Mitt Romney The Etch-A-Sketch Candidate

Sorry Mopeder but I see less difference between Romney / Obama than I do Republican / Democrat. Problem is they are lying to the same idiots. We force them to say what they say and do what they do. Perhaps as they move round the country they need to change their lies according to which lie play best.

Everyone has a different opion and my opinion is that I don't care about Romney or Obama.

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We already know Romney is a liar and a hypocrite. Now, we are trying to find out if he is a tax cheat.

The GOP has promoted to candidate yet another opportunist who will pander to the now neocon, teapoke, and radical religious base with a GOP agenda that Romney probably doesn't even believe himself. Mannequin Mitt would just be a GOP puppet if elected according to Grover Norquist. All his previous policy positions while running for president for the last 10 years will catch up with him during the debates though, and continued questions about his taxes will help Obama defeat him in November.

I don't honestly "know" what Romney is, other than he has boxed himself into such a corner grovelling to the Right that it will be next to impossible to wiggle out of it come the "official" general. All the Dems would have to do to show he has no core, no values, no spine, is to play side-by-side all of the changes he's made in his "opinions" thru the years. There are a lot of them (opinions), he's been running for this office for 10 years.

I don't think that Mitt Romney's has voiced his own real opinions yet (as most politicians don't).

He is telling people only what he thinks that they want to hear in order to gain votes - what's more I don't think he believes a word of what he says himself.

Yet that is true of most professional politicians that do not show passion or conviction...

However the biggest problem I see for Romney, is that he can't deny he ever said some of the things he now claims otherwise. Its all been recorded and can be picked up at the drop of a hat.

I love it when politicians get hoisted by their own petards.

This open mike gaffe struck a blow to Gordon Brown's campaign to be Prime Minister of Great Britain from which he could never recover....

I hadn't seen this before Jonathan....Another "Man of the people", eh? What a hoot. lol

What was hilarious is that his campaign people started to badger her for the opportunity to apologise - inviting her to #10 Downing Street. AND SHE REFUSED LOL!!!

In the end he ended up having to go back to her constituency and knock on her door...

HAHAHHAAHAHH

This gets more hilarious by the minute. I imagine the opposition had an absolute field day with this? Did she ever answer her door? What fools so many of these politicos make of themselves when they come out of their safe little environments and have to actually get down with the voters. We're seeing a lot of these mishaps across the Pond.

Might I say, "I love it"?

Of course!

Yes she let him in and gave him a cup of tea and listened to what he had to say, he left saying that everything was wonderful and sorted out.

When the press interviewed her, she said that she had lost all respect in him and wouldn't be voting for him - changing a habit of a lifetime as a paid member of his party...

The opposition didn't need to say a thing as the press were having far too much fun with it on their own - as were the rest of us. XD

I'm surprised she didn't hit him up for a few hundred pounds?

Not really the done thing for a dyed in the wool socialist, many of the olde Labour supporters didn't buy in to Blair's "New Labour".

In fact "New Labour" was a farce, as they adopted a lot of abandoned Conservative policy which meant that you couldn't slip a cigarette paper between the two parties.

This put the traditional central Liberal Democrats in a pickle as they found themselves squeezed out and even on the left!

OOOOOOOOOOO Love all that English stuff! It was my great-grand -father that migrated. He never asked me what I thought. Not a real Democrat that guy.

I am sure he wasn't - that would probably have put him slap in Victorian times when Britain was more right wing than Hitler ever was,

The height of the British Empire when children should be seen but not heard and women could neither vote or own property. Poor houses, debtors prisons and gunboat diplomacy (Having trouble with a foreign power? Just put a battleship in the main harbour and train its guns on the parliament or governors mansion - it's amazing how tractable they will become).

One of our greatest sins was the invention of the concentration camp during the Boer war in S. Africa where many wives and children of the Dutch Boers died...

Our history is not one to be proud of unless we can learn from our mistakes.

The Opium War with China.....Victorian times, yes, but I hadn't put two and two together....Tickles my imagination, well don't blame great grandpa now. Love the clothes though. If you were poor, you were really poor. At least I have options. I can choose to be upper, middle or lower income poor. Ha ha ha

Learn from mistakes? When has a human being ever tried that?

That is why history has a miserable way of repeating itself - except now something is very different.

Can you think what it may be?

Absolutely! If you want a picture of the future, imagine a jack boot stomping on a human face- FOREVER! Hey you asked, don't waterboard the messenger.

Nah - far too grim.

Access to information - the whole of history at peoples fingertips anytime anywhere.

Communication - the ability for people to send out an idea or concept and it go around the world three times before breakfast.

Google reckons we are only three degrees separated because of social media. Post something in several social media sites and with three shares it might be in the ears of the president or one of his advisers....

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"Learn from mistakes".?....I THOUGHT we had learned after that other War of Choice in Viet Nam to never get into another conflict like that....silly me.

I had two of my best friends die there. Out of a graduating class of 98 where 45 were girls. That was pretty devastating for me. Probably why I became such a dedicated Hippy.Ha ha ah I tell sheeople that you can take all the Hippies out of the 60s, but you can't take the 60s out of all the Hippies. Take a look at me. Ha ha ha

Those were incredible times ST. The 60's. I was just coming of age and I had two brothers. One took to the streets on the University of Wis., and one took to the rice paddies and the mountains of Viet Nam. Neither one was ever quite the same.

OOO Now you have my sympathy. So sad! Man's inhumanity to man. Every man goes off to war looking for something. It's
different for all. Some fame, some excitement, some for recognition ( men are such show off's), some want off the farm, some want away from a girl they don't love...and they end up saying we will learn because this is the war to end all wars. And it is until the next one.

You are eloquent and articulate, but you know what else? I think your description of "who goes off to war" fit more for the generation that really fought for something....WWII. My kid brother dropped out of school and his number came up. He wasn't all that crazy to fight in a conflict that there seemed to be no viable reason and he didn't understand, other than what our leaders gave...."those nasty communists were about to take over the world". My older brother was a senior and his protesting just about cost him his diploma....gads our dad was furious.

And the sad part. Why? Why? Why? They spoke of the domino theory, but we pulled out and nothing happened. The Vietnamese people are a very intelligent people. They have almost as good of or maybe are at par with families of south Korea. And, also, I so love the sound of them speaking. Their vowels are so round and pleasant. I don't know what they are saying but that's normal for me. My point is why make enemies with such wonderful, family-strong folks. I must say tough we didn't walk in protest for no reason. Well it is true it did no good. But it was after the protest, all that release of emotion. I'd find a Hippy girl that didn't run for help at the site of me, that was love, carry her back to my hole in the wall and we'd do some pretty disgusting things. For hours and hours. OOOOOO.

In thinking back to that time, I believe you give the protestors too little credit. In the end it brought down LBJ's administration and the Draft became a hot potato for the politicans. But it sure didn't teach any lessons that really mattered.....like taking this country into "wars of choice". Do you think that students of today would have sat as silent as they did when we went into the equally ass-hat war in Iraq, if there had been a draft? Would they have taken to the streets again in Berkley, UW Wisconsin, etc? I remember the "Make Peace Not War" banners, the sit-in's on campuses, throwing rocks at police the huge marches on Washington, all protesting but there was barely a whimper this time around. So what does that say? That the protests of the 60's were not about the unjust war we were waging on a country that posed no threat to us, but instead their own selfish motives?

I have made a "few" treks into the world at large and I have found from Africa to Malaysia that if there is any blame to be put on a country at large, it usually lies with the leaders who are more often than not, corrupt, greedy and power mad. But when you get down into the "trenches" where people actually reside, you can find most if not all wonderful human beings who only want what most all of us want. A decent life taking care of our families, working and putting food on their tables.

Absolutely! Not only conscription but the huge, massive amount of kids. "Hell no I won't go" I miss it. But now the government doesn't need as many bodies to kill, kill and more kill. They are going to need the draft if they don't get out of Iran's face though. They are a peaceful people, but they are about fed up with this sick country. Halliburton needs to bill bill bill. So we kill kill kill. I have no symphony for our soldiers today. When you play with fire.

Its a crime that the republicans especially, are waving sabers at Iran. The people, in spite of their dispicable despots for leaders, have always admired the U.S. But when push comes to shove, national loyalty will trump that admiration everytime.

For this country to go into another conflict without the proper number of soldiers is beyond the pale. It seems that republicans have no problem sending our kids to war as long as its never their own.

I hear rumblings of discontent in Saudi Arabia. The only reason there hasn't been a revolution is the fear the
brotherhood will come to power. What if that happens? Will the Middle East unite. They after all are all Muslims under the covers. OOOO What a powerful group they would make. They have great weapons. Only Libya is still tribal. Burn baby burn.

We haven't done so well throughout history either Jonathan. The Japanese Internment camps come immediately to mind where we rounded up after confiscating homes, property and sent innocent Americans behind barbed wire, even while many of their sons were fighting and dying for America. A horrifically shameful period.

It could be argued that we have not really moved to much further forward...

lol., I agree. But what I can't get my arms around is, why was he so ticked at her to begin with? What did she say that was so "ridiculous" and would make him call her a bigot?

Good Sissy, but I don't think the folks care. As long as a politician's lips are moving they are comfortable. - "How'd Romney do on the TV last night; I missed it." "O, everything is OK His lips were moving. I think I'll vote for'm. He's a much better lire than Obama? Don't you think. I mean, he'd have to come with some real zinger's to get my vote at this point."

And they haven't even started with playbacks from the GOP primaries.

Get the popcorn, sis. We're in for one helluva show!

It's our fault, possibly. He's playing to our emotions. He says what he says and does what he does because the average American is an idiot! Ha ha ha We Not only ask for it - we require it. In a way, we should feel sorry for both the candidates; forcing them to dance like stooges in front of God and all. I can see the pole now. Who is the best lire? Chose your favorite criminal?

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a fellow cynic...

Hey, you're a good teacher. :)