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Integrity and honesty: put up or shut up

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“There is no whining in politics. Stop demanding an apology, release your tax returns.”— GOP strategist John Weaver (via: think4yourself)


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“I brought up a lot of stuff in the debate that doesn’t matter today.” — Texas Gov. Rick Perry, when asked about his consistent calls for Mitt Romney to reveal his income tax records during the Republican debates earlier this year. Perry, who made his remarks during a brief interview after stumping for Romney in Elko, Nevada, was quick to change the subject to Barack Obama’s college records and economic issues.  (via: think4yourself)

A heads-up for all the dumbasses who aren’t rich but continue to vote Republican anyway

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Mitt Romney campaigned with both of these guys yesterday:

  • Donald Trump: “I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I’m very rich.” 3/17/11
  • Sheldon Adelson: “I don’t take comments from anybody unless they’re rich.  If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?  Now if they’re rich, then they must be smart.” 1/7/11

Unless you’re rich, you don’t count. That’s about the only thing you can take to the bank from these guys. Also, too:

Mitt Romney Wants the Biggest Military Ever, Regardless of Cost — Mitt Romney wants a bigger government, so long as its the kind with more guns and fewer social programs. “We have two courses we can follow: One is to follow in the pathway of Europe, to shrink our military smaller and smaller to pay for our social needs,” Romney told a San Diego crowd of some 5,000 on Monday outside the Veterans Memorial Center and Museum. “The other is to commit to preserve America as the strongest military in the world, second to none, with no comparable power anywhere in the world.” – Mother Jones

You can bet that Mitt does not plan to pay for his biggest, fastest, bestest, most manliest new military with more revenue, such as with higher taxes for himself and the rest of his wealthy friends. You and I and everyone else (who isn’t rich) will be paying for this awesome, Orwellian expansion of our great military (some wars end, some others need to begin!), and the continuation of tax cuts for the one percent, with austerity measures for the rest of us. But maybe it’ll be exciting, like living in a Mad Max movie.

And the dumb shites who have no more money than the rest of us will line up to vote for Romney in November because of mental disorders which they shout from the bumpers of their cars or on Facebook and Twitter or nightly on Fox “News” in a hypnotic, rapid-fire, Tourette-like manner: NOBAMA! BIRTH CONTROL! SHARIA LAW! ILLEGALS! SOCIALISM! ‘MURKIA! JESUS! GUNS! GAYS! COMMUNISM! BIRTH CERTIFICATE!

Which makes the wealthy laugh. All the way to the bank.

GOP problem: Their voters are white, aging and dying off

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‘Murkia! EFF YA! 
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Doesn’t matter how much you scream, or how many times Palin vomits on her Screechwall on Facebook, or how many signs you carry showing our President as a Kenyan witch doctor, or how many teabags you hang from your hat — if your protest sign says ‘I want my country back’ — it ain’t happening.

“The Republicans’ problem is their voters are white, aging and dying off,” said David Bositis, a senior research associate at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, who studies minority political engagement.

“There will come a time when they suffer catastrophic losses with the realization of the population changes.”

Over the next several generations, the wave of minority voters — who, according to U.S. Census figures released this week, now represent more than half of the nation’s population born in the past year — will become more of a power base in places like Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia. That hold will extend across the Southwest all the way to California, experts say.

The coming political revolution could result in a massive changing of the guard on nearly every level of government, potential cultural clashes, and the type of political alliances that are now considered rare.

GOP problem: ‘Their voters are white, aging and dying off’ – CNN.com

There will be an Apocalypse — it’s just not going to be the one you hoped for.

Romney’s top advisor compares Republican voter’s minds and memories to an Etch-A-Sketch

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Whoops? Explaining how his candidate can pivot to the center after the primaries, top Romney advisor Eric Fehrnstrom tells CNN’s voters minds and memories are “almost like an Etch-A-Sketch”. Just give it a shake and draw the picture again. Watch.

Jon Stewart to the GOP base: Maybe your candidates aren’t the problem. Maybe it’s YOU.

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Stewart: It’s like the Republican base is at war with its own talking points: ‘I want someone who’s gonna cut taxes — and balance the budget! Someone who’s a skilled orator — that doesn’t talk all fancy! The child of poor immigrants — who will build a fence to keep them out of this country! Someone who’s strong enough for a man — but Ph-balanced for a woman!

…It’s like your ideal candidate is a rare, super-heavy element that can only exist in a particular particle accelerator. And even then, only for a fraction of a second. Before you all remember how much you hate science.

You need to take a long, hard look in the mirror and not come away thinking, “Eh. There’s something wrong with the mirror.” And now you want Chris Christie. SURE you do.

(Tape of Christie speaking): …this Sharia Law business is crap. It’s just crazy. And I’m tired of dealing with the crazies…

Stewart: (Whispering to the GOP base) He’s talking about you!

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