Well, well the flavor of the month is not for Brownie.

Mr. Brown has every right to be nervous and to know better than to tie his star on the wagon wheel of romney and ryan - they are not going to carry mitts supposedly home state of MA, ouch, that one hurts - ask al about that one! Double ouch if they don't carry WI.

I know Brown and Warren have been running very close, but the Ryan pick could be the straw that broke the camel's back for a Republican in MA. No matter how hard some of these candidates campaign, it could all come down to folks voting straight Democrat or Republican.

Willard made it vary hard for other republicans with his pick of Ryan. Besides Ryan has already made Romney the secondary candidate. Listening to Ryan's first stump speech, he's going to be another Perry, Trump, Bauchman, Cain, Newt, Santorum, they all looked good on paper when nobody knew them, but when they got out in public they crashed. They had no ability to speak in public just like Ryan. It's easy when you're stumping for a republican crowd, throwing out red meat to them and they're cheering at everything you say, but when you have to appeal to a mixed crowd of republicans, independents and democrats and their interested in what you say not the red meat lines, it's much harder.

I found this the other day in Veterans Today. I did a cut and paste, sorry about that, and the pictures are missing here. the information is interesting nevertheless.

Romney Faces Prosecution for
Campaign Finance Violations

…by Gordon Duff, Senior
Editor

No
other American presidential candidate has ever left the US to garner campaign
contributions from foreign citizens.

There is a reason for this, one that
Romney and his staff seem oblivious to and the mainstream media had ignored
until just recently.

Using foreign contributions in any
American election is a felony. Hello Romney campaign…is anybody home, hello?

Below, Fox News identifies illegal
fundraising in both Israel and in London, no donor is identified, no records
are kept. Gosh, does that look like someone might be trying to circumvent the
law?

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YouTube - Veterans
Today -

If you go outside the US, if you stay inside the US, if your contributor is living in
the US but not a citizen, any money you get can mean years in jail.

Romney went the whole way,
personally campaigning outside the US, soliciting foreign citizens, and
humiliating himself and his country with his ignorance and flagrant attempts to
trade illegal cash for promises of illegal war. One could hardly break more
laws if one wanted.

Romney has raised millions in foreign cash at fundraising event across Israel and
London, those that we know of so far. One table alone gave him a million in
cash. None was from American citizens. Fewer than 10% of Romney’s contributors
in Israel are estimated to be “dual citizens.” Others may have just flown the
money in.

A real question many might ask, why
would a presidential candidate travel outside the US to seek campaign money at
all? As the Supreme Court points out, in the decision Bluman, et al., v.
Federal Elections Commission, no foreign cash, especially collected overseas,
can ever be used in an American campaign.

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Here is what the New York Times
reports on recent court decisions that
disqualify Romney as a candidate:

January 9, 2012, 3:34 pm

Supreme Court Retains Ban on Foreign Campaign
Donations

By JOHN H. CUSHMAN JR.

In a terse four words, the Supreme Court on Monday
issued an order upholding prohibitions against foreigners making contributions
to influence American elections.

The decision clamped shut an opening
that some thought the court had created two years ago in its Citizens United
decision, when it relaxed campaign-finance limits on corporations and labor
unions. On Monday the Supreme Court, upholding a lower court’s decision in
Bluman, et al., v. Federal Election
Commission, refused to extend its reasoning in Citizens United to
cover foreigners living temporarily here.

Foreign nationals, other than lawful
permanent residents, are completely banned from donating to candidates or
parties, or making independent expenditures in federal, state or local
elections.

The Supreme Court’s order did not
discuss the merits or suggest that there was any dissent among the justices.

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The iconic photo below, from the Washington Post, hands Romney out to dry:

A man with some real problems to wail about; “Please g-d,
don’t let them catch me…”

Here is what the Washington Post reported on Romney’s illegal fundraising efforts inside
Israel:

JERUSALEM — Mitt Romney held an
intimate breakfast fundraiser here Monday with some of his campaign’s biggest
benefactors, telling them about the spiritual impact his trip to Israel had
had on him.

Seated around a U-shaped conference
table with roughly 40 donors, with Las Vegas casino
mogul Sheldon Adelson immediately to his left, Romney said he was
“overwhelmingly impressed with the hand of providence.”

The presumptive Republican presidential
nominee was expected to raise more than $1 million from the donors, who each
were required to raise or donate $25,000 to $50,000 to attend the event. All of
the donors are U.S. citizens, and many of them flew here from the United States
to be with Romney during his 36-hour visit to Jerusalem.

Many of those in attendance at the
posh King David Hotel are major bundlers for Romney’s campaign, raising tens of
thousands of dollars from their business associates and friends. Adelson, for
instance, has personally
committed to giving tens of millions of dollars to a pro-Romney
super PAC.

He sure has a big smile on his face

No filming, no photographs were allowed, no doner ID were checked.

No due diligence done, only one
reporter attended who surprise, surprise, had no access to donors.

This is one of many fundraisers
including one in Tel Aviv just for diamond merchants as Fox reported, held in
total secrecy.

We have word that Romney and Sheldon Adelson met a group of large donors
from among the Jewish community of Russia who flew from Moscow to offer their
financial support.

The problem stems with bad legal
advice Romney received from his campaign finance staff.

The Romney campaign had been laundering money through corporations, money moved
into the US under the “Citizen’s United” decision of the US Supreme Court.

Romney figured he could then go
anywhere in the world, peddle foreign policy, promise war, play president and
collect cash from foreigners though this is specifically prohibited by US law.

In doing so, he is no longer
qualified for office and, if challenged by Ron Paul, has no standing at the
Republican Convention. With such a clear violation of law, not just blatant but
massive, Romney could face years in prison.

The Romney/Bain legal team was not available for comment.

It is now for Romney to prove that
not one cent of contributions collected from thousands in Israel was actually
collected from Israel. We wish him good luck with that.

One source of untapped information
on Romney’s activities is his Secret Service detail. As federal law enforcement
officers, though they are not directly tied to the Federal Election Commission,
they are obligated to report any suspicious activity.

Secret meetings with diamond merchants, many of whom are on international
watch lists, perhaps the secret service might want to meet their sworn
obligation.

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Israel is now the largest source for “blood” or
“conflict” diamonds, the major source of funds for terrorism,
illegal arms dealing and drug trafficking in the world.

Here is how this works, taking advantage
of “loopholes” purposefully written into handling procedures that let billions
in illegal diamonds enter the
US:

Since the KP, at least in its
current form, only tracks the movements and origins of uncut diamonds,
countries specializing in the cut variety of stones can churn out billions of
dollars worth of diamonds each year, incubated from the sometimes awkward
propriety questions the KP has been known to raise.

Due in part to this glaring KP
loophole, Israel has become the world’s largest diamond exporter, with revenues
from the precious stones accounting for more than a third of its total annual
exports. In 2008, Israel generated $9.4 billion through diamond exports, an amount increasing annually.

Since the process of cutting
diamonds removes all traceable hallmarks, cut diamonds purchased from Israel
are close to impossible to track, indistinguishable from diamonds sent from
South Africa, Australia or North America, and end up at major trading hubs such
as New York or Hong Kong, where they are purchased wholesale by diamond sellers
across the globe.

Is Fox right, is illegal diamond trafficking going to have its own
president? Are these diamond “merchants” supporting Romney or “blood diamond
launderers?”

Are we to wait on hands and knees
for federal authorities to make a statement on this, or are they all at the
casino?

When you add Sheldon Adelson, Romney’s “host” and his history of involvement in charges
of bribery and prostitution and “casino skimming,” according to the Jewish Global News
as quoted by Veterans Today.

Romney certainly has chosen an
interesting crowd to help enrich his heritage as a Mormon Bishop.

The results of the Romney overseas
trip?

We had fundraisers generally barring
reporters and others with “no access, sit in the corner with no camera”.

To that you can add in unpublished meetings and a failure to identify not just
sources of cash, which wasn’t just Israeli but money channeled from other
foreign supporters from Russia, India, Britain, Switzerland and elsewhere.

Is
there any doubt why Romney would leave the country to raise money when he has
over a thousand Swiss bank accounts?

Seems that the Democrats are eating a lot of shat lately. Their mouth wash just ain't makin it in the court of public opinion! Great ain't it! [;-)]