Ryan’s Advice for Getting off Welfare: ‘Don’t Simply Feed Fish’
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He’s Still Got It! George W. Bush to Keynote Cayman Islands Investor Conference 5 Days Before Presidential Election
From James Carter, grandson of Pres. Carter, who was also instrumental in releasing Romney’s secret “47 percent” video, via Buzzfeed:
The timing of the conference could land awkwardly during an election season that’s been marked by speculation about Mitt Romney’s finances, particularly his offshore investments in tax havens like the Cayman Islands.
Samuel L. Jackson to Young Voters in Obama Ad: ‘Wake The F*ck Up!’
Funding for the ad is funded came from the Jewish Council for Education & Research, a super PAC that also funded this ad featuring Sarah Silverman.
New Ad Mash-Up: Romneybot Vs. The Stench
This new Democratic National Committee presents a mash-up that pits two of the various versions of Mitt Romney who have appeared during the campaign over the past year in a debate. It’s RomneyBot, the often lifelike droid persona, versus “The Stench,” the plutocratic Romney who says what he really thinks to other oligarchs in quiet rooms.
Transcript of the ad:
With Campaign in Freefall, Paul Ryan Is Goin’ Rogue – Refers to Mitt Romney As ‘The Stench’ [UPDATED]
Update: Turns out that Poltiico’s Roger Simon intended his Ryan’s going rogue story to be an Onion-style satire. However, a GOP operative in Iowa — the state where Ryan will launch his presidential bid in three years — did say that Ryan would have to “wash the stench of Romney off of him.” Ryan really was booed at the AARP convention last week, and he really has begun using Romney-esque Powerpoint presentations on the federal budget during campaign events. But everything else in the Politico story was meant to be a joke.
With nothing but bad news coming from the polls in the wake of the release of a secretly recorded video in which Mitt Romney’s asserted that 47 percent of Americans are hopeless, self-victimizing wards of the state for whom, as president, he would bear no responsibility, it now appears that, like the previous teavangelical Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, Romney’s running mate Rep. Paul Ryan is goin’ rogue.
“Let Ryan be Ryan and let the Stench be the Stench.”
-The Stench’s running mate, Paul Ryan
-The Stench’s running mate, Paul Ryan
In the New York Times earlier this week, an Iowa Republican operative said, “I hate to say this, but if Ryan wants to run for national office again, he’ll probably have to wash the stench of Romney off of him.”
Now, according to Roger Simon at right-leaning Politico.com, Ryan has begun referring to Mitt Romney as “The Stench”:
Is This a Perfect Political Ad?
Maine firemen speak out for marriage equality.
Despite Rules at Univision Forum, Romney Packed Audience with Political Operatives and Supporters
[Maria Elena Salinas, one of the Univision anchors who moderated the forums] told BuzzFeed that tickets for each forum were divided between the network, the respective campaigns, and the University of Miami (which hosted the events) — and she said both campaigns initially agreed to keep the audience comprised mostly of students, in keeping with the events’ education theme.
But after exhausting the few conservative groups on campus, the Romney camp realized there weren’t enough sympathetic students to fill the stands on their night — so they told the network and university that if they weren’t given an exemption to the students-only rule, they might have to “reschedule.”
The organizers relented. One Democrat with ties to the Obama campaign noted that Rudy Fernandez, the university official charged with coordinating the forums, is a member of Romney’s Hispanic steering committee…
Romney’s team was allowed to bus in rowdy activists from around southern Florida in order to fill the extra seats at their town hall.
Why CEOs Are Not Presidential Material
After living through two years of bumbling attempts by a former CEO to run state government like a business, I had a flash of recognition when I heard Mitt Romney’s take on the Israeli/Palestinian problem.
Tea Party Republican and former HCA Columbia Chair Rick Scott, who spent $75 million of his own money on his campaign, took over the Florida governorship confident he would use his business skills to root out waste, slash the state payroll, get rid of regulations that hold back business, and create jobs. One of his first moves was to turn down millions in federal assistance to build a high-speed rail line that would have employed Floridians, taken cars off the eight-lane parking lots that serve as commuter roads, and made the state a leader in the transportation technology of the future.
When Romney says there is no hope for peace in the Middle East, he’s really telling us he doesn’t have what it takes to be president
From there, he rolled out a series of privatization proposals, such as turning over prisons to corporate managers and allowing developers to build golf courses in state parks. Within weeks of taking office, Scott’s approval ratings hit record lows, along with Florida’s employment numbers, which under Scott’s leadership have remained worse than the nation as a whole.
