While many have compared Mitt the Twit to Thurston Howell III, and Gordon Gekko, in this secret tape, he reminds me of Mr. Potter of "It's a Wonderful Life". Here is what George Bailey told Mr. Potter:

"Just remember this, Mr. Romney-Potter, that this rabble you're talking about... they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him. But to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. Well in my book, my father died a much richer man than you'll ever be!

You sit around here and you spin your little webs and you think the whole world revolves around you and your money. Well, it doesn't, Mr. Romney-Potter. In the whole vast configuration of things, I'd say you were nothing but a scurvy little spider!"

"It's a Wonderful Life" is a story loosely based on the Dickens classic, "A Christmas Carol", in which Ebenezer Scrooge is saved by the three Christmas ghosts, and sees the light, and ends his heartless stinginess and meanness.

So to answer the question of what Romney needs to turn around his campaign: He needs a visit from an angel, whether it be Clarence Oddbody of "Wonderful Life", or the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future. Then he needs to loudly and publicly repent and beg for forgiveness from the American voters, and promise if elected to resurrect the New Deal style reforms started by fellow millionaire FDR, and win the War on Poverty started by the great LBJ.

Given his flip-flopping history, he may be believed.

Another weak sister, wringing his hands because wanted him on their campaign staff, even if only as a speech writer.

Here's the real skinny, folks. After ABC's privately commissioned and Rasmussen's tracking polls released today and yesterday show that Obama has lost his brief post convention bump of 5%, the race between the incumbent Obama (with all the power that incumbency brings) and Romney is statistically tied, 47% to 46%. Gallup's recently released poll shows very much the same. And quite unnoticed by the liberal media that still are chastising Romney supposedly speaking "out of turn" and upsetting their position that the foreign affairs issues go to Obama, the beleaguered President is seen to have lost 12 points, from 53% to 41% support only for his policies on foreign affairs, which are very much responsible for the disrespect disdain his administration and the US is receiving at the hands of the fundamentalists in the Muslim World.

BTW, the Director of US Department of Counter Terrorism testified to teh Homeland Security Senate Committee of Congress today that his offices assessment is that the attack on our Ambassador and his colleague on the 11th anniversary of 9/11 was a planned and organized terrorist attack that successfully killed those individuals, and not a "spontaneous demonstration and protestation of a several month old 14 minute trailer for a blasphemous film appearing on YouTube which is the song and dance that this administration trotted out as late as yesterday in the News briefing by Obama's Press Secretary, Jay Carney, and the Obama administration's Ambassador to the UN who made all the Sunday AM news and commentary shows just this weekend, spewing a carefully worded Obama line of bulls..t. When is the nation's media going to press Obama to hold a news conference and deal with the real questions into our obviously under-protected embassies and consululates and diplomatic personnel and lack of preparation for these assaults on our embassies and that particular lethal Consulate attack in Benghazi, Libya, while Obama was off campaigning and fund raising, which is about the only activity he has had since Labor Day of 2011, over a full year now?

Now that is no way to win a very close election!

Re: "victims" - some of us HAVE BEEN victimized by the monumentally selfish & greedy banksters who crashed the economy, sucked trillions out of it, killed millions of jobs, which caused 1000's of foreclosures . . . . and then shamed us when we had nowhere else to turn BUT the government for some kind of assistance. In this context, "victims" is a legitimate term, not a pejorative. We have been financially raped, and then re-victimized, blamed for being in circumstances that we did not create by being either lazy, stupid, OR irresponsible.

For those who've lost interest in the few remaining shrieks from the tinfoil-hat-in-the-asylum crowd, here's the "Electoral Map":

http://www.examiner.com/article/new-polls-reinforce-obama-s-lead-on-the-electoral-college-map

A slew of new polls have been released from the states of Colorado, Virginia, Wisconsin, Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Oregon, Massachusetts, and Kentucky. As seen above, and in the polls listed below, the numbers currently paint a picture of Electoral College victory for President Obama. Obama currently leads with 303 projected electoral votes compared to 235 for Mitt Romney, and that projection includes giving Mitt Romney Florida even though Romney is trailing the Real Clear Politics average of polls from that state.

A moment of silence please...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtGxusvUT3k

Not even FAUX Noise is believing Rassmussen these days...

Well he's the turn around master, let's see him turn this ball of crap around

ABC commissioned poll, Gallup tracking poll, and Rasmussen tracking poll show that Obama nd Romney are locked in a statistical tie, with Obama at 47% and Romney at 46% in overall support, And that the short lived post convention bump up of 5 points that Obama enjoyed last week is gone now. In the last month there has been a total of 82 national poll taken to gauge overall support. Amazing...and just think how many sepatate polls taken in each state? It is just so close an election, and no one is pulling away, Incumbents have advantages, name recognition is still very much still at play with a largely non involved electorate still, and once we get to the home stretch in October when the nations voters who really do intend to vote (a far cry from the numbers of registered voters in each party, which is what most polls are based upon for their sampling base), the story will be quite different. Case in point: Jimmy Carter led in the polls over Ronald Reagan right up until 10 days before the Nov, 1980 election, which tuned quickly to a blow out for Reagan, folks.

Two words:

Donald Trump.

That's right, I'm talking The Donald...

And yes, things are that bad.

I mean, I thought that last week things weren't going so swell for Mr. Mitt, but man, this week...

Shoo-weeee!

It's like a whirlwind of unraveling, a delirium of disaster, a tsunami of dashed hopes...

Really, it's starting to just smell...

The Romney campaign fairly reeks of desperation all of a sudden, a radiating stink of sinking expectations, and the only thing one can ask is, what's next? What can possibly top all this?

Indeed, the man and his sorry campaign seem only a half-step away from entering into that full-bore realm of the truly Absurd, the sort of once-in-a-lifetime political train wreck that becomes a byword for a whole succeeding century or more, standing publicly as the very epitome of the stupefyingly imbecilic, the damnifyingly moronic...

Someone mention Donald Trump?....

Yeah, that's right, the Trumpster...for who's more suited, after all, to operate on a stage such as this than our orange-toned Oracle of Atlantic City, the sour-faced Sage of Trump Plaza, the wince-inducing Wit of Westchester County, the one, the only, the Donald?

Hey, remember that co-Presidency thing that the Reagan camp was briefly trying to cook up between ol' Gipper and Gerald Ford back in 1980?

Before things get any worse, why not just take that ready existential leap into out-in-the-open, self-admitted complete absurdity, and take on the Trumpster as a co-Presidential candidate, and then do a sort of tag-team switcheroo thing with him—Mitt having gotten things this far, such as it may be, and obviously in dire need of a long, long period of R & R on a quiet, for-the-1%-only, uber-secluded Caribbean island—and just let the Trumpster take over for the remaining stretch...

We all know he's primed for it...

Hell, Trump could take on both jobs...

Scratch the Vice-Presidency altogether, in other words, it's just a pathetic pretense of a job anyways—and let that Goofy-looking Ryan character go work off all his excess Gen X energy playing roadie for the latest AC/DC tour or something...

And then Trump can debate both Obama and Biden...bring 'em on!

Can you just imagine the sheer fun of it?

The ratings will go through the roof!...

The end result will be the same, of course—President Obama will get himself another term—but this way the rest of us can all have an enormously freakish good time in the offing as well...

And what do us non-Federal-income-tax-paying, dependency-loving, layabout 47%-percent-of-the-American-Public like more than an enormously freakish good time anyhow, eh Bain Boy?

Far better to use the Daily Kos poll.

EXPLAIN THIS. Turn it around, prove you can. bain port dot com.