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Subscribe to RSSFormer gossip writer Lloyd Grove on Romney’s event in Virginia yesterday… Hundreds of voters—the great majority of them white, and a good many of them white-haired—were baking and reddening on the boiling asphalt Tuesday afternoon outside the headquarters of EIT LLC, a medical electronics instrument manufacturer in Sterling, Va., waiting for the Secret Service to process them through the magnetometers so they could cheer for the Republican nominee-designate. Indeed, so many neatly dressed, well-behaved Mitt Romney supporters showed up—something over 500—that a fastidious fire marshal decreed that dozens would not be admitted into the cavernous, air-conditioned company warehouse where the putative future president was to speak, and instead had them stand in the sweltering sun to listen over the public address system. Which they did. Happily. Virginia might be a toss-up state—whose 13 electoral votes were carried handily by Barack Obama and Joe Biden last time around—but this prosperous corner of Loudon County, a short drive from Washington, D.C., seemed, at least for the moment, like Romney country.”
The kicker: “ ‘I was really impressed,’ said Ed Rager, a 67-year-old former human-resources executive who retired from Mobil Oil before the merger with Exxon. ‘I liked what he had to say about college grads who can’t find jobs and the national debt. I feel like we really have a leader. I’m fired up.’ And ready to go? ‘I don’t think I’d put it that way.’”
“A representative for Donald Trump says that the reality television star will host a $50,000-a-head fundraiser with Mitt Romney this week. But the Romney campaign isn’t so sure,” the Washington Post reported Tuesday about today’s fundraiser. “The presumptive Republican presidential candidate’s campaign reported Tuesday afternoon there would be no meeting with Trump this week. Minutes later, the Trump representative confirmed the event, which is expected to bring at least 50 people paying $50,000 each to the home of stock investor Martin Zweig in Manhattan’s Pierre Hotel.”
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Those damn British colonials tended to be neatly dressed and well behaved, but had a world view that would fit on the head of a pin. Bankers are neatly dressed and well behaved, but they still stole people's money. I thought after the 60's, we stopped judging based on how you dressed.
Bernie Madoff was also neatly dressed and well behaved. He also donated lot's of cash to charities...too bad that it was other people's cash. But he was neatly dressed....
As usual all Romney's got is stale pale white males. And may I add neatly dressed.
As usual all Romney's got is stale pale white males. And may I add neatly dressed.
Military Members, Veterans, Military retirees; note that Romney PROMOTED THE DRAFT during the Viet Nam War,
then skipped out to France for extraordinary length of time when church missionary tours were limited.
When Romney came home, he sided with his dad that the whole Viet Nam War was a scam and that he
was against the war. Promoting the draft, while Americans were dieing, he skipped out, then says he
wishes he could have participated. His whole life has been a lie.
Romney is a COWARD, Lying, Draft Dodger, who promoted someone else to die for him, that is
his way of management. One may want anyone but Obama, but this guy ranks with Jane Fonda and
should not be given anything or elected for anything. A low life human being who has risen to the top
because of his families money.
Low life phoney who wants to be president, I don't think so.
Military people are against you Romney.
Romney, like all Wall St types has his priorities : He loves his country,his religion,his family,and his money, in any order that suits the political moment..His main constituencies are as follows; well-off white people who are well connected financially and politically, not so well-off white people who harbor racist thoughts and resentments against people of color making progress and the working middle-class and the labor unions who support them, women who are independent and speak their minds, and anyone, organization, or political theory that represents truly democratic progress for all...He truly believes that the very rich are the only ones capable, and deserving to rule the USA ...He may have more compassion and smarts than the Bushes, but he is cut from the same cloth !-well-tailored high-dollar cloth ! When will we ever learn ??