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Team Romney is shaking up its Etch-a-sketch and hitting the road. Mitt Romney plans to launch a five-day bus tour through six key swing states on Friday. The trip begins at Scamman Farm in Stratham, New Hampshire, where he formally announced his candidacy — and served chili with his wife, Ann, in case you're interested — more than a year ago.
Since securing the Republican presidential nomination, Romney has spent the lion's share of his time at donor functions, and giving formal speeches deriding President Obama for paying "little attention to the everyday concerns of the American people." The bus tour marks Romney's first concerted effort to campaign through multiple battleground states at a time.
The tour promotes Romney’s new campaign message: "Every town counts." And after a weekend of criticizing Obama for his so-called "the private sector is doing fine" gaffe, the Romney campaign is trying to capitalize on what it feels is growing momentum for its candidate.
It's an excuse to get a bus with your name on it, anyway, though it seems to be short the requisite giant Constitution. No word on whether there will be chilli aboard the Mitt Romney express.
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Obama has been campaigning and out raising funds since Labor Day of last year...oh they call his appernance in the swing states of the Midwest Presiendtial appearnces so that they can be paid for by the tax payer complete with his caderie of campaign aides and packing as many of the nations DC liberal media press corps along as possible, but those appearances have had all of the trappings of campaign speeches and rallies, of course.
So get off the high horse, MSNBC, and stop with the derogatory bulls**t in those cutsy condescending tones on the candidate that half of the voters polled want to see elected president in 2012. Perhaps you think his use of a bus paid with his campaign funds is disrespectfull of the trappings of the office he is seeking compared to the tax payers picking up the huge costs of the flights of Air Force one and the press and aides plane that accompanies Obama?
Any official up for re-election does this. Whoop.
The taxpayers have not been paying for political activities. President Obama has used the same standard and rules that Presidents have used for the last 50 years or so to divide trip costs between the electoral and presidental.
Here are my name ideas:
1) The “Hate-Talk Express,” since Romney’s campaign is built entirely on inciting and channeling anti-Obama sentiment.
2) The “Double-Talk Express” because of Romney’s pathological distaste for the truth
3) The Magical Misery (or Mitt-sery) Tour
4) Every Clown Counts, a reference to the tour’s actual name and Romney’s apparent desire to appeal to every wacky racist and/or birther voter out there.
(Go to Newsericks.com for more.)
You paying the bill?
Romney's bus tour should be called the Dog Coach, or the Mitt Is Full Of @!$%# tour!
Romney should call his bus tour either "The Etch-a-sketch Express" or "The Chameleon Express"
Romney will not win the next election. What I don't understand is why the Republicans do not realize this. Are they in denial? I have predicted the winner of the presidential election since Kennedy won every time except once, both Republican and Democratic. I knew for certain that Illinois would go for Kennedy based on my kowledge of Chicago politics. That is why Illinois was the last one reporting. I have never being more certain than now that Obama will defeat Romney. Santorum would do better than Romney even though he had a hard time competing with Romney in the primary. How one does in the primary is not always the best indiator as to how that person will do in the presidential election. Why would the Republicans nominate a person who lost the previous try to be nominated? Romney lost to McCain and that is one of about 7 variable that I consider in making my prediction. I have predicted Republican wins. Therefore it is not based on how I feel. It is very objective and this time I am more sure than I have been in the past winners that I predicted.
I recommend the bus be named "The Mitt Witt Express"on The "Back to Bush Tour"
The name should be the Etch-O-Sketch Express (in memory of the Straight Talk Express)
This should be ( The rich needs more Solid Gold Toilets Tour and want the Middle Class and Poor to pay from them ) !!!
It's the WOLIF (pronounced wooluf) Bus" (Where Obama Leads, I Follow)
Etch-O-Sketch Express (in memory of the Straight Talk Express)
I recommend the bus be named " Sucks to be you Tour "
Hey, you can't spell Romney without "R-money!" - There's your new bus slogan... Sorry, I don't do twitter... I'm not that interesting...
Suggestion for a name for the Romney tour bus: Willard in Wonderland.
(Can't miss it - just look for the pet-carrier strapped to the roof!)
Oh, and before I catch the Ayn Rand blowback, I chose that moniker 25 years ago as a reference to "who is...?" Back when BBS's ruled and phone phreaking was phun... I had no idea that name would signify what it does now... Forgive me, I was 14 at the time... Now I'm stuck with it... Youthful indiscretion... *sigh*
You really need to go easy on the NyQuil, Grandpa...
"Half of the voters want to see elected president in 2012"? Sheesh, the two outlying con polls you're obviously citing (Rassmussen and Gallup) put the figures at statistical ties in the forties...
Half = 50% everywhere in the known universe, and I could understand it if you were reporting from here on Planet Utah and were one of those delusional sorts who think--like Romney--that they belong to God's "one true church" and are charged with saving a Constitution they've shown very little inkling to defend or understand throughout their history.
Did those voices in your head tell you that one, the same ones that give you those "facts" while the rest of us resort to Google and wind up shaking our heads at your nonsense? This is the 21st Century, afterall...
Lawrence is reporting Obama way ahead in New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Virginia with a decided electoral edge in the electoral college and among women and Latinos.
We learned about the Electoral College in 2000 in Florida, and darned if they aren't trying the same shinola again down there with imaginary and delusional claims about voter fraud...
Reminds me of a line I heard from a dispatcher about a particularly crooked--and stupid--cabdriver... "If he can't cheat, he's not going to play."
Ooooh... Man, what I wouldn't give to see Fuzzie's face when Capehart just tossed out that "World of Mitt Believe" zinger...
Probably similar to what we'll see when I toss out "Reason Number Eight" for voting Fuzzie off the island...
Hey Dude we wanted to see a elected President in 2000 & 2004 ,but we did not get that !!!
Standard practice is when the polling points to a tie, with a resevoir of "undecided voters", you split the undecided voters and allocated them, although there is some evidence that when there is an incumbant running for reelection and the polling is close, the undecideds usually break in favor of the challenger, Cab Driver. But I'll forgive you your ignorance, as you didn't study Political Science or Statistical Applications in you failed attempt at obtaining a college degree.
Every poll I've seen also has shown that the majority of voters polled favor Romney over Obama when the question is put: who do you believe is the better candidate to deal with the problems of our economy? And the problems continuing to be very problematic indeed, that is the overriding issue that the election will hinge on, of course.
You also either have a syntax problem, or you mistakenly believe women and hispanics have electoral votes as an interest group. That's to be found in your 5th sentence, above. But by the way, the Washington Post/NBC's latest poll has Obama down to only a 10% margin of victory with women now, and dropping (NBC being the parent network of MSNBC and hence the respectable poll that O'Donnell should aquaint himself with)
Its a long way to November, Cab Driver...even in Planet Utah, you shouldn't be counting your electoral college eggs yet! LOL!
How about calling the tour "the view through the monocle"?
An idea for the Obama bus: "Do you really want another Mittstake?" Romney/Bush 2012...
How about a Palin/Beck ticket: Lyin' and Cryin' 2012! BOOM!
How about Romney/Bush 2012: Oh sh*t, we divided by zero!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nice....
Romney of BORG
Resistance is futile
You will be assimilated
How about "Romney, now in 4-D!"
(4-D being the draft exemption from military service for missionary work)
the real bus name underneath the romney decal says...mich state police mobile operations....
but the back of the bus with the sticker says...romney, running over americans
This is a proud moment for Mormon's everywhere.
After years of being denigrated as a cult , President Romney now offers Mormons a path to respectability.
Mormon missionaries who are competing for converts with other religions in Africa and Asia will now be able to add credibility to their message by pointing out that "even the President of the United States is a Mormon".
The Mormon faith, due mainly to their aggressive missionary work, is now one of the fastest growing religions. It's not inconceivable that it could eclipse the Evangelical Christian movement here in America...which has a more "passive" outreach program.
Just yesterday a visitor from Europe asked me about the Mormon faith and for the first time I was able to say "even Mitt Romney is a Mormon"
Call the bus tour "I'm running for office for Pete's sake" bus tour.
Or "The company that made this bus should have gone bankrupt" tour.
Names for the Romney Bus:
The R.O.V.E.R. Bus (Romney Obeys Virtually Every Republican)
Romney Omnivore (Eating everything in sight and not liking it.)
WOW:MAN! (White on Wheels: Mitt And Norquist!)
The Mo' Faux Express (Who's mo 'faux' than the Mitt-meister?!)
Grover's Corners (Location of play Our Town and first name of Norquist!)
Axles of Evil
G.R.R.R.E.A.T! (Grover, Rove, Ryan, Romney Each A Toad!)
DeSeRuMa (Desperately Seeking Running Mate)
The MCR Express (Mobile Changing Room)
ImMITTerial Whirl
Bain Bridge To Oblivion
M.I.A. Mitt Inaction
I still think "Peddling It" works
At least it would equal his ideas for alternative enrgy policy!
How about 2 lines of text on the side of the bus (gold leaf is a nice touch):
"Talk and Travel,
Whichever Way the Wind Blows"
(then put a golden weather vane on both sides of the text)