Sunday Roundup

This week, Mitt Romney avoided the embarrassment of losing his home state's primary, but not by much. The presumptive GOP nominee's campaign continues to sputter along, unable to win over the party's base. He blamed the lack of excitement on his unwillingness to "light my hair on fire" (who would want to inflame such a perfect coif?), but it likely has more to do with his inability to stop firing off tone-deaf comments like the latest ones about his multiple cars and his NASCAR team-owner pals. Luckily for Mitt, Rick Santorum keeps speaking his mind, revealing a candidate who thinks Obama is "a snob" for promoting higher education (despite his having more degrees than Ann Romney has Cadillacs), and that the government "should get out of the education business" (despite accepting thousands in government aid for his kids' home schooling). The level of discourse, unlike the trees in Michigan, is definitely not "the right height."

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[PrairieGayCompanion]

09:20 AM on 03/05/2012

No mention of Rush?

[capitaldysfunction]

09:30 PM on 03/04/2012

Good taste of Willard Mitt Romney. Want the full smell? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/24/mitt-romney-closet-keynesian-paul-krugman_n_1298907.html

[MichaelMullarkeyMBA]

08:36 PM on 03/04/2012

Let word go out to near and far that this generation of democrats like previous generations of Democrats chooses to fight for liberty. Mitt Romney has stated that he does not want to fight in Syria let it be known that this generation of democrats does want to fight for liberty in Syria. With history as our teacher we find that democrats fight tyranny and oppression and Republicans don't.

[wonketteRAWKS]

08:25 PM on 03/04/2012

Speaking of Michigan, what's going on with that Chevy Volt?

[Hunter40]

10:18 PM on 03/04/2012

It's simple--they tried to cash in on the tax rebate and thought they could get $40K for a car that's only worth about $30K. Worst yet, nobody I know of [who would by an electric car] would ever buy it from GM...they killed it back in '94 and that's something EV buyers will ever forget (or forgive). One year later there are too many other choices; they should just give up the EV business.

[Anne7]

08:17 PM on 03/04/2012

So Romney is coming out ahead because he is the "least crazy" or "least hypocritical" of them all...hmmmm...not exactly a "ringing endorsement" for running the country.

[ellsfran]

07:59 PM on 03/04/2012

Could it be seeing the candidates on the campaign trail is one thing. Imagining them in the Oval Office while America is in crisis and trusting the future of America in their hands is something entirely different. Perhaps the public doesn't want any of them running the country. We'll see in November.

[ARTIST50]

09:54 PM on 03/04/2012

We seem to be doing better than our eight years under Bush.

[bikeguy54]

06:12 PM on 03/04/2012

As far as Romney losing his home state, I'd like to go back to the 2000 presidential election.
Much was made of Florida's hanging "chads." But the reality of that election was, if Vice President Gore hadn't lost Tennessee, his home state, Florida wouldn't have mattered.
Tennessee's electoral votes would have given him the victory.
Just saying.

[temmaleah]

05:35 PM on 03/04/2012

our debt was incurred by two wars and speculation by wall street....and when foreclosures and dissappearring jobs knocked out income to the government the spending outpaced the income in,which is why we're in this place....and hopefully with the wars ending and jobs coming back we'll get back to where a middle class has a chance to assist the country.

[ecomcon]

03:32 PM on 03/04/2012

Many articles continue to say that Romney won Michigan, but he wouldn't have except for a post-election ruling by the Republican Party. Michigan delegates were based on Congressional districts, and Romney and Santorum split those evenly. However, the GOP decided after the election to award two more delegates to Romney.

[wonketteRAWKS]

08:26 PM on 03/04/2012

Reminds me of the 2007 Democratic Primary, right?

[Neli Borba]

03:18 PM on 03/04/2012

If Obama is elected again we will have a country looking like more Russia back in twentieth century much more than a new vanguard country, you know? In Russia and other countries like it, the governemnt "takes care of everything" or so it used to be. America is not the same thing it used to be 30 or more years ago. It is going from bad to worse and I don't like to pay "penalties" for lack of health insurance; this kind of "health pact" is control of the purest kind. Someone is going to profit from this.

[little old lady]

04:38 PM on 03/04/2012

Barbecued Baloney! Like Russia "back in the 20th Century?" And you realize, of course, that the whole world is changing and nothing nowhere is "the same thing it used to be 30 or more years ago." Incidentally, the rest of us don't want to pay for your health care either. Everybody should have insurance, so the rest of us don't have to support ER visits for those who don't.

[Neli Borba]

07:56 PM on 03/04/2012

Well, I never needed nobody and much less taxpayers to pay anything for my health insurance or whatever. What do you think? That everybody likes, and lives from the welfare? Health insurance is a choice, not a mandate from the government with strings attached. It is like Russia or communist countries where the government controls everything and USA is going down the same road. Sometimes it even looks worst with so many laws and regulations that encroaches civil liberties. Only blind people cannot see it. Even the elections are manipulated. This presidential election is being paid by the "millionaires". What fun is in voting for someone that has been chosen by a political party and some "big shots", it is like choosing the horse that everybody know wins the race, with votes or without them.

[giftsthatpurr]

12:18 AM on 03/05/2012

Little old lady - great post! To the point and real. F/F

[Mugzi]

06:28 PM on 03/04/2012

Really.....seems you're making a very broad statement based on healthcare reform. To educate you, we need healthcare reform desparately! Health care ins premiums are higher for some Americans than their mortgages, Americans denied coverage for pre-existing conditions, and other life threatening policies. The healthcare act is not an answer, but it is a beginning to universal coverage so all Americans have access to healthcare instead of a selected pop of Americans!!!

[jstreet]

02:59 PM on 03/04/2012

Mitt's hair is "just the right height." but with all that dressing, I sometimes worry that it might combust.

[Holymolly]

02:35 PM on 03/04/2012

One must get enough educazion so they do not have to look up to no one, then, one must further their education by not looking down on any one. /:)>

[Moonspirit48]

09:47 PM on 03/04/2012

Well said!

[aloevera456]

02:16 PM on 03/04/2012

I agree with all you wrote Ariana. But lately I've also been wondering if maybe RMoney might have a Ronald Reagan problem like maybe Alzheimers or something. These seem to me to be more than just gaffs. He seems not to be able to think clearly. Is is possible that's it's not that he flip flops but that he really doesn't remember what he said last month, or last week, or yesterday, or an hour ago, or in several cases, what he said moments ago?

[little old lady]

04:46 PM on 03/04/2012

I noticed something odd about him too. I see him just being rather detached from reality or from the immediate situation he finds himself in. I don't see a really "solid person" there, but a wispy, thin image of a man. Can't find the right words. Ephemeral?

[giftsthatpurr]

12:21 AM on 03/05/2012

disconnected.

[esilversurfer]

02:10 PM on 03/04/2012

The media keeps describing Romney's comments as "gaffs", but they are actually unscripted moments of honesty. He doesn't know he has said something politically damaging until his handlers explain to him that only out-of-touch vulture capitalists think that way. Then he dismisses his true convictions and says what is most politically expedient at the moment. Now that Limbaugh has apologized, he'll strongly condemn it, after he didn't have the guts to say anything before. They all kiss Limbaugh's you know what.

[Holymolly]

02:37 PM on 03/04/2012

Lols, that means I'll never run fer office. :O

[MARTinNJ]

02:01 PM on 03/04/2012

Mitt Romney comes in first in Washington State Republican caucuses with 37.8% and in the US Media he is the 'winner'. Keep in mind that 62|+% of the voters voted for someone else (anyone else). When you campaign for President for 5 years, spend upwards of $100+ million dollars and come in with 37.8% of the votes only ould the US Media call you a 'winner'. In the real objective world, 5 years/$100+millions spend/37.8% of the votes isn't a 'win' it is a wimper.

[tacevad]

02:20 PM on 03/04/2012

I see only19,000 voted FOR Mitt in Washington State, millions didn't ;)

[The Smartest Monkees]

05:45 PM on 03/04/2012

If I remember the figures correctly, only half of the 36% registered Republicans in Florida bothered to vote in their primary, and only half of those, 8%, voted for Romney. How in the world can he imagine beating Obama in Florida (or anywhere else) with those kinds of numbers?

And yet I believe Romney IS the most viable Republican running for nomination. It's just that the Tea Party extremism has forced all of the comparatively rational Repubs to stay out of the contest. None of these candidates would have lasted through the Summer in a normal year, and I imagine the more rational Repubs have pretty much written this Presidential election off.

It will be all they can do to hold the House, and, with these assaults on women's rights, the Tea Party candidates have (hopefully) cost the Pubs those seats as well.