When will the campaign go after Romney?

[limequat]

First ads were targeted at Perry, then he fell in the polls.

Then the pwning of Cain in the debates.

Is Romney next?

[centure7]

I was asked what Perry did for a living once. I said I'm not sure but I know he was a male cheerleader at one point. I said that was a valuable skill because its great to have someone cheering on America: Go America! Go! Go! Go!" My audience was the religious right so I figured that bit of sarcasm would let them know Perry was a flaming liberal. Honestly the guy seems like a closeted liberal being caged in Texas. He must be very unhappy behind his smiley facade LOL. He should move to Massachusetts where he can become a fake Republican like Romney.

As for Romney, I already know he was in charge of Romneycare so I don't really want to learn anything further. Romneycare means Romney is an enemy to Republicans and I can't imagine why anyone ever liked him when he's a strong liberal who clearly isn't a Republican. A lot of people will say Paul isn't a Republican if he's for pulling the troops back to America where they belong. Well that isn't true and lots of Republicans in history have been against destroying the United States through excessive empire building. But have Republicans in history ever been for mandated universal health care? Never heard of it. If you're for mandated universal health care you're a socialist and you are about as far from Republican as you can get.

Cain: A Bankers Best Friend!

[muzzled dogg]

i thought a certain PAC was working on something

[RDM]

What Mitt Romney does not want you to know:

Phony "Varmint" Hunter

Back when he was liberal, Romney supported the Brady Bill, assault weapons bans and Massachusetts' very strict gun control law. Now that he's running as a conservative Republican, Romney has claimed that the NRA endorsed him in previous campaigns. (Oops -- that was easily proven to be a lie. His Democratic opponent actually had a better NRA rating.)

He also claimed he was a "lifelong hunter", though he didn't own a gun, has never had a hunting license and had only joined the NRA in August 2006 -- as a "Lifetime Member" -- just about exactly the moment he started campaigning for President.

When pressed on that, his "lifelong hunting" turned out to be a total of two hunts -- one as a teenager, hunting rabbits with his cousin in Idaho, and one just about the time he started running for president, chasing fenced-in quail at a Republican fundraising event.

His explanation was even funnier -- "I'm not a BIG-GAME hunter. I've made that very clear," he said. "I've always been a rodent and rabbit hunter. Small varmints, if you will. I began when I was 15 or so and I have hunted those kinds of varmints since then. More than two times."

Hired Illegal Immigrants

Romney makes a big issue of being tough on illegal immigrants. He has pushed for a wall on the Mexican border so hard that Bill O'Reilly offered to call it the "Mitt Romney Memorial Wall."

The only problem is, Romney has hired illegal immigrants to tend his gardens for over 10 years. Three illegal immigrants interviewed by the Boston Globe said they have worked on Romney's lawn for years, that he greets them with a "Buenos dias", and that his wife was friendly and often asks how they are. Two were interviewed back in Guatemala, where they have returned. They made $8 to $9 per hour working 11 hour days. "They wanted that house to look really nice," said one worker, now back in Copado, Guatemala. "It took a long time." The other, Rene Alvarez Rosales (now in Suchitepequez, Guatemala) said it cost him about $5,000 to have a smuggler take him across the border.

They all work for "Community Lawn Care with a Heart," a small company run by legal Colombian immigrant Ricardo Saenz. Asked about his workers' statements that they were illegal immigrants, Saenz said "What you've heard is not my problem. ... I don't need to tell them to show me documents. I know who they are, and they are legal." When Romney was asked about the workers, he said "Aw geez" and walked away. On one occasion, a (real) state trooper with the Romney security detail asked about the workers' immigration status. Saenz said they were legal but forgot their papers that day, and the matter was dropped.

Flat-Out Liar

In this campaign, Romney has simply lied a number of times while trying to reinvent himself. For example:

-- "I have a gun of my own."
(Not true. He was talking about a gun one of his grown sons own.)

-- "I've been a hunter pretty much my entire life."
(He hunted once at 15, and a second time in his late 50s.)

-- "I told you what my position was, and what I, what I did as governor; the fact that I received the endorsement of the NRA."
(No - and his Democratic opponent actually had a higher NRA rating)

-- "I saw my father march with Martin Luther King."
(No, they never marched together. They were both in Michigan at the same time once, but Mitt was in France on his mission.)

-- "My father and I marched with Martin Luther King Jr. through the streets of Detroit."
(even more false...)

This last lie was the funnest because of all the waffling that Romney did trying to explain it. After a Boston newspaper showed that they couldn't have marched together, Mitt's spokesman said that "George W. Romney and Martin Luther King Jr. marched together in June, 1963 -- although possibly not on the same day or in the same city." And Mitt then explained "I've tried to be as accurate as I can be. If you look at the literature or look at the dictionary, the term 'saw' includes being aware of — in the sense I've described. I'm an English literature major as well. When we say I saw the Patriots win the World Series, it doesn't necessarily mean you were there -- excuse me, the Super Bowl. I saw my dad become president of American Motors. Did that mean you were there for the ceremony? No, it's a figure of speech."

Draft Dodger and Chickenhawk

Mitt Romney, incredibly, was able to avoid serving in Vietnam because he was on his Mormon mission, driving around the French countryside. (The Mormon church defined missions -- which all good young Mormon men go on -- as a form of priesthood.) In fact, not one of Romney's five sons has served in the military either, despite Mitt arguing for U.S. military involvement in Iraq and elsewhere.

Even more outrageously, when he was asked to justify this hypocrisy, Romney claimed that his sons were serving the country by driving Winnebagos around Iowa and campaigning for him.
http://www.realchange.org/romney.htm

[Aratus]

first rick perry,
THEN mitt and
finally herman?
cooooooooool!

[Aratus]

lets all get
to Tampa
AUG of '12

[Umbro2914]

well seeing as everyone has been attacking Romney in their ads (ie Perry et all) everythings on track. Ron should be promoting himself rather than bashing everyone else. Let the status quo kill each other

[trey4sports]

Romney will be hit HARD when we get closer to the caucuses.


All kinds of PAC's will come out of the woodwork to attack him.

[phill4paul]

The house is falling there AIN"T no one but Paul.

[Maximus]

Romney is the last to take down because no one really trusts him anyways. Everyone knows he is a RINO, we need to make sure people know that Paul is the true conservative.

[Aratus]

CEO herman cain as a contender is more regional
a candidate than gov. mitt romney who can draw
on utah, michigan and massachusetts. do leave
the best for last! take mr. mitt down CAREFULLY
after we keep rick perry AWAY from our nuclear
football. eventually the 9-9-9 plan fades away...

[Shane Harris]

our goal is to be the anti-romney. he gets hit enough by everyone else. we need to make sure that we are the next one in line before we attack him.