UNLIMITED GOP 2012 PRIMARY CANDIDATE THREAD

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Back on topic, I think Gop is actually a Welsh verb. Or a noun. As in "Dai, I saw your sister Myfynwy's mate, Dylwynnch at the Bunch of Leeks Saturday night, and she was gopping"

No idea what it means though.

I think it means her back tits were showing.

[Cain]

Perry fails out, endorses Gingrinch.  At the same time, Marianne Gingrinch decides to tell the press about how her husband wanted an open marriage before he divorced her.

[East Coast Hustle]

And in a most timely fashion, as it's driven Romney's tax bracket mostly out of the news cycle.

What a fortuitous coincidence.

[BadBeast]

Back on topic, I think Gop is actually a Welsh verb. Or a noun. As in "Dai, I saw your sister Myfynwy's mate, Dylwynnch at the Bunch of Leeks Saturday night, and she was gopping"

No idea what it means though.

I think it means her back tits were showing.

Showing? They were flapping about in the breeze like a pair of batwings!

[BadBeast]

And in a most timely fashion, as it's driven Romney's tax bracket mostly out of the news cycle.

What a fortuitous coincidence.

When someone proposes certain Tax concessions to the electorate, in order to secure votes, do they have any major legal obligation to actually honour their promises? I know they never do here, but in America, do they get pushed through?

[BadBeast]

Perry fails out, endorses Gingrinch.  At the same time, Marianne Gingrinch decides to tell the press about how her husband wanted an open marriage before he divorced her.

That will just win him all the floating male voters.

[East Coast Hustle]

And in a most timely fashion, as it's driven Romney's tax bracket mostly out of the news cycle.

What a fortuitous coincidence.

When someone proposes certain Tax concessions to the electorate, in order to secure votes, do they have any major legal obligation to actually honour their promises? I know they never do here, but in America, do they get pushed through?

If politicians had a legal obligation to honor ANY of their promises, we wouldn't have any politicians.

But I was talking about the recent news that Romney thinks that he pays income tax in the 15% bracket, which is lower than most middle-class americans. This was framed as a gaffe by him and a potential point of attack for his GOP competitors.

Of course, hardly anybody ever brings up the point that most of Romney's money comes from capital gains, so his actual earned income may very well not be all that much especially if he's got a good accountant.

[BadBeast]

Blair eared 12.5 Million last year, and payed £334,000 in Taxes.

[Cain]

Yes.  Watching the rest of the contenders try to go "we are the 99%" in response to Romney was pretty funny.  The Democratic partisans too are hoping they can tie Romney with the negative connotations of the financial industry and so sink his chances.

The playbook seems pretty clear.  Romney is an out of touch, arrogant elitist (well, yeah), whereas Barack Obama is a down to earth Man of the People (uh, not especially).  Romney is a parasite, a leech on the financial well-being of America (again, yeah), but Barack Obama was a community organiser (which is an entirely different kind of leech).

Hopefully, a good number of people will realise, to use OWS parlance, this is a 1% power-play, that the choices will be between a Wall Street friendly militarist and a Wall Street friendly militarist who has a tendency to flip-flop.  Probably not a majority, but more than last time around, when Hope!, and Change! filled the air.

[Cain]

Can we have George Romney run for president instead?

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

Can we have George Romney run for president instead?

Sigh. It would be amazing.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Can we have George Romney run for president instead?

That was a really interesting article. I have questions about the end bit where he states that Mitt Romney is a staunch fiscal conservative, though; hardcore conservatives hate him for not being fiscally conservative enough, particularly because he has historically opposed the Bush tax cuts and is even more opposed to a flat tax as a "tax cut for fat cats".

Unfortunately, though, I don't think there is a single serious candidate who doesn't ultimately support the status quo of the plutocracy.

[Cain]

Yeah, I mean, "reckless tax cuts" doesn't fit my definition of fiscal conservatism, but my definition and the socially-agreed upon definition of what constitutes a sober and cautious fiscal policy are quite different beasts.

I suspect though the author meant he can be generally relied upon to carry out the agenda of Wall Street, aka the plutocracy, since of course he identifies quite strongly with the financial sector.

[Cain]

Looks like a Gingrinch win in South Carolina.

For reference, every nominee since 1980 who has run for President on the Republican ticket has won South Carolina.

So, in short, another law of political science is about to be broken.

[Phox]

Looks like a Gingrinch win in South Carolina.

For reference, every nominee since 1980 who has run for President on the Republican ticket has won South Carolina.

So, in short, another law of political science is about to be broken.

Interesting.