Elections 2012

I stayed away from the Hillary Rosen/Ann Romney made up controversy last week, but the latest from Queen Ann really has me going. Last night, while speaking at the Connecticut Republican Party’s Prescott Bush Awards Dinner, Ann made the following comment:

Romney alluded to the fact that not all women can stay at home saying, “I love the fact that there are women out there who don’t have a choice and they must go to work and they still have to raise the kids. Thank goodness that we value those people too. And sometimes life isn’t easy for any of us.”

She "loves this"? I guess she also loves the fact that there are women out there who struggle to even feed their children, or give them medical care, school needs, clothing, etc.?

But this is how the Republican Party thinks. A few years ago Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga) talked how mothers and fathers should work 2-3 jobs each if they have trouble surviving, then a couple of weeks later complained because Nancy Pelosi was making the House work 5 days. His complaint? Family time.

So if you enjoy working non-stop, getting to spend no time with your kids and living pay check to pay check, go ahead and vote Republican. It's obvious that's the American dream to this bunch of clowns.

Newt Gingrich says he will stay in the race all the way to the National Convention, but his finances might dictate otherwise:

GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich might fail to appear on the Utah primary ballot after a check for the required filing fee bounced, according to media reports.

The check for $500 bounced on March 27, Utah state election director Mark Thomas told ABC News, which first reported the story.

"Our office immediately attempted to contact the campaign and the designated agent but no phone calls were returned,” said Thomas, according to ABC.

Personal responsibility anyone? If Newt can't manage the finances of his own campaign, how can we expect him to handle the finances of our nation? I got a feeling that's a question the Romney campaign will be asking.

It looks like the GOP's attempts to paint women as irresponsible nitwits that have no idea about their own reproductive health is really starting to pay off - for President Obama:

In the fifth Swing States survey taken since last fall, Obama leads Republican front-runner Mitt Romney 51%-42% among registered voters just a month after the president had trailed him by two percentage points.

The biggest change came among women under 50. In mid-February, just under half of those voters supported Obama. Now more than six in 10 do while Romney's support among them has dropped by 14 points, to 30%. The president leads him 2-1 in this group.

This is a huge shift and to show the gender gap now present:

Romney's main advantage is among men 50 and older, swamping Obama 56%-38%.

And it looks like Women are really abandoning the GOP as a whole:

While women typically are more likely to identify themselves as Democrats than men are, that difference widens to a chasm in the USA TODAY poll. By 41%-24%, women call themselves Democrats; men by 27%-25% say they're Republicans.

But I'm sure they don't know what they are talking about. They are just a bunch of dumb broads after all. Or that's at least what I'm sure the Republican brains are saying in a backroom somewhere.

Mitt Romney is building a new home and it sounds so much like the everyday home we find here in middle America:

At Mitt Romney’s proposed California beach house, the cars will have their own separate elevator.

There’s also a planned outdoor shower and a 3,600-square foot basement — a room with more floor space than the existing home’s entire living quarters.

Those are just some of the amenities planned for the massive renovation of the Romneys’ home in the tony La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, according to plans on file with the city.

YES - the car elevator! I personally have two and a car escalator just in case of emergencies.

Then there's this other feature we all share:

A project this ambitious comes with another feature you don’t always find with the typical fixer-upper: its own lobbyist, hired by Romney to push the plan through the approval process.

Actually Romney might not be as well off as we all think. I don't see anything about a special elevator for his lobbyist. I thought everyone had one of those?

But I really hope the Mittster treats that lobbyist right so that he can get the ball rolling. I would hate to think of the Romney clan having to suffer through much more time at their $10 million shack in New Hampshire.

This man really doesn't know where he stands:

At moments, Romney went so far as to make high gas prices out to be a welcome reality for the foreseeable future, one that people needed to learn to live with. When lieutenant governor Kerry Healey, a fellow Republican, called for suspending the state’s 23.5 cent gas tax during a price spike in May 2006, Romney rejected the idea, saying it would only further drive up gasoline consumption. “I don’t think that now is the time, and I’m not sure there will be the right time, for us to encourage the use of more gasoline,” Romney said, according to the Quincy Patriot Ledger’s report at the time. “I’m very much in favor of people recognizing that these high gasoline prices are probably here to stay.”

Of course Romney has been out on the campaign trail the past couple of weeks accusing President Obama of wanting higher gas prices.

These people really have no idea where they stand or what they stand for. Time to shake that Etch-a-Sketch again!

PORN!

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum says that “America is suffering a pandemic of harm from pornography” because the Obama administration favors “pornographers over children.”

In an undated statement on his official website, the former Pennsylvania senator promises that he will “vigorously” fight to make sure porn isn’t easily available in the U.S.

“Pornography is toxic to marriages and relationships,” the statement says. “It contributes to misogyny and violence against women. It is a contributing factor to prostitution and sex trafficking.”

“Current federal ‘obscenity’ laws prohibit distribution of hardcore (obscene) pornography on the Internet, on cable/satellite TV, on hotel/motel TV, in retail shops and through the mail or by common carrier,” the statement continues, adding that these laws should be “vigorously enforced.”

The GOP constantly talks about rights, freedoms and personal responsibility, yet they want to turn this into a nanny state over things they morally object too. They are the biggest bunch of fucking nannies to ever walk the planet and their hypocrisy reeks through and through.

And what about real problems, Rick? What about the economy, terrorism, millions of Americans and children starving and without affordable healthcare? You don't give a rat's ass about any of that; just your moral crap. Sorry but I won't take morality lessons from someone who sleeps with a dead baby.

We now have a new reason why the economy collapsed in 2008:

—Rick Santorum sharpened his attack on President Barack Obama over rising gas prices, saying high energy prices caused the 2008 recession.

"We went into a recession in 2008 because of gasoline prices," Santorum told a packed hotel ballroom of supporters. "The bubble burst in housing because people couldn’t pay their mortgages because of $4 a gallon gasoline," he added.

Santorum accused Obama of advocating for higher gas prices to protect the environment.

"He actually believes this is a good thing for America, I don't," he said. "We are not here to serve the earth, but to be stewards of the earth."

And how does this lying, fear mongering, sack of crap defend his comment?

Asked about his comment after his speech, Santorum said "they were spiking in 2008, that's a fact," then he shrugged.

Yes they did spike in 2008 and contrary to the belief of many Republicans, George Bush was President then. Also when Democrats warned of the economy collapsing during that time, Republicans quickly called them fear mongers. How did that end up working out?

But the truth is that Rick Santorum is showing exactly why he is not capable of being President. To lie about the very reason that the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression occurred is just asking for it to happen again. We are supposed to learn from history or risk repeating it. The GOP seems to constantly forget that.

The Mayans could very well be wrong that 2012 will be the end of the world, but one thing that has failed to exist this year is our democracy. Instead it is being transformed into an auction, going to the highest bidder. Leading this race to extinction is casino mogul Sheldon Adelson:

Sheldon Adelson plays as stubbornly in politics as he does in business. So the criticisms that he’s trying to personally buy the presidential election for Newt Gingrich are met with a roll of the eyes. “Those people are either jealous or professional critics,” Adelson tells me during his first interview since he and his wife began funneling $11 million, with another $10 million injection widely expected, into the former speaker’s super PAC, Winning Our Future. “They like to trash other people. It’s unfair that I’ve been treated unfair—but it doesn’t stop me. I might give $10 million or $100 million to Gingrich.”

Adelson, the 78-year-old CEO of casino giant Las Vegas Sands, certainly can afford to: With a net worth of roughly $25 billion, that $11 million, which jolted Gingrich’s flatlining presidential bid back to life, equates to 0.044% of his fortune. For someone with a $1 million net worth, the equivalent would be $440, or a two-night stay at Adelson’s Venetian casino. Adelson could personally fund an entire presidential campaign—say, $1 billion or so—and not even notice.

Adelson has been pumping millions in the failed Gingrich campaign this cycle and now he's willing to take off the gloves and go all in with up to $100 million. But why is he doing this? Well we have the right wing boogieman showing his head again: