At one time or another, most people have fantasized about what they would do if they were rich. I’m talking what we used to call filthy rich. I know what I would do. I would start a Super PAC. I would fund it myself, write the ads, make the media buys, and drive liberals crazy. It would be so much fun.
I would start with Mitt Romney’s taxes. The Obama campaign points out that Romney pays a lower percentage rate than does his running mate, Paul Ryan. The premise of the argument is faulty, of course, but conservatives don’t seem to know how to stop the other side from defining the issue.
When Arnold Schwarzenegger first ran for governor of California, he tapped billionaire Warren Buffett to advise him on economic issues. Buffett proceeded to tell the media that he paid more than $14,000 in property taxes annually on his primary residence in Omaha, which was valued at $500,000, while paying less than $2,000 a year on his $2.4 million home in Laguna Beach, California. It was Buffet’s belief that the California model, not Nebraska’s, was the flawed one.
This attitude is at the heart of the current debate over Mitt Romney’s tax bill. My fantasy Super PAC ad would ask several questions: Where is it written that government always has to grow? If a wealthy person pays a lower rate than someone making less, why is it logical to assume that the rich guy’s taxes should be raised? Why not lower the taxes of the person with a more modest income? Of what benefit is it to Paul Ryan — or any of us — to raise Mitt Romney’s taxes? You want to help me out? Lower my taxes!
My second Super PAC commercial would fill the vacuum left by Republicans who have abandoned Missouri GOP U.S. Senate nominee Todd Akin. Admittedly, by expressing his opposition to abortion in cases of rape the way he did, Akin provided a giant political hole through which pro-abortion radicals could drive an armored personnel carrier. Democrats and the national media (but then, I’m being redundant, aren’t I?) immediately began calling for Akin’s head and linking him to Romney and Ryan. This hysteria on the left was soon followed by frightened GOP establishment types like Mitch McConnell and Karl Rove throwing Akin under the bus by threatening to cut off funding for his campaign unless he steps down as the Republican nominee challenging U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill. To his credit, he has refused to do so.
Akin has apologized for the clumsy way in which he addressed the issue, but that, of course, is not enough. When liberals apologize for “misspeaking” (think Joe Biden every other week), everyone is supposed to accept it at face value. When the apology comes from a conservative, the candidate cannot do enough bowing and scraping to stop the harangue.
As is so often the case, the Republican Party and its candidates are going to be tarred and feathered from top to bottom with the Akin comment regardless of what they do — or what he does. That’s why my Super PAC would immediately start running ads in Missouri contrasting the views of Barack Obama and Claire McCaskill with those of Todd Akin and other conservative Republicans.
My ads would tell Missouri voters the truth about Obama’s radical views on abortion. They would learn that as a state senator in Illinois, he supported infanticide by opposing the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, which called for saving the life of a baby born alive in the course of a botched abortion. Voters in the “Show Me” state would be told the truth about Obamacare, which, among other things, forces religious institutions to provide abortion services through their health plans — a loathsome provision for which Claire McCaskill provided the crucial 60th vote in the United States Senate.
As long as I’m fantasizing, I think I’ll run my ads in every battleground state. Let’s just see if these really are discussions the White House and their pet candidates want to have.
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No one would listen ……this is the Manchurian Candidate…..the pied Piper ! Svengalli ? all rolled into one. They have been born Black, are looking for a free ride, or have drank to much of the Kool aide……He can do no wrong. The American people can not see the enemy at the door. They can not see our constitution being pissed on. Our way of life being destroyed by this usurper……Sad ,Very Sad!
Gunner48,
I agree, except that the “snakeoil salesman in fraud” is not at the door. He and his supporters are the enemy within, they are a malignant cancer.
I would sue obama for violating the US Constitution, not being a Natural Born US Citizen under the US Supreme courts 1875 decision in Happersett v. Minor, a Natural Born case where the court ruled “parents” must be US Citizens, not one, not mother not father but “parents” plural meaning BOTH parents….everyone knows his Father was NEVER a US Citizen and is violating US Law, committed fraud and possibly other crimes and should be removed immediately and an investigation begun immediately,
How many times does he have to prove anything?
To begin with, it doesn’t matter if your Mother or Father are of American births. What only matters, is if one is born on American territory at the time of physical birth…so stop with the children’s lack of knowledge….
We would NOT be having this discussion at all IF his blood relative had not said he was born in Kenya and if it were not customary at the time of his birth for the child to take the citizenship of the head of household. It would be easily cleared up by him allowing the State of Hawaii to release his Birth Certificate. What is truly causing the storm is that with Ilsamic roots that he says he has left behind, he is treating those of the Islamic faith far better and making more consessions to them than to his own so-called Christian faith. Under Jeremiah Wright, where is that Christian Bible teaching. Many segments of Christianity profess themselves as the one true religion. Some use poetry to convey an interpretation of Bible passages, some use snakes. Many act Christian like on Sunday and violate their teachings the rest of the week. How can a 1/3 Christian, 1/3 Muslim and 1/3 Black Theology live anything but a hybrid religion that says that says the 10 Commandments are optional, you can lie to people who don’t believe like he does and that when you are black and “pretty” you got it all and don’t have to think so much of others, all 310 Million of them!
I made sure that I am correct…look up US citizenship:It states that only one parent need be of American decent…already qualifying Barac.
Another statement is that if he was born in another country with one parent of us citizenship, than again, he is American already…So for goodness sake…I do wish people would quit using citizenship as a reason for not wanting him as president/ If you don’t want him as president, this is fine…just quit using the citizenship thing…it is old,out of date, and out of context…..!
You can pretty well bet your bottom dollar that when the debates are held, not ONE of these issues will be asked about by the commentators. I want to know WHY the Republicans keep allowing these dead beat liberal commentators to monitor the debates. We need somebody that is totally noncommittal to handle them. Get somebody from outside of the country to handle them, or let people send in the questions that the moderator has NO choice but to ask. The truth needs to come out.
why worry about the reasons, they should be obvious, just vote all of those out who refuse to take him on…and let them all know, fear US more than ANYTHING else
Atkin doesn’t represent the Republican party…he represents himself. I will go along with this. However, in various readngs, am I wrong to state that the Republicn party wants to do away with any funding for planned parenthood?! Just where do young women get abortions as a general rule in America? Not through privately high paid physicians, but through planned parenthood.
So, when you try to tell me that you want to not accept Atkin’s statement as your own, I question your honesty, asd Rep0ublicans. I may not like what Atkin said, but I can respect his honesty…too bad he doesn’t own up to it after he got bumbarded for it from just about Everyone!
If the Republican party does not want to finance planned parenthood, is it not the same as saying girls should keep their pregnancies? The only difference between Atkin and the Republican party’s feelings, is that Atkin said legitmate rape…something really stupid, of course, but what it all means is the same. If a girl is not beat up and left for dead, she didn’t fight the situation, therefore she wanted it. I can account for such attitudes from when I was raped in 1971, in Denver, Colorado. Not wearing sexy anything mind you. I was in a turtleneck sweater, wool pants, and a long winter coat, gloves and knit hat. What about that is sexy? When I went to the Police station I was told..”Look at you, what did you expect?” I got lucky, abortions were just made available by Roe vs Wade, and what was done at the time was a D&C that took two visits to complete. I hurt inside and out. My anger and fear together, were a lot to deal with for a young girl just before her nineteenth birthday. What would have happened to me, had I not had Roe Vs Wade to assist me, and Denver General Hospital that handled such things by your earnings?
Many years later, do to a medical condition flollwoing severe injuries to one of my legs, I was not allowed to use any form of pill for bith control, the patch caused too much bleeding unexpecedly, and I was left with the old rubber method. To make this story a little shorter…a man I had met through newspaper dating was fun, repsectable, so I thought, and fun to be around. Weeks passed, and he came to stay at my apt.. I woke up iin the middle of the night to him making love to me. It was not agreeable, and it was discussed earlier that it was not to be exchanged between us. Oh yeah…I was asking for it right! Anyway, he never found out that I became pregnant from the incident. I refused to see him following the incident, and we stopped communicating. I went through with the pregnancy. I have a marvelous twenty-two year old son I love with all of my heart. He knows what happened. Even still, I do not regret the D&C of 1971…it still hurts in a strange sort of way, but because of things that I have experienced, PLEASE DON’T TAKE AWAY THE OPTION OF FUNDING PLANNED PARENTHOOD. THERE ARE MANY YOUNG WOMEN OUT THERE THAT DON’T HAVE THE FACE OR BODY FEATURES ONE ASSUMES GO ALONG WITH RAPE…RAPE IS NOT ALWAYS PHYSICALLY BEATEN OUT OF SOMEONE…FEAR IS A POWERFUL ACCEPTOR…AND A WOMAN’S BODY DOES NOT IN ANY WAY, DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT ONE’S BODY ACCEPTS THE SPERM HEADED TO A HEALTHY WAITIG EGG.
God is punishing America for not following his Word…”Thall Shall NOT KILL”….that doesnt me…Oh, ok for an abortion or because the child has issues…..”..THALL SHALL NOT KILL”….are GODs words…..he doesnt reward those who ignore them
I reckon this will get me a barrage of hate mail, it always does because it’s perfect common sense.
Don’t want to be raped? Then DON’T put yourself in a situation or location where it can happen. Period. Don’t allow the defenseless to be placed in situations or locations where it can happen. Period. And, STOP treating it as a special case, Rape is brutal assault. treat it as such.
The big thing here – DO NOT PLACE YOURSELF IN HARM’S WAY. Period. Protecting yourself starts between the ears, not between the thighs.
“I guess you just want a woman to be a shut in”…this is a response coming from my boyfriend, after reading your statements to him.
Are you going to tell the elderly woman lying in her bed in a hospital or nursing home, this same statement?
Are you going to tell this same thought to a woman having joined the military?
Are you giong to tell this same thought to a woman working a job at night?
Are you going to tell this same thought to a chld whom doesn’t expect this act by an adult?
you have an awful lot of explaining to do…don’t you!
You are absolutely right, it makes sense, but NOT perfect sense. Men range from ugly to gorgeous on the outside. These variations leads some women to swoon, flirt, take little interest or flat none at all. The inner ego sometimes lives with a sinister character who gets what he wants and doesn’t care about others.
These men have climbed fences, cut security wires, broken windows, doors, killed animals and have attacked one, two, three or more females in a house, appartment, sorority or even churches. Most over 18, but some are NOT and they show no concern for their victims, unless they are caught! Just how the hell do women protect themselves from those who prey on anything that has breasts, whether their victim is 10 or 100.
There are many causes for these men to be this motivated? Many offenders know society will treat them as ill and will make excuses for them. While some prosecuter will dust off his hands for a 5 year sentence while the victim may just take her own life at age 12 over the trauma and the stigma that is attached or they perceive is attached. Perhaps they live 50 years, most revisiting that horrible time every few days and can never seem to soar with complete joy on the inside ever again.
Perhaps we should tell these predators DO NOT PUT YOURSELF IN HARMS WAY! Some cultures protected their women by turning selected men into eunuchs. While I do not sanction wholesale castration, it would certainly cause these molesters to think it over before committing such a violent intrusion upon a person. Of course that would incite the ACLU, who have mostly already been castrated when it comes to standing up for the common good of all Americans!
Greatly stated!!!!
There is no safe place…
There is no way of beng sure of who is nice and who is not nice…
Or there would not be the problem of Catholic Priests and young men…do I need to go on?