Romney

[Ed Jewett]

Conservatives Are Saying This Could Have Been The Moment Mitt Romney Lost The Election

http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/co...ion/19075/

[Peter Lemkin]

Adele, a tax rate of 0.0018% is fair, isn't it?! All of his [off shore, tax-havened] wealth is surely 'trickling down' somewhere on someone....just not in USA and not to anyone who isn't already a multi-millionaire. As much as I have always felt [and still feel] the two parties are but wings of a one party state, this year there is a choice between bad and really, REALLY bad! If he wins, I have a very bad feeling for the fate of the US.....and I was not looking forward another four years of Obama...but we don't have another electoral choice. The real answers have to be activism outside of electoral politics - which is a rigged game.

If it is true that Anonymous hacked his tax returns, why have they not been reposted somewhere - surely they could figure out a way how to. However, it wouldn't surprise me that his tax rates on his millions were very low or zero...that is the usual pattern of the ultra-rich persons and corporations.

The sickness in America is now so deep and so pervasive, it is getting hard to know where to begin to attack and reverse the problems. I guess the answer is everywhere. And fast!

[Keith Millea]

Conservatives Are Saying This Could Have Been The Moment Mitt Romney Lost The Election

This could be the moment for conservatives to march in good ole Jeb Bush.Christian conservatives really don't care for Mormons,and I'm sure would love to get another Bush in power.And,I've come to the conclusion that the Anonymous hacks into Govt. agencies that we have seen are in fact,govt.approved hacks.

[Peter Lemkin]

Republican candidate Mitt Romney continues to face scrutiny over his record at the private equity firm, Bain Capital. The latest controversy to surround Bain concerns how Romney helped found the company with investments from Central American elites linked to death squads in El Salvador. After initially struggling to find investors, Romney traveled to Miami in 1983 to win pledges of $9 million, 40 percent of Bain's start-up money. Some investors had extensive ties to the death squads responsible for the vast majority of the tens of thousands of deaths in El Salvador during the 1980s. The investors include the Salaverria family, whom the former U.S. ambassador to El Salvador, Robert White, has previously accused of directly funding the Salvadoran paramilitaries. In his memoir, former Bain executive Harry Strachan writes that Romney pushed aside his own misgivings about the investors to accept their backing. Strachan writes: "These Latin American friends have loyally rolled over investments in succeeding funds, actively participated in Bain Capital's May investor meetings, and are still today one of the largest investor groups in Bain Capital."

[Adele Edisen]

I am going to say something bold and rash. You may accept it or not. I think this country is in the midst of a fascist takeover.
There, I said it! Maybe I'm not the only one to say and think the same.

Adele

[Ed Jewett]

Adele, this country is NOT in the midst of a fascist take-over. Depending on who you ask and how you count, the fascist takeover was completed decades ago. But, as the item below will demonstrate, this country's politics continue to wallow in the sewer.

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NEW YORK Mitt Romney on Thursday accused President Barack Obama and his allies of launching personal attacks and perpetuating lies about him in TV ads. The Republican also rolled out a new commercial of his own that questioned Obama's values and accused the president of waging war on religious freedom.
Obama's campaign disputed that charge.
"I am seeing some of the ads out there. I don't know whatever happened to a campaign of hope and change," Romney said, alluding to Obama's previous campaign slogan, during an interview on Bill Bennett's radio program, "Morning in America." "I thought he was a new kind of politician. But instead, his campaign and the people working with him have focused almost exclusively on personal attacks ... It's really disappointing."
In the interview, Romney argued that Obama "keeps on just running" ads that various fact-checking organizations have called inaccurate. "They just blast ahead," he said, instead of pulling the ads off the air. But the candidate ignored the fact that he has kept his own ads assailing Obama on the air after these groups have found their claims to be false.
Romney talked generally about ads in the interview but didn't directly refer to a commercial by a Democratic outside group that has dominated the campaign in the last two days.
His campaign has called "despicable" an ad by Priorities USA Action that features a man whose wife died of cancer after he lost his health insurance when he was laid off from a company that was bought by the private equity firm Romney once ran. "I do not think Mitt Romney realizes what he's done to anyone, and furthermore I do not think Mitt Romney is concerned," the man, Joe Soptic, says in the ad.
Obama's campaign has refused to ask the group to pull the spot. Bill Burton, a former White House aide and co-founder of the group, said the ad does not suggest that Romney was responsible for Soptic's wife's death.
"We're not saying Mitt Romney is culpable," Burton told CNN.
The back and forth over the commercial underscored the degree to which the White House campaign has become intensely negative and personal as polls show the race close three months before the Nov. 6 election. Negative commercials from both the candidates and their backers are flooding the roughly nine states that are the most competitive in the hunt to win the 270 Electoral College votes needed for victory.
As controversy raged over the outside group's commercial, Romney's team rolled out one of its own Thursday that asks: "Who shares your values?"
It continues: "President Obama used his health care plan to declare war on religion, forcing religious institutions to go against their faith."
The spot revives a months-old debate over new health rules mandating insurance coverage for birth control without co-pays. Religious institutions have said the rules would force them to violate their faith. Obama says exemptions for churches and compromise language on charities fully protects religious freedom.
"When religious freedom is threatened, who do you want to stand with?" the ad asks and says the answer is Romney.
Obama spokeswoman Lis Smith responded to the ad, saying: "President Obama believes that, in 2012, women should have access to free contraception as part of their health insurance, and he has done so in a way that respects religious liberty."
The issue flared anew after roiling the campaign months ago when the new health care rules were announced, and it reflected efforts by Romney and Obama to go after women voters. Polls show they heavily favor Obama.
Seeking to keep that edge, Obama reintroduced the contraception issue into the campaign in Colorado when he was introduced Wednesday by Sandra Fluke, whose congressional testimony earlier this year became a flashpoint in the debate over contraception and women's health. Fluke gained notoriety after conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh called her a slut because of her support for the Obama health care law's requirement that insurance companies cover contraception.
On Wednesday, Fluke criticized Romney for not rebuking Limbaugh more strongly.
"If Mr. Romney can't stand up to extreme voices in his own party, then he will never stand up for us," she said to a predominantly female audience in Denver.
Obama was spending a second day in the state Wednesday, visiting Pueblo and Colorado Springs. He carried Colorado in 2008, but he and Romney are engaged in a tight contest for the state's nine electoral votes.
Obama was expected to highlight his support for tax credits for wind energy manufacturers in Colorado and other states. The credit, which helps offset the cost of electricity production during a wind farm's first 10 years, is set to expire Dec. 31 unless Congress extends it. Obama supports extending the credit; Romney does not.
"At a moment when homegrown energy is creating new jobs in states like Colorado and Iowa, my opponent wants to end tax credits for wind energy producers," Obama said in excerpts of the speech released by his campaign.
Without the tax credits, as many as 37,000 American jobs, including hundreds in Colorado, are at risk, Obama said, using figures from a study financed by the wind industry.
Across the country, Romney held a fundraiser early Thursday on Park Avenue in New York City.
"I need you to speak the truth talk to your friends and colleagues," he implored donors at a breakfast that raised more than $1.5 million for his campaign. Woody Johnson, a top fundraiser, told the crowd the campaign is "halfway" to its ultimate fundraising goals for the election.
Romney was spending the rest of the day in Boston, preparing for Friday's start of a four-state bus trip and an announcement, expected soon, on his running mate.

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[Ed Jewett]

Romney's picks for VP include Portman from Ohio. I understand that all Wikipedia entries on possible VP's have been frozen.

[Peter Lemkin]

I am going to say something bold and rash. You may accept it or not. I think this country is in the midst of a fascist takeover.
There, I said it! Maybe I'm not the only one to say and think the same.

Adele

No, Adele, I don't think it is rash...only bold of you to say it...and it needs to be said more and by more...and something done about it. ALL the things we write about on this Forum and refer to on the internet, when taken as a whole, can only be interpreted just as you put it. I have often on this Forum, and before on the EF [before I was kicked off for speaking truth to power there - I guess] used the metaphor of America 'crossing the line' [i.e. when it becomes fascist] and have often stated that I think that it already has some years back, and is only getting worse. One can debate the 'when'; but I think any thinking and aware person can't debate the what and where it logically leads if not stopped. I'm not offended if someone thinks we have not yet crossed the 'line', as long as they see that point coming nearer. What we need is to stop this movement in its tracks, expose it and totally reverse it....wherever along its trajectory it is......all current roads lead to a corporate-run, military-dominated, police state neo-fascist entity where once stood our Country, imperfect as it was. It has had a long and sad history. You pointed out some major points going back to the turn of the last century and up through WW2. Those after WW2 are more clear to most. There have been seminal moments of increased 'grip' over the polity and Nation with certain events such as the major assassinations, covert operations, wars [overt and covert], rise of the Oligarchy and Corporations running the branches of Government, rise of propaganda and diminution of laws, legal rights, due process, adherence to the Constitution and International Treaty obligations. I could go on. You are, IMHO, 100% correct....sadly for all of us, in and out of the USA. The pace to me seems fevered now since 9-11 and the unPatriot Act et al. Time to roll up our sleeves, expose it for what it is and get all good persons to join us in reversing it. Its been done before and if not done this time [and soon], I worry for what will be 'left' and if too far advanced if recovery will still be possible. Obviously, we are far advanced and the sooner the better for reversing it. It will not be easy and it will take more than we few on this Forum. I hope we few, however, have signaled the clarion call and pointed out the signposts, with references. It will take a mass movement to win the Country back. There have, in the past, been partial take-backs; only to have the forces of regression rise up again. Seems to me this is the worst situation the Country has ever been in and time for the roll back to begin apace! Before it is too late!

[Jan Klimkowski]

Mitt Romney Started Bain Capital With Money From Families Tied To Death Squads

The perfect capitalist career.

A member of a child-abusing, misogynistic cult whose MO is to serve as cut outs in black ops.

Mutt is very much in the Bush tradition of American Fuhrers.

[Peter Lemkin]

Mitt Romney Started Bain Capital With Money From Families Tied To Death Squads

A member of a child-abusing, misogynistic cult whose MO is to serve as cut outs in black ops.

Frighteningly, many behind the curtains of 'Power' would see such a C.V. and background as nearly perfect! - totally corrupt and amoral; blackmailable too!