Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Mitt Mitt could make you spitt..
I swear he could, especially after we saw him crooning the other day. Oh grimace! Not good to copy someone else, and as Democrat Barack Obama had done the original singing a week earlier and made a good job of it, Mitts Republican Perry Como had the full feel of the rehashed regurgitated PR mans idea about it all.
However the Americans buy into all this and without even mentioning God this time around, Mitt Romney has swept through the Florida primary in big big style. Scoring 82% of the vote against Newt Gingrich's 32%. This is a hammering in anyone's book. There are two other candidates as mentioned in the previous posts but its not worth recording their score...they did badly and may as well pack their cases and take the Greyhound home.
As Newt surprisingly won the last time out in Carolina this was a complete reversal...normal sevice has now resumed after Newt's positive polling blip last time.
Coming clean about his taxes helped Mitt, but also the fact that he was able to spend $16 million dollars in advertising to win Florida. Yes thats right.. $16 Million dollars and thats just in Florida alone. The other guys have nothing like that kind of revenue, so there can be no doubt about it...two things really...money buys you the nomination and advertising works!
Clean cut Mitt, very polished, good looking in a college boy way, is on the firm path to the Republican nomination. There is still in theory a long way to go yet, another 46 states I believe, but rest assured guys, dont feel menaced...I wont be writing a report for all 46 states.
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all a bit of a mockery, you need to be staggeringly wealthy or know someone who is to get anywhere in the presidential electiom.
thankfully i have not heard any of them sing thus far.
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You are right there Howard money talks in the good old USA, but as PaulB has said a long way to go
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JAN;
How can UK politicians become more ones to vote for
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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keith
jan is making the point about how politicians have to be rich to succeed in the u.s.
over here most of our top brass come from middle or working class backgrounds, even the blues had a grocer's daughter and a grammar school pupil.
mind you different now, dave and george were born with a silver canteen of cutlery in their mouths.
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Ah...very interesting. God is never very far away in American politics. You must be seen to have the Almighty on your side..as long as its a nice main stream God. None of those fringe Gods wanted.
Mitt is not short of money but now with even Donald Trump on his side his campaigning pockets will be bulging.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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having a multi billionaire backing you in t.he states is seen as a good thing, wouldn't be the case over here
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courtesy of the independent
A combative and increasingly confident Mitt Romney swaggered into Las Vegas last night, after securing victory in a one-sided Nevada caucus which has tightened his command of the Republican Presidential race.
Buoyed by what was his second straight win, following Tuesday's success in Florida, the former Governor of Massachusetts devoted most of his celebratory speech to attacking what he described as the "failed" economic policies of President Barack Obama.
With just under fifty per cent of precincts reporting, Romney had secured 43 per cent of the vote, well clear of Newt Gingrich, on 25 per cent, Ron Paul on 19 per cent, and Rick Santorum, on 12. The remaining precincts are mostly in and around urban Las Vegas, a part of the State where he is thought to be strongest.
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Newt Newt, like King Canute.
Newt Gingrich is trying to stem the tidal wave of Romneyism which has found its head again and is surging forward and sweeping Republican America. But Newt Newt like King Canute, cannot stop the tide, and most definitely cannot stop this particular tide.
Mitt is flying high once again after a brief hiccup mid campaign....when his tax position hit the buffers. But he has overcome.... probably because his opposition is weak. But those sweet looking good looks are seducing the Republican voter bigtime now..romping home in Nevada as we see in Howards post above.
What can Newt do..what can the other contenders do, well the answer is , not much. And its all to do with money.
Mitt Romney had 57Million Dollars in his war chest starting out on the campaign trail and he has spent half of it..But he has also the potential for more. His financial tap is still running. Newt Gingrich on the other hand is dirt poor in comparison ( although poor is a relative term in this instance) and is down to his last 2 Million Dollars. Now, 2 Million Dollars is no good. Wont buy you zip air time.
So as we know, money plays a huge part in American Politics and with Newts puny sum, it looks like 'game over'. Unless he can do a Lazarus and resurrect himself from the dead in a 21st century miracle. But it looks unlikely.
One last note...arent the sums spent horrific? In a time of austerity with people losing jobs, nurses being laid off etc etc...this kind of money can still be found to fritter away on froth. There is truly a tier of super rich where recession never bites.
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Well yes indeed I cant believe this one..just as it looked a settled bet...up pops the saintliest of the lot who clearly has God on his side, as he has mentioned this fact several times, and wins three in a row on the one night.
Well..so much for predictions. However could this be a flash in the pan, another flash in the pan? This guy Santorum looked dead and buried a few weeks ago, polling in last place several times and now the American system goes and flips the whole thing over.
Rick Santorum is very right wing...just what these latest states wanted. Mitt Romney still the acknowledged frontrunner..just, wasnt extreme enough for central US.
But..the very right wing in America are scary and I wouldnt like those Tea Party types with their finger on the nuclear button...nosirreee bob!
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i wonder if it matters so much anymore, the rest of the world used to watch closely events there for the reason paul mentions.
times have changed the soviet union has gone and any president now has to be more concerned with the economy, mr obama has made it clear recently that the days of america being the world police service are drawing to a close.
china is set to take over from the states as the world largest economy in the next few years and the nuclear threats seem to come from india, pakistan, iran and north korea.
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Re the world police situation. I think I was comfortable having them as the worlds police. The mighty guns on the side of western justice and aspiration. But the jury is out on this aspect...did it make us safer in our beds at night or did it make matters worse having them as the worlds police?
With proliferation everywhere and nobody to keep anything in check... we just dont know what miserable prospect could be instore for us all.
The media and the public clamour for interference in all situations, but who's to do it. Currently the mess in Syria is on our screens every night and nobody can do a thing, all hamstrung by veto. But even if we got the go ahead to intervene..who's to do it?
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Veering off a bit from the original Republican nominations idea of this thread and carrying on with the 'world police' notion for a moment. The BBC's Question Time was interesting in a number of ways last night and not least for the Syrian content of the evening.
I learned something new from Defence Secretary Philip Hammond last night...something I didnt know. As ever the audience were clamouring for something to be done to help Syria, as were panel members too..some calling for troops on the actual ground there. But Mr Hammond said that the Syrian armed forces were a different kettle of fish altogether in comparison to what we had seen in Libya and Irag.
He said they were a formidable force, the army totals 325,000 troops all armed with the latest hi tech Russian equipment..state of the art tanks, state of the art anti aircraft systems, and so on. Hammond said that there was only one nation with a force that could handle such a formidable group, and that was the United States.
I didnt know that the Syrians were such a formidable outfit. No wonder they have the confidence to swagger their power daily. It seems therefore that there is little either France or Britain could do in this situation on their own...once again we would rely on the Americans. But have we become complacent relying on the Americans to do all the dirty work, have we all become lazy.
Is there nothing we could do in reality other than just recall our ambassador. It seems to be the case.
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they have been seen as a dangerous regime by the west for a long time hence the support they are getting from russia and china.
the scenes we see on a daily basis are shocking but any intervention could further destabilise the region.
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Yes still all up for grabs.I still dont know entirely what to make of Mitt Romney. He continues to flatter to deceive. He looks at times that he is about to romp away with it , then baulks, and here we see him in his home state and he only musters a scraping win of just 3% against saintly Rick Santorum. Home boys are very important in their home states, its like say an Englishman running against a Pole here in the UK and the pole nearly winning, so it all looks odd.
Mitt is not running away with it as he should.
The other interesting thing is this and it emerged in recent campaigning. Its about General Motors. GMC of Detroit. Once... a few short years ago. GMC were down and out, the recession had bitten hard, they were to all intents and purposes bust. Democrat Obama, current president and of course from the rival party, gave them the money to continue through the difficult times and now their order books are busting at the seems, they are booming like never before. The cars, trucks, are rolling off the production line and people are flourishing in their jobs.
The Republican Party, all the candidates as I understand it, including Santorum and Romney, would not...not.. have given General Motors that money. They have campaigned on this ticket. They would have let them go bust saying that the marketplace is the judge.
That's right wing capitalism for you folks...left wing capitalism gives them the money and the company is seen through hard times and flourishes, keeping people in jobs.
Which is right?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i didn't know that about general motors getting given a few bob to kickstart the business.
lucky for them the republicans weren't in power, if they had been lives and communities would have been destroyed.
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