Mitt Romney Chronicles

[Curly]

I'd pay to see what happens if laserhass and outahere were put in a room together.

[Beau Stockard]

@hockey

For all her conservative-ness and all her Catholic schooling, she's concerned about her body and her rights to healthcare. She's worried the Repubs will take some of her rights away .... scary shit.

Compare Paul Ryan to VP Joe Biden, both conservative Roman Catholics, views on women rights and health . One might conclude that the Roman Catholic Church was polarized into liberal and reactionary camps.
Ryan would ban common forms of birth control. Biden supports education and contraceptives being covered by health insurers for the 99% of Catholic women who use condoms. Paul Ryan would eliminate a woman's right to choose. Biden's private view is anti-abortion, but he can not impose his view if it prevents a woman's right to choose . Ryan voted to end funding for planned parenthood. Biden supports funding planned parenthood and abolishing the Mexico City 'gag rules' on international women health agencies. Paul Ryan voted against the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act Biden believes men and women ought to have equal opportunity in the workplace ; equal pay for equal work.

[Curly]

Compare Paul Ryan to VP Joe Biden, both conservative Roman Catholics,

I can't agree there. Biden is no where close to a conservative catholic. He walks the fence according to the flavor of the month. He's told what to do for politics sake. The politics got him "in chains" so to speak.

[Chiefbuck]

VP Biden is not a conservative, not even close. He was considered one of the most if not the most liberal senator until Barak Obama came along. Biden supports every piece of the liberal agenda. Paul Ryan is a true fiscal conservative who is not gaffe prone. He is considered even by democrats to be "squeaky clean". Which of the two would you hire to run a business for you? I shudder to think that VP Biden is a breath away from being our president.

[Beau Stockard]

ChiefBuck, You are mostly correct in what you say in your brief ,but informative post on Paul Ryan's 'fiscal conservative' credentials. I'm wary of throwing all my support to a solidly entrenched, career government technocrat like Paul Ryan. I see Paul Ryan as more socially conservative , because he had voted more often with the fringe Moral Majority Christian conservative zealots against women reproductive rights. He has voted for the TARP bail-outs, taxing Social Security benefits , raising the retirement age, and extending Social Security benefits to federal employees --all of which increase the growth of the Federal bureaucracy . Paul Ryan's work ethic on 'pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps' contradicts his youthful enthusiasm in working hard to get a good college education on his deceased father's Social Security benefits.( Exactly the way Social Security was designed to work to assist deceased workers' family survivors. ) Ryan talks as if he wants to reduce the federal bureaucracy, make it more efficient in providing for the needs of a select group of special interest groups like the Defense industry, Big Business and Wall Street banks. Does Paul Ryan recognize the contradictions in his own personal philosophy and his ideas on leaner, meaner government'?

[laserhaas]

It's official - Mitt Romney is now crowned the great white GOP hope.

We are about to be in a "politico" hurricane that has been brewing for 11 1/2 years.

[Curly]

It's official - Mitt Romney is now crowned the great white GOP hope.

We are about to be in a "politico" hurricane that has been brewing for 11 1/2 years.

[max1]

It's official - Mitt Romney is now crowned the great white GOP hope.

We are about to be in a "politico" hurricane that has been brewing for 11 1/2 years.

Lets just hope he wins. Will you leave him alone then?

[longnecker]

n Romney: 'You Can Trust Mitt'


Posted: Aug 29, 2012 8:39 AM EDT

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and wife Ann wave to the crowd at the Tampa Bay Times Forum in Tampa, Florida, on August 28, 2012 during the Republican National Convention. (Photo: cbsnews.com)

TAMPA, Fla. (CBS)- In a much-anticipated speech to the Republican convention, Ann Romney set out to show voters a more personal side of her husband, Mitt Romney, but at the top of her remarks, she deviated from her script to reference Hurricane Isaac, which made landfall in Louisiana on Tuesday night.
We "hope and pray that all remain safe and no life is lost and no property is lost," she said.
The goal of Ann Romney's speech was to help soften the image of her husband and she delicately touched on a side of him that he has somewhat deliberately hidden from view.
After taking the stage to a standing ovation, the crowd hushed to hear her say that Mitt Romney "was not handed success," insinuating that his success was hard-fought and well-deserved.
"He built it," she said, referring to the event's Tuesday night theme, which is a reference to a remark President Obama made at a rally in Virginia last month where he said, "If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help," adding "you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."
Taking the opposite approach of the political speeches that preceded hers, which drew out the differences between Romney and his challenger President Obama, Ann Romney focused less on politics and more the personal side of Mitt Romney. She talked about "the one great thing that unites us."
"Tonight I want to talk to you about love," she said. "I want to talk to you about the deep and abiding love I have for a man I met at a dance many years ago. And the profound love I have, and I know we share, for this country."
Her speech is a clear effort to bridge the empathy gap Romney has with voters. A new CBS News poll revealed only 41 percent of voters think Romney understands their problems compared to 54 percent who feel President Obama does. Romney's lack of personal appeal is a consistent pattern Romney has faced throughout the campaign as voters have said he is less likeable and personable than Mr. Obama.
Romney has been working on the speech for the past couple of weeks and that the goal of her speech was for Americans to feel a connection to her husband.
"There's no better surrogate than Ann Romney," a senior Romney campaign aide said Tuesday.
Mitt Romney flew to Tampa for the evening for Ann Romney's speech. Before the speech, the couple sat on a couch off stage watching the convention on Fox News, according to pool reports.
Looking to appeal to women voters, with whom Mr. Obama has a distinct advantage, Ann Romney spoke directly to women.
"You're the ones who always have to do a little more," she said, calling out to mothers, grandmothers, sisters and daughters. "You know what it's like to work a little harder during the day to earn the respect you deserve at work and then come home to help with that book report which just has to be done."
"We don't want easy. But these last few years have been harder than they needed to be," she said, invoking the economic issues that Republicans say are most important to women voters.
"You are the hope of America," she added, referring to President Obama's 2008 campaign slogan: hope.
Romney talked mostly, however, about her 42-year marriage to the Republican presidential candidate.
"I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a 'storybook marriage,'" she said, adding the realities of a long partnership. "Well, in the storybooks I read, there were never long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. And those storybooks never seemed to have chapters called MS [multiple sclerosis] and breast cancer."
"A storybook marriage? No, not at all. What Mitt Romney and I have is a real marriage," she said.
Ann Romney said the Mitt Romney she knows is the person most qualified to run the country.
"[L]et me say this to every American who is thinking about who should be our next President: No one will work harder, no one will care more, no one will move heaven and earth like Mitt Romney to make this country a better place to live."
"This man will not fail," she added.
"You can trust Mitt."
After wrapping up her remarks, Mitt Romney walked out on stage and hugged and kissed his wife as the old Temptations tune "My Girl" played in the background.

[Tracy]

After wrapping up her remarks, Mitt Romney walked out on stage and hugged and kissed his wife as the old Temptations tune "My Girl" played in the background.

Did they provide official RNC barf bags?

[max1]

Lol

[laserhaas]

Lets just hope he wins. Will you leave him alone then?

A crook buys his own US Attorney
and 850 radio stations with 114 million listeners

and you wish that a victim would just accept the fact
that they can do such with the money he stole

simply because he is much more powerful now

DREAM ON!

[laserhaas]

As we have told you - reporters are talking to us and investigating the facts.

Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi is just the beginning...

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...quity-20120829

[Beau Stockard]

Originally Posted by longnecker
After wrapping up her remarks, Mitt Romney walked out on stage and hugged and kissed his wife as the old Temptations tune "My Girl" played in the background.






@ Jessica,

Did they provide official RNC barf bags?

[longnecker]

A crook buys his own US Attorney
and 850 radio stations with 114 million listeners

and you wish that a victim would just accept the fact
that they can do such with the money he stole

simply because he is much more powerful now

DREAM ON!

So you are saying that Mitt owns 850 radio stations??

[Tracy]

Originally Posted by longnecker
After wrapping up her remarks, Mitt Romney walked out on stage and hugged and kissed his wife as the old Temptations tune "My Girl" played in the background.






@ Jessica,

can't see the pic at work....but did you mean to address it to me?

[max1]

can't see the pic at work....but did you mean to address it to me?

I think he knew exactly what he was doing.

[Tracy]

ok...now I'm confused....Jessica and I have very similliar political points of view...my daughter's name is Jessica to make it even more complicated but Jessica and I are NOT the same person :-)

[max1]

ok...now I'm confused....Jessica and I have very similliar political points of view...my daughter's name is Jessica to make it even more complicated but Jessica and I are NOT the same person :-)

Perhaps jes...Beau can shed some light on it?

[EpicWin]