Romney

[Viking]

His biggest foe is he's Bob Dole with two good arms. Dude is wooden and people don't vote for wooden no matter their qualifications.

Even Bob Dole and his bad arms would beat an Obama-led US pushing 10% unemployment.

[creekster]

I just mean the forensic play-by-play aspect of it all.

Becuase they didnt all die. There were first person accounts.

[Moliere]

Anderson Cooper just had Bill Maher on his program. Maher just said "Obama will beat Romeny like a runaway sister wife.". Cooper was clearly not impressed.

That might be funny if it didn't make light of domestic violence.

[myboynoah]

Anderson Cooper just had Bill Maher on his program. Maher just said "Obama will beat Romeny like a runaway sister wife.". Cooper was clearly not impressed.

That might be funny if it didn't make light of domestic violence.

Yeah, inserting wife-beating into your monologue is always so funny.

[Indy Coug]

Maybe Romney will beat Obama like a runaway slave.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

I read that no incumbent president has been beaten when the unemployment rate on election day is lower than it was two years earlier. IIRC unemployment peaked leading up to November 2010 which played a big role in the Democrats losing something like 60 seats in Congress.

With that said, I have to wonder if things will be different this time. Historically, recoveries have been a lot sharper than this one. I still think the cutoff is 8%, even though being below 9% is an improvement over Fall 2010.

[oxcoug]

Tremendous writeup here on Mitt. Hope his people read it.

http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/01...ney-salam-1-3/

Basically, Romney is a nerd. Instead of spending his early 20s drinking and carousing, he was married with a young son by the time he was 24. His main indulgence has long been eating multiple bowls of sugared cereal, not partying with celebrities. He is not and has never been as compelling a public speaker as President Obama, who was singled out for political stardom as a young man, and Romney’s efforts to seem “down with the kids” have invariably ended in embarrassment.

Romney has been an old man since his 20s, as evidenced by photographs of him as an earnest, clean-cut young executive. Having built up a considerable fortune early on, Romney could have enjoyed a life of leisure. Instead, he did what he apparently loves doing most: He devoted himself to turning around failing enterprises, applying his considerable intellect to the most difficult tasks he could find.

This is classic nerd behavior.

One awkward fact about Romney’s career is that all evidence suggests he could have made even more money had he remained at Bain Capital. It’s easy to see why Romney wouldn’t bring this up: He’d seem even more out of touch than he already does. But his decision to leave Bain in 1999 and pursue a career in public service, where his nerdiness would prove a huge liability, almost certainly cost him hundreds of millions of dollars.

[pellegrino]

Tremendous writeup here on Mitt. Hope his people read it.

http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/01...ney-salam-1-3/

you mean they didn't commission it?

[pellegrino]

Mitt and the White Horse Prophecy.

this is a real doosey of an article.

http://www.salon.com/2012/01/29/mitt...ecy/singleton/

Some choice selections:

"When Mitt Romney received his patriarchal blessing as a Michigan teenager, he was told that the Lord expected great things from him. All young Mormon men — the “worthy males” of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as it is officially known — receive such a blessing as they embark on their requisite journeys as religious missionaries."

I didn't realize women couldn't get patriarchal blessings. I also feel cheated that my patriarch said the exact same thing in my blessing.

"Upon completion of his foreign mission, he immersed himself in the 1970 senatorial campaign of his mother, Lenore Romney, who was running against Phillip Hart in the Michigan general election. That same year, the Cougar Club — the all male, all white social club at Brigham Young University in Salt Lake City (blacks were excluded from full membership in the Mormon church until 1978) — was humming with talk that its president, Mitt Romney, would become the first Mormon president of the United States."

I didn't know that the cougar club was really a thinly veiled racist, chauvanist organization, or that I spent my college time in Salt Lake City, not Provo.

But Cougar president Romney drove the young men to aim higher, orchestrating a telethon that raised a stunning million dollars. Romney’s position as head of the club was widely seen as a calculated steppingstone for a career in national politics

I didn't know that Mitt was the president of the Cougar Club while in school, or that he used it to launch his political career at the same time.

Wow, I've learned a lot from this article. I think I'll print it off and show my neighbors and friends whenever they ask me about Mitt.

[TripletDaddy]

the Cougar Club — the all male, all white social club at Brigham Young University

lol.

not much has changed.

[myboynoah]

Mitt and the White Horse Prophecy.

this is a real doosey of an article.

http://www.salon.com/2012/01/29/mitt...ecy/singleton/

Some choice selections:

"When Mitt Romney received his patriarchal blessing as a Michigan teenager, he was told that the Lord expected great things from him. All young Mormon men — the “worthy males” of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as it is officially known — receive such a blessing as they embark on their requisite journeys as religious missionaries."

I didn't realize women couldn't get patriarchal blessings. I also feel cheated that my patriarch said the exact same thing in my blessing.

I feel even more cheated that mine didn't.

[Uncle Ted]

Wow, I've learned a lot from this article. I think I'll print it off and show my neighbors and friends whenever they ask me about Mitt.

Wow. I think all the SOB's (Southern Orthodox Baptist's) in Texas are printing this one off now.

[YOhio]

Ha! That's a fantastic article. One of the primary sources is a guy who wrote this book:

In an open letter to Mitt Romney, Michael D. Moody, a former BYU classmate of the 2008 presidential contender, discusses the hypocrisies of Mormonism and delivers an insider's look at politics and the Church.Moody reveals the challenge in determining where Mormon hyperbole ends and hypocrisy begins. How outlandish is it, for example, that after early Mormons defended polygamy, contemporary Mormons crusade against nonstandard marriage in America? Although it's not out of character, Moody contends that in the grand tradition of lying for the Lord, Mormons have been untruthful about polygamy for decades. These hypocrisies relate directly to the conniving mind of Joseph Smith and the evil he incorporated into his cult.Millions of Mormon descendants are psychologically trapped in a multigenerational compound dating back to the very founding of Mormonism. Families are bitterly divided when some members escape over the emotional barbed wire but reach back to grasp the hands of those they love.As a contemporary war rages between those who know the "New Mormon History" and those who live in a programmed state of denial, only the dynamic leadership of a highly qualified, educated, and savvy man like Mitt Romney can free members from the Great American Cult.

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[pellegrino]

lol.

not much has changed.

um, yes, it has changed, you might call it a 180 degree change.

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cougar_Club"]Cougar Club - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

[Uncle Ted]

lol.

not much has changed.

The BYU of today has some brown hair people too...