Posts filed under “Mitt Romney”
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 [...]
Mitt Romney’s Tax Plan: Inequality At Its Finest
Mitt Romney hasn’t been too shy about making blatantly false accusations about President Obama’s economic policies throughout the duration of his primary campaign. His wild assertions reached a crescendo on Tuesday when he told supporters at a campaign stop in Iowa: “I think president Obama wants to make us a European style welfare state, where instead [...]
Mitt Will Protect Us
I’m not too sure whether the “we’ll wake up one day to socialism if Obama is elected” line of attack is going to work this time around — Obama’s been president for almost 3 years, and as far as I’m concerned, so far, none of us have been sent to the Gulag’s yet. 1 Nevertheless, [...]
The GOP’s New Stance On Social Security
Remember when Rick Perry rocketed to the top of the polls in September and decried Social Security as a “Ponzi Scheme”? You might recall that a number of prominent conservative voices stepped up to support his claim. Even though many didn’t necessarily accept the characerization of Social Security as a “Ponzi Scheme,” many still spoke [...]
Draft David Brandon1
Wouldn’t we be better off with former Domino’s CEO David Brandon‘s 5-5-5 economic plan? You know, the “Big Taste Bailout“? The one that Herman Cain ripped off of? 1Please don’t actually. Despite his supposed anti-Wall Street feeding appeal, Brandon was only installed as CEO of Domino’s after the Wall Street Investment Firm Bain Capital [...]
Romney and Perry Exchange Blows in Debate
The two front runners in the GOP primary exchanged blows on the most important issue of the campaign last night. Jobs. Overall, I think the #1 story of this debate is that Perry was attacked but survived. He faced only a couple of his very controversial skeletons but handled them with grace. The soundbites are [...]