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(iAP) The Romney campaign has admitted that they deliberately got the Republican presidential candidate booed by the United Kingdom to attract the votes of conservatives. Romney was booed continuously on Wednesday and Thursday as part of the campaign is calling its "double reverse charm offensive" which was launched at the NAACP convention in Houston last month. "We put the emphasis on offensive," a source close to the campaign stated. "The more snobby British people and blacks appear to not like Romney the more popular he becomes to our base." Adding, "We hope Romney goes into November as the most hated candidate of the modern era."

There is no sedan chair big enough to carry Christine's fat ass to the White House.

AP: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he's open to running for president in four years if the job is open. The first-term Republican says he hopes fellow Republican Mitt Romney beats President Barack Obama in November and seeks re-election in 2016. But if the presidency is open, Christie says he'll "certainly think about it.

Not that it really matters because Kovach doesn't seem to have a pulse, but there is a Libertarian flavored Republican also running for the house seat. Read Steve Newton's take on him....

She exploits her 3 year old on a reality show. She "disciplines" a misbehaving a three year old by uttering empty threats, and she laughs it off when her three…

Absent a pressing life or death calamity such as an earthquake, apartment fire, car crash or a fall from a ladder, what we decide to be panicked by is largely a function of the mass media. Since the mass media is a for profit business, they have an interest in creating a baseline level of panic and keeping that base panic simmering on a continuous basis. Studies show that what we are panicked by has little connection to what will actual kill or maim us. In this blog's very comments section we have people panicked by the idea that the government could run amok and take away "our freedom" whatever that means. (The freedom to have your kids paralyzed by backyard trampolines, I suppose.) Having worked for the federal government, the idea that people can be panicked about a government run amok strikes me as ludicrous. But the radio stations these people listen to and the movies they watch keep jamming the panic button down for them. Poor things. ...

Conservatives, where is your sense of decency? Where is your humanity?

“Where were the men of flight 93???? Someone should have stopped this man,” he wrote. “…All that was needed is one Courages/Brave man prepared mentally or otherwise to stop this it could have been done.”

With new revealations coming out about Romney's work to outsource 10s of thousands of jobs to India, Mexico and Burma, it is worth taking a moment to try and figure out what Romney would outsource in the unlikely event that he becomes President.

I was having dinner at Klondike Kate's tonight where a combo was playing and getting polite applause after each song. It was all very chill until the singer sang the first few notes of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" and a cheer went up. To me it was pretty obvious that the crowd was cheering for the President. It was a neat little moment. Anyway, turns out...Al Green is a threat to the American way of life.

I've always thought that Democrats have a built in disadvantage when trying to go head to head against bullshit streaming from the modern Republican Party. We are sensible, open to the possibility that our views can change in response to new information, kind and optimistic. Republicans...well.... Booman breaks it down, better than I can:

That's the Rude Pundit's question.   My answer is, when we stop being ruled by idiots.

When Do We Stop Talking About Climate Change as a Theory? This is what Morse Reservoir in Noblesville, Indiana, just north of Indianapolis, looks like right now:

It has taken a day or so to filter into the futures price at intrade and IEM, but you can clearly see the effect that the Bain/Tax secrecy issue is…

I always show this clip from Invictus' when talking about authentic leadership in an organizational behavior class that I teach.