Big Romney donors headed to star-studded retreat this weekend

 

GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- Some of Mitt Romney's most deep-pocketed donors will flock to Utah for an exclusive gathering this weekend featuring top Republican political figures and strategists.

More than 100 of the GOP's top fundraisers and bundlers will attend the "First National Romney Victory Leadership Retreat," a weekend-long retreat intended to rally, educate and reward the men and women who have been the primary financial backers of the presumptive nominee's campaign thus far.

The attendees will be treated to presentations, briefing and panel discussions featuring an all-star cast of Republican politicians, including several thought to be among Romney's top vice presidential choices.

Among the possible VP contenders a Romney campaign adviser confirmed would be in attendance are former Govs. Tim Pawlenty (MN) and Jeb Bush (FL), Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The GOP's last presidential nominee, Arizona Sen. John McCain, will also attend, according to Republican sources familiar with the event's schedule.

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell will speak at one of the weekend's two major dinners, according to a McDonnell staffer.

The Washington Post has reported that Sen. John Thune, Rep. Paul Ryan -- two other rumored VP short-listers will attend, as will Republican power-broker Karl Rove. NBC News has not independently confirmed this information.

"All the major players of the party will be there," Dallas businessman Ray Washburne, who will attend the retreat, told NBC News. "Its kind of a reunion of all the people who worked hard on the campaign so far."

Washburne is indicative of the type of Republican rainmaker the Romney campaign intends to woo, and reward, at the retreat. The real estate developer, investor and restauranteur headed up a recent Romney fundraiser in Dallas that brought in $3.6 million for the campaign, and has co-chaired Romney's fundraising effort in the Lone Star state after the first candidate he supported -- Pawlenty -- dropped out of the race.

The invitees are primarily those donors who have raised enough money to qualify as national finance committee members, one Romney adviser said.

"The party is all falling in behind the candidate now, and this is kind of the first kind of anointment of Mitt by everyone," Washburne said.

On Saturday, attendees will be briefed by top Romney campaign officials, including political director Rich Beeson, and the famously media-averse campaign manager Matt Rhodes, on the state of the campaign and strategy going forward. That night they will also attend the second of two dinners with the candidate himself.

Attendees at the weekend-long retreat will at gather at a resort hotel in the mountains surrounding Salt Lake city, not far from where Romney first rose to prominence by running the Salt Lake City Olympics in 2002, and in the state where he still retains a rock star-like political status.

Romney and his guests will be far from the prying eyes of most media. The entire three-day conference is closed to the press, and Romney has no public events in Utah to draw reporters here otherwise. His campaign has refused most official requests for comment on the conference, including several made for this report.

When the conference concludes at the end of the weekend, the campaign will continue with one major question -- likely to be discussed all weekend -- that will remain unanswered: Was the vice presidential nominee among those in attendance?

"That's all anybody wants to know," Washburne said.

NBC's Alex Moe contributed.

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a weekend-long retreat intended to rally, educate and reward the men and women who have been the primary financial backers of the presumptive nominee's campaign thus far.

If they are going to educate the men/women who provide large sums of money, the retreat will take much longer than any given week-end on any calender. It would almost certainly prove to be a futile effort at best.

  • 20 votes
#1 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 2:35 PM EDT

"First National Romney Victory Leadership Retreat,"....Now, that's really funny, gotta' teach Willard how to lead!

  • 18 votes
#1.1 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 2:45 PM EDT

All males, except Condi?

This line up is an effort to bring back GWB for a third term, with Romney as our shaddow president.

Neither one of these people is fit to run for city council.

Romney said he will balance the budget in 8-10 years.

By law he isn't allowed to serve 10 years.

Karl Rove. One of the most despicable persons in this country. By far. His job - buy the presidency.

  • 20 votes
#1.2 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 2:51 PM EDT

Not sure all those Republican/GOP heavy weights sitting atop the Wasatch Fault is such a good idea. They are way overdue for a rip-roaring slip.

Experts note that the fault is overdue for another major earthquake, and media coverage of the threat has increased in recent years, bringing greater awareness of the threat to residents of the region. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasatch_Fault

  • 16 votes
#1.3 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 2:53 PM EDT

Oh this should be a fun time. Hopefully, 5 members of the Supreme Court will be able to attend for the payoff event.

  • 17 votes
#1.4 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 2:59 PM EDT

I dare say of NJ Gov Christe were there then definately watch out for that earthquake...of course...how far can his helicopter take him?

  • 9 votes
#1.5 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:01 PM EDT

Washington Post: The founders came to Bain from different backgrounds, yet they were a homogenous group. Each was white and male, and by 1994, a decade after the company started, there were still no black or Hispanic employees among the 40 professionals and eight support staff members, the Boston Globe reported at the time.

*******

Mrs. Obama appears to be attracting more people on the campaign trial than Romney.

Meanwhile, in Tampa, Florida, people were waiting in line for hours for tix to see President Obama on Friday.

  • 13 votes
#1.6 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:07 PM EDT

And conservatives whine about transparency yet this Romney retreat will be more secure than Ft. Knox. Why no media allowed? Surely they could draw a half-dozen names for coverage. Are they afraid to have reporters see the line up of billionaires dining with the GOP elite? Come to think of it, that really would not look good to average people and the unemployed.

  • 15 votes
#1.7 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:08 PM EDT

So are they going to Clooney's house or Sarah Jessica Parker's casa?

So nomorsameo - you cut that $50 check yet?

Come on, O really needs it. And would it kill you to give him a respectable amount?

Come on - get cracking.

  • 6 votes
#1.8 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:16 PM EDT

And conservatives whine about transparency yet this Romney retreat will be more secure than Ft. Knox.

I wonder if any of the wife's will be in attendance?

  • 6 votes
#1.9 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:21 PM EDT

Romney and his guests will be far from the prying eyes of most media. The entire three-day conference is closed to the press

Well I guess that's one way of keeping Nit-Mitt out of trouble. But they can't hide from the press forever...

Obama/Biden 2012

  • 11 votes
#1.10 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:21 PM EDT

So are they going to Clooney's house or Sarah Jessica Parker's casa?

Relevance to republican-billionaires?

  • 9 votes
#1.11 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:24 PM EDT

I proudly cut my check the first of every month Spanker.

You must be jealous. How much have you contributed to Mittens campaign. Or isn't the money from welfare you receive convertible for a contribution?

  • 11 votes
#1.12 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:24 PM EDT

nomoresameo

Let's hope there arn't any little amazing touchtone keypad for Willard to be confunded about when pays the cashier for his sandwichs.

  • 6 votes
#1.13 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:28 PM EDT

Let's hope there arn't any little amazing touchtone keypad for Willard to be confunded about when pays the cashier for his sandwichs.

Isn't that the truth?! Laughing like you wouldn't believe Beverly. Thanks for the that one!

  • 8 votes
#1.14 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:36 PM EDT

You must be jealous. How much have you contributed to Mittens campaign. Or isn't the money from welfare you receive convertible for a contribution?

Apparently food stamps must be non-transferable.

  • 9 votes
#1.15 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:39 PM EDT

nomoresameo

Isn't that the truth?! Laughing like you wouldn't believe Beverly. Thanks for the that one!

Anytime nomoresameo

Actually, I can't think of very much about the Wooden Willard that isn't hilarious,

Ditto: His being a pathetic out-of- touch gazillionaire.

  • 5 votes
#1.16 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:47 PM EDT

Beverly, check out The Obama Diary with Mrs. Obama in Colorado.

Denver: First lady Michelle Obama roused a crowd of an estimated 2,800 supporters and members of the public Wednesday morning at Arapahoe High School, ticking off her husband’s first-term accomplishments and urging attendees to work hard to get out the vote for a second.

**********

Spectacular!

  • 7 votes
#1.17 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 4:03 PM EDT

Jody, Iowa

And conservatives whine about transparency yet this Romney retreat will be more secure than Ft. Knox. Why no media allowed?

Not just that Jody. They also bellayache about how much money our President gets from Hollowood.

Did you see this?

Millionaire GOP Funder Wants To Be Able To Give Unlimited Money Directly To Mitt Romney

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/06/19/501539/millionaire-gop-funder-wants-to-be-able-to-give-unlimited-money-directly-to-mitt-romney/

  • 2 votes
#1.18 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 4:07 PM EDT

Meanwhile, out here in the real world....

My Republican co-worker came up to me the other day, eyes sparkling, bursting with news: "Guess what your favorite guy did?" (The photo of Obama on my desk has not gone unnoticed.) I shuttered to think, knowing my co-worker and I don't agree on politics. "My daughter got a silver certificate for achievement signed by the President at school yesterday!"

It was so sweet; my co-worker was positively glowing over a certificate her daughter was given signed by the President. She was telling me her fifth grader got a "silver certificate," and her daughter "didn't know what a big deal this was" till her mother pointed out it was signed by the President.

The Republican elites meeting in Utah have no idea how much the President has done to inspire middleclass families. Or what it means for a leader to be so likeable even a parent from a different political party is proud he signed her child's award. I mean, we are white Mainers; think how an inner city kid, who maybe hasn't gotten much recognition for academic achievement, must feel to get one of these certificates? President Obama has been good for this country, in many ways, he has inspired us to do better.

  • 11 votes
#1.19 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 4:14 PM EDT

Pat Boston MA.

Beverly, check out The Obama Diary with Mrs. Obama in Colorado.

Denver: First lady Michelle Obama roused a crowd of an estimated 2,800 supporters and members of the public Wednesday morning at Arapahoe High School, ticking off her husband’s first-term accomplishments and urging attendees to work hard to get out the vote for a second.

I saw that. Did you read the thread about how many people lined up to get tickets for The Michelle Obama fundraiser Friday?

The word is First Lady out funds Mittens.

I also like that David Corn Tweet about Romnesia

Ah, hell let's go for the gold. This one is spectacular too.

Steve Benen@stevebenen

Boehner: "Where's the president's immigration plan?" Reality: it's been online for over a year on.msnbc.com/Mts1aT

  • 6 votes
#1.20 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 4:26 PM EDT

this is where all you libs are hiding. You guys are getting beat up on the other vine:)

  • 2 votes
#1.21 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 4:41 PM EDT

Beverly, let's hope the American people are wise to them. They are horrible people.

  • 3 votes
#1.22 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 4:42 PM EDT

Last time Bain Capital's investors, ur uh, Romney's donors met in Aspen. They must reconvene to plot their Holy War for more money and power.

  • 3 votes
#1.23 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 6:32 PM EDT

how did mitt get back to utah so fast?

theres no place like home.

theres no place like home.

theres no place like home.

  • 1 vote
#1.24 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 8:13 PM EDT

Spanky, Spanky, Spanky, you are quite predictable. You are much like your party, totally lacking in innovation, ideas or humanity. I can't help but notice that you're much like Mitt, you never put something original out there. You wait for somebody to post then you chime in with you usual vitriol and ignorance. Mitt is the same way. He waits for President Obama to say something then he comes out as against it. Nothing original or innovative, kind of like you.

New GOP/tp slogan: "Where innovation, fresh ideas and humanity go to die!"

  • 3 votes
#1.25 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 8:48 PM EDT
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Come on Team Blue, you had your chance to rail against the wealthy Right last night with the Waldorf Hotel headline.

Anyhting to get away from the comparisons of Obama to Nixon, eh?

  • 6 votes
#2 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 2:50 PM EDT

"Leo, we need to be investigated by someone who wants to kill us just to watch us die. We need someone perceived by the American people to be irresponsible, untrustworthy, partisan, ambitious, and thirsty for the limelight. Am I crazy, or is this not a job for the U. S. House of Representatives?"

- C.J. Cregg, The West Wing, "Ways And Means"

  • 9 votes
#2.1 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 2:59 PM EDT

Yeah Noid I remeber that episode. Do you remember how it played out?

I do.

Jed Bartlett was Censured for covering up his MS.

He lied to the American People.

Cover ups always fail Noid, just like this one will for Obama.

  • 8 votes
#2.2 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:01 PM EDT

Yeah noid I remeber that episode. Do you remember how it played out?

I do.

Actually, I remember as well. The President accepted a censure and won re-election.

  • 10 votes
#2.3 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:03 PM EDT

and won re-election.

Only on the TeeVee Noid.

Make Believe - the Bastion of Libbie Land.

  • 9 votes
#2.4 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:06 PM EDT

Any comparison of President Obama to Richard Nixon is a figment of WCA, Darryl Issa and the GOP's imagination. Educate yourself, WCA, you're beginning to sound shrill with sour grapes thrown in for good measure.

DaNoid, thanks for the memories. The West Wing was the best, smartest and most entertaining TV show ever, in my view; and it was fun.

  • 11 votes
#2.5 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:17 PM EDT

Let them be WCA - fiction is all they got left.

See what I did there - 'got LEFT.'

A wordsmith am I.

  • 4 votes
#2.6 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:17 PM EDT

Let them be WCA - fiction is all they got left.

Yea, because BCA has sooo much in his pathetic excuse of a life.

  • 4 votes
#2.7 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:19 PM EDT

Oh how sad, poor Ruken has, um, forgotten that this is an anonymous board.

Or is it the only source of his human interaction?

Oh well, no matter.

Poor libbies. Times is tough.

  • 3 votes
#2.8 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:24 PM EDT

Or is it the only source of his human interaction?

Ask BCA about that. He doesn't work, has no hobbies, and stays up late just to post on here.

You should have seen his meltdown yesterday, it was f*cking hilarious.

  • 4 votes
#2.9 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:25 PM EDT

A wordsmith am I.

Nah, just a skanky lawyer. You can put crap in a lawyer's suit and it still smells like a lawyer.

  • 8 votes
#2.10 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:26 PM EDT

Nah, just a skanky lawyer. You can put crap in a lawyer's suit and it still smells like a lawyer.

Being a lawyer still requires an education. You really think Spanky went to law school and passed the bar?

  • 6 votes
#2.11 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:28 PM EDT

Lil Ruken seems to think she knows a lot about me.

I find that entertaining.

You really think Spanky went to law school and passed the bar

I suppose Ruken anybody could just make up a degree like you did here, but I fear for you, that Spanky has shown his credentials in his posts.

How about you?

  • 6 votes
#2.12 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:29 PM EDT

Cover ups always fail Noid, just like this one will for Obama.

So far, the Bush/Cheney regime has succeeded.

True Masters at Deny, Lie, Cover-up!

  • 5 votes
#2.13 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:29 PM EDT

Lil Ruken seems to think she knows a lot about me.

I find that entertaining.

Don't be mad my cute little Blue Collar Auto, eventually you'll grow the balls to leave the house. That or you will just continue to live out your days alone, with no interests or occupations to distract you from posting on these forums from the moment you wake up to the moment you clutch that pillow and fall asleep alone.

Of course, your balls do need lots of growing. *wink*

I suppose Ruken anybody could just make up a degree like you did here, but I fear for you, that Spanky has shown his credentials in his posts.

How about you?

I suppose you could actually leave the house once in awhile, and actually find a job.

Or do you just enjoy crying like a little bitch after getting wailed on this forums?

  • 5 votes
#2.14 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:30 PM EDT

Poor libbies. Times is tough.

Just a filament of your imagination.

See what I did there - filament - as in as dim-witted as a 5 watt bulb.

What a wordsmith am I.

  • 7 votes
#2.15 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:31 PM EDT

Gee Ruken, why are you so infatuated with my balls?

No sack of your own?

There is a phrase for that, "Sack Envy".

You should see a doctor, cuz you have crossed into very creepy territory here.

  • 4 votes
#2.16 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:34 PM EDT

Gee Ruken, why are you so infatuated with my balls?

No sack of your own?

Why are you so infatuated with the thought I'm a female? Don't get much attention from them I suppose?

By the way how's that job of yours going? LOL!

  • 4 votes
#2.17 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:36 PM EDT

Spanky-

Let them be WCA - fiction is all they got left.

See what I did there - 'got LEFT.'

A wordsmith am I.

Ohhhhh, Spanky

Our President Obama has more electoral votes.

221
Obama

Romney 170

See for your self

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/2012_elections_electoral_college_map.html

BTW: Romney got boxed it with the Hispanic vote when President Obama gave the directive to Department of Homeland Security forbidding the federal government from initiating the deportation of illegal immigrants under the age of 30 who came to the U.S. before age 16; have lived in the country for at least five years; have no criminal records; and are in school, high school graduates, or military veterans.

News flash:

Sixty-four percent of likely voters surveyed after Obama’s June 15 announcement said they agreed with the policy, while 30 percent said they disagreed. Independents backed the decision by better than a two-to-one margin.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-19/obama-immigration-policy-favored-2-to-1-by-likely-voters.html

  • 4 votes
#2.18 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:39 PM EDT

ideologyspoilstheview:

Do you seriously believe that the person called Spanky is a lawyer?

All anyone has to do is look upon his grammar, vocabulary and his remarks to know he has not been educated very well. I doubt there is a school in this country that would award him a law degree.

I suspect that the only law he knows are those which he has broken throughout his miserable existence of a life.

  • 8 votes
#2.19 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:45 PM EDT

Maybe the Spanker got his like that witch Cristine O'Donnell. ONLINE!!

Wait she didn't get it. She couldn't afford to pay for it.

Oh and Spanky, you're hardly a linguist darling.

Still you know you're my "TOP Right Wing Nut Cuckoo" no matter how much sophistry you try and spin.

  • 5 votes
#2.20 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:53 PM EDT

why are you so infatuated with my balls?

WCA - You have balls? Damn, I guess I'll have to stop calling you grandma......

  • 3 votes
#2.21 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:57 PM EDT

WCA - You have balls?

That's what she said.

  • 2 votes
#2.22 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 4:01 PM EDT

Ruken - Spanky is soooo jealous because Obama headed Harvard Law Review and Harvard wouldn't even TALK to Spanky!

  • 3 votes
#2.23 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 4:43 PM EDT

... to those who asked if I thought Skanky was a lawyer ... errr ... ummmm ... well I've wasted enough time on that. It does not matter what he does offline, online he is a repetitive blowhard.

  • 3 votes
#2.24 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 4:59 PM EDT

And Ruken with his made up "Sigma Cum Laude" honors and brilliant retorts is not? Too funny..........

  • 2 votes
#2.25 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 5:10 PM EDT
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<snark on> Wow, a weekend long retreat to reward those hard-working 3 or 4 dozen multi-billionaires trying to buy the presidency for Willard "Mitt" Romney. At least President Obama's fundraisers only last an evening. <snark off>

Sorry but I cannot imagine anything more boring that a weekend retreat with the likes of the Sheldon Adelson, Foster Friess, Donald Trump, Bobby Jindal, T Pawlenty and a Bush.

Interesting comment in this article that the party is all falling in line behind Mitt Romney. Seriously, that might be true of those invited to the retreat, the mega-rich, and the various assorted elected polilticians but judging from the reports of what took place at last Saturday's Iowa State GOP Convention, there is a serious rift in the party.

  • 11 votes
Reply#3 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 2:55 PM EDT

No doubt, Foster will bring the Bayer to cure the common headache and make sure no baby-billionaires are conceived.

  • 7 votes
#3.1 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:09 PM EDT

Actually Jody the point is you can't imagine.

You have no idea, cause you have no understanding.

But then again, not like you were invited to the Clooney dinner, right?

Oh and the devil wears Prada I hear.

  • 4 votes
#3.2 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:19 PM EDT

Rumor has it old Foster bought a truck load to be on the safe side and he's bringing Rick Santorum to keep the holier than thou crowd happy.

  • 10 votes
#3.3 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:24 PM EDT

Jody---good point. Seems to me the Republican elite are falling into line for Romney but they are still worried about the base. How else to explain their failure to consider the DREAM Act?

  • 9 votes
#3.4 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:39 PM EDT

The good news is these are billionaires, so I'm sure there will be no toe-tapping in the men's room at the SLC airport. That being said, I expect the cost of rent-boys to soar for the weekend.

One of the rarely discussed SLC facts .. gay bar attendance goes through the roof the during week of the Mormon equivalent to 'Holy Week'.

  • 7 votes
#3.5 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:40 PM EDT

So the weekend has come where all those rich donors will now tell Mittens what they want for their money, and he will have to do as they say so they continue to give him the monies.

    #3.6 - Thu Jun 21, 2012 7:16 AM EDT
    Reply

    Everyday under Obama seems like another day of disasters .... "LOL"

    • 6 votes
    Reply#4 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 2:56 PM EDT

    I'm confused...is that a statement or a question?

    • 6 votes
    #4.1 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 2:57 PM EDT

    Only in your mind.

    • 5 votes
    #4.2 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:00 PM EDT

    Bigben, is it cold up there because how else could anyone explain the obvious brain freeze in that statement?

    • 11 votes
    #4.3 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:29 PM EDT

    At least when I voted for Obama I got Obama, who are you getting when you vote for Romney? I guess you could say you get Karl Rove, or maybe the Koch Brothers, or maybe some other rich old guy. The only good thing is all these guys are really old and probably not much longer for this earth. Heres to hoping their children arent as crazy as they are.

    • 1 vote
    #4.4 - Thu Jun 21, 2012 7:19 AM EDT
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    Romney and his guests will be far from the prying eyes of most media. The entire three-day conference is closed to the press, and Romney has no public events in Utah to draw reporters here otherwise. His campaign has refused most official requests for comment on the conference, including several made for this report.

    As the Mission Impossible theme plays in the background..........

    But let's try to see the glass as half full here. For at least two days we will not have Mitt and his billionaire friends around! Anyone else up for passing the collection plate to see if we can extend their stay indefinitely?

    • 10 votes
    Reply#5 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:04 PM EDT

    Yeah, cause you know, you hang out with them all the time, right?

    Whereas, we will have the fun and joy that is Holder, contempt and the Tricky Dick executive privilege move.

    Fast and Fun.

    Hey - maybe your $50 check would be better spent by Holder's defense fund?

    • 4 votes
    #5.1 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:22 PM EDT

    I also heard the theme music from Jaws playing in the background as the mega-billionaires demand more return on their investment in exchange for a bigger boat.

    • 9 votes
    #5.2 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:36 PM EDT

    Jody - your <snark> is ON today .. you go girl!!

    • 6 votes
    #5.3 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:42 PM EDT

    RedDevPS, thanks, somehow it seems appropriate those mega-billionaires headed toward Mitt...and dum dum dum dum dum dum...gulp. Might be the heat and humidity!

    Hey, Nomoresameo Brian, I like that glass half full; two whole days without Mitt Romney's lies. Let's all enjoy the peace.

    • 7 votes
    #5.4 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:51 PM EDT

    ............... Let's all enjoy the peace.

    I know I will Jody! As I said earlier, I'd happily send money if it would keep them there for a much longer period of time!

    • 5 votes
    #5.5 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 4:03 PM EDT
    Reply

    One wonders if "Romulian Romney's" big retreat will be held on his home planet of Romulus? What a joke America!

    • 6 votes
    Reply#6 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:13 PM EDT

    Romney isn't a Romulan, he is a Ferengi.

    Proof: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lydyatB3WR1qz864mo1_500.jpg

    • 7 votes
    #6.1 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:20 PM EDT

    Ah, look, more libbie resort to pure fiction.

    Of course reality is very challenging to them right now.

    • 4 votes
    #6.2 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:22 PM EDT

    Ah, look, more libbie resort to pure fiction.

    Oh look! Another uneducated GOP drone.

    When exactly was the last time you had an original thought?

    • 7 votes
    #6.3 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:24 PM EDT

    The Spankster is void of original thought period!

    • 4 votes
    #6.4 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:53 PM EDT

    Ruken

    Romney isn't a Romulan, he is a Ferengi.

    Proof: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lydyatB3WR1qz864mo1_500.jpg

    Damnnnnnn, that looks just like him.

      #6.5 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 6:49 PM EDT

      I've always wondered about DaiMon Ross, too--I really think someone should have asked Ross Perot to guest-star on DS9 as Quark's weird uncle.

        #6.6 - Thu Jun 21, 2012 12:12 AM EDT
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        Wow. The Republicans have learn real fast from 2008 and the Great Campaign that then Senator Obama ran.

        Good for them, and I see already the lefties (soon to be call Capitalist Socialist) raving about all white males and only Condi as a Black female. Oh yes, mention her now for your own purposes to bring up racism again.

        You forget she is a Rpublican and you hold that against her when is convinient. You go girl. Condi for VP?

        • 5 votes
        Reply#7 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:20 PM EDT

        CC- Capitalist Socialist ? WTF is that?

        • 8 votes
        #7.1 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:27 PM EDT

        soon to be call Capitalist Socialist)

        How exactly are these "lefties" socialists?

        Be specific.

        • 7 votes
        #7.2 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:29 PM EDT

        to: GT-2021701 and Ruken who both write crap in that order

        CC- Capitalist Socialist ? WTF is that?

        How exactly are these "lefties" socialists?

        I should say, "Why don't you Google it morons" but I won't. This is a term that is used in lating countries to describe those that want to be rich by taking the money of those that are rich but they would like to have been rich from the start. However they do not work for it. They only B@@@@ about it. Comprenden come mierdas?

        • 2 votes
        #7.3 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:41 PM EDT

        GT, Ruken, just keep moving. Explaining that we're all capitalist and socialists would throw the "software" liberal conservative tagging out of whack and poof, up in smoke.

        • 8 votes
        #7.4 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:43 PM EDT

        @Concern Citizen-856329

        What, pray tell is a "Capitalist Socialist"?

        • 7 votes
        #7.5 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:48 PM EDT

        Comprenden come mierdas?

        Old look, more broken Spanish.

        Mierda is both singular and plural, similar to how sh*t is both singular and plural.

        Next time, use a better translation software.

        • 6 votes
        #7.6 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:49 PM EDT

        This is a term that is used in lating countries to describe those that want to be rich by taking the money of those that are rich but they would like to have been rich from the start. However they do not work for it. They only B@@@@ about it. Comprenden come mierdas?

        Word salad!

        • 5 votes
        #7.7 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:51 PM EDT

        Mira Ruken tu y el otro comemirda hacen dos, que se considera plural. Ustedes es plural. OR would you consider Italian. Eh!!! estunat qui pasa?, no parla espanol? Let's not forget the little dash on the word espanol.

        You guys are pathetic to think that you know it all. Jody, I do write software but of course you liberals think that the rest of the world it stupid. Jody, I'm really surprized at you.

        • 3 votes
        #7.8 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:52 PM EDT

        CC writes software? LOL

        The dude cannot even put together a comprehensible sentence.

        You guys are pathetic to think that you know it all.

        I never said I knew it all, I just know more than you. Been that way since I graduated junior high.

        • 4 votes
        #7.9 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:58 PM EDT

        B@@@@

        Is that boast, brags, or bat-at-at-at?

        come mierdas

        CC slams Mitt. From Urban Dictionary:

        come mierda: @!$%#-eater, @!$%#, dumb-ass, joker. Derogation used primarily in Cuba.(1) Fidel Castro is the international poster-boy for "come-mierda". (2) Slick Willy is also a "come mierda".

        http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=come%20mierda

        • 2 votes
        #7.10 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 4:09 PM EDT

        CC - You need to study up on your isms. Calling someone a socialist-capitalist is like calling somebody a Muslim-Christian. It doesn't make sense. But then again, most of what you say doesn't make much sense either....

        Obama/Biden 2012

        • 4 votes
        #7.11 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 4:13 PM EDT

        to :RedDevPS

        Don't believe everything you read on-line. It's used also used primarily in Venezuela, Mexico, Santo Domingo, and other Latin Countries. GT, an ass and an Elephant, really? I still think you are a socialist-capitalist. Have a good one.

        Hey Reds, do you have any ideas where that cigar of yours has been?

        • 1 vote
        #7.12 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 4:18 PM EDT
        Reply

        First Read doesnt headline Obama fundraisers...funny, that.

        "Star studded"? Really.?Obama has all the 1% mega rich Hollywood airheads, that is "star studded"...

        What Romney has, is political types...

        • 3 votes
        Reply#8 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:30 PM EDT

        Bob doesn't headline his massive comb-overs...funny, that.

        • 4 votes
        #8.1 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:33 PM EDT
        Reply

        The GOP has learned much from the Mafia-When your high dollar supporters don't want publicity you meet in secret. This is alot like Hitler and his bunch planning to take over Germany-sneak in , leave a bundle of cash-and sneak back to your corporate offices and wait for the big pay off in government contracts..the GOP has become rotten to the core . Sad !

        • 5 votes
        Reply#9 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:38 PM EDT

        Jay Arr-4214768

        Oh, boy! You conjured up that scene from the Godfather in my mind where the heads of all the Families gather...

        • 5 votes
        #9.1 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:52 PM EDT

        Amy - yep but who brings the bat to this one?

        • 3 votes
        #9.2 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 4:46 PM EDT
        Reply

        I find it remarkable that America is still sending multi-millionaires to "represent" the middle and under class at the Federal and many State levels...Our country has lost its moorings because we, the voters, have lost our minds...Why don't we put Mitch in the White House and Wall St in the Senate and House of Representatives with the Supreme Court as Mitt's Cabinet ? Need a job ?? -catch a boat to China 1

        • 2 votes
        Reply#10 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:50 PM EDT

        Where's that damn hotel from The Shining when you need it? Maybe we can get Jack Nicholson to wander the halls with an ax. It would be fun "scaring some sense" into the oligarchs and plutocrats.

        • 2 votes
        Reply#11 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 4:45 PM EDT

        How refreshing! A group of business men and women meeting to discuss how to fix the economy of the USA before it implodes. Fascinating, isn't it? No super stars from Hollywood how have demonstrated repeatedly that they live in a fantasy land and are dumber than the average person.

          Reply#12 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 5:29 PM EDT

          patricia kelley - oh yeah because these people have helped the GOP and the economy soooooo much in the past - can you say Bush? The fact that you are fascinated by people who frankly don't give a damn about people like you is pathetic!

          And, don't know how to tell ya but my guess is George Clooney could run circles around you as far as intelligence goes!

          Obama/Biden 2012

          • 1 vote
          #12.1 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 5:40 PM EDT
          Reply

          No facts here only Republican Midgets

          • 1 vote
          Reply#13 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 5:30 PM EDT

          Klan meeting without the costumes

          • 1 vote
          Reply#14 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 5:42 PM EDT

          Lets Call this what it really is FOLKS. The HOW MUCH MORE DAMAGE can we do the the Current President of the United States and DESTROY THE ECONOMY while we are at to ENSURE that the, White Knight, Mitt Romney, understands what we want from him and that is to put us BACK IN TOTAL CONTROL of this Country, the people BE DAMNED. We JUST WANT HIM TO SIGN, and do our BIDDING.

          We also want to get MITT on Parody with the President on how to SPEAK without CHOKING on his OWN FOOT for this type of money.

          Let's bring in "Turd Blossom", Karl Rove, one of the most DESPICABLEs of all time TO LEAD US in some of the most Dirty Tactics. We have the Conservative Supreme Court on Board and all of the Republicans who have SIGNED "GROVER'S PLEDGE. For a while Newt held the the title on trying to bring down Romney.

          Boehner and McConnell are just SERVANTS OF OURS. Their JOB IS TO STALL AND OBSTRUCT AS MUCH LEGISLATION AS POSSIBLE until after the election. As long as the low information voters and those who vote against their own interest keep voting for Republicans and we effectively GET VOTER SUPPRESSION GOING IN THE STATES, THIS ELECTION IS IN THE "BAG".

          Look How valiantly Ricky Scott, in Florida is fighting FOR HIS VOTER SUPPRESSION LAWS. The man is a downright hero for the "Cause".

          • 2 votes
          Reply#15 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 5:56 PM EDT

          hey seeking, P Bo is going down along with this jerk...bye bye pres.

            Reply#16 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 6:33 PM EDT

            All Politicians are nothing more than Political Puppets. Every move they make is controlled by the Lobbyist, Special Interest, and the Self Righteous.

            Half of all money raised by Politicians (Including Super PAC’S) should go towards the National Debt and Charity. Why don't we "Tax" the Millions of dollars that they collect for their Campaigns?

            They should also pay for their own Security out of these Campaign Funds.

            • 1 vote
            Reply#17 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 6:42 PM EDT

            Mitt is about as Real as a Plastic Bananna!

            Is it Mitt ____________Romney?

            “Country Club”

            “Profits Over People”

            “Corporations are People Too”

            “F da Poor”

            “Let Detroit go Bankrupt”

            “Pray da Gay Away”

            Mitt Romney’s Solution to all Problems…….Prayer and a Moment of Silence.

              Reply#18 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 6:43 PM EDT

              What a Surprise.......not one Typical Middle Class Citizen is Invited............Hmmmmm

                Reply#19 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 6:45 PM EDT

                what the hell is obama library gonna look like...a picture of stalin, a 40 oz. some blow and a joint. what a dick

                  Reply#20 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 6:47 PM EDT

                  I see you joined the Vine when all the other trolls did. You are just a nasty stain on the Vine. Begone troll!!

                    #20.1 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 8:51 PM EDT
                    Reply

                    Every time Eric Cantor hears da Phrase, “Stick it to da Middle Class”…he gets a Boehner. You Bet Cha….Fer Sure

                      Reply#21 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 6:47 PM EDT

                      Every time Eric Cantor hears da Words , “Middle Class Warfare” he gets a Boehner. You Bet Cha…Fer Sure.

                        Reply#22 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 6:47 PM EDT

                        Republican TeaBilly Conservativ’s…. The Party of “No” unless it’s part of the New Republican “Lemon Pledge”!

                        Let’s see the Republicans Old “ Pledge” : Anti Gay, Babies, Gawd, Tax cuts and Special Perks for the Wealthy, Support Big Business( Meaning Anti-Union , Against Workers Rights) , Always an Evil Agenda against the Middle Class, and on and on …….

                        Let’s see Republicans new “Lemon Pledge” : Anti Gay, Babies, Gawd, Tax cuts and Special Perks for the Wealthy Support Big Business( Meaning Anti-Union , Against Workers Rights) , Always an Evil Agenda against the Middle Class, and on and on………

                        Words to Describe Republicans and Tea Billy’s…..Greedy, Corrupt, Self Righteous, Hypocrites, Evil, Denial.

                        • 1 vote
                        Reply#23 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 6:48 PM EDT

                        Speaking of Sacrifice. Why don’t Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann , and Ann Romney Pose for Playboy and donate the money to the National Debt and Charity? I am sure all of their Self Righteous; Conservative Sheep would buy a copy and run to the closet with it! You Bet Cha...Fer Sure.

                          Reply#24 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 6:49 PM EDT

                          wow just saw that heavily edited piece on Romney you Msnbc people are really scumbags . You call yourselves journalists. Tell me who pays you NBC or the white house.

                            Reply#25 - Wed Jun 20, 2012 6:55 PM EDT
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