Bill ….Romney his own man…..REALLY? He is SO BOUGHT and paid for it is a crying shame. GOOD FOR YOU and your accomplishments. But the man you are supporting is who…..is he the hard right wing…”the world is flat” guy it took to beat Santorum down. And guy who privately “dis’s” the 47% Which includes those who retired on social security, those who are Military Overseas, those who are disabled and those that are the “WORKING POOR” ? OR is he the middle of the road that suddenly ETCHA SKETCHED during the Presidential Debates. Even you, in your infinite wisdom, BILL, cannot really tell. No BAIN, nor Romney did anything illegal, THAT WE CAN TELL, SANS TAX RETURNS. Unethical, maybe, the UAW has filed suit over Bain and Delphi, RIPPING off America. Now you think because of your fortune that it is all self-made……REALLY, God allowed your successes. Stop and think there is some people in this country that aren’t so lucky. Like children born with disabilities….START with Cerebral Palsey, a subject so near to my heart. Given Romney and Ryan’s budgetting Ideas….they basically say…..TOO F***ING BAD !! As if these children brought it on themselves…but when they become adults they will need assistance just to survive…but again….Ryan….TOO BAD! But can we give $Billlions to DOD contractors like Halliburton…..OH Yeah. So Go on BILL you can be a millionaire like Gates and say OK…tax me a little more to help our country or you can be like ROMNEY and say “TAXES…..HELL NO…I won’t even show you how I’ve ripped the U.S. off the last 10 years. Much less care about the elderly or the disabled.”

Mitt Romney is noone’s man. He has no center that he has ever exposed to anyone. He takes on positions and advocates positions as he beleives they benefit him. He is a man without a core set of principles anyone can discern from his public statements. You have inferred because of his background that he has certain ideas about the world. Your ideas essentially. You have filled, what is essentially a cypher, with content. There is no reason for you to have any assurance that he has those beliefs. He may know how to compromise. Everyone knows how to compromise. The issue is whether he ever sees the need to do so. It is a cunard to suggest that the President was unwilling to compromise. He sought at almost every turn, to the chagrin and disappointment of his most avid supporters, to include Republicans in the decision making process. Despite your obfuscation and denial that is simply fact. Republicans as a group have defined compromise the last four years as agreeeing with them and doing things as they wanted them done. That is noone’s definition of compromise. Mitt Romney will not compromise with Democrats unless he has to have them. Any Republican majority will seek to run rough shod over its opposition and you will applaud them for doing so. Any careful consideration of history will clearly demark this current, most recent era of bad feeling and uncivil discourse not to Deomcrats but to Repulicans and their victory in 1994. The debates between Democrats were first and have been most dramatically coarsened by Republican efforts. Democrats have never spent a lot of time suggesting that Republicans were haters of their country and unAmerican and anti the true meaning of the Constitution, were fascists (Democrats and liberals have been simultaneously described as Nazis and socialists by Republicans – that requires some imagination), and so on ad nauseum. It is the height of hypocrisy to assert that liberals are the source of this nation’s civil discourse. You are simply disappointed that liberals have decided to fight back instead of continuing to tolerate your rudeness and treat you as obdurant children who would eventually grow-up.

You are to be congratulated on your success. Heres hoping your children are successful also. My circumstances weren’t nearly as severe as yours. My father was a career enlisted man and not a very successful one. I lived in small places and shared bedrooms with siblings. I ate cheap food and went to public schools and when over seas, I went to military dependants’ schools. I enlisted in the U.S. Army 30 days after my 18th birthday. I got out and went to college on the G.I. bill and eventually graduated from law school. Got a few loans along the way and paid them back. I had my first job delivering papers in the 7th grade. I worked off and on through High School and College. I have never owned a business except my law practice. I am not rich, but I am a ‘certified’ investor (you know what that means). I believe my decisions had an important impact on where I am now and how successful or unsuccessful I am. I am not unmindful of how much I owe others. I am not responsible for my intelligence or my generally good physical health (beyond the ordinary. e.g., getting exercise and watching my diet). I went to public schools and to state universities. I worked, but neither I didn’t nor did my GI bill covered the costs of my education. When I turn on the faucet clean water runs out every time. I am not responsible for that. I contribute to it in the form of the taxes I and many others pay. People have floated through my life giving me good advice, love, encouragement, and assistance (not monetary) and doing favors for me or giving me a break. This nation and its people have contributed to my success. I have an obligation to them. I try to honor my obligation daily and not spend too much time feeling upset about the fact I am not appreciated enough for my success. I take responsibility for my mistakes and offer credit to those who have helped me be successful. But my mistakes and my successes shouldn’t blind me to reality. There are such things as false pride and the sin of pride. There are also real systemic problems. Most of these cannot be resolved by wishing them away or leaving it up to private charities. You can, of course, as a substitute for doing anything to help, assign to those who are disadvantanged complete responsibiltiy for their situation. (In addition to not requiring any action, it has the advantage of letting one off the hook morally.) It is willful blindness to ignore that some in our nation have been systematically and at times intentionally disadvantaged and it had nothing to do with the choices they made. Unfortunately, such damage, current and historical, continues to obstruct people. If we could go back to the day you were born and you could chose, would you chose to be born something other than a white man? You can lie about your answer and you can dress it up anyway you want to, but the truth will tell the tale.

I have thought carefully, and I believe that if my children and your children are to have a nation not riven by hate, culture war, and efforts to impose on others the religious moral codes the founders of this nation and much of the rest of the world have been trying to cast off for hundreds of years, then that leaves only one choice. Despite your spin there is truly only one forward direction and it is not represented by Mitt Romney.

I didn’t because Seal Team Six is supposed to remain covert and they should not be receiving all the media attention for that very reason. It is no different then when V.P. Cheney or was it Rove that outed CIA operative Valerie Plame. It puts a lot of people in danger by compromising their cover. Remember, we shouldn’t even know about Seal Team 6. Also, if you remember that there is a book that came out recently that was written by a former Seal Team 6 member and apparently it didn’t paint President Obama in the best light. The book was most likely politically motivated. Also I was afraid the movie might be used to bash Obama.

You Got That Right They Are Biggest Users Of The Welfare System!!!

Holy crap! I forgot all about that. I heard that somewhere once before but can’t remember where. Now I don’t mind my taxes paying for other peoples health insurance but i’m 42 and uninsured and some of these fuckers in red states are preaching to me about personal responsibility. I was born and raised in Connecticut which happens to have some of the highest taxes in the entire country, is a blue state and the insurance capital of America and their telling me to suck it up and deal with it on my own. I’m pissed now!!!!!!!! I was in a decent mood till I read your post. It’s not your fault though. Somewhere in the back of my mind I knew that was true. Remember when Prick Cheney’s home state got the lions share of homeland security funding. Yeah sure! Everybody knows that bum fuck USA is such a huge target for terrorist. I try to be civil, understanding and respectful of their points of view but I guess there is no reasoning with troglodytes. I’m done with this shit! Now I understand why Ferns style is the way it is. She has known for a long time what I am just starting to figure out. For all you liberals living in red states you have my sincere and deepest sympathy’s, respect and adoration. None of you know me but the people closest to me know that I regard hypocrisy as one of the worst things a person could be. Together we can destroy conservatism forever. It is a plague that will ruin us all.

I don’t see presidential material when I look at Mitt. I see a bully who had no respect for the rights of others that he cut a classmate’s hair while his toady friends held him to the ground. He still has no respect for anyone but himself, and she can shout it till the cows come home about how loving he is, Mitt places his wife beneath him for sure.

He has too much class for that.

How about if just you go? Anyone that quotes the jackass that ruined our health care system and fails to acknowledge that bush and his clueless minions caused this mess shouldn’t critic the President.

Hey Jacko! Anyone can put down a bunch of quotes that don’t mean shit to anyone.

Don’t forget, he also has the magic underwear.

go for it!

Jo– I agree–just appalling what had been churning in the Congress and with the likes of R/R. Treacheous dudes to say the least. Idealogues to say the least. Ayn Rand would have hated their guts because they have no fiber or substance but rather are hypocrites of the highest persuasion. No morals, ethics or compassion. I just am amazed that they call themselves Christians yet kick the crap out of anyone who disagrees with their agenda. They need to rot somewhere…maybe in a casino eating grapes while Rome burns…

Go on with your bad self! Please also wipe the spittle from your face!

Another clueless dolt. when are you going to acknowledge that you support losers?

As far as benghazi goes, your jerk off v.p. candidate who has never had a job yet is responsible for the budget for the United States is responsible for cutting the budget for embassy security so just admit that you have no idea what you are talking about and go listen to your drug adicted pedophilac god, rushy.

you’re just another woman in a binder, djones. Has your husband gone to work, too?

They pledge allegiance to the John Birch Society Blue Book.

They are nothing but nazis hiding behind the American flag. Plus they are cowards and chicken hawk war mongers.

And we can all thank God, Realist_Repub, for the fact that the Democrats had control of the Senate enabling Reid, et al, to shelve the insane anti-American bills passed by the Republican House. If not for the wisdom of the Senate not allowing Republican idiocy to become the law of the land today we would be looking back at 2009 as the days of milk and honey as we faced unemployment in excess of 30%, a debt of $32 Trillion, and a nation divided between the fortified enclaves of the unbelievable rich and the rest of us who are eking out a subsistence living by picking through the garbage discarded by the wealthy.