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Comment by doone on May 1, 2012 at 8:55pm

In a subsequent post, Franck went further and abandoned any pretense:

Williamson is quite sure that it is harmless to hire an ardent advocate of same-sex marriage for a prominent place in a campaign pledged to defeat same-sex marriage, because the hireling’s brief runs to matters not directly related to the issue. If he thinks that the gay-rights agenda doesn’t have any bearing on American foreign policy, he’s not paying attention. If he thinks that influence doesn’t run up as well as it does down in the hierarchy of a campaign, that voters are not inclined, with some justice, to regard hiring decisions such as this as an indication of the seriousness of the candidate about such a subject, and that it doesn’t matter whether the campaign is seen to be unequivocal on an issue that moves many millions of voters, then he is not the keen observer of politics I took him for.

(To be fair to NRO, Kevin Williamson was a voice for toleration.)

If opposition to marriage equality is a litmus test for gay inclusion in the Romney campaign and administration, then there will be scarcely a single openly gay person willing to sign up to play any part in it. It has come to this. The GOP will have no gays within it unless they are prepared openly to oppose their own core rights and dignity. Romney has gone from promising to be more pro-gay in the Senate than Ted Kennedy than hanging a lone gay spokesman out to dry and pledging to write into the very constitution that gays are second class citizens.

If you're gay, or your friend, son, daughter, brother, sister, aunt or uncle is gay, you just learned something about what the GOP now is. Do not forget it.

Comment by Chris on May 1, 2012 at 3:18am

Paul Krugman, as usual has a good take on Romney's comments in  Wasting Our Minds 

Comment by Chris on April 29, 2012 at 11:52pm

Bwa haa haa haa

It obvious he's running for the 'other' America.

Comment by doone on April 29, 2012 at 10:33pm

Romney’s Advice To Students: Borrow Money From Your Parents

By Annie-Rose Strasser posted from ThinkProgress Special Topic on Apr 27, 2012 at 4:20 pm

If you’re young and you want to start your own business, Mitt Romney’s has some advice from you: Borrow money from your parents. At a “lecture” for students at Otterbein University in Ohio today, Mitt Romney told students that, his friend, Jimmy John, started a business by borrowing $20,000 from his parents at a low interest rate. Romney suggested anyone in the audience could do the same:

This kind of devisiveness, this attack of success, is very different than what we’ve seen in our country’s history. We’ve always encouraged young people: Take a shot, go for it, take a risk, get the education, borrow money if you have to from your parents, start a business.

Watch it:

The advice fits right into the characterization that Romney is ‘out of touch’ with regular people. Most students don’t have parents with $20,000 in disposable capital sitting around to give to their kids to start a business.

At least it’s more than Romney’s surrogates had to offer young people on their youth policy conference call this week.

Comment by doone on April 29, 2012 at 7:11pm

Maybe the Most Perfect Wingnut Paragraph Ever

By John Cole April 29th, 2012

Joe Kovacs at Wingnut Daily:

Medical examiners in Los Angeles are investigating the possible poisoning death of one of their own officials who may have worked on the case of Andrew Breitbart, the conservative firebrand who died March 1, the same day Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced probable cause for forgery in President Obama’s birth certificate.

Coincidence? I THINK NOT!

Comment by doone on April 27, 2012 at 9:59am

Memo Accidentally Sent To Reporters Shows Candidate’s Damage Contro...

By Alex Seitz-Wald posted from ThinkProgress Special Topic on Apr 26, 2012 at 7:10 pm

A public relations consultant working for Republican businessman Dave Spence, running for governor of Missouri, accidentally sent reporters an internal briefing memo today instead of a press release. The memo, prepared for an upcoming interview, instructed Spence on how to respond to a variety of topics, including questions about Obama’s religion. The St. Louis Times Dispatch reports:

In it, she offered Spence advice in case he was approached by reporters quizzing him on topics such as his recent suggestion that he didn’t know whether or not Obama is a Muslim.

“This is not an issue that I felt was pertinent to my candidacy for governor and expressed those sentiments,” Briggs offered as a potential answer. “However, if the media insists that this is a critical issue that must be addressed, I will be clear. President Obama says he is a Christian, and I take him at his word.”

The consultant felt the need to prep Spence on the unusual issue since just last Friday the candidate questioned Obama’s religion.

In an interview with the editorial board of the St. Louis American, an African-American news weekly, Spence was asked, “Is Barack Obama a Muslim?” The gubernatorial candidate responded, “I don’t know.” “Spence had spent whatever credibility he had for any consideration for an endorsement from The American. Barack Obama, as anyone knows who follows the news, is a church-going Baptist,” the American wrote.

Spence has faced weeks of bad press after it was reported that he voted against paying the U.S. Treasury back the $40 million in bailout funds lent to the bank whose board he sits on. It also came out that Spence employs a lawyer being investigated for facilitating illegal campaign donations.

Earlier, Spence was caught claiming he had a degree in economics. It turns out the degree was in home economics.

Comment by Chris on April 26, 2012 at 9:53am

I read he didn't like the way his neighbors property looked so he built a fence and sent the neighbor a $4,000 bill for it. A-hole

American tycoon Donald Trump has planning permission to build ‘the best golf course in the world,’ consisting of two championship golf courses in the Menie estate, including a lavish hotel, a clubhouse and about 900 houses, and everything looked great except for one unsightly disturbance, his neighbor David Milne, 46, whose house stood next to it, the Mail said.

In 2009, Trump tried to buy Milne’s property and three other homeowners but they declined saying the offer was 'somewhere between laughable and insulting,' indicating firm decision not to move at all having lived there for 20 years.

So Trump changed his tact and built a fence around his neighbor’s property before sending him the bill amounting to $4,000 half of the expense it cost to build.

This has made worse the bad neighboring relationships they already had between them.

But if worse comes to worst, Milne remained unperturbed saying, 'there is no way I'm going to pay it.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1394484/Donald-Trump-puts-b...

Comment by doone on April 25, 2012 at 11:25pm

Speaking of ugly - the Trumpster is against Windmills and has a giant balloon for a head.  

Comment by doone on April 25, 2012 at 11:24pm

Four-Time Chapter 11 Champ Donald Trump: ‘Monstrous’ Wind Turbines ...

By Rebecca Leber posted from Climate Progress on Apr 25, 2012 at 8:30 pm

A protester hits Trump's hair with a balloon.

Donald Trump is on a warpath against wind turbines, because they may obstruct the view of his billion-dollar golf resort in Scotland. Protesters greeted Trump today as he asked Scotland to abandon a project to build 11 offshore turbines.

Trump has encountered controversy on his golf resort from the start, since he bulldozed over environmentally sensitive sand dunes.

With his resort due to open in July, Trump has only heightened the attacks. In February, while digging up 1,235 acres for his resort, he said wind farms are “destroying” Scotland. In March, he called windmills “disgusting.”

Now, Trump says they will destroy Scotland’s economy:

“Scotland, if you pursue this policy of these monstrous turbines, Scotland will go broke,” Trump told the group. “They are ugly, they are noisy and they are dangerous. If Scotland does this, Scotland will be in serious trouble and will lose tourism to places like Ireland, and they are laughing at us.” [...]

“When challenged to produce hard evidence about his claims on the negative impact of turbines, Trump said: “I am the evidence, I am a world class expert in tourism.”

Trump knows a lot about going broke. As ABC reported last year, “Donald Trump — or companies that bear his name – have declared bankruptcy four times.”

Trump also said the project “is the most serious problem that Scotland will have or has had.”

That is unlikely, however much the 11 turbines seem like the end of the world to Trump.

Comment by Chris on April 25, 2012 at 10:25pm

On Knees for Jesus has a lot of right wing Christian videos. The web site say About me: 

Introduction	My life is all about getting on my knees and faithfully servicing Jesus until He comes.

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