Krugman has already provided a handy tear down of Mitt's entire line of "reasoning" for your reading pleasure.

A church tax? That's voluntary, I mean charity. I knew lots of mormons who couldn't or didn't pay. Try that with the Government.

Thanks in advance to Newt Gingrich when he rips this to pieces in the next debate.

So ... 15% plus 15% .... carry the one ... divide by six ...

I don't want a president who is this easily flustered. It's kind of embarrassing.

I love that people are surprised that he tithes 10% to the church.

"Tithe" means "tenth."

I'd like to thank Mitt for keeping this alive after the news cycle had moved on and was only talking about the SOTU.

You're the Republican front-runner, from a family with decades of political experience, already personally rich beyond the dreams of avarice and now with access to the writers, spinmeisters and consultants of the finest, most ruthless election machine the human race has ever known...and THIS is the kind of asstarded shiat that dribbles out of your spew hole?

Mr. Coffee Nerves: You're the Republican front-runner, from a family with decades of political experience, already personally rich beyond the dreams of avarice and now with access to the writers, spinmeisters and consultants of the finest, most ruthless election machine the human race has ever known...and THIS is the kind of asstarded shiat that dribbles out of your spew hole?

Pretty much, this is my pain.

Mitt and Newt Gingrich are considered the front runners, and people wonder why I weep for my damn party...

hubiestubert: Pretty much, this is my pain.

Mitt and Newt Gingrich are considered the front runners, and people wonder why I weep for my damn party...

Carville summed it up quite nicely earlier this year..

If the prize (GOP winning the election to avoid the utter destruction of America under a second Obama term) were that valuable, why hasn't the candidate supply met the demand?

hubiestubert: Mr. Coffee Nerves: You're the Republican front-runner, from a family with decades of political experience, already personally rich beyond the dreams of avarice and now with access to the writers, spinmeisters and consultants of the finest, most ruthless election machine the human race has ever known...and THIS is the kind of asstarded shiat that dribbles out of your spew hole?

Pretty much, this is my pain.

Mitt and Newt Gingrich are considered the front runners, and people wonder why I weep for my damn party...

Barry Goldwater warned of allowing the Religious Right to gain power within the Party. Once that happened, all of this began. Which is unfortunate.

And yes, we should have 2 candidates running for President that would be good choices for governing this country. This year, we won't.

Nadie_AZ: And yes, we should have 2 candidates running for President that would be good choices for governing this country. This year, we won't

Yep. Just the one.

hubiestubert: Mr. Coffee Nerves: You're the Republican front-runner, from a family with decades of political experience, already personally rich beyond the dreams of avarice and now with access to the writers, spinmeisters and consultants of the finest, most ruthless election machine the human race has ever known...and THIS is the kind of asstarded shiat that dribbles out of your spew hole?

Pretty much, this is my pain.

Mitt and Newt Gingrich are considered the front runners, and people wonder why I weep for my damn party...

No, people wonder why you're still in the damn party.

hubiestubert: Pretty much, this is my pain.

Mitt and Newt Gingrich are considered the front runners, and people wonder why I weep for my damn party

Have you ever considered that it quit being your party?

I at one time was a Republican, I believed in the lowest taxes possible, smart Government spending and Government only intruding where it was truly needed, not here we though it should be ( like the bedroom.)

Then along came the rise of the "Southern Strategy" folks who joined the party after the Dems gained some Sanity.

Know it appears that the Republican Party are ran by Religious Corporatists that think they can still win the Civil War!

So know I am an independent -Also known as a "Lib" socialist, by the new Republicans!

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Mitt can't possibly believe that Republican voters are stupid enough to fall for that.

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This. Whar buttons, whar?

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This. Whar buttons, whar?

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Azlefty: I had thoughts about the Modern Whigs. The TEA Party nonsense sort of killed them and took any momentum out from under them--which, to be fair, was sort of the point. The GOP leadership was scared witless that they would have a Not Crazy alternative to the Libertarians, and one that might gather momentum with veterans.

The TEA Party nonsense killed that momentum.

The party is pretty much forcing me and folks like myself out. Independent is a road that means not really having a candidate to put on the ballot. It would be nice to have a party that represented my interests. Sadly, at this point, given the Crazy Train's influence, they are forcing me to vote against candidates as opposed to voting for folks that I fully endorse.

I'll bet you $10,000 that this is nonsense.

C'mon...10,000 bucks.

Actually, capital gains doesn't count as income, which makes Mitt's tax rate 100% which means he makes no money at all. I'M SAYING HE'S POOR LIKE YOU PEOPLE!

hubiestubert: Azlefty: I had thoughts about the Modern Whigs. The TEA Party nonsense sort of killed them and took any momentum out from under them--which, to be fair, was sort of the point. The GOP leadership was scared witless that they would have a Not Crazy alternative to the Libertarians, and one that might gather momentum with veterans.

The TEA Party nonsense killed that momentum.

The party is pretty much forcing me and folks like myself out. Independent is a road that means not really having a candidate to put on the ballot. It would be nice to have a party that represented my interests. Sadly, at this point, given the Crazy Train's influence, they are forcing me to vote against candidates as opposed to voting for folks that I fully endorse.

Welcome to the Moderate Majority. We're glad you're here.

/have some punch

Mentat: Actually, capital gains doesn't count as income, which makes Mitt's tax rate 100% which means he makes no money at all. I'M SAYING HE'S POOR LIKE YOU PEOPLE!

Yeah, but does he pack fudge like the rest of us?

I guess in the final analysis what we've got from the GOP is a pretty much intentional self-sabotage. They had exactly one person running who was at all sane (Huntsman), and they made sure he didn't gain any traction at all. In fact, by having that huge group of candidates representing the Very Loony wing of the GOP, they pretty much guaranteed another 4 year term for Obama, provided the "dead girl or live boy" issue doesn't show up for him before November. Which is almost unthinkable when you consider that Barack Obama is the poster child for family values in this race.

So the GOP figures...what? Obstruct like crazy for the next four years, tank the economy, sabotage any growth potential, undercut all attempts to fix our infrastructure, filibuster any hint of a tax increase, generally fark over anyone trying to get healthcare, scare foreign corporations away from our shores by keeping us in turmoil, and then in '16, they'll swoop in and create Supply Side Jesusland with the full backing of the American public? Because that really seems to be what their game plan is. And they seem to be utterly ignoring the fact that the people are starting to rise up against their bullshiat. Obama backhanded them into next week at the SOTU, and the frontrunners are still trying to see which of them can most effectively urinate in the other's mouth while screaming like howler monkeys that THEY're the moral voice of the USA.

Personally, I'm almost orgasmic with delight. This is wonderful. The conditions are right for an economic turnaround of Clintonian proportions, and we just may be able to place the full credit for our country's salvation on a mosh pit of poo flinging, masturbating whackaloons.

It's delicious.

Nadie_AZ: Mentat: Actually, capital gains doesn't count as income, which makes Mitt's tax rate 100% which means he makes no money at all. I'M SAYING HE'S POOR LIKE YOU PEOPLE!

Yeah, but does he pack fudge like the rest of us?

Santorum has that particular contest licked.

Grand_Moff_Joseph: Krugman has already provided a handy tear down of Mitt's entire line of "reasoning" for your reading pleasure.

robsul82: Thanks in advance to Newt Gingrich when he rips this to pieces in the next debate.

markie_farkie: Grand_Moff_Joseph: edmo: AdolfOliverPanties: [cdn.crooksandliars.com image 500x352]

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Yea, yea, I know. Haven't had enough coffee today.

/self fail

Man, Romney pisses me off. I think, deep down, there is a guy that I could respect to a pretty high extent. Not necessarily agree with and almost certainly not vote for, but respect at least in part. Like Huntsman or RON PAUL.

But he is the mostest panderin' flip floppin' power-grubbin' Ego Monster I have ever seen.

shiat, Romney, if you'd run as yourself (if any is left) I think you would breeze into the White House.

Lionel Mandrake: Man, Romney pisses me off. I think, deep down, there is a guy that I could respect to a pretty high extent. Not necessarily agree with and almost certainly not vote for, but respect at least in part. Like Huntsman or RON PAUL.

But he is the mostest panderin' flip floppin' power-grubbin' Ego Monster I have ever seen.

shiat, Romney, if you'd run as yourself (if any is left) I think you would breeze into the White House.

The problem is, not even Romney knows who he really is. He's "redefined" himself so many times, he doesn't even know who or what he is today, much less how to even get back to what he was when he started.

15 + 15 = 40

hubiestubert: Mitt and Newt Gingrich are considered the front runners, and people wonder why I weep for my damn party...

Come over to the Democrats. We have cookies.

Grand_Moff_Joseph: Lionel Mandrake: Man, Romney pisses me off. I think, deep down, there is a guy that I could respect to a pretty high extent. Not necessarily agree with and almost certainly not vote for, but respect at least in part. Like Huntsman or RON PAUL.

But he is the mostest panderin' flip floppin' power-grubbin' Ego Monster I have ever seen.

shiat, Romney, if you'd run as yourself (if any is left) I think you would breeze into the White House.

The problem is, not even Romney knows who he really is. He's "redefined" himself so many times, he doesn't even know who or what he is today, much less how to even get back to what he was when he started.

Bingo

The reason I find this truly rich (and not in a monetary fashion) is that he gives his money to a church that, based on its behavior in the Prop 8 fight, should probably be stripped of its tax-exempt status.

/all religious exemptions should go, but let's start with baby steps

vernonFL: 15 + 15 = 40


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Oh come on man, don't associate one of my favorite movies with these cockbags, even in mocking.

FishyFred: /all religious exemptions should go, but let's start with baby steps

Amen

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For extremely large values of 15.

Agneska: Liberals: "Wahhh Romney rich Wahhh I poor and stupid Wahhh why Romney so rich and me so poor and stupid. Wahhh!"

I thought liberals were rich and elite?

Nadie_AZ: Barry Goldwater warned of allowing the Religious Right to gain power within the Party. Once that happened, all of this began. Which is unfortunate.

Neither Romney nor Gingrich are really members of the religious right in the normal sense of the term.

Agneska: Liberals: "Wahhh Romney rich Wahhh I poor and stupid Wahhh why Romney so rich and me so poor and stupid. Wahhh!"

Yeah. That's exactly what people are saying.

Verbatim.