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Jessy169

(602 posts)
Thu Jul 19, 2012, 12:14 PM Jul 2012

Mitt's Kampaign Klown Kar

I just read this article by William Rivers Pitt and it blows me away. Please read -- it is a good one.

"Non-doctrinaire" has translated into abject flip-floppery on a scale that beggars comparison. He was for his own health care plan before he was against it, and believed the mandate he created was a tax before he didn't; he was for stem cell research before he was against it; he was for a woman's right to choose before he was against it; he believed humans bear responsibility for climate change before he didn't; he was for giving undocumented workers a path to citizenship before he wasn't; he wasn't the biggest NRA fan before he was, and said he owned a gun before saying he didn't; he was for the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" until he was asked again, at which point he decided he was against it; and he was against Grover Norquist's no-taxes pledge until - you guessed it - he signed the pledge after declaring his intention to seek the presidency.

"Business experience"...where to begin? This has been the lynchpin of Romney's 293-month presidential campaign, until the Obama re-election crew went ju-jitsu on him, and in a matter of minutes turned his seemingly greatest strength into a water-kneed weakness that has sent his entire operation into a tailspin of nonsense that makes the McCain '08 campaign look like a collection of steely-eyed ninjas by comparison.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10383-mitts-kampaign-klown-kar

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Mitt's Kampaign Klown Kar (Original Post) Jessy169 Jul 2012 OP
Trying to picture Romney as a clown, this comes to mind....... wandy Jul 2012 #1
That was one of my favorite Stephen King books! Jessy169 Jul 2012 #2

wandy

(3,539 posts)
1. Trying to picture Romney as a clown, this comes to mind.......
Thu Jul 19, 2012, 12:51 PM
Jul 2012
In October 1957, an evil shape-shifting being, known only as "It", awakens in the town of Derry, Maine. Taking the form of a clown named Pennywise.

http://www.google.com/imgres?q=stephen+king+it&hl=en&sa=X&biw=1280&bih=827&tbm=isch&prmd=imvnsbo&tbnid=2bXv_VJBb8kKwM:&imgrefurl=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18342.It&docid=_5gDMOmndFlgVM&imgurl=&w=1024&h=768&ei=iDkIUPTGL4eC8QTS29SeBA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=387&vpy=276&dur=937&hovh=194&hovw=259&tx=139&ty=83&sig=107140517944400471804&page=1&tbnh=145&tbnw=192&start=0&ndsp=22&ved=1t:429,r:11,s:0,i:176
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