Will Romney go a week without continuously fucking up his own campaign?

[Kershaw]

I think it really started the downhill slide when he stated his campaign wouldnt be ruled by fact checkers. I had no idea he would take that so literally.

Op-Ed by conservative NY Times columnist David Brookes.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/opinion/brooks-thurston-howell-romney.html

The people who receive the disproportionate share of government spending are not big-government lovers. They are Republicans. They are senior citizens. They are white men with high school degrees. As Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution has noted, the people who have benefited from the entitlements explosion are middle-class workers, more so than the dependent poor.

[herbivor]

Well, he had a good run. I think this was the nail in the coffin. The funny thing is, the 47% he speaks of that vote are more Republicans than Dems as a percentage. He just shit on his own voters....again.

[DaveNorCal]

Back when he was running for President the first time, he was still Governor of MA and was running around the country trashing his "own state" in he he votes but doesn't live. A real class act!

[herbivor]

Some fun facts:
Historical data from up to 70 years:

Debt and Deficit.*In the past*17 Presidential terms, nine*were GOP led and eight Democratic. Of nine GOP Presidents, six added to debt/GDP and deficit/GDP as a percent. The only three that did not, had a Democratic House and Senate. Of eight Democrats, each one, reduced deficit/GDP and debt/GDP as a percent. That is 66 years of rhetoric of fiscal responsibility with zero net results for GOP. What makes matters even worse, is the fact that the president who added a historical 20.7% to the debt has one unique aspect of his presidency – President G. W. Bush had a GOP majority House and Senate.
Spending.*The Republican Party often talks about financial responsibility, but did you know that since 1978-2011, spending has gone up*9.9% under Democrats versus 12.1% under GOP.

Federal Debt.*Republicans love to tell us how they will not close tax loopholes on millionaires and billionaires, yet never bring to our attention that from 1978-2011 debt went up*4.2% under Democrats versus 36.4% under the GOP.*
GDP.*The only thing that the Democrats have a higher numerical yield than the GOP led administrations, is the GDP. It’s a good thing to have it at 12.6% versus a GOP 10.7%. From 1960 to 2005 the gross domestic product measured in year-2000 dollars rose an average of $165 billion a year under Republican presidents and $212 billion a year under Democrats.

Big Government.*Federal spending (aka “big government”): It has gone up an average of about $50 billion a year under presidents of both parties. But that breaks down as $35 billion a year under Democratic presidents and $60 billion under Republicans. If you assume that it takes a year for a president’s policies to take effect,*Democrats have raised spending by $40 billion a year and Republicans by $55 billion.
Federal Deficit.*Under Republican presidents since 1960, the federal deficit has averaged $131 billion a year. Under Democrats, that figure is $30 billion.*In an average Republican year, the deficit has grown by $36 billion. In the average Democratic year it has shrunk by $25 billion.*

National Debt.*The national debt has gone up more than*$200 billion a year under Republican*presidents and less than $100 billion a year under Democrats.
Inflation and Unemployment.*Democratic presidents have a*better record on inflation*(averaging 3.13 percent compared with 3.89 percent for Republicans) and on unemployment (5.33 percent versus 6.38 percent). Unemployment went down in the average Democratic year, up in the average Republican one.

[Vedubin01]

did I miss the source to your fun facts?

[Bimmerista]

He's a right-wing robot retard...are any of you guys really surprised??

The Republicans deserve better, he's the equivalent of Kerry in 2004.

[gwb72tii]

funny how the messiah, for all of romneys apparent (to the left only apparently) weaknesses and gaffes, cannot get close to the magic 50% in any poll, even those that oversample democrats
ROFLMFAO

[Kershaw]

that's pretty hilarious. fiscal conservatives. haha.

i read an article today that 7,000 millionaires paid no income tax. lol.

[DrJosh]

funny how the messiah, for all of romneys apparent (to the left only apparently) weaknesses and gaffes, cannot get close to the magic 50% in any poll, even those that oversample democrats
ROFLMFAO

I don't think it is that people want Romney. I think it is more about people not wanting Obama.

[gwb72tii]

I don't think it is that people want Romney. I think it is more about people not wanting Obama.

i believe you've hit the nail on the head
so it comes down again to the lesser of two evils, and we know how bad obama has screwed up basically anything he's touched, except maybe his freaking golf game.

and seriously, if i had hired obama to run my company, he'd be out on his ear last year

[rhE-30]

Please tell us about what he messed up? Iraq? Iran? Afganistan? The current embassy riots? Social Sercurity? The economy? Tell us.

i believe you've hit the nail on the head
so it comes down again to the lesser of two evils, and we know how bad obama has screwed up basically anything he's touched, except maybe his freaking golf game.

and seriously, if i had hired obama to run my company, he'd be out on his ear last year

[herbivor]

i believe you've hit the nail on the head
so it comes down again to the lesser of two evils, and we know how bad obama has screwed up basically anything he's touched, except maybe his freaking golf game.

and seriously, if i had hired obama to run my company, he'd be out on his ear last year

I think he's done an excellent job given he has to deal with a non compromising Republican congress. There are things I wish he would have leaned more "left" on but given he is a centrist and ran on as a centrist, I shouldn't have expected a liberal President.

[Vedubin01]

he has to deal with a non compromising Republican congress.

How quickly you forgot. Obama had both house and senate for 2 years. Hows that budget coming along?

[herbivor]

How quickly you forgot. Obama had both house and senate for 2 years. Hows that budget coming along?

How quickly you forget, filibusters were used in record number. Do you recall how the ACA was even able to get passed?

[z31maniac]

How quickly you forget, filibusters were used in record number. Do you recall how the ACA was even able to get passed?

I'll point out, AGAIN, even when the Dems had the House and the senate, they didn't pass a budget only continuing resolutions.