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Santorum: " ... you win by giving people a choice, you win by giving people the opportunity to see a different vision for our country, not someone who’s just going to be a little different than the person in there, if they’re going to be a little different, we might as well stay with what we have instead of taking a risk of what may be the Etch A Sketch candidate for the future.”
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"Nice one Rick, making politics just what it is: B Rated entertainment, including the Props!!!! Wooo Hooooo Rock on Ricky!!!!" =) =) =)Santorum: " ... you win by giving people a choice, you win by giving people the... more
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By Eric W. Dolan
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 19:05 EDT
Former Sen. Arlen Specter, a Republican who turned Democrat in 2009, said Wednesday that “cannibals” were devouring lawmakers who did not maintain ideological purity.
“Like cannibals eating their own, that’s what’s happening in Washington,” he said on CBS News. “You had a senator like Bob Bennett, with a 93 percent conservative rating, he cast one vote to support the bail out of the auto industry and he got dumped by the Republican Party.”
Specter said the same thing happened on the Democratic side with now Independent Sen. Joe Liebermann.
“The cannibals have taken over and it has produced a gridlocked Senate and a dysfunctional government,” he added.
Specter said politicians no longer care about governing. Instead, they only care about was winning elections.
He claimed even the Supreme Court had become ideological, citing their controversial 2010 ruling in Citizens United.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/21/former-sen-arlen-specter-cannibals-have-taken-over-congress/
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"I agree, these folks need to be doing their Damned jobs and serving the American People as they were elected to do, Thanks Arlen Specter!!!!"By Eric W. Dolan
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 19:05 EDT
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By Eric W. Dolan
Monday, March 19, 2012 22:12 EDT
Mahlon Mitchell, president of the Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin, said Monday that he was running against Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch because he was tired of “sitting on the sidelines.”
“I didn’t move to the city of Madison to become a politician,” he told MSNBC host Ed Schultz. “I moved here to become a fire fighter. I didn’t see myself sitting here in front of you talking about possibly running for lieutenant governor of the state of Wisconsin… But to sit back on the sidelines and see what is happening and not be involved, that is not what we do as fire fighters and that’s not what we do as first responders.”
“We are responding to an emergency now,” Mitchell added.
Republican Party of Wisconsin Communications Director Ben Sparks responded to the announcement by calling Mitchell a “hand-picked union candidate.”
Private investigator Ira Robins is also running as lieutenant governor for the Democratic Party’s nomination, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/19/fire-fighter-seeks-to-replace-wisconsins-lt-gov-rebecca-kleefisch/
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"It's about time regular working folks step in to do what the Politicians will Not!!! The Best of Luck to you Mr. Mitchell!!!" =)By Eric W. Dolan
Monday, March 19, 2012 22:12 EDT
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Mitt Romney found himself in hot water over his opposition to expanding women’s access to contraception, less than a week after suggesting that he would “get rid of” Planned Parenthood, among other programs, to reduce the deficit. During a town hall in Illinois Monday evening, the former Massachusetts governor told a voter to “vote for the other guy” if she wanted access to “free birth control” and said that the federal government should not subsidize women’s health care through Planned Parenthood:
Q: I’m just wondering where you would suggest that the millions of women who receive their health services, such as mammograms, and HPV vaccines go?
ROMNEY: Well, they could go wherever they’d like to go — this is a free society. But here is what I say, which is the federal government should not tax these people to pay for Planned Parenthood. There are a lot of things that we have in our society that we may like, that we might not like, but that government should not be paying for.
Despite expanding health care to women as governor of Massachusetts — and even attending a Planned Parenthood fundraiser in 1994 as a Senate candidate — Romney has come out against helping women find affordable reproductive health services since announcing his presidential candidacy.
Beyond simply threatening Planned Parenthood, which provides necessary health care for millions of women, Romney has also called for cutting funds for Title X — the only federal program devoted to family planning — from the federal budget. He endorsed the so-called Blunt amendment to allow any employer to drop health insurance coverage for contraception and other health services on moral grounds, and spoke out against requiring employers and insurers to provide birth control coverage in their health care plans at no additional cost. Given that track record, many women and health advocates may indeed be inclined to “vote for the other guy.”
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/03/20/447919/romney-vote-for-other-guy-contraception/Mitt Romney found himself in hot water over his opposition to expanding women’s... more
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By Eric W. Dolan
Monday, March 19, 2012 18:52 EDT
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said in Illinois on Monday that he was not concerned about the unemployment rate because it wasn’t the government’s duty to create jobs.
“We need a candidate who’s going to be a fighter for freedom,” he said during a campaign speech, “who is going to get up and make that the central theme in this race because it is the central theme in this race.”
“I don’t care what the unemployment rate’s going to be,” he continued. “Doesn’t matter to me. My campaign doesn’t hinge on unemployment rates and growth rates. It’s something more foundational that’s going on. We have one nominee who says he wants to run the economy. What kind of conservative says that the president runs the economy? What conservative says I’m the guy, because of my economic experience, that can create jobs?”
“I don’t know. We conservatives generally think that government doesn’t create jobs. That what government does is create an atmosphere for jobs to be created in the private sector.”
Santorum continued to attack Mitt Romney in his speech, saying Romney’s health care plan in Massachusetts was the basis of “Obamacare.”
“Why would the Republican Party nominate someone who can’t talk about this issue?”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/19/santorum-does-not-care-about-the-unemployment-rate/
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"All we care about is that your Happy Ass will NEVER be POTUS!!!"By Eric W. Dolan
Monday, March 19, 2012 18:52 EDT
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By David Edwards
Monday, March 19, 2012 14:59 EDT
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says he can’t understand why so many young people vote Democratic.
During a speech on economic freedom at the University of Chicago on Monday, the candidate was asked to address crippling student loans and the high unemployment rate for younger Americans.
“I joke and I don’t mean to be flip with this because I actually see truth in it,” Romney explained. “I don’t see how a young American can vote for a Democrat.”
“I apologize for being so offensive in saying that, but I catch your attention,” he continued. “But I mean that in the humor there’s some truth there. And I say that for this reason: That party is focused on providing more and more benefits to my generation and amounting trillion-dollar annual deficits my generation will never pay for.”
“These debts are not frightening to people my age because we’ll be gone. They ought to be frightening to death to people your age who are concerned about your future, wonder what your tax rates are going to be. And by the way, wonder whether Social Security and Medicare will be there for you.”
The former Massachusetts governor added that young people should support Republicans in order to “preserve this extraordinary unique nation in the history of the Earth.”
“You know, sometimes I shake my head,” he said. “We’re not doing as good a job as I want to do connecting with young people across the country. You guys ought to be out working like crazy for me and for people like me, conservatives who want to keep the cost of government down and give you a brighter future.”
BuzzFeed’s Zeke Miller noted that Romney first used the line during his victory speech after the Puerto Rico primary: “I don’t see how anyone who is a young person could vote for a Democrat, I’m going to be honest with you.”
Earlier this month, The New York Times observed that among Republican primary voters ages 17-29 in Mississippi, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum led Romney 45 percent to 24 percent.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/19/romney-i-dont-see-how-a-young-american-can-vote-for-a-democrat/
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"First you Bozos wanna mess with the women and now the youngsters, kinda losing votes by the Day wouldn't you say???" =)By David Edwards
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After Backing Anti-Birth Control Blunt Amendment, McCain Now Says GOP Needs To ‘Get Off’ War On Women
GREGORY: Are you concerned at all to see the focus, with certain elements of the Republican Party, on social issues? In your own state of Arizona, there’s this contraception bill that even the governor has said would put women in the uncomfortable position where they had to say to their employers why they wanted contraception, and why it should be covered — is that a bad road?
McCAIN: I am confident that that legislation will not reach the governor’s desk and if it did it would be vetoed. . . . It certainly does not reflect, in my view, the majority view of the people of Arizona.
GREGORY: Do you think that there is something of a war on women among Republicans?
McCAIN: I think we have to fix that. I think that there is a perception out there because of how this whole contraception issue played out — ah, we need to get off of that issue, in my view. I think we ought to respect the right of women to make choices in their lives and make that clear, and get back onto what the American people really care about.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/03/18/446721/after-backing-anti-birth-control-blunt-amendment-mccain-now-says-gop-needs-to-get-off-war-on-women/
"Sometimes this Old Fart actually makes sense!!!" =)Source: Think Progress
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By David Edwards
Sunday, March 18, 2012 10:52 EDT
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Sunday said that there was “no question” President Barack Obama had a plan to raise gas prices when he took office.
“When he ran for office, he said he wanted to see gas prices go up,” the candidate told Fox News host Bret Baier. “He said that energy prices would skyrocket under his views. And he selected three people to help him implement that program: the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of the Interior, and the EPA administrator.”
The former Massachusetts governor added that Obama needed to fire the “gas-hike trio” because he had “suffered an election-year conversion.”
“Time for them to go probably hand in their resignations if he is really serious about that, and start drilling for energy here, whether that’s our oil, our natural gas, take advantage of our coal resources for power generation,” he said.
“These gasoline prices are hurting American families. And that pain and the result of the president’s policies to turn down the Keystone pipeline from Canada, and at the same time, put $500 million into Solyndra. These policies are not working. His policies are hurting the American people. And they want to have someone who will finally take advantage of our energy resources and I will.”
During a speech at Prince George’s Community College in Largo, Maryland last week, the president said that the U.S. should pursue an “all-of-the-above strategy” for developing new energy sources, including renewable energies like solar, wind and biofuels.
“Here’s the sad thing,” Obama explained to the friendly crowd. “Lately we’ve heard a lot of professional politicians — a lot of the folks who are running for a certain office, who shall go unnamed — they’ve been talking down new sources of energy. They dismiss wind power. They dismiss solar power. They make jokes about biofuels. They were against raising fuel standards. I guess they like gas guzzlers. They think that’s good for our future.”
“We’ve heard this kind of thinking before,” he added. “If some of these folks were around when Columbus set sail — they must have been founding members of the Flat-Earth Society. They would not have believed that the world was round.”
At a recent event in northeastern Ohio, Romney dismissed renewable energy, declaring that “you can’t drive a car with a windmill on it.”
Obama’s campaign has accused Romney of raising taxes on gasoline by 2.5 cents per gallon while serving as governor of Massachusetts.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/?p=393810
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"I find it odd how gas prices here in Colorado have gone up 70 cents over the last two months with all the talk of war with Iran, even more odd how Mitt seems to be reaching out to the Women who may have changed their minds about voting republican???"By David Edwards
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A "fiery speech illustrating the truth on yet another Republican initiative to limit people's right to vote," re SB 386, from the Wisconsin Assembly floor:
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On Monday, he (Walker) told conservative radio host Charlie Sykes that his wife "would love it if I'd go back to the private sector and make some real money" as opposed to his current $144,423 salary."
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"So will we and the people of Wisconsin!!! Best Wishes Scotty!!!'' =))=On Monday, he (Walker) told conservative radio host Charlie Sykes that his wife... more
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By Eric W. Dolan
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 16:36 EDT
Conservative author Ann Coulter on Monday night lamented that “charlatans” like Sarah Palin managed to remain prominent voices within the conservative movement, according to The Shark Tank.
At a Lincoln Day Dinner event in Florida, she was asked about the possibility of a brokered Republican convention.
“One of the ones promoting that is Sarah Palin, who has suggested herself as the choice,” Coulter replied. “I think as long as it’s between us girls, I’ve been observing something about her. I don’t think it’s likely to happen. I don’t know what these people are cheering for.”
Palin told CNN she was open to running for president if Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney can’t obtain enough delegates to get the nomination.
Many had believed that Palin’s “One Nation” bus tour was a precursor to a her White House bid. But Palin never made it to her scheduled stops in the key primary states of Iowa and New Hampshire, returning to her home in Alaska half-way through the high-profile tour. In October 2011, Palin announced she would not run for president.
“And just a more corporate problem is I think our party and particularly our movement, the conservative movement, does have more of a problem with con men and charlatans than the Democratic Party,” Coulter continued. “I mean, the incentives seem to be set up to allow people, as long as you have a band of a few million fanatical followers, you can make money. The Democrats have managed to figure out how not to do that.”
“Dennis Kucinich, he’s a nut, he has fanatical followers, [but] he doesn’t gets a show on MSNBC. He doesn’t get any kind of gig on MSNBC. He’s road kill. Howard Dean doesn’t get a show. Howard Dean was fairly respectable for a Democrat. No, you embarrass us and drag this thing out, and you are finished in the Democratic Party.”
She noted that Republicans had been asked to sign a number of controversial pledges, such as Grover Norquist’s anti-tax pledge and The Family Leader’s marriage pledge. But the only pledge, Coulter joked, that she would support was one that said: “If I lose the nomination, I pledge I will not take a gig with Fox News or write a book.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/14/ann-coulter-gop-has-a-problem-with-charlatans-like-sarah-palin/
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"Holy Makerel!!!" =)By Eric W. Dolan
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By Eric W. Dolan
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 19:43 EDT
CNN commentator Jack Cafferty railed against the United States’ ongoing involvement in Afghanistan following the alleged murder of 16 Afghan civilians by a rogue U.S. soldier.
“How much is enough?” he said Tuesday. “The United States has been in Afghanistan for more than ten years. And President Obama insists we will remain in Afghanistan until the end of 2014. Why? What will be accomplished by staying in that godforsaken hellhole for another 20 months that hasn’t been accomplished in 10 and a half years?”
He noted that recent events, including the burning of Qurans and desecration of Taliban corpses, had inflamed hatred against Americans in Afghanistan.
“Yet the Obama White House is out with a statement insisting that none of this will deter us from our mission, which is what exactly?” Cafferty continued. “I have no idea what the hell we’re doing there anymore. Isn’t Osama bin Laden dead?”
He cynically predicted Obama would only hasten withdrawal from Afghanistan if he thought staying there would imperil his re-election campaign.
“Why don’t the American people have anything to say about what we’re doing?” Cafferty added. “We have no voice in any of this stuff any more. They go into Iraq, they go into Afghanistan, they might go into Iran. We got nothing. We’re just kept in the dark and the government does whatever the hell it feels like doing, or preferably what it is being told to do by the people who pay the politicians’ bills. Remember that warning from Dwight Eisenhower about the military-industrial complex? It’s got this country by the throat.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/13/jack-cafferty-military-industrial-complex-has-this-country-by-the-throat/
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"Break it Down Mr. Cafferty!!!!!" Many of us Feel the Same!!!! =))=By Eric W. Dolan
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By David Edwards
Monday, March 12, 2012 11:00 EDT
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has a response to rival Newt Gingrich’s claim that he’s a weak frontrunner: I know I am but what are you?
On Sunday, Gingrich told Fox News host Chris Wallace that the former Massachusetts governor had one of the most anemic campaigns in the last 100 years.
“The fact is that Romney is probably the weakest Republican frontrunner since Leonard Wood in 1920, and Wood ultimately lost on the 10th ballot,” the former House Speaker asserted.
Gingrich was referring Gen. Leonard Wood, who was considered the Republican frontrunner in 1920 but eventually lost the nomination to Warren G. Harding at the convention.
“It’s funny to listen to these guys,” Romney told Fox News host Gretchen Carlson on Monday. “They are saying what they wish to be the case but what happens not to be the case.”
“If I’m a weak frontrunner then what does that make Newt Gingrich because I’m well ahead of him?” he added.
Carlson noted that Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has also charged that Romney “can’t close the deal.”
“Oh, we’re closing the deal, state by state, delegate by delegate,” Romney insisted. “I’ve got by far the most votes among Republicans so far.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/12/romney-if-im-a-weak-frontrunner-then-what-does-that-make-newt-gingrich/
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"HaHaa!!! Sucker Punches from both Sides, how Cool is That???" =)By David Edwards
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"Buy them books and send them to school, even give them Food Stamps and they still cannot appreciate what they are given.... Sheeesh!!!"
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