Run For President of China Then

Think Progress:  In recent years, Republicans have taken to calling uber-wealthy Americans “job creators” to justify holding the government hostage to protect their low tax rates. Less than a week after GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney released his tax returns and revealed his 14.1 percent rate — far lower than any president’s since Richard Nixon — Ryan used a local interview to revive the job creator myth.

Romney saved $1.2 million in taxes thanks to a preference that allows investment income, known as capital gains, to be taxed at a lower rate than wage income. Ryan told Cincinnati’s WLWT that paying such a low rate was justified because low capital gains rates boost job creation:

RYAN: Point number two is this money creates jobs. When people invest in riskier propositions, meaning invest in businesses, they don’t know if they’re going to succeed or not. So you want to have more capital that goes to more businesses, especially small businesses like this one, so more people can go back to work. That creates economic growth. You know what we learned about Mitt Romney in his tax returns? He’s a successful businessman. That’s a good thing.

He's right, Rmoney has created a lot of jobs... in China, and in India, and in Bangledesh, but here at home he's been a God-damn-national-disaster. 

Get The Fuck Out And Never Come Back

Americablog:  Who will Mitt Romney offend next?

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney came to the Golden State for a two-day series of high-profile fundraisers and reportedly took a shot at California in front of a $25,000 a ticket crowd in Del Mar.

Romney “took a pretty big shot at California,” according to a pool reporter.

“He said that under President Obama we’re becoming a lot more European and that the state of California was something he didn’t want to see the rest of the U.S. look like in a few years,” a pool reporter related.

Hey Mitt, go fuck yourself you middle class killing, tax evading, piece of shit.  If California were a country we would be the 7th largest economy in the world.  We contribute far more to the federal coffers than we take out - unlike most red states.

You don't like it?  Go to inbred Mississippi and try to raise money from the racist Republican base.

Get the fuck out of our state and never come back.  Asshole. 

Collapsing

Reuters: New polling by Reuters/Ipsos indicates that during the past two weeks - since just after the Democratic National Convention - support for Romney among Americans age 60 and older has crumbled, from a 20-point lead over Democratic President Barack Obama to less than 4 points.

Romney's double-digit advantages among older voters on the issues of healthcare and Medicare - the nation's health insurance program for those over 65 and the disabled - also have evaporated, and Obama has begun to build an advantage in both areas.

The Republican party long ago lost the minority vote, the young vote, the female vote, the Jewish vote, the Muslim vote, the poor vote and the middle class vote.  Now that they're losing the senior vote, all they really have left is the southern white racist vote.

Update:  Seems Romney is even losing the NASCAR and the military vote.  

Buzz Bomb

Buzz Flash:  In a videotape posted on YouTube on May 15th of this year, Mitt Romney is seen at a public even talking about alternative energy (which Republicans in Congress have done everything possible to prevent).  In the midst of some spaghetti on the wall ideas about new energy sources, Romney gives a hat tip to Hitler (about 42 seconds into the tape):

Liquified gas. Gosh, Hitler during the Second World War I guess because he was concerned about losing his oil, liquefied coal.  That technology is still there.

First of all, it's a bad idea.  One needs to go no further past the facts it doesn't come out of the ground in liquid form and once you have it, you still need to burn it to know that.

As for Romney, it's usually not the very top of the conservative movement that goes out of its way to praise the Nazis.  As Karlan said, let's get this Romney hat tip out to the Florida media market and see how it plays there. Further, since it was developed in Germany in the 1920's, improved upon just recently, and there are companies doing it today, you damn sure don't need to go straight to Hitler to bring it up.  Romney is one strange dude. 

Held Hostage

The Deputy PM of Australia:

“Let's be blunt and acknowledge the biggest threat to the world’s biggest economy are the cranks and crazies that have taken over the Republican Party... Despite President Obama’s goodwill and strong efforts, the national interest was held hostage by the rise of the extreme Tea Party wing of the Republican Party."

Besides the Fox News crowd the whole word knows this to be true.  

Investing In Enemy Number One

Buzzfeed:  Mitt Romney acquired and sold shares last year in the politically powerful Russian gas giant Gazprom. Ann and Mitt Romney's family trust return, released Friday, shows Romney sold his Gazprom stock at a loss last September in advance of election season.
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The GOP nominee told CNN's Wolf Blitzer in March that Russia is America's "number one geopolitical foe." Again in July, Romney told Blitzer that "in terms of geopolitics....Russia is the number one adversary."

He says nobody who pays more tax than legally required is qualified to be president and then he does exactly that.  And now, by his own petard he hoists himself on a trading with the enemy charge.  Sometimes it seems all you have to do to know Mitt Romney would be a horrible president is listen to Mitt Romney.

The Last Four Years

Think Progress: The Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol advised the Mitt Romney to avoid making the election about the last four years, noting that the Obama administration inherited the crisis from Bush and has handled it well. “If this election is just about the last four years, that’s a muddy verdict. Bush was president during the financial meltdown. The Obama team has turned that around pretty well. Bill Clinton’s speech at the convention was very important in that way,” he said.

The Dems should put that in an ad right now.   Right out of Mr GOP's mouth: "Bush was president during the financial meltdown. The Obama team has turned that around pretty well."  Obama turned around Bush's mess.  Democratic public policy fixed Republican disaster (again).  Which leaves no other possible reason to vote for Thurston Howell Romney III, or for any Republican for that matter, anywhere.  Ever. 

Look, Willard will institute the exact same public policy that caused the meltdown in the first place.  Elect him and it will happen again.  It's Einstein's definition of insanity to expect otherwise.