Anti-Gingrich Ad from Romney’s Super PAC Puts the Lie to Newt’s Claim to Reagan’s Mantle
Of course, Romney tried to distance himself from Reagan several flipflops ago:
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Romney’s Favorability Drops 18 Points Among Independents
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Drop in Mitt Romney’s favorability rating among independents over the past two weeks, according to a new ABC News/Washington Post poll. Talking Points Memo reports that the “internals of past ABC/WaPo surveys showed that partisan voters were very steady — Republicans had remained at nearly 60 percent favorable while Democrats were in the low twenties. But when it came to independent voters, Romney went from a positive 41 – 34 split to a negative 23 – 51, showing themselves to be the culprit in the overall drop.”
Carville: ‘Republicans Are in the Midst of a World Class Disaster’
James Carville, or as I think of him, Mr. Mary Matalin, penned an open letter to Republicans and it’s a doozy. Carville looks back at the lowest high points of the race so far and concludes it’s a “world-class disaster.” Since right now that particular description brings to mind captain-less ships unable to float, it’s not a bad analogy.
But Carville is just getting warmed up.
Carville on Newt: ‘You guys have to deal with a $1.6 million Freddie Mac consultant who has been married three times’
…most people thought it was kind of a watermark when your Tea Party gang booed the golden rule. You know, I’ve spent some time in Philly and they have always thought they were pretty radical because they actually booed Santa Claus and Willie Mays. Philly, I’ve got news for you — you ain’t got nothing on South Carolina Republicans. They just aren’t buying any of that do-unto-others garbage.
It’s hard to tell from the clip if the audience was booing Jesus or Ron Paul or peace. No matter, they were clearly not interested in anything but kicking Iranian butt.
But Paul, as we know, is not a front-runner. For the two of them, Carville saves his best shots, starting with Mitt Romney.
Romney Has Millions Stashed in Offshore Accounts
Although it is not apparent on his financial disclosure form, Mitt Romney has millions of dollars of his personal wealth in investment funds set up in the Cayman Islands, a notorious Caribbean tax haven.
A spokesperson for the Romney campaign says Romney follows all tax laws and he would pay the same in taxes regardless of where the funds are based…
Official documents reviewed by ABC News show that Bain Capital, the private equity partnership Romney once ran, has set up some 138 secretive offshore funds in the Caymans.
Romney campaign officials and those at Bain Capital tell ABC News that the purpose of setting up those accounts in the Cayman Islands is to help attract money from foreign investors, and that the accounts provide no tax advantage to American investors like Romney. Romney, the campaign said, has paid all U.S. taxes on income derived from those investments.
Romney Defines $374K As ‘Not Very Much’ Money
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Apparent Republican Party presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Tuesday: “What’s the effective rate I’ve been paying? It’s probably closer to the 15 percent rate than anything. My last 10 years, I’ve — my income comes overwhelmingly from investments made in the past rather than ordinary income or rather than earned annual income. I got a little bit of income from my book, but I gave that all away. And then I get speaker’s fees from time to time, but not very much.” Romney collected $360,000 $374,000 in speaking fees over the 12-month period reporting period covered in his most recent financial disclosure report.
Mitt Is a Job Creator
If you don’t think Mitt Romney created 100,000 jobs, you’ve never been to India.
Unattributed quote making the rounds on Facebook
Gingrich Goes Negative on Mitt – And Reveals His Own Shortcomings
Yes, this video put together by the Newt Gingrich team does show a greatest hits list of Romney bloopers (although there are more that didn’t make this cut, such as when he pretended to be goosed by waitresses in a diner, or when he claimed in front of unemployed people to understand their plight because he is unemployed too, or more, more, more). But the most revealing line in it, to me, is the premise underlying it: that Romney will never win in a debate with the presumably much smarter and better spoken Obama — and that this is what matters most.
I think Gingrich honestly believes that governing is all about what words you choose and the mental abstractions you amuse yourself and those listening in awe with. There is no sound more lovely to Gingrich than that of his own voice, but a president needs traits other than pontification and bloviation. He, or one day, she, needs judgment and sanity and a willingness to be, as we so often think of Obama when the subject of Congress comes up, the adult in the room. Million dollar credit lines at Tiffany and trophy wives and egos that don’t fit through the door equip someone to be president no better than does constantly saying stupid things in public.
So yeah, Mitt’s an idiot. But Gingrich doesn’t even get why he’s no upgrade.
Romney Pulls a Palin – Reads NH Victory Speech from Teleprompters
One of Sarah Palin’s favorite digs at Pres. Obama is that he often reads speeches from teleprompters.
If you are a liberal or not a political junkie, you probably found Palin’s harping on Obama’s use of teleprompters confusing. “So what?” you may have said to yourself. “So did Reagan, the Bushes and Clinton. They all do it.”
Or, if you were paying close attention to Obama on the campaign trail, you might have noticed that he hosted dozens of town hall events during which he spoke extemporaneously for 90 minutes or more. (For teavangelical types who may be reading this, “extemporaneously” means “without the aid of a teleprompter.”)
What liberals and other regular Americans were missing in Palin’s sneering about Obama and teleprompters was a dog whistle message to the Republican Party’s half-witted racist base. What she was really saying was, “Pssst. See, he’s black, so not smart enough to think up all those big words on his own. He only got where he is because of affirmative action.”
Reality has a left-wing bias, as Stephen Colbert has said, so it did not matter that Palin — who, pssst, really is a dumbass — used teleprompters just about every time she spoke in public during her failed vice presidential run in 2008. (For your convenience — and, we can only hope, to make tea baggers heads explode — we have compiled a photo set of about two dozen different events in which Palin read her speeches from teleprompters and posted it here.)
In the current campaign, after making some seriously stupid gaffes while campaigning in New Hampshire, Mitt Romney took no chances when it came time to read his victory speech last night, according to his hometown paper, the Boston Globe:
Struggling to Understand How Rich Mitt Romney Is
It’s hard for most of us to imagine being worth a few million dollars. That’s serious greenbacks, putting us beyond worry and squarely in the land of comfort. But if we were Mitt Romney, who is worth a quarter-BILLION dollars, that would be chump change.
And while all the presidential candidates are in that comfortable, worry-free zone, Romney’s wealth, according to a fascinating piece of research in the Tampa Bay Times, blocks out the sun.
Romney refuses to say how much, if anything, he pays in income taxes
For every $100 personally owned by Romney, President Obama has $4.20, Newt Gingrich has $2.70 and Ron Paul has $2. And Rick Santorum, closely trailing a victorious Romney in last week’s Iowa caucus, has but a single buck.
But wait, there’s more.
