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Posts tagged as “Mitt Romney”

Romney-Ryan: The Communitarian Ticket?

"The only dedicated anticommunitiarian researcher in the world," Niki Raapana from Alaska, gets me hung up on communitarianism this morning. Look out, Birchers: the GOP Presidential ticket also appears to be hung up on communitarianism... acknowledging that communitarians are right!…

Ryan-Romney: The Liars’ Ticket

Time to raise your game, Democrats! Golly, all I said was that Congressman Paul Ryan tangled himself and GOP thinking on personal responsibility in a contradiction last night. The Washington Post's Jonathan Bernstein says I should have just called Ryan…

Obama Strengthens Medicare with $716 Billion Savings and ACA

....Romney Vows to Raise Seniors' Costs, Hasten Medicare's Demise In one of the most devious bits of campaign judo on the health care debate, Republicans try to deflect criticism of their intent to voucherize, privatize, and pulverize Medicare by shouting…

Romney Energy Plan: Burn Everything for Big Oil Profits

I can think of only two logical explanations for Mitt Romney's reiteration of the GOP's Drill Baby Drill energy plan: He just got some big donations from Big Oil executives. He's a catastrophic millennialist: Jesus is coming, so why save…

Eisenhower on Romney-Ryan Base: “Negligible” and “Stupid”

Dwight David Eisenhower hops in the time machine recovered from Roswell and weighs in on the 2012 Republican Presidential ticket: Now it is true that I believe this country is following a dangerous trend when it permits too great a…

Poll: 72% Say Ryan Doesn’t Boost Romney’s November Prospects

The latest Madville Times poll asked you, the politically savvy collective mind of South Dakota, "Has Mitt Romney boosted his chances of beating President Obama by picking Paul Ryan for VP?" Between Saturday and yesterday morning, August 11&ndash14, you responded…