Comments on: NO MICHIGAN LOVE FOR ROMNEY

By: Truthiz

Truthiz — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:41:00 +0000

Like Romney, some of his sane and just-as-disingenuous Repub cohorts on Capitol Hill finds themselves in a similar *damned-if-you-DO and damned-if-you-DON'T* quandry. Yep. Pandering to haters, ignoramuses and nutjobs takes a special kind of STUPID.Steve Kornacki: "What a GOP cave looks like"The House’s top Republicans desperately want to retreat on the payroll tax – if the Tea Party lets them <span>[...] </span>Since the 112th Congress was seated more than a year ago, the Republican House Conference has served as a generally reliable reflection of the Tea Party movement’s passions and priorities. A significant chunk of its members — mainly freshmen, but also some veterans — are explicitly aligned with the movement, while those who aren’t know better than to break too loudly or too publicly with it, lest they fall victim to a primary challenge. This is why Speaker John Boehner, a Capitol Hill lifer whose political biography invites automatic Tea Party suspicion, has been repeatedly forced to subordinate his best judgment to the zeal of purity-obsessed rank-and-filers. And it’s why Boehner’s surprise decision yesterday to support a payroll tax cut extension even if it’s not paid for represents a real gamble — one that seems grounded in a reasonable calculation but that still has the potential to create another serious political mess for him and his party. [...]Read: http://www.salon.com/2012/02/14/what_a_gop_cave_l...OF COURSE they want to retreat! If only the "Tea Party" would let them. Lol. Too funny.

By: Truthiz

Truthiz — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:27:48 +0000

As I stated in my previous post, the man will SAY and DO almost anything to win BUT it keeps backfiring on him…smh.Byron York: "Team Romney attack on Santorum backfires" On Wednesday afternoon, the Romney campaign will hold a conference call featuring Michigan leaders discussing Rick Santorum's "record of increased government spending and earmarks." The call will include Hilllsdale College professor Gary Wolfrem, Oakland County chief executive Brooks Patterson, and Michigan state Rep. Aric Nesbitt.The key similarity among them: None has served in the U.S. House or Senate, and thus none has had to vote on increased government spending and earmarks.The same cannot be said of the current and former members of Congress who often speak on Romney's behalf on such calls. The Romney campaign discovered the risk of enlisting those lawmakers on Tuesday, when it held a call in which former Rep. and Sen. Jim Talent denounced Santorum's spending record. Among the targets of Talent's criticism was Santorum's support of the Medicare prescription drug entitlement. "He voted for Medicare Part D, a big expansion of a federal entitlement," Talent said of Santorum.The problem was, Talent himself was in the Senate at the time, and he also voted for Medicare Part D. When reporters brought up that fact, Talent explained that he wasn't running against Santorum — Romney was. (See the Weekly Standard's "Romney Surrogate Attacks Santorum for Voting the SAME way He Did". Whatever the explanation, there's no doubt Talent's record undermined his criticism of Santorum, and in the end the episode highlighted why Santorum will be more difficult for the Romney team to attack than Newt Gingrich. […]Read: http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/…

By: Truthiz

Truthiz — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:48:55 +0000

Correct on ALL points DJ!…especially your point about Mitt's BIG mouth and his "severely" asinine comments regarding (at the time) the collasping auto industry. The man has no shame..smh. He will SAY and DO almost anything to win but ironically it keeps backfiring on him! So how does he respond to his falling poll numbers? He doubles down on the "SAY anything/DO anything" strategy to win and the Michigan primary later this month could end up being a political nightmare for him. You know. The more I see of Mitt the more I'm convinced that the phony Mitt IS the REAL Mitt. In other words: Outside of loving his family (being a faithful husband and a good father) he's probably been shape-shifting ALL of his life. He displays No core beliefs, principles or values when it comes to the role of government. He can't seem to articulate any real purpose for even running for President!?! He wants to be President for the sake of being President. That's it. No ideas. No vision. No actual stand on ANY issue. No real policies. Just. Nothing.