Romney just said:

"I'm going to get rid of programs. I'm going to eliminate programs, I'm going to cut programs out of the federal government," Romney said.

Previously, he said "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt."

As well as let's leave the Housing Market alone to "bottom out''.

Mr. RiskyBusiness would probably add, 'Let it all go to Hell and let God sort it out.'

Backhouse

Romney just said:

"I'm going to get rid of programs. I'm going to eliminate programs, I'm going to cut programs out of the federal government," Romney said.

Previously, he said "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt."

Yes Backhouse, unbelievable huh??!!!

Most Americans want to be LEFT ALONE to succeed and triumph without the Federal Government looking over thier shoulder!!!

PS...funny how Obama is letting the USPS go south huh?? What up with that?? lol

What you don't seem to understand is that artificially sustaining a company doesn't make it stronger, it weakens it. In an open market, having detroit go bankrupt would have allowed stronger companies to come in and pick up pieces, taking the good and throwing out the bad, resulting in a stronger, more stable market. The same goes for the housing market. The government artificially bolstered the housing market and it needs to fail so that good pieces are picked up and bad is left behind, resulting in a stronger housing market in the end. Artificially supporting failing companies that can't compete only leads to more debt, higher taxes and higher prices.

"Let Detroit go bankrupt" is enough to get me to vote for Romney, why should my tax payments be used to bail out Detroit? I am tired of people who screw up getting off without paying their own bills.

Justoneguy: No, most Americans don't want to be left alone. Most Americans want "theirs" and could care less about anybody else. The Tea Party want the "government to keep it's hands off their Medicare" - they want Social Security. Have a hurricane hit or a tornado- "Where's FEMA?" Iran does somes " go after them" Gay perosn want to get married- "We need a new amendment" As the largest employer in the country, most people get pensoions and medical care from the government. State county and local governments give healthcare, pensions and retirement benefits to millions of Americans. The highways, bridges and damns that hold our drinking water and power a lot of our energy- all built by the government. No one seems to complain until they don't work. Trust me- we ALL want the government in our lives.

chuck-3392754

You and the rest of the used tea bags do not support the president. So whats new? Do you think that your racist rant will change any minds? Go back to school and finish the 5th grade.

You wrote: "Obama is letting the USPS go south."

Wrong.

The $20 Billion in postal losses you've heard about does not come from mail, but a 2006 congressional mandate - under President Bush:

That required the Postal Service to pre-fund future retiree health benefits for the NEXT 75 YEARS.

Yes, seventy-five years.

NOT ONLY THAT, they required the Postal Service to do this nigh-impossible task WITHIN A DECADE.

No other public agency or private firm has EVER been required to DO SO.

As I watched Romney in Kalamazoo, I noticed that Romney finally started acting like his dad, George Romney. George Romney was so respected, a great politician and a great man. He would warm up crowds by his mere presence. Obama doesn't know what he's up against if he's going to have to go against George Romney Jr. Romney was brilliant and made everyone feel excited that he was their candidate and their statesman. Obama better do something fast because if this is what Obama has to face, Obama will lose as much as McCain lost to him.

That's just what we need here in Michigan, sitting around the fifty five gallon drum burning wood from an abandoned house waiting on Krogers to throw out yesterdays spoiled food, a good laugh, Mr. Romney. He, He. Yes sir, that will cure the ache in our belly, and stave of this cold February wind. Can you spare a dollar, a dime just won't cut it any longer. No that's not a typical scene in Michigan, but it would be if Mr. Romney had had his way in 2009. He must think the Republican managers at Ford, GM and Chrysler who work at those car companies who would have been out of work, will be snowed by a few laughs. Its a funny thing about vultures, you can always see them circling overhead waiting on something to die. Move on Romney we aint dead yet.

Backhouse: To have a brilliant, extraordinary, majorly good-looking, caring, consistent, diligent, hardworking, man who loves his country & who has true vision for the 21st century - running for re-election as President.

Yea, coming out of a recession, still shedding 700,000+ jobs a month - the first thing Obama does is saddle the economy with Obamacare, the largest entitlement in history that stuns business into virtual stagnation for 3 years and counting. Simply brilliant.

Obama cripples the energy inustry, the lifeblood of the economy. Obama floods the world with trillions of quanitative easing dollars, de-valuing the dollar causing the price of gas, utilities, food, to skyrocket. Brilliant.

A stimulus program that dropped the median income twice as much as the actual recession did and resulted in the worst long term unemployment since the Great Depression.

Extraordinary?

Yea, more Americans on food stamps than any time in history, more Americans pushed to the poverty level than in any time in history, the first credit down grade in history, 49% of all American families now have at least 1 family member on federal assistance .... is all extraordinarily ridiculous.

Using $10 million in stimulus money to sell 2,500 assault rifles to Mexican drug cartels is extraordinary. Having tax payers spend billions to re-pay Obama's billionaire bundler buddies with Solyndra, Tesla, Fiskar, etc., etc., etc., is extraordinarily dispicable.

Majorly good-looking?

What a leg humper?

What do you think being president is, a beauty contest?

Caring?

Sacrificing 1,252 American lives in Afghanistan, more than twice as many Bush lost in 8 years - all for a cause Obama will simply walk away from having gained nothing .... is caring?

Bankrupting America and our kids future in pursuit of his big government agenda is caring

Hardworking?

What a joke. Check his daily schedule. Other than the National Prayer day speech / prayer, Obama hasn't started a day before 9:30 AM in the last 5 months.

Loves his country?

Name one thing that is that better today than it was January 2009.

Obama loves Obama and Obama's narcissistic dreams.

Vision for the 21st century?

What was it 4 years ago ..... "Hope and Change?"

And 3 years later, more Americans than any time in history have been dropped from the labor force because they literally have no "hope" of finding a job!

How willfully blind and ignorant does one have to be to want to re-elect this guy?

I keep reading posts about how great president Obama is and how he well get four more years.

I still dont see what they see in the man. To me he is a failure and needs to go. Any president with a country in this shape would lose.

I think Romney would be a step up.But he would still have to deal with the children in both houses.

I actually think Ron Paul is the answer,im sick of wars and he is the only sane sounding person on the stage.Obamas Iran war well be a big mistake.

paxvista

What you don't seem to understand is that artificially sustaining a company doesn't make it stronger, it weakens it. In an open market, having detroit go bankrupt would have allowed stronger companies to come in and pick up pieces, taking the good and throwing out the bad, resulting in a stronger, more stable market.

It sure gets tiring when people quote verse and text from economy 101 text books.

The answer, of course, is "true, except when the nation is facing total collapse... then all bets are off."

I seriously hope we either keep the current administration or vote in someone that has the balls to make the kinds of difficult and complex decisions that were made. The worst thing we could do is get someone in there that does "formula business"... you know... the ones that have cookie-cutter processes for any given sitiuation and never vary from them. Because, eventually, those kinds of managers fail when they encounter a new variation, and when they do, they fail big.

Chuck - " I would rather see them (my kids) die fighting the inner terror we see today coming from people like OBAMA. People who have no morals of life"

Well that makes all the sense in the world! Sounds like your morals of life are just fine.

Bob, When Obama took over we were not anywhere near coming out of Bush's recession, so the first thing he did was pass a stimulus bill, which started to turn things around despite being only half the size that most economists thought was necessary. Just look at the number of jobs being lost each month: increasing until the stimulus, then shrinking. Well, I think he did help women be treated fairly in the job market first before the stimulus.

Since Republicans have tried to obstruct Obama since day one, we haven't yet been able to escape the effects of the recession, which is why so many people are still on food stamps.

Way too many people have been killed in Afghanistan, because Obama has had to clean up the mess Bush left. Remember when Bush started a war, and then neglected it to start another completely unnecessary war somewhere else, one that killed over 4000 of our young soldiers?

As far as hardworking, I would put Obama up against any other recent president. You don't think he starts his work before any public functions? At least he hasn't spent most of his time on vacation like Bush, and isn't in bed by 9PM.

I know being good-looking isn't a prerequisite, and he's probably a little too tan for your tastes anyway, but it does help during an election, so until you can come up with a decent opponent, good luck trying to beat him in November.

ha ha ha that's so funny your multi millionaire father chose a location with supressed property values as a place to stick his greedy stinking carcass. Then follows it up with ye this a supressed area in the state I suggest all rich folk buy up some cemetary plats because you know people in housng are willing to take a few bucks for any reason. sorry sack of human waste. Lets cut taxes and give the 1% even more of the share of the American dream after all thew little people can not buy commercials and I think I saw one that had two cars in the driveway they can afford to offer corporate welfare in exchange for a little smaller ss check and a little smaller safety net no one is rioting yet we must not have pushed them completely over the edge .

Bob1805084; Name one thing that is that better today than it was January 2009.

Pacer: I sold 8 houses last month. 14 since Thanksgiving. They're coming out of the woodwork. That much activity, from primary and secondary homeowners, tells me things are light years better than 2009, a year in which I sold about 6 all year. The economy has to shake out. It has zip to do with Obama or the Republicans. Oh it has to do with ONE republican: George Bush. His aborted mess of an economy is only just now starting to be eliminated.

There is also a paradigm shift in jobs. Technology has rendered many irrelevant. Nothing either party can do will change that. That will come very slowly.

Well he should be funny..ALL CLOWNS ARE!

Well he should be funny..ALL CLOWNS ARE!

Willard is creepy clown kind of funny!

That awkward laugh of his unnerving... meh...meh...meh...

Make sure to tip your waitress! ;o)

Pacer, glad to hear things are looking up for You, but most every business I talk to are struggling including mine. The only sector I talk to that unanimously say they are good, is gas and oil. Bush was really not the culprit, although He did oversee a lot of bad deals. Look to Clinton for the real mess! He is the one that created the housing bubble, it looked great at the time, everyone was getting a house, even if they couldn't afford it, and construction was booming! There was the trickle down and all sectors were clicking. Then fast forward to Bush II, the people that couldn't afford to buy the house defaulted, and everything crashed ! That is typical government management ! How long will it take for people to figure out the government can't manage their own bowel movements! How many more programs do they have to bankrupt before people figure this out, medicare, Fannie, Freddie, US postal service... the list goes on. Fiesty You seem to be all knowing, tell Me how the great one can reverse this trend? They need to go back to infrastructure and national defense, and leave the rest to the private sector!!!

This country is in a complete mess. It's an election year and there is nobody stepping up to the plate that is qualified. Considering that Mr. Obama has taken us down a road that is quite frightening and if we continue down that path, it is my opinion, our republic is doomed. I'm not saying this as a slam to the president because most of us will admit that some of his actions have produced areas of limited freedom. Just one example is the international treaty he signed on Jan 27 allowing foreign countries to dictate to the United States what websites need to be taken down and it also allows for examination of your personal computer at borders. Mr. Obama did this without the ratification of Congress. I'm not sure if people are aware this is in direct violation of the Constitution. These are the types of actions that have those on the right very concerned about the motives of Mr. Obama.

On the republican side, who is the candidate the establishment republicans are pushing ahead? Why of course it's the joker... Mitt Romney. Romney has many flaws and the media has exposed most of them to us... along with his fellow republican Newt Gingrich. While it is commonplace for candidates to do their level best to take down the others, they also expose all weaknesses for the general election. I guess that's just the system we all live in. The other candidates have been taken up and then down...

At the beginning of this primary season, I wrote that it was going to be very interesting... was I mistaken... This hasn't been interesting at all, it's been a total travesty. We are faced with re-electing a very questionable president or electing a republican establishment president... neither are good for this country and with that being the case I do not see things getting better at all.

The Congressional Budget Office, the government's non-partisan scorekeeper,

said the Affordable Care Act would save over $100 billion over the next ten
years,

and over $1 trillion in the following decade.

Actions taken by this President averted a Great Bush Depression. Instead, we are climbing out of a Great Bush Recession, not thanks to GOP leaders who vowed to block ALL attempts by the government to DO SO.

Face It. Stop pretending.

Backhouse, please tell Me Your not serious. First of all read My post above, then look it up for Yourself and read about the american reinvestment act. The President has done nothing but prolong the misery suffered by the American people, that was created by the government. We have been on a very wrong path since the great depression. Until people like Yourself wake up and figure out that it is not a Republican or Democratic problem, and that the system is totally corrupt and broke, We My friend are doomed.

The stimulus bill: Though watered down by GOP congressionals who pledged to Norquist/Koch never to pay equal effective taxes and provide much-needed revenues while we are recovering from a Great Recession ...

Saved the United States from falling down a giant hole and prevented us from the major problems facing Europe RIGHT NOW.

GOP/Koch/Norquistians don't care about YOU or ME, and they are not hiding what they are doing.

= Running the United States of Amerca into the ground, demonizing the United States President, and turning the good people of America into minimum-wage, voiceless masses.

btw. EXXON makes the most profits of any company in the world and pays zero taxes.

drwtsn,

Bob, When Obama took over we were not anywhere near coming out of Bush's recession,

That's either willful ignorance or a lie. The recession by economic science definition began in December 2007, peaked in Sept 2008 and ended in June 2009, way before anything Obama could have done had time to take effect.

Just look at the number of jobs being lost each month: increasing until the stimulus, then shrinking.

Although a lagging indicator, and the fact that there were still net losses, job creation was picking up - peaking at over 300,000 new jobs in April 2009 (800,000 lost in April for net 500,000 lost) when Obamacare was being passed. Job creation fell to 45,000 in May and then sunk to around 7,000 for months to come.

Obamacare is a job killer. Obama's own CBO stated it would kill 800,000 jobs on its own.

Way too many people have been killed in Afghanistan, because Obama has had to clean up the mess Bush left. Remember when Bush started a war, and then neglected

Obama stated that Afghanistan was the war that had to be fought - that he would win it - so he dithers for a year trying to come up with a plan as losses double - then doubles down on the deployment and announces a "we quit" date. Tantamount to doubling down on the flop and announcing you are going to fold on the river.

Asinine.

Obama's monthly losses are 5-6 TIMES the losses under Bush ... all for a place he is just going to walk away from!

Despicable.

As far as hardworking, I would put Obama up against any other recent president.

Bush rountinely had his PDBs at 6:30 AM - Obama's are at 9:30 AM. Bush had literally worked almost half a day before Obama shows up in the office.

Check the president daily schedule ... go back through the months .... it is appalling how little the community organizer in chief actually works.

good luck trying to beat him in November.

Thanks, we need it with half of America having it head up its colon mindlessly believing the crap you posted and voting on a guy based on his looks or rendition of Sweet Home Chicago.

Just another load of ould Whoppers.

You bring out the 'Job-killer" line when we have created 3.7 million private sector jobs over the last 23 months. Manufacturing: 50k manufacturing jobs added in January - highest monthly gain since 1998,

N.B. Despite the fact that Republican Governors cut 700,000 public sector jobs, as part of their Kill-America plan.

bob,

The President’s daily schedule is what the administration and deputy press secretary decides what they wish to publish. He attends meetings all day long including phone calls to Foreign Nation leaders, State Governors, leaders in Congress and people of importance including regular Americans and, yes donors/bundlers. The schedule does not represent anything close to his actual daily schedule – and
you know it.

I’m sure you are aware that President did not take “daily briefings on Sundays. Sundays were a non-work day for Bush unlike most all other Presidents.

Willard does do a lot of free association when he is off script. Graves, China, the moon and grandpa the lousy builder...

I know it is Friday night, but he is a Mormon and does not drink. Maybe this is his way to kick back and relax????

LOL

I see, daddy grew up poor cause grandpappy was in "Housing" having a mortgage is a real bitch isn't Mitts? /snark

Daddy couldn't be happy with just any burial plot, he had to have the cheapest one in the state! /snark

He's getting the cut it off sign from his handlers and doesn't want to repeat it in front of the audience because it will be used against him, Hey Mitts, what did you just do to yourself, leave everyone with a vision in their minds of your fingers slashing their way across the neck as a way to call it quits....

Was that a subliminal note that you know where you stand?

GBM,

'Miss' SugarCupid Business Opportunity post at #1.1

Ever seen that on here before?

Her post was just deleted as advertising..... More sex trash.

I agree and the writer claimed he was just downright funny??? Does Romney think closing businesses and losing jobs is funny? Probably because all he ever had to do was write a check; not work

Hi Backhouse, Yes it was on another thread, earlier Fri. may have been way down on FT.

Great work as usual up above!! You go GF

Gingerbread M,

GF ??!

Brainb,

Maybe in the old days before cable, nominees made fools of themselves during the primaries but most of us never heard about it.

We only had Cronkite and the newspapers...

It is painful to watch.

But not as painful as the returns from voters this November if you support the epic fail Obama!

Brian,

I couldn't agree more. The classic 'nail on the head'. As a lifelong Repub, I feel sad. If I were to be a Dem, I'd feel really positive about now. Really, is this the best we have to offer?

Glenn,

I'm a progressive democrat and even I am sorry that all this is going on with the GOP. I keep thinking, "Really? Really? is the GOP base so demented that this is all they've got?" I've got Republican friends who feel like people without a tribe now. They don't get this either. We need the balance of ideas in this country -- but this isn't going to work. The longer the GOP uses fear and loathing as the way they influence their voters, the worse things will get.

If you think the primaries are painful, wait until November. They'll be blaming each other more then than now. They'll make Marlon Brando's performance in On The Waterfront pale in comparison. I can see only one candidate left with a little dignity and the Republicans will have to do a lot of purifying, washing and polishing on him to get him ready for 2016. Paul will go on to Republican heaven, Romney wil be banished to Bain headquarters, and Gingrich will be in Court facing a divorce Judge and won't have time for any politicking as he tries to save some of his millions. If it doesn't kill you it only makes you stronger, that's America folks we get stronger with every attempt upon our system. We're going to bounce back despite every thing our current passel of politicians have thrown at us.

I agree, KJBunn. I'm a "liberal" democrat and not trying to be snarky here, but the men running for the republican nomination are scary. The Republicans can do better than this. I know they can. There are/must be moderates in the party who are intelligent, responsible folks with ideas, plans, etc. that are not all tied up in religious fantasies, contraceptive deniers and in some cases, just total BS.

The scary part is that someone like Santorum would try to impose his religion, his "social" beliefs on the rest of the country AND he could win if he's the nominee. I've decided that even though President Obama could whip the Santorums of this world easily, I no longer laughingly want Santorum to win his party's nomination. I believe, based on his past performance, that Romney is NOT so far to the right; and if he were the nominee and won, he wouldn't try to drag the country back to 1954 on social issues. I believe/hope he is just pandering to the far right with some of the things he's saying now.

Please, please. We can't have a theocracy or someone who believes that small women business owners like myself, who employ people btw, need to be regulated to only being homemakers, although I'm a homemaker also; or that my daughter can no longer dictate whether she wants to have children or not.

Why are these men who spout off about small government all the time trying to intrude government and laws into our most personal lives? Makes no sense.

Im not sure of what your afraid of,Romneys voting record is similar to Obamas.

How do you like that bill that just passed,were going to have predator drones flying in american skys.

Obama has just taken GB,s police state even further.

This HAS to be about the most painful republican primary I've ever lived through

OMG Brian - something else I agree with you on! lol

As entertaining as it may be for us liberals, when the laughter stops, it's replaced with agony.

From the SoCal Peanut Gallery

Northstar makes a good point. The mind-bogggling assortment of easily accessible instant coverage just makes the campaign process immediate and, for lack of a better term, in your face. Every move these people make is instantly available on TV, iPhones, computers, etcetera. The sheer quantity of information instantly available is unprecedented.

For better or worse.

My take on all this? In the past information has been more filtered by before it reached the public. Advances in information dissemination tend to increasingly bypass filters, leaving an evaluation as to the validity and value of the information more up to the reader/ viewer/ observer. Definitely more democratic but as with anything an increase in democracy demands an corresponding increase in individual responsibility.

Political sniping, often at an absurd and distressing level, has been with us from the start. It is just so much more visible now. Both candidates and electorate need to realize this, apply historical perspective, and process the non-stop tsunami of immediate information intelligently. Not an easy task!

Herman Cain failed miserably to understand the power of instant information. Mitt Romney is learning, but too late? I think the the Romney stadium thing was not a reflection of lack of support, but simply bad planning by his people. They knew ahead of time about how many would be attending, thought they had the killer camera angles to make it look bigger than it was, and, well oops. Oops for everyone. Makes Mr. Romney look silly, and the immediate conclusion drawn by observers is his support is fading badly, when in fact the intent was never to fill a stadium.

Good article in the LA TImes this morning regarding California's increasing validity in the primary process. Our primary is in June, normally too late to matter, but this year the candidates are paying more attention to the Golden State. California is a blue state overall but outside LA and SF there's a lot of red.

I think I finally have it figured out, The Repubs asked for some 'Political Wonks' to run their campaigns and they ended up with a bunch of 'Political Wonkas' instead!

The GOP is self destructing shamelessly and very publicly. President Obama is, therefore, a lock for his reelection. Hell, he leads all of the useless Republican candidates by a strong margin and he hasn't even begun to campaign in earnest yet! This is going to be one of the most one-sided elections since the Goldwater debacle of '64. Face it, the GOP is on the wrong side of history with its failed right wing extremist political ideology and its incompetent wannabe candidates thrashing around on the media.

Obama by default in November! America is holding an election and the Republican Party isn't going to show up!

Obama by default in November! America is holding an election and the Republican Party isn't going to show up!

WE all do have fantasies don't we, Mine?

Dr Paul wins the nomination and beats Obama in a landslide larger than Reagan's in '84.

My, that is one serious delusion you are nurturing, Egilman. Paul is running a poor fourth in a four-horse race and has no chance of winning anything except a bus ride home after he bails out of the GOP primary race.

Nice try, though. Come back when you sober up.

And it is not funny

Notice how vague it is and no detail of what and where he's going to cut?
Could it be that he hopes everyone thinks the cuts will be somewhere else?
Or is it just a case that he doesn't really plan any cuts, just more GOP "Borrow and Spend, Deficits don't matter" budgets just like Bush.

CM you idiot, the news paraphrased his real speech if you listened to the talk, he covers all of that. Media slants bias however they want in support of Obama, or Santorum. Listen to his speech and educate yourself. He explains all of it, and actually gave a great talk tonight. One of the best so far this year by both Dems and Repubs. Im an independent, thought this one was of his better nights. But according to the media, he did horrible... Listen to the whole speech if you can find it and see what you think before judging based on American media.

Justin W - I listened to his speech - he signed Grover Norquist's BS to put the government in a bathtub, he signed onto Paul Ryan's plan to voucher Medicare and also he signed onto Huckabee's birth begins as the sperm touches an egg

This man is so desperate he would sign anything you put before him

Now having said that - I truly feel sorry for him - I think he's a good person - but selling your soul to the devil - they will make him twist and turn and that's not what this country needs right now

Romney's time has come and gone - he should have challenged Bush JR when he might have had a shot

He caught the wrong bus at the wrong time - too late!

But only those programs that don't benefit the Republicans, We're going to slash and burn hell out of the rest of them. The nerve of them poor folks, who don't work, wanting a handout, oh we'll keep the foodstamp program, cutting that off would hurt Kellogs and Kraft Cheese to much and the ranchers in Texas. We'll eliminate that pesky Cost of Living Index Department too. How you going to give a raise if you don't know how much the cost of living increased. We're going to shuffle them entitlement programs around so much nobody will no what he's entitled to. I'm thinking age 70 is about right for retirement, anyone wanting out before that is just malingering. Yes, I've got a whole posse figuring out what we need to get rid of, I like to call them Romney's Raiders.

It is fascinating to watch the Republicans show everyone what they are really like. Cut everything and not propose how to fix problems........except that these cuts will miraculously cure the needs of citizens who want less government, less taxes, less interference in their lives, less health care mandates and less social security and Medicare............errr maybe not on those last two...just less payments into those programs from their paychecks.

When everything is cut, gasoline is $2/gallon but all highways and bridges in the country charge hefty tolls, hospitals are no longer required to take in everyone in their Emergency wards (bad business model) and we all need to buy water since EPA and FDA will be gutted and pollution and healthy food will be controlled only by "responsible" big corporations............then we will all be happy and FREE.

Yeah Mitt, you had 'em rolling in the aisles in Kalamazoo. but just remember Michigan is the home of Motor City; Detroit. And you are one of the buffoons who voted against the successful bailout of GM and Chrysler. It worked and your callous disregard for the livelihoods of fellow Michiganders means the voters won't forget.

"LET DETROIT GO BANKRUPT" Mitt Romney

I kept thinking who does Romney remind me of???? And now I know, howdy-doody

nope, like everything about Mitts nothing specific.....

Cutting any program is a start...better than epic fail Obama.

$10,000 dollars, Rommel Romney wants his money back he lost in the bet.

Idiots, listen to the speech. The news yours truly both msn and cnn in their story's only put bits and pieces of his talk in their story. Find the speech and listen and he explains it very boldly and in detail. Pretty good plan actually. Media will always bias to the candidates they want in power, Obama for example gets great spin offs on any talks he gives... Santorum gets great support as well. Media puppets the un-educated and un-willing to learn American sheep followers of their news into voting for who they want to be in power... Mitt actually gave a very organized great speech tonight that was a better economic plan than any of the candidates on both sides of the parties have given lately. Find the talk and listen to it without believing what the media tells you to think. Learn something... This coming from an independent who has never voted repulican. Educate yourselfs people, actually listen to the speeches, not just read the news of what the media tells you they said or to believe in.

Justin W - You are not an independent - I have read all of your posts you are a Republican - just too ashamed to admit it

He is neither Republican, nor Independent. he is a seer of the first water albeit a blind one, and partially deaf to boot. His crystal ball is more like the toilet bowl just before you flush it. It is true we have a multiple number of Departments and Bureaus that need to be eliminated because of duplication and possibly a number of programs that need modification to cut back on waste. But Mr. Romney has laid out no specific plan as to what his program would be in tackling these problems. President Obama tried to do just this recently and was accused by the Republicans of the same tactics they propose to do if elected. He wanted to combine several Departments which had overlapping agendas. Who voted it down. Our seer hears what he wants to hear and translates this as gospel. Double speak is Romney's forte as in let them go belly up but I didn't really mean file for bankruptcy.

Say goodbye to the real joke trying his hardest to lead this Nation from the Whitehouse otm. LOL

justoneguy

Rommel Romney is giving up? It's about time.

...no starstruck....in your dreams. Epic Fail Obama is gettin shown the door.

Justoneguy, you're a broken record. Come up with something new. You're predictable and boring.

Ummm, something new is coming in November Jaguar, so better find a job.

You're absolutely right, something is coming new in November, a democrat controlled House.

They had that with obummer and didnt do anything.

Not really. Democrats only had a filibuster proof majority for a couple months. Look it up and see for yourself, I dare you.

Only 4 months actually. The majority of the US population were screaming for health care for ALL, and that is when it was passed.

SuckerFish

Romney, like a lot of the SUPER Rich,

HA HA....sorry 'sucker' Obama and his ilk haven't been pulled from a food line...good luck in November with that stale trash...

http://wonderwall.msn.com/tv/maher-pledges-1-million-to-obama-support-group-1668700.story

Bill Maher announced during a Yahoo-webcast special, "CrazyStupidPolitics," that he was
giving $1 million to Priorities USA Action, a super political action committee
backing the president. Even as he made his sizeable pledge, Maher mocked the
committee's "tongue-twister name," joking that it was dreamed up by Borat,
the English-addled Eastern European comic creation of Sacha Baron Cohen.A cynic on
politics who often takes liberal stands on issues on his HBO talk show,
"Real Time," Maher joins DreamWorks Animation executive Jeffrey
Katzenberg and the Service Employees International Union as the committee's top
funders. Katzenberg gave the group $2 million, and the union donated $1
million.

Does Mitt Romney care most about the poor, the rich, or the middle class?

....deparate comment Nathan...good to know you folks are grasping at straws.

Desperate? I want Romney to win the nomination. I don't like him, but the idea of Santorum, Gingrich, or Paul getting anywhere close to even possibly becoming president is just too terrible to even consider. I'd rather risk seeing a heartless, dishonest robber-baron in that office because he may occasionally do the right thing, motivated by pure self-interest. Gingrich is utterly corrupt, and Paul and Santorum are truly committed to absurd, unworkable ideologies and would do tremendous damage trying to shove them down America's throat. Romney doesn't believe in anything, which actually makes him much less dangerous.

Unfortunately, even your optimism can't win an election Nathan. Obama has had 4 years to try his ideas, much of the time with a friendly House & Senate behind him. These facts will come to light after the proper nominee has been established and then Obama will go.

"Friendly" House and Senate? I do not think "friendly" means what you think it means.

A conservative,Liberal and a Teabagger walk into a bar,the bartender says "Hi Willard"!

I think I finally have it figured out, The Repubs asked for some 'Political Wonks' to run their campaigns and they ended up with a bunch of 'Political Wonkas' instead!

Obama/Biden 2012

Stormrider54 I before e except after c? There are rules that sheep should not follow.

Obama reminds me of Nero.

I know what you mean. Both names have the exact same number of letter o's in them.

StormRider54: I totally agree with you that they are better than President Obama because when it comes to being dumb they(the republicans) win hands down, and they should have patents on know how to lie, cheat on females, steal, use the willie lynch letter intellect on how to belittle other race's under the cover of B.S, use religion as a weapon against people who do not know any better(mostly southern evangelical's and tea party people), having as many kids as they can produce without concern for the physical or mental health of the woman and then talk that crap about it being gods will, they may as well say that they did not have sex when they were younger and are now making up for lost time by being a sex addict(except for Newt Gingrich who was just a plain old whore before he was 20 years old), Plus pissing off the dutch about their way of life was very, very dumb and having a rally in ford field with less than 2000 people was even worst. When it comes to issues like these and having the teapublicans intellect you had better believe that that they are better than President Obama in their own twisted minds.

"Ann drives a couple Cadillacs, actually."

Well you can't expect her to drive a green one with her red shoes, now

Yankee Samurai

blah blah blah A chicken hawk, multimillionaire Morman cultist who believes that he will one day attain godhood and populate his own world with his spirit babies, that Jesus Christ and Satan are twin brothers, and who wears magic underwear, blah blahb blah. blah blah blah...an absolutely heretical cult by every definition. SHEEP. "Baa-Baa."

HA HA...you funny...what a bunch of nonsense.

Mitt Romney’s own words:

"Let Detroit Go Bankrupt."
"I don't care about very poor people."
"Corporations are people! Of course they are!"
"I like to be able to fire people."
"$10,000 bet??"
"Ann drives a couple Cadillacs, actually."

Obama's own words...

Obama apologizes to Afghanistan for Quran burning

Sorry, I'll take the guy that knows leadership anyday. See ya at the polls loser!!

Hey Idiots. We will soon look like greece! If Obama gets another term. Mitt is a good guy Zero $ for his wages at the Olympics and as the Govenor. As for the religion thing I would rather have Mormon than anyone who has associated themslelves with Rev Wright(joke). The biggest biggot in American religion. You hater's of America need to wake-up. Our future is going down the tubes with this President. And we all know that if they would have let Detriot go bank rupt. The jobs would have been saved anyway. So what did ever happen to Olds, and Pontiac????????? He did not save them. But we rest assured with the 70k Volt that sells for 40k. And Soylyndra and 500 billion My ssa and yours. 30k for each of us when he took office is now 90k. This President has to go.

Yankee Samurai your a by far the most uneducated idiot when it comes to the LDS church. LDS are christains in fact, doesn't it say on the side of the church " Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints. Christains and Catholics believe in the ideaology of Christainity! Which is also the same ideaology that LDS follow. This is why educated people don't say that LDS aren't christains becuase they would be ridiculed. Of course a hateful pathetic person as you are would go off of rumors instead of facts..Sad and typical leftist, hateful and uneducated sheep followers you all are!

Joe2bear

Well, if the LDS church doesn't see any difference between themselves and other Christians, why are they posthumously baptizing every non-Mormon into their church? Name another church that does that.

Romney is Supporting G.M. workers when he buys 2 Cadillacs -- that's a good thing.

Romney is by far the best candidate, he has the best all-around experience, with 25 years working in the Real world; and, as a Governor.

Romney has a J.D.-law, and an MBA-business; Romney was Valedictorian at Harvard;

Romney has shown leadership throughout his entire life.

Obama has failed to cut the deficit in half, something he promised he'd do.

With over $15 Trillion in Debt and over $1.1 Trillion in deficit, we need a true leader who can turn this

around, and that's Romney.

Joe,

The LDS church believes that there are many worlds with many Gods. Also, that God was a flesh and blood man, that Jesus visited Bountiful, Utah, and that there are multiple heavens. Can't say I remember any Catholics saying these things. Help us out and show where the Pope has said anything even close.

Joe2bear,learn to spell "Christian" before calling others "uneducated". It makes you look like a jackass.

Here are the
characteristics of a cult:

• Small? The Church of Jesus Christ (LDS) has 14 million members in 132 countries. In America, there are more Mormons than there are Presbyterians or Jews.

• Excessive devotion? Mormons are devoted to the Savior, but in appropriate measure He would approve of.

• Unethical techniques? Ask the pie-throwers to name one.

• Control by isolation? Even if Mormons wanted to, this would be impossible with 14 million members in 28,000 congregations throughout the world.

• Control by threats? Again, evidence? Mormon missionaries may be exuberant, but do not threaten.

• Dependency on the group? The Church of Jesus Christ (LDS) is just the opposite. Mormons want members to be self-reliant and independent so they in turn can help others.

• Powerful group pressure? Only if that’s the way the critics prefer to define love.

• Strange? Guilty as charged. Mormons plead guilty to all the strange things that were done by Christians in New Testament times that were lost during the great falling away in the aptly named Dark Ages, among them temple worship, baptism by immersion by the father of the family (), vicarious baptism for the dead, definition of God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit as separate but united in purpose, salvation requiring both grace and obedience to commandments, prophets and apostles, unpaid clergy, and continual revelation to guide His Church.

Factofthematter...Great statement! Made me smile..

Who is the man? Obama is the man.

I was being sarcastic; I assume you were too. Nobody should be happy with either Romney or Obama.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C8PE1W5cKA&feature=related

It must be the vacuum cleaner, he DOES suck.

Mitts is as good at being a comedian as our beloved president is at being a lounge singer.....

Too busy to read my response because you imply you are working at creating jobs and that makes you soooo important. Yet, you sure did write an awfully long comment... sounds like you've got a lot of time on your hands, "busy guy." While you are on your high horse earning it yourself because the rest of us aren't your type of rich, realize I don't buy it for a second. You are full of crap, and your comment is made to make others think you are far more important than you really are. I come from a family of small business owners--all moderate republicans. They, too, are job creators, but would never dream to be condescending and rude--that's not smart business. Get over yourself. I trust you'll make your own conclusions, too, if only you weren't so damn important and "busy." Give me a break.

I will take this time to conclude that you are delusional.

Want more people like me in the USA?

You were a bum not once, but twice in the last 11 years. I guess my answer would be no.

I trust you'll make your own conclusions.

That's good, because I don't think I can trust yours.

I'm a Democrat and being the social leech that I am, I haven't had any gaps in employment aside from the three months after college when I was looking for a job. Ten years later, zero gaps despite the economy. I work in marketing communications (business), which means my job is to convince people buy your crap so you can supposedly create jobs. And in my industry, I'm hardly alone as a Democrat. Does it blow your mind that Democrats are the key to your job creation?

Andrew W - actually I love your name - do they call you Drew?

So what is wrong with teachers? Do I have a job -no - retired from a fortune 50 company - great benefits - bought my Range Rover with my options - do I have children - yes - three all colege educated - grandchildren - yes - five - all college educated - and last but not least - I'm a graduate of U of C - my husband - Air Force - and graduate of Rutgers

Now we have identified ourselves - and by your post I would assume you are in your early thirties - maybe younger - and you have a lot to say - however do you have syblings - a mother and a father - are you an orphan

Someone once said "No man is an island" That holds true to all of us - but your selfish rant is OK - go for it little boy - but one day you will need somebody and I hope they are not as selfish as you

Karma kid - What goes around comes around - Drew!

Andrew..tell us more about your company and what you are hiring for.

He is hiring people to shovel the BS that comes out of his mouth.

thelert - Combining all three you would not come up with a winning team - granted Mitt's handsome but so out of touch ,

Newt's mind? the guy who wrote the bible of hate -

Ron Paul - showed his true colors in the debate when he said contreceptives encourage immorality - not a true libertarian

Santorum - someone should do an intervention for his wife and save her from this demon!

Since some of the quotes are misrepresented, IMO, I have to assume all are misrepresented.

Never know when Media Matters is around the corner, anymore. Very frustrating.

Romney is supporting G.M. workers when he buys Cadillacs... I don't understand why that is a problem.

Romney's god is his wealth. The Master once told a rich man that he must give up his material wealth and distribute to the poor in order to gain heaven. In other words one must forsake the god of matter for theGod of Truth and Love and work for the common good in order to gain heaven's harmony and health here. The principles of mammon will never satisfy.

That is out of context, sir. You, like many others on this site, speak from a warehouse of ignorance. Read some unauthorized biographies on the man. He is remarkable. You have fallen prey to sound bites designed to mislead, and YOU have been mislead.

There is a parallel between George W. Bush and Mitt Romney and all the other kids of the Super Rich, who want to save the USA from ourselves. Ann Richards, former Texas Governor, said it best......"Poor George (and now Mitt) they were born on 3rd Base and have gone through life thinking they hit a Triple"......and expect us to swallow it!

Mitt looks like someone who was placed in a Jar, on a top shelf, and fed nothing but Peaches and Cream all his life.

Babina---it is stunning seeing it all in one place. Any one quote can be explained away but as a whole they paint a picture of someone who is out of touch with the concerns of the 99% yet desperate to make it seem that he is a regular guy. It just doesn't work.

Before we select Santorum, let's ask Santorum about his special relationship with Satan. Apparently, Satan is picking on the USA over all those other disadvantaged countries like Kenya?

ihateliberals - Kenya is waiting for you - they would love you - Sorry you ignore his mother was from Kansa is that in Kenya too

Words escape me - when I come face to face with a die hard rascist

You don't actually hate liberals - you hate black liberals - or maybe all of us - yellow, brown, white and all shades of the rainbow

I don't hate you I hate your ignorance!

ihateliberals: You don't hate liberals you really hate yourself for being born. That willie lynch letter intellect that you are trying to spew in orger to spread your hate is something that the republicans, the tea party, southern evangelical's and the Ku Klux Klan have beaten you to along time ago and are still trying to belittle other race's when you hear what is coming out of the mouth's of Santorum, Gingrich, Paul, Palin, Norquist, MCconnell, Jan Brewer, Ann Coulter or any other human that thinks like them. If you want to try to use the willie lynch intellect of having a subservant mentality why don't you start with yourself that way you would not have to be undercover with code words and other illiterate B.S. If you don't like black people or any one who uses common sense and real logic(black or white) that is fine because you can bet they don't like you either because of your low IQ and hatred of yourself. You know maybe you need to go back to 1712 and live on the banks of the saint james river with willie lynch so you can be happy along with your republican friends, that way you would not have to deal with President Obama, Kenya, Or black or white people who are not insane, does that sound like a good idea to you?