Star of Romney ‘My Hands Didn’t Build This’ Ad Received Millions in Government Loans and Contracts

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/07/star-of-romney-my-hands-didnt-build-this-ad-received-millions-in-government-loans-and-contracts/

Is the Romney campaign even trying? How do you completely fail to vet your "I didn't get no money from the gubmint" guy at all?



[Edited on July 24, 2012 at 11:29 AM. Reason : It's almost as though he expects his supporters to be insane, gullible, stupid, or all three]

7/24/2012 11:28:50 AM

^posted 10 posts from the bottom on the last page by thegoodlife

7/24/2012 11:45:20 AM

Quote :

"You people have short memories. Tax returns come up every election cycle. "

yep

Most of the time a candidate releases them, but you never hear anything, because they are uneventful.

They are far more meaningful than college records though, unless someone was in college the previous year. Romney has tons of unsavory things without the tax records, but i'd bet some of the more speculative things about Romney would just be confirmed.

7/25/2012 1:00:51 AM

http://m.gawker.com/5928827/romney-adviser-president-obama-doesnt-fully-appreciate-our-anglo+saxon-heritage


Good one

7/25/2012 8:42:00 AM

Bummer

[Edited on July 25, 2012 at 8:43 AM. Reason : Whooops]

7/25/2012 8:42:37 AM

^^

wow

do people wonder why Republicans get labelled racist?

I don't think McCain's campaign would have said this though, to be fair.

7/25/2012 1:49:38 PM

McCain ran his campaign with integrity. This was before CU, though. He was always doomed to lose that campaign. Romney's campaign is absolutely unraveling because of his constant lying and flip-flopping.

7/25/2012 8:57:45 PM

Well, to be fair, the people that would vote for Romney don't give a shit or aren't smart enough to realize any of those problems.

7/25/2012 9:44:24 PM

yeah romney is just polling terribly.

stick a fork in him.

7/25/2012 11:05:34 PM

From an NBC/WSJ poll

Quote :

"In the presidential horserace, Obama leads Romney by six percentage points among registered voters, 49 percent to 43 percent. That’s a slight change – within the margin of error – from last month’s poll, which showed Obama ahead by three points, 47 percent to 44 percent."

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/24/12933159-nbcwsj-poll-negative-campaign-takes-toll-on-candidates-obama-up-six-points?chromedomain=leanforward&lite

Suck on that, you dirty little slut.

7/26/2012 12:19:23 AM

Barring some kind of political disaster for Obama, I just can't see how the majority of Americans will vote for Romney. As time goes on, we're just going to learn more unappealing things about Romney, and he's going to continue to be a country-club douchebag which is not going to win over the average person.

7/26/2012 2:48:14 AM

^^what about gallup and rasmussen?

or what about CBS and the NY times saying romney is leading with women? even i dont believe that.

and lol at you of all people championing a WSJ poll.

Quote :

"Suck on that, you dirty little slut."

who even talks like this anymore? id call you immature but it doesnt quite fit. i think you might simply have problems.

[Edited on July 26, 2012 at 9:06 AM. Reason : -]

7/26/2012 9:06:14 AM

Quote :

"In the presidential horserace, Obama leads Romney by six percentage points among registered voters, 49 percent to 43 percent. That’s a slight change – within the margin of error – from last month’s poll, which showed Obama ahead by three points, 47 percent to 44 percent.""

LOL and they oversampled Democrats by 11% in this poll. The media will do whatever it takes to make it look like Obama is winning and gaining momentum. Also the most accurate polling is done on LIKELY VOTERS, not registered voters.

Plus the only polling that really matters in right now is the polling in swing states like Florida, Ohio, Virginia, Penn, etc. That is where the election will be won and lost.

7/26/2012 9:37:14 AM

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/07/romney-plays-loud-american-tourist-london/55061/

not a good month for Mitt

7/26/2012 12:17:21 PM

^^ sounds like someone got their O'Reilly talking points email in.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/

538 has Obama, these guys, by far, do the best math when it comes to elections.

[Edited on July 26, 2012 at 1:08 PM. Reason : ]

7/26/2012 1:07:36 PM

yeah I refuse to listen to anyone talk about polls except for Nate Silver

dude is as legit as they get

7/26/2012 1:20:24 PM

Quote :

"LOL and they oversampled Democrats by 11% in this poll. The media will do whatever it takes to make it look like Obama is winning and gaining momentum. Also the most accurate polling is done on LIKELY VOTERS, not registered voters."

unless you can prove that the 11% more dems than reps in that poll was intentional, STFU

7/26/2012 1:21:05 PM

The electoral math for this election gets simpler by the day. At this point, you can cut through all the bullshit and look at one state: Ohio. While Obama can win without Ohio, Romney has no chance. That is why the media keeps referring to Ohio as a "tossup", when in reality it's been solidly polling for Obama from the gun. They can't hype this "horse race" if one of them has a broken leg. Until that changes, the only thing worth discussing is whether Obama's margin of victory will be lesser or greater than 2008.

7/26/2012 2:00:26 PM

^^ I like Nate Silver's blog on the NYT. I don't really like looking at national polls anyway. As we can all remember from 2000 the popular vote doesn't mean shit, it's all about the electoral.

yall should check it out. And yes Romney is gaining ground. According to Silver he now has a 23.3% chance of winning, this is up from 18.7% on July 18th

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/author/nate-silver/

[Edited on July 26, 2012 at 2:05 PM. Reason : .]

7/26/2012 2:03:44 PM

^^ohio is absolutely a toss up since obamas little gun speeches.

if you dont believe that then youve never been to ohio / dont know shit about anything.

states like ohio are exactly why obama has been keeping his distance from the issue. his hand was forced again by this shooting just like when biden forced it over gay marriage.

obama would prefer to speak on nothing because he prefers to do nothing.

7/26/2012 4:43:44 PM

Do you ever stop spewing bullshit?

7/26/2012 7:45:02 PM

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/oh/ohio_romney_vs_obama-1860.html

7/27/2012 10:52:13 AM

7/31/2012 3:02:09 AM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/07/30/romney-praises-health-care-in-israel-where-strong-government-influence-has-driven-down-costs/

Mitt praises Israel's universal healthcare system that has an insurance mandates and revenue caps.

7/31/2012 8:40:45 AM

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/31/romney-aide-loses-cool-curses-at-press-in-poland/?hpt=hp_t3

remember, it's the media's fault that the stupid shit he says comes across as stupid, but he won't talk to anyone in the press pool to clarify anything.

7/31/2012 11:52:34 AM

^ LOL That is all he can do after a disaster of a foreign trip!

7/31/2012 1:37:41 PM

FAIL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEveeouWJ_Y

8/1/2012 10:35:29 AM

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/institutes-and-centers/polling-institute/presidential-swing-states-(fl-oh-and-pa)/release-detail?ReleaseID=1781

Quote :

"Florida: Obama edges Romney 51- 45 percent; Ohio: Obama over Romney by a slim 50 - 44 percent; Pennsylvania: Obama tops Romney 53 - 42 percent."

At this rate, the election will be called before 9PM.

8/1/2012 11:36:47 AM

http://www.mediaite.com/online/video-2004-mitt-romney-says-its-poppycock-to-blame-president-for-job-market/

Quote :

"The people of America recognize that the slowdown in jobs that occurred during the early years of the Bush administration were the result of a perfect storm. And an effort by one candidate to somehow say "Oh, this recession and the slowdown in jobs was the result of somehow this president magically being elected..." people in America just dismiss that as being poppycock. And they recognize it as that."

[Edited on August 3, 2012 at 1:50 AM. Reason : .]

8/3/2012 1:49:35 AM

8/3/2012 3:28:39 AM

I don't get it...does the President acutally say something, or is it just a bunch of hot air?





Ohhhhh....got it!

8/3/2012 7:51:26 AM

Quote :

"Romney Taps Former Paulson Aide, Fannie Mae Vet For Bain Rehab Michele Davis was at Hank Paulson's right hand during the 2008 financial crisis. She was portrayed by the actress Cynthia Nixon in the film Too Big to Fail. But Davis will also bring some very high-profile baggage to Romney's campaign. She arrived at Treasury from Fannie Mae, the giant, government-backed firm that backs a large share of the nations mortgages. She was vice president for regulatory policy at Fannie Mae from 2002 to 2006, and is listed as a registered lobbyist for the troubled and controversial entity — which made a practice of keeping a bipartisan squad of Washington insiders on payroll — in 2004. (Indeed, Mitt Romney attacked rival Newt Gingrich for taking payments from Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae's sibling entity.) In her role, Davis defended Fannie Mae's independence, despite substantial tax advantages: She was quoted in Newsday that year saying the entity "does not receive a penny of funding from the government" or any subsidy. She also served at Fannie Mae during a time in which it was found to have doctored its earnings statements to juice executives' bonuses, for which it paid a massive $400 million in penalties."

http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/romney-taps-paulson-fannie-mae-vet-for-bain-rehab

8/3/2012 4:47:46 PM

Porn Star Jenna Jameson endorsed Mitt Romney saying "When you're rich you want a Republican in office". Well they both change positions quite often so it makes sense.

8/4/2012 4:36:53 PM

This is tragic. A craigslist ad bribing people to help mitt romney.


Grassroots Help: High Pay! (Jacksonville)

http://jacksonville.craigslist.org/mar/3187948067.html

8/7/2012 1:19:32 PM

Obamaloney...that's the best his writers could come up with?

8/7/2012 9:21:26 PM

Quote :

"This is tragic. A craigslist ad bribing people to help mitt romney. "

This is pretty much par for the course for politics these days. I seem to recall seeing a bunch of these sorts of things all over the raleigh craigslist for both sides last election.

8/7/2012 9:46:22 PM

Quote :

"Well they both change positions quite often so it makes sense. "

lol, well done sir

8/8/2012 12:10:51 AM

Quote :

"Romney: Sick People May Live, If They Move to Massachusetts You know the woman in the Priorities USA ad , the one who Mitt Romney sorta-kinda-indirectly-eventually killed? Her husband was laid off by a Bain-controlled firm in 2001, when Romney was technically in charge of the firm but not making day-to-day decisions. She still had health care through her job, but then she lost it, and — with both spouses having lost their insurance — got sick and died. Intel Dan calls the ad a lie. I’d call it an extremely tenuous chain of causality. Romney spokesperson Andrea Saul offered up a different rebuttal. She would have had health insurance, if she had lived in Massachusetts: “To that point, if people had been in Massachusetts, under Governor Romney’s health care plan, they would have had health care,” Andrea Saul , Romney’s campaign press secretary, said during an appearance on Fox News. “There are a lot of people losing their jobs and losing their health care in President [Barack] Obama’s economy.” Conservatives are already freaking out here. (Erick Erickson : “OMG. This might just be the moment Mitt Romney lost the election.”) "

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/08/romney-plan-everybody-move-to-massachusetts.html

8/8/2012 7:15:48 PM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/romney-on-not-releasing-more-tax-returns-im-not-a-business/2012/08/09/18e2d062-e225-11e1-98e7-89d659f9c106_blog.html

Quote :

"“I’m not a business,” he said. “We have a process in this country, which was established by law, which provides for the transparency which candidates are required to meet. I have met with that requirement with full financial ­disclosure of all my investments, but in addition have provided and will provide a full two years of tax returns.”"

I no longer have any doubt that he paid at or near 0% income tax.

8/9/2012 11:18:58 AM

If corporations = people, then people = corporations must be true.

8/9/2012 11:23:46 AM

Quote :

"You know the woman in the Priorities USA ad , the one who Mitt Romney sorta-kinda-indirectly-eventually killed? Her husband was laid off by a Bain-controlled firm in 2001, when Romney was technically in charge of the firm but not making day-to-day decisions. She still had health care through her job, but then she lost it, and — with both spouses having lost their insurance — got sick and died. Intel Dan calls the ad a lie. I’d call it an extremely tenuous chain of causality. Romney spokesperson Andrea Saul offered up a different rebuttal. She would have had health insurance, if she had lived in Massachusetts: “To that point, if people had been in Massachusetts, under Governor Romney’s health care plan, they would have had health care,” Andrea Saul , Romney’s campaign press secretary, said during an appearance on Fox News. “There are a lot of people losing their jobs and losing their health care in President [Barack] Obama’s economy.”"

I think it's an appropriate response to what must be deemed an incredibly ridiculous reach. Honestly this ad doesn't deserve much of a response. It's fear mongering bullshit.

8/9/2012 4:12:50 PM

Fear mongering bullshit? Seems like a legitimate complaint to me. Bain lays off workers, profits from it, causes a woman to die and the Romney campaign's response is "well, should have had the health plan that's almost identical to the one we're demonizing Obama for?"

8/9/2012 4:58:55 PM

It's very disingenuous to say that Romney was responsible though. It would be much more correct to say that her death was a very unfortunate consequence of being laid off from a company Romney owned. I'm sure this happens all the time in the US and there's more value in pointing out how people losing their jobs and health insurance negatively impacts them than saying Romney killed her.

8/9/2012 5:15:40 PM

Romney 47, Obama 43

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

8/9/2012 5:27:11 PM

Quote :

""You know the woman in the Priorities USA ad , the one who Mitt Romney sorta-kinda-indirectly-eventually killed?"

there are not enough rolly-eyes for this

[Edited on August 9, 2012 at 5:33 PM. Reason : ^ that report is very surprising to say the least...but i trust ramussen]

8/9/2012 5:29:42 PM

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/rasmussen-polls-were-biased-and-inaccurate-quinnipiac-surveyusa-performed-strongly/

8/9/2012 5:46:12 PM

^NY Times can say whatever they want, but Rasmussen predicted both of the last 2 presidential elections within one point, and they are widely respected as one of the most accurate polls

track record:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/about_us/public_relations/press_room/press_releases/the_rasmussen_reports_track_record

[Edited on August 10, 2012 at 10:48 AM. Reason : /]

8/10/2012 10:42:09 AM

Quote :

"With campaign rhetoric becoming increasingly heated and both presidential nominees releasing more attack ads, a new 30-second spot from the Obama campaign this week accuses his opponent Mitt Romney of committing the 1996 murder of 6-year-old beauty pageant queen JonBenét Ramsey."

http://www.theonion.com/articles/romney-murdered-jonbenet-ramsey-new-obama-campaign,29114/

8/10/2012 10:52:13 AM

Quote :

"^NY Times can say whatever they want, but Rasmussen predicted both of the last 2 presidential elections within one point, and they are widely respected as one of the most accurate polls"

lol - hooray for confirmation bias. thank you so much for providing a link to an counter report from an entity that clearly has no agenda in their reporting of the validity of rasmussen polls....oh wait

[Edited on August 10, 2012 at 11:08 AM. Reason : ,]

8/10/2012 11:04:39 AM

^they're verifiable facts. If you refuse to believe something that is a known fact, there's no point in me conversing with you.

this is from Wikipedia:

Quote :

"2004In the 2004 presidential election, "Rasmussen...beat most of their human competitors in the battleground states, often by large margins," according to Slate magazine.[37] Rasmussen projected the 2004 presidential results within one percentage point of the actual vote totals earned by both George W. Bush and John Kerry.[38] In 2004, Slate said they “publicly doubted and privately derided Rasmussen” polls because of the methodology. However, after the election, they concluded that Rasmussen’s polls were the most accurate.[37] [edit] 2008According to Politico, "Rasmussen’s final poll of the 2008 general election — showing Obama defeating Arizona Sen. John McCain 52 percent to 46 percent — closely mirrored the election’s outcome."[39] In reference to the 2008 presidential election, a Talking Points Memo article said, "Rasmussen's final polls had Obama ahead 52%-46%, which was nearly identical to Obama's final margin of 53%-46%, and made him one of the most accurate pollsters out there."[40]"

[Edited on August 10, 2012 at 11:32 AM. Reason : /]

8/10/2012 11:25:20 AM