Posted by The Taint on 9/19/2012 11:58:00 PM (view original):
And now Romney says Americans do need help from the government!  Tell us what kind of help Mitt!

Pro-Obama Super PACs have zeroed in Mitt Romney's controversial secretly recorded remarks to donors, cutting and releasing a number of new ads now posted online and scheduled to run on television in a number of key swing states.

Weaving Romney's more damaging comments about the 47 percent of Americans he dismisses as hopelessly beholden to President Obama with images of "middle class" families and workers, the Priorities USA spot, "Doors," opens with a shot of the lavish Florida mansion that hosted the May 17 fundraiser.

"Behind these doors Mitt Romney calls half the American people 'dependent on government, who believe they are victims," the narrator intones. Then, cutting to an image of a more modest, suburban home, a warning is delivered: "Behind these doors, middle-class families struggle and Romney will make things even tougher."

Romney offered his own response to the criticism in the form of an op-ed piece in this morning's USA Today. In one passage he appears to back off his harsh characterization that 47 percent of the electorate don't pay income taxes and are drawing money from government entitlement programs.

"Under President Obama, we have a stagnant economy that fosters government dependency," he wrote. "My policies will create a growing economy that fosters upward mobility. Government has a role to play here. Right now, our nation's citizens do need help from government. But it is a very different kind of help than what President Obama wants to provide.

no one has made life worse for working Americans than Obama.

Do not listen to his promises, look at his results.

Are you doing better now than in 2005? 1985?

Reagan went through this same argument. Everything sucks now but you need to give me 4 more years because the other guy is too conservative!

Reagan turned America around, and so can Romney.

(Reuters) – President Barack Obama maintains a lead of 5 percentage points over Republican Mitt Romney as he solidifies his advantage in the U.S. presidential race, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Thursday.

President Obama leads Romney 48-43 percent among likely voters. He’s been ahead since September 7 following the Democratic convention.

“First it was a bump and then it was a post-convention bump and then it was the remainder of the bump, and now it’s just a lead,” Ipsos pollster Julia Clark said.

She also gives President Obama a 70- 80 percent chance of winning in November

Timmy Pawlenty’s saying buh-bye to Team Willard and instead will head a group that lobbies against the Dodd-Frank Wall St. reforms, because all that Romney stuff apparently became too much for him. Or maybe too boring. Or too depressing. Or too embarrassing.

Think Progress:

Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty announced Thursday morning that he would step down as co-chair of Mitt Romney’s campaign to become the head of the Financial Services Roundtable, a trade organization that represents the 100 largest financial services companies in the country.

Oh, and if you follow the link to TP, you can also read about what a hypocrite Pawlenty is. Surprising? Hardly. Just noteworthy.

Posted by swamphawk22 on 9/20/2012 2:19:00 PM (view original):

Posted by The Taint on 9/19/2012 11:58:00 PM (view original):
And now Romney says Americans do need help from the government!  Tell us what kind of help Mitt!

Pro-Obama Super PACs have zeroed in Mitt Romney's controversial secretly recorded remarks to donors, cutting and releasing a number of new ads now posted online and scheduled to run on television in a number of key swing states.

Weaving Romney's more damaging comments about the 47 percent of Americans he dismisses as hopelessly beholden to President Obama with images of "middle class" families and workers, the Priorities USA spot, "Doors," opens with a shot of the lavish Florida mansion that hosted the May 17 fundraiser.

"Behind these doors Mitt Romney calls half the American people 'dependent on government, who believe they are victims," the narrator intones. Then, cutting to an image of a more modest, suburban home, a warning is delivered: "Behind these doors, middle-class families struggle and Romney will make things even tougher."

Romney offered his own response to the criticism in the form of an op-ed piece in this morning's USA Today. In one passage he appears to back off his harsh characterization that 47 percent of the electorate don't pay income taxes and are drawing money from government entitlement programs.

"Under President Obama, we have a stagnant economy that fosters government dependency," he wrote. "My policies will create a growing economy that fosters upward mobility. Government has a role to play here. Right now, our nation's citizens do need help from government. But it is a very different kind of help than what President Obama wants to provide.

no one has made life worse for working Americans than Obama.

Do not listen to his promises, look at his results.

Are you doing better now than in 2005? 1985?

Reagan went through this same argument. Everything sucks now but you need to give me 4 more years because the other guy is too conservative!

Reagan turned America around, and so can Romney.

Yes I am doing better now.

Posted by rcrusso on 9/20/2012 6:18:00 PM (view original):

(Reuters) – President Barack Obama maintains a lead of 5 percentage points over Republican Mitt Romney as he solidifies his advantage in the U.S. presidential race, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Thursday.

President Obama leads Romney 48-43 percent among likely voters. He’s been ahead since September 7 following the Democratic convention.

“First it was a bump and then it was a post-convention bump and then it was the remainder of the bump, and now it’s just a lead,” Ipsos pollster Julia Clark said.

She also gives President Obama a 70- 80 percent chance of winning in November

Hey Reuters, how about a link to the poll.  No?  Don't want us to see the sample?

Gallup says we have a tie.

3 weeks of the MSM hammering Romney while ignoring the Middle East burning, including two countries that went extremist with Obama's blessing, 3 weeks of the talking heads saying the race is over, and yet we have a tie.

Posted by occsid on 9/21/2012 2:23:00 PM (view original):
Romney finally filed his 2011 taxes and payed an effective rate of 14 percent.


Tell me again how the rich need tax breaks. 

That was not on income, that was on interest off money he already paid taxes on.

Hilarious segment on Howard Stern this week. He found Obama supporters on the street and asked them about Obama's and Romney's policies, except he reversed them (ie: how do you feel about Obama opposing gay marriage?). The interviewees supported Romney's policies when they were attributed to Obama. Some didn't know Bin Laden was dead, thought Paul Ryan was black and running with Obama, etc. It's ridiculous.

Just proves Romney's point that there are a lot of ignorant people out there who will support Obama no matter what.

HA...That was a true story.

Pluswise they had some paid demonstrators at some stupid little Carl Rove speech.
 
They asked them why they were demonstrating.

They all said it was to keep Rove from being elected or something just as stupid.

DemoNazis are the stupidest animals on the planet.

Roadkill are less brain dead.

Oh yeah, I doubt if you reversed the set up, the same thing wouldn't happen.  People are stupid all over, regardless of party affiliation.

Why in the world would a guy not claim all the deductions available to him on his tax returns?  Patriotism?

Posted by The Taint on 9/23/2012 1:10:00 AM (view original):
Why in the world would a guy not claim all the deductions available to him on his tax returns?  Patriotism?

But if he paid more taxes than he was legally obligated to pay he would not be "qualified" to be president. Wait a minute...did not someone say that awhile back????

That figure falls in line with Romney's estimate in August that he paid "13.6 [percent] or something like that."

But Romney only reached the 14.1 percent mark by limiting deductions taken from his considerable charitable giving. Had the Romneys taken all of the deductions made available by their $4.02 million in 2011 donations, his effective tax rate could have been as low as 10.4 percent.

By not using all the available deductions, he paid an additional $500,000 to the federal government.

That decision contradicts a pledge Romney made during an interview in July, when he told ABC News he would not pay more in taxes "than are legally due. And, frankly, if I had paid more than are legally due I don't think I'd be qualified to become president. I'd think people would want me to follow the law and pay only what the tax code requires."

Romney made a similar remark in January during a GOP primary debate, when he said, "I pay all the taxes that are legally required and not a dollar more. I don't think you want someone as the candidate for president who pays more taxes than he owes."