Just don't think you have a chance.
Romney will do Leno on Tuesday, per the AP.
Interesting.
I can't quite place Leno on a political map, but I'm thinking he will try to expose a flip or flop.
Paranoia Strikes Deeper
Stop, hey, what’s that sound? Actually, it’s the noise a great political party makes when it loses what’s left of its mind. And it happened — where else? — on Fox News on Sunday, when Mitt Romney bought fully into the claim that gas prices are high thanks to an Obama administration plot.
This claim isn’t just nuts; it’s a sort of craziness triple play — a lie wrapped in an absurdity swaddled in paranoia. It’s the sort of thing you used to hear only from people who also believed that fluoridated water was a Communist plot. But now the gas-price conspiracy theory has been formally endorsed by the likely Republican presidential nominee.
Before we get to the larger implications of this endorsement, let’s get the facts on gas prices straight.
First, the lie: No, President Obama did not say, as many Republicans now claim, that he wanted higher gasoline prices. He did once say that a cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions would cause electricity prices to “skyrocket” — an unfortunate word choice. But saying that such a system would raise energy prices was just a factual statement, not a declaration of intent to punish American consumers. The claim that Mr. Obama wanted higher prices is a lie, pure and simple.
And it’s a lie wrapped in an absurdity, because the president of the United States doesn’t control gasoline prices, or even have much influence over those prices. Oil prices are set in a world market, and America, which accounts for only about a tenth of world production, can’t move those prices much. Indeed, the recent rise in gas prices has taken place despite rising U.S. oil production and falling imports.
Finally, there’s the paranoia, the belief that liberals in general, and Obama administration officials in particular, are trying to make driving unaffordable as part of a nefarious plot against the American way of life. And, no, I’m not exaggerating. This is what you hear even from thoroughly mainstream conservatives.
For example, last year George Will declared that the Obama administration’s support for train travel had nothing to do with relieving congestion and reducing environmental impacts. No, he insisted, “the real reason for progressives’ passion for trains is their goal of diminishing Americans’ individualism in order to make them more amenable to collectivism.” Who knew that Dagny Taggart, the railroad executive heroine of “Atlas Shrugged,” was a Commie?
O.K., this is all kind of funny. But it’s also deeply scary.
As Richard Hofstadter pointed out in his classic 1964 essay “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” crazy conspiracy theories have been an American tradition ever since clergymen began warning that Thomas Jefferson was an agent of the Bavarian Illuminati. But it’s one thing to have a paranoid fringe playing a marginal role in a nation’s political life; it’s something quite different when that fringe takes over a whole party, to the point where candidates must share, or pretend to share, that fringe’s paranoia to receive the party’s presidential nod.
And it’s not just gas prices, of course. In fact, the conspiracy theories are proliferating so fast it’s hard to keep up. Thus, large numbers of Republicans — and we’re talking about important political figures, not random supporters — firmly believe that global warming is a gigantic hoax perpetrated by a global conspiracy involving thousands of scientists, not one of whom has broken the code of omertà. Meanwhile, others are attributing the recent improvement in economic news to a das ly plot to withhold stimulus funds, releasing them just before the 2012 election. And let’s not even get into health reform.
Why is this happening? At least part of the answer must lie in the way right-wing media create an alternate reality. For example, did you hear about how the cost of Obamacare just doubled? It didn’t, but millions of Fox-viewers and Rush-listeners believe that it did. Naturally, people who constantly hear about the evil that liberals do are ready and willing to believe that everything bad is the result of a das ly liberal plot. And these are the people who vote in Republican primaries.
But what about the broader electorate?
If and when he wins the nomination, Mr. Romney will try, as a hapless adviser put it, to shake his Etch A Sketch — that is, to erase the record of his pandering to the crazy right and convince voters that he’s actually a moderate. And maybe he can pull it off.
But let’s hope that he can’t, because the kind of pandering he has engaged in during his quest for the nomination matters. Whatever Mr. Romney may personally believe, the fact is that by endorsing the right’s paranoid fantasies, he is helping to further a dangerous trend in America’s political life. And he should be held accountable for his actions.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/23/op...gewanted=print
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Above corresponds to a merger broker's assessement that Willard Gecko's word on company purchase price at Bain was worthless. Bain said they would pay a high $, but always found ways to screw that down after other buyers were scared away by the high $ bid.
The only thing Willard Gecko stands consistently for is getting himself elected. Seems to be the typical politician, an ethical and moral cesspool.
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With Rubio now behind me is there any doubt? Buenas noches.
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-te...to-3365243.phpHow popular is comedian Stephen Colbert's semi-serious Super PAC, Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow?
In Texas, it's more popular that Mitt Romney's leading Super PAC. Federal Election Commission records examined by the Houston Chronicle indicate more Texans have donated to Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow than to the pro-Romney Restore Our Future.
Screw Rubio, the Neocons are behind Romney....all the other candidates need to just hang it up
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_1...ndorse-romney/Former President George H.W. Bush will formally endorse Mitt Romney for president on Thursday, CBS News has confirmed
Look for Dodson and Warren to jump on board soon too...
Swing States Poll: A shift by women puts Obama in lead
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politic...oll/53930684/1
Running against Ryan's budget, endorsed by Willard Gecko and all major Repugs, will be a no-brainer.
Repugs certainly can't run on their record 2001-2007. dubya and head are NEVER even mentioned by candidates.
Big win in Wisconsin tonight, following a week of big endorsements from political heavyweights in the Republican party. I think it's time for Santorum to bow out, though he has said it's only "halftime".
Willard needs a tea potty running mate worse than he needs a christian fundamentalists candidate like Santorum....I'm looking at Chris Christie...
Hard to say who the VP nod will go to at this point. Rubio has the edge for many reasons, but I wouldn't discount Romney doubling down on the economy and going with Paul Ryan.
Willard Gecko and Paul Ryan, would be as successful as McLiar and pitbull .
Obama and the Dems will shatter Willard's etch-a-sketch by pounding it with Ryan's the 99%, protect/enrich the 1% budget.
Ryan has the charisma of a wet paper bag and is not particularly well liked in his own state; his conservative bona fides include votes for the TARP, the auto bailout and taxing CEO bonuses.
What else would Ryan bring to the ticket, in your opinion?
What if he picks Cain?
What if he picks someone nobody considers like McCain did?
Paul Ryan sure is sucking up to Romney and may just be seeking the VP.
expect a worse result than 2008 for the GOP if that happens, but it's not going to happen...
Willard will flip-flop until he feels he has made the right choice. Hispanic woman?
Mitt Romney may have to run against his own image
In state after state, Romney has grown less popular the longer the campaign wears on and the better voters get to know him. The same thing happened in 2008,
The former Massachusetts governor remains compe ive with Obama even though the president is viewed much more positively, according to polls. But Romney's image problem heightens the already formidable task he faces in November, trying to dislodge an in bent spared the costly and divisive intraparty battle that Republicans have waged.
The same is true elsewhere. Michigan, where Romney was born, once offered a prime opportunity to flip a state that went for Obama four years ago. But after hosting one of the most bruising contests of the Republican race — a knockdown that Romney won in a squeaker — Michigan seems to have reverted safely back to the Democratic column.
The damage extends beyond battleground states. Obama has gained considerable ground against Romney in head-to-head matchups nationally, pulling into a modest lead thanks to his greatly improved standing among independent voters, the swing group that is vital to winning the White House.
A recent ABC News-Washington Post poll found that a record 50% of Americans had an unfavorable view of the GOP front-runner and just 34% had a favorable view, the lowest rating for any leading presidential hopeful in decades.
It is hardly surprising that Romney's image has suffered during the bruising Republican primary. Assessing the political damage at this point is somewhat akin to examining a bleeding patient who just arrived in the emergency room. Romney advisors are confident his wounds will heal; as one put it, the harsh views of the likely GOP nominee are a first impression but not necessarily a lasting one.
Wisconsin offered some bright notes for Romney. Exit polls showed inroads with evangelical Christians and strongly conservative Republicans, two groups that have been among the most resistant to Romney's candidacy.
But, again, there were trouble signs. His victory margin, 44% to 37%, was unimpressive given Romney's massive financial advantage, the support of virtually the entire state political establishment and, not least, his seeming inevitability.
http://mobile.latimes.com/p.p?m=b&a=...%3D0%26DPL%3D3
Romney, Who Has Two Harvard Degrees, Says Obama Spent ‘Too Much Time At Harvard’
http://thinkprogress.org/special/201...me-at-harvard/
'Morning Joe' host: GOP establishment thinks Mitt Romney will lose to Obama
conservative Joe Scarborough bluntly put it Wednesday, Republicans aren't confident about his chances in the fall.
“Nobody thinks Romney’s going to win [the general election]. Let’s just be honest. Can we just say this for everybody at home? The Republican establishment – I have yet to meet a single person from the Republican establishment who thinks Mitt Romney’s going to win the general election this year. They won’t say it on TV, because they’ve got to go on TV, and they don’t want people writing them nasty e-mails. I obviously don’t care. But I have yet to meet anybody in the Republican establishment that worked for George W. Bush, that works in the Republican Congress, that worked for Ronald Reagan that thinks Mitt Romney’s going to win the general election.”
This basically corresponds with Decoder's own conversations with various Republican insiders. There are many who say they think President Obama is vulnerable – but there are far fewer who, when speaking off the record, say they believe Mr. Romney is well positioned to take advantage of that vulnerability. In a word, many Republicans smell a loser.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politic...=Google+Reader
Romney is a ing joke
And he is laughing all the way to the nomination and Ron Paul is...well....meaningless.
on his way to play the fall guy come november. Kerry 2.0
I hope you are right.
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