Romney doesn't think the troops are important. Another flub by Romney. Hard to make up ground when you keep saying stuff like this.
I'm tempted to say: Good try, tallanover. It is good that you for this purpose are willing to accept that the budget was balanced. However, by your magic supply side economics that you guys spout often, the budget should never have been balanced. It should have been more out of wack than ever. You know. The less you tax the more revenue decreases. Tallanover, a classic example of congnitive dissonance. How long can he deny facts that don't support his ideology?
We almost need an Ann Romney thread. As Mr Clinton would say, she seems to have more brass than her husband. Ann Romney Refuses To Answer Questions About Birth Control In an interview with KWQC-TV6 today, Ann Romney refused to comment on the issues stemming from the ongoing War on Women, declining to address whether she believes women should have access to contraception through their employer-based insurance plans. Such questions are irrelevant, Romney said, because this election is not going to be about birth control: KWQC TV6: Do you believe that employer-provided health insurance should be required to cover birth control? ANN ROMNEY: Again, you’re asking me questions that are not about what this election is going to be about. This election is going to be about the economy and jobs. KWQC TV6: Well, a Pew research poll shows those issues are very important to women, ranking them either “important” or “very important. [...] ANN ROMNEY: Listen, I’ve been across this country, I’ve been for a year-and-a-half on the campaign trail. I’ve spoken with thousands of women and they are telling me, they’re telling me a couple of things, one they say they’re praying for me which is really wonderful, and then they’re saying, ‘please help, please help. We are so worried about our jobs.’ So really if you want to try to pull me off of the other messages it’s not going to work because I know because I’ve been out there. [...] I’m going to talk to you about the economy and about job creation and about how my husband is the right person for the right time. This is going to be an election that is very important for women, and we are going to make sure that their economic prosperity is more certain under a President Romney.
Democrats may not want to hear it, but Reagan faced an unemployment rate as high as 10.8% and was able to drive it down below 8 percent within 14 months. By contrast, unemployment under Obama peaked at 10.0%, eight months after his “stimulus” was passed, and after another 33 months it is still above 8%. We have fewer jobs despite there being many more Americans than four years ago. Think about that. http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/09/07/do-math-mr-obama-your-excuses-about-jobs-have-run-out/
Unfortunately, the opinion piece you posted from Fox News doesn't mention the Wall Street scum that tanked our entire economy.
That's a pretty striking difference. I would like to hear from some Republicans offering an explanation. According to this, Mitt Romney's support is almost entirely from White Americans. Why is that? Don't Republicans care about the rest of the country? And if they do, why isn't that reflected in who supports them? President Obama's support is from a broad cross-section of the ethnic makeup of the United States. The time as passed when an American president can be elected by an "all White" vote. This is damning. Very, very damning.
So do Asians not vote? Hard to believe that 100% of their votes are made up of either blacks, whites, or Latinos.
The votes from the less populous ethnic groups were not included because some of polls from which this graph is based do not separately identify them. I think Asians, for example are less than 2% of voters, and if we are talking about a survey of 500 people, often it will have very few Asian responders.
She is a complete disaster. If I am advising Mitt Romney I tell him that she needs to not have anymore interviews without prescreening the questions. She literally shuts down on any question that is not a softball. She sticks her head in the sand, says the election is not about subject X and then gets pissed off. She comes across as a weak woman. I will give her this, she didn't say "you people" this time... She is a major liability for Mitt and a perfect distraction for Obama.
At the same time, the Obama admin doesn't want to be seen directly or indirectly bullying her. Laura Bush played the "good housewife" card pretty well to shield her from answering any unsolicited tough questions. Even if she is a liability, I don't think it's one to poke at, only if she stumbles on her own.
