Romney is stupid...

[Willi]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-0...-election.html

[Gamma]

not only that...he is not smart!

[Willi]

And un-clever! LoL

[Gamma]

counter-intuitive!!

[World Fan]

Maybe

he's trying to convince most into thinking that they are part of the 53% and maybe vote for him?

[Gamma]

and what has he done to convince the of that?

anyway that is a RISKY strategy if he really believes it. why? he concedes 47% so Obama only needs to convince 4% from that 53% while he will need a much higher number because even in conceding the 47% he is in no way shape or form suggesting that the other 53 are in the bag as he does for the 47%.

[Islandman]

You have to wonder how he ever won any election before. Must be just the money advantage that he has had. What a horrible candidate. So many unforced errors by him and his campaign.

Yet he is still within 3 points of Obama in the average of the most recent polls. I just cannot see how he will be able to close that gap though, because the more aggressive he gets the worse he looks.

[World Fan]

The man appears to be out of touch.

[Karl]

So he has given up on 'Obama's 47%' and states he will go after the 6% - 10% (Independents)...so what about his 40+%?

He will soon find out...if he has not already...that he will not win over 100% of the independents...and horror of horrors not 'his 40+%'!!!

I do not want to put guzzuh on the President...but to me it looks like Romney....

[World Fan]

Romney to release 2011 tax return

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/r...-election.html

Romney to release 2011 tax return, paid IRS 14.1 percent
By Olivier Knox, Yahoo! News | The Ticket – 1 hr 24 mins ago


Mitt Romney arrives in Las Vegas, Nevada September 21, 2012. (Brian Snyder/Reuters)

Looking to blunt relentless Democratic attacks, Mitt Romney is to release on Friday his 2011 tax return, a summary of his effective tax rates for the past two decades and, for good measure, two doctors' notes attesting to the good physical health of the candidate and his running mate, Paul Ryan.

The tax return was to be released at 3 p.m. Eastern time on the website www.mittromney.com/disclosure. Ahead of the release, the former Massachusetts governor's campaign released a blog post summarizing the document.

Releasing information on a Friday afternoon is traditionally a way to reduce the amount of media exposure.

The move fulfills a promise Romney made earlier in the 2012 presidential campaign. But it was unlikely to quiet Democratic criticisms that Romney has failed to live up to a standard set by his father, former Michigan Governor George Romney, who released 12 years of tax returns when he ran for president in 1968.

The Romneys paid $1,935,708 in taxes on $13,696,951 of mostly investment income for an effective tax rate of 14.1 percent. (The Obamas paid an effective tax rate of 20.5 percent in 2011, a lower rate than the president's secretary, according to the White House.)

Romney, who is thought to have a personal fortune in the neighborhood of $250 million, gave $4,020,772 to charity, 30 percent of their income. (The Obamas gave 21.8 percent of their income to charities).

The blog post, written by the manager of Romney's blind trust since 2003, R. Bradford Malt, said the Romneys had filed their 2011 tax return with the IRS Friday morning. It also indicated that the Romneys' tax preparer, PricewaterhouseCoopers, would provide a letter summarizing the tax rates that the Romneys paid from 1990 to 2009.

The Romneys paid an average annual effective federal tax rate of 20.2 percent, with the lowest rate coming in at 13.66 percent. Over that same stretch of time, they gave an average of 13.45 percent of their adjusted gross income to charity.

"During the 20-year period covered by the PWC letter, Gov. and Mrs. Romney paid 100 percent of the taxes that they owed," the blog post read.

Democrats led by the Obama campaign have repeatedly hit Romney over his refusal to disclose his tax returns—a fight that has helped to keep Romney's vast wealth in the media spotlight at a time when the president is trying to paint him as an out-of-touch millionaire bent on helping the wealthy.

[Gamma]

i wonder if he always meant to release it by making an event of it or is just that the pressure only just now dawning on him?

[Islandman]

Trying to change the subject, even if it's another bad subject. That sounds like panic to me.

Also, apparently his tax rate was working out to be less than 10 percent, so him leave off some of his deductions so it wouldn't look so bad. lol.

And we thought McCain was a bad candidate.

[Willi]

AND he can still claim them after the election!

[World Fan]

Why don't aeroplane windows open

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...dows-open.html

Mitt Romney: why don't aeroplane windows open?
Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate for president of the US, has compounded his reputation for verbal gaffes by questioning why jet airliners do not have windows that open.
Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney holds up a baby at a campaign rally in Pueblo, Colorado September 24, 2012
Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney holds up a baby at a campaign rally in Pueblo, Colorado September 24, 2012 Photo: REUTERS
Damien McElroy

By Damien McElroy

10:02AM BST 25 Sep 2012

Comments79 Comments

During a $6 million (£3.7 million) fundraising event in California, Mr Romney brought up an incident at the weekend when his wife's aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing.

He mused that she would have coped better if she was able to breathe outside air during the fire.

"I appreciate the fact that she is on the ground, safe and sound. And I don't think she knows just how worried some of us were," Mr Romney said, according to the LA Times. "When you have a fire in an aircraft, there's no place to go, exactly, there's no – and you can't find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don't open. I don't know why they don't do that. It's a real problem. So it's very dangerous. And she was choking and rubbing her eyes. Fortunately, there was enough oxygen for the pilot and copilot to make a safe landing in Denver. But she's safe and sound."

The plane suffered an electrical failure and was forced to make an emergency landing.

Experts pointed out that opening a window would provide oxygen to fuel the fire and a loss of cabin pressure that could rip the fusilage apart.

Mr Romney was struggling to fend off criticism of leaked remarks that 47 per cent of Americans who did not pay taxes were dependent on the state and would vote for President Barack Obama.

Off-topic remarks run in the family.

The presidential bid by his father George Romney, once governor of Michigan, ended soon after he declared that he had returned from a trip to Vietnam "brainwashed" by the military.

[Willi]

This must be a spoof/satirical article.

Nubaddy cyaan uh fool.

Release his College transcript now now!