Posted on 07/26/2012 4:47:22 PM PDT by libertarian2patriot
You'd be right at home over at the DUmp. They're hoping Obama gets reelected almost as much as you are.
You are going to get flamed. The one issue Bible thumpers are more afraid of a Mormon than a mooseslime.
That's A-OK. Getting flamed by retards doesn't bother me so much. I'm sure the short bus will be along soon with their massive graphic-intensive, copy and paste jobs that they defecate upon every Romney thread in an effort to try and convince me that somehow he's worse than Obama.
I ain't buying it.
Romney has his million dollar horse there for Olympic dressage competition
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Good grief...
unbelievable...
I could care less that he used his own money...
Your right...
Thats going to be used for sure in an ad...
Obama will make hay with that one...
Wee Willie is proving once again that he is the horses hinder parts...
So much for “the economy”
His “grand tour of Europe” isnt going so well...
Can you believe what a country bumpkin he is ???
I wonder if hes tried the Cheesy Kippers ???
Howdaya say “Y’all” in English ???
“well...well. TenNanna raises her head and spews out her venomous bile. TN tell them why you really support Obama over Romney. come on. just let a little of the truth dribble from your lips. it’s because he’s a mormon folks, and TN mama and her fellow religious bigots here on FR would rather have a Muslim-hiding-in-plain-sight as THEIR leader for the next 4 years, than a patriotic American who just happens to be mormon.
God save America from 4 more years of BO.”
You’re right Mittbot! It has absolutely nothing to do with Mittens’ crap character and known socialist tendencies. I know you like pathological liars and progressives as long as they have an (R) by their name, but not everybody can just close their eyes that easily.
“That’s A-OK. Getting flamed by retards doesn’t bother me so much. I’m sure the short bus will be along soon with their massive graphic-intensive, copy and paste jobs that they defecate upon every Romney thread in an effort to try and convince me that somehow he’s worse than Obama.
I ain’t buying it.”
I don’t think anyone has ever argued that Mittens is worse than Obama. I think the general sentiment is that Mittens is the White Mormon version of Obama. They both lie. Both think they are gods (or will be gods). Both hate conservatives. Both lie. Both like universal healthcare and lie about it. Both like cap and trade, hate coal, etc, and lie about it. Both believe in global warming, and lie about it. Both like gay marriage, and lie about it. Both like abortion, and lie about it. Both like planned parenthood, and lie about it. Both lie about their successes, and lie about it some more. Both are statists. Both lie. And did I forget to mention they’re both pathological liars?
Your goals are inscrutable
Your assertions are questionable
You post the same thing over and over again
It smells like stupid.
Welcome to FreeRepublic. What country are you from?
Because I don't see any controversy, just a lame attempt to create one.
"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party
over to the traitors in the battle just ended.
We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged
to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support.
Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates
wouldn’t make any sense at all.""
-- President Ronald Reagan
Someone sent me this earlier. I may not agree with every word of it, but found it interesting nonetheless, since it contained information I wasn't aware of:
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June 27th, 2012
Romney’s Olympic 1.5 Billion Dollar Tax Payer Shakedown Road to the White House
Report Contributor: Tricia Erickson, author of the book, Can Mitt Romney Serve Two Masters? http://triciaerickson.tumblr.com/
Contact: Kay Bell , KayBellMedia@aol.com
Note: Ms. Erickson IS NOT a supporter of Barack Obama, but IS a supporter of the truth. As a Christian Conservative Republican, she will not vote for either candidate in the up-coming election. She strongly feels that both Romney's money and the GOP establishment "good ole' boy's network" has once again (first it was McCain) served up to Republicans another candidate who could very well lose to Obama, and a candidate that true conservatives cannot get their arms around....for good reasons.
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Romney’s Olympic Tax Payer 1.5 Billion Shakedown Road to the White House
Author/Contributor: Tricia Erickson, author of the book, Can Mitt Romney Serve Two Masters?
With the ABC News revelation of the IOC committee bribery scandal, the fate of the 2002 Olympics on U.S. soil, and a predominately Mormon city in the balance, the organizing committee searched for their white horse to salvage not only the Olympics, but Salt Lake City.
When it came to the Olympics, the relationship between Mitt Romney and the LDS church was symbiotic. The LDS church needed Romney to aid in ushering in the Mormon Kingdom on earth while portraying the Mormon faith as a wholesome, mainstream religion. With his eye on the Office Of the Presidency, and just coming off his loss to Senator Edward Kennedy, Romney needed the LDS church and its vast network to finance, support and promote his political aspirations. Nowhere was this more apparent than the Salt Lake City Olympics – the Greatest Show on Earth for the Mormon Church and Mitt Romney – all funded in part by you, the U.S. taxpayer.
Did businessman Romney deserve the “White Horse” reputation of saving the Olympics?
Let’s review:
According to the Bob Hohler of the Boston Globe,
“His determination to present himself as a white knight came at a cost. Some colleagues now say he magnified the extent of the Olympics committee’s fiscal distress, risked some possible conflicts of interest among board members, and shunted aside other people whose work had been instrumental in promoting the Games.”
A perceived enemy of Romney was Tom Welch. Tom Welch and David R. Johnson were accused of defrauding the organizing committee:
Romney urged Welch to accept a plea bargain, which he refused. All 15 felony charges against Welch were thrown out by Judge David Sam who said “I can only imagine the heartache, the disappointment, the sorrow that you and your loved ones suffered through this terrible ordeal. My hope is that you will now be appropriately recognized and honored for your efforts.” Romney refused to acknowledge his efforts or accept Welch’s innocence, calling the prosecutors “inept.” (Source: Bob Hohler, Boston Globe)
Quoting an article by David Baumann, "Romney Helped Salvage Olympics." St. Petersburg Times: Sydney Fonnesbeck, who was on the Salt Lake City Council and a friend of Welch’s, said, “He” (Romney) “just came in and gathered the money that was already (pledged) … He didn’t want to give anyone else any credit. We became nobodies. A lot of us were hurt and angry. It didn’t surprise any of us when he ran home and ran for governor.”
Lisa Roche wrote in the Deseret News,
“Mitt didn’t save the games. It was a publicity ploy from the beginning to build his platform in politics,”
“Mitt’s objection was to look as good as he could.”
Bob Drogin of the Los Angeles Times reported:
“In 2000 Senator John McCain, railed against the “pork barrel spending” and “fiscal abuse” of tax payer money used for the Salt Lake Games”. “The American taxpayer is being shaken down to the tune of nearly a billion and a half dollars,” he said. “He (McCain) repeatedly denounced ‘pork barrel subsidies’ for the 2002 Games, identifying earmarks for construction projects, road improvements, new post offices and other infrastructure in and around Salt Lake City.”
In their December 2001 Sports Illustrated article “Snow Job,” Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele (Barlett, Donald L., and James B. Steele. "Snow Job." SI.com. CNN/Sports Illustrated, 10 Dec. 2001. Web. 25 Apr. 2010)., wrote “For the past few years, while attention was focused on the Great Olympic Bribery Scandal…private and public interests have siphoned an estimated $1.5 billion out of the U.S. Treasury, all in the name of the Olympics.”
Barlett and Steele cited four “Olympic records” set by the Salt Lake City Olympics:
Federal Handouts: The amount of federal taxpayer money spent in Utah was more than “the amount spent by lawmakers to support all seven Olympic Games held in the U.S. since 1904 – combined. In inflation-adjusted numbers.
Private Interests: For the first time, private enterprises – primarily ski resorts and real estate developments – stand to derive significant long-term benefits from Games-driven congressional giveaways.
Milking of Government Agencies: Utah’s five-member congressional delegation has used the Olympics to drain money from an unprecedented number of federal departments, agencies and offices – some three dozen in all, from the Office of National Drug Control Policy to the Agriculture Department.
Most Amount of Taxpayer Money per Athlete: Federal spending for the Salt Lake City games will average $625,000 for each of the 2,400 athletes who will compete. (Not a penny of it will go to the athletes.) That’s a 996% increase from the $57,000 average for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. It’s a staggering 5,582% jump from the $11,000 average for the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles. Again, these are inflation-adjusted numbers.
On her blog, Debbie Schlussel (What's So Great About the Olympics? Part II) wrote in February 2002:
U.S. taxpayers will pick up nearly $1 out of every $5 spent on the Salt Lake City event…That doesn’t include the $1.1 billion in federal transportation funding of projects like Interstate 15 reconstruction and building light rail in Salt Lake
Contrary to previous practices of the US Olympic Games, Romney’s Olympic Games used more US Federal tax dollars to enhance the long term worth of for-profit non public Utah business interests than any of the former US host states.
Cronyism was demonstrated at its best when Kem Gardner, friend of Romney, was awarded the contract to build the Olympic Legacy Park in his shopping mall with millions of tax dollar reimbursements at his disposal. Funny how there was no competition for the bid to do so. Could it not have been built on public land?
It is further interesting that 25 of the board senior manager’s severance pay was boosted. They obviously felt so good about it that they donated to Romney’s campaign for governor of Massachusetts soon after the games ended, along with additional donations from the board of trustees.
According to the Globe, All told, Romney reaped more than $1.5 million in campaign funds during his governorship from individuals and families with ties to the Olympics. Moreover in 2007, Many of his Olympic-related donors have since joined a massive fundraising movement for Romney’s presidential campaign. (Source: Bob Hohler, "Romney's Olympic Ties Helped Him Reap Campaign Funds." Boston.com)
Thinking minds want to know, did Mitt Romney’s business experience truly save the Olympics or did he USE the Olympics to save his political career on his gubernatorial pit stop to the White House?
Did Wee Willie really say “looking out of the backside of 10 Downing Street” ???
How dense does he get ???
What an insult...
Thats where the PRIME MINISTER of England LIVES !!!
Its extremely important to the English...
That would be equal to saying something ugly and insulting about the White House...
Willie needs to just keep his ijit mouth shut...
I hope he doesnt slap The Queen on the back like a buddy...
If his judgement is so bad, why does so much of what he touches turn to gold?
Fascism is quite the charge to bandy about - do you have any real evidence?
Do you require that every sick and old person is afforded unlimited health care? If government is involved at all, you must have people who decide when to stop paying the bill. Everyone in any sort of socialized medicine decision making capacity is on a death panel. In or out, you don’t get to pick. You are smart enough to figure this out, but instead, you LIE.
Just as the liberals do, you accuse your hated target of the things you are guilty of. You are beneath contempt. The fact that this forum allows you to spew your stupidity diminishes its value greatly.
Go away. You disgust me.
He’s on an anti-Romney hunt.
Hopefully Romney will nominate someone more pro-freedom as his VP and win our poster over as well.
Sure hope it’s soon.
Sorry...just looked and it’s a strung out release across the country. Hugh Hewitt has been citing 27th release....must be in L.A.
Bob Drogin of the Los Angeles Times reported:
“In 2000 Senator John McCain, railed against the “pork barrel spending” and “fiscal abuse” of tax payer money used for the Salt Lake Games”. “The American taxpayer is being shaken down to the tune of nearly a billion and a half dollars,” he said. “He (McCain) repeatedly denounced ‘pork barrel subsidies’ for the 2002 Games, identifying earmarks for construction projects, road improvements, new post offices and other infrastructure in and around Salt Lake City.”
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DR read Post #71 for much more info on Wee Willie and his Olympic size STIMULUS package...
This is corruption and stealing from the American people...
Wee Willard Mitty should be in prison...
From the Congressional Record:
Senator McCain on the GAO Report
On Sept. 19, 2000, Sen. McCain, speaking in opposition to the Conference Report on the 2001 Legislative Branch Appropriations bill advised the Senate of details from the GAO’s report. As recorded in the Congressional Record, Sen. McCain stated,
“The GAO now determines that $1.3 billion—and some of those I will read: $974,000 for the Utah State Olympic Public Safety Command; $5 million for the Utah Communications Agency Network; $3 million to Olympic Regional Development Authority, upgrades at Mt. Van Hoevenberg Sports Complex; $2.5 million, Salt Lake City Olympics bus facilities; $2.5 million, Salt Lake City Olympics regional park-and-ride lots; $500,000, Salt Lake City Olympics transit bus loan, and on and on; $925,000 to allow the Utah State Olympic Public Safety Command to continue to develop and support a public safety program for the 2002 Winter Olympics; $1 million for the 2002 Winter Olympics security training; $2.2 million for the Charleston Water Conservancy District, UT, to meet sewer infrastructure needs associated with the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. What the Olympic games supposedly hosted and funded by Salt Lake City, which began in corruption and bribery, has now turned into is an incredible pork-barrel project for Salt Lake City and its environs.” — Sen. John McCain in the United States Senate, Sept. 19, 2000 - [Page S8731-S8748 - Congressional Record.]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUSnK4th6KQ
According to the Globe, All told, Romney reaped more than $1.5 million in campaign funds during his governorship from individuals and families with ties to the Olympics.
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and accoding to The Guardian, Wee Willie just had another campaign fund raiser in London today which reaped him another $2 MILLION due to his ties to this Olympics...
Theres money to be made in them there golden rings...
The boy is globe trotting and collecting the rent money and then some as he goes...
“If his judgement is so bad, why does so much of what he touches turn to gold?”
Like Massachusetts? I thought it turned a darker brown of **** after Mittens.
“Do you require that every sick and old person is afforded unlimited health care? If government is involved at all, you must have people who decide when to stop “
Ask Mittens, he invented it!
Mitt Romney got a "C" rating from CATO.
"As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace."
You mean like what he did to the MASS. GOP?
What a brainless RomneyBOT you are.
“The Massachusetts Republican Party died last Tuesday.
The cause of death: failed leadership.
The party is survived by a few leftover legislators
and a handful of county officials and grassroots activists
who have been ignored for years.
Services will be public and a mass exodus of taxpayers will follow.
In lieu of flowers, send messages to Republican voters
warning them about a certain presidential candidate named Romney.”
- Boston Herald, 11/12/2006
"In 2006, while Romney was chairman of the National Republican
Governors Association - a group dedicated to electing more
Republican governors - his own hand-picked Republican successor
as governor lost badly to the Democrat, despite the fact that Republicans
have held the governorship in Massachusetts since 1990. Romney largely
ignored the Massachusetts elections and spent most of the time
during the campaign out of state building his presidential campaign.
He came back and publicly campaigned for the Republican candidate
the day before the general election!
“Locally, this is a rebuke to Mitt Romney and checking out within six months
after being elected and having accomplished almost nothing,”
[Jim] Rappaport [former chairman of the state Republican Party]."
- Boston Globe, 11/8/2006
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