Showing posts with label mitt romney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mitt romney. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Mitt Romney Is High
Despite his call for the nation to show a "surge of support" for U.S. forces in Iraq, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on Wednesday defended his five sons' decision not to enlist. The former Massachusetts governor said his sons were showing their support for the country by "helping get me elected."
He added: "One of the ways my sons are showing support for our nation is helping me get elected because they think I'd be a great president."
Romney's five sons range in age from 37 to 26 and have worked as real estate developers, sports marketers and advertising executives. They are now actively campaigning for their father and have a "Five Brothers" blog on Romney's campaign Web site.
Romney noted that his middle son, 36-year-old Josh, was completing a recreational vehicle tour of all 99 Iowa counties on Wednesday and said, "I respect that and respect all those and the way they serve this great country."
No commentary needed.
Friday, July 20, 2007
Freepers Discuss Mitt Romney's Make-Up
I’m certainly no romney fan, but this info is a big “So what?” for me.
Yeah, well John Edwards has to spend 1,200, so whats your point you Democrat Hypocrit!
$300 for a professional job before a national audience is not so outrageous.
Big deal. He's worth $250 million or more. Since we're all Reagan fans, what's wrong with some money "trickling down" anyway? Fine with me.
Just a hit piece on Romney
I like Romney and I am happy if he works to stay good looking.
Trust me, Romney doesn't need makeup or primping. It's another hit piece put out there by the left, and all the boob bait people are grabbing it.
In my very conservative district, my R congressman started wearing makeup even when home in the district. Even a couple of times when he went hunting on a ranch. It was kind of silly and we all chuckled about it, kept voting for him until he retired.
What’s the cost of the hundreds of Botox injections the Hildabeast gets BEFORE any appearance in daylight? Are we in a “bidding war” to attack only the candidates who spend too little?
This has been another edition of right wingers tying themselves into knots to keep the cognitive dissonance in place.
Monday, July 16, 2007
Mitt Romney Loves Him The Gay Sex
The lunatics at World Net Daily(AKA Wingnut Daily) believe that Mitt Romney is a homosexual loving liberal. He did something that proved his mendacity. You see, when the Supreme Court of Massachusetts stated that civil unions had to be allowed, Romney obeyed them. And he wants to be President?
To see what could have happened, several experts suggest a review of history.
Titus noted the 1857 Dred Scott decision, in which the U.S. Supreme Court had declared a slave was the property of the master, even if they both were physically in a free state. But President Lincoln rejected the authority of that opinion.
What a coward. The issues are totally the same. Dehumanizing blacks is equal to humanizing homosexuals. A good conservative would have declared the gays 3/5 of a human being and told the court to blow him.
FitzGibbon also told WND the Goodridge opinion included no requirements.
"My opinion is that the Supreme Judicial Court's decision in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health (2003) did not mandate that the executive branch issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples," he wrote in an e-mail.
In a previously issued statement he made in support of the Federal Marriage Amendment, FitzGibbon warned of the immediate and dramatic social impact of such a decision, including a mandate by public schools in Massachusetts to teach homosexuality to children.
Exactly. Now first graders in Massachusetts are being taught the proper way to fist, given a demonstation on using lube, and they are also shown how to color co-ordinate a living room. Thanks Mitt Romney.
FitzGibbon said under the logic and arguments of the Goodridge decision, there is no reason why only pairs should be supported by law.
"Polygamy – the absurdity to which SSM advocates resisted being reduced in argument even a year or two ago – has recently come to be treated by leading authorities as eligible for legal recognition," he said.
Romney is a Mormon. Could he have been angling for group gay marriage? One day, RuPaul, Lindsey Graham, and Elton John could be legally married as a threesome under this theory.
Noted conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly is devastated as well. Sure, her son is gay, but that is the point. Allow civil unions and she might have a hard time figuring out which side of the church to sit in, if his boyfriend pops the question.
Schlafly also has rejected the idea that Romney somehow was forced into action.
"[Romney] said: 'We obviously have to follow the law as provided by the [Court] and ... decide 'what kind of statute we can fashion which is consistent with the law.' But what 'law'?" Schlafly asked. "There is no law that requires or even allows same-sex marriages."
There also is no law that "I have to pay for the ice sculpture of David teabagging Adonis either". Her son John has his heart set on that for his vows. Schafly might allow Mehlman's parents to swing the whole tab. It's so upsetting.
Damn you Mitt Romney. You are ruining everything!
Saturday, July 07, 2007
Mitt Romney Is On A Roll
The Smyrna Breeze (circulation 35 or something) has decided that it isn't too early to give out an endorsement for 2008.
Although the Florida primary is more than six months away, we believe it is important to get behind the candidate we feel is best suited to be the next president of the United States: Mitt Romney.
We feel his vision and leadership are vital to providing for our national interests as well as economic stability and growth in a shrinking world market.
Romney is not the frontrunner in the Republican Party, but he is the clear candidate of choice in looking at former Mayor Rudy Giuliani's liberal politics and Sen. John McCain's old-school Washington insider status.
On the Democratic side, when all is said and done, the victor will more than likely be Hillary Clinton, who leads in the Democratic polls, is the best financed and has a strong ally in her husband and former president, Bill Clinton.
The idiots amongst us are real. If Romney wants to keep this big momementum going I suggest he put on some Aqua Velva and woo Chris Matthews with a cubano.
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
More On Mitt Romney
Who in the hell would think it was a good idea to strap your dog on the roof of a car during the summer for twelve hours during a family trip out of the country? It wasn't like a financial thing like the Romney clan being poor, and couldn't afford a pet sitter, or boarding.
The kids were going to miss the dog, but you didn't want dog hairs in the car? It gets pretty damned hot in the summer. But, the 70mph breeze probably cooled the scamp off.
Judi Nathan, Giuliani's third wife, did medical demonstrations on dogs by slicing them open to show off a stapling technique. Bill Frist and cats, let's not even go there. Seriously, what is wrong with these people?
Mitt Romney Was A Strapping Young Man
Ana Marie Cox is chronicling the story of Mitt Romney strapping his dog in a carrier on the roof of a car during a family trip. This is illegal and quite obnoxious in Massachusetts but the statute of limitations is up.
Romney was proud of the incident. During the trip, the dog crapped all over the roof, down the windshield. Using quick thinking, he pulled into a service station and hosed the roof and glass down. This is supposed to be about his grace under pressure.
It makes him look even creepier if that was possible.
Friday, June 22, 2007
You Have The Right To Remain Stupid
State Police are investigating one of Mitt Romney's top campaign aides for allegedly impersonating a trooper by calling a Wilmington company and threatening to cite the driver of a company van for erratic driving, according to two law enforcement sources familiar with the probe.
Jay Garrity, who is director of operations on Romney's presidential campaign and a constant presence at his side, became the primary target of the investigation, according to one of the sources, after authorities traced the cellphone used to make the call back to him. The investigation comes three years after Garrity, while working for Romney in the State House, was cited for having flashing lights and other police equipment in his car without proper permits.
In the phone call to the Wilmington company, which was recorded by an answering service and obtained by the Globe, a man who identifies himself as "Trooper Garrity with the Massachusetts State Police" complains about the driving of a van owned by Wayne's Drains Middlesex Sewers of Wilmington. The caller repeatedly says he is a trooper and questions when the driver will return to the office.
At this point, maybe we can just print a short list of aides to GOP presidential candidates who don't have "issues" to save us time and them embarrassment.
Saturday, June 09, 2007
Tagg! You're it. The Washington Post delves into the blogging life of the children of Mitt Romney. Think Osmond family but less confrontational and abrasive.
BOSTON -- Tagg Romney, 37, loves the Sox and has a thing for Billy Joel. Matt Romney, 35, always tunes in to "Saturday Night Live," and Josh Romney, 31, likes to surf and water-ski. Ben Romney, 29, hesitates to call his dog, Kingsley, a half yorkie and half poodle, "a yorkie-poo." And Craig Romney, 26, a Tom Brady look-alike, has 337 friends on MySpace and cites his dad, along with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., as his heroes.
Wholesome does not really begin to describe the five adult children of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who for the past few weeks have been sharing such details on Five Brothers, their blog and the most popular feature on the former Massachusetts governor's campaign Web site. The blog is yet another medium to convey the image of dedicated family man that is an essential part of Romney's identity as a candidate. Earlier this week, while most of his opponents introduced themselves during the Republican presidential debate by highlighting their résumés, Romney started with, "I'm a husband, a father, a grandfather . . . ."
They are now worried that they are only reaching the genuinely pious demographic of Republican voters with this G-rated blather, which moves that 3% of the GOP base that doesn't break out the whips and chains on Saturday night, before acting holier than thou on Sunday. So now there are plans for a PG-13/NC-17 blog that will speak to more Americans, and share the Romney message in a way that can touch us all.
Tagg Romney reveals his secret shame when he accidentally touched his penis and didn't go blind. He thought God might be napping so he tried to burn his eyes out with a bottle of bleach. Fortunately his mother had used it all on Mitt's underwear. This lapse is her continuing shame, she didn't toss the bottle immediately away, failing as a housewife. Xanax and gin martinis take the edge off.
Josh Romney got shrinkage when water skiing in front of another man, and this helped him to realize that those secret urges could be controlled as long as he had icy water available. For those who wonder why he has an Igloo chest nearby during all campaign stops, no need to ask further.
Matt Romney's juvenile record is sealed, and the judge told him he didn't have to discuss the matter any more. His court appointed therapist wanted him to open up but he did his 18 sessions and she isn't in charge of him any more.
Ben Romney once left the gate open and his yorkie poo got out and did the canine lambada with the German shephard down the street. He didn't stop it, and he only watches the video tape when in a certain mood.
Craig Romney has paid $25,000 to a celebrity plastic surgeon to make himself look like Tom Brady. He still doesn't. Friends and family tell him he does to stop his addiction. It was very sporting of Tom Brady to show up and give him a pep talk. It was reminiscent of the time Don Drysdale gave a few words to Greg Brady about pitching, baseball, and life.
In this blog, they also reveal that their dad spends more time on his hair than their mom. Ben lied about his age to get into a movie at half price. He was only two weeks past 11, so it didn't really count, did it?
They also reveal that the Stepford Wives was an inspiration to Mitt, who likes to tinker around in the garage as one of his hobbies.
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Mitt Romney has comfortable leads in both the Zogby poll in New Hampshire, and the Des Moines Register poll of Iowa, both just released this week.As one who complains sometimes about the horse race coverage of politics, this is an interesting story. John Edwards' numbers in these two early states also are being underplayed.
A new AP survey suggested that Illinois is demographically the most representative when it comes to race, religion, age, urban vs rural and other factors.
One of the reasons I dislike the Iowa/New Hampshire stranglehold on the start of the season is because of the undue effect they have on the populace. A New AP survey shows Illinois to be the most demographically typical state when it comes to factors such as race, age, income, urban vs rural and the like. What happens in the current system is something called momentum. If Romney and Edwards stay atop in these two key states, they will surpass Giuliani and McCain, or Clinton and Obama respectively to be the front runners. Then we will all be shocked about the big change in the race, when we shouldn't be.
I have only seen candidates in North and South Carolina for Romney. No other candidate has started to saturate the air waves like his campaign has. It's going to start paying off dividends. This early seed money is going to boost further fund raising for him. Or then again, he could be Howard Dean redux.
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Sorry, that's an inside joke for anybody who watched the dreadful Scientology movie Battlefield Earth, The NY Times, via Ana Marie Cox reports that Mitt Romney says the tome by L. Ron Hubbard is his favorite book evah!
When asked his favorite novel in an interview shown yesterday on the Fox News Channel, Mitt Romney pointed to “Battlefield Earth,” a novel by L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology. That book was turned into a film by John Travolta, a Scientologist.
A spokesman said later it was one of Mr. Romney’s favorite novels.
“I’m not in favor of his religion by any means,” Mr. Romney, a Mormon, said. “But he wrote a book called ‘Battlefield Earth’ that was a very fun science-fiction book.” Asked about his favorite book, Mr. Romney cited the Bible.
Romney is being doubly full of crap here. He likes a really bad book by a lunatic, then tries to come and say that he enjoys the bible best. Not the book of Mormon? Really? He is just digging himself in deeper here. I have no more problems with Mormonism than most of the other religions. Romney is just trying to figure out the best answer to questions, and not the truth, and is looking ridiculous in the process.
Battlefield Earth was a terrible book, and a horrific movie. My wife and I saw it opening week-end, deliberately on a lark to mock it. We are bored that way. We paid money to see another movie, so we wouldn't influence the box office, even though it didn't matter much. There were 8 apparent scientologists in the entire theater with us. They were not amused when we mocked the cheesy dialogue, laughed out loud at ridiculous scenes as well as the gaping plot holes, and terrible camera work.
The book wasn't as bad as the movie, but it was close enough. As a Christmas stockign stuffer treat, I got a John Travolta doll from the movie, that is still enclosed in it's packaging. It was on the bargain bin aisle. Hopefully, it will be worth something one day on E-Bay.
Mitt Romney's chances though are dwindling each day.
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Author, radio host, and semi professional George W. Bush teabagger Hugh Hewitt has a new insta-book out that is sure to sweep the right wing nation. I was alerted to it by a spam email from Human Events offering me the book for free. Since the book was just released this Monday, it's either a sign that the book sucks really badly, or that the right wing bulk purchase machine is smoothly running as usual. Actually, it's probably a little of both.
In his book, 'A Mormon in the White House?: 10 Things Every American Should Know about Mitt Romney' (catchy title), Hewitt tells fundamentalists Americans to ignore the underwear, and the whole Joseph Smith thing, as well as to ignore the obvious contradictions between their church's teachings and that of the Church of Christ of Latter Day Saints (Salamanders).
What's amusing to me is the fact that the reviews are coming in and they are spectacular. All by people who have never reviewed a book at Amazon before. I am not suggesting that this is an astroturf campaign, but you do get a complimentary square inch of last year's NY Giants field with every purchase.
Mitt or Hugh apparently couldn't get Publisher's Weekly to allow them to write their own review, but I would take the following critique as positive.
Hewitt is an agreeable, if inelegant, writer, wise enough to take detours (such as an edifying primer on Mormon history and thought) that stave off tedium. He spends far more time extolling Romney than excoriating his Republican and Democratic opponents. This is an efficient and effective exercise in political hagiography.
You are agreeable Hugh. They really like you. I think Mitt needs to do a bit more work. Perhaps he can burn a witch or post videos of him on Youtube bashing gays with Ann Coulter, a baseball bat, and millions more free copies of this new thought provoking book if he truly wants to energize the Republican base.
A follow up point. This book is published by Regnery, so you know it ain't junk!
Friday, March 09, 2007
NORFOLK, Va. -- Some students and alumni at an evangelical Christian university founded by Pat Robertson are upset with the commencement choice of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, a Mormon.
"My initial reaction was, how could they do this?" said Lynne Gilham, a Columbus, Ohio, minister and former reporter who had posted a comment denouncing the choice on a ministry blog. She said she earned a master's degree in journalism from the school, Regent University, in 1992.
Gilham said Friday that she understands "evangelicals in an academic context need to be exposed to other viewpoints." But she fears inviting a speaker of the Mormon faith "would confuse young Christians who are not so firmly grounded in Christian doctrine."
Mitt is going to flash his magic underwear at the young fundamentalists and they suddenly will have the urge to research genealogy and knock on strangers' doors. Mitt's hair actually transmits the Salamander Tablets on rf frequencies that can be picked up by bluetooth transmitters from 250 yards away.
Mitt though is Pat's kind of christian. In fact, I have never heard Romney say a bad word about blood diamonds. Jesus bled on the cross, and some Liberians need to bleed so Pat can buy another mansion in the name of Christ or Joseph Smith. Amen.
"Star" Hugh Hewitt blogger Dean Barnett ponders a deep question for all the ages:
I’ve been crunching the numbers, poring through all of those obnoxious press releases that the DNC sends out. The results may surprise you:
In 2007, the pit-yorkies at the DNC have released a bunch of attack press releases on GOP presidential aspirants. Of those that focused on a single candidate, Mitt Romney got the honor 26 times, John McCain 18 times and Rudy 8 times. In other words, the DNC has aimed its flaccid wrath at Mitt as much as it targeted Rudy and McCain combined. Strangely, the DNC, which obviously has way too much time on its hands, also released one attack just on Tommy Thompson and two on some guy named Gilmore who I guess is also running for president. Who knew?
Why does the DNC have it in for Mitt? Is it because they think he’ll be the ultimate standard bearer? Or is it because they don’t want him to be the ultimate standard bearer? Or perhaps, in applying an Occam’s Razor application, is it because under Howard Dean the DNC is capricious and illogical and just fires at random with no underlying purpose or strategy?
Ummm, perhaps it's because John McCain and Rudy Guiliani are already nationally known figures who already have some familiarity with the American people and Mitt Romney doesn't? Romney has money behind him and has a good shot at winning. However, nobody really knows anything about him. I know Newt Gingrich's playbook is kinda sleazy, but you define the enemy first before he defines himself. Remember that or did you flunk professor Luntz' course? Is it really that confusing when this attack method is deployed back against your side as well?
You aren't too bright are you?
Sunday, March 04, 2007
SEASIDE, Ore. (AP) - Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's presidential bid looks like it's picking up steam in Oregon.
Giuliani easily won a straw poll Sunday taken among delegates to the Dorchester Convention, an annual gathering of influential Oregon Republicans. He picked up 60 votes from attendees, nearly twice that of his closest competitor, former Georgia Rep. Newt Gingrich, who finished with 35 votes.
Among the other marquee candidates, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who has received endorsements from Oregon GOP party chair Vance Day and former gubernatorial candidate Kevin Mannix, pulled in 23 votes. Arizona Sen. John McCain brought up the rear with 19 votes, though he has won the endorsement of Oregon's most prominent Republican, U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith.
Yes, the party of morality loves them the cross dressing Mayors from East Coast cities. The cognitive dissonance created an earthquake according to anybody who has listened to the rhetoric of the GOP since Jerry Falwell put down a chicken wing long enough to mug for a camera.
Guiliani cheats publically, has no experience, has favored abortion, limits to gun rights, lived with a gay couple, dressed in drag, married his cousin, is a Catholic. If a democrat had all those qualities, Karl Rove would die from auto-erotic complications from masturbating over those possibilities for too long. With Rudy though, the media and the GOP are acting like the populace has collective amnesia about their entire agenda of the last 25 years.
I am so glad to see that Gordon Smith, of the terrified of the voters, and now opposing the war is boldly endorsing the most outspoken GOP war hawk. There hasn't been a greater mixed message since we gave Native Americans blankets as a friendly gesture.
Is this all they got? Well, Newt "the infected Giraffe" Gingrich hasn't gotten into the race yet. Perhaps he can marry Romney's wife without going through the pesky fourth divorce. There is Republican unity for 2008. All the candidates suck individually, as a whole though, they are spectacularly crappy.
Friday, March 02, 2007
"I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word ‘faggot,’ so I — so kind of an impasse, can’t really talk about Edwards," Ann Coulter said today at CPAC.
That is pretty bad. You have a prominent Republican activist, at the biggest conservative gathering place to nominally give an endorsement speech to Mitt Romney. She in her speech calls John Edwards a 'faggot' in front of cheering fans.
Hotline believes it's unfair to blame Romney at all though.
Next, there'll be calls for Republican candidates to disassociate themselves from Coulter's remarks. Unfairly, ex-MA Gov. Mitt Romney faces the biggest burden: he spoke right before Coulter and praised her... not knowing what she planned to say.
What a load of codswallop. Romney praised her knowing that she has called for the death of John Paul Stevens, wishing Tim McVeigh blew up the NY Times instead. She has suggested that we should forcibly convert muslims on pain of death to christianity. She has joked about being an anthrax mailer. Everybody knows more highly offensive things she has vomited out of her 78 pound frame.
So Romney should get a pass here according to the MSM because heaven's to Betsy he didn't know the word 'faggot' was coming out of her mouth. Please. Shoot me now.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Mitt Romney has dressed up his candidacy with an endorsement by a prominent citizen of John McCain's home state. He has hired Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio as the honorary chair of his Arizona campaign. Joe Arpaio is the guy who makes prisoners wear pink underwear and eat green bologna in an apparent attempt to make the LSD smuggled into the prison seem more trippy. He is a swell fella.
The Romney camp appointed Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio Monday as honorary chair of the campaign in the state of Arizona.
"The first time I met the governor at a private meeting, first thing he said was 'How's the pink underwear doing?'" Arpaio told FOXNews.com Wednesday.
I am getting all verklempt. Romney will not answer questions about his magical underwear, yet he discusses the pink underwear sweaty prisoners use with a unique fella from the southwest and gives him a job.
With Rudy Giuliani already trying to shore up the drag queen voter portion of GOP primary voters, the undies are flying fast and furiously.
Next, Tom Tancredo discusses boxers or briefs, and the damned brown people who make them.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
In the just released Washington Post ABC News Poll, with Newt Gingrich added as an option, Guiliani leads McCain 44% to 21%. Without Gingrich as an option, Guiliani leads 53% to 23%.
This is quite amusing. You have McCain who has been trying to sell his soul to anybody who will buy. Flip-flopping on gay rights, on guns, on the religious right, desperate for their approval. The only thing this has accomplished is turning off moderates, making little inroads to the Armegeddon crowd who know that he is faking his come to fundy Jesus orgasm.
Mitt Romney scored 4% in the poll btw. This is amongst Republicans. Why is the press going over the records of his great grand-parents to figure out which ones were bigamists when he is just a blip in the numbers currently?
I am very excited about Guiliani leading. Hopefully, he gets nominated before enough of James Dobson's followers realize that he is pro-choice, including at one time, being in favor of late term abortions. He is pro-gay, even living with a gay couple. He is also twice divorced, of course one of those being his second cousin. He is a serial adulterer as well. I also think the video of him in drag hanging out with Donald Trump is going to offend the key Tim Hardaway demographic.
It's electoral magic baby!
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Mitt Romney, who has touted his support of gun owners since launching his presidential campaign, yesterday acknowledged he did not become a member of the National Rifle Association until last August, campaign officials said.
A former advocate of gun control, Romney during his 1994 run for the US Senate backed measures the gun-rights group opposed, such as a five-day waiting period on gun sales and a ban on certain assault weapons.
The former Massachusetts governor has been criticized for changing his positions to appeal to social conservatives voting in Republican primaries. In a nationally broadcast interview yesterday, he also had to explain his switch to a conservative stance on abortion and why he once voted for Democrats in Massachusetts primaries
Your move John McCain. You might just have to blow James Dobson now. Seriously though, both of these guys are humiliating themselves. Just run as the Unity Party candidate or something. Changing core beliefs on the religious right, abortion, gays, guns is demeaning to you and the voters. They aren't going to buy it. Next, Rudy Guiliani is going to convert to the Southern Baptist church. I suggest that there are enough sane Republican primary voters (a questionable assumption to be sure) that one candidate can stand out by not being the equivalent of one of Ted Haggard's week-end companions.
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Byron York has a little blog post up on Mitt Romney, what York says about Romney isn't that original but what fascinates me more is how this post reflects the cynical opportunism that Mr. York endorses as a political philosophy. He acknowledges the fact that Mitt Romney is flipping hard to the right to pander for votes. This does not disturb him at all. It's the fact that Romney can't come up with a better "narrative" for his campaign, which is leading people to notice the fact that Romney is pandering like a whore to get votes in the GOP primary.
I thought I was cynical. Yet, it still warms my heart over when candidates actually mean what they say on the big moral issues. I even give passes to people who disagree on some things as long as they are being honest agents. Byron York apparently just wants to be pandered to by non-believers just as long as they are skilled enough to pull it off. Conservatives wondering why you have gone adrift, look no further than Byron York.
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