Romney and the Republicans love to tell us that the government shouldn't be picking winners and losers. This is hogwash. Romney has been hammering the Solyndra thing. Of course, he doesn't want us to know that while he was at Bain Capital 22% of businesses that he invested in went belly up.
Romney also said - But don’t forget, you put $90 billion, like 50 years’ worth of breaks, into — into solar and wind, to Solyndra and Fisker and Tesla and Ener1. I mean, I had a friend who said you don’t just pick the winners and losers, you pick the losers, all right?
This is not true. The Obama administration did not spend $90 billion on energy projects. I wish that they had. We need to spend more money on energy... but I'm getting off the subject. We spent $21 billion. Now, anyone with access to an internet search engine could look up this number. It is easily available. So why did Romney tell millions of Americans (both via his web site and in the debates) that the Obama administration spent $90 billion? Republicans will believe it. They have been taught that the government simply wastes, burns and flushes our money. So, any big number will be believed by Republicans.
What if Rape Is a Campaign Strategy? (Updated)
What if Rape Is a Campaign Strategy?
I'm just wondering if the Republican Party has decided that outrageous comments about rape is politically advantageous. The comments we are currently seeing cannot be spontaneous. They're not being made by some country bumpkin running for city dogcatcher. Instead, these are serious candidates running for major offices (both Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock are running for US Senate in their respective states). Both of these guys have put in a lot of time. Both of these candidates have raised a lot of money. Both these candidates have been on the national stage with major political backing from the RNC.
Mourdock said, "I've struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize that life is that gift from god. And even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen."
Maybe there's some polling hidden deep in some Republican's file cabinet (Karl Rove) that suggests talking about rape in religious terms galvanizes evangelicals more than it repulses liberals and moderates. I don't know. What I do know is that most of the things that are being said at the level of a U.S. Senate candidate is incredibly scripted. There are almost no spontaneous moments. Candidates are very cautious of what they say and how they say it. (Remember George Allen??) A misplaced statement here or there can mean disaster.
The main problem with Mourdock's statement is that it is really the mainstream Republican position. Here's what Jon Stewart has to said on the subject.
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