Mitt Romney runs for President - Is he serious (about anything) ?
kenny olav
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Not that he was ever here very much, but Mitt Romney is now out of the Governor's office and officially running for President of these United States.
Maybe he'll spend more time at his other part-time home states, Michigan and Utah, or maybe he'll just be a constant traveler like he has been for the past few years. I don't care, I'm just glad he's gone. He's done nothing for this state other than talk shit about it in other states as he campaigns for President. When he is home, he campaigns against our gay marriage law. He'll say he turned our state decifit into a surplus without raising taxes, but the fact is he raised fees, and even created a "new fee on individuals who file complaints with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination" (source). His excuse was that fees are voluntary. Well, you have to say he's right... you don't need to charge someone with discrimination, do you? No, 'course not. So why not make those uppity types pay for being uppity? Why force high-wage earners to pay the same percentage of taxes as low-wage earners? (*see below) And why make Bechtel pay for their botched job on the Big Dig, which caused part of a tunnel to collapse and kill a woman this year (completely fucking preventable). Why look into the reasons Bechtel wasted tax-payer money and lined their own pockets? Don't want to upset the good ol' boys now, do we??
This motherfucking asshole was elected on a fluke - he was trailing the entire election season until his Democratic opponent did horribly in the last and most visable televised debate. Before that, he was just a clown in a campaign ad that showed him, a multi-millionaire venture captialist, pretending to be a working class guy as he tools under car hoods, serves hot dogs, reels in nets full of fish, and my favorite part: he tosses trash into a compactor but overshoots a little bit as some of the scraps go flying over the compactor and off to the side. These ads were especially hilarious when paried with his other ads showing him and his giant litter of perfectly groomed BHBE children posing in their McMansion in Belmont. I can only hope there's some more of this comic relief during his run for the White House.
Of course, I find it impossible that he or any other Mormon could ever become President, and he's smart enough to know that. He was also smart enough to disguise himself as a moderate while running for Governor. His newly unveiled social conservatism may not even sincere either, but he can't ever hide from his current political designation. He has no chance of winning his home state (unless his home state becomes Utah again) and he can't win the south unless he converts to some kind of 'normal' Christianity. I'm sure this is just a vanity run - a classic way to make himself into a nationwide household name. He has a weird charisma that will pay him well in future talk circuits, whether its for soulless businessmen or zealous social conservatives. Plus, it will make him a bigger star among Mormons, that funny little religion born out of white surpremicism and misogyny.
Fortunately, his fear-mongering sidekick Kerry Healey, who never came close to perfecting the shit-eating grin of her boss, will not be ascending the ranks, as she was soundly defeated by Democrat Deval Patrick. Patrick is not a man without flaws, but he's looking to be the most progressive governor this state has ever had. Even better is that Romney/Healey's supporters lost. No lie - one Healey supporter called in to a local radio show and said we need someone who supports executing all criminals and that maybe Healey will be "like a Hitler". When the radio host (far too nicely) said "I hope she wouldn't be like a Hitler, this woman responded "well, maybe like a Catherine the Great then" to which the host replied "okay, I'll give you that one". Yeah, cause we definately need a good Tzar these days!! Uh... what?
Well, Massachusetts redeemed itself on Nov 7. And though I voted for Green Party candidate Jill Stein in 2002, I had to resign myself to more pragmatic voting this time around. Plus, I really had no strong feelings against Deval Patrick. Yeah, I found his rhetoric often to be too "feel-good" and kind of phony, but when it comes down to the issues, he's fairly strong. And once he won the election, he seemed to have some genuine passion. I will definately feel better knowing he's in the State House tomorrow morning, and this walking fucktastrophe will be misusing his own money, and not mine.
* Currently the Massachusetts tax burden is distributed in a very unfair fashion, with the lower 40% of tax payers contributing twice as much (9.2%) as the richest 1% (4.6%) in all state and local taxes, after all deductions are considered.
Preliminary analysis that we have conducted suggests that leveling these contributions to the same rate of 8.2%, would create a tax cut for the lower 60% of taxpayers, while the next 20% would contribute at the same rate they are currently paying. While the contribution for the top 20% would increase, they would still pay a lower rate than lower income taxpayers have been paying for past 10 years. This simple step toward fairness would generate an additional $2 billion. (source).
Maybe he'll spend more time at his other part-time home states, Michigan and Utah, or maybe he'll just be a constant traveler like he has been for the past few years. I don't care, I'm just glad he's gone. He's done nothing for this state other than talk shit about it in other states as he campaigns for President. When he is home, he campaigns against our gay marriage law. He'll say he turned our state decifit into a surplus without raising taxes, but the fact is he raised fees, and even created a "new fee on individuals who file complaints with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination" (source). His excuse was that fees are voluntary. Well, you have to say he's right... you don't need to charge someone with discrimination, do you? No, 'course not. So why not make those uppity types pay for being uppity? Why force high-wage earners to pay the same percentage of taxes as low-wage earners? (*see below) And why make Bechtel pay for their botched job on the Big Dig, which caused part of a tunnel to collapse and kill a woman this year (completely fucking preventable). Why look into the reasons Bechtel wasted tax-payer money and lined their own pockets? Don't want to upset the good ol' boys now, do we??
This motherfucking asshole was elected on a fluke - he was trailing the entire election season until his Democratic opponent did horribly in the last and most visable televised debate. Before that, he was just a clown in a campaign ad that showed him, a multi-millionaire venture captialist, pretending to be a working class guy as he tools under car hoods, serves hot dogs, reels in nets full of fish, and my favorite part: he tosses trash into a compactor but overshoots a little bit as some of the scraps go flying over the compactor and off to the side. These ads were especially hilarious when paried with his other ads showing him and his giant litter of perfectly groomed BHBE children posing in their McMansion in Belmont. I can only hope there's some more of this comic relief during his run for the White House.
Of course, I find it impossible that he or any other Mormon could ever become President, and he's smart enough to know that. He was also smart enough to disguise himself as a moderate while running for Governor. His newly unveiled social conservatism may not even sincere either, but he can't ever hide from his current political designation. He has no chance of winning his home state (unless his home state becomes Utah again) and he can't win the south unless he converts to some kind of 'normal' Christianity. I'm sure this is just a vanity run - a classic way to make himself into a nationwide household name. He has a weird charisma that will pay him well in future talk circuits, whether its for soulless businessmen or zealous social conservatives. Plus, it will make him a bigger star among Mormons, that funny little religion born out of white surpremicism and misogyny.
Fortunately, his fear-mongering sidekick Kerry Healey, who never came close to perfecting the shit-eating grin of her boss, will not be ascending the ranks, as she was soundly defeated by Democrat Deval Patrick. Patrick is not a man without flaws, but he's looking to be the most progressive governor this state has ever had. Even better is that Romney/Healey's supporters lost. No lie - one Healey supporter called in to a local radio show and said we need someone who supports executing all criminals and that maybe Healey will be "like a Hitler". When the radio host (far too nicely) said "I hope she wouldn't be like a Hitler, this woman responded "well, maybe like a Catherine the Great then" to which the host replied "okay, I'll give you that one". Yeah, cause we definately need a good Tzar these days!! Uh... what?
Well, Massachusetts redeemed itself on Nov 7. And though I voted for Green Party candidate Jill Stein in 2002, I had to resign myself to more pragmatic voting this time around. Plus, I really had no strong feelings against Deval Patrick. Yeah, I found his rhetoric often to be too "feel-good" and kind of phony, but when it comes down to the issues, he's fairly strong. And once he won the election, he seemed to have some genuine passion. I will definately feel better knowing he's in the State House tomorrow morning, and this walking fucktastrophe will be misusing his own money, and not mine.
* Currently the Massachusetts tax burden is distributed in a very unfair fashion, with the lower 40% of tax payers contributing twice as much (9.2%) as the richest 1% (4.6%) in all state and local taxes, after all deductions are considered.
Preliminary analysis that we have conducted suggests that leveling these contributions to the same rate of 8.2%, would create a tax cut for the lower 60% of taxpayers, while the next 20% would contribute at the same rate they are currently paying. While the contribution for the top 20% would increase, they would still pay a lower rate than lower income taxpayers have been paying for past 10 years. This simple step toward fairness would generate an additional $2 billion. (source).
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But "social conservatism" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_conservatism stood out.
So now it's got me reading into that.
Sorry if my writing style is a bit hectic or rushed.
Won't get my vote.
-Enoch Powell
For most of the years since 1996, I have been a registered independent, although I spent a few years working in the state Green Party (Green-Rainbow Party since 2002), even serving as the Communications Director for a short time (about 3 months). A lot of the Green-Rainbows were intensly devoted to the party and it kind of scared me. It was very cult-like. I pretty much agreed with everything they stood for, but I didn't like the feeling that I had to agree. The whole 10 Key Values thing is too much like the Ten Commandments for me, and some of their lingo was too much like Newspeak. Of course, unlike Big Brother, they would never torture anyone, or even torture an insect, but some of their AdCom (administrative committee) meetings felt like torture!
However, I do see a need for likeminded people to organize. You can't be an independent candidate without lots of money. Parties provide that money. So I guess parties are a necessary evil for now. Do you really work for the DNC? I'm not saying I want to join, but I'm interested in what it is like inside there.
I also never liked the name "Green Party". It makes it sound like environmentalism is the only focus of the party, when it's actually only one of out of its "Ten Key Values". The environment barely even came up when I was working for the party. And the Massachusetts version "Green-Rainbow Party" is even worse. It makes it sound like if you're not a gay enivironmentalist, you shouldn't even join. The "Rainbow" part actually comes from the merger with the Rainbow Coalition Party - another party with a full range of progressive views but somehow decided only one, diversity in this case, was worthy of its moniker. And Green-Rainbow as a name makes about as much sense as Strawberry-Neapolitan.