The Politics Thread

[DRW50]

It's very sobering that as Santorum and Gingrich fade into complete irrevelancy and Mitt gets the support of other media darlings like Marco Rubio, he still feels the need to essentially scorn people who need health insurance and mocking people who lost their jobs. This is the President we're going to have when the health insurance law is thrown out? What is he going to do - chuckle about it?

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/03/romney-adds-secret-plan-for-the-uninsured-to-secret-tax-and-medicare-plans.php?ref=fpnewsfeed

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/romney-laughingly-recalls-fathers-layoffs?ref=fpb

[juppiter]

More than a little irony in the Republicans cheering for the Supreme Court to "legislate from the bench" as they so despise and strike down their own idea.

[DRW50]

When media darlings meet. Mitt Romney gave $10,000 to National Organization for Marriage.

http://blog.sfgate.c...8-effort/?tsp=1

The focus there is on whether he violated California reporting laws, but what I'm more interested in is how he feels about NOM's decision to start some war between gays and blacks. Does he agree with that? Did they discuss this with him way back around the time he donated?

Edited March 31, 2012 by CarlD2

[DRW50]

It looks like the "liberal" media is starting more puff pieces now that Romney has definitely locked up the nomination. Here's one on Ann Romney. She is a "rock star," and the not-so-subtle implication is that while Michelle Obama had to change herself in order to win support, Ann Romney is just naturally awesome.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0412/74718.html

I do respect what she's had to go through, with her health, but I find it very confusing that this "rock star" profile did not mention comments like this:

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/03/ann-romney-dont-consider-myself-wealthy.html

Or, when talking about how she is some touchstone to true believers, there is no mention of her past donation to Planned Parenthood.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/ann-romneys-planned-parenthood-donation/

I'm not sure exactly how you get a new Camelot out of this, but I guess we're going to get it anyway.

[quartermainefan]

I find the whole Romney is the nominee everyone else should get out meme weird. It is true Santorum cannot get the 1400 delegates, but neither can Romney! Here is a candidate whose main selling point is he is failing by less, and all the power brokers are trying to push everyone out?

[Roman]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/03/ann-romney-trust-goldman-sachs-backpagecom_n_1399204.html?ref=politics

The Rock Star in some difficulty.

[DRW50]

I'm still getting over her "unzip" comments.

So did anyone watch Sarah Palin on The Today Show? How desperate were NBC to ask her? It's not like Katie Couric is some morning powerhouse - she left the Today Show and their ratings had no big drop. They make themselves look bad.

As for Palin, I thought she hated the "lamestream" media.

[quartermainefan]

I watched clips, she wasn't bad. I was hoping she would have done some actual hosting duties though. She could have easily handled the Tori Spelling interview, and it would have been cool to see her interview someone like Bill or Hillary and what kind of questions she would ask. She was an ok guest.

[Roman]

Well Carl, I now agree with you wholeheartedly. I was very wrong am I'm sorry.

Liberal Media my backside.

I just watched Chuck Todd cheerlead for the RP the latest job numbers.

[quartermainefan]

Socialist if ever there was one. Someone call Grover Norquist. This commie didn't sign the pledge.

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[DRW50]

Hillary profile.

http://www.elle.com/Life-Love/Society-Career-Power/At-the-Pinnacle-of-Hillary-Clinton-s-Career

[DRW50]

I can't believe the bullshit media hysteria over Hillary Rosen taking a jab at Ann Romney. No one in the media gave a hoot when Michelle Obama was called ugly, racist names, and painted as some type of America-hating demon. You can tell the media were just looking for a chance to "even the score" regarding the parties' views on women, even though one comment from a talking head would in reality not exactly match up to retrograde legislation in state after state after state. Does the media care that the "women for Romney" who go on about women losing their jobs actually voted against women having equal pay to men?

[quartermainefan]

I think this was just an easy to package news story and something every news outlet could sell instantly. The woman is an idiot and I thought that whole women in the home vs the workplace was settled long ago.

[ReddFoxx]

Rosen never even mentioned anything about mothers, it's was Ann Romney that added that. It isn't a lie that she never worked for a living, as in having to earn a paycheck and for that matter, her husband has never really had to survival, but rather for status. Rosen would have even said what she said if Mitt Romney hadn't labeled Ann one of his economic surrogates. With the primary over, Romney needs something to delay discussing the issues.

[quartermainefan]

Then what she should have said is Romney never had to earn a paycheck. What she said was Romney never worked a day in her life. The next logical step in the chain is what was she doing instead. She was a mother and therefore motherhood is not work. Now realistically I am sure she had help and nannies and people to clean and everything else but the initial comment is almost the embodiment of the old debate about working women and stay at home moms and housewives. Rosen is on the wrong side of that debate. Alice Kramden knew back in 1955 that housewives work too.

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Of course, The Romney experience was a little different than the Kramden one.