New York Magazine : Liberals root for Gingrich : "Brutal as a loss in Florida would be to Newt Gingrich's prospects, the press may help keep him on life support into the spring. "The very “liberal media” that Gingrich delights in excoriating are, in fact, in his corner in his battle with Romney"

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For Gingrich, this may turn out to be a crucial asset—especially if, as seems likely, he falls short in the Florida primary and is forced into survival mode"

Soft coverage helped to propel Obama first to the Democratic nomination and then into the White House.

Mitt Romney has earned a big reputation as an inveterate flip-flopper, the members of the ­media—and his rivals, then and ­today—have regarded him as a phony,

On a range of issues, notably his finances, Romney is making claims that may be less than fully truthful. This perception is ­growing—and problematic for Mitt Romney. Much as the press enjoys poking at phoniness, it absolutely relishes demolishing a liar.

New York Magazine

Newt’s Base

The press loves drama and hates a front-runner. So guess who they are rooting for.

By John Heilemann

January 27, 2012


The press loves drama and hates a front-runner. So guess who they are rooting for.


Some excerpts :

And while the media dynamic may not be enough to keep Romney from the nomination, the sentiments underlying it will bedevil him mercilessly in the fall should he face off with Barack Obama.

The idea that the mainstream press has an institutional rooting interest that favors Gingrich over Romney seems obvious enough to me. On TV on the night of the South Carolina primary, I remarked that the former’s victory meant he would “get so much free media attention over the next few days, it is going to be wall-to-wall Gingrich”; that the media “want this race to go on, and so he is gonna … get more attention and in some ways more favorable coverage … than he would ordinarily from people who would normally give him tougher scrutiny.”

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A bias that favors sensationalism is a bias that by definition favors Gingrich, who is sensational in every sense of the word. The kind way of describing this is to say that Newt is recognizably human: He is, as BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith puts it, “a flawed, interesting man with a story that includes success and failure.” A more colorful way is offered by the National Review’s Jim Geraghty: “He’s Rex Ryan, with an enormous ‘Can you believe what this guy said?’ factor in every appearance.” Or, perhaps even more apt, Gingrich is a candidate forever on the verge of spontaneous human combustion—and what reporter in his right mind would want to drive a guy like that out of the race any sooner than necessary?

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The suspicion of Romney is even deeper than that, however. Ever since his run in 2008, when his contortions on various issues earned him his reputation as an inveterate flip-flopper, the members of the ­media—and his rivals, then and ­today—have regarded him as a phony, his candidacy based on, as Smith puts it, “some ­really brittle half-truths about his consistency.” But now there is a creeping sense that he may be something worse; that on a range of issues, notably his finances, Romney is making claims that may be less than fully truthful. This perception may or may not be fair, but trust me, it is ­growing—and problematic. Much as the press enjoys poking at phoniness, it absolutely relishes demolishing a liar.

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HuffPost : Robert Creamer : "Voters want to know that the candidates they support are the leaders they will get after the election -- not, as John Huntsman said of Romney, "a well-oiled weathervane"." - Character and Core Values will decide the Presidency

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"Romney has never seen a position he couldn't change if he determined it would be to his advantage to do so. He thinks of politics as a business marketing project, where you say what you think you need to in order to maximize sales. Romney doesn't think of voters as citizens to be engaged -- he thinks of them as customers to be manipulated".

Huffington Post :
Why Character and Core Values Could Prove Decisive in Battle for Presidency
January 29, 2012

By Robert Creamer
Robert Creamer is a long-time political organizer and strategist, and author of the book: Stand Up Straight: How Progressives Can Win. He is a partner in Democracy Partners and a Senior Strategist for Americans United for Change


Why Character and Core Values Could Prove Decisive in Battle for Presidency


Some excerpts :

As Massachusetts Governor, Romney was pro-choice -- now he is anti-choice.

Romney was the author of the Massachusetts health care plan that in many respects served as the model for Obama's own health care plan. Now he wants to repeal "Obamacare."

Romney once refused to sign the "no new tax pledge." Now he has signed the "no new tax pledge."

Romney favored extension of the assault weapons ban. Now he opposes extension of the assault weapon ban.

Once he said the TARP "was the right thing to do." Now he says he opposed it.

Right after the economy collapsed he said he favored an economic stimulus program; now he says he opposed the stimulus bill.

Once Romney said he believed that human activity contributed to global warming; now he says he doesn't think we know what causes global warming.

One day he was emphatically neutral on Ohio Governor Kasich's union-busting legislation -- that was ultimately "vetoed" by the Ohio voters. The next day he one hundred percent supported that legislation.

Romney is a guy who, when called on his flip-flops and inconsistencies, said: "I'm running for office, for Pete's sake."

The reason Romney is having such a difficult time making the sale in the Republican primary contest is that many Republicans don't think he has strong core beliefs, don't trust him and think he's a phony.

Wait until he has to convince swing voters that he's anything more than a "vulture capitalist" who will say anything and do anything to make the biggest deal of his life -- the "acquisition" of the government of the United States of America.

But, you say, maybe he will flip-flop back into a more "moderate" Mitt Romney if he becomes President. Don't bet on it. People who have no core values will sell their services to the highest bidder. Romney's Presidency has already been sold lock, stock and barrel to the big Wall Street banks, the CEO class, the multi-millionaires who are behind his super PAC and the Republican Establishment that have financed his campaign.

In fact, throughout his career, Mitt Romney has demonstrated that his only "core value" is his own financial and political success. In Romney's view, both in politics and in business, every other belief or commitment can be thrown overboard if it weighs him down in his quest for success. And that goes for the people and communities that were impacted by the "creative destruction" of his corporate takeovers and leveraged buyouts at Bain Capital. To him, they were apparently nothing more than "collateral damage."

In the end, it is likely that the ultimate irony of the Romney campaign will be that his own willingness to toss aside positions and values that might at one time or another have appeared inconvenient, will ultimately weigh him down more than anything else.

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VIDEO, Ex Mormon David : Strong attack and rant against Mitt Romney - The Brutal Violent History of Racism inside the Mormon Religion - Con Man and "Prophet" Joseph Smith and Brigham Young were horrible brutal racists and scoundrels

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A collection of anti-Black declarations of these men "appointed by God" who were told lots of BS against Blacks by the Celestial Gods, Angels, etc ...

The Mormon Missionary and Brainwashed Brainwasher Mitt Romney never mentions the Historical Hatred of his Church against Black People, with lots of Imbecilities and Stupidities of the fake "Prophets" of Mormonism. A big fraud.

Uploaded by newcarabu on Jan 17, 2012

Mormon profits speaking of the blacks, and Mitt Romeny says that he is proud of his church and will not back away from it. Read how mormons and their leader really feel.

Every mormon proud, Mitt Romney getting out the black vote...

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Sarah Palin sharply criticized the Republican Party “establishment” for using what she called a “Stalin-esque rewriting of history” to tar Newt Gingrich as he fights for the GOP presidential nomination

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The Hill
Sarah Palin accuses GOP of 'Stalin-esque' attack on Newt Gingrich
By Russell Berman
January 28, 2012


Sarah Palin accuses GOP of 'Stalin-esque' attack on Newt Gingrich


Some excerpts :

Palin, the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee, posted a nearly 1,400-word statement on her Facebook page on Friday in which she accused Republican party elders of employing “tactics of the left” to derail the Gingrich campaign.

“The Republican establishment which fought Ronald Reagan in the 1970s and which continues to fight the grassroots Tea Party movement today has adopted the tactics of the left in using the media and the politics of personal destruction to attack an opponent,” Palin wrote. “What we saw with this ridiculous opposition dump on Newt was nothing short of Stalin-esque rewriting of history. It was Alinsky tactics at their worst.”

Palin has all but endorsed the Gingrich candidacy, saying before last week’s South Carolina primary that she would have voted for him if she had the chance.

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She did not call out Gingrich’s critics by name, but two of the most prominent in the last week have been Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who tapped Palin as his running mate four years ago, and Bob Dole, the party’s presidential nominee in 1996.

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VIDEO : George Will : "We all thought the big problem for Romney might be his Mormonism and it might be the Massachusetts healthcare plan. That's not it. Mitt Romney's problem is somehow his 'Romneyness'

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George F. Will has perfect credentials as a Conservative Intellectual :

George Will : "Mitt Romney's going in trump card was electability. If you go back now to his 1994 senate primary, he's been in 25 races. His record is six wins and 19 losses. Newt Gingrich won it, it seems at least 43 or 46 counties. He carried women and Evangelical conservative South Carolina. He carried evidently all seven Congressional districts."

"So here's what we now know, we all thought the big problem for Romney might be his Mormonism and it might be the Massachusetts healthcare plan. That's not it. Mitt Romney's problem is somehow his 'Romneyness.' That is the fact that people just are not connecting with him. Not just that he's the first candidate we've ever had from the financial sector, which turns out to be a problem because finances, a, mysterious, and, b, disliked. But there's something about him that is not connecting."

Uploaded by joegerarden on Jan 22, 2012

George Will: Mitt Romney's Problem Is His "Romneyness"

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VIDEO : Mitt Romney is not a fighter, mormons are taught to follow, NOT lead, they are wimps by birth. - This guy David "The Prophet" is crazy but very intelligent and experienced in things that we have never known

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Deep in his soul, Mitt Romney is a wimp, that is a timid or unadventurous person, trained to do things in groups and trained to obey. That is why Mitt Romney is always changing opinions and flip-flopping, always being opportunistic.

Everything in his presidency will go through Salt Lake City in Utah.

David "The Prophet" was a mormon most of his life.


Uploaded by newcarabu on Jan 23, 2012

Mitt Romney was born and raised in a cult that taught him to not to make decisions. He is afraid to fight and NOT trained to say NO, or stand up for himself or country.

Mitt Romney is not a fighter, mormons are taught to follow, NOT lead, they are wimps by birth.

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VIDEO : The 2012 State Of The Union speech by president Obama is analyzed by Cenk Uygur and Michael Shure on The Young Turks. They see a STRONGER Obama. His positions seem to be strong and the Republicans look dejected

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Obama looks confident, self-assured and assertive, he looks firm, positive and decided to go forward. His countenance is that of a Can-do president.




Uploaded by TheYoungTurks on Jan 24, 2012


The 2012 State Of The Union speech by president Obama is analyzed by Cenk Uygur and Michael Shure on The Young Turks. Will Obama finally get tough on banks?

State Of The Union 2012 Analysis

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OBAMA ES MUCHO MACHO, Obama will be reelected, I hope so. I am very enthusiastic and will work for the reelection of President Obama. With Great Joy, Happiness, Vigor, Health, Strength. Energy and Force

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America won't sink as the Mythical land of Atlantis if a Mormon Missionary is elected. And his republican policies ( Hooverism and anti-Keynesianism ) won't reduce the USA to a fourth world status and poverty.

But certainly all people with an education ( even if they never went to college ) have to understand that President Obama is the responsible decision. It is necessary to be prudent, careful and trustworthy. President Obama has these beautiful qualities but Voters and People at large need to act this way.

We are obligated to think things carefully, and not act on rash judgement of emotions and prejudice.

The Economy is in problems and straits, and these difficulties won't be solved with republican litanies and mantras of stopping social spending and increasing military expenses. That is the best recipe for decline.

It is necessary to stimulate the Economy with Government spending. Giving money to the super rich in the form of tax cuts is idiotic, because they would save the money or send it abroad in the form of investments that are going to be competition to America.

Kicking out teachers, policemen, firefighters, nurses, etc ..... is very stupid, these people need their jobs to survive and spend the money to stimulate the Economy.

Busting Unions will only compound the Joblessness and the stoppage of the American Economic Machine.

The Republican Party offers only Plutocracy tainted with Racism.

Vicente Duque

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Who is Obama ?? : Obama is rational, reasonable, nonconfrontational, a reluctant populist, a brilliant intellectual and professor of constitutional law. "Now, you can call this class warfare all you want", Obama said, responding to a GOP line of attack

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A studious man of reason has to embrace a responsible and mild form of populism to get ahead with his vision of a beautiful future for America ( and the visions of many millions of Americans ).

I have no doubts that Obama is the Greatest Political Phenomenon of our lives : a Great Man and a Great President.

POLITICO.COM
President Obama, reluctant populist
By GLENN THRUSH
January 25, 2012

President Obama, reluctant populist

Some excerpts :

But it was his Theodore Roosevelt-inspired populist broadside delivered last month in Osawatomie, Kan., that marked the most dramatic shift in tone. Here was a president trying to align himself with disaffected voters fuming at the establishment — after three years of running the establishment — and under attack for bank bailouts and a huge, widely unpopular health care law.

In 2008, historian Michael Cohen, writing in The Wall Street Journal, credited Obama with creating a “new style of populism, an affirming and unifying message that offers a stark contrast to the divisive messages of the past.”

This year, Cohen sees a 180-degree turn. “When you look at his Kansas speech and compare it to the things he said in 2008, the policy proposals are virtually the same, but the rhetoric, it’s just completely different,” said Cohen, a fellow for the Century Foundation and author of a book on presidential speeches. “He’s calling out bogeymen, he’s talking about who is guilty. It’s a totally different message. He’s channeling his inner Huey Long. It’s a risk, and the reason he’s doing it is simply that he has no choice.”

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At this point, the mood of the country is so roiled — and Romney’s vulnerabilities as a millionaire businessman so obvious — that Obama’s reelection chances may hinge on tapping a growing anger over income inequality and issues of economic fairness, Democrats believe.

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“The viability of the middle class, and the opportunity to get ahead, has been a central cause of Obama’s life,” Obama’s senior campaign adviser David Axelrod told POLITICO.

“It’s why he passed on more lucrative jobs after college to work with unemployed workers in the shadow of closed steel mills. It’s why he passed on even more lucrative law and corporate offers when he graduated from Harvard Law School, and returned to Chicago to represent people in employment discrimination cases,” Axelrod said.

“It’s something he spoke to throughout his Senate race, including his convention speech. He talked at every stop in 2007 and 2008 about the pervasive sense that ‘the American dream is slipping away’ and what we needed to do about it. And at every stop, he railed against budget-busting tax breaks for people who didn’t need them and weren’t even asking for them.”

“So, no, as someone who has known and worked with Obama for a long time, I don’t think it’s a valid premise” that Obama is only now embracing populism, Axelrod said.

Still, Tuesday’s speech was a vindication of sorts for Obama’s liberal critics, who have urged him to ditch the bipartisan deficit-cutting and focus on creating jobs for the poor and the working and middle classes. A CBS/New York Times poll released Tuesday showed that 55 percent of voters — and 70 percent of Democrats — think the rich aren’t paying enough taxes.

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“He understands that the American people are profoundly concerned that we have not only the most unequal distribution of income than any other country on earth and that inequality is greater than at any time in the last 50 years,” Senator Bernie Sanders (Independent - Vermont) said. “They see it as immoral. … The Occupy Wall Street movement got the president, and everybody else, talking about this.”

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After internal debate about the importance of the Occupy movement and how to respond to the challenge, Axelrod and Obama White House consigliere David Plouffe agreed to sharpen Obama’s attack. Axelrod — more than anyone responsible for the president’s above-the-fray brand — had regretted Obama’s tough partisan approach to stumping for Democratic candidates in 2010.

But he sees the populist message as central to Obama’s prospects this time, Democrats close to the campaign say.

The trial balloon came on Dec. 7, in Kansas, when Obama declared for the first time that saving the middle class is the “defining issue of our time.”

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Obama's supporters often cite a 2005 speech at Knox College in rural Illinois as his first and most memorable remarks on the issue of inequality — accusing the GOP of practicing “social Darwinism” on the poor and the working class.

But Democrats, even those who sharply criticized Obama’s budget-cutting last year, seem encouraged by his more active embrace of populism.

“The president has always been most comfortable framing this issue in terms of fairness,” said Jared Bernstein, a former economic adviser to Vice President Joe Biden. Bernstein was first drawn to Obama six-plus years ago after watching his Knox College speech. “His instincts are right that fairness is the most appealing way to address the issue with the larger public.”

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Big Gingrich Tsunami to hit Florida - Traditional Rules do not apply - Big Change of Paradigm inside the Republican Party - "Anything Goes" for the GOP. - Gingrich and Romney are tied in polls - But the Newt has the Momentum

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"Bullfighting is better when the bulls are furious, angry, mad, boiling in a rage, and there is great danger for the torero of being gored by the brute" - That is what they say in Spain.


And Many Republicans and Tea Partiers are not sugar coated bonbons. Mote Bitterness than candy in GOP.


"The difference in 2012 may be about a conflict between the upper echelons of the Republican party and its activist base. Gingrich has a small but real chance of upending Romney. If he does, it will be by connecting with that activist base. In other words, by following some of the fundamental rules of past nominations, not by breaking them".



Huffington Post
Newt Gingrich Pulls Even In National Poll: Can He Win?
By Mark Blumenthal
January 23, 2012


Newt Gingrich Pulls Even In National Poll: Can He Win?


Some excerpts :

The events of the last week have served as a cue to Republicans nationwide that Gingrich may be emerging again a consensus alternative to Romney, so his star may rise further. However, the test of whether Gingrich can capitalize on his South Carolina victory and mount a successful challenge to Romney depends on the former House speaker's ability to replicate the South Carolina formula on a wider scale. His ultimate success depends on the answers to these questions:

Will more prominent conservative elected officials move to endorse Gingrich as Rick Perry did last week? Will Sarah Palin once again recommend a "vote for Newt?"

Will Gingrich translate his newfound momentum into campaign cash, both from the conservative grassroots and from the wealthy patron whose Super PAC matched Romney's in spending on the South Carolina airwaves?

Finally, can the Gingrich campaign begin to win the support of local elected Republicans and grassroots conservative activists in Florida and beyond the way they did in South Carolina?

A Gingrich victory is not unthinkable, just highly improbable, even according to the "old paradigm" outlined in The Party Decides. As Masket points out, though leads in endorsements, a large majority of potential endorsers remain on the sidelines.

"Even if the basic mechanisms are the same," writes Hans Noel, co-author of The Party Decides, "sometimes it's different." And as RealClearPolitics' Sean Trende points out, the Republican primary voters are the same "electorate that selected Christine O'Donnell, Carl Paladino and Linda McMahon as its standard-bearers -- in very blue states with relatively moderate GOP electorates, no less."

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Bets in INTRADE.COM : Barack Obama to be re-elected President in 2012 : 56.4% - Newt Gingrich to win the 2012 Florida Primary 47.3% - Mitt Romney to win the 2012 Florida Primary 50.0%

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Wednesday, January 25, 2012 :

Mitt Romney to be Republican Presidential Nominee in 2012 :  Event: 2012 Republican Presidential Nominee : 67.9%

Dow Jones to close ON or ABOVE 12,000 on 31 Dec 2012 - Event: Dow Jones Industrial Average - Year End 2012 : 65.0%

The Dow Jones Industrial Average in now at 12,664 - So there is no pessimism of a downturn during the year 2012.

Obama's Shares has been steadily increasing in value inside all betting houses.

These are data on this date : Wednesday, January 25, 2012.

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VIDEO : Ed Schultz and Mike Papantonio : This is not about Mitt Romney's taxes, this is on how he made the money. Sinister Secrecy that surrounds these moneys. This is much worse than hiding in a closet with a woman

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The Media should put Romney on Trial - Right Now !

Papantonio suspects grave illegal activities of Mitt Romney :

Offshore banking has the main objective of camouflaging the origin of the money : How the money was made ( in a dirty way, violating regulations ) :

Romney's Offshore Money : Is Romney Breaking The Law With Offshore Bank Accounts? - Mike knows that Mitt Romney has lots of offshore money to avoid paying taxes in the USA and  probably to conceal the dirty games of how he made the money.

The Banks to cover up money laundering, crime, etc .... These Caribbean banks are more sinister than those of Swizerland.

Papantonio : Romney is a great suspect of dirty dealings !

Papantonio: Is Romney Breaking The Law With Offshore Bank Accounts?

Uploaded by golefttv on Jan 19, 2012

Mike Papantonio talks with Ed Schultz about Mitt Romney's offshore bank accounts, and he brings up the possibility that Mitt's offshore tax havens could be a violation of U.S. laws.

Papantonio: Is Romney Breaking The Law With Offshore Bank Accounts?

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Super Conservative ( Obama Hater ) Charles Krauthammer : "Obama has a friend in self-destroying GOP" : "The president is a very smart man. But if he wins in November, that won’t be the reason. It will be luck. He could not have chosen more self-destructive adversari"

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I always read Charles Krauthammer with Great Pleasure and Delight, even if his ideas are totally 100% opposite to mine. You learn something with Charles Krauthammer. With some other conservatives I learn very little.

National Post
Obama has a friend in self-destroying GOP
By Charles Krauthammer
Jan 20, 2012


Obama has a friend in self-destroying GOP


Some excerpts :

Suddenly Romney’s wealth, practices and taxes take centre stage. And why not? If leading Republicans are denouncing rapacious capitalism that enriches the 1 percent while impoverishing everyone else, should this not be the paramount issue in a campaign occurring at a time of economic distress?

Now, economic inequality is an important issue, but the idea that it is the cause of America’s current economic troubles is absurd. Yet, in a stroke, the Republicans have succeeded in turning a Democratic talking point — a last-ditch attempt to salvage re-election by distracting from their record — into a central focus of the nation’s political discourse.

How quickly has the zeitgeist changed? Wednesday, the Republican House reconvened to reject Obama’s planned $1.2 trillion debt-ceiling increase. (Lacking Senate concurrence, the debt ceiling will be raised nonetheless.) No one noticed. It made page A16 of The New York Times. All eyes are on South Carolina and Romney’s taxes.

This is no mainstream media conspiracy. This is the GOP maneuvering itself right onto Obama terrain.

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Casinos, Gamblers, Bettors, Bookies : Obama is soaring in favorability : Barack Obama to be re-elected President in 2012 : 54.2% --- Newt Gingrich to win the 2012 South Carolina Primary 70.5% - Mitt Romney to win the 2012 SC Primary 29.3%

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Mitt Romney to be Republican Presidential Nominee in 2012 : 75.2%.

So you have to invest $75.2 dollars to win one hundred if Mitt gets the nomination ( minus taxes and fees ).

This information is taken from INTRADE.COM ( A famous betting business ).

I have been following the bets : these people can have "Insider Information", these bettors may be in the spot ( South Carolina ) or know a lot more than us. I have seen Obama hovering over 49% and now Obama is flying to the sky like an eagle, very notable improvement of the forecasts in favor of the President.

If you are a Party Operative, you are better informed about the possibilities of the candidates.

Of course bettors follow the polls, but they may have better hunches, intuitive feelings or premonitions based on experience. Or they may be contacting the right people to know the scoop before others.

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Bets at INTRADE.COM : Mitt Romney to win the 2012 South Carolina Primary 57.2%, Newt Gingrich to win the 2012 SC Primary 40.6%, Barack Obama to be re-elected President in 2012 53.0%

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You can see that Barack Obama has been steadily gaining favorability with Casinos, Gamblers, Bettors and Bookies ( for his reelection possibilities ). 

The rise of Newt Gingrich in the South Carolina Primary Bets is Meteoric and hard to believe.

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HuffPost : The Great Surge of Newt Gingrich in South Carolina - Newt may tie with Mitt Romney - Rick Perry and Sarah Palin support Newt Gingrich - Newt may be the only Republican candidate with enough strength to stop Mitt Romney

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Huffington Post
South Carolina Polls Show Newt Gingrich Surging To Tie Mitt Romney
By Mark Blumenthal
January 19, 2012


South Carolina Polls Show Newt Gingrich Surging To Tie Mitt Romney


Some excerpts :

WASHINGTON -- Six new polls released on Thursday reveal a stunning surge of support for Newt Gingrich in South Carolina's Republican primary, following pundit accolades of his Monday night debate performance and a near-endorsement on Tuesday from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

The current polling snapshot now shows Gingrich and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney running essentially even among likely Republican primary voters, although polls differed on which candidate might be ahead. With events continuing to swirl, the ultimate outcome of Saturday's primary is now impossible to predict.

Some of the new data releases might be questionable if examined alone, but the consistency of the trend across all polls is undeniable. Since Monday, former House Speaker Gingrich has surged and eliminated what had been a double-digit Romney lead almost overnight.

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Now, however, the new polls show the trend lines have converged. They show a virtual tie, 31.1 percent for Gingrich and 31.0 percent for Romney, with Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) running a distant third at 15.3 percent.

The trends would appear to favor Gingrich, given that support for conservative alternatives to Romney -- former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum (11.3 percent) and Texas Gov. Rick Perry (3.5 percent) -- was already fading.

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James Madison, 4th President of the United States (1809–1817) : "Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other".

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James Madison continues :

"War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.

A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people".

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Very Short Biography :

In 1776, James Madison became a delegate to the revolutionary Virginia Convention, where he worked closely with Thomas Jefferson to push through religious freedom statutes, among other liberal measures. The youngest member of the Continental Congress, Madison was small in stature. His soft spoken, shy demeanor was a foil for his brilliant persistence in advocating his political agenda. Madison emerged as a respected leader of the congress, known for his hard work and careful preparation.

Madison's "Virginia Plan" became the blueprint for the constitution that finally emerged, eventually earning him the revered title, "Father of the Constitution."

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SALON.COM : GOP of our days is the continuation of the Demagoguery of Andrew Jackson, President from 1829 to 1837 - Populism for the benefit of the Super Rich, the Blue Bloods. - The Republican Party is not really a pro-business party at all. It is a pro-hereditary wealth party

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The GOP speaks in the accents of Jacksonian populism and pretends to be against “elites” - A Big Lie and Hypocrisy.



SALON.COM
Why do the Republicans nominate blue bloods?
The potent combination of Jacksonian populism and old money oligarchy
By Michael Lind
Tuesday, Jan 17, 2012


Why do the Republicans nominate blue bloods?


Some excerpts :

The GOP crusade to abolish the estate tax — the “death tax” — does nothing for American business in general, even as it chiefly benefits the trust fund babies of a few super-rich families. A lower tax rate for capital gains than for earned income means that the idle rich, and the hedge fund managers who manage their assets and are taxed at the capital gains rate, pay a much lower tax rate on their income than the majority of Americans who depend on wages or professional fees for a living. Self-made entrepreneurs? Hardly.

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The conclusion is inescapable. The Republican Party is not really a pro-business party at all. It is a pro-hereditary wealth party. Its platform serves the interests of those few Americans who are born into wealth and seek to preserve their fortunes, not those who start new companies or invent new technologies. Naturally, therefore, the party’s presidential candidates are chosen nowadays from among the pedigreed, hereditary social elite who are the chief beneficiaries of its policies.

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In the 19th century the Jacksonian coalition, then identified with the Democrats beginning with Andrew Jackson, was, like the Republican Party today, based on an alliance of white Southerners and Southwesterners with working-class whites in the North. Like today’s neo-Jacksonian Republicans, the original Jacksonians posed as the champions of the common man, denouncing government tyranny and privilege.

But Jacksonian common-man rhetoric was a camouflage for the interests of the most parasitic rentier elite in American history: the Southern slaveowners, including Andrew Jackson himself. The rentiers of the plantation South were allied with Northern crony capitalists — businessmen and bankers who sought to loot the public domain by means of what today would be called “privatization.” That is why the Jackson administration destroyed the Bank of the United States, a quasi-public agency that was the largest corporation in the country, and distributed its financial assets to “pet banks” allied with Jackson and his cronies. The modern equivalent would be the privatization of Social Security and Medicare and the diversion of their vast revenues into private hands, which, of course, is the centerpiece of the Republican economic agenda for America.

Old or new, Jacksonianism has always combined the pretense of egalitarian rebellion against privilege with the reality of domination by upper-class rentiers and crony capitalists. In the 21st century as in the 19th, the Jacksonian oligarchs divert the attention of their yeoman followers from what is going on by means of military jingoism (Jackson bellowed at France, today’s Republicans threaten Iran). Central to the Jacksonian tradition is the exploitation of paranoid fears of federal tyranny, combined with dark undercurrents of racism (witness Ron Paul’s recent denunciation of the Civil Rights Act and the blacks-on-welfare trope cynically deployed by Gingrich and Santorum).

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VIDEO of POLITICO.COM : Interview to Nancy Pelosi : she says that the GOP does not believe that Mitt Romney is going to win. - Mitt does not know what he stands for

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Nancy Pelosi, former Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives, Great Politician, Very intelligent and Smart Woman. And she is also very combative and self-assured.

She believes in a Great Year for the Democratic Party, and the snatching of several seats for the House Democrats.

Avoiding Military Service : Mitt Romney and his five sons : Tagg 41; Matt 40; Josh 36; Craig 30, Ben 33 - Talking a lot of Jingoism, Chauvinism, Militarism, Brutality and Aggression while avoiding military service and danger

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"Mitt got two student deferments and another one for being a "minister" of the Mormon Church while he was a missionary in France. His luck held when he drew the number 300 in the first ever draft lottery". ( From Huffington Post )

That is the advantage of being very rich and wealthy, the big advantage of being a Republican political/dynastic legatee, like George W. Bush and some of his top companions that also evaded military service or did never go to war while initiating big conflicts that resulted in the death of hundreds of thousands of innocent people and the forced displacement of millions of innocents.

The Romans, the Byzantine, the Crusaders, the British, etc .... learned the hard way, how difficult or impossible it is to conquer the Hinterland of the Middle East and Near Asia. In fact I have written some pages in GATHER.COM and my blogs about Roman Misfortunes in Near Asia and I plan to continue with the Byzantines, Crusaders and British when the Muses help my inspiration. I pray to Clio or Kleio, muse of history in Ancient Greece to inspire me to do this heavy but extremely necessary work.


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But these Republican Jingos like Mitt Romney and his republican candidate companions continue preaching Stupid Wars that only bring misfortune to the American Empire.

One of the advantages of being the son of the Extremely Rich and Wealthy is that you send the children of the poor to die in foreign far away scenarios. Wars of Imprudence, incaution, rashness, unwise, this behavior is topmost in heedlessness, mindlessness, carelessness. There is no intelligence in this preaching of aggression for political advantage.

Mitt Romney is like a Heartless, Passive, and Automatic Robot of Reactionary Stupidity.

More information about who is Mitt Romney here :

Huffington Post
Mr. Mittbot, You and Me
By James Moore
January 16, 2012


Mr. Mittbot, You and Me


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Mitt Romney's Irrationality : Kick out 12 million illegals, allow states to make abortion illegal, lower taxes for the rich even further, reinstate torture, start more wars and gut both Obamacare and financial regulations

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Doctor Deepak Chopra wrote in this article : "The once admired Republican Party has decayed into a tent under which not just traditional conservatives but gun nuts, racists, religious fundamentalists, and the like find shelter. Obama has had only three years to try and counter such toxic conditioning; it will take more".

Deepak Chopra famous medical doctor and public speaker condemns the irrationality and absurdity of the Republican Candidates and particularly the annointed Mitt Romney.

According to Doctor Chopra the Republican Party represents Intolerance rather than Humanity, Prejudice rather than Science, Jingoism and Crazy Nationalism rather than Globalism, Reaction and Suppression of past social advances rather than the Futurism of President Obama.

Doctor Chopra supports president Obama in the new Health Care Overhaul Legislation.

Huffington Post
Obama's Chances in 2012: A Season for Reason
Deepak Chopra
Author, 'War of the Worldviews'; Founder, The Chopra Foundation

Deepak Chopra ( born 1946) is an Indian medical doctor, public speaker, and writer on subjects such as spirituality, Ayurveda and mind-body medicine. Chopra began his career as an endocrinologist and later shifted his focus to alternative medicine. Chopra now runs his own medical center, with a focus on mind-body connections. He is also a lecturer at the Update in Internal Medicine event, sponsored by Harvard Medical School's Department of Continuing Education and the Department of Medicine.

Chopra was a top assistant to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi before launching his own career in the late 1980s by publishing self-help books on New Age spirituality and alternative medicine.

A friend of Michael Jackson for 20 years, Chopra came to widespread public attention in July 2009 when he criticized the "cult of drug-pushing doctors, with their co-dependent relationships with addicted celebrities," saying he hoped Jackson's death, attributed to an overdose of a prescription drug, would be a call to action.

Obama's Chances in 2012: A Season for Reason


Some excerpts :

"Even if, as suspected, Romney reverts to being a Massachusetts moderate Republican, he will have to contend with the ultra-ideologues in the House and Senate. There is a widespread shrug of the shoulders among many Democrats, taking the attitude that "Romney wouldn't be so bad." But this in essence is a silent vote for unreason and a kick in the teeth to President Obama and his complete loyalty to reasoned policies".

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Robert Creamer : "Mitt Romney's Bain history makes him the perfect antagonist in the campaign narrative set out by President Obama last month in his Kansas speech". - Mitt is the perfect foil for the President this fall. - Mitt is the best contrast against Obama's Narrative

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"The fact that Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry have joined in defining Romney's Bain years absolutely inoculates Democrats from charges that they are "anti-free enterprise" or "anti-business" when they make the same charges".

"Probably not very likely that Gingrich or Perry would volunteer to attack Romney's history at Bain next September -- but they just did. All Democrats need to do is put a clip of Rick Perry in an ad where he accused Romney of being a "vulture capitalist.".

Huffington Post
Why the Bain Capital Controversy Is So Damaging to GOP Chances This Fall
January 16, 2012


by Robert Creamer

Robert Creamer is a long-time political organizer and strategist, and author of the book: Stand Up Straight: How Progressives Can Win. He is a partner in Democracy Partners and a Senior Strategist for Americans United for Change. Follow him on Twitter @rbcreamer.

Why the Bain Capital Controversy Is So Damaging to GOP Chances This Fall


Some excerpts :

The President will, quite correctly, frame the upcoming election as a battle for the future of the American middle class -- a choice between a society where we're all in this together or all in this alone.

He will offer a vision of America where we look out for each other -- where everyone is called upon to play by the same rules -- and everyone gets a fair shot, a fair shake and contributes their fair share.

The Willard Mitt Romney who ran Bain Capital is the perfect foil for the Democratic narrative this fall. That's why the Bain Capital narrative is so important for defining Romney and setting the terms of this year's election campaign.

Just visualize the national political debate that features the Mitt Romney we've seen on TV the last several weeks and the Barack Obama who made the speech in Osawatomie, Kansas last month.

At the close of his Kansas speech -- which took place in the same town where Theodore Roosevelt had announced his "New Nationalism" a century ago. Obama said:

"We are all Americans," Teddy Roosevelt told them that day. "Our common interests are as broad as the continent." In the final years of his life, Roosevelt took that same message all across this country, from tiny Osawatomie to the heart of New York City, believing that no matter where he went, no matter who he was talking to, everybody would benefit from a country in which everyone gets a fair chance.

And well into our third century as a nation, we have grown and we've changed in many ways since Roosevelt's time. The world is faster and the playing field is larger and the challenges are more complex. But what hasn't changed -- what can never change -- are the values that got us this far. We still have a stake in each other's success. We still believe that this should be a place where you can make it if you try. And we still believe, in the words of the man who called for a New Nationalism all those years ago, "The fundamental rule of our national life," he said, "the rule which underlies all others -- is that, on the whole, and in the long run, we shall go up or down together." And I believe America is on the way up.

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Famous Pollster Nate Silver : It is extremely difficult but NOT totally and absolutely impossible that Rick Santorum wins in South Carolina. Santorum received the backing of a significant group of evangelical leaders of South Carolina on Saturday

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According to exit polls, 60 percent of voters in the South Carolina Republican primary identified themselves as born again or evangelical in 2008

Santorum can have a good performance in South Carolina. Nate Silver is not predicting a win, only a possible good performance of Santorum, pushed by those evangelicals that want to stop Mitt Romney.

I have great respect for Nate Silver. If he says that Rick Santorum can perform over his present poll numbers in South Carolina then we should watch the votes for this candidate in the South Carolina Republican Primary. This event will take place on Saturday, January 21 of 2012.

The New York Times
Nate Silver's Political Calculus
Backing of Evangelicals Could Resuscitate Santorum in South Carolina
By Nate Silver
Saturday, January 14, 2012


Backing of Evangelicals Could Resuscitate Santorum in South Carolina


Some excerpts :

That leaves Mr. Santorum. His favorability rating, 53 percent, was considerably better than Mr. Paul’s in the Public Policy Polling survey, and his 30 percent unfavorable rating was the lowest of any Republican candidate in the state. Like Mr. Paul, Mr. Santorum has avoided attacking Mr. Romney about Bain Capital, trying to maintain his positive image.

As The Atlantic’s Molly Ball notes, there is a parallel between the endorsement Mr. Santorum received on Saturday and the backing he received from influential conservatives like Bob Vander Plaats in the days leading up to Iowa. Those endorsements helped to break a logjam between Mr. Santorum and other conservative candidates as voters behaved tactically and jumped on his bandwagon.

The extent to which there is a consensus of voters who want to defeat Mr. Romney in South Carolina is unclear. In the Public Policy Polling survey, 58 percent of voters said they would prefer another candidate to Mr. Romney. Nevertheless, Mr. Romney led hypothetical one-on-one matchups against several Republican opponents in the poll, including against Mr. Santorum, and Mr. Romney’s favorability ratings were reasonably strong.

The scenario in which Mr. Santorum would actually win South Carolina, therefore, probably requires two things. First, Saturday’s statement would have to get voters to take another look at him at the expense of other conservatives like Mr. Gingrich or Mr. Perry. And second, the negative attacks by Mr. Gingrich would have to succeed in softening up Mr. Romney’s support, but not play to Mr. Gingrich’s direct benefit either, allowing Mr. Santorum to leapfrog both and win with perhaps 25 percent of the vote.

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VIDEO, Ed Schultz and Mike Papantonio: Romney The King of Government Bailouts - Mitt Romney is a Big "Welfare Queen" taking advantage of Taxpayers Money to fill his pockets with many millions, and the Taxpayer always loses. He sends his money offshore to avoid taxes

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Taking Taxpayers money to cut deals at Bain Capital ( scams ?? )


Uploaded by golefttv on Jan 13, 2012


Mike Papantonio appears on The Ed Schultz Show to discuss Mitt Romney's love of government bailouts -- a love affair that has been going on for about 20 years.

Papantonio: Romney The King of Government Bailouts

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Very Prominent Conservative Intellectual : "Mitt Romney is a candidate who "fails to inspire." This is hugely important. It's the old Dole/McCain/Bush 41 thing again: Without energizing one's base, it doesn't matter if you can get a few extra percentage points from "swing" voters (even assuming it's true that those extra few points are achievable)"

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My Comment :

Wonderful Article in the "American Spectator" : a big list of pundits, analysts, strategists, commentators, that believe Mitt Romney is a very weak candidate against Obama. ( including Conservative Prestigious Magazines and Publications )

Mitt Romney is a Republican born rich who got richer by moving money around -- a millionaire plutocrat who can't relate to "ordinary" Americans or to the "Reagan Democrats" (old-ethnic. i.e. Italian-American/Polish-American, etc.) ...... another Republican political/dynastic legatee.

"If you aren't inspirational, you aren't inspirational, period, meaning you don't inspire the middle either. It's also true that millions of voters really can decide to stay home; remember that Karl Rove estimated that up to 4 million expected Evangelical Bush backers stayed home in 2000 after being disgusted by last-weekend news that Bush had had a drunk driving arrest way back when. The result, of course, was a race that took six extra weeks to decide".

American Spectator
Why Romney is Weak vs. Obama
January 13, 2012

By Quin Hillyer

Quin Hillyer is a senior editor of The American Spectator and a senior fellow at the Center for Individual Freedom. This conservative institution was founded on the principle of securing individual freedoms as embodied in the United States Constitution and state constitutions. It tends to focus on neoconservative and Republican/libertarian values.

Hillyer is a classical conservative; his writings maintain the principles of limited government first theorized by James Madison and most closely held in recent years by Ronald Reagan. Hillyer’s writings are also respectful of the Madisonian contribution to American liberty and politics. His writings distance itself from the single-issue focus of some religious conservatives, and is especially distrustful of big government conservatives, particularly over taxation and deficit spending policies. Among a number of columnists, including that of George Will and Charles Krauthammer, Hillyer was resolutely critical of the spending policies of Bush administration. Hillyer has also expressed concern of the administration of Barack Obama.

In addition to politics, Hillyer has written frequently on U.S. Supreme Court nominees over the last two decades. He has strongly supported many Republican-nominated candidates, including Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice Samuel Alito, and Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, but took the Bush administration to task over the proposed appointment of Harriet Miers in 2005. Hillyer is a frequent contributor to the Court-centric web site Confirm Them.

Why Romney is Weak vs. Obama

Some excerpts :

Against all of that, all Romney can offer is a supposed greater acceptability to the educated, less culturally conservative, right-leaning economically, urban and suburbanites who are being targeted by Obama in places like Virginia and North Carolina. But the key thing here is that while these folks may be more socially liberal, they tend to vote more on the basis of their slightly upper-middle-income economic expectations rather than on social issues, and they'll vote either for or against Obama based on those analyses regardless of who the Republican nominee is. But it is the blue-collar worker, or small-business retailer, who (polls show) votes more often on cultural cues (not necessarily social issues per se, although that is sometimes the case, but more on stylistic cultural cues and concerns) than on other factors. Again, this is obviously a gross over-generalization (as is most 30,000-foot-level political socio-analysis), but these are indeed, as Rick Santorum keeps saying, the people who swing elections in states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Missouri. They are far more likely to swing behind Santorum (or Gingrich, or Perry) than behind the stiff rich guy with a "weird" religion and no middle-cultural social affinities ("shooting... small varmints" and flipping on homosexual "marriage").

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Candidates with higher name ID (especially with low current "hard negatives" like Romney) can be expected to do far better than ones with low ID, low familiarity, etc. Thus, it is highly instructive that in recent polls in both Florida and North Carolina, Rick Santorum did almost exactly as well (margin of error) against Obama as Romney did, despite Romney's far greater familiarity to voters.

Finally, but perhaps most importantly, Romney just can't campaign against Obama's single biggest vulnerability, Obamacare. There are just too many similarities between Obamacare and Romneycare, too many bad results from Romneycare (busting the budget, etc.), and too many video clips of Romney from six years ago saying that he hoped that even the individual insurance mandate would become a "national model." This will absolutely hobble Romney's campaign. In fact, it might be an insurmountable problem.

All of which is to say that Willard Mitt Romney has very low growth potential in a general-election campaign against Obama. His downside might be not as low as John McCain's was, four years ago, but his upside is negligible. As Larry Lindsey's analysis (mentioned above) explains, this can be an easy recipe for what I call a "respectable loss." But a loss is a loss is a loss. Romney is a weak general-election candidate who isn't likely to get any better.

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Paul Krugman : NO Mr Romney, America Isn’t a Corporation : "We’re not going to get better policies if the man sitting in the Oval Office next year sees his job as being that of engineering a leveraged buyout of America Inc."

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The New York Times
America Isn’t a Corporation
By PAUL KRUGMAN
January 12, 2012


America Isn’t a Corporation


Some excerpts :

Consider what happens when a business engages in ruthless cost-cutting. From the point of view of the firm’s owners (though not its workers), the more costs that are cut, the better. Any dollars taken off the cost side of the balance sheet are added to the bottom line.

But the story is very different when a government slashes spending in the face of a depressed economy. Look at Greece, Spain, and Ireland, all of which have adopted harsh austerity policies. In each case, unemployment soared, because cuts in government spending mainly hit domestic producers. And, in each case, the reduction in budget deficits was much less than expected, because tax receipts fell as output and employment collapsed.

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And there’s also the question of whether Mr. Romney understands the difference between running a business and managing an economy.

Like many observers, I was somewhat startled by his latest defense of his record at Bain — namely, that he did the same thing the Obama administration did when it bailed out the auto industry, laying off workers in the process. One might think that Mr. Romney would rather not talk about a highly successful policy that just about everyone in the Republican Party, including him, denounced at the time.

But what really struck me was how Mr. Romney characterized President Obama’s actions: “He did it to try to save the business.” No, he didn’t; he did it to save the industry, and thereby to save jobs that would otherwise have been lost, deepening America’s slump. Does Mr. Romney understand the distinction?

America certainly needs better economic policies than it has right now — and while most of the blame for poor policies belongs to Republicans and their scorched-earth opposition to anything constructive, the president has made some important mistakes. But we’re not going to get better policies if the man sitting in the Oval Office next year sees his job as being that of engineering a leveraged buyout of America Inc.

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Two VIDEOs : Mike Papantonio and Ed Schultz : Lessons on Vulture Capitalism and Looting Companies for Profit - The story of Mitt Romney freeloader sacking companies - Destroying jobs and production for profit

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They use a lot of Banks in Bermuda and Cayman Islands in order to evade American Taxes - These guys like Mitt Romney are masters of Elusion and Evasion.

The Republican Elites do not want these stories of Vulture Capitalism or Looting Capitalism being told because many of the Rich Elite practice it. And the Republican Party is the Advertising Agency of the Super Rich.

Newt Gingrich is right in telling the story about the Bain Company of Mitt Romney but the Republican Elites get scared and dislike this narrative.

With these takeovers of Venture Capitalism, these people deceive the employees and destroy jobs. This is legal stealing, legal robbing, they are legal thieves.

These are legal Scams and legal Con Men. They are creating misery for the American Worker and destroying thousands of Jobs.

Papantonio: Romney Helped Invent Vulture Capitalism

Uploaded by golefttv on Jan 11, 2012

Mike Papantonio appears on The Ed Schultz Show to talk about Mitt Romney's vulture capitalism problem, and why voters are not going to be very receptive of a man who enjoys being able to fire people.

Papantonio: Romney Helped Invent Vulture Capitalism

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Papantonio: Romney's Vulture Capitalism Will Destroy America

Uploaded by golefttv on Jan 9, 2012

Mike Papantonio appears on The Ed Schultz Show to talk about Mitt Romney's long history of vulture capitalism -- from Boston Consulting Group to Bain Capital, Mitt has made a name for himself by destroying small businesses and jobs in America.

Papantonio: Romney's Vulture Capitalism Will Destroy America

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I am not impressed by the turnout of the Republican Primary in New Hampshire : from 241,039 GOP votes in the 2008 primary to 247,223 votes in 2012 - The same for the Iowa Primary - I don't see the Tea Party Fervor and Enthusiasm in numbers

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This doesn't bode well for the Republican Party - I can predict a victory in November 6, 2012, but only when I see Big Numbers, Enthusiasm, Fervor, Ardor, Fire, Passion.

Tea Party : Where are you ??



Union Leader
Newspaper of Manchester, New Hampshire
Granite Status: Primary set record for GOP turnout
John DiStaso
Senior Political Reporter
Jan 12, 2012


Granite Status: Primary set record for GOP turnout


Some excerpts :

The Secretary of State's office released county, city and town summaries showing that 247,223 votes were cast for candidates on the Republican ballot.

That's a turnout of 45 percent of the 546,411 names of Republican and undeclared voters on the Jan. 4 checklist.

Democrats are not eligible to vote in the GOP primary, just as registered Republicans cannot vote in a Democratic primary. Undeclared, or independent, voters can vote in either primary.

As of Jan. 4, there were 314,278 undeclared voters and 232,133 Republican voters on the checklist, Secretary of State Bill Gardner said.

Gardner said that when the few blank ballots cast in the GOP primary are counted, the number will be closer to the 250,000 he had predicted, but will fall just short.

Still, said Gardner, it's a record for a Republican presidential primary. The previous high in a Republican primary came in 2008, when 241,039 GOP votes were cast.

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Most welfare recipients in the United States are not black. According to the most recent census, 31 million of the nation's 46 million poor people are white; 24 million of the nation's 36 million food-stamp users are white; 37 million of the nation's uninsured 49 million uninsured citizens are white; and 70 percent of social-welfare services like social security and Medicare also go to white families

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Philadelphia Daily News
GOP hopefuls playing to usual racial divide
Marc Lamont Hill
January 11, 2011


GOP hopefuls playing to usual racial divide


Some excerpts :

Despite these irrefutable numbers, the GOP continues to push the idea that blacks are the primary recipients of public assistance.

Of course, this tendency to twist the truth about poverty isn't new. Since the 1980s, the GOP has been committed to darkening the face of poverty within the public imagination. From President Reagan's construction of the lazy, hypersexual, and dishonest "Welfare Queen" to the sensationalist (and largely unsubstantiated) media accounts of urban welfare fraud, Americans have been taught that the welfare state is nothing more than a social safety net offered by hardworking whites to undeserving blacks.

This dangerous narrative is one of the primary mechanisms used by the GOP to sustain its power. By racializing the poverty crisis, the Republican Party is able to organize poor whites against their own interests. Throughout American history, disadvantaged whites have supported everything from slavery to welfare reform, all of which undermine their own prosperity.

Of course, this works only against the backdrop of white supremacy, a system that makes whiteness a coveted piece of social, cultural and emotional property. Within this system, even the most socially desperate white citizen finds pride in being white or, more importantly, not being black.

As a result, rather than aligning themselves with other poor people, these individuals instead elect to close ranks around race.

It is this perverted logic that allows a poor white mechanic in West Virginia to vote in favor of the Bush tax cuts and oppose welfare reform, despite the fact that such moves ultimately hurt him. By voting against welfare, and ostensibly against poor black people, such an individual is able to garner what W.E.B. Dubois called the "psychic wages of whiteness."

In other words, poor whites can vote against their own economic interests because they're convinced that they're "getting tough" on poor black people and forging solidarity with other whites, even elite whites who are economically exploiting them.

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HuffPost : "Prophet" Joseph Smith preached a sermon three months before his death in 1844, in it he planted the seeds for Mormonism's biggest break with traditional Christianity, according to scholars. In it, Smith preached that God was once a flesh-and-blood man who had attained godhood"

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"Likewise, Smith taught, humans could advance to God-like status in heaven" :

If Mitt Romney is President of the United States then his post will be in a big conflict with the obedience that Mormons yield to a "Prophet" in Salt Lake City, and with many oaths of Loyalty that Mitt has rendered to his Mormon Church as an important missionary and later official of this church of Latter Day Saints.

People have not realized that Mormonism is a Brutal Cult and has a Horrible History of Racism against Blacks and Enslavement of Women in Polygamy. Even in our days, Women Slaves for sex exist for the Fundamentalist Mormons, they rape very young girls of 13 or 14 and put them in Mormon Harems. And this does not happen in the most backward country on earth but in the United States of America.

What can you expect of a Religion founded by a scoundrel, swindler, con man, a thief, convicted of some felonies and that practiced a lot of violence, including the enslavement of Women using a lot of lies and hypocrisy. ?? 

In this absurd and idiotic religion each Mormon saved will be a God owning his own planet.  What an Imbecility.

Huffington Post

Romney's Evangelical Problem Starts With Theology

By Daniel Burke

Religion News Service

January 4, 2012


Romney's Evangelical Problem Starts With Theology


Some excerpts :

"It has become important for traditional Christians to maintain an unbridgeable creature-Creator chasm," said Robert Millet, emeritus dean of religious education at Mormon-owed Brigham Young University in Utah.

"For Latter-day Saints, God and man are the same species. God has substance -- he is not just a force or power. He is an exalted, glorified man, and one of the purposes of the Gospels is to help us become what he is."

The idea of humans becoming gods runs counter to mainstream Christianity, said Richard Mouw, president of the evangelical Fuller Theological Seminary in California. Confusing the two has traditionally been considered blasphemous, he said.

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The God-as-exalted man doctrine has profound effects on other areas of Mormon theology, according to scholars. For example, Mormons believe that God has a celestial wife, to whom Jesus was born in a premortal existence.

"We believe that Jesus and all humanity had a life before this life," Millet said, "and in that world, Christ was the eldest -- Jesus was our elder brother."

Thus, Jesus is a step below God on the stairway to heaven -- and not an equal member of the Trinity.

Traditional Christianity holds that God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit coexist and share one substance. Mormons "deny the (doctrine of the) Trinity and that's huge," said Mouw.

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The Atlantic : Paradise of Conspiracy Theories ( this may be crazy and fictional ) : The Super Conservative Justices of the Supreme Court want to implement their Conservative Judicial Activism to block the Reelection of President Obama

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This is very entertaining and may entail some fun : Why is the Supreme Court juggling so many hot potatoes that are divisive and partisan ??

Texas Gerrymandering, Arizona's SB-1070, The Health Care Overhaul, and probably some tough decisions on Voter Suppression by Republican State Legislatures.

The fact is that President Obama is a Great Favorite of Casinos, Gamblers, Bettors and Bookies to win the 2012 Presidential Election.

Enter a Super Conservative U. S. Supreme Court and the Ugly Game of Conservative Judicial Activism and President Obama can be stopped from having a Second Term.

The Atlantic

A Conspiracy Theory About the Supreme Court's Term

By Andrew Cohen

Jan 9 2012

A Conspiracy Theory About the Supreme Court's Term


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VIDEO, and transcript, Rush Limbaugh : Sarah Palin Said The White House Wants Mitt Romney - And Rush has seen the conspiracy of the White House, with Donna Brazile, and George Stephanopoulos, Democrat Party hack disguised as the Republican debate moderator on ABC

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The Video is at the bottom of this page under Rush Limbaugh's transcript :

RUSH: There is a story on the Drudge Report today from Sarah Palin in which Sarah Palin says that the White House wants Mitt Romney to be the Republican nominee. Now, not only did I tell you that the Broncos were gonna beat the Steelers, for months I have been telling you that the Democrats want Romney -- and you all know it. You've been listening here and you've heard people call me and tell me I don't know what I'm talking about, that I'm full of it, that they're scared of Romney. "Romney is the only guy who can win." And I have said, "No," and I've stood tough, and I've said, "They can't wait for him. What's Occupy Wall Street all about but running against Romney? He's the Wall Street guy on our roster -- and then Romneycare," and I've laid it all out. So here comes Palin, she says it, and makes news -- and Donna Brazile has said it. This is post-debate coverage on ABC Saturday night. George Stephanopoulos, Democrat Party hack disguised as the debate moderator on ABC, had this discussion with Jon Karl and Donna Brazile.

BRAZILE: Mitt Romney won tonight because no one touched him -- and for Democrats, you know what? It was good news for us.

KARL: Why is that?

BRAZILE: Because we believe that the weakest candidate is the candidate that the Republicans are not attackin', and that's Mitt Romney.

KARL: Oh, come on.

STEPHANOPOULOS: No, you don't believe that, Donna.

RUSH: That's Stephanopoulos. What Stephanopoulos is saying is, "Shut up, Donna! What the hell are you doing, Donna? Did you not take your meds?" That, "Come on, Donna, what are you doing? You know you don't believe that" means, "Donna, shut up." You know, she's feeling her oats there. So Palin has come out say it it and Donna Brazile saying it. "Oh, yeah, the one guy not being attacked..." She practically gleeful here, and I'll tell you why she's gleeful. She's gleeful because what she sees is Romney getting the nomination, so she thinks it's okay to blow the lid off this cover now. "Mitt Romney won tonight, because no one touched him -- and for Democrats that's good news for us." Stephanopoulos says, "Whoa, whoa, whoa! Why is that?" "Well, because we believe the weakest candidate is the candidate the Republicans are not attacking, and that's Romney," and Stephanopoulos says, "Oh, you don't believe that!" I guarantee she had a talking to. They had a talking to with her with her after this, because that's a major faux pas. The line that's supposed to come out of the Democrat Party is they're scared of Romney. The line is, "Oh, no, they don't want to face Romney. Romney is the toughest guy." That's the line, and they know, folks -- the Democrats know that our experts are stupid enough to believe that the Democrats will be honest and tell us who they really don't want to face. I'll tell you who they don't want to face when we come back.

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RUSH: The Democrats are afraid of any candidate they have sought to destroy. You can start with Sarah Palin, you can move on to Santorum. Any -- any conservative who showed any interest -- the Democrats set out to destroy. That's who they're genuinely afraid of. They are not hammering Mitt Romney at all, and Donna Brazile let the cat out of the bag. Don't doubt me.

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Uploaded by MrTimotheus85 on Jan 9, 2012

Rush Limbaugh - Sarah Palin Said The White House Wants Mitt Romney

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HuffPost : Robert Kuttner : "The only thing wrong with Obama's populism, excuse me, his economic progressivism, is that it took him until nearly the year of his re-election to practice it resolutely. More, please"

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Huffington Post
Obama's Populism
By Robert Kuttner
January 8, 2011


Obama's Populism


Some excerpts :

Consider: The Republican strategy of paralyzing agencies of which they disapprove by refusing to confirm their officials is harming consumers and working people. It is hardly "populist" in the ugly sense of the word to remedy that blockade by using the president's power to make a recess appointment.

Nor is it "populist" in the odious meaning of the word to defend Social Security and Medicare from the Right and center-right's cynical use of the fiscal crisis to undermine programs that did not cause it. Rather, Obama's refusal to let social insurance be the scapegoat is just good progressive politics.

It would be nice if we had a word like "populist" that meant defense of regular people against the malign influence of economic royalists, but without the overtones of nativism or racism. But we don't, so it is more honest and accurate to refer simply to these policies simply as economic progressivism.

As for class warfare, it's here. The policies of the past three decades, whether on taxes, de-regulation, outsourcing, the assault on unions, or the deliberate weakening of social insurance, have been top-down class warfare. It's just charming that when progressives begin to show some spine and start fighting back, the Right screams "class warfare!" They should know.

The French have a nice rhyming couplet that describes this gambit: Cet animal est tres mechant; quand on l'attaque, il se defend. ("This animal is very wicked. When you attack it, it defends itself.")

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