Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Tampa Bay, Florida will be hosting the Republican National Comvention from August 27 to August 30. There is an urban legend that Tampa Bay is the strip club capital of America. “It’s not true,” said Joe Redner, the owner of the renowned Mons Venus strip club in Tampa Bay. The Tampa Bay … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
The oracles of the conservative right have a message for Willard "Mittens" Romney: "You suck as a candidate!"
Rupert Murdoch's GOP establishment Wall Street Journal editorializes today Romney's Tax Confusion:
The Romney high command has muddied the tax issue in a way that will help Mr. Obama's claims that he is merely taxing rich folks like Mr. Romney. And it has made it that much harder for Republicans to again turn ObamaCare into the winning issue it was in 2010.
Why make such an unforced error? Because it fits with Mr. Romney's fear of being labeled a flip-flopper, as if that is worse than confusing voters about the tax and health-care issues.
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Perhaps Mr. Romney is slowly figuring this out, because in a July 4 interview he stated himself that the penalty now is a "tax" after all. But he offered no elaboration, and so the campaign looks confused in addition to being politically dumb.
This latest mistake is of a piece with the campaign's insular staff and strategy that are slowly squandering an historic opportunity.
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The Romney campaign thinks it can play it safe and coast to the White House by saying the economy stinks and it's Mr. Obama's fault. We're on its email list and the main daily message from the campaign is that "Obama isn't working." Thanks, guys, but Americans already know that. What they want to hear from the challenger is some understanding of why the President's policies aren't working and how Mr. Romney's policies will do better.
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[The Obama] attacks were predictable, in particular because they go to the heart of Mr. Romney's main campaign theme—that he can create jobs as President because he is a successful businessman and manager. But candidates who live by biography typically lose by it. See President John Kerry.
The biography that voters care about is their own, and they want to know how a candidate is going to improve their future. That means offering a larger economic narrative and vision than Mr. Romney has so far provided. It means pointing out the differences with specificity on higher taxes, government-run health care, punitive regulation, and the waste of politically-driven government spending.
Mr. Romney promised Republicans he was the best man to make the case against President Obama, whom they desperately want to defeat. So far Mr. Romney is letting them down.
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Press release from the Arizona Democratic Party: Procedures for 2012 presidential nomination and delegate selection for Democratic National Convention PHOENIX — The Arizona Democratic Party has chosen not to participate in the 2012 Presidential Preference Primary Election. We agree with Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell and County Elections Director Karen Osborne that in these … Read more
Posted by Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings Just a mish-mash of (mostly) lege-related stuff… …Governor Jan Brewer has vetoed HB2462, Rep. Ed Ableser's proposal to rein in predatory towing companies. In her veto letter (linked above to the word 'vetoed'), she cited a few reasons she was opposed to this bill, including that she … Read more
by John Adams We have seen the past two weeks the best presentation of our Party’s message in Denver, contrasted with the best presentation the Republicans could muster in St. Paul. The results are starkly impressive. Let’s consider some of the questions posed about our two Campaigns just a few short weeks ago…and answered so … Read more