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Mitt Romney in 2016: Yes, or No?

Does it make sense for Romney t run again?


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Self made men don't pay college expenses by selling stocks their parents gave him...not to mention have tuition paid for by them. Granted, lots of people get an edge from their better-off parents---lord knows I certainly benefitted from wealthier parents---but we don't say we hit the triple when we know we were born on second or third base. Self made men hit doubles, triples and homeruns.

From Merriam Webster:

self–made adjective \ˈself-ˈmād\ : made rich and successful by your own efforts
CloseStyle: MLA APA ChicagoFull Definition of SELF-MADE
: made such by one's own actions; especially : having achieved success or prominence by one's own efforts <a self–made man>


Lots of people's parents paid for their college (including mine). Nobody is deemed a success because he graduated from college. You may want to read up on what the man did after college, which had nothing to do with what base he was born on, or who paid for his college degree.
 
So you support personal attacks on Mitt Romney's wife?

I never said that, I was simply pointing out Grant's usual tendency to go off the handle and accuse liberals of engaging ONLY in personal attacks (I don't think the person who posted that about Ann Romney was even a liberal), while thoroughly ignoring when his squad does it.

And Ann Romney's "dignity of work" line was pure horse****.
 
Mitt Romney could definitely shake some things up, but calling Jeb Bush or Chris Christie is probably the most logical option due to the fact that Hillary's base of liberals will be extremely powerful & shaking it up will be the way for Republicans to win 2016.
 
I never said that, I was simply pointing out Grant's usual tendency to go off the handle and accuse liberals of engaging ONLY in personal attacks (I don't think the person who posted that about Ann Romney was even a liberal), while thoroughly ignoring when his squad does it.

And Ann Romney's "dignity of work" line was pure horse****.

Interesting. Grant responded to my post pointing out how ignorant the personal attacks on Mitt Romney's wife were. He posted this:

This is what good people are up against these days. The Romney's don't even have a blemish on their past. No drug use, no consorting with terrorists, no God Damn America, no political crony capitalism, but they are the ones who are always under personal attacks. Nothing to do with policies, it's just personal.


I missed the mention of liberals being the only ones who engage in personal attacks.

You countered with something about the "poor persecuted Republicans".

I would think your post wasn't partisan except for the fact it read as a counter partisan attack on Grant's post, which was in response to my post about Ann Romney. No mention of political parties from me, or Grant.
 
Hillary made millions also but she did it by talking while he did it by doing something productive.

running for office is how those who want to be rich but don't have the talents to earn it go about getting wealth.

especially Democrats
 
Yet the personal attacks on Bill Clinton's wife and daughter stareted decades before anything with Romney.
In fact, they started before Romney claimed: "I'm to the left of Ted Kennedy" in their 1994 Senate race.
Play the phony "Ann Romney" card after what the despicable fright-wing has done to Moo-chelle and daughters .
 
Just plainly wrong. The black unemployment rate, for example, was 12.7 the month that Obama took office and rising rapidly, topping out at 16.9 percent towards the tail end of the recession. It currently resides at 10.7.

No...it's not. The current unemployment rate is smoke and mirrors. Those numbers do not reflect actual unemployment...merely those still eligible for benefits.
 
The one he docks in Rhode Island so he can screw his home state of Massachusetts out of $500,000 in taxes?

S'ok...the Clinton's are sheltering their income as well. So do all the rich democrats. They live safely knowing their minions can't be bothered to wash off the stink of hypocrisy. Hell...they bathe in it.
 
Just as you support those on Hitlery and Moochelle and their daughters, long before Ann Romney?
So you support personal attacks on Mitt Romney's wife?
The sickest part of all is that GOP politicians continue to go mute on their fright-wing media attacks on these women/children.
Along with the GOP lemming posters.
Are you one of them ?
 
Hillary made millions also but she did it by talking while he did it by doing something productive.

Don't you know? When democrats make millions it's 'earned'. When they shelter their earnings from taxes it is 'legitimate tax write offs'. Rich democrats are benevolent and good, even rich democrat bankers.
 
S'ok...the Clinton's are sheltering their income as well. So do all the rich democrats.
They must have learned it from off-shore Romney.
Hiding behind Ann's skirt on taxes.
They live safely knowing their minions can't be bothered to wash off the stink of hypocrisy. Hell...they bathe in it.
You do know you live in a glass house here, correct ?
 
No...it's not. The current unemployment rate is smoke and mirrors.
And Obama is responsible for the 2.2 million jobs lost in his first three months on the job .
 
From Merriam Webster:

self–made adjective \ˈself-ˈmād\ : made rich and successful by your own efforts
CloseStyle: MLA APA ChicagoFull Definition of SELF-MADE
: made such by one's own actions; especially : having achieved success or prominence by one's own efforts <a self–made man>


Lots of people's parents paid for their college (including mine). Nobody is deemed a success because he graduated from college. You may want to read up on what the man did after college, which had nothing to do with what base he was born on, or who paid for his college degree.
He was given plenty of seed money and ample business connections from Governor/Presidential candidate daddy. Saying Mitt is self made is like saying Hillary Clinton is.

Bill Clinton and Barack---self made.
 
They must have learned it from off-shore Romney.
Hiding behind Ann's skirt on taxes.

You do know you live in a glass house here, correct ?

really? Why 'must' they have learned it from someone else? You can't honest to God be so stupid as to believe rich democrats historically are any less likely to shelter income than are rich republicans can you? Please don't say yes.
 
Yeah, this demoralization of success on both sides has got to stop. I guess you could thank the "poll tested" results for the answer of why it continues to happen.
 
running for office is how those who want to be rich but don't have the talents to earn it go about getting wealth.......
especially Democrats

hyper-partisan garbage--
you do know that term limits are only brought up by Republicans when running for an office they don't have--1994 and 2010 ring a bell?
never for their septa- and octagenerian Senators in their 6th/7th terms .
 
really? Why 'must' they have learned it from someone else? You can't honest to God be so stupid as to believe rich democrats historically are any less likely to shelter income than are rich republicans can you? Please don't say yes.

So you resort to the "stupid" card already eh Vance?
 
hyper-partisan garbage--
you do know that term limits are only brought up by Republicans when running for an office they don't have--1994 and 2010 ring a bell?
never for their septa- and octagenerian Senators in their 6th/7th terms .

I think the best solution is to get rid of the lucrative pensions for those parasites. that would keep them from being in office for Bidenesque number of years.

its truth-look at Gore's father, the Clintons and the Obamas
 
And Obama is responsible for the 2.2 million jobs lost in his first three months on the job .

Of course not. Just as he isn't responsible for the NSA or immigration problems that preceded him. He is merely responsible for his dismal performance since he took office. Oh...sure...I suppose you could trumpet the fact that 92million plus workers have completely dropped from the economy and job seeking market as a great thing. I suppose you could applaud the continued and advanced erosion of personal rights and privacy. You can celebrate every failing or better yet, could continue to blame 6 years of a presidency on the other guy. How ****ing sad is it that YOU could have done a better job than the current president? I'll give you a hint...VERY ****ing sad.
 
No...it's not. The current unemployment rate is smoke and mirrors.

Incorrect. The methodology used to calculate the unemployment rate has not changed in recent years.

Those numbers do not reflect actual unemployment...merely those still eligible for benefits.

You're batting a fat .000 here. Unemployment benefits don't even enter the picture. Some good reading for you: How the Government Measures Unemployment
 
So you resort to the "stupid" card already eh Vance?
You have a reading comprehension problem? I said I didn't believe you could POSSIBLY be that stupid. Am I wrong?

Never mind...your diversion pretty clearly answers the question.
 
And Obama is responsible for the 2.2 million jobs lost in his first three months on the job .

The Barack hate from these people is totally unhinged. Here they are voting for rich men's sons, guys like GWB and Mitt Romney, or a kept man like John McCain, but when they see truly self-made men, guys raised by single moms, like Bill Clinton and B Obama, they have only scorn for them.
 
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He was given plenty of seed money and ample business connections from Governor/Presidential candidate daddy.
What Mitt didn't get from his Father was the ability to show 12 years of tax returns.
As Ann told us, "you people" have seen all you're gonna see.
after she became a policy maker, she is fair game, especially after what GOPs dumped on Hitlery and Moo-chelle years before.
GOPs trying to play the "picked-on" card is so unbecoming .
Saying Mitt is self made is like saying Hillary Clinton is.
Newt Gingrich said it best--"when Romney came to town".
Bill Clinton and Barack---self made.

exactly--unlike JFK--who would be a Republican today--
 
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