Well, Let’s See. First We Tell Them It’s a Taco Party, Then We Get a Big Net …
Mitt Romney has no idea what he’ll do about immigration, but he promises that he’s thinking real hard and will come up with something by … oh say, early next spring. This solution stuff is hard.
Mitt Romney has had a lot to say about immigration the past few days, but what he has said adds up to a giant question mark. Rarely has a candidate had as many opportunities to clarify or recalibrate his position on a vital issue, and rarely has a candidate passed up those opportunities as consistently as the former governor.
Well, we do know he’s against the Dream Act because as he said during the debates against Rick Perry, “it makes no sense.” Children who were brought here by no choice of their own should not be educated or allowed to succeed because “it makes no sense.”
And we’re pretty sure he’s against just shooting everybody with brown skin, but I can’t swear to that.
His idea about “self-deportation” didn’t catch-on as well as he expected, even when he threw in a free ticket to horse dancing as incentive.
I want to be honest here. Presidential candidates with secret plans scare the crap outta me. They do. So, maybe it’s just me who is concerned.
Ah, yes. The secret plan. I remember that Nixon had a ‘secret plan’ for ending Viet Nam with ‘honor’. Turns out, the real secret was – no plan! Hah! Bet no one saw that coming.
If I sometimes seem a bit strident in my hate for Republicanites, well, I’ve been at it since Nixon. Anyone 60+ completely understands.
1As one you also understands, I have to confess. I no longer consider Nixon our worst president. Bush II now holds that honor. Nixon was just our most dishonest president.
2I don’t think they are so secret. All you have to do is look at Bain for the blueprint.
3Yea, they all got secret plans. Remember John McCain saying he had a secret plan to capture bin Laden and would reveal it AFTER the election? That worked out well. For President Obama.
4publius bolonius, I am just 50+ and I understand the Nixon stuff, hon. I may have been in elementary school when he got elected, but I was in high school when he was caught with his britches down.
Juanita, sweetie, all secret agendas scare me silly.
5I do sometimes wonder what that old boy is thinking. Hasn’t he gotten onboard with the modern wonders of drone-tasking? I’ve heard that in Texas they are taking on the troublesome work of getting rid of the entire immigration problem?
6There’s plenty of drones just waiting for a job.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/11/border-agency-overextended-drone-program/
@SusanF
You were obviously a child with well-developed critical thinking skills and a functional BS detector. And, oh my, how you’ve grown!
7You are definitely NOT alone in being skeered of all the secret agendas the Republicans seem to think is going to endear one and all to their side! I’m as afraid of those as I am of the fires going on up here in Colorado!! None of it can be considered a “good thing” … please pray for rain in CO.
8Horse dancing. I actually do this kind of thing, on a very low level. But I understand and appreciate it when it’s done in the classical style…
Now that I’ve clarified myself, what Anne Romney is doing is trying to earn money with her horses. The dollar amounts are huge: $70,000 deduction for just one horse on the one year’s tax return that’s been made public. And even her own husband doesn’t know how many horses she has, and that dollar figure is only reflecting her part-owner status on that Olympic-quality horse.
In order to actually be allowed that deduction (and all the others), Anne has to declare it a business, not a hobby. For that, she has to show a profit in 3 out of every 5 years. This will include losing the lawsuit over selling a horse for $125,000 a few years back, that turned out to be lame and was proven to have been sold while drugged up. That was a loss year, I’ll bet, when she had to pay that back plus whatever other monies were involved.
I am a hobbyist. I pay taxes. I love horse dancing but also realize the dirty deeds play a big part in the money world of horses as they do in other subjects.
9Isn’t it, I don’t know, usually the way things are done?
That a POTUS candidate tells the people what he will be doing for them for the next 4 years?
That is why you usually vote for a person so that can guide the country the way you want them to.
Now Romney has been running for POTUS for forever.
10he has to know what he wants to do. So the only reason he is waiting is for marching orders from the republicans on high who will tell him what to say and do.
because in the past, he has sounded more like a democrat to day then a right wing nut job.
I can’t imagine him agreeing with half the agenda of the Texas GOP.
Immigration, tax reform and creating jobs…Romney has a secret plan for everything! Sorry, Romney but you are NO Nixon….we won’t get fooled again!
11Would an employer hire someone who said “I have plans to make your business a huge success” but who then refuses to discuss any of them if that applicant would take the reigns of the business into his or her hands? I don’t think so – you want and need to know who the power wield is and what he or she intends to do with your business.
We have to remember that Romney also said – “I won’t discuss them because it could cost me votes.” That is the biggest red flag of all – he is telling us we wouldn’t want him in charge if we knew what he planned to do.
P.S. The NRA is now so emboldened by Citizens United they are no long hiding their influence over legislators. Their lobbyists are demanding that Holder be removed! Someone needs to stop the NRA from buying out our government. They are wielding their influence over 35 Democrats to get Holder out. How dare those sumbitches do this!
12Remember Nixon’s secret plan to end the war in the Nam. That went well
13I like the part where Romney laid out a solid critique of Obama’s failure to fulfill his 2008 campaign promise to enact comprehensive immigration reform without mentioning that every attempt the President has made to move forward has been blocked by Mitchy-Mitch and the Oompa-Loompa man.
14In the for what it’s worth column regarding whether Anne Romney’s horse stuff is a business, there is no requirement that you ever show a profit if you declare some enterprise a business. All that is required is that you be able to demonstrate that you intend to make a profit.
15As to secret plans maybe Mitt it could well be that he doesn’t have any plans secret or otherwise, but I’d bet my last dollar that whoever is pulling his strings does and that is truly scary.
MaryK Croft, and Robert–thank you both for info on Ann Romney’s horse business. I’m so glad that Dogs Against Romney
http://www.dogsagainstromney.com
now has a horse division. They are up to 60K Facebook friends.
16The Man in the Magic Underwear keeps secrets?! No way!
17KS Sunflower,
There is one way to stop the NRA in their tracks. Every damn, liberal one of us who can, buys a life membership. You get to vote then. I lost any respect for the NRA when they went whacko on us. Use to be for responsible and safe gun ownership. I want to send them several cases of tinfoil (ok I know in aluminum).
Frankly if the Tea-tards and Paulbots keep it up, the NRA may have to open a division for freaked out aging hippies.
18Romney is just the latest “Village Idiot” the GOP is pushing for office. The party and ALEC found out 11 years ago that the “VI” will rubber stamp anything that is put in front of him.
19The “Secret Plan to……” is likely to be one phrase that should scare the bejebus out of all us Medicare age group. That worked out so well. Just about as well as the first MBA president should warn off electing another one.
20@ Robert, with all due respect, I think you might want to check on that profitability thing. The IRS assumes that if you have enough money to prop up a failing enterprise year after year that it is NOT for profit and that it is in fact a tax shelter. Certain enterprises fall into this category, and “hobby farms” are one of them. Anything to do with horses is a special scrutiny item for most of us mere mortals.
21Have you all read about the town in Illinois that was waiting to meet Romney when he was on his ‘bus’ tour?
22A lot of the folks there were employed at a tech-firm, they had been made to train their replacements in India or China I cannot remember which) and then they were all going to be fired (as we speak), they were going to protest to Romney but he conveniently avoided that town.
I forgot to mention, the company had been bought by Bain:
Google it!
How to decide on the worst President? In terms of unleashing decades of sewage on the rest of us, we still have to start with Buchanan, who guaranteed the Civil War and set back gay rights for over 150 years. Nixon was the grand enabler, an evil genius who set pretty much this whole apple cart in motion (who was Karl Rove’s mentor? Donald Segretti. I could go on). Reagan, while performing in the best role of his career, erected the Potemkin Village of twisting the message and making down the new up. Candidly, I don’t think Shrub was either smart enough or cared enough, but he did the ultimate MBA thing and delegated – unfortunately, to a bunch of looney jackals – and so came the breaking loose of all hell.
23“I want to be honest here. Presidential candidates with secret plans scare the crap outta me.” Me too. Emotions are part of what makes us human. The lack of Romney transparency is part of the Romney life habit of paranoia and secretiveness. There are reasons he’s been called “out of touch” and hailed as a robot.
24I have to wonder why dressage has suddenly become “horse dancing” and is spoken of derisively. The horses may be unfortunate enough to be owned by unscrupulous people and their talents traded on the open (or black) markets but their performance is classic and beautiful.
25I am beginning to turn my attention to Queen Elizabeth when I long for peace from all of the utter crap that is going on among our elected and appointed idiocracy here in the U.S. Perhaps this new, rebellious, nonsensical country has reached the end of its ability to govern itself.
@Ellen: I agree with you on the horses. They are incredibly disciplined and learn to follow the most subtle of touches to know how to “dance.”
26And as to the Queen, I think often of the scene of tens of thousands of Brits calmly, sedately, following a line of maybe 20 policemen up the Mall from Admiralty Arch to Buckingham Palace just to see the Queen wave to them. No pushing, shouting, or rowdy behavior. Children rode on adults’ shoulders. Just cheers at the right time and a beautiful singing of God Save the Queen. A scene utterly impossible in the US. It makes me really sad.