The New Romney!

[JackLuis]

Romney reverses course, praises ‘important role’ of labor unions

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Hoping to make up lost ground in Michigan, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Tuesday reversed course and praised labor unions.

At a town hall campaign event in Shelby Township, the candidate told supporters that “labor unions play an important role in our society.”

“There are some like the carpenters union that compete on a fair basis and train their members to have greater skills,” Romney noted. “And so, they are an important part of America’s economy.”

Says Romney in Michigan.

Let's see Santorum top that!​

 

[JackLuis]

Romney woes leave Republican race on a knife-edge

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(Caption this for a lark.)

WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney’s future hangs in the balance. In one week’s time he could either be restored as the frontrunner in the Republican presidential race or be left staring into a political abyss.

Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum, a Christian conservative who fiercely opposes gay marriage and abortion, has surged from a distant third into pole position following his trio of vote wins earlier this month.

But up for grabs on February 28 are Michigan, where Romney was born and his father was governor, and Arizona, another supposed Romney stronghold where a significant proportion of the electorate shares his minority Mormon faith

Playing his minority status?

 

[JackLuis]

Romney says spending cuts will slow economic growth

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("I'm not kidding the dog was this big!")​

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney broke with Republican orthodoxy on Tuesday by claiming that budget cuts would shrink the economy, according to NBC News.

“If you just cut, if all you’re thinking about doing is cutting spending, as you cut spending you’ll slow down the economy,” he said in Michigan. “So you have to, at the same time, create pro-growth tax policies.”

Republicans have repeatedly promised that spending cuts would lead to job creation and economic growth, mainly through reduced taxes and deregulation.

See what happens when you let a candidate talk to sane people?

 

[JackLuis]

and last but not least; Speaking in North Dakota, Ron Paul said:

Ron Paul: "Hemp is a good product"​

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Texas Rep. Ron Paul praised the industrial crop hemp during a campaign stop in North Dakota on Monday.

“There is no reason, in a free society, that farmers shouldn’t be allowed to raise hemp,” Paul said, according to the Associated Press. “Hemp is a good product.”

Hemp, a crop related to marijuana, is grown in Canada and other countries to make textiles and numerous other goods. But in the United States the cultivation of hemp is prohibited by federal law, even though it has little to no psychoactive effects.

Imagine the rolling plains covered in a vast carpet of Hemp!

 

[JackLuis]

Santorum: Liberals ‘are the anti-science ones’

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Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum charged on Monday that President Barack Obama and Democrats were “anti-science” because they refused to exploit the Earth’s natural resources to the limits of technology.

Over the weekend the candidate had been criticized for saying that President Barack Obama followed a theology that was not “based on the Bible.” He later insisted that he was talking about the president siding with “radical environmentalists.”

Good for Mitt, Santorum showing the depth of his analysis like that.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Imagine the rolling plains covered in a vast carpet of Hemp!

Where seldom is heard a discouraging word . . .

 

[cubbies]

Where seldom is heard a discouraging word . . .

you cant even rhyme let alone carry a tune.