Foster Friess, former Santorum backer, to trim Super PAC donations

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Foster Friess

ASPEN, CO – Wyoming millionaire Foster Friess said on Wednesday that he plans to tamp down on donating to Super PACs before the fall election, saying he’d open the spigot more sparingly and selectively across a wider range of candidates and private charities to whom he could give money anonymously.

“I’m going to reduce the amount of money I’m giving to Super PACs for (Mitt) Romney, and I’m going to increase the amount of money I give to support his and other candidacies – the governors, the senators,” Friess said.


“The Super PAC money is going to be like $10,000 here, $5,000 here, $10,000 here,” he added.

Donations to the tune of $2.3 million to the Super PAC supporting Rick Santorum during Republican primaries vaulted Friess into national headlines, which he says he and his wife didn’t appreciate.

“I enjoy anonymity,” he said on Wednesday during an interview with NBC News.

Friess is in this vacation community for the Republican Governors Association “Executive Roundtable” event, which offers high-dollar donors a chance to interact with noted governors – some of whom are rumored to be on Romney’s vice presidential list.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie are among the veepstakers on hand.

They, along with South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, will participate in a panel hosted by the Aspen Institute later Wednesday.

Friess said his decision not to fund the Super PAC supporting Romney at the same level he supported Santorum’s is not an indication of lack of enthusiasm for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.

“You think I’m going to give away $2.3 million in every month of my life?  I don’t think so,” he said.

He predicted the general election will swing 55 percent in Romney’s favor, an outcome he describes as a “landslide.”

“I’m convinced this guy loves our country,” he said of Romney.

NBC News intersected Friess as he walked with other donors from the lobby of an Aspen hotel to a nearby restaurant.

He wore a white straw-style cowboy hat and paused to ask directions of locals.

A group of women pointed him in the right direction. 

“Women are God’s most beautiful creatures,” he said as they walked away. “After the white-tailed deer and the swan.”

Friess was scheduled to meet on Wednesday afternoon with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, to whom he said he would write a check.

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Why?

Did old Foster run out of aspirins to put between his knees?

I'm positive Willard let out a loud guffaw at that little humdinger! lmao

Friess was scheduled to meet on Wednesday afternoon with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, to whom he said he would write a check.

Curious as to what Foster gets in return for supporting a mummy..? The least she could do is get a decent set of dentures... the constant clacking when she speaks is... GROSS!

  • 32 votes
#1 - Wed Aug 1, 2012 8:17 PM EDT

Howdy Feisty.

I know you were excited to see the Tea Party kicking ass in Texas.

I also know you are ready for the beat down Obama is heading for.

But hey - you still got time to throw some cash his way. Although if he was only able to give $5k, and he's worth millions, it might tell you how confident he really isn't.

Come on old gal, bust out a check for $20.00.

  • 13 votes
#1.1 - Wed Aug 1, 2012 8:21 PM EDT
the rightyDeleted

House Senate and White house will all be going to the the Republicans.

There is a ton of support going to representatives and senators.

  • 9 votes
#1.3 - Wed Aug 1, 2012 8:51 PM EDT

THINGS THAT REPUBLICANS ARE NOT ENTITLED TO:

You are not entitled to destroy my income to make your own higher.

You are not entitled to raid or co-opt my pension funds simply because you can.

You are not entitled to erode my medical coverage to increase your bottom line.

You are not entitled to tax amnesty because you envision yourself American royalty.

You are not allowed to feign patriotism, and then dismantle your nation for profit.

You are not entitled to the funds in my Social Security.

You are not entitled to my Medicare.

You are not allowed to poison my environment because you can profit from it.

You are not entitled to move work to a 3rd World hell hole because you see a future America in it.

You are not entitled to falsely trump up a war with another country and exploit the conflict for gain for your campaign contributors.

You are not entitled to betray our own covert CIA agents to retaliate against their whistleblowing.

You are not entitled to destroy my Union, ignore its contracts, offshore its work, and capriciously decrease the pay and benefits of its members.

You are not allowed to ignore the First Amendment, or any of those that follow it.

You are not allowed to use your media empire to lie,…or put palm trees in Wisconsin.

You are not entitled to reprogram voting machines, or miraculously find phantom votes in mystery computers.

You are not allowed to stack courts with your ideologues.

You are not allowed to criticize ObamaCare, and then get in line to apply for its benefits.

You are not entitled to knowingly run an unsafe workplace, mine or factory.

You are not entitled to erase Child Labor Laws for profit. My child is off limits. Keep your hands off my baby, and I’ll keep mine off your windpipe.

You are a Republican. You have a warped view of social order wherein you, and only you prosper. You are a sociopath, and society is better off without you. There are many other things you are not entitled to. We will help explain these to you.

  • 57 votes
#1.4 - Wed Aug 1, 2012 8:51 PM EDT

" the Tea Party kicking ass in Texas"

Now there's news.........

  • 18 votes
#1.5 - Wed Aug 1, 2012 9:19 PM EDT

"You're going to have to take my word for it."

Wow, what reporting Rachel Maddow is doing on the lies of Mitt Romney when he was running for MA Gov.

He's an in your face liar.

  • 31 votes
#1.6 - Wed Aug 1, 2012 9:22 PM EDT

and very slowly, as Republican money men realize Romney will never be President, they will give to local campaigns instead. Just like Mr. "Use aspirin for birth control." The sure sign will be when Romney's staffers start blaming each other for mistakes and start looking for other jobs. That should be some time early October. Obama/Biden/Holder 2012.

  • 32 votes
#1.7 - Wed Aug 1, 2012 9:27 PM EDT

Look at all these rich dudes crying about the president being anti-capitalist, yet their pockets are certainly deep when it comes to buying off legislators.

Just please, no funding for our schools. We can't afford it.

Seems to me capitalism is doing quite well. I wonder how much money they'll end up spending this year to buy off Romney and the governors and members of Congress?

Our country is not poor. We are a rich nation.

We just happen to have a country full of people with zero character or concern for its citizens. All the rich people's (capitalists) money is going to buy off elections with no concern for the well being of our nation.

  • 40 votes
#1.8 - Wed Aug 1, 2012 9:37 PM EDT

Few things of this Earth are uglier than a "Moron" with money. Foster proves It.

  • 35 votes
#1.9 - Wed Aug 1, 2012 9:40 PM EDT

Well said Pat. Just can't seem to find the loot can they? Let's donate to "Charter Schools".

  • 16 votes
#1.10 - Wed Aug 1, 2012 9:40 PM EDT

If I was a big money donor to the Romney super-pac I'd trim back too...after seeing today's poll numbers.

  • 26 votes
#1.11 - Wed Aug 1, 2012 9:53 PM EDT

We already knew the money was going to shift away from Romney and the presidential race to congress and governors. There are certain races at risk, and that is where most of the focus will be. But it may be happening early due to loss of confidence in Romney?

  • 19 votes
#1.12 - Wed Aug 1, 2012 10:37 PM EDT
Comment author avatarMichael1969Expand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

Obummer must be distraught.......

Gay marriage and no chicken

We all deserve better than Obama......if he cared about our country he would leave gracefully - That should learn us all - Never send a BOY to do a MAN'S job!

  • 6 votes
#1.13 - Wed Aug 1, 2012 11:27 PM EDT

"Women are God's most beautiful creatures," he said as they walked away. "After the white-tailed deer and the swan."

What a PIG. Sorry, I don't care much for his politics, he's just a randy old fart who denegrates women. Toss your money away willy nilly to super PACS and idiots like Brewer. God forbid you'd take any of that and donate it to Big Brothers/Big Sisters, the American Red Cross, or any other agency that provides a service to others without naming YOU as the benefactor and giving you some kind of gift in return. Creepy old coot!

  • 29 votes
#1.14 - Wed Aug 1, 2012 11:48 PM EDT

“The Super PAC money is going to be like $10,000 here, $5,000 here, $10,000 here,” he added.

Only 10,000 here, 5,000 here, and 10,000 here? It would take the average American months to get the kind of money this guy is throwing out.

Donations to the tune of $2.3 million to the Super PAC supporting Rick Santorum during Republican primaries vaulted Friess into national headlines, which he says he and his wife didn’t appreciate,“I enjoy anonymity,” he said on Wednesday during an interview with NBC News.
Boohoo. Give me a break. You gave a presidential candidate 2.3 million dollars and you think you can remain anonymous? We know that the elections are being bought off, the American people deserve to at least know who is supplying the funds. These rich guys who think they can buy off our government and remain anonymous can screw off

  • 25 votes
#1.15 - Wed Aug 1, 2012 11:57 PM EDT

Wyoming millionaire Foster Friess said on Wednesday that he plans to tamp down on donating to Super PACs before the fall election

Ah, Wyoming, where the men are men and the sheep are scared (and scarred, no less). Nothing like a Friess fleecing, Wyoming style. Now that Friess has used up the sheep, I see he has moved on to broader horizons; deer, and swans. Seems any old white colored beasty-ass will do for this horn dog.

“After the white-tailed deer and the swan.”

If Jan really wants to beg for bucks, she better spend a whole lot of money for a face lift or ten and a bleach job on her hiney. Old Frosty Freezer burn doesn't like skanky honey-pots.

  • 11 votes
#1.16 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 12:40 AM EDT

"Women are God's most beautiful creatures," he said as they walked away. "After the white-tailed deer and the swan."

Thats an odd statement, especially coming from a Wyomingite. In this state most of the "men" shoot white-tailed deer and would probably shoot swans (and women) if they thought they could get away with it. So it really shows what little respect he has for women.

"Donations to the tune of $2.3 million to the Super PAC supporting Rick Santorum during Republican primaries vaulted Friess into national headlines, which he says he and his wife didn’t appreciate."

“I enjoy anonymity,”

Yes I am sure you do, most people who bribe politicians like to remain anonymous, but now the cat is out of the bag and everyone knows what a total idiot you are for giving $2.3 million to a complete and utter moron like Santorum.

One thing I want you to remember Foster, when the walls come crashing down on this house of cards, and it will, I promise you that, your money will be worthless and there will be no one to to protect you from those you stepped on as you conned your way to the top of the heap.

  • 23 votes
#1.17 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 12:58 AM EDT

ah, the daily rants and hate from the left, it seems there is an endless supply.

Just remember that feeling you had in Nov of 2010, as it is going to return in less than 100 days, only way worse, as the White House and Congress will be back in control of grown ups, Harry will join Nancy as a minority leader, and Obama will need to find someone else to pay for his golf outing transportation.

  • 4 votes
#1.18 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 12:59 AM EDT

Mister Wonderful, I would suggest that you take your glasses back from your cat and start reading some polls ... I've linked one for you ... but it's just going to get better ...

4 more for 44

http://www.gallup.com/poll/150743/obama-romney.aspx

  • 12 votes
#1.19 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 1:10 AM EDT

@ Michael1969

Racist by trade, or is this your first time?

  • 13 votes
#1.20 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 1:10 AM EDT

@ Michael1969

Racist by trade, or is this your first time?

That one is better left on ignore. He hasn't yet met a women he doesn't like to beat, a fag to bash, and a black/latino he doesn't enjoy tying to his bumper. We can only hope he maintains his steady diet of 5 helpings of Chick-Fil-A per day.

  • 15 votes
#1.21 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 1:16 AM EDT

Just remember that feeling you had in Nov of 2010, as it is going to return in less than 100 days, only way worse, as the White House and Congress will be back in control of grown ups

Is there going to be a third party that sweeps in and takes all of the seats away from the Republicans and Democrats? Neither party act like "grown ups" and both should be rejected by voters.

  • 1 vote
#1.22 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 1:21 AM EDT

ah, the daily rants and hate from the left,

Interesting perception considering it is the GOP that has congressmen fleeing the party of "hate".

  • 14 votes
#1.23 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 1:24 AM EDT

No kidding RedDevPS ... Jon Huntsman can't stand his "party!" John McCain, disgusted at Michelle Bachmann ... I totally believe that list is going to grow as this election moves forward.

  • 20 votes
#1.24 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 1:39 AM EDT

@Feisty - I think the headline says it all, Friess being a Wyoming 'boy' and all. Now that Santorum has quit taking his frothy loads (of cash that is), Bachmann has hidden Marcus from the Friess-Frozen-yogurt (she keeps a supply of wholesome corn dogs on hand), Cain long ago replied with spunk "nein-nein-nein only mine-mine-mine", and Romney doesn't need any more sticky goo on his 1040s, Frosty has no choice but to trim back and blow his wads on dove-tailed deer, white swans, and lily white children brokered over the internet.

Foster Friess, former Santorum backer, to trim Super PAC donations

  • 8 votes
#1.25 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 1:50 AM EDT

Jon Huntsman can't stand his "party!" John McCain, disgusted at Michelle Bachmann

What makes this political year fascinating is the extreme polarization. The pundits all tells us they have never seen it before, and I certainly have never seen it before. That being said, it has happened before in our US history, and I would really enjoy hearing, from political historians, their take on events. I have read quite a bit on the divide that surrounded FDR, a divide that lasted decades. I have also read upon the era of the Suffrage Movement, but that was clouded with the Temperance Movement and WWI. And to think, I thought the '60s were scary.

  • 9 votes
#1.26 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 1:59 AM EDT

RedDevPs ... as they say in "Lagoon" land, "hold on tight, keep your arms and hands inside at all times, enjoy the ride, and have fun!"

Certainly fits for this political season!

  • 2 votes
#1.27 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 2:06 AM EDT

as they say in "Lagoon" land, "hold on tight, keep your arms and hands inside the ride at all times,

You're so bad .. I know those 'Lagoon Laws' well. Of course, I never held on tight, unless I had a honey next to me, my arms were always flailing, and my hands, well, we can just say I should count my lucky stars I still have 10 digits. Wild Mouse 'ruled' my day!! Fascination was my "game"!!. Tilt-a-Whirl, well shucks, it bent me : )

  • 5 votes
#1.28 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 2:14 AM EDT

We do need to chat at some point in time .. .but until then ... thanks for always having my back. :)

  • 2 votes
#1.29 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 2:18 AM EDT

Now for real fun, there was always Hobbs Hollow, for boring fun, there was Sleepy Hollow, and then the blasse Mutton Hollow. Real spooky was Kay's creek. Now mind you, this was long before there was a Fairfield Drive, and Antelope Drive mail was delivered as Rural Route (RR #44).

  • 4 votes
#1.30 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 2:31 AM EDT

@Layton - thanks as always for the chat!! As they say in Aussie land, Cheers, Big Ears!!

  • 4 votes
#1.31 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 2:33 AM EDT

"The Super PAC money is going to be like $10,000 here, $5,000 here, $10,000 here," Foster Friess added.

"I'm convinced this guy loves our country," Foster Friess said of Romney.

$10,000 + $5,000 + $10,000 = $25,000 is the same amount of money I make each year working 50 weeks with 2 weeks vacation, 8-10 hours a day plus overtime, bending-lifting-twisting 70# and pushing and pulling 350# all day for the last 34 years of my life until I got hurt on the job and had to have 360 degree multi-level lumbar spinal fusion and needless to say I won't ever be able to go back to the same job I've been doing all these years as it's hard to even walk around the block now.

This Foster Friess guy just pulls money like that out to throw at some politicians to gain special favors. Must be nice Foster. Get a real job!! Also, if Mitt loved his country so much you'd think he would have signed up to defend her during the Vietnam War. Oh no, not Mitt. He was a Governer's son so he got four deferments and went to France and rode around on his bike for 2 years during the time that my brothers and I were fighting through the jungles of Vietnam.

Way to go Mitt, you sure love your country!! What a JOKE these guys are, Mitt Romney, Foster Friess, and the whole Republican Party for that matter. In it for themselves, by themselves, and screw everyone else.

OBAMA/BIDEN 2012

  • 17 votes
#1.32 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 4:35 AM EDT

Foster Friess said ...he’d open the spigot (s-pigot?) more sparingly and selectively.

  • 4 votes
#1.33 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 8:54 AM EDT

@ kevinQ

Man is sounds like you made some miserable choices about education and employment if that was your lot in life. I make 10x more than you and i never lift anything heavy, other than large option puts.

You made a bad choice get over it. Your still better off then the street trash that begs me for money everyday as i get off the subway, so as i see it your the rich man, he's the poor man. I think we should take that computer you have there and the money for the internet connection and give it to the guy with the sign on the corner. you dont need that disability check to enjoy such comfort, hes needs it to eat.

oh yea as for me. Its all offshore pal, sorry thats what money does when you want to sink the titanic. First class gets all the life boats and we float away to safety. Its the middle class that gets to sink..

    #1.34 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 9:17 AM EDT

    It's great to see all you libs denigrating other people with opposing views to yours. What a bunch of hypocrites on tolerance you are. I hope you noticed the voters at Chik-fil-a yesterday.

    • 1 vote
    #1.35 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 10:02 AM EDT

    Revenge, homeless people street trash, are you serious? Nasty and mean-spirited comment, KevinQ applaud you for "breaking" your back working all those hard years. As far as bad educational choices, revenge, just upgraded his GED to excel in the Right Wing Haters course. Revenge, keep floating far, far away. Elephant tool.

    Obama 2012

    • 5 votes
    #1.36 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 10:12 AM EDT

    Yup, Colo, and each one was fatter than the next, and so what, family values crowd, who cares.

    Obama 2012

    • 3 votes
    #1.37 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 10:14 AM EDT

    Thanks, Freiss for reminding female voters of male Repubbies disdain for women in general. What a hoot, Freiss's remark that "Women are God's most beautiful creatures, after the white tail deer and swans" was uttered before his meeting with Gov Jan Brewer. He couldn't have meant to include Jan, she is "butt ugly both on the inside and outside.

    • 3 votes
    #1.38 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 10:42 AM EDT

    skyparrot

    Yup, Colo, and each one was fatter than the next, and so what, family values crowd, who cares.

    Obama 2012

    Another ignorant Leftist response. Not sure where you were viewing but I primarily saw physically fit adults.

    • 1 vote
    #1.39 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 11:11 AM EDT

    Romney is going to need a whole lot more money now that his tax plan has been scored as beneficial for the rich and hurtful to the middle class.

    • 7 votes
    #1.40 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 11:48 AM EDT

    Eric - The most hurtful tax on the middle class is that imposed by Hussein, the ACA.

      #1.41 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 6:20 PM EDT

      In 50 years textbooks (at least those not in TX) will have pictures of the screaming hillbillies of Selma alongside pictures of the lines of cars at Chik-Fil-A. Face it Colorado, you will be on the wrong side of history and your great-Grandchildren will be ashamed of you.

      • 2 votes
      #1.42 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 7:36 PM EDT

      Nobody wants to buy feed for a dying horse aint that right Mitt. Now they want to buy a Congress and a Senate

      • 1 vote
      #1.43 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 9:18 PM EDT

      Boy o boy, look at all the libs scream about this one guy donating his OWN money to right the wrongs of the last 3 1/2 years and not one peep about all the millions donated from the unions. The UAW donates millions but they were the recipients of bailout monies paid for from taxpayer dollars and the public sector unions give millions with what else... what use to be taxpayer dollars but the libs don't like to talk about that, they want to scream foul about some private self made millionaire donating money from his own pocket to the republican candidates. But I bet if he were to give his money to the libs they wouldn't say a word.

      • 1 vote
      #1.44 - Fri Aug 3, 2012 4:09 AM EDT

      He predicted the general election will swing 55 percent in Romney’s favor, an outcome he describes as a “landslide.”

      The writer tries to denigrate this man with one comment but he seems to have forgotten that the libs called a 2008 a landslide and a mandate no less with a 10 million vote spread. This writer is pathetic.

      • 1 vote
      #1.45 - Fri Aug 3, 2012 4:14 AM EDT

      Dave nobody cares if they give their money to Romney he will still lose because he's a loser not because of the money

        #1.46 - Fri Aug 3, 2012 9:02 AM EDT

        uaw-779887

        Nobody wants to buy feed for a dying horse aint that right Mitt. Now they want to buy a Congress and a Senate

        He states that he's just stopping funding to PACs, not Romney. Didn't learn to read from your union school teacher?

        • 1 vote
        #1.47 - Fri Aug 3, 2012 9:54 AM EDT

        learned how to make a ton of money though. And as i said Republicans will lose. Thats the reason hardly any Republitatrds come on here anymore your loss is a forgone conclusion. Your candidate is a idiot maybe he could have used a union teacher

        • 1 vote
        #1.48 - Fri Aug 3, 2012 11:49 AM EDT

        UAW - Making money is quite different from earning money, but that goes along with your moniker. Learn to punctuate, spell, and some grammar and then you may have some credibility about your opinions.

        • 2 votes
        #1.49 - Fri Aug 3, 2012 12:39 PM EDT

        na i like it the way it is but thanks anyway. gotta go spend more money see ya

        • 1 vote
        #1.50 - Fri Aug 3, 2012 2:54 PM EDT

        Thus guy knows Romney is going to lose so why throw the money down that rat-hole?

          #1.51 - Sat Aug 4, 2012 7:47 AM EDT

          the righty

          Obama's big spending policies have not helped the economy.Obama's liberal economic vision has run up enormous debt and that threatens everybody single one of us.

          righty,

          Why is it you righties never seem to remember that the vast majority or our deficit was incurred by Reagan, Bush 41 and Bush 43.

          Obama was handed a $9 Trillion deficit and an economy that was destroyed. And on top of that, Bush signed the TARP bailout which landed on Obama's watch.

          What a gang of dishonest and ignorant goobers. The Republican trickle policy has been implemented by Regan and Bush 43 and was a total failure, producing recessions both times. But the very gullible Uber Right Wing will believe anything they are told to believe.

          • 1 vote
          #1.52 - Sat Aug 4, 2012 3:12 PM EDT
          Reply

          Cutting the money because he doesn't want to waste it on a sure loser.

          Anything for attention.

          • 20 votes
          Reply#2 - Wed Aug 1, 2012 8:28 PM EDT

          Read the article, he's shifting his donations to smaller republican elections to ensure they take the House and Senate.

          The white house is a lock for romney since obama went full anti capitalism lately.

          • 9 votes
          #2.1 - Wed Aug 1, 2012 8:56 PM EDT

          That's some fantasy world you're living in, Elliot. Is it air conditioned?

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

          • 20 votes
          #2.2 - Wed Aug 1, 2012 9:03 PM EDT

          GOP

          Cruz wins TX primary nomination because he was running against the Perry machine. I voted for Cruz and would have voted for Dubua if that is what it would take to derail Perry's pay to play crony politics.

          • 5 votes
          #2.3 - Wed Aug 1, 2012 10:41 PM EDT

          The white house is a lock for romney since obama went full anti capitalism lately.

          Please explain to me what the White House action's have been anti capitalistic lately.

          • 18 votes
          #2.4 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 12:08 AM EDT

          Anti-capitalist actions? How about a White House that supports a record number of energy facility closings due to draconian restrictions? And how about the lowest level of new off-shore leases in recent history with his 2012-2017 plan for only 12 new leases, and a record number of new restrictions and controls on business at every level?

          Talk to small business owners. The programs these clowns claim will create jobs do nothing of the sort, the "tax-credits" go unused as you need net income to benefit from them, and the stimulus spent at least $29 billion to overseas firms so that their workers have jobs rather than Americans.

          Do you even know how many real jobs $29 billion on spending produces?

          Rather than streamline government, he has added a record number of new positions, boards and regulations yet to be written via Obamacare, and he has created uncertainty not seed in decades because of the Obamacare monstrosity. It will take many more years than they have planned to implement, and in the interim his plan is to feed millions of new patients into Medicaid, which is already a mess and a financial disaster for emergency rooms around the nation.

          And that's just off the top of my head. If you want details, spend 10 minutes reading any daily news service as this information is not difficult to find. You might have to look beyond NBC and CNN though, as they sometimes miss stuff.

          • 4 votes
          #2.5 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 1:08 AM EDT

          “Holding off on drilling in the Gulf, holding off on drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf, holding off on drilling in Alaska, trying to impose the federal government into ‘fracking’ regulations with regards to natural gas,” Romney said at a western Pennsylvania campaign stop.

          MisterWonderful

          I'll bet that people who have flammable drinking water due to the secret fracking ingridients will agree with President Obama.

          Romney’s energy and environmental platform calls for stripping EPA’s power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and expanding oil-and-gas leasing to include areas that are currently off limits, including the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, among other measures.

          Romney wants to increase the profit margin for the industry that is already the most profitable in the world. On all that on the backs of everyone else.

          • 5 votes
          #2.6 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 8:19 AM EDT

          A tea party guy wins in Texas......what a surprise (sarcasm).

          • 2 votes
          #2.7 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 11:49 AM EDT

          I guess the white-tailed deer and the swan have the advantage of not needing the asprin between the knees.

          • 3 votes
          #2.8 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 3:03 PM EDT

          Feisty - I cracked up when you referred to Brewer's clacking dentures. I used to work for a dentist and that is the result of cheap dentures or dentures that just need relined - inexcusable for a person in her position. Either way, it is certainly gross. I used to work with a woman who had dentures like that and they would fall down when she talked and she sat at her desk and ate corn nuts all day. Really Gross!

            #2.9 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 7:52 PM EDT
            Reply

            From the article: “Women are God’s most beautiful creatures,” (Freiss) said as they walked away. “After the white-tailed deer and the swan.”

            ...and a well-oiled assault rifle and a burning family planning clinic, right, Foster?

            The right wing lunatic fringe are such idiots.

            • 27 votes
            Reply#3 - Wed Aug 1, 2012 8:46 PM EDT

            ...and he probably wouldn't hesitate to shoot that pretty white-tailed deer during hunting season.

            • 12 votes
            #3.1 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 12:30 AM EDT

            nah, he just shreds Bambi with his ever ready assault rifle. Women are "Creatures" and "Creatures" need to be controlled right nasty Frosty old goat.

            Obama 2012

            • 4 votes
            #3.2 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 10:20 AM EDT
            Reply

            So, this dude prefers deers (the white-tailed kind) and swans (presumably not black ones) over women?

            • 21 votes
            Reply#4 - Wed Aug 1, 2012 9:02 PM EDT

            No wonder women are his political fodder, he thinks he has found something better in the wild.

            • 15 votes
            #4.1 - Wed Aug 1, 2012 10:44 PM EDT

            Yup, Loyal, Wild Big Horned Sheep won't hold still.

            • 2 votes
            #4.2 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 10:22 AM EDT
            Reply

            “Women are God’s most beautiful creatures,” he said as they walked away. “After the white-tailed deer and the swan.” What the heck does that mean? Can't be too good for women though to be put behind his favorite hunting prey.

            • 17 votes
            Reply#5 - Wed Aug 1, 2012 9:13 PM EDT

            "He (Foster Freiss) predicted the general election will swing 55 percent in Romney’s favor, an outcome he describes as a 'landslide.'”

            Senile dementia is an awful thing to witness.

            • 20 votes
            Reply#6 - Wed Aug 1, 2012 9:40 PM EDT

            This is the guy who backed Santorum. I guess he is feeling a little foolish. Actually, I'm not sure a republican can feel foolish. Romney's people think his trip was a great success. The "kiss my azz" comment sums up Romney's attitude. And if I had his money, I would be saying "kiss my azz" too. He still seems to have lots of support from the uneducated and uninformed AKA Romney's base.

            • 8 votes
            #6.1 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 3:27 AM EDT

            And dementia in a liberal twelve year old is even worse.

            • 2 votes
            #6.2 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 3:42 AM EDT

            Wow Dawn, I love it. You are so funny (ROFL). Right behind the the white-tailed deer and the swan!

            • 7 votes
            #6.3 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 7:46 AM EDT

            Dawn - Is that you in your avatar photo?

              #6.4 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 7:55 PM EDT
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              Romney paid more in federal income taxes in 2010 (over $3 million) than Obama earned over the course of the last ten years!!! But we don't want a guy that knows how to handle money in the Whitehouse because we're libtards and we want him to pay more taxes so we can suck on the federal tit as long as we can get away with it!!!

              • 5 votes
              Reply#7 - Wed Aug 1, 2012 9:53 PM EDT

              Sure DAN, cause we all know how brilliantly that last business tycoon in the White House performed. Remember, Dubya was called our first "MBA President"??? And he proceeded to take a balanced budget along with a surplus and piss it all away on unnecessary wars and tax cuts simultaneously, which dam near bankrupted this country.

              Willard is so damn proud of his business skills and his handling of money? Good, let him release his financial records like his own father was man enough to do. We want to know if a potentential president actually pays any taxes at all and special funds he's got squarreled away around the world. And the really insane thing is that lackeys of the rich like you will make excuses for those with the most in our society and yet heap contempt and scorn on those with the least. I don't give a good god damn is Willard paid billions, that has nothing to do with it. The question is did he pay the same PERCENTAGE as working stiffs do everyday. If he has nothing to hide he should be proud to release his records and quiet nay sayers like me.

              • 22 votes
              #7.1 - Wed Aug 1, 2012 10:57 PM EDT

              Romney paid more in federal income taxes in 2010 (over $3 million) than Obama earned over the course of the last ten years!!!

              Said like a true Euro-trash elitist.

              • 9 votes
              #7.2 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 12:46 AM EDT

              Surplus My Ass, insipid! That "surplus" was a bunch of jiggery-pokery and massive robbing of the Social Security funds. You know it and you're ignoring it.... that's ignorant.

              • 4 votes
              #7.3 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 3:45 AM EDT

              But we don't want a guy that knows how to handle money in the Whitehouse

              Get real. Romney doesn't handle his own money. He has people who do that.

              • 8 votes
              #7.4 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 5:49 AM EDT

              Romney has never been to a grocery store.

              • 6 votes
              #7.5 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 6:15 AM EDT

              Dawn V

              Surplus My Ass, insipid! That "surplus" was a bunch of jiggery-pokery and massive robbing of the Social Security funds.

              so did Bush2, Bush 1 and Reagan but Clinton was the only president who managed to leave the office with low unemployment, no wars, smaller debt, smaller government, and less borrowing. So what does that tell you?

              • 6 votes
              #7.6 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 8:26 AM EDT

              But we don't want a guy that knows how to handle money in the Whitehouse

              according to Romney even Romney doesn't know where his money is or how it's doing, remember? So maybe you should be voting for Romney's money handlers instead.

              • 6 votes
              #7.7 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 8:28 AM EDT

              Dawn, you need to get your noggin out out of the gnarly, old, bloated elephant's look alike arse. Really, Clinton surplus made up, geez and nearly 5,000 Americans body bagged that's a myth too. Ignorant fox howler.

              Obama 2012

              • 4 votes
              #7.8 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 10:28 AM EDT

              He sure knows how to handle money..in Cayman, Swiss and Bermuda tax shelters. I heard that he has been handling it so well he has not paid any taxes in years. How does one accumulate almost a hundred millions in an IRA when the maximum you can put in is a few thousands per year?

              • 2 votes
              #7.9 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 3:41 PM EDT
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              First Read and the rest of the liberal media never seem to mention a prominient Obama bundler-- Jon Corzine

              "When Barack Obama and I were literally sitting in a desk in a high rise in Chicago beginning to plan how we would try to get this economy out of a ditch, literally, the first guy I called was Jon Corzine. Not a joke. Not a joke. Because first of all, he's the smartest guy that I know in terms of the economy and on finance, I really mean this." --Joe Biden

              • 4 votes
              Reply#8 - Wed Aug 1, 2012 10:18 PM EDT

              Gee, let's count the number of Republican financiers that destroyed the economy of the country and ultimately the globe shall we? Come on Bob, you must have those in that single brain cell you possess. Can you fill that single brain-cell with name of Paulson. Paulson's actions make Corzine seem like a walk in the park.

              • 6 votes
              #8.1 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 12:53 AM EDT

              Bob do you really want to talk about Bunders? After all Mittens refuses to tell us whose his are, along with refusing to give his tax returns, along with refusing to give us details to his policies. See a pattern there? No transparancy and you guys are willing to vote for him just because he is white.

                #8.2 - Sat Aug 4, 2012 3:51 PM EDT
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                Shows even right wing religious fanatics (aspirin as prophylactic) are smart enough to know when to fold em.

                • 13 votes
                Reply#9 - Wed Aug 1, 2012 10:54 PM EDT

                Apparently not.

                Friess was scheduled to meet on Wednesday afternoon with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, to whom he said he would write a check.

                • 6 votes
                #9.1 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 12:55 AM EDT
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                Sounds like foster friess has finally realize he has wasted his money on candidates who should not have been there in the first place, and he see's that mitt romney is a walking corpse.

                • 9 votes
                Reply#10 - Wed Aug 1, 2012 11:01 PM EDT

                He doesn't need to donate anymore money to Romney. Obama is a terriific fund raiser for Romney.

                • 2 votes
                Reply#11 - Wed Aug 1, 2012 11:04 PM EDT

                conservative rebellion- Being a conservative must really be painful when facts and realism come around about the guy who has four grandmothers and no tax returns and no real intellect.

                • 12 votes
                #11.1 - Wed Aug 1, 2012 11:27 PM EDT

                He doesn't need to donate anymore money to Romney. Obama is a terriific fund raiser for Romney.

                How cute .. Foster Freak has donated more money to losing candidates than Conservative Rebellion and all his family will ever make in their lives, combined. Ah, the irony.

                • 10 votes
                #11.2 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 12:57 AM EDT

                Typical lefty loser. Doesn't know me from Adam and he thinks he's privy to my tax returns. I can guess with a fair level of certainty how much you make. 7.75/hr.

                  #11.3 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 6:46 PM EDT
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                  I'm sure he's fairly intelligent, you don't become a multimillionaire without at least some sense somewhere in life... but does this guy seriously think you should be able to single handily donate 2.3m to a single candidate and expect that no will or should know you who are? Give me a break. If you're going to try to buy the Presidency for someone we deserve to know what your damn name is.

                  • 9 votes
                  Reply#12 - Wed Aug 1, 2012 11:42 PM EDT

                  I'm sure he's fairly intelligent

                  That's a big assumption. Accidental millionaires are all too common.

                  • 7 votes
                  #12.1 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 1:05 AM EDT

                  Justin Bieber is a millionaire with no intellect....just sayin'. Gave you a like because you're right on about the rest.

                  • 2 votes
                  #12.2 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 1:43 AM EDT

                  Hoodie, and Justin Bieber is Canadian I believe, not that means anything, and Bieber looks good to pubescent little girls, oh well.

                    #12.3 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 10:33 AM EDT
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                    “Women are God’s most beautiful creatures,” he said as they walked away. “After the white-tailed deer and the swan.”

                    At first look, I though what an odd thing to say, but then women are never at the top of any list in wingnut land.

                    • 12 votes
                    Reply#13 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 12:29 AM EDT

                    steve, only to control choices women make regarding their own health to equal pay--control the uppity little woman and the world will be just peachy keen for the good old boys.

                    Obama 2012

                    • 2 votes
                    #13.1 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 10:37 AM EDT

                    He probably goes hunting for white-tailed deer and swans.

                    • 1 vote
                    #13.2 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 7:57 PM EDT

                    White tailed deer and swans can't tip elections for the "other side". Much less dangerous.

                    • 1 vote
                    #13.3 - Fri Aug 3, 2012 10:35 AM EDT
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                    Why donate anonymously? Everyone already knows he's bankrolling right wing politicians. Any damage to his reputation or business has already been done. You can't get more embarrassing than having supported Rick Santorum, unless maybe he wants to invest big time in Michele Bachmann's re-election effort. The obvious conclusion is that he fears his contributions, if available publicly, would be reported by the media, and would cause an adverse public reaction against the candidates he supports. If that is so, then isn't that a perfect illustration of why we need transparency and why anonymous political donations should be illegal?

                    • 9 votes
                    Reply#14 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 12:55 AM EDT

                    Women are God’s most beautiful creatures.

                    Nice try F**ker Friess. That won't be enough after the BS aspirin comment. In any event, you may have to revisit that comment after seeing Brewer. She's definitely not in the "beautiful" category and quite possibly one of God's rejects. Major "bow-wow" that one!

                    • 3 votes
                    Reply#15 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 1:28 AM EDT

                    It's the "Creature" comment that's really telling of his attitude and character, lack there of.

                    Obama 2012

                    • 1 vote
                    #15.1 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 10:40 AM EDT
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                    “I’m convinced this guy loves our country,” he said of Romney. Two things Romney loves. Other peoples money and Firing people.

                    • 5 votes
                    Reply#16 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 1:44 AM EDT

                    Most people love their country but that doesn't mean they are qualified to be President. Romney loves his church and his money more, I bet.

                      #16.1 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 7:59 PM EDT

                      I used to work for a company, Convergys, that proudly flew the American flag out front of the building where I and 1500 others went to work every day. They even made references to the fact that they practiced all proper flag-handling procedures in terms of raising and lowering it on a daily basis.

                      Indeed, that flag was flying proudly on the day when I and my 1500 co-workers were all fired so our jobs could be shipped to the Philippines, where workers are happy to make $2-3 an hour to tread water above a 35% poverty rate.

                      For most capitalists who reside in the US these days, their love the United States of America begins and ends with the currency. Convergys should have only flown an enormous dollar bill out front - it would have been far more appropriate.

                        #16.2 - Fri Aug 3, 2012 10:44 AM EDT
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                        Wow. Boss Hogg certainly seems like a charmer.

                        • 2 votes
                        Reply#17 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 2:15 AM EDT

                        I love when Romney and the GOP criticize President Obama because they say 1.5-1.7% GDP GROWTH is too little growth. Then they go on to say they are going to "turn the economy around." They do understand what turning the economy around from GROWTH is, do you?

                        • 4 votes
                        Reply#18 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 3:19 AM EDT

                        Nothing makes me sicker than seeing how individuals can buy influence with money. Its all so blase and yet it is the single most corrupt, undemocratic and monopolistic aspect of our election system. There is nothing to stop billionaires with their own agenda from donating tens of millions of dollars and yet 'we the people' are supposed to believe our elections are fair and free. Show me a mirror of this in another country and we would be up in arms decrying the government as corrupted and unworthy. So sad to live in the land of the bought and the home of the paid.

                        • 4 votes
                        Reply#19 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 4:50 AM EDT

                        What a lovely event this must be for him. Like a trick in a brothel and where the customer is always right.

                        • 3 votes
                        Reply#20 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 5:40 AM EDT
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                        eisty Redhead Roselle, IL "aka" bloody fister & fiends petro t/s harlot

                        Let me begin by saying I am a STAUNCH Progressive Democrat and make NO apologies for being a liberal. I'm also known as a Feisty Redhead so let me give you the back story as to how that came to be... I've always been involved in the political process since I was old enough to vote. However it wasn't until the Election of George W. Bush and 8 years of total incompetence that really swayed me to get MORE involved. I volunteered for the Obama campaign for months driving up to my 'sister state' of WI to help get out the vote for more weekends than I can count. I donated what I could as thanks to 'W' I was out of work at the time. And for my efforts I still believe that we ELECTED the RIGHT man for the RIGHT job at the RIGHT time!!!

                        and NOW it is time to rite the wrong, RIGHT ?

                        This, STenchAUNCH regressive Demoncrap claims to be partially responsible for helping emperor obama gain control over the people of the United States. Good for fister, u go ma G.

                        Maybe Big O, (as he'll be Known on the show) will have a bit part for a tk stop lizard on his new sitcom produced by Bill Maher & "ole" Mother Harpo One and done in Chicago, Pilot episode will be Fork you very much.

                        Starts out with big O in mikie D's trying to get a big mac an a spork full of choc shake 4ward

                        and Michelle pulling him out by the ear sayin; don't you know that two all beef patties will kill ya big O? an since you aint presbo no more I can't afford fer you to die till i get some assurance on ya.

                        big O says:

                        a a a shelie i i i ah a h got sa hungry, i a ah can't live on that tofu stuff and a a rice flavored milk an brockley with no cheese sauce or nuthin

                        Michelle says;

                        sides I'll get you your choc shake & special sauce in the car come on Big O.........

                        you get the idea come on now surely that would be Hilarious. I'd watch it. lol roll my eyes, ha ha----->rt

                        Vote hell no, mo, Big O

                        P.s. i just kan't help it, fister & fiends you give me so much to work with. Thanxxxxxxxxxxxx 4ward ho!

                        • 3 votes
                        Reply#21 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 6:25 AM EDT

                        Convenient, you really need to upgrade your GED and learn how to read and write. What a nonsensical post, ignorant elephant's tool. Tell me one of W's crowning achievements, nearly 5,000 Americans sent home in body bags, get real, the glorious days of w was and is an absolute financial and moral disaster for the US.

                        Obama 2012

                        • 1 vote
                        #21.1 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 10:46 AM EDT

                        Convenient - What a silly, nonsensical post. Do you consider yourself to be funny?

                          #21.2 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 8:02 PM EDT
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                          There is a philosophy that true democracy is not "one person, one vote'" but rather each person has an equal voice. I agree with that philosophy. That's why, in a country where wealth determines ones ability to have his or her voice heard, I have a hard time being convinced that there is a true democracy. While Hannity may be right that the U.S. is the greatest country in the world (I don't know, I've not lived elsewhere - and I doubt that he has either), we still have a long way to go before we are the best that we can be.

                          • 3 votes
                          Reply#22 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 7:05 AM EDT

                          I always question those who cry out "I love my country". It usually winds up being "I love my country but I don't like the people." Friess is a bigot. he has a low opinion of women. He believes the country should be composed of all white people and that every one else ought to go back to their country of origin.

                          But the biggest issue is the more money you have the louder your voice to drown out others. The bigger lies you can spread and the more you spread them the more they are believed. The Supreme Court Republicans forgot that or rather failed to to take that into account. So they handed the wealthy sickos an AK40 to slaughter what is left of democracy.

                          They came for the liberals

                          They came for the socialists

                          They came for the communists

                          They came for the Latinos

                          They came for children

                          They came for teachers

                          They came for unions . . . and eventually they will come for Jews and Catholics.

                          This is the pristine Know Nothing Party -xenophobic, anti-Catholic, nativist.

                          One by one dissenting groups are being marginalized and silenced. The fascists are like a cancer. They are coming for you.

                          • 6 votes
                          Reply#23 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 8:30 AM EDT

                          "17 Billionaires will wake up Nov 7, 2012 and realize they just brought an election" - Harry Reid

                          "The American people will realized they made a big mistake, but at that point it will be to late" - Solutions539

                          • 5 votes
                          Reply#24 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 8:42 AM EDT

                          Have you notice the hate posts are all white males.

                          Have you notice how those white males are dismissive of women in front of there face.

                          Example: "Remember Pearl Harbor, Remember 9/11 and Remember August 1, 2012 which is the day women are allowed to have free birth control pills. They join those two horrible events to birth control pills. To put icing on that a congress woman gets in front of the microphone and vomits those same words. She know dog on well she can have more children, but will deny all women who can birth the right to control when they want to have a baby.

                          I am a male if you must know a white male at that.

                          I reject racism of any kind - it does this country no good to hate someone different than you.

                          I reject anyone or any corporation who tells the women what they can an can not do.

                          I reject Fascist thinking of any sort.

                          • 6 votes
                          Reply#25 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 8:53 AM EDT

                          Solutions539 They joined those two horrible events to birth control pills.

                          Thats the drama the rightwing likes to use. Just like the congressman from texas saying sorry to Bp for for the fine that they were given for the oil spill in the gulf. Just call them the American Taliban.

                          • 3 votes
                          #25.1 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 9:18 AM EDT

                          Yes they are lies and I agree TRWNJ's are the American Taliban

                          • 2 votes
                          #25.2 - Thu Aug 2, 2012 9:38 AM EDT
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