[Cardhu]

"As the law requires, the candidate has no contact with Restore Our Future, the "super Pac" with the rather elegantly oxymoronic name funded most notably by John Paulson, the hedge fund billionaire who famously shorted the US subprime mortgage market. Romney doesn't need to contact them. He hits the stump, flashing his smile with frontrunner repose, while the super-PAC restores the future with nonstop attack ads that don't even bear his name."

[EGPWS]

Mitt Romney, when Barack 0bama just can't cut it any more.

[Diogenesis]

The ineligible RINO:
“I like firing people.”

[byteback]

Actually Newt is trying this as a pat Buchanan reinvention but Obama will want to make THIS his campaign. It can’t be about him so he’ll make it about Wall street and hope it works.

[DJ MacWoW]

Did You Know?

The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarters Expenses?

Now That You Do, Donate And Keep FR Running

[John Valentine]

The truth is that NO ONE should pay the slightest attention to ANYTHING printed in the Guardian, regardless of what it is. If the Guardian printed that the sun was coming up tomorrow on schedule, it would be a lie.

[detective]

This is going to be the Democrat theme in 2012. Democrats care about the 99% Republican only care about the 1%.

Occupy people will be out next summer. Romney will be labeled the candidate of the 1%, Obama will be labeled the candidate of the 99%.

It will be repeated over and over in the MSM.

[alloysteel]

We are faced with the situation in which the incumbent is so inept, so incompetent, he cannot possibly be re-elected to his current job.

Yet the opposition arrayed against him are fragmented, without a coherent message, and unable to bring an honest review of all the incumbent’s failures and vulnerabilities, that he will probably be re-elected anyway, and not only that, the briefly held majority of Republicans in the House will be swept away, and the Senate shall remain firmly in Democrat hands.

OK, go ahead, run away and support your third parties and splinter groups, if that brings any moral satisfaction. But it sure won’t do a thing for that shining city on the hill that is the beacon for all mankind in these trying times.

Atlas Shrugged. And the John Galts retreat to their redoubts.

[1010RD]

Jason Farago

Jason Farago is a New York-based writer and critic who contributes to the London Review of Books, Monocle, n+1, and other magazines. He is also editor of The Bugle, an American publication on culture and ecology

[Palladin]

Rest in peace, Cardhu.

We will miss you and your salient posts very much this election season.

[Joya]

My regards to Cardhu’s family.

[luvie]

God rest the soul of this FReeper who was killed in an auto accident in Arizona. Condolences to his family and friends who mourn and miss him.