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PASCAGOULA, Miss. – Campaigning for the first time since a string of Super Tuesday victories extended his delegate lead but failed to put the Republican nominating contest in the bag, Mitt Romney on Thursday evening secured yet another major endorsement, with a side of grits.
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant announced his support for Romney in brief remarks at the port here, before attention turned to another Mississippian, Romney's body-man Garrett Jackson, whom the former Massachusetts governor credits with beginning his transition into an "unofficial southerner."
"I am learning to say y'all and I like grits, and ... strange things are happening to me," Romney joked with the crowd.
Romney's embrace of southern staples couldn't have come at a more opportune time, as the race for the GOP nomination now turns to a geographic region likely to be less fertile turf for Romney than the West and industrial Midwest have been in previous weeks, with nominating contests in Mississippi, Alabama, Kansas, Missouri, and Louisiana to come before the end of the March.
Senior Romney aides have acknowledged to reporters that Romney is unlikely to break through with a win in the culturally southern state, but argued that even second place finishes could net the frontrunner significant delegates in the race to the 1,144 needed to secure the nomination.
"There are other candidates that are going to win some more races, but we're going to be consistently coming in second place, and getting delegates in a lot of these states," the Romney aide said, pointing to Tennessee as a recent example.
In his appearance tonight, Romney spoke like a frontrunner – never mentioning his Republican rivals, and keeping his focus on President Barack Obama. Standing in front of massive deep-water drilling rigs, Romney hit the president for the rise in gas prices during his term, a kitchen-table issue likely to resonate in a state where the energy industry takes on outsize importance and where the median income is nearly $15,000 below the national average.
"Since this president has been president, the cost of gas has doubled," Romney said. "Not exactly what he might have hoped for, and he says, ‘Well it’s not my fault.’ By the way, we've gone from yes we can to, ‘It’s not my fault.’ You notice – a new campaign slogan. 'It’s not my fault.' Well this is, in part, his fault."
To win here, Romney will need more than just his economic message to sink in: He'll need to win over voters both unfamiliar with his record and potentially distrustful of his faith.
In neighboring Tennessee, with similar demographics, Romney fell to Rick Santorum by nine points, losing by 19 points among born-again Christians and by 35 points to those who said a candidate sharing their religious beliefs mattered very much.
Bryant told reporters after the event that Romney's biggest handicap here would be that "people don't know him" in a state where he doesn't have the benefit of having campaigned before, and predicted only that the state would be "close" in the end.
Already, an air campaign is underway to educate voters in the south about Romney's record – and those of his opponents.
Pro-Romney Super PAC, Restore our Future, has spent nearly $7 million dollars on ads in the south in February and March, with three separate ads in rotation in Mississippi and Alabama alone since Feb. 14th. A Romney aide told NBC news the campaign began airing ads in Alabama, but not Mississippi, on Thursday.
NBC's Jamie Novogrod contributed reporting from Boston.
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'It's not my fault.'
Obama's 2012 mantra.
Slap that on a bumper sticker.
Obama/Bart Simpson 2012
'I am whoever you want me to be.'
Mitt Romney's 2012 mantra.
Also, I would definitely vote for an Obama/Bart Simpson ticket.
Let's make this happen, people.
@White Collar Auto -- We have all heard about Obama for the last three years. Why is Romney a better choice? What is Romney's accomplishments? Why should Romney be entrusted with protecting the Constitution?
We know the Democrat's campaign will be all about Obama. If the Republican's campaign is only about Obama - then voters only have a choice between Obama and Obama. The Republicans are going to have to pick a candidate and try to sell that candidate if they hope to win in November ...
I guess you loved it when the country was close to the brink of a Depression when Bush was in charge, right? I suppose you were screaming from the rooftop when he turned a surplus into a massive deficit. Probably not.
Have you noticed that Romney's best attempt at an economic plan is one that ADDS to the deficit? Guess not.
I would imagine that it does not matter what Obama did, he would still be called a clown, and worse. Luckily, he does not need to rely on your vote to beat Romney. I assume you voted for McCain and that great stateswoman Palin last time. Well, you are part of the 47% Obama is not going to get anyway. All he has to do rally his supporters (which he will do once Romney becomes the nominee) and the election is won.
All I see is the current President reminding folks that last President left this country in mess. All of his policies have not worked, but I will gladly give him four more years. If you really think that Romney is going to look out for the little guy, or the middle class, then you are sorely mistaken. Romney does not give a s*** about them and if he were to win, everyone will see that. Tax cuts for the top 1% to "stimulate the economy." Bush did that and look what happened. Obama tries to make the system fairer and he is a socialist. Ridiculous.
Romney is an opportunist who is a terrible politician and even worse campaigner. He is lying, soul-less bore who was run out town in 2008 and now is treated like a savior. It's a joke. If anyone credible was running for the GOP, he would be getting his behind kicked.
Obama will make him look stupid in the General. Just watch....
nerm the Democrat campaign will be about anything except Obama.
Can't run on his record or the economy.
I think they have made it pretty clear, they plan to run against congress.
Cuz, nuthin is hus fault.
It should be noted that Romney has NO economic plan besides trickle down economics (give tax breaks to the wealthy, sorry job creators to borrow the Republican term).
Republicans, it didn't work under Bush or Bush's father or Reagan, in fact it's the reason we are in this recession in the first place.
Why do you think returning to this policy is a good idea? How can it possibly help the deficit or unemployment?
@White Collar Auto -- You still have not given any reason why Romney is the better choice. Are you expecting voters to choose between 'good' Obama or 'bad' Obama? Either way - the only choice is Obama ...
To win in the marketplace of politics you need a better product than your competition. What's the selling point for Romney?
It doesn't. As they will see if Plastic Man gets in. Then of course it will be "Well, look at what the last President left us with..."
Nerm Romney understands the economy.
Obama has made it very clear through his governance, that he doesn't have a clue about the economy.
whitecollar: understanding how to create personal wealth through a private equity firm is not the same thing as understanding "the economy" of the nation. That argument will not wash. Romney's performance in Massachusetts was mediocre at best. Don't look now, but this country is in recovery. Last time Republicans were in charge, we were on the brink of financial ruin. You might know the difference, but come November, you're going to be in the minority (again).
He's a modern day carpet bagger!
Actually, they will see him as a Yankee. They will be neighborly, but won't necessarily vote for him.
The economy seems to be rebounding from a near Depression. Things take time. It's not perfect, but it is heading in the right direction. If you think more tax cuts for the top 1% is going to accelerate things, you are wrong.
Plastic Man has been running for President for the last six years and Bush's old bankrupt policy is the best he can come up with. Mitt just wants to be President because he looks like he could play one on TV. He has no plan. He'll have to do better than that.
@White Collar Auto -- Very good - you provided one reason to choose Romney. Now lets see if you can vet that choice.
What are the examples of Romney understanding the economy? Private sector economics is quite different than public sector economics. How does Romney's private sector experience qualify him to be chief executive for public sector finances? Did Romney use his private sector experience as governor of MA? Did Romney take the same economic course while governor as he did in the private sector? Did Romney use private sector and public sector debt to create his accomplishments? Does Romney's past use of debt indicate how he would handle public finances?
Is Romney running for President or is he running for Secretary of the Treasury or maybe Chairman of the Federal Reserve?
Super PAC
Take a look at this
http://quitenormal.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/obama-recession-slowest-recovery-since-great-depression/
Now, you were saying?
"Cuz, nuthin is hus fault."
Ha WCA you are ate up guy. Better take a chill pill or you will be damn near suicidal when November rolls around and President Obama is still president Obama, 4 more years baby, thats the deal, better find a way to wrap your head around that idea. You will get your Romney as a candidate and he will lose, and you will have to listen to Ann Coulter and me telling you I told you so.
DB: At least you folks on the right have stopped the silliness about denying there IS a recovery. Congratulations! You were saying?
Wow, WCA finally figured out an RSS feed instead of complaining on how Feisty is always first. But...he still has nothing to say.
Well hell I understand a few things about the economy, I understand in the last year of bush's presidency my retirement portfolio was cut in half it dropped $480,000 in ten months, and then inside of 18 months of Obama's presidency I gained all that back and more. I understand two auto companies and millions of jobs were saved, and those companies are profitable again, GM is kicking tail, and so is my retirement fund. No thanks WCA I got killed by the guys that you say know all about the economy and was made whole again by the guy you say does not know anything about the economy. My retirement fund balance says you got it all wrong. Besides I like this young man we have for a president, Romney is so obviously fake that on Halloween when he opens the front door, kids give him candy.
Most of the good old boys I know don't appreciate a yankee trying to fake being one of us. Grits and saying ya'all doesn't endear you to a true southerner! (I would like to see him try to run a trout line and sing a couple rounds of "Dixie")
You good old boys would not vote for Romney if God himself told you to. Romney is a Mormon and a northerner, and as such you will never vote for him in large numbers. I do not mind people disagreeing with Romney, or any other candidate, but to do it because of such ignorance is horrible. Both Gingrich and Santorum should never have been in this race. To vote for either of them is unconscionable. Other candidates should have been in their places running against Romney, but too late now.
Say what you will. Racism is alive and well in the south, as is southern dirty politics, and bible belt intolerance of Yankees, mormons, Blacks, and Hispanics. You all need to step out of the 1800s.
And my family is from the south, so I do know what I am talking about. I am just lucky enough not to live there now.
Forrest and phinephancy: Both good ones. Thanks for the smiles. We sure need them; the clown circus is getting so old.
Jon, I have no idea what an RSS feed is.
Now I need you to go back and find one single comment where I complianed about Feisty being first.
Cause, see, I never have made one.
Like most Libs here. You are a liar.
I have never lied to you WCA, I have said things you don't agree with, or just don't want to hear, but they are not lies.
WCA,
Sorry, but that was offensive. Someone can disagree with you but not be a liar. Might want to rethink that statement. Both sides will cherry pick truths to support their stand. You do the same.
WCA if it's honesty that your concerned with I don't know how you can stomach Romney, the guy is a pathological liar. When we are polite we call it flip flopping, but we know what it really is when he changes what he supposedly believes in from state to state, from one campaign stop to the next. Good thing he is not Catholic he would have to schedule about a week for Confession. They would have priests rotating in and out like it was a exorcism. OK father Murphy it's your turn the liberal demon is showing itself. Then an hour later, get Father O'Brien, the conservative demon is back. Uh Oh the businessman devil is back. This devil is very tricky now he will pretend to be your friend Bubba from the South, we are going to need a couple of more gallons of Holy Water.........
phine, jon said I complained about Feisty being First. I never have. He is a liar.
I have no idea why Forrest thinks I called him a liar.
I said "Most" libs.
For the past week, I have asked people to prove the things they have posted directly about me and not one of them has been able to back up their vitriol.
Well WCA you did in fact say most libs, and that is a pretty broad statement which maybe seems to implicate everybody on that thread, I did not get nasty about it, I just wanted to make sure we had that understanding that I don't intentionally lie to you or anyone else. I certainly can be mistaken, but I don't intentionally lie, and when I can I try to temper my vitriol with humor, and direct it mostly at the party or politicians and not so much at an individual poster. If your comment was not intended to be directed at me personally then I have no axe to grind with you personally. One last thing, Romney still sucks and will lose to Obama.
if Obama is on the ticket with Bart Simpson, they would surely get my vote; Obama's campaign slingo would be, "VOTE FOR ME, IT WASN'T MY FAULT"!!!!!!!!!!!!!, but when reality hits home, i would stay with Mitt Romney, even if he goes broke trying to get elected, he is the most promising of all the potential's. this election season is ONE GOOD SOAP OPERA!!!!!!!, to be sure.
You go with Thristen Howell the III, I'll stick with the young man we got.
Leave it to me to add the facts.
GDP has grown each and every quarter since Obama was sworn in. http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/gdp_glance.htm
Unemployment is on its way down. http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
The DOW is at 13,000. http://www.the-privateer.com/chart/dow-long.html
So you see, Obama has made things better despite the constant blocking, stalling, and obstructing of the Republican party.
TO: White Collar Auto who wrote:
I could say that we don't understand why the Right thinks it's OK to tell bold lies about the President of the United States day after day AND use inflamatory (and false) phrases such as President Obama is some kind of "failure" when the right knows that's a blatant lie.
As to "Tea-Tard" and "Retard", it just fits. Folks who are falling for the crap Republicans have laid out must have some kind of "thing" wrong with them. What kind of person listens to a politician tell them point blank "Hey, if I get in office I'm going to rob you blind. First I'm going to lower your wages, then I'm going to steal your retirement money that you've been saving all your working life, and then I absolutely guarantee you that I'm going to MAKE SURE you CANNOT get ANY affordable quality health care" and Republicans actually vote for that person?
You really would have to be crazy out your mind to do that, but that's exactly what Republican followers are doing and/or are talking about doing.
So yes, I think "Tea-Tard" and "Retard" fits just fine.
Obama / Biden 2012
my best candidates would be BART SIMPSON for President, FORREST GUMP for Vice President.
I ain't gonna believe he is a Southern convert until I can see the gun racks in his pickups and caddies.
'scuse me, Loyal, I don't think he mentioned a pickup in his list of autos (although maybe a secret hummer, that whole compensation thing). Do you think a stars 'n bars would be as good as a gun rack for his wife in her coupla a caddies?
Romney sounds more like a carpet bagger to me. Damn Yankee!
Well, Newt was born in Pennsylvania, where they pronouced his last name with a hard K at the end instead of what rhymes with rich, if you want to bring up carpetbaggers. But he sure is good at manipulating those good ol' boys.
Jon,
How long did Newt live in the south before getting elected to Congress from Georgia? Just wondering. And Newt did live down here and got in with the good old boys down here. Problem for Mr. Romney, he has that New England Yankee attitude that rub a lot of southerners the wrong way. As I said in another post, some of the folks down here are still mad at the way the war of northern aggression ended. And, when Mr. Romney makes remarks like he did, they feel he is mocking them. Not saying it is right or wrong, just saying that's the way it is.
Phine, is it really an issue of how long Newt lived in Georgia before making his move? He does understand an certina attitude held stongly by, a hopefully minority, of people in the south. Newt is calculating, he picked Georgia for a reason, and it is not a surprise that he won South Carolina.
Yes, Mittwit is mocking the south, that is obvious. But, I think, the real joke is that Newt is mocking the south and they don't even realize it.
Mitt, "I'm severely conservative". Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
"Y'all" and "grits"??!! Even the most naive of southern folk have to recognize this as the lowest form of pandering. I can only wish that Mitt had visited Minnesota and tried a plate of ludefisk!!
You betcha!
In Minnesota that would be a plate of hotdish, not lutefisk. Lutefisk is universally despised by all but a few, die hard Norwegians. Hotdish, on the other hand, is ubiquitous in Minnesota, and comes in as many varieties as you can imagine, as long as you start with Campbells Cream of Mushroom soup.
Now, in Minnesota, it is a well known fact, that when you go to a potluck, you had better be going in a county that is known as a DFL county. The reason...in Republican counties you only get 2 varieties of the blandest Cream of Mushroom hotdish. Where as, in a DFL county, you will get; Mexican (due to the tortilla chips on top), Chinese (include water chestnuts), Italian (add olives, can be Greek also), and German (add some sausage that might be kind of German).
Minnesota palates are finely tuned, but only rarely accept Lutefisk (and formerly and one hopes in the future, rarely accept Republicans).
And for those of you not from Minnesota, DFL is Democratic Farm Labor, the official name of the Minnesota Democratic Party, and one that illustrates why this country, the US of A is the greatest in the world. It is the combination of democracy with people who labor that make us great. In Minnesota and North Dakota, it was farmers that banded together in the 1920s that beat the monopoly of the railroads by forming cooperatives.
Funny, Jon, and accurate!
Next he'll be saying " Why bless his little heart. Isn't he just the sweetest thing?" lol Really? why not just have his wife drive her couple of caddies through Georgia and let's see what happens. "A couple of caddies" Seriously? Yeah he'll go over well in the South. (sarcasm) Just like a plate of corn beef and cabbage. (gross)
Hey now, theres nothing wrong with corned beef and cabbage, although I prefer it as a deli-style Reuben with a side of pickle spears.
Romney's inability to come down on Rush Limbaugh on the Sandra Fluke incident pretty much shows that he simply doesn't have what it takes to become President.
Oh goody, for sure he is a shoo in!
app64-this as the lowest form of pandering
Hillary Clinton circa 2007 in a very bad Southern Drawl:
“I Don't Feel No Ways Tired.”
Sure, Republicans are the only Pol's that pander.
Here we go with the "she hit me first" whine.
No texas it's called historical context.
Whatever the context and whatever the whine...Romney's negatives are at historic levels. I don't think a faked southern accent is going to provide enough charm to reverse that.
Evening, WCA.
Hate to tell you this, but Mr. Romney's "joke" about grits and saying "ya'all" is a mite insulting to a true southerner. Makes him look even more like a yankee. Just a little insight on some of the mindset of the south. Heck, a lot still aren't over the War of Northern Aggression!
Well, Phine, I refuse to accept Mittwit as a true yankee either. True yankees have a backbone, and mittwit has none.
Romney's most glaring character flaw, he doesn't have a clue and he consistently says things that prove his lack of character, integrity, empathy and compassion over and over and over again. He is incapable of anything more because this is who he is. A man with no core.
“I’d be embarrassed if I didn’t ask for federal dollars every chance I had.” –Willard Mitt Romney, July 2006
“If General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye. It won’t go overnight, but its demise will be virtually guaranteed.” –Willard Mitt Romney, November 2008
"I should tell my story. I'm also unemployed." -Willard Mitt Romney, June 2011
"Corporations are people my friend!" -Willard Mitt Romney, August 2011
"As to what to do for the housing industry specifically - and are there things that you can do to encourage housing? One is, don’t try and stop the foreclosure process. Let it run its course and hit the bottom, allow investors to buy up homes, put renters in them, fix the homes up, and let it turn around and come back up." -Willard Mitt Romney, October 2011
"I'm running for office for Pete's sake, we can't have illegals." -Willard Mitt Romney, October 2011
"I'll tell you what, ten-thousand bucks? $10,000 bet?" -Willard Mitt Romney, December 2011
"Never get involved in politics if you have to win an election to pay a mortgage." -Willard Mitt Romney, January 2012
“Then, I get speakers fees from time to time, but not very much." -Willard Mitt Romney January 2012 (disclosure, WMR earned $374,327.62 in speaking fees in one year)
“....but someone who has lived in the real streets of America...” –Willard Mitt Romney, January 2012
"I like being able to fire people who provide services to me." -Willard Mitt Romney, January 2012
"There were a couple of times I wondered whether I was going to get a pink slip." – Willard Mitt Romney, January 2012
“I didn’t inherit.” – Willard Mitt Romney, January 2012
"The banks are scared to death, of course, because they think they're going to go out of business. They're afraid that if they write all these loans off, they're going to go broke. And so they're feeling the same thing you're feeling." -Willard Mitt Romney, January 2012
“Ha. Ha. You know, I wish I could claim I’m Hispanic. That would help me in the Latino community here is Florida and around the country.” -Willard Mitt Romney, January 2012
“I'm not concerned about the very poor… we will hear from the Democrat party the plight of the poor… that’s not my focus.” -Willard Mitt Romney, January 2012
“Anne drives a couple of Cadillacs.” -Willard Mitt Romney, February 2012
"I have some friends who are NASCAR Team Owners." -Willard Mitt Romney, February 2012
“Like those fancy raincoats you bought. Really sprung for the big bucks.” -Willard Mitt Romney, February 2012 (to NASCAR fans wearing plastic ponchos)
Don't worry, every Chameleon MItt flip-flop and lie will be exposed. Obama has not seriously started focusing on him yet. They are just laying the groundwork and pointing out all of his inanities. MItt's BS will catch up with him soon.
Biden often doesn't have a clue - it didn't stop people from voting for him - why would it matter with Romney?
BIg difference between a VP and a empty, lying, pandering bore running for President.
hey Babina, Why don't you check this website out?
http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/barackobama/a/top-10-obama-quotes.htm
It has a bunch of stuff that you might like to look at for material-seeing as you like to take things out of context, this will give you a whole bunch of fodder.
And just for good measure, here is one more link.
http://boycottliberalism.com/Barack-Obama-Anti-American-quotes.htm
See-it swings both ways.
More news that MSNBC wouldnt touch with a 10 foot pole, as it is not in theor talking points provided by David Axelrod...
"About 80% of those who collected more than $500,000 for Obama took ‘key administration posts’ as defined by the White House.”
Jake Tapper points out that Obama promised “a new way of doing business.” In fact, then-Senator Obama, remarking on the influence of money in politics, said in 2008 “the time for that kind of politics is over.” Yet President Obama handed out more of these primo posts to donors in just two years than President Bush handed out in four. Says Ed Morrissey, “Obama ran on changing the culture in Washington and specifically against this very practice, and so it’s hardly unfair to point out his hypocrisy.” Change, indeed
Yet here it is on MSNBC, hmmm.
I think he has made a pretty open administration.
There are many web sites dedicated to giving the public info.
You can start here.
and then try
which HAS many sites
or
about stimulus money.
remember he said he would tell you who visits the WH.
oh please...did you folks just wake up?? Do you know how many Bush appointees were campaign contributors? And almost 100 of those appointees were former lobbyists in the industries they then were appointed to oversee. Do you know how many stories were written about Clinton appointees from campaign contributors? Comeon. Grow up. Name me a modern day president who did not appoint campaign contributors. (You do know the story CAME FROM THE WASHINGTON POST not Tapper??? So much for your grand left wing conspiracy to keep everyone in the dark.)
What MSNBC is not afraid to reveal. Bob McDonnel wants to completely remove the separation between church and state, so the church will rule the state.
Examples? Names? "To the victor belongs the spoils", Andrew Jackson
Obama/Biden 2012
Biden/Warren 2016
Or Good-by! Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, removing pensions,food stamps, workers rights, cutting money from schools, firemen, eliminate minimum wages,policemen, more women rights, Passing law to make it harder to vote, All collective bargaining and the rest of our hard earned tax money going to the top 1% and the oils companies etc., oh yes and let’s not forget that the insurance companies will be able to do as they did before.
Don’t we wish we had this plus in our reserves, $4,517,288,000,000 and they want to reduce their taxes more? Why aren’t people talking about this, this is far more than what we spend on the military or any social program.
The above amount is just from 10 companies of 10 of millions of American and foreign companies that their bottom line on their taxes was 0, but got bailouts, subsides, tax refunds, and rebate from the IRS
In fact The Government Accountability Office (GAO) examined samples of corporate tax returns filed between 1998 and 2005. In that time period, an annual average of 1.3 million U.S. companies and 39,000 foreign companies doing business in the United States paid no income taxes – despite having a combined $2.5 trillion in revenue.
Here are the 10 companies I mentioned above that their combine returns were $4,517,288,000,000
Bank of America received a $1.9 billion tax refund from the IRS last year, although it made $4.4 billion in profits and received a bailout from the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department of nearly $1 trillion.
In 2009 Exxon made $19 billion in profits, PAID NO FEDERAL INCOME taxes and was given a $156 million rebate from the IRS. This does not even count for their subsidies, money for research and development, tax breaks for sending jobs overseas, loopholes,
Bank of America received a $1.9 billion tax refund from the IRS last year, although it made $4.4 billion in profits and received a bailout from the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department of nearly $1 trillion.
Over the past five years, while General Electric made $26 billion in profits in the United States, it received a $4.1 billion refund from the IRS.
Chevron received a $19 million refund from the IRS last year after it made $10 billion in profits in 2009.
Boeing, which received a $30 billion contract from the Pentagon to build 179 airborne tankers, got a $124 million refund from the IRS last year.
Valero Energy, the 25th largest company in America with $68 billion in sales last year received a $157 million tax refund check from the IRS and, over the past three years, it received a $134 million tax break from the oil and gas manufacturing tax deduction.
Goldman Sachs in 2008 only paid 1.1 percent of its income in taxes even though it earned a profit of $2.3 billion and received an almost $800 billion from the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury Department.
Citigroup last year made more than $4 billion in profits but paid no federal income taxes. It received a $2.5 trillion bailout from the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury.
ConocoPhillips, the fifth largest oil company in the United States, made $16 billion in profits from 2007 through 2009, but received $451 million in tax breaks through the oil and gas manufacturing deduction.
http://www.forbes.com/2010/04/01/ge-exxon-walmart-business-washington-corporate-taxes.html
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2011/03/ten_giant_us_companies_avoidin.html
http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/12/news/economy/corporate_taxes/
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/study-tallies-corporations-not-paying-income-tax/
"I am learning to say y'all and I like grits, and ... strange things are happening to me,"
I wonder if he'll use that line in his first debate with the president?.... What a Maroon
Time for you libbies to take the blinders off. It is obvious, and becoming more so each day, that Mitt Romney will be our next, and by far best President, for the following eight years.
The social experiment is over. Americans, burnt once with the Hope and Change crap, will not take another chance with the political dice.
Nice try Barrack. Back to Chicago with you now. Bye Bye.
Parent - Very clever with the "social experiment" line. What does that mean?
It is unlikely he will win in any of these Southern states with these religious social conservative Evangelicals and southern far right radical conservatives who some lack in education, are very set in their ways and could never consider someone like Romney but a close second and a good accumulation of delegates will be enough to strengthen his lead. There is still time to strengthen his lead and get more votes. If this group of voters realize and get the message that Romney is the most electable of the 3 candidates, some votes will go in his direction. They will realize it is either Romney or Obama and some could switch over to Romney. One can only hope.
What's he going to break through? The ICE...That's a nice thought.
Mr. Romney hasn't connected in the way that he needs to, at least with me. He doesn't appear to be very confident and his religion will be a minus in the deep south. Many evangelicals don't consider Mormons to be "real Christians" and without the endorsement of Pat Robertson and James Dobson, many of them won't vote for him.
Anyone who doesn't consider Mormons to be "real Christians" should try to spend 5 minutes visiting the lds.org website. They'll quickly realize that the Mormon faith is founded on the teachings of Christ and that Mormons strive to live the Gospel of Jesus Christ every day. Mormons are Christians in every sense of the word. Furthermore LDS is short for the actual name of the church, which is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Speaking of endorsements......anyone notice Sam Wurzelbacher got the ringing endorsement of Cain for the Ohio 9th congressional district? You remember Sam. AKA Joe the Plumber. The Republican Follies continue. I swear you could not make this stuff up.....
What do you know about Joe the Plumber anyway? Are you saying plumbers can in no way become successful and respected politicians? Try to be a little more open minded. Besides, the political scene could probably benefit from average people like Joe who understands Americans.
Umm.. he was never actually a plumber. It was something that Bush made up to make him sound more likable.
Ok then. I wasn't sure so I looked it up on Wikipedia. I suppose that could be wrong. We seem to be clashing a bit today Iowa-Guy.
There is NOTHING that I like about Romney. I personally think he'd dumber than a rock about how to 'fix' the government. There are times he even looks and acts dumber than a rock! All he does is say what he thinks Americans want to hear!
When you hear him say, "I'm not worried about the poor people". In a debate he has the nerve to say, "I bet you $10,000" (I believe to Santorum), and speaking of Detroit and autos, he said...he had a car, a truck, and on & on, and my wife drives two Cadillacs"...The man is a super, super millionaire and has NO CLUE how the rest of us struggle or live!
The only one that I trust is trust-worthy Santorum. I just think he's the best man to win. Certainly not Newt, his own WIVES can't trust him. And Ron Paul, he just doesn't have it...nice guy but not a President.
JG,
Seems you tool Mitt Romney's statement out of context. What he said was :I'm not worried about the poor people, we have a safety net that takes care of them, What I'm worried about is the declining middle class".
Some difference when you see it all huh??
Joseph E. Parent - Romney could care less about the middle class regardless of what he said and I did hear everything he said. The declining middle class is the fault of 8 years of Republican rule and the present Republican's who are constantly trying to undermine Persident Obama just to make their party look good.
Parent - You got the quote wrong as well. What he said is that he doesn't care about the very poor because, THEY have a safety net and are doing just fine. How exactly do you equate to living on food stamps and welfare to doing just fine?
Sad when the bedrock of the Republican Party are the states of the former Confederacy. The Party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt has become the Party of Jefferson Davis and Elmer Gantry.
VACYMRO,
Wasn't too many years ago when the exact opposite was true. the South was always solid Democrat.
Of course this is comparing apples to oranges.
The Democratic party back then was something to be proud of. It is so distorted now, it is unrecognizable.
The South is conservative, fiscally practical, and religious.
Both parties have become distorted. They care only for pandering to those that contribute to their next election. We need a new system, this one is broken.
Check historical gas prices here. Set the time frame above the chart to "5 Years", and check the very abrupt PLUNGE in gas prices in the two months leading up to the 2008 Elections from $3.62 a gallon to around $1.62 a gallon. Sure looks like the Oil and Gas Industry was trying to fix the elections!!
Notice in the summer of 2008 that gas prices hit $4.12 under Bush.
http://gasbuddy.com/gb_retail_price_chart.aspx
Sorry even Mitt knows the best way to see the south is in the rear view mirror of one of his caddies
So are you speaking for Mitt now? hmm.
You ever wonder just how much we actually pay for anything we use, take a gallon of gas we buy it, then these companies complain about high wages and what they have to pay out for each employee in insurance, Medicare, and Social Security and retirement plan if they even offer one. But then turn around and get billions in refunds and subsides. The way things look we pay 3-5 times more per gallon and pay for our own wages etc. because these companies get back much more then they put out. Is it our taxes paying for all this since most of their bottom lines are 0 or is it the money we are borrowing.
The same thing can be said about electric and any other utility company. This is after these companies had 0 on the bottom line of their tax forms
Wouldn’t it be nice to have this money to create manufactories plants, a factories and to create jobs.
Just these ten (10) companies there is a total of $4,517,288,000,000 and they want to reduce their taxes more? WHY AREN’T PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THIS, this is far more than what we spend on the military or any social program.
The above amount is just from 10 companies of the millions of American and foreign companies that their bottom line on their taxes was 0, but got bailouts, subsides, tax refunds, and rebate from the IRS
In fact The Government Accountability Office (GAO) examined samples of corporate tax returns filed between 1998 and 2005. In that time period, an annual average of 1.3 million U.S. companies and 39,000 foreign companies doing business in the United States paid no income taxes – despite having a combined $2.5 trillion in revenue.
Here are the 10 companies I mentioned above that their combine returns were $4,517,288,000,000
Bank of America received a $1.9 billion tax refund from the IRS last year, although it made $4.4 billion in profits and received a bailout from the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department of nearly $1 trillion.
In 2009 Exxon made $19 billion in profits, PAID NO FEDERAL INCOME taxes and was given a $156 million rebate from the IRS. This does not even count for their subsidies, money for research and development, tax breaks for sending jobs overseas, loopholes,
Bank of America received a $1.9 billion tax refund from the IRS last year, although it made $4.4 billion in profits and received a bailout from the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department of nearly $1 trillion.
Over the past five years, while General Electric made $26 billion in profits in the United States, it received a $4.1 billion refund from the IRS.
Chevron received a $19 million refund from the IRS last year after it made $10 billion in profits in 2009.
Boeing, which received a $30 billion contract from the Pentagon to build 179 airborne tankers, got a $124 million refund from the IRS last year.
Valero Energy, the 25th largest company in America with $68 billion in sales last year received a $157 million tax refund check from the IRS and, over the past three years, it received a $134 million tax break from the oil and gas manufacturing tax deduction.
Goldman Sachs in 2008 only paid 1.1 percent of its income in taxes even though it earned a profit of $2.3 billion and received an almost $800 billion from the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury Department.
Citigroup last year made more than $4 billion in profits but paid no federal income taxes. It received a $2.5 trillion bailout from the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury.
ConocoPhillips, the fifth largest oil company in the United States, made $16 billion in profits from 2007 through 2009, but received $451 million in tax breaks through the oil and gas manufacturing deduction.
http://www.forbes.com/2010/04/01/ge-exxon-walmart-business-washington-corporate-taxes.html
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2011/03/ten_giant_us_companies_avoidin.html
http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/12/news/economy/corporate_taxes/
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/study-tallies-corporations-not-paying-income-tax/
ranmarie,
That's why Obama wants to end the unnecessary tax breaks for the Oil and Gas Industry.
Source: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/congress-debates-rise-gas-prices-15869005
Maybe if he wasn't such a Flipp Flopney more people would be drawn toward his stiff robot-like campaign style.
Romney Gaffe de jour:
Well Mitt sure isn't going to win the south saying things like, "I love Grits" and "they've taught me to say ya'll"
He's as phony as a $3 bill!
It's called a sense of humor.
to DanInCo - with Romney it is not a sense of humor -- just plain phony baloney.
Romney is not a funny guy and he should acknowledge that and stick to serious discussion. The problem is he doesn't want to give any real details on anything or take a stand on any serious issue.
Spare me you two!
Romney making headway in the South is delusional. Yesterday, he referred to Alabama and Mississippi as "away games". Accurate, but insulting--and terrible politics. He's lucky if he escapes with a block of cornbread. MItt ain't down home--pretty soon, he'll be headin' for the county line.
THE MOST HATED & DISPISED Mex. Republican Corporate Puppet in the SOUTH! He's NOT FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, HE'S FOR THE CORPORATES! We, the American People of the United States DON'T WANT HIM & DON'T NEED HIM!
So, the best thing he can do is STAY UP NORTH with his CORPORATE PUPPETS! FACT, NOT FICTION!
If you wanted the Southern votes, you would need to get the SUPREME COURT to declare your OIL CORPORATES' ONE PRODUCT (OIL) AS UNCONSTITUTIONAL because it is causing MAJOR INFLATION OF ALL OTHER PRODUCTS that we, the American People (9%) need to survive and it is causing us MAJOR HARDSHIP for no other reason than your CORPORATE GREED!
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! We, the American People want our country back and you aren't helping us!
We don't need a "self-declared successful BUSINESS MAN" to run our government, we need the government run as a SERVICE for which it was originally intended for by our forefathers!
Capitalism hasn't worked for the American People(99%); and it will never work because of your corporate GREED! IT'S TIME FOR CHANGE, AND THAT TIME IS NOW! NOT LATER, BUT RIGHT NOW!!! It's time for corporates to give back to the American People, the people that made them successful!
"I am learning to say Y'all and I like grits..." is this guy kidding!!! How phoney can you get Mr. Romney. Let's hope the people in the south are not as stupid as you must believe they are. Why not have you wife stand up there and tell them that she does not consider herself rich either
Romney is already facing the double whammy of being from the north and being of a religion that most southerners despise. Trying to pretend that he's just another good old southern boy is just going to piss alot of people off and give him the perfect triumvirate of reasons for people to vote against him in the south.
I think it is wishful thinking on his part that he thinks that he is going to come in at least second in every state. If he keeps talking like this he'll be doing lucky to come in 4th in some states and it says something if Ron Paul beats him. Not that I'm that opposed to Ron Paul, but he can't seem to get into double digits anywhere but Virginia and even that said a lot about how soft Romney's support is. Romney could only get 60% of the vote in a state that was just him and Ron Paul. People would rather vote for their neighbors dog than Romney.