"I've got mine suckers!"

"F**k everybody else!!". That is the official Republican Party slogan that they will never ever apologize for.

"Romney was seen as being a better choice to improve the economy and jobs"

Another thing I hate about the anti-Social Security/anti-Medicare/anti-safety net people

is when they start talking about ensuring a hopeful future for their "grandchildren" or "future generations" (and preventing a miserable one) by having to make these "hard decisions" yet all they talk about is cutting things that improve people's lives (or keeps them from dying or falling into poverty, homelessness), which pretty much means that "grandchildren" and "future generations" are going to have it worse off in any event.

Don't forget the "right-to-work" (for less) craze

right-wingers and their "job creator" allies want the "freedom" to be able to fire people easily and/or pay them as little as possible.

WTF?!

and I imagine that some of these states are the same ones screaming about having to cut services, pensions, bust labor unions, etc. in order to "balance the budget" and remain fiscally solvent, right? This means that states could technically have had a lot more money to work with to balance their budgets but allowed the money to continue to go to these companies instead, right?



Unf**kingbelievable!

Calls for "shared sacrifice"

are equally meaningless as not everybody is actually being asked to sacrifice- just the people at the lower end of the spectrum whom can't afford lobbyists. I refuse to believe, unlike the Republicans apparently do, that there are no other ways to address budget shortfalls than to just cut social programs, particularly when there are plenty of other ways we can cut spending or raise revenue to help balance our budget.

I think that I heard somebody on some news show (Smerconish?) suggest that

Santorum may be a strong contender for 2016- assuming that Romney loses this year (and Smerconish seems to think he will). It will certainly be interesting to see what the GOP is going to look like in 4 years. If Romney loses, I imagine that that is only going to push the GOP further to right (how much further can they go before they fall off the map?) and, in that case, Santorum might be more "viable" next time.

What I find interesting

is that prior to this trip, there were articles out about how this trip may benefit President Obama politically and then after this scandal broke, there were articles about how this scandal was overshadowing the President's trip. Without knowing all the facts, I'm not prone to make any suppositions about all this coming out but.......................

So

what exactly are we supposed to believe are Romney's actual views on things? Aren't we, as citizens of a Democracy supposed to be able to know what our would-be leaders actually believe so that we can make a truly informed decision when we enter the voting booth? Or has it simply become acceptable to allow candidates seeking public office to hide/obfuscate their views until the election is concluded and they have been elected, in Romney's case, potentially to the highest office in the country?

I read about this yesterday as well

Thought it was kind of odd but then again this is RICK SANTORUM we are talking about. Seems pretty consistent with what we've come to expect of him. Seems like a pretty shameless political ploy involving his ailing daughter if you ask me.