Romney raises Texas cash, avoids Texas politics

 

DALLAS, TX -- When Mitt Romney takes the stage in Fort Worth tomorrow, it will be at his first public event in the Lone Star State this campaign season, but far from his first visit to collect cash from Texas famously wealthy Republican donors.

Romney will spend two full days in Texas, where, in addition to tomorrow's only public event, he'll be raising money at a downtown Dallas mansion built In the 1800s, and on Wednesday along San Antonio's famous River Walk and in Houston, where Romney last stopped in Texas in March to collect the endorsement of former President George H. W. Bush and first lady Barbara Bush.

"People on both sides of the aisle treat Texas like an ATM, they come down and get their money and leave," one national republican campaign operative explained. The state's 38 electoral votes are safely in the Republican column, and both parties know it.


The governorship has been solidly Republican since George W. Bush replaced Ann Richards in 1995, and both senate seats are all but certain to remain in Republican hands after the November elections.

That hasn't stopped either Romney or President Barack Obama from spending valuable time wrangling donors here, with Romney raising $5.9 million dollars in Texas, and the Obama campaign pulling in $6.4 million through the end of April, according to FEC records. Texas Governor Rick Perry raised $10.7 million in his brief White House bid.

Some of the top donors to pro-Romney SuperPAC, Restore our Future, were also born, educated and made their millions here, including home-builder Bob Perry, who attended Baylor, and entrepreneur Harold Simmons, who attended the University of Texas.

While Romney raises millions in Texas, he'll be dealing delicately with the state's local politics and national political history.

Romney has conspicuously not endorsed a candidate in the state's multimillion dollar Republican senate primary runoff, set for July, between Lt. Governor David Dewhurst and the Tea Party-backed former Solicitor General Ted Cruz. Both men have powerful backers as the race has assumed an outsized image nationally. Governor Perry and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee back Dewhurst, and Sarah Palin and Rick Santorum have endorsed Cruz.

Romney's campaign has been silent on which candidate he believes would best replace retiring Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison.

Romney is not expected to be seen with the state's most famous politician, former President George W. Bush, who now lives in Dallas and is building his presidential library at Southern Methodist University. Sources close to the former president say he is unlikely to appear with Romney during his swing through Texas, and Romney's campaign has not returned multiple requests for comment as to whether Bush might show up at a closed-door fundraiser with the candidate.

Also not appearing with Romney: Governor Perry. After dropping out of the race in January, Perry backed Romney-rival Newt Gingrich for a time, before ultimately supporting Romney when the latter clinched the nomination. Perry will be in San Antonio when Romney campaigns in Fort Worth, and in Fort Worth when Romney raises money in San Antonio.

In Fort Worth, Perry will be speaking at the Texas GOP convention. Romney's campaign has not announced any plans for the governor to attend.

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Romney kicking ass.

My awesome gov Brown not so much. We lose 3-4 businesses every month to Texas, Idaho, Arizona.

So libbies why was Clinton's little rally in Wisc. so lightly attended?

And on this topic how come Obama is not getting any of his old small donors to contribute this time? He's off a full 80%.

Downward spirals.

Walker by 7.

  • 24 votes
#1 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 8:21 PM EDT

Perfect.

'Romney raises Texas cash, avoids Texas politics' -

Voters beware! Mitt the MisFit is only out for your money and doesn't care about your problems.

O'Bama/O'Biden 2012

  • 22 votes
#1.1 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 8:25 PM EDT

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

ROTFLOL = With tears streaming down my face.

Oh, thank you spanky... I really needed a good laugh this evening, and you have come through:

Spanky-

Romney kicking ass.

You are such a riot!

  • 17 votes
#1.2 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 8:41 PM EDT

You are so welcome Stupid. I'm always here to help.

Funny thing is I bet you think Barrett is going to win.

You do, right?

So Stupid, what's up with the Obama donor numbers? Really are off a cliff, eh?

  • 12 votes
#1.3 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 8:45 PM EDT

what's up with the Obama donor numbers?

They will surprize you,

But please tell all of us spankster:

What is up with Walker being investigated for his criminal activity?

Investigative journalist David Shuster shook up Wisconsin (and Twitter) over the weekend with this bombshell:

"According to government lawyers familiar with a Milwaukee criminal corruption probe, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is now a 'target' of the investigation."

We're running last-minute online ads in Wisconsin to make sure voters know their Governor -- up for recall tomorrow -- is under criminal investigation.

I'm certain YOU would know all about this wouldn't you....

have you ever done any criminal defense work? any prosecution?

This is just the stuff that lawyers like to sink their teeth into isn't it?

  • 15 votes
#1.4 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 8:49 PM EDT

That's right make the cash for the country, and avoid the politics of the demolazycats trying to drag you down to their pig pen of filth that they wallow in.

  • 3 votes
#1.5 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 8:52 PM EDT

Spanky

.......................| ...............Romney kicking ass.

...but ass kicks back. You know the best skill of an ass, right? Kicking!

BTW. Jackass the Donkey will kick Mitt the MisFit in the rear, come November.

  • 11 votes
#1.6 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 8:53 PM EDT

Investigated? You do understand what that means, correct?

Tell you what - you get back to us when there are charges filed.

Or how about this - prove there is an investigation and what the focus is. Since you cannot, you look kinda silly.

'A government lawyer' yeah, you must really be onto something there, sure an upstanding and legitimate source.

Barrett on Ed show now - he has made this purported investigation an focus. Huh, since he is losing badly....

I really didn't think you wanted to discuss the donor numbers.

  • 8 votes
#1.7 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 8:55 PM EDT

Sorry...

didn't intend to scare you so badly.

  • 8 votes
#1.8 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 8:58 PM EDT

Don't be sorry. Sorry and Stupid is no way to go through life.

In fact it will no doubt be center stage in Barrett's victory speech. :)

You don't think Big Ed's heart will actually give out tomorrow, do you?

  • 9 votes
#1.9 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 9:04 PM EDT

Guess we will know by this time tomorrow won't we...

Sorry and Stupid is no way to go through life.

Does that gem come from personal experience? I wouldn't know anything about either myself.

  • 8 votes
#1.10 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 9:05 PM EDT

The Kind of Men who support Flip Flop Romney

1) William Koch, Runs Oxbow Carbon, worth $4 Billion, Donation $2 Million to Romney’s Super PAC, What He Wants: To pollute for free, Koch’s fortune is tied to some of the nation’s dirtiest industries

2) Harold Simmons a Swift Boater and corporate raider), Traffics in Toxic Chemicals, worth $9.8 Billion, Donation $800,000 to Romney total giving $16.7 Million, What He Wants: Plans to store radioactive waste in Texas

3) Bob Perry, Owner of Perry Homes, Worth $600 Million, Donation $4 Million to Romney’s Super PAC , What He Wants: Tort reform to limit jury awards on homebuilders who do shoddy work

4) Jim Davis, Chairman New Balance Shoes, worth $1.8 Billion, Donation $1 Million to Romney’s Super PAC What He Wants: A lucrative Defense Contract

5) Richard & Bill Marriott, Heir to Marriott Hotel Fortune, Worth $3.3 Billion, Donation $2 Million to Restore Our Future, What He Wants: A legal pool of foreign born workers to work in their hotels at slave labor rates Romney served twice on the Marriott Board

7) Edward Conard, Ex Managing Director of Bain Capital, Worth $250 Million, Donation $1 Million to Restore Our Future, What He Wants: To screw taxpayers like Romney does with half the tax rates of others

8) Frank VanderSloot, CEO Melaeuca, Inc., Worth $1 Billion, Donation $1 Million to Romney’s Super PAC , What He Wants: Less consumer protections

9) Steven Lund, Vice Chairman Nu Skin Enterprises, worth $31.9 Million, Donation $2 Million to Restore Our Future, What He Wants: A world safe for false advertising & marketing scams

10) Julian Robertson Jr., Hedge Fund Titan, worth $2.5 Billion, Donation $1.25 Million to Restore Our Future What He Wants: lower taxes for the Rich

11) John Paulson, edge Fund Titan, worth $12.5 Billion, Donation 1 Million to Romney’s Super PAC What He Wants: No restrictions on Wall St. gambling

12) Paul Singer, Hedge fund Titan Worth $1 Billion, Donation 1 Million to Romney’s Super PAC What He Wants: He Needs Fed backing in his lawsuit tocollect $2 Billion from Argentina

13) Robert Mercer, CEORenaissance Technologies, made $125 Million in 2011 alone, Donation $ 1 Million to Romney’s Super PAC,What He Wants: To squelch a proposed tax on stock options

14) Kenneth Griffin, CEO itadel LLC, worth $3 Billion, Donation $1Millionto Restore our Future What He Wants: To end Volcker Rule on DoddFrank Wall St excesses

15) L. Francis RooneyIII, CEO Rooney Holdings, worth $40 Million, Donation $1 Million to Restore our Future What He Wants: Morebuilding contract patronage

16) Steven Webster,CEO Avista Capital, worth $4 Billion, Donation$1 Million to Romney’s Super PAC What He Wants: To Drill baby drill firstowner of Deep Sea Horizon the worst environmental disaster in the Nation’s history.

17) Donald Trump what he wants who knows he is just a nut with some kind of crazy bierther nonsense

This is not a Democracy that’s a hoax it’s a Plutocracy and it's not an election thanks to the Supreme Joke it's an auction with the good old USA going to the highest bidder

  • 25 votes
#1.11 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 9:07 PM EDT

Mittens the thief

Under his own proposal, Mitt Romney would pay half what he would under President Barack Obama's tax plan. For a man of Romney's means, that could save almost $5 million a year. But will he still park his money in Swiss Bank Accounts?

That's the 1% percents for you

And if Mittins wins Can the GOP HUNGER GAMES be far behind?

  • 19 votes
#1.12 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 9:12 PM EDT

Spanky-

Romney kicking ass.

For all his bluster Romney is picking up tainted money. We know all that tainted money goes to intentionally obstructed job creation to create only one job. That would be Mittens hope getting into the White House.

Willard the "MYTH" Romney has no intentions of creating jobs for this country. His Job has been to create wealth for his Bain C

  • 16 votes
#1.13 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 9:15 PM EDT

AND THIS JUST IN KIDDIES

$1 billion!

Politico just reported that incredible figure as the amount the oil baron Koch brothers, Karl Rove, and other conservatives are spending to throw dirt at Obama and Democrats this election.1

It's more than John McCain and Barack Obama spent combined in 2008—and that election shattered records.

This is not a Democracy it is a PLutocracy where the 1 % control the entire country while the remaining 99% eat you know what

the 1 % GOP HUNGER GAMES are coming to a district near you

  • 20 votes
#1.14 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 9:22 PM EDT

"Romney kicking ass."

Or do you mean kissing ass...you know, as usual.

All hail to the Etch-A-Sketch man!!!!

  • 18 votes
#1.15 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 9:26 PM EDT

Hell to the thief -- Mitt the Thief

Mitt the MisFit is only out for your money and doesn't care about your problems, this judgment is based on the headline

'Romney raises Texas cash, avoids Texas politics'

  • 7 votes
#1.16 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 11:06 PM EDT

Mitt the MisFit is only out for your money and doesn't care about your problems, this judgment is based on the headline

Pigotry .. as much as I am loathe to admit it, the 'Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves' money from Texas does count in politics. How else could we have ended up with a G. Bush, a G.W. Bush, and a J. Bush dominating politics. Moving on to the Paul's, proof positive money buys politics in Texas. 'Giant' is a great example of how cheap, money and politics are in Texas. Texas ain't for the moral .. it is for the amoral with a bible thumping religion behind it. Did "Dallas" teach us nothing?

  • 5 votes
#1.17 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 12:04 AM EDT

When you come into the White House and instantly begin pushing this nation as hard to the left as he and Pelosi and Reid did, you have to expect republican donations to escalate wildly. What? Did you think he could come in and do what he did in his first 2 years and add trillions to the debt and have nothing to show for it, and just walk into a successful re-election, unchallenged? He's damn lucky he scared enough key political figures on the left to not run a democrat challenger.

  • 4 votes
#1.18 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 12:40 AM EDT

When as a Texan, you come into the White House and instantly start pushing this nation hard to the right...

See how that works? Was Bush a Dividing or Uniting? Answer, dividing. Look at all the spoof shows created after he stole the presidency. They all portrayed him as an idiot. Shall we talk about the trillions Bush added to the deficit?

  • 8 votes
#1.19 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 12:45 AM EDT

Spanky-

So Stupid, what's up with the Obama donor numbers? Really are off a cliff, eh?

yes, because corporate interests buying your politicians is something to be proud of.

Hey, Romney got donations from the Big Dig contractors. After one of the defective tiles killed a woman, what did Romney do? That's right, nothing. He couldn't because he took their cash.

...well, I'm wrong...he did do something about it; at the scene, he rolled up his sleeves , got down on his knees to "inspect" the tunnel and took some pictures for the public.

  • 5 votes
#1.20 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 8:08 AM EDT

Pathological liar and Flip Flop Flopper Mormon begging for donations in the "W" oil state from his 1% Mega Rich buddies is not cool. The anchor baby looter is out drawing flies in Texas !!!!!!!!!!!

  • 2 votes
#1.21 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 9:46 AM EDT

RedDevPS

When as a Texan, you come into the White House and instantly start pushing this nation hard to the right...

I don't think you know what "hard right" means. Not even most liberals think of Bush as a conservative unless they're one of those who knows absolutely nothing about politics and thinks Obama is center. Pelosi and Reid were more than happy to spend us into oblivion 2007-2008 and, if Bush had been hard right, he would never have signed those bills.

  • 2 votes
#1.22 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 10:35 AM EDT

What does Romney even stand for except raising cash to get elected? Once elected, he'll just be a figurehead, captive of Republican extremists who want to funnel even more money to their cronies, cut rich people's taxes, and eliminate health care, social security, and medicare in order to do that.

Strange how people in this country will vote against their own interests, cut their own throats, because Faux News tells them to.

  • 3 votes
#1.23 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 11:40 AM EDT

So true! Romney will be loaded but standing for nothing and falling for everything. I heard that the room where he will have his fundraiser today will have some pictures painted by Adolf Hitler on the wall. I am sure Mitt will not notice, he wiill just take the money and go.

  • 1 vote
#1.24 - Wed Jun 6, 2012 1:34 AM EDT
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Comment author avatarFeisty Redhead Roselle, ILExpand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

There is that old saying out there: Once a whore always a whore which fits Willard to a "T"!

What are all the baggers gonna do tomorrow when Barrett kicks Walkers ass?

  • 19 votes
Reply#2 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 8:22 PM EDT

Ah look, Feisty has finally found a subject, whores, about which she actually has a lot of knowledge about.

Good on you old gal.

But sadly, she apparently cannot read simple polls.

See you tomorrow feisty. Man, is tomorrow going to be a fun day around here.

  • 15 votes
#2.1 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 8:26 PM EDT

I hope Mitt the Misfit got stuck on and infected by stuPig, such as SOB (son of Bush Sr.) and ....?...

...what's his name?? ..oops!

  • 11 votes
#2.2 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 8:30 PM EDT

@ sister fister & fiends

Not gonna do it!

vote

  • 1 vote
#2.3 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 8:41 PM EDT

downtown Dallas mansion built along San Antonio's famous River Walk

Huh?

  • 3 votes
#2.4 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 9:07 PM EDT

So Feisty...

There is that old saying out there: Once a whore always a whore which fits Willard to a "T"!

So I might be able to see your point....

That hasn't stopped either Romney or President Barack Obama from spending valuable time wrangling donors here, with Romney raising $5.9 million dollars in Texas, and the Obama campaign pulling in $6.4 million through the end of April, according to FEC records.

But by your logic and FEC numbers... that makes Barack a much bigger whore than Willard. After all Willard will be gaining money and votes...all BO is getting out of his dalliance is Cartel cash.

  • 13 votes
#2.5 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 9:16 PM EDT

Another insightful cogent piece of analysis from the queen of political discourse.

  • 9 votes
#2.6 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 10:31 PM EDT

Weell we could all be Para-legals with big mouths LMAOROFL .

  • 1 vote
#2.7 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 11:02 PM EDT

There is that old saying out there: Once a whore always a whore

Gosh carrot top, you just described yourself, so what's your point?

Which truck stop will you be watching the results from! Hope one of the boys will be there to pick up up when Walker prevails... even though Barrett's also whored himself out to the unions!

  • 12 votes
#2.8 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 12:48 AM EDT

Where is the outrage? redhead's comments have gone beyond her normal crude and crass... is this the new norm for First Read? Gutter talk? I guess the CoH of FR does not apply to their paid shill... what's next porn, maybe?

She's doing to this blog what obama's been doing to the country, we'll be getting rid of Barry... but First Read can't afford to get rid of the troll... she knows how to yank their 'chain' I guess.

  • 6 votes
#2.9 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 1:18 AM EDT

Feisty's posts are exactly what her logo says they are.

  • 3 votes
#2.10 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 2:03 AM EDT

SteveH USA

even though Barrett's also whored himself out to the unions!

Attention Steve, march to your HR office immediately and give up your vacation, overtime, pee breaks! You would not want to benefit from the whore unions because that would make you part of the whore system.

  • 2 votes
#2.11 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 9:21 AM EDT

I'm curious....does anyone think that Feitsy collapses her own posts when she is shown to be defective in her own point of view?

    #2.12 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 3:24 PM EDT
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    aaa

    @ fisty & fiends

    aaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAhhhhaaaaaaaaaaa he he, he ha, ha ha donkey

    I know you can't help it, you see your guy imploding rt----> before your eyes. LQQK David Axelrod is killing Baraks chances with this campaign strategy of divide an conquer this will NOT work because they played their hand to soon the No.# s aren't there for what they really wanted to do. But that is what they have done all along put the cart before the horse, also did not do the research needed to be able to fully implement their plan. See there are variables that they did not acct. for trying to move 4ward too Quick & they got too Impatient. The tea party cut off their power half way there. {This being a good thing} You CAN NOT circumvent the will of the People & expect to get away with it HA HA HE HA HA HA DONKEY !!!\ Bill Clinton tried to do the nearly same thing. Unlike Barak WJC had the patience necessary to gain a 2nd term and when his efforts were thwarted by The WILL OF THE PEOPLE he triangulated. The rest is History. POTUS Number 44 will be rendered merely A "what not to do" DNC footnote in history. (you can bet on that and WIN!) or not, up tooooo you, Let not your heart be troubled, we here in Realville will still love you enough to get you through your dis-heartened despair and give you the opportunity to pull yourselves up into the enivitable prosperous future ahead. good luck!

    vote rosey red

    • 5 votes
    Reply#3 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 8:47 PM EDT

    She runs off every time I show up. too funny

    vote roselle petro

    • 3 votes
    Reply#4 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 8:53 PM EDT

    I wonder what the billionaire donors to these superpacs are buying. No, I already know what they are buying and so does everyone else. The billionaires are buying politicians. Clear and simple. People that give million dollar checks want something in return. The creation of these superpacs by the supreme court has turned over our democracy to the super-rich, big oil and big corps. When you give multi million dollar contributions to these superpacs please dont tell me you are not buying big influence and a seat at the decision making table. Superpacs have stolen the voice of the middle class and rendered our vote useless. We are voting between the choices that the rich and powerful chose. Politicians either tow the line for the rich or lose millions to their superpacs in the next election.

    • 6 votes
    Reply#5 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 9:38 PM EDT

    guy,

    These billionaire are buying politicians like Romney but they are after every Congressperson/Senator and state elected officials throughput our country. All in the name of free speech, they want the middle class to stay stuck on the shiny social issues and continue demonizing public employees, teachers, firefighters etc. They love this modern day circus to keep the middle class arguing among themselves.

    Romney is just their biggest puppet and they must find this a great sport too boot. Buying sport teams is so old fashioned.

    1 billion already spent on this election and it is only June. :(

    But the good news is that these moneyed mafia guys get the same ballot in their states as you and I. Each individual vote counts in November. So do not sell your vote to the loud voices of the superpacs and their puppet politicians.

    • 7 votes
    #5.1 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 10:35 PM EDT

    NorthstarDFL

    Romney is just their biggest puppet and they must find this a great sport too boot. Buying sport teams is so old fashioned.

    and that should scare the crap out of all of us but unfortunately some see it as a good thing: freedom of speech, they say.

    • 3 votes
    #5.2 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 9:18 AM EDT

    Romney said Trickle down is working for the 1% !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • 2 votes
    #5.3 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 10:32 AM EDT
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    Congrats in advance, Go out to Gov.Scott Walker & the sane people of Wisconsin for standing up to the thugs you go Dairy land. Don't forget to send Illinois some cheese. with their tax an spend libs they might starve if you don't.

    Gov. Walker will Accept T. Barrett's Concession Graciously on Wednesday "this will be a blow out!"

    vote baby vote

    • 2 votes
    Reply#6 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 9:58 PM EDT

    Then he will be indicted for his criminal activity from the investigation currently taking place...

    Investigative journalist David Shuster shook up Wisconsin (and Twitter) over the weekend with this bombshell:

    "According to government lawyers familiar with a Milwaukee criminal corruption probe, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is now a 'target' of the investigation."

    • 7 votes
    #6.1 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 10:07 PM EDT
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    Good Idea

    not

    Just more thug tactics designed out of desperation for power. This will not stand in the way of the will of the people.

    vote Wis. vote

    • 1 vote
    Reply#7 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 10:22 PM EDT

    Just more thug tactics designed out of desperation for power

    Funny, most of us voters believe Walker outspending 34million to only 4 million is the "thug tactics designed out of desperation for power" ---

    certainly appears to be influence peddling anyway.

    • 4 votes
    #7.1 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 11:01 PM EDT
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    A really tricky acrobatic act. Infiltrate TX, extract mega-bucks and ex filtrate, all without entering the force field of the two most toxic politicians in the country.

    • 4 votes
    Reply#8 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 10:39 PM EDT

    We will see wednesday right

    vote

      Reply#9 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 11:24 PM EDT

      CONVENIENT: Why do you and rest of the Right insist on referring to working class people as "thugs"? Is that what you really think of them? Some of the worst "thugs" in this country wear $2500 suits and dwell at or near Wall Street or perhaps the Koch boys, arch, arch, arch conservative whack jobs whose one goal is to to own the other half of the country that they don't already have.

      You know how nuts they are? Their father (who made all the money for them) was a founding, charter member of the John Birch Society. I'll bet that really gets your pulse racing, eh buddy? Those are the kind of people who are backing Walker. He is bought and paid for by big corporate money and ignoramuses like you are cheering them on.

      • 6 votes
      #9.1 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 11:59 PM EDT

      As a child back in the late 60's, we passed a group representing the John Birch Society. They were railing about 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds', like that was going to end the world. I was not yet a teen ager, but I could tell each one of them was a lunatic.

      • 2 votes
      #9.2 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 9:07 AM EDT
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      Imagine, Willard the Weathervane (he goes whichever way the wind is blowing) does not want to be caught dead with the previous occupant of the White House. I can only wonder why. I had thought that Dubya was our greatest military tactician and leader in the history to this nation. You know, "Bring it on", "we'll be greated as liberators", "It's a slam dunk", "Mission Accomplished", "You're with us or you're with the terrorist's", etc, etc, etc.

      Evidently Mittens feels it might be unhealthy for his political future to be caught within a country mile of old Dubya. Hmm, might that anything to do with the shambles that Bush left the country in??? I think we can safely assume that Bush will not be the keynote speaker at the RNC this year. LOL

      • 5 votes
      Reply#10 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 12:05 AM EDT

      Bush promised that he would not follow the lead of Carter and Clinton when they stood on the sidelines and took pot shots at him during his presidency. He promised that he would allow Obama to do his job without interference. He is a man of integrity and kept that promise even while the sleazeball in the White House took advantage of him by slandering him at every turn and blaming Bush for own failures. And of course he forgot to give Bush any credit for his part in setting up the mechanism to get OBL as well. Still Bush gave him the respect for the sake of the office. Liberals will never understand such integrity as we see in this inane posts that is so full of outright lies - or maybe I should be kind and just suggest that the poster knows not of what he writes.

        #10.1 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 11:00 AM EDT
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        Texas Politics! That is an oxymoron. There exists in Texas today a working version, well oiled Republican Dictatorship. Realigned by the immoral felon, Tom Delay, democracy does not exist in Texas. It is a shameless state which has been gobbled up by the wealthy, the corrupt and the religious right which defames anything that does now agree with its biblical interpretation. The bible is rather empty when it comes to morals.

        Texas is an empty shell within the realm of democracy.

        Mitt knows that, accepts that and will never challenge that precept or its existence for he lacks moral conviction and courage.

        Obama.Biden 2012

        • 6 votes
        Reply#11 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 12:47 AM EDT

        You are exactly right. Mitt will close his eyes, open his mouth, and whatever the Kock brothers want to slide down there is fine with him.

        • 2 votes
        #11.1 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 9:03 AM EDT

        That would be Koch Brothers and I will take them every day over the sleaze that is running the Democrat Party. See:

        http://www.publiusforum.com/2012/05/16/transparency-secret-soros-left-wing-1-summit-meeting-held-behind-closed-doors/

          #11.2 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 10:54 AM EDT

          You're right it isn't maybe because we're the A) Republic of Texas and B) the US is a democratic REPUBLIC, we are NOT a democracy they're two very different things.

            #11.3 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 11:27 AM EDT
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            If Mr. Romney needs money for his campaign, why doesn't he clean out his OFF SHORE BANK ACCOUNTS and invest that money in the American economy and his campaign?

            Why do any of us want a president who hides his money out of the country in the first place?

            • 3 votes
            Reply#12 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 1:04 AM EDT

            At least he earned his. Obama has a net worth of just over ten million dollars and he never worked a real job in his life.

            My daddy taught me years ago when I was visiting Philadelphia to put the lion's share of my money in my shoe so that when/if the mugger took my wallet he would not get the bulk of it. You can bet Romney and all the rich will begin investing again once we get rid of the Marxist in the White House and it is possible for them to keep money they make by taking the risk instead of seeing it taken to feed the beached bloated whale they call the federal bureaucracy!

              #12.1 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 10:53 AM EDT

              That's just it! He DID take out his money. Every four yrs he brings it back to the States to seem American during election time. Whether he wins or loses, it'll go back to the Cayman's or Swiss once it's over. Bet on it!

                #12.3 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 7:05 PM EDT
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                Hey - Guess who is the main funding source for Obama & Romney - "GOLDMAN SACS" The one whom gambled on derivates and lost - and we bailed out with TARP. "GOLDMAN SACS"

                Remember Obama - No lobby in an Obama administration! Hey Guess who is in every important government position - "GOLDMAN SACS" JP Morgan.

                Hey - Who is in government in Greece, Spain and all the hot spots in Europe - YOU GOT IT . " GOLDMAN SACS"

                  Reply#13 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 3:55 AM EDT

                  Rodger-3113256

                  Hey - Guess who is the main funding source for Obama & Romney - "GOLDMAN SACS" The one whom gambled on derivates and lost - and we bailed out with TARP. "GOLDMAN SACS"

                  Roger, Roger, Roger....if you look at who donated money from Goldman Sachs, you will quickly realize (or not if it's inconvenient for you) that the "GS money came from the company's employees and their families. You know, the little people who wrote $200 checks.

                  Please, stop spreading lies.

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                  #13.1 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 9:11 AM EDT

                  You are correct Rodger and bayl lie is not. Obama got far more from Wall Street corporations than did McCain. It is not happening this time partly because that hypocrite spent three years attacking the hand that was feeding him.

                    #13.2 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 10:48 AM EDT
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                    You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
                    You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
                    You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
                    You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
                    You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
                    You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence.
                    You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
                    - Abraham Lincoln

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                    Reply#14 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 5:45 AM EDT

                    corporate profits are up, rich are getting richer so what's your point

                    I'm pretty sure that Lincoln or the Founding Fathers before him, never imagined millionaires, never mind billionaires and soon to be trillionaires.

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                    #14.1 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 9:13 AM EDT

                    And poverty in America is defined as $23,300 for a family of four while the global standard is $2920 for a family four. So obviously our poor are getting richer as well.

                    And the rich are not a stagnant set. Some who were poor 50 years ago are rich today - see Herman Cain as an example. That is why America was great before the Marxist was elected to the presidency. Anyone could get rich if he worked hard at it.

                      #14.2 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 10:46 AM EDT

                      Watermoon

                      And poverty in America is defined as $23,300 for a family of four while the global standard is $2920 for a family four. So obviously our poor are getting richer as well.

                      yes, because the cost of living is the same everywhere, right? yours is the funniest post I read today....thanks for the entertainment.

                        #14.3 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 8:42 PM EDT
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                        Ah Texas- just the place for all that is wrong with American politics. The circus that is an election year goes on.

                          Reply#15 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 7:55 AM EDT

                          And Wisconsin will join with Texas beginning today. The tidal way is forming even while Obama says that the answer is for the federal government to borrow more and spend even more. Getting a return of one job for every $250,000 spent is right up there with his paying taxpayers an average of $21,000 for each auto sold under his cash for clunkers program. The federal government loses enormous amounts on every effort they make so lets do more of it!

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                          #15.1 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 11:04 AM EDT
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                          Everything is bigger in Texas including the asses.

                            Reply#16 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 9:00 AM EDT

                            Every get a gander at Michelle Obama's ass? Ever wonder why the Obama media rarely ever shows her from waist down?

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                            #16.1 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 10:42 AM EDT
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                            GrumpyBobDeleted

                            I guess the Texas GOP/TP cant tell the difference between a prairie dog and a Rat. Long tail, long trail. Willard the Rat chewing a hole the size of Texas in you wallet.

                              Reply#18 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 9:34 AM EDT

                              If some one said Obama the big-eared monkey he would be called racist. Caucasian is a race as well so I guess you are showing your true racist colors here.

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                              #18.1 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 10:41 AM EDT

                              Maybe animal abuse toward rats, yes. Racists no. How about you? There is nothing in the state that mentions race. Can you read and interpret at the same time Moonbeam, watermoon, whatever you call yourself?

                                #18.2 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 11:00 AM EDT

                                So if I called Obama a Nig--- it would be okay since I never said the word "race?" Or at least it would be okay to call him a big earred monkey?

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                                #18.3 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 11:05 AM EDT
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                                It's such a fright I must say it twice. Long tail, long trail. Willard the Rat.

                                  Reply#19 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 9:47 AM EDT

                                  ROMPNEY THE CLOWN !!! Better yet ROMPNEY THE JERK OFF !!!

                                    Reply#20 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 9:49 AM EDT

                                    This Man or what ever is A PHARSE !!!!

                                      Reply#21 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 9:50 AM EDT

                                      That would be "farce." You are an advertisement for voting for Scott Walker today. The unions are obviously destroying our educational system!

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                                      #21.1 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 11:06 AM EDT
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                                      Our Planet, I thought that was Florida?

                                        Reply#22 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 10:01 AM EDT

                                        Sarah Palin and Rick Santorum have endorsed Cruz.

                                        Great just great, like we're not having a hard enough time, now these two bozo's have to make it worse.

                                          Reply#23 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 10:14 AM EDT

                                          When will Willard get the coveted endorsement of George W. Bush?

                                            Reply#24 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 10:16 AM EDT

                                            He got it as the elevators doors were closing.

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                                            #24.1 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 10:37 AM EDT

                                            Bush promised to stay out of Obama's way and not pick at him the way that Clinton and Carter had done to him. He is a man of integrity and did so even while Obama and his minions slandered him constantly. It would have been nice too see Obama have so much integrity and not bash him either but that is too much to expect of liberals.

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                                            #24.2 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 10:39 AM EDT

                                            The public doesn't want to see him. You might.

                                              #24.3 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 10:41 AM EDT

                                              Hey you can pay a bundle to get in the lottery to be part of the Hollywood millionaire gathering at Sarah Jessica Parker's and ODumbo ears will be there. It is a gathering of the typical Democratic "little man" as we saw with George Clooney. 1.0 people paying $40,000 apiece. Now if that is not evidence that the Democratic Party is made up by the common man in the 99% I don't know what is.

                                                #24.4 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 11:12 AM EDT
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                                                  Reply#25 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 10:36 AM EDT

                                                  Willard has meet with the Koch Boys. What was that all about? So if apperance is your thing, you may have a point. If substance is the issue, the GOP/TP is flat wrong.

                                                    #25.1 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 10:40 AM EDT

                                                    I will take the Koch Brothers over these sleazeballs any day of the week.

                                                    Do you have a similar site that shows that the Koch Brothers are meeting to lead the Republican Party or is that just empty words.

                                                      #25.2 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 11:13 AM EDT
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                                                      I still fail to see the almost rock star like persona you guys attribute to Obama. He makes gaffes just like G.W., he associates with some shady people, he's done things he regretted in the past. He's just a guy, not a god. As president, unless you are a minority (if there is such a thing) or a union worker, he really hasn't done a whole lot for you. Funny how when a guy is a pretty good public speaker, and is somewhat likeable, people overlook all the bad. I actually think Pelosi is way worse than Obama could ever dream of being, she is like the weird reverse image of Michelle Bachmann, but you guys love her too. Don't get it.

                                                        Reply#26 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 10:38 AM EDT

                                                        Maybe you and Bush came from the same graduating ofClass of Buttholes.

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                                                            #26.2 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 11:18 AM EDT

                                                            Here is you with your teleprompter from Fox.

                                                            WATERMOON

                                                            At least he earned his. Obama has a net worth of just over ten million dollars and he never worked a real job in his life.

                                                            My daddy taught me years ago when I was visiting Philadelphia to put the lion's share of my money in my shoe so that when/if the mugger took my wallet he would not get the bulk of it. You can bet Romney and all the rich will begin investing again once we get rid of the Marxist in the White House and it is possible for them to keep money they make by taking the risk instead of seeing it taken to feed the beached bloated whale they call the federal bureaucracy!

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