I don't know if anyone has caught on to this delicious morsel of an evisceration of Mittens by none other than Peggy Noonan.

http://blogs.wsj.com/peggynoonan/2012/09/18/time-for-an-intervention/

'the apocalypse is nigh, my brothers and sisters'

and welcome to DU!

when the complete fund-raising video is made public, per Romney's request.

It's great to be here! Thanks again!

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This "47%" remark of Romney's has increased new members here?

OK I'm a bad source as I'm really new myself. Still got my umbilical cord attached. But when I moved in here just last week I didn't see anybody with under 1000 + posts. The place almost seemed too big for me. Yet today alone I've seen half a dozen under 20 posters.

Perhaps this is a positive sign!

Mitt Romney: never waited for a bus in the rain to work a job he needed but hated which had a boss who persecuted him but tolerated in order to keep his job so as to prevent his family and himself from becoming homeless and starving.

In fact it was Romney that outsourced that poor person's job. Then had the audacity to say this wage slave "wasn't taking responsibility for his own life".

Why is it that Asshole loafers like Romney get labelled "productive job makers" and the persons doing all the hard hard work day in/day out get called slackers? Someone please explain.

I've said before that I don't trust politicians who have never looked at their bank balance and gone "Oh, shit."

They just don't understand how most of the country lives.

As our blue dogs have to trend toward insanity so too do the "red dogs" have to say things like this that are not insane. They won't vote that way but they're allowed to talk that way.

if only on behalf of her constituents. Martinez used to be a dem but switched parties in 1995. Here's hoping she sees the error of her ways.

but did not expect it to start until after the first debate on October 3rd.

I knew Romney was a complete dick, but he is surprising even me with just how big a dumbass he actually is.

Detailed election analysis of what is GOING TO happen this election.
http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/paul-ryans-effect-on-election-chances.html

Some of it has already started happening in the month since this was written.
Like Obama taking a lead on the economy.
Like GOP would start distancing themselves from Romney.

Nothing unexpected of any real significance has happened since my first prediction of Obama 347 Romney 191 on May 8th.
It has pretty much all, been entirely predictable.
Of course the specific noise or screw ups by Romney & GOP couldn't be predicted but that there would be some, could.

And 95% of the information on how truly TERRIBLE a candidate Romney is, was already widely available on the net.
http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/electoral-college-maps-romney-cannot.html

Mitt's picking Ryan has been a disaster, but he was thinking about bringing Susanna Martinez, first female and Hispanic Governor of New Mexico, on-board instead. Martinez has distanced herself from Romney's recent comments, so it's just as well he didn't go with her. Ryan is probably wondering what he's gotten himself into.

I predict a group of dems will take Martinez out for lunch in the near future (per her RNC speech re: how she became a Repug).

His latest 2 proposed ads (not yet aired anywhere) are about the coal industry.

So the story so far on Romney :

Massachusetts record - appalling, Romney didn't even try (Obama should make more of it)

Bain record - zero jobs created in the 18 years Romney was CEO and some heavy duty dirt
nett negative for Romney.

Olympics - Romney tentatively started on this one, but it is probably nett neutral
Romney used $400bn of taxpayer subsidies and it cost twice as much as Atlanta which was a summer games.
Mixed with some unsavory characters here too.
It seems Romney has given up on this too.

Romney now trying coal. Huh !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The US just became very slightly a nett energy exporter (nett exports will grow gradually over time even if nothing were to change).
Romney really is clutching at straws now.

Romney has absolutely no redeeming features.

Obama does not seem to be making the most of Romney's negatives at the moment of which there are loads or of destroying the myths e.g. of being a businessman (he was a financier who was a nett detriment to the American economy and US taxpayers and created zero nett jobs in his 18 years as Bain Capital's CEO).

Then again Romney seems to be doing a good enough job of self demolition t the moment.
So maybe leave him alone unless there is a quiet period.
I am sure Obama has got the ammo lined up, it is just a question of when best to use it.

N.B. I would still like to see Obama produce the following :-
I would still like to see a forensic financial analysis of nett American wage loss during Romney's tenure as Bain CEO.
Whilst nett jobs was around zero, higher paying manufacturing type jobs were replaced by minimum wage retail type jobs such as Staples (an over simplification but you get the picture).
If someone could run the numbers I am sure it would show a huge nett American wage loss during Romney's tenure.
It 's tricky because private companies do not have to disclose detailed financial information.
But it should be possible to take the accounts for the buying date and compare with the selling / liquidation date for nett wages (pretty accurately).
If you auction off a company you have to produce a prospectus.
I couldn't do this but a team of say 3 accountants could produce it.

It would go a long way to demonstrate what is likely to happen to total American wages under a Romney Presidency.

There's more of that videotape to come out, and I hope Romney said something about taxes, and how to avoid paying them. He's so bent out of shape about others getting a "free ride," when most taxpayers pay at a higher rate than he does, myself included.

The debates this election year will be more intriguing than those in the past, imo. Obama just may produce some Bain stats, such as the ones you are hoping to see.

Time to show Shelley Berkley some love in the form of $.