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[Invisible_Insane]

He doesn't need to support Romney

'I said during the debates that 'Any person on this stage is better than Obama."' -Newt Gingrich, five months from now.

Expect to hear it at the unity rally.

 

[Measley]

To be even more fair, Romney has donated a hell of a lot of money to charities as well. - most to the mormon church but many other charities as well.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/11/mitt-romney-gives-million_n_924414.html

When you're worth half a billion dollars, giving 4 million over 5 years is chump change.

 

[AlteredBeast]

His personality is terrible on its own, but the fact that he's an anti-vac nut just seals the deal.

and a huge PETA jackoff.

Seriously...terrible person. He and Newt should get in bed with one another.

 

[AlteredBeast]

When you're worth half a billion dollars, giving 4 million over 5 years is chump change.

Ehhh. Most people wait until they are significantly older to do much of their philanthropy work. I would love to see most other people give even just 2 or 3% of their income to charity.

 

[Measley]

Ehhh. Most people wait until they are significantly older to do much of their philanthropy work. I would love to see most other people give even just 2 or 3% of their income to charity.

Romney will be a senior citizen in 2 months.

 

[AlteredBeast]

Romney will be a senior citizen in 2 months.

He is a mormon, he has at least another 20 years in him.

 

[XMonkey]

Huntsman is more of a social moderate

Someone who supports a plan to effectively end Medicare is a social moderate? The GOP really has shifted the spectrum.

 

[KtSlime]

When you're worth half a billion dollars, giving 4 million over 5 years is chump change.

Especially when they are just done to be a check box for your governors' and presidential campaigns.

Donating is good, even for less than honest reasons, but let's not pretend he is some great philanthropist because his campaign planner told him to write a few checks to his own church.

 

[Learn2read]

Regardless of the tax code, tithe =! charity

 

[speculawyer]

and a huge PETA jackoff.

Seriously...terrible person. He and Newt should get in bed with one another.

I don't understand this. OK, you disagree with him on animal rights. But why hate people that want to be nice to animals? You really think he is about ban your bacon? PETA is great . . . they'll ensure we never ban meat because then we'll stop getting all these nude photo shoots.

 

[speculawyer]

Someone who supports a plan to effectively end Medicare is a social moderate? The GOP really has shifted the spectrum.

Medicare is viewed as a financial issue not a social issue.

 

[JCreasy]

Hey Huntsman, your thong is showing http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...romney/2012/01/11/gIQAnGiirP_blog.html?wprss=

 

[XMonkey]

Medicare is viewed as a financial issue not a social issue.

I consider it to be both.

 

[Learn2read]

Huntsman isn't ideologically moderate, but he is tempermentally moderate.

 

[RustyNails]

He doesn't need to support Romney

"I won't kill you, but I don't have to save you", as BatNewt glides out of the Romney train which is en-route for a derail.

 

[Salvor.Hardin]

Hey Huntsman, your thong is showing http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...romney/2012/01/11/gIQAnGiirP_blog.html?wprss=

What I find hilarious is that Bain & Company must loathe ever having had hired Romney for all the bad press that's being generated about Bain Capital, which is being referred to as Bain, and in the business world Bain & Company is the only Bain that anyone really ever hears about, leading people to confuse the two firms.

 

[KtSlime]

I don't understand this. OK, you disagree with him on animal rights. But why hate people that want to be nice to animals? You really think he is about ban your bacon? PETA is great . . . they'll ensure we never ban meat because then we'll stop getting all these nude photo shoots.

I've been a vegetarian for over 10 years now, and even I can find PETA to be a bit off putting and sometimes down right repugnant. However, I agree - the hate for PETA and people that think it is wrong to eat meat and used animal products is a bit disconcerting. I don't postalize the virtues of not eating meat, nor do I chastise those who chose to do so. But there is always someone that makes a stink about me being a vegetarian when they find out. I don't get it.

 

[AlteredBeast]

Especially when they are just done to be a check box for your governors' and presidential campaigns.

Donating is good, even for less than honest reasons, but let's not pretend he is some great philanthropist because his campaign planner told him to write a few checks to his own church.

Definitely not a philanthropist, but I am sure he will be some day.

 

[Suikoguy]

His personality is terrible on its own, but the fact that he's an anti-vac nut just seals the deal.

Yeah, it's also quite surprising considering how intellectual many of his positions are.

 

[AlteredBeast]

Yeah, it's also quite surprising considering how intellectual many of his positions are.

Paranoia is something that many people can simply not escape. Vaccine's have saved millions and millions of lives, while improving the quality of life of tens of millions more. Why someone would be against them is beyond me.

 

[Suikoguy]

Paranoia is something that many people can simply not escape. Vaccine's have saved millions and millions of lives, while improving the quality of life of tens of millions more. Why someone would be against them is beyond me.

It might be different if there was any actual evidence against vaccinations...

 

[AlteredBeast]

It might be different if there was any actual evidence against vaccinations...

There was that one doctor from the UK who falsified data...oh wait... yeah, anti-vac nuts are just that. There is a reason many of them are also vegans or evangelical nutters.

 

[Mifune]

I didn't catch who, but someone on NPR last night said that in the battle between Romney's history with Bain and Obama's presidential record, that Romney would win. I couldn't stop laughing my ass off.

Yes! I heard this too on my drive home and couldn't believe it.

 

[Mike M]

RNC files brief seeking to allow direct unlimited funding of campaigns by corporations

 

[AlteredBeast]

RNC files brief seeking to allow direct unlimited funding of campaigns by corporations

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Politics need an overhaul. Publicly funded elections should be the norm. Get corporatism and greed need to be rooted out...but oh wait, corporations RUN america.

 

[Mike M]

I find it odd that the Republican response to all the outrage at just about everything they've done for the past three years is to double, triple, then quadruple down on the crazy.

 

[AlteredBeast]

I find it odd that the Republican response to all the outrage at just about everything they've done for the past three years is to double, triple, then quadruple down on the crazy.

What are you specifically talking about? If the 2010 elections were an indication, they were doing exactly the right thing to get into office. The problem is, most tea party stances are untenable and destructive to the common good.

 

[demon]

RNC files brief seeking to allow direct unlimited funding of campaigns by corporations

And the Republican Party's quest to become as cartoonishly evil as possible continues.

 

[cooljeanius]

So checking the Concord Monitor's more detailed election results, Huntsman actually beat Paul here in Concord by 2 votes. Also my ward (Ward 6) was Romney's worst ward, with Paul beating him here.

 

[Clevinger]

RNC files brief seeking to allow direct unlimited funding of campaigns by corporations

smfh

get me off this god damn rock

 

[Stinkles]

RNC files brief seeking to allow direct unlimited funding of campaigns by corporations

PLEASE let there be a defense force for this, so I can say something to him that should get me banned.

 

[Clevinger]

PLEASE let there be a defense force for this, so I can say something to him that should get me banned.

Just say "Kosmo" three times in a mirror.

 

[Suikoguy]

Just say "Kosmo" three times in a mirror.

Does that cause him to show up here, or in my house?

 

[The Librarian]

RNC files brief seeking to allow direct unlimited funding of campaigns by corporations

:|

 

[Mike M]

What are you specifically talking about? If the 2010 elections were an indication, they were doing exactly the right thing to get into office. The problem is, most tea party stances are untenable and destructive to the common good.

Yeah, that was a poorly thought out statement on my part. Not even sure where I was trying to go.

 

[speculawyer]

Just go all out.

 

[jamesinclair]

I love when we get political ads on GAF.

Clicking on them = GAF makes money!
Clicking on them = Candidate loses money!

Win-win-win!

 

[Sirpopopop]

PLEASE let there be a defense force for this, so I can say something to him that should get me banned.

I'll play devil's advocate.

Free speech shouldn't be unimpeded by limits on how it should be exercised. It's one of our most sacred rights, and it shouldn't be infringed upon unless it can be shown there is a compelling security reason for it to be infringed upon.

 

[KtSlime]

I'll play devil's advocate.

Free speech shouldn't be unimpeded by limits on how it should be exercised. It's one of our most sacred rights, and it shouldn't be infringed upon unless it can be shown there is a compelling security reason for it to be infringed upon.

Hmmmm.

 

[AlteredBeast]

I'll play devil's advocate.

Free speech shouldn't be unimpeded by limits on how it should be exercised. It's one of our most sacred rights, and it shouldn't be infringed upon unless it can be shown there is a compelling security reason for it to be infringed upon.

corporations should not have free speech. People have free speech. Corporations are not people. For that alone, i hope Obama gets a true people's supreme court judge on that will repeal that crap.

 

[KingK]

RNC files brief seeking to allow direct unlimited funding of campaigns by corporations

I hate this shit. Elections should be publicly funded.

 

[elrechazado]

corporations should not have free speech.

Agreed. Shut down the New York Times.

 

[KtSlime]

Agreed. Shut down the New York Times.

If shutting down the New York Times would mean a shut down Fox/News Corp and more funding to NPR, I'd be in support.

 

[thekad]

Meh, Newt still has a chance if he can take a convincing win in SC, however unlikely that win. I don't think he'd be tearing down Mitt if he didn't think he could win.

 

[The Librarian]

Agreed. Shut down the New York Times.

There's a difference between releasing a statement and giving money.

 

[AlteredBeast]

Agreed. Shut down the New York Times.

in funding elections, yes. Not in expressing opinion, endorsing, etc. HELL NO. if the editor in chief of the NYT wants to donate to Obama and promote him, more power to him, but companies that pour untold money into political campaigns is reprehensible.

Publicly funded elections is the only way to both level the playing field, and keep politicians off the hook for paying back favors.

 

[KingK]

Agreed. Shut down the New York Times.

Do I sense a corporate campaign spending defense force?

PLEASE let there be a defense force for this, so I can say something to him that should get me banned.

Have at it.

 

[demon]

Agreed. Shut down the New York Times.

What about freedom of the press?

 

[elrechazado]

There's a difference between releasing a statement and giving money.

There might be. Too bad he didn't say that. Read what I responded to please, not what you thought up in your head.

What about freedom of the press?

Good question - ask the guy who said "corporations should not have free speech" not me.

in funding elections, yes. Not in expressing opinion, endorsing, etc. HELL NO. if the editor in chief of the NYT wants to donate to Obama and promote him, more power to him, but companies that pour untold money into political campaigns is reprehensible.

Publicly funded elections is the only way to both level the playing field, and keep politicians off the hook for paying back favors.

You said "corporations should not have free speech". If you want to be nuanced, maybe don't say dumb things next time right off the bat.

 

[AlteredBeast]

There might be. Too bad he didn't say that. Read what I responded to please, not what you thought up in your head.

you knew what I meant, though. To think otherwise is insulting me and yourself.