Reply With Quote
btw, way to sidestep a direct rebuttal. that's a strong point for you.
News flash: Fox News and MSNBC lead the tabloidization of the American press.This graphic is very telling.
Even Fox has more negative than positive on Mitt.
btw, way to sidestep a direct rebuttal. that's a strong point for you.
And there was already internal fighting before that video came out
I'm beginning to think Mitt Romney is not very bright.
Read what he says, and listen to him. Quickly becomes clear that the only thing he's got going for him is his $250M, certainly not his brains.
a weak economy, hatred for Obama and political dark money still count. this thing's far from over.
I stand corrected. There is absolutely no pro-Obama bias in the MSM.
in the aggregate, there appears not to be.
nor was there any significant bias overall in coverage of the the 2008 election, according to the Pew study.
The people who just blindly hate Obama were always going to vote for Willard regardless.... it's the independents, moderates, and libertarians that he's spent the past two months irrevocably pissing off, and now he's throwing a temper tantrum because he's not getting his way, tbh....
You don't need brains (or maturity, apparently) to get rich when daddy was an influential politician in with the old money elite crowd, tbh....
The chest thumping over this seems premature to me. We'll see in about six weeks whether this was a turning point or just a blip.
Considering his campaign is mired in infighting, and Willard keeps saying stupid and doubling down on it, it'd take a miracle for him to cure his image in time for the election, tbh..... by all accounts, he has a bunch of yes-men who will let him say or do anything....
Sources have already indicated that since Willard's attempt to blame Obama for the embassy attack backfired on him, they're now going to drop foreign policy and just go full-out Jeebo .... you really can't make this up, tbh....
yep, and by those measures, Gecko should be definitely ahead, and he's not.
When the bad job numbers came out a couple weeks ago, it didn't hurt Barry.
And polls show Barry more trusted on both the economy and Medicare, plus they blame dubya more than Barry for the Banksters Great Depression.
So Gecko's card in the hole is Rove/Kock Bros/1%er's many $100Ms of lying, inflammatory, slanderous ads, and of course Dem voter suppression in the swing states.
Obama is mostly hated by dumb red-staters, xenobphobes, racists and Fox veiwers who would vote for Gecko anyway.
Gecko's big base is white "Christian" males (you know, the tri-corned hat maran assholes financed by Kock Bros) in the 99% (not enough of them in the 1%).
He's lost LGBT, women, Latinos, blacks, Dems, and probably lost enough "independents" by now.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 09-18-2012 at 04:01 PM.
bit of an unresolved tension here. overreaching, perhaps?
"sources say" you're reading the tea leaves.
you could be right, but the tone of dead certainty is off-putting. also, could bite you in the ass somewhere down the line. you'd be surprised what a long memory people have for careless asides around here.
Read it and weep: http://www.alternet.org/romney-campa...sider-accounts
...
GOP Civil War Is Coming as Mitt Romney Campaign Flails in Video’s Wake
There is a civil war gathering in the Republican Party. It looks more and more like a dispirited and disappointed collection of factions, preparing to lay blame for a lost presidential election and to do battle to shape a new direction for the Grand Old Party.
Last week the view hardened that the Republican nominee was in close to terminal trouble. Having lost the summer as he let the Obama campaign define him, having lost the conventions when he let Clint Eastwood step all over his acceptance speech, Mitt Romney spectacularly lost his head on Sept. 11 during the mob attack on U.S. diplomats in Egypt and Libya. He came across as a low-life opportunist rushing to exploit a national tragedy in order to score political points and then doubling down on this venal dumbness with a smirking and contentious press conference. This week he may well have finished the job, with a video leaking of him referring to 47 percent of the electorate as government moochers.
Romney’s advisers have taken to bashing the press for covering the bad news, a near-certain sign of a losing campaign, as is the simultaneous effort to quarrel with the methodology of polls showing him trailing in the battleground states with almost no way of reaching 270 electoral votes. The surveys were largely in the field before Romney’s graceless and craven charge that the Obama administration sympathized with those who murdered the nation’s ambassador to Libya and three other Americans. More polls are on the way, and for Mitt the Knife, with his self-inflicted wounds, most of the numbers won’t be pretty.
John Heilemann, who knows a game change when he sees it, rendered a damning verdict in New York: “Romney … badly missed the mark.” Heilemann cited the array of GOP leaders, strategists, and commentators who declined to offer even faint support or instead outright rebuked their own candidate, on and off the record. He pointed to the broader narrative emerging in the media across the ideological spectrum: Romney is losing, knows he is losing, and is starting to panic.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...=Cheat%20Sheet
Romney's only chance might be to relativize his statement....
he should say that it isn't his job to care for the other 53% either.
4 years of guaranteed inep ude, or 4 years of most likely inep ude
those are out choices
Romney comments echo GOP push to have all Americans pay taxes
When Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney complained that 47% of Americans don't pay income taxes, he tapped into an increasingly common GOP criticism of the nation's current tax code.
Congressional Republicans have long complained that nearly half the country does not pay income taxes -- a group they are targeting as lawmakers consider an overhaul of the tax code next year.
GOP leaders have repeatedly said that all Americans should pay their fair share – “have some skin in the game,” as Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia, the House majority leader, has said, even if it’s just $1.
“More Than Half of U.S. Households Did Not Pay Any Income Tax in 2009,” read the news release headline from Sen. Orrin Hatch, the top Republican on the Finance Committee, as he testified at a tax hearing earlier this Congress.
These Americans, though, may not be the freeloaders Romney characterized in his private talk with donors, which was captured on video and made public.
An analysis from the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center found that of the 78 million American households that pay no federal income tax, most do pay other taxes: payroll taxes for Social Security and Medicare, or the sales and excise taxes almost all Americans pay each time they fill up the tank or shop for a quart of milk in areas with taxes on purchases.
Of those who escape federal income tax, the overwhelmingly majority, more than 70% earn less than $30,000 a year.
Those who pay no federal income tax are actually 46% of American households, according to the center, and are made up of two groups:
Half are those who do not earn enough to pay the tax under the code, which offers standardized deductions to make the system progressive as it seeks to preserve a “subsistence” level of income. These are largely seniors and lower-income Americans.
The other half are those who benefit from specific tax breaks -- the largest benefits going to the elderly, children and the working poor.
The Tax Policy Center notes that almost all of these tax policies and loopholes come from Congress. Lawmakers often prefer to provide benefits through the tax code rather than on direct spending programs, which can become more politically difficult.
“The high percentage of people paying no federal income tax is not the result of the levy’s tax function,” the center wrote. “It is caused almost entirely by Congress’ insistence on using the tax system to deliver social benefits.”
As President Obama seeks to raise taxes on top-income earners to boost revenues, Republicans prefer a strategy that would lower tax rates for all Americans, including the wealthy, while also “broadening the base,” as it’s called -- spreading the tax burden more widely across all taxpayers.
It is a debate that is expected to be one of the key legislative battles of 2013.
http://mobile.latimes.com/p.p?m=b&a=...%3D0%26DPL%3D3
... WC being our local representative
But, but, but Repugs pledged to bully Norquist NEVER to raise taxes (except on the bottom 50% ?? )
Meh.
There is still a billion dollars of mud left to throw at Obama.
how about some real black TAR, and feathers, on that nigra?
http://taxfoundation.org/article/tax...owth-nonpayers
Conclusion
Since the first income tax code was enacted in 1913, the tax system has protected certain classes of Americans from paying the income tax. Starting in about 1940, however, the federal income tax changed from being a tax largely on high-income workers, to a mass tax on virtually all working Americans. But thanks to the rampant growth in tax credits over the past two decades or so, the federal income tax is reverting to its original composition – a tax largely on high-income Americans.
LOL at the neocons saying "just WAIT 'til you see our attack ads!" after they spent months whining about "Obama's mean attack ads
Newsflash.... your s bag, cheater candidate has NO self control.... he's liable to up and say something ignorant and racist at any moment... plus, Obama hasn't even addressed the foreign campaign money that Willard accepted.....
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions
