His full Name is: Willard Mitt Romney

[baldeagle]

Speaking of transparency and honor..
Here's a story about Axelrod and the DOJ leaning on Gallup after they published a poll showing Romney in the lead.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/06/justi ... pollsters/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Internal emails between senior officials at The Gallup Organization, obtained by The Daily Caller, show senior Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod attempting to subtly intimidate the respected polling firm when its numbers were unfavorable to the president.

After Gallup declined to change its polling methodology, Obama’s Department of Justice hit it with an unrelated lawsuit that appears damning on its face.

Disgusting.

More like the norm.

[Dave2]

DNC mainstream delegates favor banning corporate profits: http://www.humanevents.com/2012/09/06/h ... e-profits/.

If that's real...







Nuts, now I have a headache again.

[sjfcontrol]

DNC mainstream delegates favor banning corporate profits: http://www.humanevents.com/2012/09/06/h ... e-profits/.

If that's real...







Nuts, now I have a headache again.

Awwe, come on. Its just because, like their leader, they have absolutely no idea how the real world works. At least not on this side of the Iron Curtain. (Does that still exist?)

[RoyGBiv]

As much as I thought Clinton was excellent yesterday (albeit not truthful), Old Joe Biden is pathetic tonight.
It's hard to watch it's so sappy. I need to go brush my teeth to get the bile out of my mouth.

Now he's pandering on the backs of the military. Feigning being choked up... More transparently fake isn't possible.

[RoyGBiv]

Not a single private sector job in that speech...

More government spending.... Double down, stay the course.

[RoyGBiv]

I usually find John Lott worth reading...
This time is no exception..

Remember back in March 2009, just five weeks after the stimulus was signed into law, President Obama was already declaring: “We’re beginning to see signs of progress.” By May, Obama told Americans: the program was “already seeing results.” In September, Vice President Joe Biden announced: “In my wildest dreams, I never thought [the stimulus] would work this well.” But unemployment just kept on increasing. By April 2010, Obama administration announced the summer of 2010 would become known as the “Summer of Recovery.”

Needless to say, we aren’t now close to the 6% unemployment rate that the Obama administration was predicting after the stimulus passed. And four more jobs programs were passed after the stimulus during Obama’s first two years in office, and positive results were promised each time. Yet, instead, this has been the worst recovery on record.

...............

The loss of these welfare programs and taxes is so large that when the average person earning between $10,000 and $40,000 makes an additional dollar they lose 82 cents -- 53 cents worth of government welfare programs and another 29 cents is lost through reduced tax credits and higher taxes. Who wants to work more when they lose 82 cents of each additional dollar that they earn?

On top of that the regulatory burden facing companies has soared since Obama became president. The World Economic Forum had ranked the US first in competitiveness from when the index started in 2004 until 2008. Yet, we slipped to second in 2009, fourth in 2010, fifth in 2011, and now seventh in 2012. Indexes by other organizations have shown similar drops.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/09/ ... e-run-out/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Bottom line.... Government does not create jobs.
Government can only help to create the conditions that foster job growth.
The Obama administration has utterly failed in this regard.

No, Obama is not solely to blame, but he has not succeeded in providing the necessary leadership to bring about change. His Marxist ideology is severely flawed and completely incompatible with this country's culture. His absentee, making-excuses, my-way-or-the-highway, infectiously divisive and polarizing leadership style makes him unworthy of his high office.

Obama has failed. He should be fired.
The only candidate that has any chance of removing him from office is Mitt Romney.

[RAM4171]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/ins ... socialism/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

He's even running with a Marxist slogan now.

[smoothoperator]

A third party vote is the strongest possible vote against the status quo.

by what line of reasoning do you reach this conclusion ?

Two of the biggest problems plaguing this country are excessive government spending and the associated debt. So, let me ask two questions to the people who think Republicans are the answer.

Who was the last Republican to leave DC with lower federal spending than when they took office?
Who was the last Republican to leave DC with a lower federal debt than when they took office?

[Dave2]

A third party vote is the strongest possible vote against the status quo.

by what line of reasoning do you reach this conclusion ?

Two of the biggest problems plaguing this country are excessive government spending and the associated debt. So, let me ask two questions to the people who think Republicans are the answer.

Who was the last Republican to leave DC with lower federal spending than when they took office?
Who was the last Republican to leave DC with a lower federal debt than when they took office?

Dunno, who?

[sjfcontrol]

A third party vote is the strongest possible vote against the status quo.

by what line of reasoning do you reach this conclusion ?

Two of the biggest problems plaguing this country are excessive government spending and the associated debt. So, let me ask two questions to the people who think Republicans are the answer.

Who was the last Republican to leave DC with lower federal spending than when they took office?
Who was the last Republican to leave DC with a lower federal debt than when they took office?

I will ask you two questions, too -- that are more relevant than your questions.

In 2016...
Who will leave DC with the lower federal spending, Obama or Romney?
Who will leave DC with the lower federal debt, Obama or Romney?

(I presume the answer to your questions are both Clinton, who was dragged yelling and screaming into budget and welfare reform by a republican senate and house. So I suppose a direct response to you question is "Who was in charge of congress at the time?")

[smoothoperator]

I will ask you two questions, too -- that are more relevant than your questions.

In 2016...

I don't have a crystal ball and I don't know what will happen in the future. If you do, PM tonight's Lotto Texas winning numbers to me before 5pm. If you're right, I will give your predictions the respect they deserve. If you're wrong, likewise.

(I presume the answer to your questions are both Clinton,

Your presumption is incorrect.

[Hector]

Do you want to share the numbers?

[The Annoyed Man]

Inside story of Obama’s struggle to keep Congress from controlling outcome of debt ceiling crisis
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ ... print.html

Yet another reason Obama MUST go. There is only ONE way that will happen: a Romney victory. No third party candidate is going to save the day.

Obama has had a big post convention bounce in the polls, and is currently leading Romney by a bigger margin than Romney had over Obama prior to the convention. This would not be the first time such a thing happened. Carter, Dukakis, and Kerry each led their republican opponents by significant margins after their respective DNCs and still ended up losing the elections. But this isn't something you want to take for granted. There is no room for mercy in this election cycle.

We already know the direction that Obama wants to take this nation.....the European model. But in addition to the usual "greeks rioting over austerity measures" headline this morning, there is another one:

Associated Press
SEEKING GROWTH, UK TAKES AX TO BUSINESS REGULATION

LONDON (AP) -- Britain's government says it will scrap hundreds of regulations affecting businesses, in the hope of boosting the country's lackluster economy.

Business Secretary Vince Cable announced Monday that firms would be made exempt from up to 3,000 health and safety laws and other regulations.

"Businesses need to focus all their energies on creating jobs and growth," Cable said.

So, major portions of Britain's failing European economic model are being suddenly scrapped to keep their business sector afloat—which is a MAJOR admission of the failure of the model. The struggling/failing economies of the EU are the canary in the coal mine. Meanwhile, as european leaders are coming to grasp with this and (some are) beginning to make structural changes to offset the depleted oxygen and increasing poisons in the coal mine's atmosphere, Obama continues to try and herd us pell-mell toward that fiscal cliff.

Now, shame on any Americans who are not right now making preparations for a total economic collapse in order to safeguard their families, but even for those of us who are making such efforts, is this REALLY the world you want? Wouldn't it be far better to NOT have to make use of those preparations?

So, one of the things we can do to stave off this kind of collapse so that we don't have to resort to "survival mode" is to exercise political responsibility. If you're a farmer looking for a horse to pull your plow, and you are offered the alternative choices of a thoroughbred which is beautiful to behold and perfect in all points of its conformation on one hand, and a percheron with a rough coat, a shabby tail, and an ugly roman nose on the other hand, are you going to buy the perfect thoroughbred, or the rough and ready plow horse? The former is the more perfect and more noble looking horse with the greater appeal to your sensibilities. The latter is the humbler one with experience in front of a plow, actually producing benefit for the people who hitch their plow to it. Both may be good horses, but one is better for the task. One is better suited for riding, the other is better suited for pulling.

To the libertarians here: Ron Paul or Gary Johnson may be your thoroughbred, but Mitt Romney is your plow horse. This is not a time in history when you or anybody else can afford the luxury of hitching your plow to a thoroughbred. Nobody rides a leader. Leaders pull from the front. Like a plow horse.

Mitt Romney is the plow horse. He has an imperfect record (as do the more libertarian candidates, by the way), but he has lived a life of service. He accepted no salary as governor of Massachusetts. Can Ron Paul or Gary Johnson say the same? He gave away his inheritance from his wealthy father to charity because he is a self-made man. There are only four people on the entire planet who have the chance of appointing the next 2 or 3 SCOTUS justices: Obama, Biden (if Obama dies in office), Romney (if elected), and Ryan (if elected and Romney dies in office). Ron Paul will NEVER have that chance. Gary Johnson will NEVER have that chance. Those are just statistical facts which are incontrivertable.

You may not like Romney's record. There is some of it I don't like. But I am a realist. One of those 4 men will put the next 2 or 3 justices onto the SCOTUS bench. Elections have consequences. Obama has pledged to nominate judges whose record of activism is in keeping with his own. Romney has pledged to nominate conservative justices who will uphold the Constitution. Obama has the NRA's full throated condemnation. Romney has the NRA's full throated support. (And by the way, the NRA supported Romney's actions in Massachusetts regarding their AWB exactly for the same reasons that I have outlined in previous posts: that he had no choice in the matter, and so the only responsible thing was to mitigate it as much as possible by getting the language changed to make things better for concealed carry license holders. In other words, he did the responsible thing.)

The point is, this election will have long-lasting, perhaps even permanent consequences, extending well past 2016 or 2020. The future of the nation as we know it today is at stake, and so is the future possibility of returning it to what it once was before progressivism damaged it so badly. Despite protests to the contrary, the math does not work when it comes to third party/protest voting in this election. To vote for anyone other than Mitt Romney, no matter how much you want to deny it, is to be OK with the consequences of an Obama victory.

I am not OK with that. You should not only not be OK with that, you should be willing to put your pride aside to make sure that it cannot happen.

[RoyGBiv]

Associated Press
SEEKING GROWTH, UK TAKES AX TO BUSINESS REGULATION

Quite a big deal... Bravo.!

However, experts on health and safety said they were skeptical the changes could provide any spur to economic growth.

[KC5AV]

A third party vote is the strongest possible vote against the status quo.

by what line of reasoning do you reach this conclusion ?

Two of the biggest problems plaguing this country are excessive government spending and the associated debt. So, let me ask two questions to the people who think Republicans are the answer.

Who was the last Republican to leave DC with lower federal spending than when they took office?
Who was the last Republican to leave DC with a lower federal debt than when they took office?

Who was the last third party candidate to leave DC at the end of their presidency?