Mitt Romney’s Very Bad Incredibly Horrible Fucking Awful Week ended yesterday (although the hits just keep on coming) but that hasn’t kept his campaign from doing their job and continually playing Marry, Fuck, or Kill? with the base in an effort to find just the right kind of sugar that will make the Mitt go down. Last week they floated Condi Rice but she likes killing babies and maybe Jews, so she would be a ‘no go’ with the Evangelical set who loves them some forced birthin’ and also need the Jews to stand around and hold their coats when the End Times come. (Hint: maybe you shouldn’t buy any green bananas the week of 12/17/2012. You’re welcome!).
Today we are being treated to The Bobby Jindal Experience (you may remember Jindal from break out performance as ‘Kenneth of the Bayou’ in State of the Union: The Aw-Shucksing) because the Romney people want the minorities to go first in order to prove they are not racist, and because Bobby comes after Condi, but before Marco Rubio, on the Pantone Formula Guide For Vetting.
Show us what you got, Bobby:
On Monday, Jindal, who backed Texas Gov. Rick Perry in the primary contest, joined Romney for a high-dollar fundraising luncheon with supporters in Baton Rouge, fueling more debate about his chances of becoming the running mate.
Romney announced in a note to supporters last week that he will name his pick before the Republican National Convention in August, dubbing the ticket “America’s Comeback Team.”
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Since the primaries, Romney has made overtures to social conservatives, including a speech at Liberty University in May, and his team seemed to cave to evangelicals who balked at his choice of an openly gay national security campaign adviser — Richard A. Grenell, who resigned after being sidelined by the campaign.
With his teenage conversion from Hinduism to Catholicism and ironclad antiabortion views, Jindal would excite the social-conservative base, which is not sold on Romney.
“Jindal would be very, very well received among evangelicals. I hear nothing but rave reviews from evangelicals in Louisiana about how he has given them access and developed a relationship that is better than any other governor that they have ever had. What most evangelicals have been saying to the campaign is that it has to be somebody pro-life,” said Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention. “And he also counterbalances the elitist claim [because] he is an up-from-the-ranks guy, and it helps to have someone on the ticket who is from Main Street, not Wall Street.”
Also, with Jindal, you avoid the kind of financial shenanigans that sometimes can make even an Olympics-saving job creator look like a bloodsucking greedhead.
Well, not all of the financial shenanigans:
Louisiana’s biggest corporate players, many with long agendas before the state government, are restricted in making campaign contributions to Gov. Bobby Jindal. But they can give whatever they like to the foundation set up by his wife months after he took office.
AT&T, which needed Mr. Jindal, a Republican, to sign off on legislation allowing the company to sell cable television services without having to negotiate with individual parishes, has pledged at least $250,000 to the Supriya Jindal Foundation for Louisiana’s Children.
Marathon Oil, which last year won approval from the Jindal administration to increase the amount of oil it can refine at its Louisiana plant, also committed to a $250,000 donation. And the military contractor Northrop Grumman, which got state officials to help set up an airplane maintenance facility at a former Air Force base, promised $10,000 to the charity.
The foundation has collected nearly $1 million in previously unreported pledges from major oil companies, insurers and other corporations in Louisiana with high-stakes regulatory issues, according to a review by The New York Times.
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AT&T, which needed Mr. Jindal, a Republican, to sign off on legislation allowing the company to sell cable television services without having to negotiate with individual parishes, has pledged at least $250,000 to the Supriya Jindal Foundation for Louisiana’s Children.
Marathon Oil, which last year won approval from the Jindal administration to increase the amount of oil it can refine at its Louisiana plant, also committed to a $250,000 donation. And the military contractor Northrop Grumman, which got state officials to help set up an airplane maintenance facility at a former Air Force base, promised $10,000 to the charity.
The foundation has collected nearly $1 million in previously unreported pledges from major oil companies, insurers and other corporations in Louisiana with high-stakes regulatory issues, according to a review by The New York Times.
Piyush-posh. Nothing to see there. Move along.
Now all Bobby has to do is reconcile his belief in the casting out of Satan while the vessel is still alive with Mitt Romney’s inclination to just wait it out and swoop in postmortem.
Body Snatcher/Exorcist 2012!





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Romney/Jindal. Can you say, “historical footnote?”
From wiki:
“Jindal was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to Amar and Raj Jindal, who came to the United States as immigrants from Punjab, India, six months before he was born.”
Well, he has the anchor baby vote!
So there’s that.
Wonderful.
I’ve had several people here in Louisiana tell me that they don’t really care about the presidential election, but if Romney picks Jindal, they’ll go door-to-door for him, just to get Jindal of the state.
They may swoop in and all but they ain’t gettin none of my precious bodily fluids.
That’s my governor you’re talking about!
Once he shows a fucking birth certificate, he’s gonna be golden!!
Of course, I’m still waiting to see the birth certificates of Willard and Teh Donald.
But I repeat myself.
But I repeat myself.
Not sure…if Jindal has enough spark to get out and start a few fires I think that Mitt’s just not going to be comfortable with that in the long run. I still think bland is going to win out in the end. Aside from being in Mitt’s comfort zone I don’t think he’s really going to get all mavericky and such and pick anything other than what his numbers crunch out to be the best draw.
So, the strategy is to sell the guy who looks like he should be running a hotel or a 7-11 to the folks who doubted The Black Guy was a US citizen?
Goddam WIN!!!, all over it, like fungus!
When I blogged about Mitt being an abortion profiteer, one of my conservative commenters said that was why he was voting for Gary Johnson. Which I think is a splendid idea. I think we should convince all true conservatives to vote for Gary Johnson, don’t you?
Republicans in disarray! Tally ho!
Mittens/Swiss Bank 2012!
Corporations are people too, my friends!
The Power of Cash compels you!
The Power of Cash compels you!
The Power of Cash compels you!
Reagan begins to descend.
LMAO! Jindal as “Vice President” would be about the “stupidest thing” that “Willard” could do. That being said, “Willard” is just the “idiot” to do it. The “blind” leading the “blind and stupid”. What a “pair” they would be, railing against the “safety net” and “boondoggles” like “volcano monitoring”.
Despite all the money, Mitt’s campaign appears to be on life support and if he picks Jindal, it’s DOA. They can’t select someone who out-shines Mitt and that means there’s a real problem.
Jindal? That’s a nipple hardener. /s
Seems Romney’s already been beaten before his freak’n acceptance speech; like Amir Khan, flat on his back.
So you’re saying it really will be Pawlenty?
Wouldn’t be surprised at all. The Goopers truly need someone with some spirit. What they need is someone like Richard Simmons but what they’ll pick is Lurch.
T-Paw doesn’t shake the rafters. Condi might’ve, ‘cept for being Lebanese.
Lots of trial balloons going up; last weeks flavor was Condi and now they’re trying out Jindal, but it’s all just optics. (Showing how the Mittster is down with the regular folks, don’t you know.) Portman’s the one, though he may bring the Bush stench with him.
Seems Mittens, while saving the 2002 Winter Olympics, outsourced uniforms to Burma. Story by Sabrina Siddiqui. Linky from huffpo. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/16/mitt-romney-olympics-outsourced-uniforms-burma_n_1677791.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
The
“blind”bland leading the“blindbland and stupid”.Fix’d.
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My wingnut aunt wondered why such a well-educated, accomplished woman as Condi was still single. I didn’t have the heart to explain.
“Piyush-posh” … Excellent, TBogg !
At this point – what with getting campaign advice from Bill Kristol and all – being named Romney’s VP candidate would seem to be like getting appointed as executive officer on the Titanic.
Two words that won’t give auntie the vapors: “Community property.” While Condi may not have Mitt’s money, she’s quite well-to-do. When it comes to buyer’s remorse, it’s cheaper to shack-up than it is to get married.
As to Jindal, Mitt does realize that the African-American community is aware that Jindal is NOKD*, right?
*Not our kind, dear.
You are all wrong. It is not going to be T-Paw, Condi, Kenneth or Portman.
The ticket is going to be Romney/Osmond 2012.
Mitt is a little bit country and Donny is a little bit rock and roll.
Jimmy for secretary of state and the five brothers can fill out Defense, NSA, Agriculture and the other cabinet positions Governor Goodhair wasn’t going to get rid of.
Ann can be in charge of the annual wild horse slaughter in Arizona.
…because Bobby comes after Condi, but before Marco Rubio, on the Pantone Formula Guide For Vetting.
Brilliant.
Please dear Gaia please please oh pretty please pick Rob Portman …
This is just too funny:
Romney Says GOP’s Not ‘Party of the Rich,’ But ‘of Those Who Want to Be Rich’
“This was Romney’s second fundraiser of the day, his first in Louisiana raising at least $2 million, bringing the campaign’s tally for the day to $3.7 million.”
“At his first fundraiser of the day, Romney told the guests – who each had to have contributed $50,000 to the campaign to attend – that it was likely the “most expensive lunch” they’ve ever had. At the event in Mississippi, Romney gave a nod to those handing out refreshments to the group as an example of people who are struggling in the Obama economy.”
http://news.yahoo.com/romney-says-gops-not-party-rich-those-want-012359242–abc-news-politics.html
So Mitt’s campaign is really ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?’ adulterated with ‘We Got Ours, Fuck You!’
Too funny but not in the “if I don’t laugh I’ll cry sense”. Too funny in the “the blood of my German ancestry is fighting for release to go all medieval on his Mormon ass”.
Who’da guessed the MittBot could be such a tease??
Piyush for Veep? Nah. But it gins up the dittoheads ‘n makes ‘em feel that they’re not the blatant racists that they are. “See, dear, I think Piyush is a such a nice boy, don’t you??” That’s what Rush directed me to say…
Hey, any Francophiles here willing to weigh in on what may be Romney’s French Chappaquiddick?
Synopsis: In June of 1968, the young Mitt Romney was driving a Citroen that collided with a Mercedes, killing one of Mitt’s four passengers and sending Mitt to the hospital (the French cops thought at first he’d died, leading one of them to write “il est mort” on his passport). This is not in dispute.
What is in dispute is who was at fault.
For decades, the official story is that the Mercedes driver was a “drunk priest” named “Albert Marie” driving at 120 kph. However, it’s now being stated that the priest was not drunk (if either driver involved had been drinking, the French police of the time apparently would have been obligated to make arrests), and the priest was not driving at 120 kph (allegedly both cars would have been damaged far worse than what actually occurred). Instead, Romney was in the wrong lane, driving north in the southbound lane of the N524, and if it wasn’t for the priest’s slowing down for the turn everyone in both cars would likely have died.
Anyone here able to make cogent comments?
That’s quite the deep bench they have, isn’t it?
I know nothing about this, but my guess is that it’ll be treated the way that conservatives responded to Laura Bush killing someone while driving under the influence of drugs: it’s nothing.
My rightwing fundie family members let loose with a volley of the most hateful diatribes I’ve ever heard them indulge themselves in (which is saying something) when Ted Kennedy died. And yes, it was mostly about Chappaquiddick and how Ted should go roast in the fires of hell for ininity, and even that wouldn’t begin to “serve him right.”
When I brought up Laura’s driving record, they were quick to say it “wasn’t her fault” and similar nonsense.
Don’t forget, PW: IOKIYAR.
None, other than ‘I bet this one is in Barack “The Islamic Shock” Hussien Superallah Obama ad buys in September.’
I heard about it several weeks ago and was surprised at the lack of nibbles in the Emm Ess Emm. Hard to believe it has skipped the notice of a great campaigner (middlin’ President, but great on the stump), so I expect it is in the magazine. No point pulling it out now this early on.
I’m confused.
In the first part of your post you say there isn’t any difference between Obama’s and Romney’s policies, but then you describe Obama as “Right-Center” and Romney as “Reactionary.”
Also, why would the Senate Democrats “fold like chairs” if Romney were President? That implies that they don’t have the courage to oppose policies they don’t agree with. If there isn’t a “dimes worth of difference” between Obama’s and Romney’s policies, why would they be opposed to anything that Romney proposes (since the Senate Democrats, more or less, currently support Obama’s policies)?
You need to tighten up your logic. Also, check your [Caps-Lock] key, it seems to be stuck.
mittbot will use a careful cost benefit analysis to pick the VP. It will be Portman.
Il n’est pas mort?
Domage. Peut-etre le pere de Mittens tira les ficelles?
I did not use CAPS LOCK, I held down the shift key FOR EMPHASIS.
Did you stamp your widdle feetsies too?
*POOF!*
[You were warned. But you just can't help yourself from baiting people ... so your comments are gone. Don't like it? Too fucking bad. - Tom]
Through the Looking, and What Alice Found There
Okay.
Sorry, for not recognizing the difference between using the [Shift] key and the [Caps Lock], silly me, I thought you were shouting.
I see that you have again mistaken this for the whinging/mewling collective. You’ll find that group down the hall, first door to your right.
I am getting sick and tired of your stupid analogy.
There are too many real “Battered Spouses” in our society. They suffer real beatings, psychological abuse and are murdered at an alarming rate.
And you are willing to trivialize their real-life suffering because you think it wins you a cheap rhetorical point in an on-line argument.
What a tool!
Oooooooh! Je comprends-ca maintenant!
mistah marcos? he daid…
Are you all really so insecure that you cannot countenance a progressive perspective on the bankruptcy of attacking Romney on behalf of Obama, blaming Romney for essentially the same conduct of Obama?
The battering has reduced tens of millions of families to near poverty.
The battering has sent drones to kill civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen with your tax dollars making us complicit in that death spree.
The battering has resulted in the contraction of local governments and the denial of vital services to communities.
The battering has resulted in Democrat voters abandoning the Democrat Party in return for being abandoned themselves in favor of corporate dominance.
The battering has imprisoned a brave young gay man under tortuous conditions for speaking the truth about war crimes.
I guess you agree with Stalin, that one case of battering and abuse is a tragedy, tens of millions of cases of battering and abuse are a mere statistic.
This is the genesis of the Clinton effect, where when Democrats win, they leave a wake of Republican victories in their wake.
There is a “vast right wing conspiracy” afoot here, and it originates in the Democrat Party.
There’s such a strange smell around here. Is it sulfur? Must have a word with the management.
Yes, Hugo Chavez mentioned that Bush II smelled like sulphur at the UN.
Perhaps what you are smelling now wafts because Obama’s policies are substantially the same as would have been Bush III’s?
I love the juxtaposition: “Free Bradley Manning” in a big banner ad up top, and then hand wringing apologia to reelect Manning’s torturer in chief because Romney has cooties.
Yes marcos, you’ve said the same thing in almost every comment you’ve made. We get it. We’re all fools. But your shit is tired. Now go start your own blog where you can spend your days telling everyone how fucked up they are to be participating in the only game in town. I’m sure it will be wildly successful and you can use the money to start up a unicorn ranch or something.
Try not to kill each other, people. It’s only July. So, how about those VP picks?
So in keeping with your battered spouse analogy, the wife asked for it …?
Or is the Democratic Party the batterer, and the Republican Party the battered?
Please type a lengthy clarification, print it out, and then shove it up your tight ass. Thank you.
I am not a blogger, I am an engineer who works for a living.
My political interests are in calling the Democrat Party on its role in forestalling progressive political change because in my view a compromised Democrat Party and the constellation of NGOs in its gravitational field–labor and the nonprofits, once known as the veal pen around these parts–is more of a threat to progressive, liberal or even moderate change than the Republicans are.
No, the husband is a spy sent in to destroy the marriage but the wife is still enamored with him and she knows that if she tries hard enough, she can really change him.
What’s tired is every four years the same vote harvesters come out of the barns to corral the Democrat faithful into voting against our interests again and again.
When the incumbent is Republican, the Democrats pretend that they’re going to govern as they say.
When the incumbent is a Democrat who has governed as a Republican, the messaging is that we must reelect the Democrat because the Republican is so e-v-i-l.
We’ve seen this movie over and again and it is time to put a different ending on it because nobody likes how it turns out, at least not unless they’re getting paid to like it.
How about for a moment, you all try to show a scintilla of the bravery that Bradley Manning showed and put your own cush asses on the line to make things better for others?
Wow. Once you put it that way…
Oh wait. You have over and over and over again.
Like I said… we get it, the system is corrupt. Thank you Holden Caulfield. Now do a new trick or take your tired-ass act on the road.
You sir are no progressive, a real progressive understands that there are limits to power and deals with the world as it is, not the world as we wish it would be
Here’s a clue for you, you and your friends, if you actually have any, are not a movement. Nobody has ever heard of you.
If you want to be taken seriously you need to stop talking down to people, your intellect isn’t what one would describe as “towering.” You need to actually engage in the discussion; that means you address the points being made against your position with something other than a crack about “Stockholm Syndrome” or “Battered Spouse Syndrome.” You need to present arguments that are internally consistent and quit choosing your own special meanings for commonly used words.
It’s not that we are insecure; we just don’t respect you.
…said the engineer who is spending the day trolling people in a comments section instead of TAKING THE SYSTEM DOWN.
You’re voting me off of the progressive island? Politics only works when there is credible threat of three things: physical injury, loss of property or loss of political power. We’re not going to be doing the first two, so that leaves the third.
Now, how does one exercise credible political threats to coerce desired outcomes when one folds and endorses the candidate who is doing everything that your demonized Republican is doing?
You, sir/ma’am, are no progressive. You are an ‘effin retard.
The Demopublicans and Republicrats will all spare no expense, go to all lengths to ensure that policies which the public wants never becomes public policy.
When you have 2/3 of the public in support of a broad populist set of policies, and you capitulate in the first instance and support the candidate who opposes 9/10 of those policies, you place yourselves between a supermajority of Americans and the government.
At least you’ve figured out how to control your authoritarian impulses to delete posts that do not toe your party line, so progress is possible.
Hey marcos. Fuck you. I’ve let you comment a few more times, but it is apparent you’re only here to lecture people and insult them and I’ve asked nicely and not so nicely to quit repeating the same old tired shit … but you just don’t get it. So we’re done with you. No more comments; they’ll be deleted and you’ll be blocked. I’m sure you’ll take this a some sort of victory like the anti-social bloviator that you are. You’re just too fucking good for us, too pure and we are shamed by your presence.
Godspeed, better angel douchebag…
Can’t even get through the day without cussing out someone who does not completely agree with you…. [Blah blah blah ... another dig at how I am so much purer and braver than all of you. Additional claims of superiority frosted with self-regard. Methane. Redundancy. More methane. WOLVERINES! The end. - as transcribed by TBogg]
But…you would respect…YinLing!!!!
http://i.imgur.com/f1MB4.jpg
Or at least make her a little coffee and a muffin with a little jam on it for breakfasts.
I am not pure and brave, you all are penned in like veal calves.
And you think that you and your “movement” is politically threatening?
My, my, my, … we think very highly of ourselves, don’t we?
When are you going to get around to threatening the Republican’s political power like you do the Democrats?
I cannot get a clear shot at the Republicans with the Democrats, unions and their nonprofit veal pen standing between us running interference for the Republicans.
When the Republicans win elections, they attack the Democrats. When the Democrats win elections, they attack the Democrat base. When the Democrats win, the democrat base gives the Democrats cover to not enact center/left policies they were elected on and to attack those effin’ retards who make such demands. When the Republicans win, the Democrat base goes apoplectic when the Republicans do what Obama is doing now, but for some reason, the Senate Democrats never seem to figure out how to filibuster as the Republicans do.
It is for this reason that I see the Democrats as more of a threat to democracy and progressive politics than the Republicans.
And, shit, I live in San Francisco. We’ve already vanquished the Republicans and all that does is give conservative Democrats an opportunity to take over the local Democrat Party as happens in any one party town.
It’s rare to see such pure uncut sanctimony.
The “movement” is not threatening at all if it lies down and rolls over on command, now is it? I am trying to get you all to rear up on your hind legs so that we can all present a united front of power to the corrupt conservatives that run both parties, but you all are afraid that you will fall over if you try.
I can only be true to one batterer at a time. I’m saving my muffins for Obama.
But if Marcos has his way in November …
If I have my way in November, we’ll be swearing in President Jill Stein in January.
She couldn’t beat Romney in Massachusetts. You think she’ll do better taking her show on the road?
Embrace the dream dude!
Last time I checked the Greens only managed to get a 2 people elected to State Assemblies seats nationwide. And one of them switched parties after getting elected.
That’s a real political juggernaut you are backing there Marcos.
That would be the Jill Stein who received 6,563 votes in the California primary out of over 3.9 million votes cast.
Tell me again how you’re going to fix the world..?
Oh yeah, I almost forgot, thanks for helping get Bush II elected in 2000.
A perfectly good thread killed. Well done, troll.
Perhaps had the Democrats not spent their energies attacking liberals, progressives and the Greens instead of attacking the Republicans, Gore might have won his home state, the Democrats in the Senate might have filibustered Alito, and we’d not be stuck with Demobots apologizing for Obama driving our car further into the ditch when he’s not kicking cans down the road, raising taxes on the middle class, torturing Bradley Manning and busting up state legal cannabis clubs.
How can you all look yourselves in the mirror when you are supporting reupping the franchise on what is the moral equivalent of the Bush III presidency?
Apparently you all feel that Republicans are so bad, Greens are so bad and Democrats are so good when they don’t attack the Republicans, attack the Greens and enact Republican policies with a fervor, that you all will ban and censor anyone who points this out.
I hope you retirees get what you’re asking for when Obama eviscerates Social Security and Medicare in his last term.
This thread is like every other tbogg thread, two minutes hate against the Republicans because Democrats have governed like Republicans and have nothing with which to differentiate themselves before surly voters. The alternative, then, is to scare the shit out of them by demonizing the Republicans, lest the other corrupt party’s patrons get access to public contracts and largess.
I really think you need to keep making this point over and over again just like you have in your last thirty or so comments. Obviously you are very close to a breakthrough that will change electoral politics FOREVER…
I don’t think the Greens are bad, I think they are stupid. Many of the planks in the Green platform I support. But the Green’s are so fixated on their messiah complex that they don’t realize that their own actions damages their cause more than the Dem’s or Rep’s ever can.
In 2000, not even your own party believed that Nader had a chance of winning, you were in the race to qualify for public campaign funding (in other words selling-out). Everybody knew it was going to be a close race between Bush and Gore. Everybody knew that the Green campaign would draw support from Gore and not Bush. The Green’s garnered 97K votes in FA, do the math, would the Supreme Court have stepped in and stop the re-count if Gore were ahead by a few thousand votes? In that scenario does it matter that Gore didn’t win in TN?
Now with 20-20 Hindsight, who would probably have been more inclined to support policies that are important to the Green Party, Bush of Gore?
Can you honestly say that Gore would have ever signed the Homeland Security act into law? Can you honestly say that 9/11 would have even happened if Gore were President? Can you honestly say that Gore would have squandered the Clinton Budget Surplus and thereby endangering Soc Sec and Medicare?
What have you clowns done since 2000 to make yourselves a political threat to anybody? Bernie Sanders all by himself is more of a political threat to the status-quo than the entire Green Party (and is probably twice as smart).
And here we are in 2012 hearing the same bull-shit from the Greens that we endured in 2000. Don’t you guys ever learn from your mistakes?