to take no for an answer. We have ways, we Republicans.

— Charles Krauthammer, on Inside Washington.

By Hiring Gay Spox, Romney Told Us to ‘Drop Dead,’ Says Hate Group Rep

April 23, 2012April 23, 2012 Jon Ponder

Well, this was predictable. The hate-group wing of Mitt Romney’s teavangelical base is not happy that Romney has hired Richard Grenell, who is openly gay, as his campaign spokesman on international relations. Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association, which is on the list of hate groups maintained by the Southern Poverty Law Center, responded on Twitter:

Romney picks out & loud gay as a spokesman. If personnel is policy, his message to the pro-family community: drop dead.

Shake, shake, shake.

Dogs Against Romney Founder: ‘If Obama Said the Dog Enjoyed Being Eaten, Romney Would Have an Argument’

April 23, 2012 Jon Ponder

I viewed the push-back as a desperate move to try to blunt the impact the dog-on-roof story is having on Romney. No one holds Obama accountable for what was fed to him by his parents as a 6-year-old in Indonesia. If Obama had chosen to eat dog as an adult, in America, and told everyone the dog enjoyed being eaten, Romney would have an argument.

– Scott Crider, founder of Dogs Against Romney, when asked why he thought Romney supporters were pushing the story that Obama was fed dog meat as a child.

Jeb Says Mitt Should Pick Marco

April 23, 2012 Buck Banks

Well I can’t speak for Gov. Romney, and I can’t speak for Sen. Rubio, but if I was on both sides of that conversation I would ask — and I would hope that Marco would accept,” Bush said. “There’s a lot of things in between that may not make that happen, but I am a great admirer of Mitt Romney’s and I’m a huge fan of Marco Rubio’s, and I think the combination would be extraordinary.

Day: April 23, 2012

Americans’ Mood Improving

43%

Of Americans say things are going well in the country, up a whopping 19 points from August, according to a new CNN/Opinion Research survey. That said, 57% still say things are going badly.

Reasons Not to Choose Jeb

If Jeb Bush is to be Romney’s running mate, it would mean that in seven of nine presidential elections there would be a Bush on the Republican ticket. And it gets hard to argue that we’re not a tribal society at that point.

— George Will, saying there’s no way Mitt Romney will pick former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) as his running mate.

Rubio ‘Obvious Choice’ for Veep

If Rubio passes the vetting process, assuming he does, I think he’s the obvious choice. And if he says he doesn’t want the office, he’ll find a horse’s head in his bed. The next day he will accept. Romney’s not going to take no for an answer. We have ways, we Republicans.

— Charles Krauthammer, on Inside Washington.

By Hiring Gay Spox, Romney Told Us to ‘Drop Dead,’ Says Hate Group Rep

Dogs Against Romney Founder: ‘If Obama Said the Dog Enjoyed Being Eaten, Romney Would Have an Argument’

– Scott Crider, founder of Dogs Against Romney, when asked why he thought Romney supporters were pushing the story that Obama was fed dog meat as a child.

Jeb Says Mitt Should Pick Marco

— Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, quoted by Newsmax.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer.”

— Vice President JD Vance, on Fox News.

“Your generation has a great bullshit meter, because you’re fed bullshit online all day. And the Democratic Party brand right now is so bullshit.”

— Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D), quoted by The Atlantic, speaking to college students.

“We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

— Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

Numerati

+175,000

“The U.S. State Department announced on Monday that it has revoked more than 175,000 visas during President Donald Trump’s administration so far,” Fox News reports.

$4,600

11

30%

A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

61% to 35%