Posts filed under “2012 Presidential”
Newt Gingrich Rap Song: Is you ready for it yet?
Hoo! Hoo hoo! Hey everybody vote for Newt! N to the E to the WT Newt Gingrich taking over these streets, Is you ready for it yet? I don’t think so, where you at? Obama about to step out the White House, Gingrich gonna get in the White House He gon’ have his wife, his [...]
Mitt Comes ROARING Back in Florida CNN Debate
“Our problem is not 11 million grandmothers” “You’re fired” “That’s simply inexcusable…the idea that I’m anti-immigrant is repulsive. Don’t use a term like that.” “Wouldn’t it be nice if people didn’t make accusations somewhere else that they weren’t willing to defend here.” “The idea of getting something for free when they can afford to pay for them [...]
ICYMI – Pelosi “Knows” Newt
In an interview with John King, Nancy Pelosi was asked about the possibility of a Gingrich presidency. Her response was “let me just say this, that will never happen…there is something I know.” Maybe I’m just not used to seeing her speak, but I have to say I was taken aback by the nature of [...]
Focused On Things That Do Not Matter
Tomasky and others are focused on the wrong things when they are doubting Mitt Romney’s general election prospects. Tomasky is a generally insightful pundit. Unfortunately, too often his judgement is critically clouded by his partisanship. Early december he speculated about Romney out losing the primary, which I suspect was simply out of his wholesale dislike [...]
Picking Apart The Romney Tax Returns
It was with much fanfare and anticipation that Mitt Romney released his federal tax records for 2010 and 2011 yesterday morning. To keep it brief, Romney made $21.7 million in 2010 and paid 13.9 percent ($3 million) of that to the federal government. It hardly has to be mentioned that a rate of 13.9 percent is far below [...]
Romney’s Lingering Troubles
Today on This Week (now with George Stephanopolous) George Will phrased the essence of what happened in South Carolina in a simplistic but accurate way. He said, “Mitt Romney’s problem is somehow his Romney-ness… there is something about him that is not connecting.” The populist wing of the republican party wants a game changing candidate. They [...]
Bizarro Election Day #1
When I speak in private and people ask me for handicaps of the different races in the news on I always assign percentages. Recently I had been giving Romney an 85 percent shot of taking the nomination and a 60-70 percent shot at taking the general. Often times after giving these numbers I’m asked why [...]
Is this real life?
Mitt Romney told reporters today at a press stop in South Carolina that he pays “probably closer to the 15 percent rate” on taxes. This is way lower than what most middle-class families pay in taxes. Taking into account this cherry-on-top consideration, Greg Sargent of the Washington Post today decided to add up the equation that [...]
The Problem With Your Analysis is That it is Incorrect
Columnists who have to find something to write about and forgo logic in return for an effortless 500 words need to be given a vacation or something. The Boston Herald’s Holly Robichaud is one such columnist. As if we needed to be forewarned about the lack of seriousness within this particular column, her first attack focuses an [...]
Pew Report & “King of Bain” – Evidence of OWS’ Success
Earlier this week, the Pew Research Center released a new report that showed a strong increase of americans acutely aware of class conflict. While it explicitly mentions the Occupy Wall Street movement in its report, the report did not speak directly to the origins of the increased awareness (which is generally impossible to determine anyway). [...]