One of the hallmarks of Willard Romney’s campaign is his inability to relate to Main Street Americans, the 99%. He has repeatedly made gaffes, not to mention insults to small business people and hosts. However, I’m certain that Willard is far more comfortable in the midst of his kind of people, and this weekend, he has the opportunity to do just that.
The Romney campaign, whose fund-raising prowess has defied assumptions about President Obama’s financial advantages, offered wealthy donors and bundlers an extraordinary level of access to the candidate, his staff members, advisers and family this weekend at a three-day retreat that even seasoned political contributors said dwarfed previous presidential powwows.
Mr. Romney’s political operation seemed to all but shut down and relocate to the mountains of Utah. At least 15 senior campaign figures flew in for what blue-blazered guests from Texas, North Carolina and New York dubbed Republicanpalooza, delivering briefings on the effectiveness of Mr. Romney’s and Mr. Obama’s commercials and spinning them through the latest polling data, which they said showed the race as a dead heat.
“Everybody was completely accessible,” said Anthony Scaramucci, a New York financier and Romney fund-raiser who said the candidate took the time to warmly greet and thank him by his nickname, Mooch, at a dinner on the first night of the retreat.
Yet for all the political and financial firepower assembled here, the Romney confab was not the only, or necessarily the most exclusive, gathering of ultrarich Republicans this weekend. In a simultaneous demonstration of the party’s fund-raising might, the industrialist billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch held a conference for conservative megadonors at a resort outside San Diego. Over the past few years, their high-dollar strategy sessions have been the marquee events of the Republican campaign finance set… [emphasis added]
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Not only does secrecy protect the 1% from connection to their lies, but also, it protects them from accountability to their customers.
I wonder if Scalia and Thomas attended AGAIN.
These are Willard’s people. They are the ones whom the Republican Party represent, and the ones whose interests the Republican Party will serve. Any vote that helps Republicans is a vote for the 1%.
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hese are Willard’s people. They are the ones whom the Republican Party represent, and the ones whose interests the Republican Party will serve. Any vote that helps Republicans is a vote for the 1%. Per TC
You are so right– among his own Mittens can be himself—!! Arent we glad now ? Disgusting isnt it ??
Funny- JFK was a very wealthy man as was RFK — but there was never the sense they felt above the common people- FDR was wealthy- born to wealth— But gave us the social support network we have enjoyed- and that Mitt and the boys want to dismantle
Very well said, Phyllis.
Rmoney: Least Transparent Candidate EVAH!
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765582362/Romney-keeps-secrets–unless-law-says-he-cant.html?pg=4
That's because the more people know about him,m the less likely they are to vote for him.
"Not only does secrecy protect the 1% from connection to their lies, but also, it protects them from accountability to their customers."
Feeling small as a 99%. squeak
Exactly!
TC — "Not only does secrecy protect the 1% from connection to their lies, but also, it protects them from accountability to their customers. … These are Willard’s people. They are the ones whom the Republican Party represent, and the ones whose interests the Republican Party will serve. Any vote that helps Republicans is a vote for the 1%." I couldn't have said it better. We already know that the campaign against corporations involved in ALEC had some effect in that quite a few withdrew as a result of public pressure. Although, now that things have quieted down, I wonder if any of those corporations have re-upped? One thing that Melissa Harris-Perry said that struck a cord with me "…talk about how they like to spend their money, But when that money influences the outcome of elections, it stops being a private conversation among friends. And when those closed rooms have implications for our shared and very public democracy, aren't we entitled to know what is going on? …" Where is the line in the sand drawn? I like the picture with the article. It reminded me of this George Carlin piece.
Also here is a second one about Republicans that will make you laugh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzrxy9A7Ja4&feature=related On Rush Limbaugh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlKMy65dyz4&feature=related On Republicans
Excellent links Lynn!
His investors came to make sure they get the proper return on their investment. And he wore out a few kneepads, but that's politics in CU America.
Afterwards it took a gallon of mouthwash to get the smell of arse off his breath.
I don't get it.
Obviously Republican policies favor the 1%.
Why do they get half the vote, and why would those voters, vote against their own self interests?
Even if they believe Republican lies, they must see that Republican policies are not helping them, or America, at all.
I guess they don't see that.
If they get their news from right wing sources only, the information they have bears no relationship whatsoever to accurate facts.
Rmoney's lips are probably very chapped and sore from all the ass-kissing he did this weekend.
He'll soothe them with Vaseline applied with $1,000 bills.