How did that black guy steal another election?

The republicans are still trying to figure out what hit them.  The party which believes that pregnancies don't come from "legitimate" rape, that medical science has advanced to the point that a mother's health exception to abortion laws is now unnecessary, that global warming is a myth, the president was born in Kenya, well, you get the point, is now dealing with the sudden, wholly unexpected loss at the polls last week.
OK, you might not have been quite as shocked had you watched the polls, but, hey, who can believe that lefty stuff?  The deluded ones at the top of the ticket spoke today.  The reason for their loss?
Romney:  "Its hard to run against someone who gives people stuff." Seriously, he said that.
I used to think that the Mittster wasn't a aloof and detached as he seems.  But after a week of reflection that's the best he can do?
Ryan:  We didn't think that many people from the urban areas would be voting.
I think that the real Romney, if there is such a beast, is the one from the "47%" presentation.  His disdain, his total disgust for half of us is truly remarkable.  I think is was David Brooks that dubbed him, "Thurston Howell Romney."
The power of self-delusion is alive and well.   

Oh, hypocrisy, thy name is Mitt (or Willard, or whatever)

Now guess who's guilty of sending our good jobs to China?  you got it, its not the vulture capitalist, its that scary black president who won't show us his real birth certificate, Barrack Obama!

From the Washington Post:  But in Romney-world, this became an attack on the president auto rescue because according to the campaign, Chrysler was planning to move all of their U.S. production of Jeeps to China. Romney: "I saw a story today that one of the great manufacturers in this state, Jeep, now owned by the Italians, is thinking of moving all production to China."

After Mitt showed the world how to save Chrysler and GM, he doesn't like Obama trying to take the credit.  I am reminded of the George Washington and the cherry tree story, and wonder if the US is really ready for a president who is so truth challenged.

At Bain Capital, he took over companies, heavily leveraged them with debt, eliminated pensions and sent jobs out of the country.  All to make obscene amounts of money for himself and his investors.  He invests his money overseas, uses the Morman church for tax credits, pays about 13% in federal taxes and  slurs those who pay even less, tho he'd like to be paying 20% less.

And after he's shown his disdain for the 47% who pay no federal taxes (tho they still are levied payroll taxes) and refuses to release more than 2 years of his returns, he still expects, and will receive, about 45% of the vote of those who show up.  What a country!

Does God hate Mitt?

Not that long ago Hurricane Isaac skirted Tampa ahead of the Republican Convention and shutting down the first day of it.
Now, Hurricane Sandy rips the east coast cancelling a couple of the last days of campaigning and reminding voters that Mitt promised to eliminate FEMA during the Republican debates.  (I know, just because Mitt promised to do something doesn't really mean he had any intention of ACTUALLY doing it).  And this, all when Mitt's pollsters are reporting a surge in his support.
And its left President Obama looking presidential and Mitt looking, well, less than presidential.  And to top it off, even though he had promised to call off campaigning for a couple of days, Mitt (or his handlers) couldn't resist keeping his face in the public and has rebranded his campaigning as "disaster relief," and he's now collecting supplies for some of those 47 percenters that he has great respect for, notwithstanding the fact that the Red Cross has asked for monetary donations, not cans of soup.
Anyway, I figure those donations are headed for a landfill somewhere, while Mitt and Paul Ryan try to come up with some photo-ops, maybe at a soup kitchen.  Strike that, already done.
Maybe they could get some Hollywood extras and re-create a disaster scene at some studio back lot and have the two distributing the goods there.  MAKEUP!!!!!! ACTION!!!!!!
After all, as long as it looks like you're doing something.....
And I hate to try to supplant Pat Robertson in explaining God's thinking in sending natural disasters, but does anyone else think maybe God is trying to bring the voters around here?

I haven't seen much discussion on this....

but in the first presidential debate, the Mittster said: “No economist can say, ‘Mitt Romney’s tax plan adds five trillion’ if I say I will not add to the deficit with my tax plan.”
Can anyone explain exactly what that means?

My Mother, the deadbeat!

Mitt's comments on the 47% of the population who are moochers that pay no income tax really hit home.  At first I thought of my mom who is 90 years old and lives primarily off social security and savings and pays no income tax.  Slackart!
And I have a sister with MS that gets social security disability and who pays little or no federal income tax.  Deadbeat!
And I have a brother-in-law, a retired colonel from the Army who just reminded me he's in that 47%.  Moocher!
I'm not aware that any of them consider themselves "victims," but if the Mittster says so, that's good enough for me.
It is hard for me to not see this as fermenting class warfare, but Republicans hate class warfare so it can't be that.
All this comes from a guy who makes millions, has overseas bank accounts and pays a rate of about 13%.  One of the columnists from the Washington Post wrote today that, although Mitt would be a disaster as president, what fun it would be to see this out of touch gaffe-machine elected!  The detachment between his brain and his mouth would generate so much interesting news it might be worth it.  And after all, he's unemployed, too.

Will someone please call Pat Robertson?

I'm curious as to why God is sending that hurricane to Tampa to disrupt the Republican convention.

good god, why isn't Herman Cain the nominee?

 More pain should be inflicted on the poor and middle class so that Romney can be elected. So wrong on so many different levels... http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/07/herman-cain-not-wrong-to-hope-gas-prices-rise-to-hurt-obama/
 and while I'm venting, let me add that venture capitalism is as much about job creation as rape is about child creation. you may end up with that result, but its entirely a unintended consequence of a wholly unrelated primary goal.