So John Edwards has some kind of heart condition. Apparently, its a real one and not some kind of hyped up condition like what Junior Soprano did when he was on trial.
Because both of them still have more influence over Republicans with their potential endorsement than their local man or woman of God. 28% of Republican primary voters say former President Bush's endorsement will sway them. 23% say that with respect to Palin. Both rank at the top of the list, higher than their priest, rabbi or pastor.
... so what? The internet business model of giving away your product for free online was never going to work, and a lot of newspapers went out of business trying to make it work. Before the internet, if you wanted your local newspaper like the News Journal, you paid for it. And it is going to be that way again.
This is why the Bain issue is so horrible: the biographical contrast.
“President Obama – who, like Mitt Romney, earned a degree from Harvard and all the opportunities that affords – began his career helping jobless workers in the shadow of a closed-down steel mill. Mitt Romney, on the other hand, made millions closing down steel mills.”
Looks like the Rethugs will have something like a statewide ticket after all. Chad Livengood's Sunday News-Journal piece pieces it together. The R's are calling it something like the 'real people ticket', which presumably is better than the 'just some guys' ticket. (Bleep, Daily Kos stole my line before I could even publish this.)
Why is it that rethuglican elected officials hate poor people? It seems as though Tom Corbett, who usually scurries away from television cameras like a cockroach when the lights come…
So I have been doing a little reading about Mitt Romney's father, George Romney. As you may know, George Romney was a Governor of Michigan in the 1960's, and he was for much of 1967 the frontrunner for not only the GOP nomination for the Presidency, but also the Presidency itself as he was leading Lyndon Johnson in the polls at the time. What I didn't know about George Romney is that he was not an American. Because he was never born here.