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stfuhypocrisy:

“Any politician who will not show multiple year taxes may be hiding something”

-George Romney

Son, you’ve got some explainin’ to do.

(Source: stfueverything, via truth-has-a-liberal-bias)

"He’s a very generous person. We give 10 percent of our income to our church every year. Do you think that is the kind of person who is trying to hide things, or do things?"

Ann Romney, in an interview on ABC News, defending her husband for not releasing their tax returns but not noting the irony that only their tax returns can prove what they give to charity. (via liberalsarecool)

Wow, 10 percent, really? That’s super generous. Oh… That’s the number that Mormons are required to tithe to remain in good standing with the church? Oh well, carry on. 

Also note that 10% of Romney’s income is more than you will make in your entire life.

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[In 1994] Romney was preparing to leave the [homeless shelter for veterans], so he pulled Smith aside, in front of the media, to ask him his biggest problem at the shelter.

Smith replied “milk.”

Smith explained that the State of Massachusetts allocated $2.37 per day twice a day for each homeless veteran’s meal. Since the amount was so meager, the shelter had trouble providing each veteran with a carton of milk at each meal.

Romney responded “well Ken, maybe you can teach the vets to milk cows.” Romney then walked out the door.

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omg this couldnt have happened. no way he said that

(via flyinghellfish)

From what I can determine this is true, and he tried to make amends for it afterward.  Still, I can’t imagine any personality who would make this his response under any circumstance.

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thepoliticalfreakshow:

The Mitt Romney Bullying Story

The sad, troubling tale of when a teenage Mitt Romney attacked one of his classmates. The Washington Post found numerous eyewitnesses to verify this incident from 1965. Romney has since apologized.

Mitt Romney, left, with George and Lenore Romney in 1962.

(AP / Handout)

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. — Mitt Romney returned from a three-week spring break in 1965 to resume his studies as a high school senior at the prestigious Cranbrook School. Back on the handsome campus, studded with Tudor brick buildings and manicured fields, he spotted something he thought did not belong at a school where the boys wore ties and carried briefcases. John Lauber, a soft-spoken new student one year behind Romney, was perpetually teased for his nonconformity and presumed homosexuality. Now he was walking around the all-boys school with bleached-blond hair that draped over one eye, and Romney wasn’t having it.

Source: washingtonpost.com

Cranbrook School.

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“He can’t look like that. That’s wrong. Just look at him!” an incensed Romney told Matthew Friedemann, his close friend in the Stevens Hall dorm, according to Friedemann’s recollection. Mitt, the teenaged son of Michigan Gov. George Romney, kept complaining about Lauber’s look, Friedemann recalled.

Source: washingtonpost.com

Cranbrook School.

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A few days later, Friedemann entered Stevens Hall off the school’s collegiate quad to find Romney marching out of his own room ahead of a prep school posse shouting about their plan to cut Lauber’s hair. Friedemann followed them to a nearby room where they came upon Lauber, tackled him and pinned him to the ground. As Lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help, Romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors.

Source: washingtonpost.com

Cranbrook School.

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The incident transpired in a flash, and Friedemann said Romney then led his cheering schoolmates back to his bay-windowed room in Stevens Hall.

Friedemann, guilt ridden, made a point of not talking about it with his friend and waited to see what form of discipline would befall Romney at the famously strict institution. Nothing happened.

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Cranbrook School.

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After the incident, Lauber seemed to disappear. He returned days later with his shortened hair back to its natural brown. He finished the year, but ultimately left the school before graduation — thrown out for smoking a cigarette.

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Cranbrook School.

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“It happened very quickly, and to this day it troubles me,” said (Thomas) Buford, the school’s wrestling champion, who said he joined Romney in restraining Lauber. Buford subsequently apologized to Lauber, who was “terrified,” he said. “What a senseless, stupid, idiotic thing to do.”

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Cranbrook School.

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Sometime in the mid-1990s, (Romney’s classmate at Cranbrook) David Seed noticed a familiar face at the end of a bar at Chicago O’Hare International Airport.

“Hey, you’re John Lauber,” Seed recalled saying at the start of a brief conversation. Seed, also among those who witnessed the Romney-led incident, had gone on to a career as a teacher and principal. Now he had something to get off his chest.

“I’m sorry that I didn’t do more to help in the situation,” he said.

Lauber paused, then responded, “It was horrible.” He went on to explain how frightened he was during the incident, and acknowledged to Seed, “It’s something I have thought about a lot since then.”

…

Lauber died in 2004 (of liver cancer), according to his three sisters.

Source: washingtonpost.com

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underthemountainbunker:

MITT ROMNEY: “I’ll take a lot of credit” for auto industry recovery — Romney said his views helped save the industry. “I pushed the idea of a managed bankruptcy,” Romney said. “And finally, when that was done, and help was given, the companies got back on their feet. So I’ll take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry’s come back.” […] Romney’s stance on the bailouts and his infamous 2008 New York Times op-ed “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt,” have come up throughout the campaign, especially ahead of February’s primary in Michigan. In that editorial, Romney argued that a government bailout for ailing auto giants Chrysler and General Motors would do more harm than good. […] Romney also spoke out on his opposition to the government loaning money to the industry in 2009, placing some of the blame on Bush. —HuffPo [image: drunkonstevphen]

• John Kerry laughed: “I just – he cannot be serious.”
• Former auto czar Steve Rattner reacts to Mitt Romney taking credit for the auto bailout: “I’ve read, I think, everything Romney’s had to say on this subject, and the level of flip flopping and dissembling is truly mindboggling. He’s been on every side of the auto rescue at different times and said different things, so it’s hard to know what he honestly thinks.”
• Another point – Before we even got to the managed bankruptcy in 2009 that Romney says he called for all along, there were a series of emergency loans in late 2008 to the carmakers from the federal government that Romney opposed. […] If Romney’s position had prevailed, there would have been no emergency loans and no auto industry left to put through a managed bankruptcy.
• 
• Image: “This is outside Romney’s Lansing event,” Reuters correspondent Sam Youngman tweets. – reuters

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stfuconservatives:

Wow that is going to haunt my nightmares…

-Joe

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Miti-miti en to’… (get it? ah ah ah?)

aja Mitt Romney. 

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oinonio:

@mittromney, ready to Shake that Etch-A-Sketch

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rockyanderson2012:

Go here to support Rocky Anderson’s candidacy on American’s Elect! 

If Rocky Anderson leaps into first place on American’s Elect, I will give 100$ to whoever has the most people reblog and support Rocky (as I will count from the notes from this post) on Paypal. I (socialuprooting / John) will message the person privately. 

Rocky’s policies and new party should be pushing forward with a progressive movement to overthrow the two-party corporatist and militarist duopoly, perpetuated by both Romney and Obama. It all starts here, with you. If Rocky receives American’s Elect nomination, he will be on the ballot in all 50 states.

I’m serious about this, and you should be too. Let’s get spreading this message and pushing forward for Rocky’s nomination for American’s Elect.

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americawakiewakie:

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socialuprooting:

Bernie Sanders Takes Down Every Single GOP Presidential Candidate

In a masterful take down, Sen. Bernie Sanders took apart the 2012 GOP presidential field and called them the fringe of American society.

On HBO’s Real Time, host Bill Maher asked about a question about the Republican primary and Sen. Sanders went off,

One of the problems that I see in the Republican primaries is that these guys are so out of touch with the reality that the American people are going through that it is really quite amazing. We are seeing a middle class collapsing. We are seeing poverty increasing. We’re seeing a nation in which the rich are getting richer and we have the most unequal distribution of wealth and income of any major country.

Do they have one word to say about this issue?

We have 50 million people without any health insurance. We are the only country, major country on earth that does not guarantee healthcare to every man, woman, and child as a right. Do you know what their solution is? Cut Medicare.  Cut Medicaid. You got Social Security, the most successful government program in the history of our country. A program which has not resulted in one penny of deficit for this country, and you know what they want to do? They want to cut Medicaid. They want to cut Social Security. They want to privatize these important programs.

These guys are way, way out of touch from where the American people are, and I think when you look at them issue by issue — tax breaks for the rich, cut Social Security, more money on defense spending — they are literally a fringe element in American society.

Last but not least, you’ve got virtually every scientist in this world who studies the issue who tells us global warming is a huge, huge problem. We’ve got to move in a very aggressive way to break our dependence on fossil fuel, move to sustainable energy, energy efficiency. These guys don’t even acknowledge the reality of global warming.

(via inothernews)

ihopericksantorum:

No, it’s not just a few vague quotes taken completely out of context. In fact, Paul’s newsletters read like a “greatest hits” album of far right bigotry, conspiracy theories, and violent propaganda. The following quotes were all taken newsletters operated by Ron Paul and published between 1985 and 1994.

Read more about it here.

Que clase de cabrón.