And doesn’t it present absolutely perfect opportunity for TV: combine Mitt’s houses and McCain’s houses to make them the fat cat ticket?
Recipe for the perfect 529 ad campaign. You can make it funny. You can make it a series, Borat like — ie, have someone visit each home, cut the commercial in front of the house, interview the maid, tell her story. 12 to 15 commercials all told.
Questions like “Over next 4 years, McCain/Romney want to cut their taxes by about $20 million and your taxes by $134. Sound like a good deal? How will you spend the $134? You’re going to waste it, right, on liquor and stuff? What if one of those guys wants a yacht that costs $20,000,134? Shouldn’t they get your money?”
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I’m surprised you don’t understand this, GGW, as you’re usually such a sharp ‘n snappy lad. It’s like this: we all know how disgustingly expensive/wasteful political campaigns are. Well why add the extra expense of housing the candidate and staff on the campaign trail? Having at least one capacious estate in each region saves the campaign donor dollars a day in donations! John says, “My friends, I’m saving you pennies on my own dime. Isn’t it time you elected a president who will give something back to the American people?”
but don’t ask what we have to do to generate the e-lektricty they burn. shhhh!
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p>1: I posted somewhere a day or so ago, that the insiders gambling in Europe and on prediction markets in the US, bid up the Biden pick, and I speculated it was inside trading, because at the same time the Biden book grew, the Bayh book vanished. That told me, someone KNEW, not guessed, Biden was the choice. The same thing is happening now to the Romney book: 65 cents wins a dollar–same as Biden only days after Obama’s return from vacation. BUT, the Pawlenty backers aren’t backing off. I can only speculate that i) Romney is not the pick or ii) the insider info isn’t leaking out. Yet.
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p>2: Fat cat. When’s the last time in HISTORY that the fat cat lost because he was a fat cat. American loves fat cats. Just look at Garfield (the president, the cat. your choice).
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p>3: It’s well known that Obama’s plan intends to raise taxes; McCain plan intends to lower them. Beyond that, it’s all details. “Tax the rich” doesn’t play. Never has, because we’re all sceptical enough to know that, to a
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p>4: The sleeper VP choice. Huckabee. You saw it first here. The classic, reverse statue of liberty play. McCain fakes left. Moonbats go all Blimpy about Romney, then Huckabee strolls in from the right. Why? Who can out-debate him “…why Obama will spend more of your tax money than Edwards spends in a beauty salon.” Southern vote, religious right, he’s likeable, he’s been on Colbert. Twice.
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p>5: Did you see Biden nearly rip his tongue out to avoid saying Islamic Fundamentalist? Instead, he omits Islamic and blames the world’s problems on Fundamentalists or Amtrak. Or, as the fundamentalist said on an Amtrak Train, “is this seat saved”.
He’d be a much better choice than Romney.
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p>And as far as the fat cats thing.. there was a time in the 30s, after a decade of growth that left the middle class way behind, then some economic problems, hating on the fat cats was very easy to do. FDR actually had to plead for restraint on the matter, if you can believe that.
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p>Now obviously this isn’t the great depression, but it’s not 1980 either. The time’s ripe for an ad like Laurel phrased above, “They want to give themselves a 20 mil tax cut and give you a lousy hundred bucks”.
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p>As far as the plans, I believe in strict total $ figures, Obama would be raising by a little and McCain would be leaving them as they are, or am I wrong on that? Either way, for everyone making less than 150k a year or so, then Obama’s giving them a cut while McCain’s holding them steady.
The tax plan is THE most prominent and important difference in the two candidates (IMHO).
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p>McCain intends to keep the Bush tax cuts from expiring and reduce projected revenues by $600B over 10 years; Obama intends a variety of tax measures which increase revenues over projection by $800B over 10 years.
This is the truth behind the Obama plan.
I can’t handle the truth!! said America.
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p>I said, Obama intends to raise revenue; McCain intends to lower revenues. This is true, and relevant.
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p>Everything else, to anyone other than attendees at the AICPA convention is static.
Though I just checked and you said tax plan in the parent comment to my comment. It really does sound like the same tired argument that he is a Democrat and therefore he will raise your taxes. In general raising revenue is fine; things do cost money after all. If this is the comparison, then McCain wanting to lower revenues is a concern of mine, seeing as how we can’t pay for stuff now.
There seems to be this notion that the election of 2008 is going to be a rejection of the Reagan era consensus that (i) government is inept; (ii) big government acts as a brake on the economy; and (iii) that government is as often the problem as it is the solution.
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p>I just don’t see it. Maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t see 2008 being like 1932 all over again.
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p>My prediction is that if Democrats win in 2008 and govern as if it is 1932, there will (justifiably) be a dramatic Republican resurgence in 2010.
I got a chuckle out of the garfield line
When Garfield was assassinated, Abe Lincoln’s son Robert was with him. That guy had a nose for presidential assassinations.
…he was also part of McKinley’s administration or somehow proximite to that assassination as well.
secret service is sweeping some romney manse as i write.
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Hardly. He’s been standing in his crib and throwing nightly tantrums. Usually it goes something like this: “Mitty is a poopie!”
We can follow the Worst President Ever with the Worst Governor Ever as the VP Nominee.
Cadillac and the gang of dems spent it. When Diane Patrick had her “breakdown” and Caddie begged for time to tend to his home fires, he used this break from the media to traverse the state. Worcester, Springfield, Cape, North Shore… They’re using you like lollipops, suckers. Want to re-think that statement? A Republican governor can only do what our democratic state legislature allows him to. Blame the legislature.
if either mitt or crist are placed next to the pallid man, he’ll look positively translucent. no, mccain needs another pasty face that won’t make him look so ill. lieberman qualifies best.
I voted for a Democrat because Romney pissed me off by making it seem as if there is no difference between Republicans in New England and in Mississippi.
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p>Nevertheless, I understood most of the Democratic anti-Romney arguments on economic issues to be horse[manure].
Mitt’s first move was to cut school aid by 20%. It was all downhill from there.
Source.
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