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BigV 08-11-2011 03:45 PM

2012 Republican News
 
Well, the Iowa straw polls are in a couple days, and the 2012 presidential campaign is well underway. While the field of candidates for the GOP isn't set yet (I expect the field to both expand and contract as the election approaches), there are some politicians who have already declared their candidacy. Once they've opened their mouths to declare, they make room for their feet.

Today's foot-in-the-mouth subject of derision is Mitt Romney. He's famously slick and his pro-business agenda slipped out today in this exchange:
Quote:

Speaking to an occasionally rowdy crowd two days before the Ames Straw poll, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney made what seems likely to become a much-discussed flub, declaring to a group of Iowans that "corporations are people."

Pressed by an attendee at the Iowa State Fair on Thursday as to why he was focusing on entitlement reforms as a means of deficit reduction over asking corporations to share part of the burden, the GOP frontrunner shot back:

"Corporations are people, my friend... of course they are. Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to the people. Where do you think it goes? Whose pockets? Whose pockets? People's pockets. Human beings my friend."

Read more: http://technorati.com/politics/artic...#ixzz1UksIF4HP
Really? Corporations are people? Bwahahahahahaha! Puh-LEASE. News flash--corporations are NOT people. I accept that this is a gaffe, a speaking mistake. But...I believe Mitt Romney's mistake here is not that he believes that corporations are people, but that he confessed this belief out loud.

classicman 08-11-2011 03:50 PM

Unfortunately, I still do not see a viable candidate from the right side.
Gonna be the lesser of two ... again.
<sigh>

infinite monkey 08-11-2011 03:52 PM

Hahahhahhahaaaaaa. Corporations are people too. Dumb slimy ass.




"Be kind to every Who on every speck.
Every Who may be somebody's mother..." ♪

Let the circus begin! :jig:

Urbane Guerrilla 08-11-2011 05:37 PM

V and Monkey -- you are both grossly, hugely, infinitely wrong about this.

Just who the FUCK makes corporations in the first place, you two? Martians? Stromatolites?

It takes humans to do business. That is Romney's point, and you two, along with the jackass in the background of the soundbite who burst out laughing, all have points on the tops of your heads.

Crush and destroy Obama and the Socialist Democrats! Let Libertarianism wash them away!

infinite monkey 08-11-2011 05:54 PM

I shall call him Biff. Biff Romney Guerrilla.

morethanpretty 08-11-2011 08:42 PM


ZenGum 08-11-2011 10:40 PM

Am I the only one who is amused by UG's political contortionism here? When it comes to invading other countries, he's all "pro-democracy" and "down with the anti-democrats".

Flip to US politics and he's "Down with the Democrats!" and "Up Republicanism".

I've got a new user title for him. The Republican Guard. I think it is available.

SamIam 08-12-2011 11:29 AM

I especially liked the following:

Quote:

Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to the people. Where do you think it goes? Whose pockets? Whose pockets? People's pockets. Human beings my friend."
Yeah, those earnings go to people, alright - people called CEO's who get outrageous salaries whether their corporation is doing well or not.

Hey, Mitt! The answer for the board and a thousand dollars is CEO's pockets! Got that, big guy?

TheMercenary 08-14-2011 07:09 AM

This was interesting...

12 Things Texans Know About Gov. Rick Perry That You Should, Too

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/...240638/#slide1

Clodfobble 08-14-2011 07:38 AM

Yes, the part about how only 9% of Texas Republicans would vote for him for President doesn't surprise me in the least. The guy is a douchebag of the highest order, and everyone here knows that.

TheMercenary 08-14-2011 07:41 AM

I don't want another religious right-wing nut in the White House but Obama has to go...

Clodfobble 08-14-2011 07:43 AM

Like you're always saying... be careful what you wish for.

TheMercenary 08-14-2011 08:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Clodfobble (Post 750200)
Like you're always saying... be careful what you wish for.

Yea, I agree. It could be a slippery slope. I would settle for the Republickins winning back the Senate, narrowly, and keeping the House, while Obama gets re-elected vs another swing of the pendulum to a single party control. I would really like to see the introduction of a strong minority party in both houses that would force more compromise. Any way you look at it the whole system of fucked up. I am beginning to hate them all.

Stormieweather 08-14-2011 01:07 PM

Me too, Merc. (wow, I agree with you on something! ;))

I'd like the election process cleaned up and money, lobbyists, PAC's, super-PAC's, and all the buying and selling of politicians eliminated. Then, we might could get something useful done.

Yeah yeah, I know. Never gonna happen.

classicman 08-14-2011 07:01 PM

Aside from that, I'd also like to see the tea party and the rest of the extremists sent packing as well


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