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His mathematical chances of winning the GOP nomination are slim. He came up short in the crucial races of Michigan and Ohio. And he just lost the GOP primary contests in DC, Maryland, and Wisconsin.
But Rick Santorum -- despite starting out this presidential season as an afterthought -- has already accomplished a few important feats that shouldn't be overlooked as attention begins turning to the general election. First, with limited campaign funds and almost no real infrastructure, he ultimately emerged as Mitt Romney's chief rival.
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Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum sits in a booth at Bob's Diner in Carnegie, Pa.
In fact, Santorum's actually won more states so far than Mike Huckabee did in 2008, 11-8. And he's won as many contests as Romney did four years ago.
Second, even if he doesn't win another primary race, Santorum could be a significant player in the 2016 or 2020 presidential contests, although he would face plenty of serious competition (from the likes of Marco Rubio, Chris Christie, Bob McDonnell, etc.).
And third, and perhaps most importantly, Santorum has repaired some of the political damage he sustained in 2006, when he lost his Senate re-election bid in Pennsylvania by a whopping 18 percentage points, 59%-41%.
"It's hard to argue Sen. Santorum hasn't significantly raised his profile nationally among Republican voters, donors and members of the media due to his primary campaign performance," GOP strategist Danny Diaz tells First Read.
Of course, it's exactly that repaired political image, Republican political observers say, that could be at stake in the April 24 primary in his home state of Pennsylvania. A win there could justify him staying in the presidential contest -- and could serve as a springboard to the May primary races.
But a loss in his home state could be embarrassing. A recent Quinnipiac University poll, conducted before Tuesday's primaries, showed Santorum leading Romney by only six points in the state, 41%-35%.
As GOP political consultant Mike Murphy, who once worked for Romney, tweeted, "Will [Santorum] figure out this week that his potential '16 hand is now stronger than his '12 hand and fold? Or stay in and ruin his long game?"
And if he decides to stay in the race, how he campaigns could be just as important to his reputation, Republicans argue.
"The story until now is a pretty compelling one about a leader who rose from also-ran status to one-time front-runner. If he gets out now, or stays in but runs a positive-only campaign, that narrative will remain largely intact," says GOP political adviser Todd Harris.
"But if he continues with a quixotic slash-and-burn campaign against the man everyone knows is going to be our nominee, he risks being remembered not as a come-from-behind leader, but as a petulant politician who put selfish self-interest ahead of defeating President Obama."
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Santorum helped pass a bill that will ship hundreds of thousands of American jobs overseas. Since 2001, Pennsylvania has lost 181,000 manufacturing jobs.
Santorum voted seven times against hiring more border patrol agents.
Santorum led efforts to eliminate overtime pay protections.
Santorum voted 8 times against minimum wage increases.
Santorum voted against the Right to work act.
Three times Rick has voted to raise his own pay, after he said in 1990, “Whatever the salary is when I walk into office...that’s what I’ll take...I won’t take one additional penny....”
Arguing about his $37,000 pay raise, Santorum said, “if the people of Pennsylvania saw my record on the pay raise, they would stand up and applaud, not complain that I voted for three pay increases....”
Santorum voted 8 times against minimum wage increases.
Santorum told CNN. “You won’t have any room for earmarks. But what we need to do is the reform of Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid and food stamps and housing programs and SSI. And yet,
Santorum helped secure $1 billion in earmarks. This does not include all the other pork barrel bills he supported such as the Bridge to Nowhere, which was for $358 million.
Santorum voted against Medicare reform.
Santorum voted against Food Stamp reform.
Santorum voted to raid Social Security instead of using surpluses to pay down the debt.
Is Santorum telling the truth? It seems like he is reinventing himself for whatever the political occasion calls for so that he gets the vote.
Santorum told CNN. “You won’t have any room for earmarks. But what we need to do is the reform of Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid and food stamps and housing programs and SSI. And yet,
Santorum helped secure $1 billion in earmarks. This does not include all the other pork barrel bills he supported such as the Bridge to Nowhere, which was for $358 million.
Santorum voted against Medicare reform.
Santorum voted against Food Stamp reform.
Santorum voted to raid Social Security instead of using surpluses to pay down the debt.
Is Santorum telling the truth? It seems like he is reinventing himself for whatever the political occasion calls for so that he gets the vote.
He wasn't Romney's chief rival he was Romney's last rival. They all had a shot at him, Rick was just last.
He's had a surprising ride because the "christian" pukes couldn't support a MORMON guy. Of course, come November they will have prayed and jesus will talk to them personally and tell them, he likes Romney best and then all will be forgiven and he will be their choice....gag, gag, puke, puke....
Santorum’s Operation Good Neighbor. Instead, the foundation spent most of its money to run itself, including hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees for fundraising, administration and office rental paid to Santorum’s political allies. Over 60%, $1.5 million dollars of the contributions used to fill the pockets of aides, fundraisers, lobbyists etc.
The charity also had significant overlap with the senator’s campaigns and his work on Capitol Hill. Among the leading donors to the foundation were Pennsylvania development and finance firms that had donated to his election efforts and had interests that Santorum had supported in the Senate.The charity was not legally filed in Pennsylvania and had to be disbanded.
Before it folded in 2007, the foundation raised $2.58 million, with 39 percent of that donated directly to groups helping the needy. By industry standards, such philanthropic groups should be donating nearly twice that, from 75 to 85 percent of their funds.
Last year, the former Pennsylvania senator disclosed investment and real estate assets totaling as much as $2.5 million. In his presidential financial disclosure spanning 18 months between 2010 and 2011, Santorum also listed $1.3 million in income while only donating 1.7% to charity in 2010. At worst it shows a lack of personal commitment to a principle that religious conservatives and political conservatives believe in, which is being generous with our money. Santorum’s own resolution in congress called the Care Act called for Americans to increase charitable contributions to 3% of their income. He could not even follow that which pushed in congress. Santorum has not been generous.
The PAC created by Santorum that was supposed to fund other Republicans instead seemed to mostly pay for the lifestyle of Santorum and those around him. The America's Foundation PAC showed that only 18 percent of its money went to fund political candidates, less -- and typically far less -- than any other PACs. What America's Foundation did spend a lot on with what looked like everyday expenses, including 66 trips to the Starbucks in Santorum's then-hometown of Leesburg, Va., multiple fast-food outings and expenditures at Walmart, Target and Giant supermarkets. Campaign finance experts said the PAC's expenses -- paid for by donations from wealthy businessmen and lobbyists -- were "unconventional," at best and arguably not legal.
LOL, Ricky shops at Wal-Mart?!?!
What else did Santorum do while in congress and living in PA. I'm mean VA. Rick was improperly spending tax dollars on HIS family. He took $100,000 from a struggling PA public school district to pay for his children’s “cyber” education program. Unfortunately, Rick and his family were living in suburban Virginia then, so they were not entitled to those funds. And when exposed in the press, Rick wouldn’t pay back the money, so the school district had to go to court to get it back — which cost us even MORE money. Santorum never paid it back. Pretty hypocritical, since Rick won his first congressional race by attacking the incumbent for living in VA instead of PA.
Santorum failed to help victims of Hurricane Katrina when he voted against an Amendment (S AMDT 2165 HR 3058). This amendment would have helped millions of people affected by the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. The Amendment called for the $358 million allocated for the Bridge to Nowhere be shifted to the rebuilding Hurricane Katrina Relief efforts. Instead he voted to give the $358 million to the Bridge to Nowhere that would benefit 50 people.
Santorum voted 5 times to raise the debt ceiling, increasing the debt by $4.7 trillion dollars. He sponsored a $50 million dollar bill to build an indoor rain forest.
Santorum helped secure $1 billion in earmarks. This does not include all the other pork barrel bills he supported such as the Bridge to Nowhere, which was for $358 million.
The Santorum Connection. Tom Delay and Jack Abramoff went to prison for the illegal pay to play lobbyist scandal, but the liaison, Rick Santorum, went unscathed. Santorum was an integral part of the influence-peddling scandal where the more a lobbyist paid the more access they had to influence political leaders. This was known as the K Street Project. As part of this Santorum had weekly meetings with lobbyist. When the scandal broker Santorum lied by stating that he stopped having his meetings with lobbyist but his Washington staffers confirm that he continued these secret meetings.
Santorum was all about the pay to play game, K-street project, while in congress. Ryan Alexander, the president of Taxpayers for Common Sense about Rick Santorum. The problem is it looks like it is pay-to-play. It looks like: ‘You want to get an earmark? You make a contribution.’
Santorum was named among the most corrupt politicians in 2005-2006 by a Washington watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
Probably the most unjust is Santorum’s involvement with Jack Abramoff, the lobbyist who went to prison for bribing Washington politicians. Look at the Tan family and their staggering array of human rights abuses on the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands. The Tan family ran sweatshops on the islands and Abramoff working with his political contacts provided legislative cover for the truly rancid sweatshops, their human rights violations and almost fathomless moral quagmire of forced prostitution and abortions. Watch the 20/20 Special Shame of Saipan and research this yourself.
This man is the cure for the illness of Obamunist policies. A man of faith to replace the socialist atheist regime that has terrorized America for the past 3 years.
Danger--Accusing Obama of being a "socialist" or an "atheist" suggest you don't know what either of those concepts is and have no idea what the President stands for. And how, pray tell, has Obama's presidency "terrorized America." If you've been terrorized, it is by your vivid, if perhaps bizarre, imagination.
USHonor,
You've got to stop doing this dude. Santorum sucks, we all agree, but post after post is redundant. Makes you look retarded.
Now that Obama has signed HR 347 into law...
Remember SOPA?
It gets worse.
Obama is now pushing hard to get CISPA passed:
rt.com/usa/news/cispa-bill-sopa-internet-175/
Vote Ron Paul for Freedom!
17 Reasons Why A Vote For Mitt Romney Is A Vote For The New World Order
Once again, the Republican Party is being tempted to vote for "the lesser of two evils". A lot of Republicans are actually considering voting for Mitt Romney because they have bought the lie that he has "the best chance" of defeating Barack Obama in 2012. But just because he is the Republican candidate that is most like Barack Obama does not mean that he has the best chance of defeating him. The truth is that no self-respecting Republican should ever vote for Mitt Romney. A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for the New World Order. Romney comes from the financial establishment, he is being showered with money from the financial establishment and he supports all of the goals of the financial establishment. This year, millions upon millions of dollars are being funneled into Romney's campaign and into pro-Romney organizations. The New World Order is literally trying to buy the 2012 election for their dream candidate. Romney would be the ultimate Wall Street puppet, and if you cast a vote for Mitt Romney you are playing right into the hands of the financial elite.
If you do not believe that a vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for the New World Order, just consider Mitt Romney's positions on the issues....
#1 The Federal Reserve
To the financial elite, there is no more important financial institution in the United States than the Federal Reserve, and Mitt Romney is a huge supporter of the Federal Reserve.
During one Republican debate, Romney actually tried to explain to all of us why "we need to have a Fed ".
Not only that, Mitt Romney has stated that he is not really concerned about what is going on over at the Federal Reserve. Mitt Romney has publicly stated that he is "not going to take my effort and focus on the Federal Reserve ".
That kind of talk is music to the ears of the financial elite.
Also, Romney fully supported the reappointment of Ben Bernanke as the Chairman of the Federal Reserve despite his absolutely horrific track record.
#2 Money From The Bankers
Mitt Romney is getting far, far, far more money from Wall Street bankers than any other Republican candidate.
In a recent article entitled "The Big Wall Street Banks Are Already Trying To Buy The 2012 Election", I detailed how numbers compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics show that Mitt Romney is getting more money from the employees of the "too big to fail" Wall Street banks than all of the other Republican candidates combined.
The following is an excerpt from that article that shows how much money employees of those banks (and their spouses) gave to various candidates for president during the first 9 months of 2011....
Mitt Romney: $813,300Barack Obama: $198,874Tim Pawlenty: $101,515Rick Perry: $58,900Jon Huntsman: $28,250Ron Paul: $13,104Herman Cain: $2,715Michelle Bachmann: $1,500Newt Gingrich: $1,250
Even though Romney's poll numbers have been in the mid to low 20s most of the time, employees of the big Wall Street banks gave him $813,300 during the first 9 months of 2011 and they only gave $105,719 to the rest of the Republican candidates that were still in the race at the end of the third quarter combined.
#3 The Wall Street Bailouts
During the last financial crisis, Mitt Romney was a very enthusiastic supporter of the Wall Street bailouts.
Back in 2009, Romney delivered a speech in which he made the following statement about bailing out Wall Street....
"I know we didn’t all agree on TARP. I believe that it was necessary to prevent a cascade of bank collapses. For free markets to work, there has to be a currency and a functioning financial system."
During the Wall Street bailouts, gigantic mountains of money were transferred from the pockets of U.S. taxpayers into the hands of greedy Wall Street bankers.
Wall Street would definitely like to have someone in the White House who will bail them out once again when the next great financial crisis strikes.
#4 Health Care
Republicans are supposed to be against Obamacare, and yet millions upon millions of them plan to vote for someone that came up with the plan that Obamacare was based upon.
Barack Obama has admitted that much of his health care plan came directly from what Mitt Romney did up in Massachusetts. In fact, a recent MSNBC article brought to light some new information about the relationship between Romneycare and Obamacare....
Newly obtained White House records provide fresh details on how senior Obama administration officials used Mitt Romney’s landmark health-care law in Massachusetts as a model for the new federal law, including recruiting some of Romney’s own health care advisers and experts to help craft the act now derided by Republicans as “Obamacare.”
The records, gleaned from White House visitor logs reviewed by NBC News, show that senior White House officials had a dozen meetings in 2009 with three health-care advisers and experts who helped shape the health care reform law signed by Romney in 2006, when the Republican presidential candidate was governor of Massachusetts.
Conservatives all over the country have been loudly denouncing the individual health insurance mandate in Obamacare, but Mitt Romney has had the gall to claim that the individual health insurance mandate that he signed into law as governor of Massachusetts was based on "conservative principles".
So how has Romneycare worked out for residents of Massachusetts?
Well, according to the Daily Caller, health care costs and health insurance premiums have gone up dramatically in Massachusetts ....
Since the bill became law, the state’s total direct health-care spending has increased by a remarkable 52 percent. Medicaid spending has gone from less than $6 billion a year to more the $9 billion. Many consumers have seen double-digit percentage increases in their premiums.
That doesn't sound good.
Romney now says that he wants to "repeal" Obamacare, but what he means by repeal may not be what you and I mean by repeal.
Someone should ask Romney what he meant when he stated that he wants “to eliminate some of the differences, repeal the bad, and keep the good” in Obamacare.
#5 Free Trade
One of the key goals of the New World Order is to create a one world economic system. That is why so many of our politicians continue to push "free trade" even though tens of thousands of U.S. businesses and millions of U.S. jobs have gone overseas.
Of course Mitt Romney is a huge advocate of the "free trade" agenda.
The following quote comes directly from the Romney campaign website....
Access to foreign markets is crucial to growing our economy. We must reassert American leadership in international negotiations, follow through on commitments we have already made, and push aggressively for advantageous new agreements.
But the results of this "free trade" agenda have been absolutely nightmarish for the United States. According to U.S. Representative Betty Sutton, America has lost an average of 15 manufacturing facilities a day over the last 10 years. During 2010 it got even worse. That year, an average of 23 manufacturing facilities a day shut down in the United States.
In all, more than 56,000 manufacturing facilities in the United States have permanently closed down since 2001.
Globalism is ripping our economy apart a little bit more every day, and if Romney is elected the globalist agenda will only accelerate.
#6 Taxes
The New World Order loves to extract taxes from the American people. It was not a coincidence that the Federal Reserve and the individual income tax came into existence at nearly the exact same time nearly 100 years ago.
During his time as governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney significantly raised taxes. The following is an excerpt from a CBS News article ....
Mitt Romney's Harvard MBA and gold-plated resume convinced many business leaders he would follow in the tradition of corporate-friendly Republicans when he was elected governor of Massachusetts in 2002.
Within three years, some had a vastly different opinion, after Romney's efforts raised the tax bill on businesses by $300 million
That same article also notes that Romney jacked up "fees and fines" on Massachusetts taxpayers substantially during his tenure as governor....
Romney and lawmakers also approved hundreds of millions in higher fees and fines during his four years in office.
Many in the Massachusetts business community were quite disgusted with Romney by the end of his term. Peter Nicholas, the chairman of Boston Science Corporation, says that "tax rates on many corporations almost doubled because of legislation supported by Romney. "
#7 Government Spending
The New World Order loves big government and big government spending.
And let there be no doubt - Mitt Romney is a big spender when it comes to government money.
Government spending in Massachusetts increased significantly under Mitt Romney. This was especially true for the last two budgets passed under Romney. In fiscal year 2006, government spending in Massachusetts increased by 7.6 percent . In fiscal year 2007, government spending in Massachusetts increased by a whopping 10.2 percent .
#8 Global Warming
It turns out that Mitt Romney is a believer in the theory of man-made global warming. In fact, Al Gore recently praised Mitt Romney on his blog. In a post entitled "Good for Mitt Romney -- though we've long passed the point where weak lip-service is enough on the Climate Crisis ", Al Gore lavished the following praise on the former Massachusetts governor....
"While other Republicans are running from the truth, he is sticking to his guns in the face of the anti-science wing of the Republican Party"
Not only that, it is also very important to remember that while Mitt Romney was governor, Massachusetts became the very first state to pass a law to regulate carbon emissions.
#9 Cap And Trade
If Mitt Romney becomes president, he is going to cram the radical green agenda right down our throats.
While campaigning for president in 2007, Mitt Romney said that he would fully support a global "cap and trade" carbon tax scheme as long as the entire world goes along with it ....
“I support Cap-and-Trade on a global basis but not the USA going alone. I want to do it with other nations involved and on a global scale.”
#10 Illegal Immigration
Mitt Romney is very, very soft on illegal immigration. Back in 2007, Mitt Romney made the following statement ....
“But my view is that those 12 million who've come here illegally should be given the opportunity to sign up to stay here”
Of course that will only encourage millions more to come here illegally, but Mitt Romney does not seem too concerned about that.
#11 Gun Control
One of the key goals of the New World Order is to disarm the American people, and Mitt Romney has been a huge supporter of gun control laws. When he was running for governor in Massachusetts, he made the following statement ....
"We do have tough gun laws in Massachusetts- I support them...I believe they help protect us, and provide for our safety."
#12 Abortion
Mitt Romney has a long record of supporting the population control agenda of the global elite.
He claims that he is "pro-life" now, but Mitt Romney also once claimed that he was more "pro-choice" than Ted Kennedy .
Not only that, Romney once forced Christian hospitals and Massachusetts taxpayers to subsidize abortions in the state of Massachusetts. You can see evidence of this right here .
If he becomes president, Romney will be just like George W. Bush - a president that gives lip service to the pro-life crowd but that does next to nothing to actually stop abortion.
#13 The Pharmaceutical Industry
Just like the banking industry, the pharmaceutical industry is almost completely dominated by the New World Order. And the pharmaceutical industry has been absolutely showering money on Mitt Romney.
According to the CDC, the percentage of Americans that say that they have taken a prescription drug within the last 30 days has risen to almost 50 percent .
If Mitt Romney becomes president, it will be a new "golden age" for the pharmaceutical industry and that number will likely go even higher.
#14 The TSA
It recently came out that very elderly women are being strip-searched by TSA agents at U.S. airports, but Mitt Romney continues to fully support the TSA.
So if Romney becomes president we will continue to have to endure incredibly dehumanizing searches before we are allowed on to our flights.
#15 The Homeland Security Apparatus
Mitt Romney has stated repeatedly that he wants to make "homeland security" even stronger.
I have previously written about how Bush and Obama have turned America into a giant prison where virtually everything we do is watched, monitored, listened to, tracked and recorded in order to keep us all "safe".
Well, Romney believes that all of this is necessary as part of the "war on terror", and if Romney becomes president he will almost certainly push the envelope even farther.
#16 Guantanamo Bay
Mitt Romney has publicly stated that he would like to double the number of prisoners in Guantanamo Baby.
Just check out what Romney said during one Republican debate ....
Now we're going to -- you said the person's going to be in Guantanamo. I'm glad they're at Guantanamo. I don't want them on our soil. I want them on Guantanamo, where they don't get the access to lawyers they get when they're on our soil. I don't want them in our prisons. I want them there.
Some people have said, we ought to close Guantanamo. My view is, we ought to double Guantanamo.
#17 NDAA
Barack Obama just signed a law which allows the U.S. military to arrest American citizens on U.S. soil, detain them indefinitely and ship them off to Guantanamo Bay for endless "interrogation" sessions. Mitt Romney has not taken a position against this horrible new law.
The truth is that if you look at the history of what he has done (not what he now says), Mitt Romney is virtually a clone of Barack Obama.
If the 2012 election is Romney vs. Obama, it really does not matter which one of them wins. Either one of them would do the bidding of the New World Order.
But millions of Republicans are being fooled. They don't realize that Romney will say just about anything to get elected.
Mitt Romney's wife, Ann Romney, once made the following statement about her husband....
“He can argue any side of a question. And sometimes you think he’s really believing his argument, but he’s not.”
So how do we know if he is telling the truth now?
The following is an epic video which demonstrates very clearly how dramatically Mitt Romney has flip-flopped over the years ....
Sadly, most elections in America are not determined by the voters.
Rather, most elections in America are determined by money.
Republican candidates spent more than $10 million on television and radio ads in Iowa in the month of December alone.
Those ads have a huge impact on voters.
So who is spending the most money?
Well, according to a recent article in the Des Moines Register , pro-Romney forces are spending the most money even though Romney is not even really campaigning in Iowa....
Together, Romney and the super PAC going to bat for him had over half the ad buys in Iowa in December among the spending the Register examined.
If you can believe it, one pro-Romney "super PAC" actually spent $2.85 million in Iowa during the month of December.
$2.85 million can buy quite a bit of propaganda.
Sadly, in federal elections the candidate that raises the most money wins about 90 percent of the time, and Mitt Romney has raised far, far more money than the other Republican candidates have.
It would be nice to stick it to the establishment for once, but the reality is that it is really hard to go up against a candidate that is backed by millions upon millions upon millions of dollars.
But even if Mitt Romney only wins 30 or 40 percent of the delegates during the nominating process, that is still going to make it nearly impossible for any other candidate to win the nomination before the Republican convention.
In a previous article, I described how the new Republican voting rules are going to make a "brokered convention" much more likely....
The key is that most Republican primaries and caucuses will now allocate delegates using a proportional system rather than a "winner take all" system. Back in 2008, John McCain did very well in early "winner take all" primaries and wrapped up the Republican nomination very, very quickly. Nothing like that will happen in 2012. In fact, if the field remains crowded it is going to be very difficult for any candidate to accumulate more than 50 percent of the delegates by the time the Republican national convention rolls around.
If Mitt Romney wins more than 50 percent of the delegates during the primary season, the Republican establishment will let him have the nomination of course.
But if he is unable to do so, the Republican establishment will move heaven and earth to make sure that a candidate that they do not like does not accumulate more than 50 percent of the delegates.
Either way, the Republican establishment is going to do everything that they can to end up with a candidate of their choosing to go up against Barack Obama.
So can a miracle still happen?
Of course it can.
But just realize that it is going to take an all-out effort to overcome the power of the establishment.
A half-hearted effort simply is not going to get the job done.
Dude, seriously? All you had to say is "Mitt Romney is a giant douche" and we would all agree. Serious overkill man.
MR. ADAMS did the same thing on another news web site about Mr. Romney (probably has writers cramp), but he is wrong. Mr. Romney will get the country back "on track" from the "derailment" that President O'Bummer has cause the past 3+ years.
Carole--Yeah, big derailment. Twenty-plus straight months of job growth, stocks higher than they've been in years, GM posting record profits, auto industry with record sales last month, all equals an economy back on track. In foreign affairs, bin Laden is dead, as are twenty-plus of his top lieutenants, al Qaeda is on the run, sanctions are taking Iran down, democracy has a real shot in the Mideast, we're out of Iraq and have a rational plan for getting out of Afghanistan. That says we're back on track in that area, too. But you can impress everyone by referring to the President as "O'Bummer." So cute.
Really? Santorum and McDonnell fighting it out in 2912?
Really?
Welcome to Democratic Party heaven.
I hope Ricky keeps running. Come on people, when have so many people seen such a road show of clowns? I really enjoy the free comedy time those clowns have given the taxpayers.
They, the clown show, have peed off almost everyone except there die hard base of bible thumpers and the KKK people. Wow, why to go pigbags.
Speaking for myself, as a female, there stance on women's rights, you damn sure lost my vote. And as a independent voter, the pigbags have lost at least 95% of the independent votes. Yet they refuse to acknowledge that FACT.
As to Ron Paul, that man has serious dementia problems. But yet his supporters can't realize it. Unfreaking believable that they can't see it. So it comes down to one fact, WHY DOESN'T the pigbags want the oval office?
Their "trickle down" theory is/has been proven complete BS. Yet they still think more tax cuts for the rich will provide more jobs? Damn it really does hurt laughing so much about their BS.
So I'll throw a challenge to all Obama haters here" WHAT do you think will get most American's back to work. Not a bunch of talking points, but real examples that would get people back to work.
Do you pigbags still think tax cuts for the ultra rich will give us more jobs? If so, please explain that thinking. So far, it hasn't worked, has it?
More de-regulation of things, well we have seen what happened to a whole lot of people's 401K when the banks were de-regulated. Think more de-regulation of banks will help the people get back to work?
Come on pigbags, lets hear how you would get people back to work! And no, I will not hold my breath waiting for the BS answers, if there is any answers at all.
Sally--I'm always amazed when the Republicans say tax cuts are the key to national prosperity. Those cuts certainly didn't stop the recession and, since they've been in effect throughout the recession, certainly didn't speed the recovery. One really has to be in denial to say the trickle down theory does anything but make the rich richer. As Will Rogers said in 1932, "If you put an ounce of gold in the bottom of Death Valley, by nightfall it will have trickled all the way down to JP Morgan's pocket."
Lame and never will be President of the USA.
disappear I'm tired of hearing you and looking at you
go take a vacation and stop wasting your time and ours too please