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Brinbe

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Oblivion said:
lol. Has this been posted? Mittens says he's not going to release his tax returns cause John Kerry's WIFE never had to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLUyr8beeCg&feature=player_embedded
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Diablos

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RDreamer said:
Here's the link

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That's for March.

This link also says that in March more than ninety-seven per cent of the donations were for less than $250, and the average donation was $50.78.

This article also talks about things overall by the end of April

In June 98% of people gave less than $250. Average size was just over $50.
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Mhm. All that much harder to call Obama some donor whore. Not to say he's completely innocent by any means, but for Mitt Romney to make the claim is extremely hypocritical at the very core.
 
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worldrunover

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RustyNails said:
McCain 2008 Campaign's file on Mitt Romney.

Have at it, gaf!
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Wow.

Wow..

Just a taste:

STATE FEES
Romney Imposed Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars In Fee Increases, Affecting Virtually Everyone InMassachusetts, While Insisting They Were Not New TaxesRomney Imposed Over $500 Million In Fee Hikes During His First Year In Office – More Than Any OtherState That Year.
“Massachusetts has picked up another dubious distinction: It has imposed more fee hikes thanany other state this year…Of the 30 states the National Conference of State Legislatures found raised fees thisyear, only nine are bringing in $100 million or more from those fee hikes. Massachusetts $500 million boost eventopped the $367 million fee increase in New York, which has a much larger budget.”
(Editorial, “We’re No. 1,”
Sunday Telegram
, 7/27/03)
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Romney Insisted Fees Were Not Taxes:
“Practically no one is spared from dozens of new and increasedstate fees proposed Thursday by Gov. Mitt Romney, who insisted they are not taxes.”
(Ken Maguire, “GovernorSays Proposed New, Higher Fees Are Not Taxes,”
The Associated Press
, 2/27/03)

Romney’s Fees Cut Into The Benefits Ordinary Citizens Received From President Bush’s 2003 Tax Cuts.
“If the Bush tax cuts revive the stalling economy they will do so in spite of the large fee increases levied by statesacross the U.S. with Massachusetts leading the way. If anything, these state fee increases not only diminish, but,for some people, even eliminate, the tax cuts passed by Congress and signed by the President.”
(Christopher Boyd,“Fees Put A Crimp On Tax Cuts,” Beacon Hill Institute’s
NewsLink
, Vol. 8, No. 1, Fall 2003)

Boston Globe
: Romney’s Fee Increases “May Have Enhanced [Massachusetts’] Reputation As‘Taxachusetts.’”
“This time it’s fees, not taxes. Still, Massachusetts may have enhanced its reputation as‘Taxachusetts.’ A survey of states grappling with spending crises has found that Massachusetts imposed morefee hikes than any other state in the nation this year - at least $500 million. Governor Mitt Romney and theLegislature, faced with a multibillion dollar shortfall, made it more expensive to get a marriage license or adivorce, file a court case, buy a house, renew a driver’s license, or tap into a host of other state services.”
(RickKlein, “Mass. Is Called No. 1 In Fee Hikes,”
The Boston Globe
, 7/24/03)

Massachusetts Called “The Most Fee-Happy State In The Nation.”
“With Massachusetts emerging as themost fee-happy state in the nation, lawmakers and advocates for groups targeted by fee hikes are lining up topush for some reversals. One bill would make the $100 fee for carrying a firearm valid for life, instead of having tobe renewed every four years. ‘It’s ridiculous,’ James L. Wallace, a spokesman for the Gun Owners Action League
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Suikoguy

I whinny my fervor lowly, for his length is not as great as those of the Hylian war stallions
ErasureAcer said:
Looks like Romney is picking Pawlenty then for VP. As he pulled the same Fees aren't a tax increase BS here in Minnesota.
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That has been the new Republican way, I've seen in here in Florida too.
The problem is most fees are not progressive.
 
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RustyNails

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FOREIGN POLICY
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Romney has no foreign policy experience.
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lol
Washington Post’s Dana Milbank: “He’s Getting A Little Bit Of A Kerry Problem.”
“He doesn’t call them small animals, he calls them varmints. It sounds like Yosemite Sam here… ‘Say your prayers, varmints.’ Does it recall or bring to mind something that happened about this time in the 2004 cycle with John Kerry and his hunting? It’s curious that these two from Massachusetts seem to have this sort of ‘I voted for the $87 billion before I voted against it’ problem going on here, just as Mitt Romney is rising to prominence in the Republican field, he’s getting a little bit of a Kerry problem.”
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lol
 
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RDreamer

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That's a fascinating read. Some of this stuff is all over the place. I find myself reading one thing only to say to myself "This is the same guy that's running today? He really said that?" then 2 seconds later it's like "Oh, yep, this is definitely that same guy..."

It really reinforces his flip flopping and political pandering.
 
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Wilsongt

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Holy shit. That document is a GOLD MINE.

On Monday, Romney Said His Favorite Novel Is L. Ron Hubbard’s “Battlefield Earth.”
ROMNEY:“Favorite book… Well, has to be the Bible.” FOX NEWS’ MARTHA MCCALLUM: “And an interesting response tohis favorite novel.” ROMNEY: “Actually the one by L. Ron Hubbard, I hate to think … I’m not in favor of his religionby any means, but he wrote a book called ‘Battlefield Earth’ that was a very fun science fiction book.”
(Fox News’“Fox & Friends,” 4/30/07)

Romney Later Reversed Himself, Saying “Huckleberry Finn” Was Favorite Fiction Book And “BattlefieldEarth” Was Favorite Science Fiction Book
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Good lord. The guy can even make up his mind about his favorite book.
 
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The Technomancer

card-carrying scientician
RDreamer said:
That's a fascinating read. Some of this stuff is all over the place. I find myself reading one thing only to say to myself "This is the same guy that's running today? He really said that?" then 2 seconds later it's like "Oh, yep, this is definitely that same guy..."

It really reinforces his flip flopping and political pandering.
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Whats weird is that if he held now the positions he claimed to hold as the Mass. governor I might actually consider voting for him. I mean, pro-choice, gay rights, dude practically seems like a social liberal.

EDIT: Aaaaaand then we get to the economic stuff. Holy hell
 
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GaimeGuy

Volunteer Deputy Campaign Director, Obama for America '16
ErasureAcer said:
Looks like Romney is picking Pawlenty then for VP. As he pulled the same Fees aren't a tax increase BS here in Minnesota.
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I like how Pawlenty while he was governor here made cuts to every department.... except the governor's office.
 
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RDreamer

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The_Technomancer said:
Whats weird is that if he held now the positions he claimed to hold as the Mass. governor I might actually consider voting for him. I mean, pro-choice, gay rights, dude practically seems like a social liberal.
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Yeah, he seems like he was a decent guy back then, or at least held some decent opinions. Actually he seems like a sort of bizzaro Obama where the biggest difference is the R next to his name... back then.

But then overall you sort of get this picture that those weren't his actual opinions either. I kind of get the idea that he endorsed most of those things because it was politically necessary to in Massachusetts. Sure, some of his statements seem a bit more genuine than now, but I suppose I just can't tell anymore. He really just seems like a robot trying to calculate what the best opinion to have in order to win whatever he's going for. I know we joke about the robot thing, but I really don't see any conviction in anything he says or has said anymore. I really feel like I don't know who the hell this guy actually is.
 
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MonkeyKing

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The idea that Condi would VP this campaign is laughable. Please! She's gonna take on Obama with this guy?

Any decent vp candidate is going to sit this one out, just like the good presidential candidates are. It's gonna have to be someone fringe that just doesn't care either way. Can Cheney run again?
 
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Tamanon

Banned
Romney health insurance plan expanded access to abortion, required Planned Parenthood representative onstate panel.
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Romney endorsed legalization of abortion pill RU-486 access during his 1994 Senate race and backedfederal funding of abortion, saying “I think it’s important that people see me not as a pro-life candidate.”
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In 1994 and 2002, Romney confirmed his support for Roe v. Wade decision and forcefully positioned himselfas pro-choice in 1994 Senate race, saying “you will not see me wavering on that.”
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I smell another Jobs Report response.
 
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Amir0x

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ok seriously Romney campaign is offering more laughs this week than I can remember in a good long while in the political spectrum. He should at least be happy it's happening now instead of late October, but Christ, if he's not answering anything now, he's going to have to say something during the debates, and that's just going to be more news cycle fodder. Romney really is boxed in as fuck
 
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