Romney bus tour fuels VP speculation

 

WASHINGTON and WOLFEBORO, N.H. -- The veepstakes speculation just got more fuel.

The Romney campaign today officially announced its swing-state bus tour beginning Saturday. It will start in Virginia; then head to North Carolina Sunday, the day the Olympics conclude; Florida Monday, Aug. 13; and end in Ohio Tuesday, Aug. 14.

Potential vice-presidential picks will be making appearances.

NBC's Alex Moe reports that Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R-VA) will join Romney on the first leg of the tour in Virginia. 

NBC's Andrew Rafferty reports that Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH), a veep front runner, will join Romney in Ohio.

*** UPDATE *** Marco Rubio will join Romney on part of the Florida leg of the bus tour.

Today, Romney huddled with top aides, including chief strategist Stu Stevens, and Beth Myers, head of the VP search process, for more than two hours at his lakeside home on Monday. Also present -- senior adviser Eric Fehrnstrom and Policy Director Lanhee Chen.

One aide described the meeting as a strategy session, and denied that the vice-presidential selection was discussed.

It's possible a Romney vice-presidential pick is made on the bus tour, but it's also possible that it is designed to create buzz and excitement around the campaign and a VP selection is announced after it.

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i want jenna jameson to be his vp. she likes to screw people as much and as often as romney. and they are both rich.

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Reply#28 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 4:24 PM EDT

That's probably because you watch her all day long on the internet and beat-off !!!!

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#28.1 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 5:13 PM EDT

Actually, Highway Star, it's more likely because she's already voiced her preference for Mr. Romney:

Porn queen Jenna Jameson endorses Mitt Romney for president
By Jordan Zakarin, The Hollywood Reporter:

"Retired porn star queen Jenna Jameson has thrown in with presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, citing the party's preference for low taxes on the wealthy.

"'I’m very looking forward to a Republican being back in office,'” Jameson told a CBS reporter at the anniversary celebration of a gentleman's club in San Francisco on Thursday. 'When you’re rich, you want a Republican in office.'"

Thus proving that at least one Republican whore is up front about the real reason why they support Mr. Romney for president.

    #28.2 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 5:23 PM EDT
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    Maybe Romney's bus can stop somewhere near a school and his supporters writing here can all take an English class. It's incredible to see the uneducated people who buy into the Republican rhetoric and then try to defend it with misspelled words and poor language. So proud to be American but can't write properly in the English language. Go figure........

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    Reply#29 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 4:31 PM EDT

    Posted on another page but necessary here as well:

    Have you noticed the uptick in extremist rants on this forum in the past few days? Not just right wing talking points against Harry Reid, but vulgar attacks including those on the First Lady?

    Well, take a look at FOXNEWS.com. They've shut down their discussion boards. Now all the caffienated bigots are over here drinkiing decaf and withdrawal is kicking in.

    So why would FOXNEWS.com shut down their discussion boards?

    My guess is they've made the calculated decision to cut Mitt loose, supporting him in stories only when the larger cause of electing more Republicans to the Senate and House is bolstered. My guess is also that FOXNEWS.com executives, including Roger Aisles, do not want to suffer the recriminations of their own readership when the word gets out, the truth that even they have come to the conclusion that recapturing the White House in 2012 is a lost cause.

    My evidence? FOXNEWS.com ran a cover story yesterday where it listed the names of all the Republicans gearing up for a presidential run in 2016. Isn't that supposed to be the year that Mitt runs for re-election?

    So bid adieu to any thought of civility returning here to MSNBC.com. It's only going to get worse.

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    Reply#30 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 4:31 PM EDT

    Lies of the GOP & TeaWackers, Bain, Citizens United and all the Alec corps ( WALMART ): that pay off the Politician. Its all about the Wealthy getting richer and the middle class getting poorer.....They don't want to help the poor, I do mean the poor not the lazy good for nothings...Who are the one's that leach off the taxpayer. The Wealthy: they get welfare both for themselves an for the Corps. ...But it seems that the Wealthy get away with it ..They steal billions and the few poor steals a few thousands. So what does the GOP want, is Screw the MIddle Class to get even with the few. As I say its the me me me and F everyone else.... The failures of the Republicans party trying to take away SS & Medicare & Health care for Woman so they can give their wealthy Blackmailers more money...To hell with the Poor and Needy. Let them freeze in the winter and stave the Old and Babies,let them die from bad water, do away with the EPA and thats what you'll have, just like all you Tea baggers want...You make me sick with your Me Me Me altitude. It just a matter of time before the masses raise up against you . Greedy and you all call yourself a Christians, Mormans. What a laugh: Wake up...Sounds like Mitt!!!!!!Fuss up your tax Return.....

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    Reply#31 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 4:35 PM EDT

    More hot air from the left fanatics; ya'll need to get a job and quit blowing hot air about the poor and needy, conservatives ain't throwing granny to the curb and holding down the jobless. Your fine out of touch democrats and this sorry for an excuse administration is enabling poor folks with food stamps and years of unemployment benefits. Please get a clue.

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    #31.1 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 4:40 PM EDT

    16 out of the top 20 "Welfare States" are red, explain yourself A.S.

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    #31.2 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 4:43 PM EDT

    Check your stats again, reading is fundamental.

    I love how you liberals lie and make it sound good....

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    #31.3 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 4:46 PM EDT

    Google it if you dare.

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    #31.4 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 4:47 PM EDT

    Just did pal...please get a grip and learn how to read.

    www.usmessageboard.com/politics/172046-top-17-welfare-states-in-america.html

      #31.5 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 4:51 PM EDT

      I think you're fibing, I just read the report yesterday

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      #31.6 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 5:00 PM EDT
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      Boy, do you O'Bama lovers like having the wool pulled over your eyes! 'The Roots of O'Bama's Rage' will give the explanation of his hidden agenda against the colonialism on which this country was founded and replacing it with socialism in the U.S. if he re-elected. BTW, he has already started with changing imigration and unemployment benefit requirements.

      ROMNEY 2012

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      Reply#32 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 4:36 PM EDT

      LOL, Obama/Biden 2012

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      #32.1 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 4:44 PM EDT

      O'Bama???

      Actually, with estimates of his Irish heritage running between 3.1 and 5 percent, it really doesn't qualify the use of the apostrophe.

      Just sayin'...

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      #32.2 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 5:28 PM EDT

      Oh, I thought Carole was talking about the BCS bowl games and the Crimson Tide.......

        #32.3 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 5:38 PM EDT

        Very funny

          #32.4 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 6:16 PM EDT
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          Never has a Vice-Presidential pick been so important to the salvation of a campaign. Not that ANY Republican hopeful actually merits consideration, but Mitt desperately NEEDS someone to wear the target for a while.

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          Reply#33 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 4:37 PM EDT

          Yep, as long as Obama's smoke screen is working, but I beleive most americans can see through the smoke and mirrors and realize that the record for the campaigner in chief hasn't helped them over the past four years.

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          #33.1 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 4:42 PM EDT

          President Obama kicked a$$ for us against the GOP Talliban.

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          #33.2 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 4:46 PM EDT

          Please pull the donkey boner out of your mouth, your brain need oxygen.

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          #33.3 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 4:49 PM EDT

          Grow up.

            #33.4 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 4:54 PM EDT
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            Saw that guy McDonnell on CBS this weekend; he gave me flashbacks to that glad-handing popular high school jock we all hated - then again, I think Romney was that guy too! The problem with that strategy is that most of the world WASN'T the popular guy in school, and while some of us may have wanted to be, most of us have visceral dislike for that type.

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            Reply#34 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 4:38 PM EDT

            The GOP CLOWN SHOW continues.

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            Reply#35 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 4:41 PM EDT

            Has Obozo ever got off the clown bus tour?

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            #35.1 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 4:48 PM EDT

            Being a boy scout isn't the same as being a soldier!

              #35.2 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 5:26 PM EDT
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              OFREEOMMA will get re-elected again !!! Take note of his latest programs that continue unemployment benefits , more food stamps , easier disability claims , etc. Yes he will be 4 more years BECAUSE his voters DO NOT want to WORK !!!!!!!!!!!!LIVE FOR FREE !!! SPONGE OFF OUR TAXES !!!!!!!!!!! Take my comments to the bank & deposit them !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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              Reply#36 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 4:44 PM EDT

              Is that all you got is false claims?

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              #36.1 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 4:49 PM EDT
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              Mitt is clinging to life as he rolls into his convention, but I believe that his team will insure that he is perceived as the nominee of a unifying party. His own actions are pretty unpredictable and short-sighted, but left to their own devices, his team appears to be tough.

              Talk of an open convention is probably wasted although it would make for fun viewing.

              My guess is that Mitt's team will steamroll him toward November into a staggering loss. Not a landslide type of loss, or even close, but a loss of epic proportion based on the collapse of credibility for the 1%.

              Perhaps that is what the Right fears most, the uber-rich I mean, that Mitt is indirectly exposing their avarice to an astonished public who simply find it hard to believe that so few could control so much over so many for so long.

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              Reply#37 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 4:47 PM EDT

              vote the monkey out.

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              Reply#38 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 4:50 PM EDT

              How old are you, 12?

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              #38.1 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 4:51 PM EDT

              where are the jobs obamass

                #38.2 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 5:03 PM EDT
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                Some on this board still using the scary "socialist" word to make your faux noise talking points? LOL! Yeah those new socialist plans welfare, medicare, medicaid and SS that only started in 2009, it is amazing how much the Obama Adm got accomplished!

                Mittens and Co traveling on the short bus of dis-information and lies tour!

                Obama/Biden 2012 forward not back!

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                Reply#39 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 4:50 PM EDT

                Mitt the Twit cannot do anything in the VP area that is going to make a difference to the voters, short of naming Michelle Bachman or Allan West. His taxes are hanging over his head and his economic plan for the nation doesn't make any sense. I cannot wait until the election is over and see what happens to and with the GOP. The House numbers will be big and what is the tact the GOP is going to take with President Obama, sense he will be the likely winner. The GOP has burned way too many bridges and have made way too many strange bedfellows. If they dig in like in 2009 or do the give up their games and start playing ball. If it's games again, our country is done for and there is nothing to blame but the GOP.

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                Reply#40 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 4:50 PM EDT

                Hey Mitt, I know, pick either Chuck Todd or Chris Mathews...since they such political geniuses. These two would need instructions to put on a pair of slip on shoes.

                The current President is going to lose big time in the fall, however the media just wants everyone to think its a close race or Obama is in the lead. It will be interesting to see the day after how many person voted for this loser...same thing happened with McGovern in 1972, the school was full of kids who's parent were voting for McGovern and the next day you couldn't get one to admit they had.

                  Reply#41 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 4:53 PM EDT

                  Obama will win in ANOTHER LANDSLIDE. No Senior, Woman, Minority, Gay, disabled or Less Fortunate in their right mind would EVER vote GOP.

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                  #41.1 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 4:58 PM EDT

                  thats because they all rely on govt checks- but soon the money will run out- we cant run up massive debts forever- I want to see when the Chinese no longer loan us money- then this country will finally make some tough choices- until then the dems will keep buying votes w/more welfare/foodstamps/

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                  #41.2 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 5:11 PM EDT
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                  Obama will win, period. Mitt can get close if he choses Marco Rubio as his running mate, sequester enough Latino votes that way. But in the end won't put him over the top.

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                  Reply#42 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 4:55 PM EDT

                  Obama is down in every voting category from 2008. And he barely won in 2008. This is going to be a joke. Barry will be giving his concession speech by 7:00PM EST!

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                  #42.1 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 5:00 PM EDT

                  Hey Zman ... Obama won by a SIX POINT Spread in 2008 .... a LANDSLIDE.. but you were either in diapers or High at the time, so its not your fault that you don't know any better... Listen, there's nothing wrong with being a republican in general until of course you party goes SOOOO Far off course, and in your dazed and confused state, you decide that the R on your sleeve is more imprtant that integrity, ethics and truth... which is the unfortunate point we have now reached... the normal everyday republican have no place to go, so they are pretending to content with a lying slimy scumbag rather than call out ANYONE on their own team ... tell you more about the integity of republican voters ... who have children they have to lie to .. about why they are voting to make thier childrens lives more miserable with an uncaring scumbag like mittens Romney in the whitehouse

                    #42.2 - Tue Aug 7, 2012 2:39 PM EDT
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                    Even without knowing who Romney is going to pick for VP, Romney's capitalistic views for American is hands down a winner over the losing Socialist views of the Obama Administration which as proven to be a failure. Obamas hate for America and our Constitution is inexcusable and his policies that are pushing for medocracy for this great Nation can only be embraced by leftist liberal sheep would agree with this stupid logic. It is like being on a winning team and having a President that is saying jump ship and join the loser (socialists). Three and 1/2 years of Obama is to 3 1/2 years to much.

                    ROMNEY 2012

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                    Reply#43 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 4:57 PM EDT

                    Barry ... Sen Portman?? Oh no ... there goes Ohio!! And there goes the election.

                    President Romney .... say it with me! I like the way it rolls off your tongue.

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                    Reply#44 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 4:58 PM EDT

                    I hope Romney picks Marco Rubio or Condoleeza Rice as his VP. Thank you. Sincerely, Charles Joseph Kickham the 3rd; Hallandale Beach, Florida.

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                    Reply#45 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 4:58 PM EDT

                    I'm starting to think that all VP hopefuls are avoiding Romney. Nobody wants to be labeled as Palin-like. Either that, or he's driving around killing time so that they can amend his tax forms while checking out discrepancies in his new VP's tax forms. Seems like he's stalling for more time. The longer he waits to produce them, the stinkier it smells.

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                    Reply#46 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 4:58 PM EDT

                    He is waiting because ... picking his VP creates a tremendous PR buzz for Romney. And since he is tied up at this moment ... he's waiting as close to the election as possible. That way the buzz will still be going on in Nov.

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                    #46.1 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 5:02 PM EDT
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                    can't afford obamass lavish vacations and spending. vote the jackass out.

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                    Reply#47 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 5:00 PM EDT

                    And he is spending a whole bunch to go to CT this weekend to have another star studded money making party with the heroin crowd!! I'm amazed that he doesn't realize that he pissing off America with this type of egotistical behavior.

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                    #47.1 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 5:04 PM EDT

                    Bush's first 4 years He took over 600 days and Obama to date is under 100. You want to try again?

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                    #47.2 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 5:05 PM EDT

                    Say what?? What's that got to do with his lavish parties and fundraisers. You on the bath salts again?

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                    #47.3 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 5:09 PM EDT

                    Romney and friends are sitting in a tavern and eating peanut butter sandwiches, and Obama's out on the town? Don't fool yourself.

                      #47.4 - Wed Aug 8, 2012 10:07 AM EDT
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                      They are going to pick up McDonnell first cause they want him to bring the infamous "Virginia vaginal probe"!

                        Reply#48 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 5:00 PM EDT

                        I hope it's not Christie, we'll have to hire an extra Secret Service just to wipe His a$$.

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                        Reply#49 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 5:03 PM EDT

                        It definitely won't be Christie.

                          #49.1 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 5:05 PM EDT

                          Oh Come on, no check mark?

                            #49.2 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 5:07 PM EDT

                            Yep ... you're definitely on the bath salts.

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                            #49.3 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 5:10 PM EDT

                            I'm retired at 53 with NO WORRIES, and you?

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                            #49.4 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 5:17 PM EDT
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                            Oh good, just what Obama was hoping for, another Romney tour. May this one be as successful as that world tour he just took! A hilarious read from The Guardian covering the results of his last attempt;

                            Ann Romney's horse fails to win dressage but avoids offending British

                            Rafalca, owned by Mrs Mitt Romney, was impeccably behaved and well received by Olympic equestrians in GreenwichShort of mocking Shetland ponies over their lack of stature or laying into zebras for their failure to make a significant contribution to the world of equine culture, Ann Romney's horse Rafalca was always going to struggle to match the sheer incredulity that her husband managed to provoke on his recent overseas trip.

                            And in the event – the event in question being the individual dressage – the 15-year-old bay Oldenburg mare acquitted herself rather well. True, she and her rider, Jan Ebeling, may have been left well behind byBritain's Carl Hester, Germany's Dorothee Schneider and Denmark's Anna Kasprzak but, by Romney standards, her performance was a positive triumph.

                            Never for a second during her seven-minute performance did a hoof stray dangerously mouthwards, nor did she do anything at all to offend or upset the host nation. From the moment she entered the Greenwich Park equestrian arena at 12.15 on Thursday afternoon, the most famous political horse since Caligula toyed with making a consul of Incitatus seemed in her element.

                            She bowed her neatly plaited head on cue, trotted diagonally across the sand, did the jogging-on-the-spot thing, the skipping thing, the rhythmic boogying thing, the controlled trotting thing: in short, Rafalca did everything that the occasion and the peculiar rules of the dressagedemanded of her.

                            At one point, she appeared to give a snort of exhilarated delight, although, to be fair, it's not easy to say precisely what emotion a huge horse is aiming to convey; it could equally have been a snort of ennui or a snort of frustration at the Obama administration's glee over Mitt's gaffe-spree. Perhaps it was just her way of telling the predominantly British crowd that, like the Romneys, she was just happy to be in the UK.

                            Her part-owner seemed equally delighted. Ann Romney, who was in the VIP section of the equestrian arena, rose to give Rafalca a standing ovation and a wave. "She was consistent and elegant," said Mrs Romney. "She did not disappoint. She thrilled me to death."

                            It was left to Ebeling to offer a more personal psychological profile of his mount. "She was amped up," he said. "She was definitely amped up. You can feel it: she felt a bit stronger than usual ... It's better, because she has more expression, but it's also a little bit harder to control the whole thing. She gets a little bit amped up and the trick is to manage that."

                            To calm her down and help her deal with the crowd noise, said Ebeling, he had talked to her and scratched her neck with his finger.

                            And how had he dealt with the pressure of riding such a high-profile horse?

                            "There certainly was a lot of media attention going on, but I think it really ended up being a good thing for the sport, and I don't really get distracted by these things," he said. "I have a pretty good way of focusing, and if I don't want to talk to anybody, then I just don't answer my phone."

                            While he chose not to impart any information about Rafalca's voting intentions, the 53-year-old US rider did confirm that Ann Romney had given him "many words of encouragement" before the Olympics.

                            She had not been in touch on Thursday morning, he added, but her last message had been full of good counsel: "Do what you know to do and do what you do best. Just ride like it's a normal day."

                            Fine advice indeed. If only her husband had heeded it.

                            http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/aug/02/ann-romney-horse-dressage-medal

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                            Reply#50 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 5:05 PM EDT

                            What's that got to do with the economy that Barry has completely screwed up?

                            You're talking horses ... the rest of the country is talking economy and unemployment!

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                            #50.1 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 5:06 PM EDT

                            I'm not talking horses. LOL, but somebody sure likes to talk alot of horsesh$t!

                            Romney talking about the economy is exactly what scares me! Cut taxes, spend more on defense, let business do what they want, and "I don't care about the poor." As to unemployment, I don't want to move to China :(

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                            #50.2 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 5:22 PM EDT
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                            Romney will release taxes when whinner Harry Reid releases his- he wants Romney to but he still has'nt and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz has off-shore accounts w/foreign investments and she's the chair- who cares about their taxes- do you think if he hadn't paid his the IRS wouldn't come calling? This is simply party pandering as Obama can't stand on his own accomplishments- this is merely ledgerdomain of the left

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                            Reply#51 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 5:06 PM EDT

                            He'll do or say anything to avoid those economy, unemployment, deficit questions!

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                            #51.1 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 5:12 PM EDT

                            Harry released 10 years. Is Debble running for POTUS, just wondering?

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                            #51.2 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 5:13 PM EDT

                            Free Lunch

                            Congressmen and Senators provide a financial statement each and every year!

                            next!

                            btw - why would the IRS come after Romney? No one said Romney "hadn't paid his taxes"...what was said was he "paid no taxes"!

                            if you are going to try to defend a position why not learn what it acutally is instead of embarrassing yourself?

                              #51.3 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 5:14 PM EDT

                              that is true and the media allows him the privilage

                                #51.4 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 5:14 PM EDT

                                We were bleeding 750,000 jobs a month and millions were losing their homes before Obama even took office. You want to explain yourselves?

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                                #51.5 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 5:15 PM EDT

                                <The sound of crickets>

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                                #51.6 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 5:19 PM EDT

                                ask barney frank and chuck schumer's they had control of freddie and fannie mac costing taxpayers billions, they could of prevented the high risks

                                  #51.7 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 6:11 PM EDT

                                  better check you facts there "kat"...when fannie and freddie went awry....Barney and Chuck were "minority members" of their respective committees...

                                  never let the facts get in the way of a good post!

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                                  #51.8 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 8:44 PM EDT
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                                  I would suggest that instead of these two candidate for VP., I would pick from the pack of Loone Tunes. One character I suggest is Daffy the Duck (Bobby Jindal) and Porky Pig (Chris Christie).

                                    Reply#52 - Mon Aug 6, 2012 5:15 PM EDT
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