BlunderMitt: Let Them Eat Food Stamps; Plus: PPP results point to Santorum
Romney looks tired here in this CNN interview this morning. Too much post-primary partying, I guess. But it’s exactly the time he needs to be on guard and on his A-game. Instead, he fumbles the post-Florida football and gives ammunition to all of his opponents on both sides of the aisle by reinforcing the perception and reality that he is gobsmackingly out-of-touch. This could easily have been a Saturday Night Live parody. Facepalm:
After winning the Florida primary, GOP presidential nominee hopeful Mitt Romney explains to CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien that he is focused on a particular portion of the American population in his campaign.
Romney says, “I’m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs a repair , I’ll fix it. I’m not concerned about the very rich…. I’m concerned about the very heart of America, the 90-95 percent of Americans who right now are struggling.”
O’Brien asked him to clarify his remarks saying, “There are lots of very poor Americans who are struggling who would say, ‘That sounds odd.’”
The message shouldn’t be “Let Them Eat Food Stamps.”
The message shouldn’t be that he’ll “fix” any holes in the safety net.
It’s supposed to be: Get them off food stamps, provide them with real educational choice, reform the culture of dependency, and get government out of the way so that businesses and entrepreneurs can thrive — and increase economic opportunities for everyone.
Yes, there is a better choice.
Latest PPP results:
“Trouble ahead for Romney?”
What might be most interesting in both states is what happens in a head to head between Romney and either Gingrich or Santorum:
-In Missouri Santorum leads Romney 50-37 and in Ohio Santorum leads 45-38.
-In Missouri Gingrich leads Romney 43-42 and in Ohio Gingrich leads 42-39.
Two takeaways from those numbers: if this ever came down to Romney, Paul, and just one out of Gingrich and Santorum, Romney would be in a lot of trouble. And he’d be in more trouble if the single conservative alternative ended up being Santorum.
Santorum is a stronger long term threat to Romney than Gingrich because he has less baggage and is simply much better liked.Santorum is easily the most popular of the Republican candidates in both Missouri (+42 favorability at 63/21, compared to +20 forGingrich and +10 for Romney) and Ohio (+35 at 59/24 compared to +10 for both Gingrich and Romney). It’s just proving hard for Santorum to get much traction while Gingrich is still in the race.
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Update: Romney updated his comments here. I don’t think it helps much. Do you?
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Okay Newt, time to take one for the team.
This guy is supposed to be a Mormon, not a Martian.
The trick is to get the contest down to just Santorum and Mitty, guess it’s up to us, the Conservative voters.
Perception? You mean proving what everyone (except those moronic floridians) already know. Two words: House. Senate.
but to be fair:
His “I’ll fix it” could have meant that – but since he didn’t say how he would “fix it,” we’re all left to wonder..some more.
Romney – don’t get too excited..it ain’t ova. Welcome to the south.
Time to concentrate the conservative vote and expose how weak Mitt is.
However, be prepared for the RNC, the elites and Romney to paint Santorum as someone who was thrown out of the Manson Family, because he was too extreme.
The message should be to educate them for the workforce while in highschool so that half of the workforce is already capable and trained and it is unnecessary for them to pay additional monies for pos-secondary.
What this is, is Romney showing his worldview. The knee jerk reaction to a problem is, “the government needs to fix it.”
Oh ya, he’s a conservative. /sarc.
If a student spends 13 years in school until graduation, and yet is considered unemployable because they haven’t gone further to obtain post-secondary, isn’t there something seriously wrong with the system?
Earl (Mitt) Cross: All day long, I listen to people give me excuses why they can’t work… ‘My back hurts,’ ‘my legs ache,’ ‘I’m only four!’ The sooner he learns life isn’t handed to him on a silver platter, the better!
Sorry that doesn’t work because there is no IF about it.
Or at least that was true before conservatives became “compassionate”.
Frank (Mitt) Cross: I’m gonna give you a little advice, Claire… Scrape ‘em off. You wanna save somebody? Save yourself!
Claire Phillips: Oh, well, that’s a really nice attitude on Christmas Eve!
Frank (Mitt) Cross: Bah, humbug.
Frank (Mitt) Cross: Same old Claire… still trying to save the world.
Claire Phillips: You still trying to run it?
3 words: House. Senate. President. I don’t think our country can take another 4 years of CZARS and Very Important Appointed People who don’t have to go through the vetting process. Does “I Can’t Wait” resonate with any of us? Oblamo can’t wait to take over the country. Put us in deeper debt (Soros and a New World Alliance). Change everyone to a welfare state. All or nothing at all for health insurance. Taking away the power of the house and senate by putting it under Executive Branch. Creating an economy that is based on handouts rather than limited gov’t, thus creating people Dependent on the gov’t, its raison d’etre.
To tell you the truth, I can’t wait for Oblamo to get out of there. Can you imagine the crowing that would go on if he did win again? Your life will change if he gets elected, for the worse.
Couldn’t have said it better myself…
The country just cannot afford Obama Lite.
First, we had about a 33-35% turnout. Second, Mitt got 46% of the vote. So only about 17% of registered Republicans picked Mitt. Mitt got 777k votes. Santorum and Newt got 753k votes combined. Crazy Uncle Ron got 116k.
Romney spent a ton of money here and Santorum hardly any. Press coverage of Santorum was almost non-existent. Even after the polls closed they were telling us how well Ron Paul did amongst younger voters.
If anyone ever wanted to see an illustration of GET OFF YOUR ASS AND VOTE!, please use Florida as an example. The majority doesn’t want Romney, but they’re split three ways.
And all I keep hearing this morning is “It’s over” but I don’t believe it. Too many people are talking as if this was the actual election. With 5 months of primaries/caucuses and 46 states still to go, I keep saying a lot can happen–and I wasn’t even referring to the stupid blunders that candidates can make when they open their mouths.
Has Romney been reading off of a TOTUS? So that’s where that missing one ended up.
Gingrich won’t be on the Missouri primary ticket…
Great news to hear that Santorum is having a strong showing. With the way things are going this year we may all get a chance to actually affect the outcome of the nomination process (which is great).
O/T…Did anyone else see that Issaa has given Holder till tomorrow to turn over documents or else he has threatened to charge him with comtempt of Congress? Here is the latest:
And my condolences to those is OR over the special election. I was sad to see that Rob Cornilles did not win the special election to replace David Wu.
And Gingrich asked Santorum to drop out! Nice. Maybe Santorum should return the favor and say, “you first”.
I don’t understand why these candidates can’t just stop overbooking themselves to the point of exhaustion. This is exactly why they get tripped up by the left-wing media, who love to make them look bad! I have a suggestion for Mitt…go home and get some sleep. It is better to miss a few MSM talk shows than to drag your tired ass in and make a fool of yourself.
Exactly!! A very telling comment! “I’ll fix it”. What a moron.
One more thing. If we want Santorum to have a chance, we have to send him some money!!!
Gingrich had the colossal nerve to suggest that Santorum should drop out.
Given that Santorum is far more conservatively contrasted to Romney, NO Mr. Gingrich…. it is YOU who should drop out.
I’m pulling for Santorum. However, I think Romney’s “gaffe” here is a bit exaggerated.
I don’t think we shouldn’t feed the sound bite culture where anything and everything can be taken out of context.
I think most conservatives agree with his sentiment. The very poor are given food stamps, subsidized housing, school lunch programs, subsidized pre-K, free health care, and on an on. Also, the very (a.k.a. chronically) poor generally aren’t going to help themselves onward and upward. The focus should be on helping people at the lower end of “middle income” stay middle income and not fall into the poor or very poor category. I support that.
I’m beginning to believe that Rick Santorum can be this generation’s Ronald Reagan, and a young one to boot. I’m all in.
Mark Levin despises Romney and sees Newt as only marginally better.
I have a Santorum letter at home. I’m sending him some money.
“Take a gander at this Tommygun. Eat lead you dirty Huns!”
Address for Santorum donations, assuming that you want to make a contribution.
Agreed, and done.
I think Santorum will do very well in the south.
Romney is just another political elitist.
Sad, but no surprise. The national democrat socialist party threw over a million dollars into the campaign for his opponent and the liberal lunatics in the 1st congressional district will vote for a guy in a tiger suit as long as he has a (D) after his name…
I think Gingrich is going to run into lots of problems. I know he wants to fight and all that but I can’t seem him getting traction as there isn’t that much different between him and Romney.
As for the Ron Paul supporters, I would challenge them to explain what seems to be his fatal flaw.
For the sake of argument, I’ll agree with all of his premises and his desired outcomes. Blowback, non-intervention, all of it.
However, how can such be implemented without doing drastic damage to the country? Whether we like it or not, we depend on the Middle East for energy. We have treaties that bind us to other countries who are also dependent on the Middle East energy.
We must first become energy independent as a nation before we can tell the Middle East to go bake in the sun. That goal is blocked by endless environmental lawsuits, bureaucratic blockades, and requires new legislation to streamline the approval process. It is going to take significant majorities in the House and Senate to get those changes through and then the legal challenges they will face.
I doubt 4 years is enough time to undo that damage much less everything BO and the Dems have done. Then his age works against him. By the end of his second term, the word Depends may have multiple meanings.
Flub blown out of proportion; Obama and Biden’s flubs are swept under the rug. By the way, the flub-free candidate does not exist.
I’m a Conservative Republican who grew up with National Review and The American Spectator. Thirty years ago, I read, hand-me-down from a friend, the Spectator as a newsprint broadsheet. R. Emmett Tyrell has a new “Continuing Crisis” this week about his great distaste for Newt:
http://spectator.org/archives/2012/01/26/our-bill-clinton
I voted in Florida yesterday. One has to be a registered Republican. And pssst, as usual one needs a picture ID and to sign a machine like a supermarket credit card signature. Signature is actually compared to the one on file when I registered to vote. I was asked if I had or hadn’t moved. I blackened out the little oval dot with permanent magic marker. I fed the ballot into a reader/counter machine. Real paper trail. Foolproof, just the same as it has been for many elections in my part of Florida, including the Gore loss/attempted steal. The screw-ups were only in a few counties, there are 67.
Florida Republicans voted carefully, as I did. Paramount, as I saw it, was beating the insidious Socialist.
I’m not concerned about the very poor. I like firing people. I think it’s a good idea to throw my dog on top of my car for 12 hours in the middle of the Summer (rather than renting a larger vehicle with all of my millions).
Yes, he most certainly IS out of touch.
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Most wars are won by good logistics–and are lost by poor / overly long supply lines. And in politics money really counts a lot. There are 50 state battlegrounds that must be “prepped”. Most voters don’t study candidates or pay much attention to elections until they are a few weeks away.
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The Mittster is far better organized and lots richer than any other candidate–except for Comrade Obama, who can outspend him 5 to 1 in the runup to the general election.
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Like Joseph Stalin said, “Quantity has a quality all it’s own!” Soros, the Unions, and the American Pravda Media are real big obstacles for any conservative candidate to overcome.
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And Romney’s disjointed statements still outshine the horrible President Obama speeches and comments when the Teleprompter of the United States is broken or can’t be used in debates.
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John Bibb
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Gingrich has shot his wad. He can’t possibly recover from his embarrassing performance in FL. The guy has gone haywire. If I were Santorum, I would call for Gingrich to to drop out.
Saying there are safety nets for the extreme poor that might need to be fixed, but that’s not his focus, is a gaffe that both sides will use?
Michelle I really like you but…wow…politically active conservatives are growing increasingly out of touch. This zero tolerance/look for the “gotcha” moments mentality has got to go. That wasn’t a “gotcha” moment that exposes ANYTHING about Mitt Romney.
He’s a technocrat through and through that believes in practical solutions to problems. Worry about arguing WHY the conservative solution is the most practical and rational view (which it is) and help the guy instead of bashing him endlessly because he’s not a conservative ideologue.
I’m pretty conservative but understand government has a role to play with helping certain people. Does that mean I have to turn in my conservative card?
“Gaffe”?! This isn’t a gaffe. It is a telling statement of belief. Most of the solutions a conservative believes in (or ought to) will work equally well to help the poorest or anyone else looking to improve their lot. Mitt’s whole statement accepts the “class” nonsense that ought to be anathema to a real conservative, as well as advocating different solutions for different classes, or as our hostess said much more succinctly “Let them eat food stamps!”.
For an actual conservative, that should have been a softball question.
Oh great – now he has to sleep with one eye open tonight.
The wiff
Yeah. Like Holder really cares.
Romney is the “conservative” version of Obama. Whatever that is. Wait until he wins the nomination and he morphs into the “You think YOU hate Republicans!” Mitt that ran in MA.
We need a brokered convention or it will be LO3E in 2012.
And speaking of
Newt vs Mitt
OR
Santorum vs Mitt
Ain’t gonna happen in Virginia.
Rombambicare vs nutjob is what we get.
Need to replace the Good O’l Boy GOP leadership here. We have 2 rubberstamp Demorat Senators here because of poor leadership.
If you really want to save the Republic, send your money to someone who is actually on all the ballots in all the States with a real chance to split the delegates away from Romney. I wonder who could that be, Newt, no, Rick, no, no…what is his name?
I meant now Issa has to sleep with one eye open.
As much as I love Michele I have to disagree.
Romney is not going to win any minority voters by telling them he is going to get them off food stamps.
What he needs to do is connect with the people who are tired of paying for food stamps.
It will be interesting to see how the voting will go in states which don’t have a high concentration of the senile voting.
Ron Paul?
It’s okay, sometimes he forgets it too.
No white people on food stamps?
Could have fooled me. Your bias is showing.
Or the replacements for Kennedy and Bader-Ginsberg.
Yes, Mitt flubbed that question. MM had it exactly right. His answer should have highlighted that his policies will grow the economy for the benefit of ALL Americans.
Yes I know Santorum is not on the ballot in VA, but I don’t believe that is the case in most states (so using one state to make the case seems a bit weak in my opinion).
Also, I wont vote nor support Paul in the primary as I do not agree with him on national security issues, legalization of drugs, and his reaching out to the OWS types.
So let’s stop there as I really do not want to get into a long drawn out RP discussion. I will send my money to the candidate I feel best about in the Primary (Santorum) and you send yours to Ron Paul.
This is only the beginning.
Pressure reveals character. Obama is protected so that he is not under pressure. He can hide all he wants.
Romney will not have that luxury. The MSM will press him until the liberal in him is squeezed out. He cannot pretend forever. That is why the nomineee needs to live and breath conservatism, not fake it.
Santorum is general election poison. He would be demolished by Obama. He is to far to the right on social issues to get any headway in a general election. He also doesn’t have the organization.
Only two candidates have the organization to compete in every state, and to get on the ballot in every state. Paul and Romney. If you can’t even get on the ballot in every state how do you think you can run a general election campaign against the slick Obama machine?
Vote for Santorum if you want a moral victory, I’d rather have an actual one.
Slowly some people are starting to wake up and realize that Santorum is the best choice of what is currently available. Will it be enough to push him to the top? I can only hope. Unfortunately Americans don’t have a very good record for voting for someone who makes sense most of the time, instead of ones who rarely or never make sense but will tell them what they want to hear.
Unbelievable how completely off-the-wall stupid your comment is. I am no big fan of Romney, but really…your misinformation is stunning.
Do you know the DETAILS of Romney’s dog trip? Link? (and not Huffington Post or KOS please) Was the dog out in the sweltering sun for 12 hours? Really?
We all know what Romney meant by his supposed flub. But you choose to misinterpret it. Why is that?
He likes to fire people? That is the way the regressives interpreted it. I mean, I’m not calling you a troll…but…Oh, wait, yes I am.
This should seal Bachmann’s compromised credentials as credible “conservative”. She couldn’t have endorsed Santorum? Why endorse Romney? And why NOW??????? Sheesh.
I give up on her. Clueless. She never gets it right. Like Palin, she talks conservative but acts liberal.
Why do so many news agencies say that Mitt has it sewn up? There’s still 47 states to go!
Your hopes for Santorum are based on dreams. Santorum has not been vetted. If he had been subject to the negative ads Gingrich has, he would have been toast after Iowa. Of the 15 MILLION dollars Romney spent to defeat Gingrich, how much was spent against Santorum? Santorum has a past. Look in to it.
On February 1st, 2012 at 11:35 am, J-Bone said:
Out of touch is spending 50 odd thousand dollars on big butt floss.
Out of touch is a actual 11% unemployment rate and saying the economy is rebounding.
Shall I continue?
BTW, I’ve been asking since November 2010 whether Bachmann cut a deal with the GOP establishment for not fighting for that coveted chairmanship of the Republican Conference committee and speculating that she the deal might have been demurring in exchange for the VP slot on the GOP ticket. What the heck, she hired Ed Rollins and was reliable to attack everyone but Romney while she was pretending to run for president.
If she actually become the VP nominee, which this is probably why she is doing this, all doubts will be removed.
Let’s see Romney has either 87, or 71, or 69 delegates so far, depending on the lying bastage news site of your choice, and needs 1144 to win nomination. Yep, all sewed up, init tho’?
Don’t you just love politicians who stand on principles until it is no longer viable to do so? They always say what they mean until they didn’t really mean it. Feh!
58% of children born in the bottom quintile move up and out of that quintile during their lifetimes, and 61% of the children born in the top quintile move down and out of that top quintile. Not surprisingly, a college education is a key mover. College educations are largely free to those in the bottom quintile, upward mobility is still attainable. [source]
Wow, just heard PIMCO’s Bill Gross almost endorse Ron Paul on CNBC. I never thought I’d hear him saying that “both” parties are promoting the same wrong-headed policies. I gotta go clean out my ears. There may be some potatoes in there distorting my hearing.
Go look again at the link you posted about Bachmann, Phil.
Well she still might endorse Romney, but this isn’t what I’d call a ringing endorsement.
Yeah, deny, deny, deny. Funny how these things always turn out to be true. Besides, since when is she the best source for verifying what her camp is doing? Her campaign manager Ed Rollins attacked Sarah Palin for two days and she had to be called on it before she reacted. And she never fired him.
She cluelessly attacked everyone but Romney and denied that she was doing his bidding.
Does anyone doubt for even a second that she is Romney’s go-to person in Minnesota? As with all things Bachmann, you have to connect the dots. Someone in her notoriously undisciplined and disloyal camp leaked again.
Romney is funded by corporations who would just as soon send those American jobs to China. So this is the Romney version of “Let them eat cake.”.
Which is obviously Romney. If you don’t think so, place a bit on that gambling web site. I think you get 8 – 1 odds right now.
Very true. Apparently 99 percent of Romney’s cash went to attacking Gingrich in Florida. He didn’t spend a penny on Santorum or Paul.
If Santorum became a viable threat, he would get the Newt/Cain treatment.
That is where I am coming from. I am still non-plussed about Bondi on Gretta defending RomneyCare and basically saying that she was asked by Romney to get all the states on board with RomneyCare.
Its really about two things: 1. Maintain the status quo.
2. Put the GOP in charge of managing the status quo.
Listening to Romney singing about conservatism is like listening to my uncle Ralph singing “Feelings”. Don’t give up your day job unc.
Mister P at #71.
Yes, like Rupert Murdoch’s corporations. Murdoch is an open-borders globalist. Watched Fox lately?
Pasadena Phil at #44.
Virginia could help us get to a brokered convention, if conservatives would vote for Paul in order to keep that state’s electoral votes from going to Romney. Don’t know if VA is a winner-takes-all state though.
SANTORUM!!!
Let’s make this happen. This game is only in the first quarter. Don’t want to be a pest, but Santorum needs support. I’m in as best I can. Once again – talk is cheap.
Conservatives rock!
Why are some so interested in a brokered convention? Do any of you that think a brokered convention really believe that it will give someone other than Romney or Newt the nomination? If you do, why do you believe that? Are you thinking that it will give Ron Paul a chance at the nomination (seriously asking the question not trying to mock)and if so why?
Depends on how he’ll fix it, whether or not he’s a conservative.
“I don’t care about the very poor…” Baaad choice of words.
Here is a great reason as to why a brokered convention would probably turn out bad for Conservatives:
Good question. I’ve always assumed that the “smoke filled rooms” were what get us losers like Dole, McCain, and Romney as the “favorite” backed by all the party money and power brokers before a single primary vote is cast.
I for one hope that it will force the media to actually write about the one guy they’ve been studiously avoiding. If actual journalism were to happen, the casual voter may hear about this Ron Paul character and become slightly interested. Even with all his money, good looks and hair, Romney just ain’t that thrilling.
This CNN clip posted here does not contain the voice of the reporter asking the question, and the way Mitt started the answer, it is jipped right in the middle for maximum effect.
Hot air has the whole thing, we can’t have conservatives misquoting Romney too, its so ignorant.
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/02/01/video-romney-not-concerned-about-the-very-poor-we-have-a-safety-net/
Yeah, you’re right. Why even try? Romney is a lock and we all know that this will work out so well for conservatives without and “probability” about it. Let’s all just give up.That is exactly why “conservatives” ALWAYS end up voting for liberals. Were you a “Truesoldier” in the Italian army?
It’s beginning to look more and more like four more for Obama. The conservative side for the second election is going to put up mediocre candidates. To lure the “Anybody but Obama” crowd, you have to have a solid candidate. I don’t see that in what is left running. The only way I can see the R’s with a chance, is some strong late-comer jumping in.Newt has too much baggage, Mitt is another McCain, Paul is too far out there, and Santorum couldn’t win his Senate seat from a coat-tail riding “D.” I’m beginning to feel like this is rigged like the pro sports or so.
Because, Truesoldier, I would rather go down fighting than bow down to the establishment/power brokers.
If we go into a brokered convention it will be because we conservatives have deliberately deprived Romney of electoral votes. My “fantasy”, as you call it, is that the powers-that-be will respect us, for fear we won’t hold our noses in November. And, hey, what if those crazy conservatives turn to a third party! I see that as operating from a position of strength.
And, no, I don’t think a brokered convention will give Ron Paul a chance at the nomination.
Over and out. It’s dinner time.
Another thread supporting the reelection of Obama by name calling those who oppose Obama but don’t support (insert your candidate name here).
Childish and petty.
Is that what conservatism is all about? Everyone must vote for my guy or else you all are (insert pejorative here).
I guess I expected a higher level of discussion on this blog than I should have. Maybe thats why the Republican establishment doesn’t seem to listen to conservatives. No one agrees on the message and no candidate passes the test on every single issue so the best bickerer wins the day.
As a member of the undeserving poor*, one who opposes Romney, I have to say I agree with what Romney is quoted as having said above.
That is an accurate statement, and there’s nothing wrong with it.
*(I consider myself “undeserving poor” because I don’t qualify for any of the P.C. welfare (food stamps, AFDC, “disability”, etc). I don’t drink or gamble or do drugs, I’m just poor with a lousy resume…)
Dang it! I meant to fix the emphasis in the quotation:
I haven’t called anyone a name, T-Bone, and I haven’t even mentioned my candidate’s name, much less advocated support for him.
I am rolling my eyes at both the main points of this article…
Reaching…
If someone told me that was the plan for this election, I would counter with a plan to get a candidate to run that can win by being the best candidate.
Are you saying the plan was to back into a candidate? That makes no sense. It sounds like a plan people come up with because they had no plan and now find themselves with the short straw. Then they lash out at others because there was no viable plan and they are losing.
I see that playing out here daily. A brokered convention? Ugh. What a mess.
I don’t recall you doing it Little Ma.
I suppose you do see it happening here though. Nose holder, non Romney, bots, come to mind. All pejoratives meant to ridicule and intimidate, although some are done in jest. In the meantime, it doesn’t really improve the dialogue. When you don’t have a horse in the race, I guess criticising the horses that are running is the only option.
Why is it you haven’t advocated for your candidate?
Santorum has had a few gaffs of his own:
I am not a big McCain fan and like much of Santorum’s stand on issues, but telling John McCain he doesn’t understand torture is not a smart thing to say.
We would answer your question, but everytime we do so we get called ‘Paulbots’.
Newt is challenging Florida… he wants to make it not WTA…
So if it was not WTA before the voting and not after how would that have changed what Rick did in Florida.
Did Newt wait until Rick and Ron left before he challanged to maximize his delegates at their expense.
Another hypocrisy by Newt and his follower. Wasn’t the Florida ligigation about not changing the rules after the voting?
I didn’t see the word torture in his statement. He said enhanced interrogation. Some people don’t consider enhanced interrogation torture. Santorum obviously doesn’t so you are putting words in his mouth he didn’t really say and then calling him out for it.
It doesn’t surprise me PasadenaPhil. If one has been following alternative investment news sources as of late, such inklings like those you saw by Bill Gross on ‘mainstream’ investment source(s) have been out earlier and with more depth of coverage via sites like ‘Ed Steer’s Gold and Silver Daily’ than mainstream sources like Jim Cramer and Money Magazine.
I’m kinda surprised that you would say that, as it stands in stark opposition to your admirably strong belief in the emphasis on the individual as opposed to an artificial class structure that Mitt is pushing here.
Nope, this is a startling departure for Bill Gross. He and his friends at PIMOC have been an Obama shills forever.
Here’s Tyler Durden (Ron Paul supporter) at Zero Hedge (where I hang out most of the day.) Ron Paul is beginning to get through at important places.