Romney-Poor Little Rich Boy wants to be President

Money sometimes can buy you anything, even the presidency of the United States. Other times, not so.  From Politico's writing about the 2008 race: "Mitt Romney, a multi-millionaire sank about $45 million of his own money into the 2008 race."  He lost out to McCain, the moderate backed by the Republican establishment, and we all know what a disaster that turned out to be.  Now, in 2012, we have Romney, the see-saw moderate backed by the Republican establishment, spending $17 million making a big splash in the Florida primaries, and already being anointed by the establishment Republicans and political hacks in the news media as the ultimate winner of the Republican nominating process.  There's more primaries and more delegates to be won.  In spite of the establishment and hacks there is still a race to be run if Newt can stay in there.

In my opinion, there is something inherently dishonest about super-rich people buying their way into positions of political power to further enrich themselves and their ilk, the establishment, aka the "ruling class."

For whatever Newt is and though he is rich, he is not super-rich.  Romney swamped Newt with $17 million in negative adds in Florida compared to Newt's $5 million.  Romney came into this world with a silver spoon and became super-rich due to  appropriate marriages and proper business and political connections.  Whereas, old Newt, whether you agree with his positions or not, made his the hard way by grubbing for it.  I have to admire that more than living in wealth all your life and having no concept of what it is to have to grub for whatever it is you're able to get.

Mitt and Newt

I’ve watched all the Republican debates.  I’ve listened to all the give and take, good and bad.  I’ve researched some on the two main candidates, Romney and Gingrich.  Here’s what I’ve found out:

Mitt Romney comes from wealth, position and privilege, mostly through marriages.  He is a graduate of the Harvard Law School.  He married Ann Davies who also came from wealth, position, and privilege.  He received student deferments during the Viet Nam war.

Gingrich was not so fortunate.  He was the product of an early broken marriage, then the adopted step son of a career army officer and was an army brat having lived in foreign and domestic locations.  He attended Emory and Tulane Universities.  None of his three wives came from wealth, position and privilege.  He received student and professor deferments during the Viet Nam war.

The following was taken from Wikipedia on the Internet: 

Mitt Romney’s father, George, watched his parents fail financially in Idaho and Utah[25] and having to take a dozen years to pay off their debts.[26] Seeing their struggles influenced his life and business career.[24]

In Salt Lake City, George Romney worked while attending Roosevelt Junior High School and, beginning in 1922, Latter-day Saints High School.] In his senior year, he and junior Lenore LaFount became high school sweethearts;] she was from a more well-assimilated Mormon family. Academically, George Romney was steady but undistinguished.[32] Partly to stay near Lenore, he spent the next year as a junior college student at the co-located Latter-day Saints University, 

Romney (after a missionary mission in England) returned to the U.S. in late 1928 and studied briefly at the University of Utah and LDS Business College. He followed LaFount to Washington, D.C., in fall 1929, after her father accepted an appointment by President Calvin Coolidge to serve on the Federal Radio Commission.

With one of his brothers, George Romney opened a dairy bar in nearby Virginia during this time. The business soon failed, in the midst of the Great Depression. He also attended George Washington University at night.[40] Romney did not attend for long, or graduate from, any of the colleges in which he was enrolled; instead he has been described as an autodidact. He became an apprentice for Alcoa in Pittsburgh in 1930. When LaFount, an aspiring actress, began earning bit roles in Hollywood movies, George Romney arranged to be transferred to Alcoa's Los Angeles office as a salesman. LaFount had the opportunity to sign a $50,000, three-year contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, but Romney convinced her to return to Washington after he got a position there with Alcoa and with the Aluminum Wares Association as a lobbyist. He would consider his wooing of her his greatest sales achievement. The couple married on July 2, 1931, at Salt Lake City Temple. They would have four children: Margo Lynn (born 1935), Jane LaFount (born 1938), George Scott (born 1941), and Willard Mitt (born 1947).

George Romney joined the National Press Club and the Burning Tree and Congressional Country Clubs.  Lenore's cultural refinement and hosting skills helped him in business, and the couple met the Hoovers, the Roosevelts, and other prominent Washington figures. He was chosen by Pyke Johnson, a Denver newspaperman and automotive industry trade representative he met at the Press Club, to join the newly formed Trade Association Advisory Committee to the National Recovery Administration. The committee's work continued even after the agency was declared unconstitutional in 1935. During 1937 and 1938, Romney was also president of the Washington Trade Association Executives.

Mitt Romney married Ann Lois Davies.  She was raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, by parents Edward R. Davies and Lois Davies. Her father, originally from Caerau near Bridgend, Wales, was a self-made businessman who became president of Jered Industries, a maker of heavy machinery for marine use.  He also was mayor of Bloomfield Hills.

Ann Davies knew of Mitt Romney since elementary school. She went to the private Kingswood School in Bloomfield Hills, which was the sister school to the all-boys Cranbrook School that Mitt attended. The two were re-introduced and began dating in March 1965.  They informally agreed to marriage after his senior prom in June 1965.

Gingrich was born at the Harrisburg Hospital in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on June 17, 1943, as Newton Leroy McPherson. His mother, Kathleen "Kit" Daugherty; (1925–2003), and father, Newton Searles McPherson (1923–1970) married in September 1942, when she was 16 and McPherson was 19. The marriage fell apart within days.  In 1946, his mother married Army officer Robert Gingrich (1925–1996), who adopted Newt.

Newt has three younger half-sisters, Candace Gingrich, Susan Gingrich, and Roberta Brown. Gingrich is of German, English, Scottish, and Irish descent, and was raised a Lutheran.[10] Newt was raised in Hummelstown, near Harrisburg, and on military bases where Robert Gingrich was stationed.

In 1961, Newt graduated from Baker High School in Columbus, Georgia. He became interested in politics during his teen years while living in Orléans, France, where he visited the site of the Battle of Verdun and learned about the sacrifices made there and the importance of political leadership. Choosing to obtain deferments granted to students and fathers, Gingrich did not enlist and was not drafted during the Vietnam War. He expressed some regret about that decision in 1985, saying, "Given everything I believe in, a large part of me thinks I should have gone over."

Gingrich received a B.A. degree in history from Emory University in Atlanta in 1965, and an M.A. (1968) and Ph.D. (1971) in modern European history from Tulane University in New Orleans. He spent six months in Brussels in 1969-70 working on his dissertation entitled "Belgian Education Policy in the Congo: 1945–1960" In 1970, Gingrich joined the history department at West Georgia College as an assistant professor. In 1974 he moved to the geography department and was instrumental in establishing an interdisciplinary environmental studies program. Denied tenure, he left the college in 1978.

Gingrich has married three times. In 1962, he married Jackie Battley, his former high school geometry teacher, when he was 19 years old and she was 26. They have two daughters from their marriage: Kathy Gingrich Lubbers is president of Gingrich Communications and Jackie Gingrich Cushman is an author, conservative columnist, and political commentator whose books include 5 Principles for a Successful Life, co-authored with Newt Gingrich.

In the spring of 1980, Gingrich left his wife after beginning an affair with Marianne Ginther, who was nine years his junior. In 1984, Jackie Gingrich told The Washington Post that the divorce was a "complete surprise" to her. According to Jackie, in September 1980, Gingrich and their children visited her while she was in the hospital, recovering from surgery, and Gingrich wanted to discuss the terms of their divorce. Gingrich has disputed that account. In 2011 their daughter, Jackie Gingrich Cushman, said that it was her mother who requested the divorce, that it happened prior to the hospital stay, and that Gingrich's visit was for the purpose of bringing the couple's children to see their mother, not to discuss the divorce. 

In 1981, six months after the divorce from Jackie Gingrich was final, Gingrich wed Marianne Ginther. In 1993, while still married to Marianne, Gingrich began an affair with House of Representatives staffer Callista Bisek, who was 23 years his junior. Gingrich and his second wife were divorced in 2000 having produced no children. 

In 2000, Gingrich married Callista Bisek shortly after his divorce from second wife Marianne was finalized. He and Callista currently live in McLean, Virginia. In a 2011 interview with David Brody of the Christian Broadcasting Network, Gingrich addressed his past infidelities by saying, "There's no question at times in my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate."] In December 2011, after the group Iowans for Christian Leaders in Government requested that he sign their so-called "Marriage Vow", Gingrich sent a lengthy written response. It included his pledge to "uphold personal fidelity to my spouse".


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I’m more inclined to favor Newt for president, though I will vote for Mitt if he is the candidate against Obama.  (I’d vote for a can of peaches before I’d vote for Obama.)  Frankly, I’m a little weary of the wealthy, positioned, and privileged, as well as graduates of the Harvard Law School, holding the highest office in the land.  

The Romneys married into wealth, position, and privilege, as well as politically well connected in-laws.  Moral of the story is marry well.  Gingrich did not marry into wealth.  A reading of his life on Wikipedia shows he made it very much on his own, though one may not entirely agree how he did it and his infidelities, but then who in high echelons of government is clean of sexual infidelities and proclivities, think Bill Clinton, LBJ, JFK, FDR, and probably hundreds we don't even know about. 

Constitutional Powers?

Where in the Constitution is the power to draw congressional boundaries vested in the federal courts?

Where in the Constitution is the power to redistribute wealth vested in the president?

Where in the Constitution does it say life is supposed to be fair?

Where in the Constitution is the power to appoint "czars" vested in the president.

Federal Reserve $16Trillion Secret Loan to Bank Friends

If you have ever wondered just what the Federal Reserve is up to and how they (the members) are an integral part of the "ruling class" and take care of themselves as well as their banking and political friends, then click on the following URL:

     http://www.infowars.com/the-federal-reserve-made-16-trillion-in-secret-loans-to-their-bankster-friends/

Check out the chart "National Debt from 1940 to Present" to get an idea of what the Federal Reserve is doing to this nation.  In 1943 I worked for the minimum wage which was 40 cents an hour.  Gasoline was 19.9 cents a gallon.  I had to work an hour to buy two gallons of gasoline.  In 2012 the minimum wage is $7.25 an hour.  Gasoline is $3.25 to $3.50 a gallon.  A person working at the minimum wage still has to work about an hour to buy two gallons of gasoline.  Nothing much has changed except the Federal Reserve has inundated us all with a constant growth of inflation.  At some point the "bubble" will burst, and then we all will fall into an abyss of financial despair unlike anything ever witnessed in the span of mankind of earth.  

Republican Presidential Candidates

I can't believe what the Republican presidential nomination process has deteriorated into.  Its a circular firing squad with everyone shooting to kill everyone else.  They all have "baggage" and none have impeccable credentials.  I see the entire process falling into a abyss impossible to get out of.  My greatest fear is someone like Ron Paul, Donald Trump, or someone else will run on a third ticket as an Independent, like Ross Perot did, splitting the vote and assuring Obama is re-elected.

Our only hope, as I see it, is enough uncommitted delegates to the National Republican Convention will result in a big floor fight so a dark horse like Senator Marco Rubio or Congressman Colonel Allen West can charge forth on a white horse to fight Obama and the Democrats like a junkyard pit bull dog.  Otherwise, we're sunk.

Romney Infomercial

I watched the entire "so called" Republican debate in New Hampshire sponsored by ABC.  At the conclusion I concluded it was nothing but an infomercial for Mitt Romney.  I didn't use a stop watch, but my guess is that no less than 50% of the TV screen exposure was devoted to Mitt Romney.  There were six candidates on stage, yet the dialogue was directed time and again to Romney.  Santorum and Paul probably garnered about 15% each.  That left 20% dispersed among the pitiful trio, Gingrich, Huntsman and Perry.

Its obvious the so-called main stream media wants Romney to run against the little "bo".  They know Romney can't stave off "bo" without the Conservative and Tea Party vote which will probably be minimized for Romney, thus propelling "bo" back into office for another 4 years.  That Democrat analyst, Jehmu Greene, in the after debate analysis thanked Republicans for favoring Romney as she opined, "Obama can defeat Romney."  She just may be right.

BO must GO!

Top 10 Threats of 2012

The following is taken from Newsmax.com, by Arnaud De Borchgrave:

"Thirty contingencies were sent to a wide selection of more than 300 government officials, policy analysts, academics and journalists for their confidential feedback.
These are the top 10 that directly threaten the U.S. homeland and are likely to trigger U.S. military involvement:

• 1.  A mass casualty attack on the U.S. homeland or on a treaty ally. 
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• 2.  A severe North Korean crisis (e.g., armed provocations, internal political instability, advances in nuclear weaponry).
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• 3.  A major military incident with China involving U.S. or allied forces.
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• 4.  An Iranian nuclear crisis (e.g., surprise advances in nuclear weapons/delivery capability, Israeli response).
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• 5.  A highly disruptive cyber-attack on U.S. critical infrastructure (e.g., telecommunications, electrical power, pipeline output, transportation and emergency services.  [My note:  Think electro-magnetic pulse (EMP) attack.]
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• 6.  A significant increase in drug trafficking violence in Mexico that spills over into the United States.
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• 7.  Severe internal instability in Pakistan triggered by a civil-military crisis or terror attacks.
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• 8.  Political instability in Saudi Arabia that endangers global oil supplies.
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• 9.  A U.S.-Pakistan military confrontation, triggered by a terror attack or U.S. counter-terror.
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• 10. Intensification of the European sovereign debt crisis that leads to the collapse of the euro, triggering a double-edged transatlantic crisis.

Happy New Year!"

I just finished watching the latest Republican ABC debate in New Hampshire.  The only item on this list addressed during the (so-called) debate was the Iranian nuclear crisis, and then only briefly.  Security of the United States of America is the primary duty of any President, yet only one of these security contingencies was addressed by the monitors or the candidates.  The first 30 minutes was directed to contraception and abortion, issues that have nothing to do with the security of the nation, but are paramount to liberals.

barack obama Must Go

This was taken from today's The Heritage Foundation Morning Bell.  This is absolute concrete evidence that obama must go, and GO NOW.  Congress will be remiss in it's duties if it fails to impeach that man NOW.  "Let me be clear."  The man is intent on destroying this country.  This is only one instance of many.  He must be stopped NOW.

In an interview last month with 60 Minutes, the President gave warning of his intentions to preside over an imperial presidency for the next year. "What I'm not gonna do is wait for Congress," he said. "So wherever we have an opportunity and I have the executive authority to go ahead and get some things done, we're just gonna go ahead and do 'em." The President now, though, seems to have made a significant course correction. With these latest illegal, unconstitutional appointments, the President has jumped at an opportunity to act regardless of the fact that he has no executive authority to do it. And under his feet is a trampled Constitution and 100 years of precedent for which he has no use. It's time for Congress and the American people to take a stand against President Obama's abuse of power.


BO Must GO!

Treachery-How to Deal with It

I'm reading the book "1776" by David McCullough about Washington's trials and tribulations during the year 1776.  It is an interesting read.  Many passages have caught my attention.  I particularly like this one:

"In Late September, the discovery that the surgeon general of the army and head of the hospital at Cambridge, Dr. Benjamin Church, was a spy, the first American traitor, rocked everyone.
His treachery had been discovered quite by chance.  A mysterious, enciphered letter carried by a young woman of questionable morals had wound up in the hands of a friend of Nathanael Greene, who brought the letter to Greene, who in turn carried it directly to Washington.  The letter was deciphered and Church exposed.
Church who was tried, convicted, and imprisoned, kept insisting he was innocent.  Sent into exile, on a ship bound for the West Indies, he disappeared at sea.  Years later further evidence came to light proving his guilt."

Now, folks, Washington knew how to deal with treachery.  This is the way to deal with treachery of any and all kinds.  When they, the treacherous ones, simply disappear at sea there soon is none left to commit treacherous acts.  Besides, it's very cost effective.  We need a George Washington.