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If Romney doesn’t win Florida, there’s virtually no path for him to get elected.
USA Today: “Romney held an event at an arena here Tuesday that was initially scheduled as a rally, but the campaign insisted it was now a ‘storm relief’ event. Still, it bore a very strong resemblance to the rallies he has conducted across the country — complete with a biopic of the Romneys that has been a campaign staple.” With Romney’s return to the trail today, Asked about the risk of attacking a president who is touring the destruction, Romney adviser Kevin Madden said: ‘The plan is to strike a positive tone. Focus on the governor's vision for the country and what he hopes to achieve as president.’”
More: “Tuesday's event outside Dayton demonstrated how fine a line Romney is trying to walk in running an aggressive challenge to a sitting president and being respectful of the tragedy brought the storm.”
“Mitt Romney’s campaign is seeking to expand the political battleground with an advertising blitz in Pennsylvania, a move hailed by his staffers as a symbol of his broadening support and dismissed by President Obama’s advisers as a desperation ploy,” the Boston Globe writes, adding, “Unlike some of the other swing states, Pennsylvania does not offer early in-person voting, which makes a late play an easier feat. Still, no Republican presidential candidate has carried Pennsylvania since 1988, when George H.W. Bush beat Michael Dukakis. Recent polls have suggested that the race is tightening, but most political analysts still have the state leaning in Obama’s direction.”
The Boston Globe’s Lehigh: “Morphing Mitt goes into overdrive.” He wonders if Hurricane Sandy “scattered the last of Mitt Romney’s right-wing positions to the winds, leaving him completely free to finish his moderate makeover? And will Romney shortly be proposing a massive new Marshall Plan to rebuild the infrastructure in Ohio, Florida, Virginia, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, Iowa, and Colorado? Just joking. Still, the political metamorphosis Romney has undertaken this month is almost as remarkable as the lightning-fast renovations that certain home-improvement TV shows accomplish while unsuspecting homeowners are out lunching at Applebee’s. … Actually, it turns out he did. Lesson: Never underestimate Mitt’s amazing morphability.”
More: “Why, Team Romney appears to be basing its strategy on an adage often attributed to H.L. Mencken: ‘No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.’” He goes down the list of Romney’s shifts, from foreign policy to abortion and also criticized his use of the misleading Jeep ad in Ohio. And: “Now, no one who has watched Romney’s past campaigns will be shocked by his willingness to trim the truth. Yet I am surprised that Romney thinks voters can be so easily misled. … This is cynicism squared. The Romney camp is keenly aware that in the final days of the campaign, truth has a hard time keeping pace with falsehoods — and they seem determined to take full advantage of that dynamic. After all, if he stays honest and loses, Romney’s presidential hopes are over. And if it takes mendacity to win? Well, Mitt knows he’ll have ample opportunity to reshape his image as needed. Indeed, a Romney victory would stand as a testament to his skill at doing just that.”
GM is blasting Romney for the Jeep ad now, calling it “'politics at its cynical worst,’” per the Detroit Free Press.
GM spokesman Greg Martin: “We've clearly entered some parallel universe during these last few days. No amount of campaign politics at its cynical worst will diminish our record of creating jobs in the U.S. and repatriating profits back to this country.”
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Mitt Romney may be ahead by one point nationally, but President Obama leads 50% to 46%, in 12 battleground states: Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida.
Remember that polls in early vote States will diminish since up to 40% of people already voted, and Obama is ahead 2 to 1 in all those.
Mitt is trailing in the latest polls in Florida, Ohio, and Virginia
a battle between FrankenStorm and FrankenVulture is on...Mitt loses by a knockout.
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Prayers go to the victims of FrankenStorm Sandy and potential victims of Mitt's programs if he is elected.
Romney said "let the private sector do it". How in the world would this EVER work during a national disaster involving many states? Oh yeah FEMA is socialist and communist and marxist just like that hitler "Obummer" and his silver back aped wife who are out to destroy America as the right wingers claim online - the states don't need or want government help and when you're in trouble call the Koch Brothers hotline why don't you.? Let's get rid of government regulations and hand over national disasters involving many states to the private sector who's only bottom line is making a profit while millions of people suffer waiting and waiting for unregulated businesses to take care of the problems while at the same time making a profit. How will they profit off your disaster? That remains to be seen. "President" flip-flopper Romney will be YOUR surprise - his "plan" as president depends on which audience he is talking to!
And while we're at it let's let private for-profit corporations and businesses take over every other aspect of our lives - let's start with government mandated vaginal probes & controlling our women - oh women are WAYY too stupid to make their own decisions about their own health care. Let's get rid of all those government funded police depts, fire depts, teachers, the dept of education, federally funded roads, public libraries, FDA, FFA, etc. etc. etc. That should work. Call the Kochs 800 number when your in trouble or good luck writing a letter to the right wing supreme court who decided that corporations are people. Riiiiiggghhhht! Like Paul Ryan (who is a devout atheist Ayn Rand devotee) basically said, EFF YOU, you are on your own, but yet he wrote a letter asking for stimulus funds from that big old huge government he hates. And like Romney said behind closed doors, EFF the 47%. This un-patriotic guy who makes his living off government loop-holing is out to rob us of every penny we paid into social security, medicare for years and wants to give us vouchers like we're paupers! Oh yeah, Romney is a "business" model. Businesses work day & night figuring out how to get YOUR money & make a profit off of YOU. You can sit in your apt. & die as far as they care & if you have a health issue - no problem - go to the emergency room! If you have a pre-existing condition - too EFFING bad! Anyone who votes for Romney is either rich (porn star Jennie James endorses him because she also rich & wants to keep her loopholes AND she admitted that) or just plain stupid and voting against their own best interests! Got a national disaster on your hands, are you stuck on the roof of your house, is your home destroyed? Just call 1-800-Koch-Suckers to find out how much the bill will be and how fast they can get back to ya.
The plan is simple. The Koch Brothers or other COMMERCIAL entity or entities come in and fix things. If you have purchased insurance from one of the unregulated, charge what you want regardless, insurance companies you will have most of the cost to you, as they WILL send you a bill, covered. If you don't have insurance it looks like you owe them for the rest of your life. That's how the Kochs and others would be able to handle what FEMA does now.
Romney campaigning anywhere in the Eastern U.S. this week is callous. It will be interesting to see how a FEMA dependent state like FL will react to his message. With their hurricane history I imagine they will think twice about him and his FEMA stand. I am amazed at how he refuses to answer questions, whether it's about FEMA or his Mourdock ad. We certainly cannot expect transparency should he win. I really thought he would do a 180 and say no no he loves FEMA...never said it had to go. But instead he ignored the questions. It is wise for him to avoid any states hit by Sandy. His record during the North Shore floods, especially Peabody, when he was Governor of MA is there for anyone who is really interested in seeing how this man will govern during a disaster. There is a reason why he is so far behind in MA polling...the state that knows him best.
Taking all of the recent activities with the Presidential Campaign one must step back and view Mitt Romney as he really is.... a blatant liar. When we look for leaders we want strong, reliable, consistent, and honest representatives who have ethics and model behavior that we admire.
Does Mitt Romney have any of these qualities?--- No way. How do we as a nation propel people such as Mitt into leadership positions, whether it is in government or business with the constant propensity to lie? What does that say about who we are as an American nation? What lessons are we teaching our young people? That dishonesty wins?
Mitt Romney won't stop at just abolishing FEMA, he is ready to abolish many things that Americans accept as their everyday freedoms.
He is just a breath away from taking over in the White House, but have you wondered why he is always very reluctant to speak about his religion? Have a look at the answer:
Here, in amazing detail, you can now watch, for the first time ever, a full and live Mormon Temple Endowment Ceremony captured recently by undercover video, inside a real Mormon Temple in Utah.
In this revealing video, you will see with your own eyes, Mormons kneeling at altars, wearing white robes and swearing with oaths that they will give their time, and everything that they possess, even sacrificing their own lives if necessary, to the Mormon Church for the establishment of Zion - which means a theocratical government administered by Mormons.
As with all obedient Mormons, Mitt Romney and his wife, on many occasions, has vowed strict obedience to these Temple Oaths as they attended to their Temple duties, and they will come first and foremost before any allegiance he has to the office of US President. He has also sworn with a temple oath never to divulge or to discuss them with anyone, under threat from God.
This undercover video should leave you in no doubt that the Mormon church has a hidden and highly secretive dimension to it. Now we know why Mitt Romney is very reluctant to speak about his church.
Surely the American public deserve to know about these worrying aspects of Mitt Romney’s religious beliefs, before they vote for their President. The precious freedoms that all Americans enjoy, could be seriously threatened if he ever becomes President.