The Confederate Flag Party

Raw Story:  John Sununu, a top surrogate for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, on Thursday night suggested that former Secretary of State Colin Powell endorsed President Barack Obama because he is black.

Since Powell actually worked for only white presidents, and before Obama endorsed only white presidential candidates, this is most likely not true.  But since Sinunu (an Arab born in Cuba) brought it up, it is true the the GOP base won't vote for Obama because he's black.

The Republican party is - at its core - a racist political party.  They deliberately built it like that.  If you have any doubt, take a drive around the south and have a look around.  There's a reason these people chose the confederate flag over the American flag.

Mitt Romney Is An Economic Traitor

Buzzfeed: Workers' Voice, the AFL-CIO-affiliated super PAC is out with a harsh new ad campaign Thursday morning branding Mitt Romney an "economic traitor."

"Bain Capital is outsourcing jobs at Sensata Tech in Northern Illinois to China," the website economictraitor.com states. "When executives from the new plant in China came in to visit the factory, Bain Capital made Sensata staff take down the American flag until they left."

The Republican base prefers the confederate flag anyway, so they probably don't mind. 

Rape, The Gift From God

NEW ALBANY, Indiana— At a debate this evening with his Democratic opponent Rep. Joe Donnelly(D-IN), IndianaGOP Senate candidate Richard Mourdock claimed that raped women should be forced to carry their rapist’s baby to term because their forced pregnancy is a “gift from God”:

I believe life begins at conception. The only exception I have for to have an abortion is in the case of the life of the mother. I struggled with myself for a long time but I came to realize life is that gift from God, even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape. It is something that God intended to happen.

This - along with their attempts to re-define and minimize the definition of rape - is another step in the long GOP walk around the objection to the plank in their platform that says abortion should be illegal even in the case of rape, incest, and danger to the mother.  Because it is especially under those circumstances that most  Americans recoil in horror at a proposed abortion ban.

And for all those who think they can't do anything about this guy because they don't live and vote in Dumfuckistan, great news, Romney cut an ad for this neanderthal just yesterday.  A vote against Romney is a vote againt Mourdock.  A vote against the GOP is a vote against this agenda. Or put another way: any vote, anywhere, for any Republican is a vote against  a woman's right to govern over her own body and her own life.

Threats To National Security

Booman Tribune:  I call on Mitt Romney to demand the immediate resignation of Rep. Darrell Issa from his chairmanship of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. And I call on Rep. Darrell Issa to immediately resign from Congress in disgrace. To stand for reelection after endangering the lives of Libyans working in cooperation with the United States or seeking our assistance would be an insult to our country. 

Of course to be fair this isn't as bad as when they deliberately outed the Valeria Plame spy network that existed to keep WMD out of the hands of terrorists and rogue states, but Booman is still right.  Add on top of that things like wasting massive amounts of blood and treasure by waging a corrupt, dishonest, and unnecessary war and occupation in Iraq and one can only come the conclusion the biggest threat we face to our national security is posed by the Republican party. 

Throwing Granny Under The Bus

Headline:  AP: $200/month increase in Medicare premiums under Romney/Ryan

Not that they care.  People on Medicare are part of the 47% of Americans Willard has promised not to lift a finger for so it's understandable he's more than willing to sacrifice them on the alter of his billionaire country club public policy.

Lessons

TPM:  Democrats wanted an aggressive Joe Biden at the vice presidential debate here, and they got one. 

Lessons from the VP debate:

1) If Mitt Romney had been president Osama Bin Ladin would still be alive.
2) Romney/Ryan would voucherize Medicare and privatize Social Security.
3) If elected Romney/Ryan will end the home mortgage deduction.
4) Romney/Ryan will bring back the exact same public policy that caused the 2008/2009 crash.

Killer Public Policy

Think Progress:  Mitt Romney doubled down on his suggestion that uninsured Americans can find the care they need in emergency rooms, telling The Dispatch that people will always receive the treatment they need, and do not die or suffer because they can not pay for care. 

Well, except for the 45,000 Americans that do die every year because they don't have insurance, that's true.  Of course those people are likely part of the 47% of Americans Willard has promised not to lift a finger for so it's understandable he's more than willing to sacrifice them on the alter of his billionaire country club public policy.