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Updated Mar. 18, 6:56 p.m. — Mitt Romney added to his advantage over his GOP rivals in the delegate tally by winning the Puerto Rico presidential primary on Sunday.
NBC News declared Romney the projected winner on Sunday evening. By virtue of the margin of his victory, Romney appeared on track to capture most — if not all — of the U.S. territory's 20 delegates by virtue of winning over 50 percent of the popular vote. (Any candidate who wins at least half of the popular vote wins all of Puerto Rico's delegates.)
The Puerto Rico primary, alongside caucuses held this weekend in Missouri, marked another step in the extended primary campaign, which has principally narrowed to a battle between Romney and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum.
Reflecting the ferocity of their battle to amass the 1,144 delegates needed to secure the nomination, both Romney and Santorum traveled to Puerto Rico during the latter half of last week.
Romney said on Saturday during his visit that he was "cautiously optimistic" he would win the primary in Puerto Rico, where he enjoys the support of Gov. Luis Fortuño and his political organization.
"I care about you. I care about the people of Puerto Rico," Romney said. "Politics in puerto rico is spoken with energy and passion."
Both candidates spoke to a major issue in the territory — the prospect of making it the 51st state in the U.S. — during their visit. Romney has said he would support statehood if a majority of Puerto Rico voters support it. Santorum landed in a small political firestorm, though, by suggesting that Puerto Ricans adopt English as their lone official language as a condition for statehood.
Santorum backtracked, and blamed the media, whom he accused of taking his comments out of context.
“For someone to misrepresent and completely fabricate something that I never said or even intimated is very disappointing,” he said. “Hopefully that can set the record straight here and let people know that rick Santorum has been and will continue to be a friend of Puerto Rico."
The primary caps a weekend which also featured a caucus on Saturday in Missouri, which was different from the primary the state had held in February. Santorum won that primary – along with caucuses in Minnesota and Colorado that day – in a sweep which helped rejuvenate his campaign. But that Missouri vote was essentially meaningless; Romney did not campaign there, and the outcome had no bearing on the delegate count.
On Saturday, Missouri Republicans will caucus on the county level to elect delegates. Those delegates, in turn, will elect and bind national delegates to the candidates at congressional delegate caucuses on April 21 and at the state convention on June 2.
Because there is no formal straw poll accompanying this weekend’s caucuses, NBC News will not declare any formal “winner” in the contest.
Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who fell short of his goal of knocking out his GOP foes with a string of early caucus and primary victories, has the advantage over his GOP foes. He had won 423 delegates through last week, according to the NBC News delegate count; Santorum has won 184, Newt Gingrich 137, and 34 for Texas Rep. Ron Paul.
The contests serve as a precursor to the larger primary on Tuesday in Illinois, where Romney, Santorum and Gingrich have all fought for delegates alongside a victory in the statewide popular vote.
Romney was in Illinois on Sunday following his return from Puerto Rico. Santorum was there earlier in the weekend,
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Wonder who/when Bush will endorse?
The GOP contenders are all pointing at each other and shouting, "Endorse him, George! Not me: him!"
Wonder who/when Bush will endorse?
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Kiss from a rose.
The population of Puerto Rico speak mostly spanish. will Newt and Santorum be OK with that or will they demand that only those that vote in english have their vote counted
Wonder who/when Bush will endorse?
Barbara Bush endorsed Mitt Romney and said that she spoke for HW as well (apparently, whether he liked it or not) and that he also was endorsing Romney. I would imagine the brothers Bush will follow suit when it makes political sense to do so. That shouldn't be very long given the current trajectory of the race.
SI
Well, Santorum has already weighed in and said that "If Puerto Rico was to vote for statehood they would have to understand that they all had to speak Englich first". (paraphrased)
Santorum don't want your vote if you can't speak English. I wonder if Santorum speaks any other language? Oh, and he wants to check your voter's ID too.
Let dead dogs lie.He's prolly drunk under some shade tree.
ah yes, the 51st state and counting to 57 ??
To me the irony is that Santorum's favorite media outlet, Fox, broadcasts many of its programs in both English and Spanish. So with Santorum's English only position, does that mean Fox won't be broadcasting to those who speak Spanish if Rickie becomes president?
I agree with the others who've posted that Santorum probably doesn't want your vote if you don't speak English. Too bad so many are Catholic, and might have voted for him just for that reason...
The Bush family already endorsed Romney--even Bush Sr, plus Rove runs Romney's SuperPac.
Regarding "no end in sight"---I can see that party coming to an end in short order. Get in front of the people and explain how you can continue to stay at war, increase defense, and (Romney) lower taxes, yet again. If another GOP takes office in the next 20 years, I'd be surprised.
Romney said something similar about English too.
Romney walked the fence.santorum says fox shills for romney.I didn't hear any outrage from the Puerto Rican community.
I second, no one will want the curse that follows either George the first's nod or George the seconds nod, the will both spell out doom for the candidate
Why are you expecting any more outrage from the Puerto Rican community then there already has been? Were you in Puerto Rico to see how each of them was received? If I was Mitt not sure I would have wanted the governors endorse, since he is on his way out. And quite frankly do you understand that only a couple of thousand people are members of the Republican party in Puerto Rico. By the way the same is true of the Democratic Parties membership. Truth of the matter is most of us cannot understand why we even have presidential primaries to begin with. We don't ( Can't )vote in the general election. And the status is an internal issue, not a national issue,now ,past or future. and local referendums mean nothing at all,because Congress has the last say in the matter and they have never made an honest effort or move towards solving the status issue in Puerto Rico. So bottom line? No one here really cares who wins to days primary.
With the recent inflation ....
The standard of living has dropped last quarter ....
This coming ending quarter will be even worse .... "LOL"
'W" is of no consequence in this race.
all right! the one time every four years when republicans actually give a f*ck about puerto ricans...
Yes indeedy, who will the token spiks endorse?
Remember that Obummer is a fool, fake and a fraud and all the experience he has is as a seat warmer. He warmed a seat, supposedly at Colombia and Harvard and refuses to say why.
He warmed a seat as a voter registrar earning $13,000 a year and refuses to explain why a supposedly Colombian/Harvard graduate could only find work as such.
He warmed a seat in the Illinois State Senate where none of his 130 law initiatives made it into law.
He warmed a seat in the White House when he gave The Electric Finnish Car Company $529,000,000 to compete with General Motors.
He warmed the seat in his Marxist Pastor Wrights church listening to the Anti American, Anti Jew and anti White speeches.
He warmed the seat when he ordered bin Laden's murder instead of capture.
And now he is warming a seat while Iran develops a nuclear bomb.
DID HE LEARN ANYTHING AT ANY SCHOLARLY INSTITUTION BESIDES SEAT WARMING? HE REFUSES TO EVEN LET THE U.S. PUBLIC SEE IF HE GOT ANY DEGREES!
"A "W"- Endorsement would be a kiss of death"
You don't see the democrats visit do you?
Puerto Rico is starting to look damn good next to California.....
Well, where have you been warming seats, and what have you had to show for the seat warming? If you think you can do a better job, why are you not out there campaigning for the job, sir?
sandtrich
Hope you don't mind if I cut and paste this to throw in your face for later.
Warming seats? And yet, he is President...and probably doing as good a job as could have been expected under the circumstances. Yes, the deficit is an issue and probably will be for a long time without raising taxes, but not a bad job overall. And....certainly better than the do-nothing, moral pushers that are running against him.
Scomma I will be surprised if bush endorses anybody he sticks to the expresident not getting involved pretty tightly
"I'm not a Dem., I'm an Independent and glad Romney won Puerto Rico and l hope he wins lllinois. Mitt is the best of them all. But that Santorum is a total Phony and a Loser and he makes my skin crawl. I stopped voting for the GOP when the Tea Retards got in and destroyed the Party. All my Votes will be going to the Dem's until the GOP kicks the Retards out. #1.21 "DB" !!!!!!!!!!
LOL! Retards...coming from you....Romney.... The ONLY thing you said that isn't retarded was about Santorum. Other than that WRONG WRONG WRONG!!!
.................................."You are a Wrath" ????????????
A+ Baby Crochet.com hopes the best person for our American country wins the election. I hope the person who wins will turn America around to serving GOD and becoming prosperous by doing so.
The only reason it is taking so long to select a nominee is because many of the states changed from 'winner take all' to 'proportional delegates', so unless Romney gets more than 50% of the votes in virtually all of the states, it will drag on until June.
If the allocation of delegates was the same as in 2008, Romney would be far ahead right now, instead of only having 54% of the delegates so far. The Republicans were silly for changing the rules, since it allows Obama to avoid criticism of his record while the Republicans tear each other up.
HA HA..."Tea-Retards" - I still can't figure out what makes somebody that except for the fact they trumpet fiscal responsibility.
@sanka44, I don't mind telling you that the amount of attention you pay to President Obama's seat is rather disturbing. I think I can speak for him when I tell you that he's already spoken for in that regard.
Too bad Santorum does not understand how video works; we have his words on film, so he is the only one changing the context. He is the most ignorant, dishonest egomaniac with no moral values to run for office in a long time. As an American Catholic of Italian heritage, raised Republican, I can say he does not speak for me. Unlike Santorum, I am an American first, and a Catholic second; my allegiance is to the US of A, not the Pope or Grover. Ideological idiots like him have pushed the Republican party so far right that it left every sane Republican outside of the party. If they can not return to a big tent philosophy around fiscal conservative principals, this party is history.
Lincoln and Reagan would be appalled by the words and actions of the people that have taken over their party.
Steve, Right on !
Puerco Rico?
PRUERTO RICO?!?!?
Who the hell votes for a 'merkin President... IN PUERTO RICO? (the NEW 51st state of The Onion)
BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!! so utterly stupid
In any case -- Re-elect Oogah-Boogah for POTUS 2012 -- Give Brock the honest chance to finish what he intended to finish. It is gonna take at least two terms to fix the problems Dubya The Idiot created.
Why does this even matter Puerto Rico will Back Obama over any GOP Candidate. Just a dog and pony show by the Repubs. Just like out here In California. No GOP candidate has a chance against Obama. I think Obama will win any area with a diverse population. Meaning people who have lived with each other from different cultures for more than a decade.
Just because of the attacks that many seem to do on the internet about (the so called race card) If the GOP had an actual (conservative) candidate I would actually vote for them. EVEN though my vote wont outweigh the Rest of the population in CA. They vote Democrat And this time so will I.
Just because of the whole speak english rhetoric. It is not called America due to the English. The States kicked English expletive. And sent them packing. We actually speak Slang a cross between many cultures that have come over. And yes Spanish played its part. Even though Amerigo was Italian we do not speak total Italian either. And they played a huge role in our culture.
So speak American if you are one. Cause I Aint English folks. LOL
example do you know what a Montana is?(mountain) Or Colorado? (red)
ica may go for romney this time around. obama increasing the debt 5 trilloion with his socialist programs that the majority dont want,no energy policy, and no clue or sense of what to do with the economy. romney is a moderate and has several similarities with reagan which ca voted both times by a landside
Here comes the push for our NEXT State of the Union. Wait a minute, our Congressional Representatives have already laid the ground work for Government benefits to Puerto Ricans if they become the next State. I would list all the legislation here, but it would take up TOO much space.
Oh, little things like the corruption in the Government and police force, including the problem with the scammers would have to be dealt with. Here is info on the Police force:
Shucks, just wait until Puerto Ricans votes (and the voters will do this because of the ambiguous language in the voting document) to become the next State in our Republic. Not only will the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT REFORM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT(S), but everything else on the island.
Welcome, Puerto Rico.....to Federal Government run and control everything.
Ooh - Ooh..... sounds like Cuba. Or even better... the USA.
ldp, the U.S. already has so many screwed up people making the country a 2nd world nation and with 2 million American men already in prison, what's a few more?
Dancing Spiderman,
You win the coveted "Racist of the Week" award for your comments about Puerto Rico and President Obama.
Please take a copy of your post to the closest FBI or DOJ office to receive your prize.
Big win for Romney, obviously the "Latino" vote will be a factor on 11/6/12 and in Romney's favor.............
HoW very little you know about their voting habits. And with all the crap that the republicans throw at them and other minority groups you truly believe that they will vote Repucblican.
Latinos/Hispanics/Puerto Ricans or what ever the in name is you want to call them. Will not vote republican in an amount that would make any kind of an impact. The republiacns all know this. The only ones they can count on and trust not all of them are the Cuban Americans. And most are in Florida.
What a coincidence......Rubio is from Florida.....looks like a landslide victory for Romney/Rubio with the "Cuban" vote in Florida for sure.....Your also assuming that Romney's family roots in Mexico mean little or nothing to the Latino/Hispanics/Puerto Ricans or "what ever you want to call them"......how about calling them a substantial voting block for the Romenty Rubio ticket! November 6th will certianly tell the tale of just how many Hispanic/Americans voted for their "native son". The good news is.......Obama will definitely get the majority of the Irish vote to be sure! Especially when gas gets close to 6 bucks a gallon later this year and especially since the National Debt is still skyrocketing through our solar system as we speak!
You really think they (Mexicns) will vote for Mitt because his dad was born in Mexico ? lol ( you don't understand then the Mexicans in the U.S. or if Rubio is on the ticket will get there vote. Yes with Rubio he will get alot of the Cuban vote But they tend to vote Republican anyway. But in general, the party will not get anymore then they ever have in the past. IMO.
I am a Mexican/American............I know more about what my Mexican/American friends, relatives and neighbors think than you ever will.
Does it seem strange to anyone else that Romney, who claimed Conscientious Objector status during the Viet Nam War (suffering through Alternative Service as a Mormon missionary in France), should turn his back on his moral convictions and seek to be President/Commander-in-Chief? Any Republican vets want to weigh in on the issue?
Seems to me the only conviction he has the courage of is that the pursuit of wealth and power trumps religious convictions. (With apologies to The Donald /sarc.)
Skip Nipplesome, I WANT our current President to have a 2nd term. What's yer problem??
Who cares about the republican nominee? Most Americans have no positive image of these clowns.
Judging from the dismal turnouts in the hotly contested GOP primaries, I'd say no one cares.
Couldn't agree more. Most of my friends, who are republican say they won't vote in the primary, or in November. There is just no one worth voting for.
tweet, I'm also hearing that more and more. Republicans I know are not going to vote this november, or going as far to change parties. A lot of them are just embarrased by this bunch
And they keep filling themselves with the pathetic delusion that people will vote for anything GOP in opposition to the President.
The President who saved the auto industry, killed Bin Laden, and has helped create 4 million private sector jobs in the last 2 years.
But then, this is the same party that thought the American people would vote for Sarah Palin as Vice President.
Most of my friends, who are republican say they won't vote in the primary, or in November. There is just no one worth voting for.
Republicans I know are not going to vote this november, or going as far to change parties. A lot of them are just embarrased by this bunch
Now, don't you just wish you could make yourselves believe that? Most of the people I know, Republican or otherwise, are highly motivated to vote in November and they all say they would rather vote for a coffee cup than re-elect Obama.
SI
Whew, a lot of wishful thinking in these comments! Actually, they're denials of the reality that Obama is in deep kimchi, and its getting deeper every day. With $5.00 gas, $16 trillion debt, actual unemployment rate of about 16%, CDs paying .25% interest, the housing market unimproved for over three years, alienation of jews and Catholics......and on and on...his polls are sinking consistently. He has no accomplishment to run on oh, except for "killing" Bin laden(with a little help from the SEALS). With this kind of "progress", by November any GOP candidate should be able to win handily...(well, maybe not Ron Paul).
We're seeing the full effect of Rovian politics combined with Kock/Murdoch big money Super-PAC hate campaigns...
You don't necessarily know who you're for, but you sure as hell know who to hate.
They TELL you who to hate. They DON'T TELL YOU and DON'T CARE who you're for... a puppet is a puppet is a puppet. They get what they want with any one of these clowns (more power, control, and money).
spider-737231
In your dreams...
Brought to you by a combination of right wing war mongering, speculators, and a completed Canadian pipe line. No president could have done a damn thing about gas prices... unless we nationalize the oil industry!
Brought to you by a combination of the Bush Debt Train (2 unfunded wars, unfunded Homeland Security, unfunded Medicaid, and unfunded Bush tax cuts combined with $500 Billion in less tax revenue from a collapsed economy) and the do-nothing republicans in the House and Senate... But look at the TRENDS!
Which would have been unbelievably higher had we not pressed the stimulus and auto industry bailout... and we know where you are on those two fronts. Look at the TRENDS!
With Wall Street lovin Obama and his policies, many retirement funds are restored after Bush took them to their knees... and by the way, CD's are low because the Obama administration has driven business lending rates to all-time lows to stimulate job growth... screw the CD's.
Only you and your mirror would DARE pin that on Obama. It will take years to recover from the blow that greed-mongers gave us...
Have you asked Jews that question lately?
Except for women and any male Catholic that wants to ever have sex again... LOL.
You need to get new "facts", buddy.
His polling numbers are rising unless you look at the unsubstantiated claims from FOX news... but you just stay with that if it makes you happy.
"Most of the people I know, Republican or otherwise, are highly motivated to vote in November..."
I think registered Republicans will vote in near-record low numbers in November as they have in the primaries. If nominated, Mitt will discourage many among the far right from casting their ballots because of his moderate politics and the evangelical crowd will refrain from voting because of what should be the irrelevant topic of Romney's religion, and if he is nominated Santorum will be uninspiring to anyone with an IQ over 70.
I think registered Republicans will vote in near-record low numbers in November...
I'll bet you thought that in 2010 as well.
Still living in the past, Bitter? The electorate will correct its mistakes. It always does. The tea party is history and President Obama will be reelected. Read 'em and weep.
I'll bet you thought that in 2010 as well.
Ah, but the voters have learned since then. Voted in on an agenda of jobs, jobs, jobs, all we have seen is them sitting on their fat asses blocking anything that might help. Then, hanging tough on a promise to enact no new taxes, they crashed America's credit rating. With a $4T budget decrease on the table, they walked away.
I suspect you will see exactly what the American voters think of this in November!
Excellent posting, LMarcT! Very factual and to the point.
The Obama/Biden juggernaut just gave a lively sample of what's to come, with their twin-timed campaign speeches, yesterday!
The republiturds will deny any fear, of course. They will campaign on "Hate Obama", only! Let them whine...!
LTMarc - you kinda fergot 'bout the CBS poll on Wednesday, didn't ya?
LMarcT, - Love your facts,,,,,,,,,except,
The White House doesn't believe what you are saying,,,,,,
They know because they are scared,,,,,,,
They haul a "reproductive organizer" to a makeshift congressional hearing to deflect the conversation away from Obama's failures.
They ARE scared of high gas prices,,,,,see how Obama got mad at a reporter when it was brough up????
This is the worst recovery since the great depression.
We are spending more than ever, and the economy STINKS!!!!!!!!!!
You think no one see's this????? Come on!!!!!!!
You forgot to mention that he is just a puppet for George Soros. Wonder why???????
He labels a tax increase as a jobs bill, and expects everyone to sign on. No thanks!!!!!!
Oh, By the way, He's focused like a laser beam on creating jobs. Ha!!!!!
The media has been promoting him for that last three years, remember "recovery Summer" from two years ago???
And the debt? Don't go blaming everyone else for the debt, he's piling it on to the tune of over a Trillion a year more than anyone else. And just wait!!!!! We are going to run out of money again, just before election day. No hiding that one,,,,,,,,,,
Timithy (Tax cheat) Geithner goes to Capital hill with no idea on how to stop spending, and for the last 3 years no budget has been passed by the senate. Just more spending bills without any regard for balancing the budget!!!!!
You will have to explain to your kid's why this President spent their future, they will be living in a darker future because of it.
DB... actually I missed that poll. I'll check on it, thanks.
Wulff
Read your post again. I read nothing but easily debatable "negatives". I see nothing positive.
So we all know EXACTLY what you are against (because they told you) and NOTHING about what you're FOR (because they don't give a rat's ass what you're for).
I am dead serious. Think about it.
Obama's total U.S. debt has increased to 1 million dollars added to it every 21 seconds ....
He can't even slow it down ....
Great ....
"GOP turn out is a GOP Voter turn off, even their supporters don't Care. I think the Tea Retards destroyed the GOP. The Party is finish because of losers like Rick Santorum.
Ron Paul's worth voting for, but the GOP doesn't like him very much.
HA HA..."Tea-Retards" - I still can't figure out what makes somebody that except for the fact they trumpet fiscal responsibility.
We really need a strong third Party. Both parties suck
Yep, this administration has divided and destroyed the Democratic Party, along with the rest of Main Street America.
Time Mr. Obama did another "tuck and roll" to dodge the major issues. Wait a minute....racism, Class Warfare, women's social issues, etc., are still on his agenda's front burner.
Some President we have when he is trying to run the country from On-th-Job-Training sessions and NOT HAVE A BUDGET since he has been in office. Yeah, Mr. Obstructionist Reid said "WE DON'T NEED A BUDGET" is about like Mrs. Pelsosi saying "We have to pass it to find out what is in it".
Yep, divide and trying to "conquer" is leaving a bad, bad, bad taste in Main Street America's mouths. We are not going to "coronate" a King, but elect a President would really cares for this country.
Yep, this Democrat will not be voting for Mr. Obama just so he can "finish" his "transformation of America".
For those that want to see the last CBS/NYT poll on Obama's numbers....
http://egilman.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/13/10663044-cbsnyt-poll-obamas-approval-ratings-upside-down-hits-new-low
And for those that think the Republican enthusiasm is weak and getting weaker.....
http://egilman.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/17/10739103-the-real-grass-roots-of-american-politics-a-report-from-the-first-ever-idaho-republican-caucus
Read em and weep guys....
I dare the hard core liberal Obama supporter to click the links in these seeds and actually read the truth for a change.
( I wouldn't want them to have a coronary)
Speaking of numbers, here are President Obama's numbers with respect to the GOP's wannabes. For those who think Republican enthusiasm is strong and getting stronger...
Romney vs. President Obama:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/general_election_romney_vs_obama-1171.html
Santorum vs. President Obama:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/general_election_santorum_vs_obama-2912.html
Gingrich vs. President Obama:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/general_election_gingrich_vs_obama-1453.html
Paul vs. President Obama:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/general_election_paul_vs_obama-1750.html
You guys keep citing real clear as mud politics....
You can paint the tinfoil hat blue, but it's still a tinfoil hat...
You mean direct, head to head poll numbers between Obama and the GOP challengers are somehow not clear enough for you? I think tinfoil hats are the least of your problems...
so Sailcat,
You didn't actually look at the CBS/NYT poll did you?
Just pull real clear as mud politics out of thin air?
Why don't you actually read the poll and then look at the hard numbers and the questions that were asked.
Answer the issue, rather than deflect....
I know it's difficult to actually do something constructive rather than automatically ignore it.
Or no parties. A strong third party would end up just as corrupt and useless as the two dominant parties are now.
I can do better than that, Egiman! I can provide results for all four candidates from EIGHT different respected polls! The results do not support your desperate fantasies, unfortunately, but I can't help that, you know.
Wonder if Mitt eats plantains, and says "Hola amigo"
Cheesy Plantains.
My favorito, plus a side order of mofongo.
Everyone knows that the PR primary is simply a fight for delegates. And if you didn't know that, you didn't pay that much attention in history class.
PR doesn't vote in the general election, yet it has reps in Congress and the Senate, and a presence in the federal courts.
So, really, it's all about the delegates, and they're all going to Romney, because the governor endorses him--and most people say that, if he's the choice for the governor, who am I to question it?
I'm proud of Puerto Rico for Voting for Mitt Romney, I would be very glad to see Santorum go down into the Toilet for his sick insanity. Nutty Ricky is Scary & Weird.
"I think that, if Puerto Ricans want to become a State, they ought to go back on the plantation...Oops! I meant go back and get me some plantains!" - Rick Santorum.
But does Rick actually know how to savor plantain, whether roasted, boiled, fried or in the form of chips? I doubt that he even know the difference between banana and plantain. Your suggestion may not be helpful either.
It turns out Santorum and Gingrich have a lot in common. Newt was outraged that the media reported that he called the Ryan Medicare plan right Wing Social Engineering. He actually told with a straight face us that anyone that used his own words to tell us his position was lying to us. Now Santorum is telling us that anyone that showed the unedited video of his English-mandate announcement is distorting his position. And the faithful buy this garbage! Wow!
St. Charles County Repub Chair tried to gerrymander outcome. Would not allow recording of any kind! Did not allow vote of any kind. Crowd became loud. Police called in support from St. Peters City, St. Charles City, St. Charles County Sheriff Dept, MO State Police. paddy wagon, and a helo in the sky. 1 arrested. No vote no delegates from the States largest Caucus site. RIGGED
In Cole County the majority of attendees were first time caucus attenders and so they did not understand the process as to which the delegates were to be chosen and were upset when the delegates preference was not given. That really got the people upset. They thought that the preference of those elected would be given. That is probably what happened in St. Charles county. A good portion of the Cole County people were also upset because one of the Repub candidates had supporters who were more visible in their support by the wearing of stickers, buttons, shirts, hats and so on. There was no rule that said that visual support was not allowed, so supporters of ALL the candidates could have done the same.
So what does this mean? Are the unbound delegates from the straw poll to be honored? That's not how this process is supposed to work and why many candidates chose not to campaign in Missouri until recently.
SI
He will run Independent.He's the only real American, bar none.(except the REAL real Americans, so called " ïndians")
He has said he won't run under a different party, but then he is a lying pathetic old man who can't get any delegates so he teaches his minions how to get them through dishonest means, so maybe he will.
Mitts shill,
He gets his delegates the same way the rest of them does, his people come to the caucuses, the rest don't. Santorum is pissed because half of the people showing up to vote for him are democrats.
I saw this happen with my own eyes here in washington and the excellent report I link to above illustrates it in Idaho also.
If you people haven't figured out yet the medias delegate tally is a fantasy created talking point. you probably aren't smart enough to know who to vote for in the first place.
To all the Ron Paul supporters, give it up. He hasn't broken over 50 delegates so far. So face the facts, he's toast. And when it comes to the real election, depends on how rigged the pugbags can do for the electronic machines, and their voter caging program.
The independent voters have given up on the pugbags this time. How many wars have they given us, women, abortion, birth control, sex education, and now porn? Whats left for the pugbag Taliban to try and have a war on?
Well let's see. They p!ssed off Hispanics, women, and seniors (by attacking social security and medicare). How can they still think they have a chance?
Actually, the longer Newt, Ron and Santorum stay in the race the better as the GOP will be fragmented and the voters get to hear more loony tunes from these creme da la creme of the GOP. Ron Paul should hang in there because he is consistent; consistently in the single digit :)
I already given up hope for real change when it comes to electing someone authentic because our gov't is to corrupt to allow that man a chance and neither side is any different. I thought people were morons during the last election and told me Obama would be no different but he truely hasn't, just has a different style. Now I'm not so naive, I'm just worried when the rest of the liberals have a realization they been tricked what might happen in this country or if they don't. Rest assured if Romney wins don't get all upset if you still believe the false promises of Obama he'll be no different neither they are both flip floppers because they are puppets. The media is choosing these canidates and most people go along for the ride, ever wonder why all your talking points come from pundits and not your own brain?
SallyAnn,
http://egilman.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/17/10739103-the-real-grass-roots-of-american-politics-a-report-from-the-first-ever-idaho-republican-caucus
Click thru to the full article.....
Hope Romney continues to be successful so we can get beyond the infighting on on to unseating Obama!
Dreeeeam,dream, dream, dream, dreeeeam. All you have to do is dream. Dream , dream, dream.
I completely agree with you Fayeanne. We sure do not want someone like O'Bummer as president who has had to go through ON THE JOB TRAINING!!! That is what would happen if Santorum would be the repub nominee.
Very true, Carole and Fayeanne. Romney is the most qualified to defeat Obama. Santorum will never be able to do that. He lacks experience in job creation and we can't afford another president who will learn the ropes only when he's elected. We need a guy like Romney who had turned around financial problems successfully in the past. Rick Santorum is running on social conservative issues because he has no credential or know-how in the economic front. If he loves this country, he would call off his campaign so Romney can concentrate on defeating BO.
I didn't realize you could take a class on how to be president. Don't most first-term presidents learn on the job? Nobody left in middle income America is going to vote for Romney, the chop and dice master technician of jobs. The republican party needs to chalk this one up as a loss and start looking now for some candidate that can appeal to a broad range of Americans for 2016. If they come up with more of the same, who knows when they will reclaim the top job?
'On the job training,' now THAT is a funny one. I didn't know Romney had PRESIDENTIAL experience, maybe you can provide such material? Oh wait, you mean experience as to RUNNING for President for 8 years? Such vacuous thinking Faye, Carole, Freedom.
They should just give up and go home.
Obama has $770 Million and the GOP candidates have $44 Million left between them.
Who do you think is gonna win in November?
(Hint: The BIG money is on Obama)
Vegas has Obama. That says it all.
Yep....Obama has all the money.
With $4.25 gas, none of us do. And to think it was less than $1.90 when he took office.....
CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN!!!
thank the Koch Brothers for the price of Gas ..they do the controlling not Obama or the Congress .. its easy to blame the prez they did it with.. Carter ...G W B ..and now Obama .. the real cuplrits are the Oil people and speculators .. like the Koch Brothers .. right now they are sitting on Gas they wont release because to do so would lower the price .. thanks GOP for putting pressure on your supporters
He has no control over gas prices.
Laker Steve what was the price of gas when Bush took office? What was the price when he left? I would tell you to google it but I would not want you to cry.
The goal is one billion$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$right? Lots of money to purchase the presidency, just as he did the first time elected, oh, excuse me...buy baby, buy. Buying votes for democrats is the only game in town. Not to mention Obama's sugar daddy Warren Buffett, a one percenter...yeah, take from the rich...to line the presidential campaign. Obama has made a mockery of the presidency.
If you think POTUS controls the price at the pump, you shouldn't be voting. Just keep on listening to Newt's promises of $2.50/gal. Newt suffers from delusion of grandeur; $2.50/gal of milk maybe.
Yeah, if it weren't for the Koch brothers drilling on private land - the price of gas would easily be an average of $5.00 per GAS
Oh, Yeah, If it weren't for the Koch Brothers a huge chunk of anti pollution equipment for factories wouldn't exist, so we wouldn't even have those industries to get jobs from.
Research and repent!
Hey no stress, if you think they are so confident, why are they sending out emails like this? This is from a letter looking for donations for Obama's campaign-"All you
really need to know: According to a new poll, if the general election were held
today, we would lose to Mitt Romney."
"If you can't imagine a scenario in
which Mitt Romney defeats Barack Obama, just look at the numbers. It's a real
possibility, and we have to start acting like it."
Now, that doesn't sound too sure to me!
Why do you think Democrats and hitting the open republican primaries and caucuses to vote for Santorum? Why do you think the MSM doesn't cover Dr Paul?
There are two potential nominees that would beat Obama hands down, one in a human landslide larger than Reagan's '84 win, given current citizen sentiment in the country, and two that would lose in landslides.
You figure out which is which.
It's pretty clear to me...
Here are the most current poll numbers that match up President Obama and the GOP's inept challengers. I think its clear they are all still trailing the President, hands down! Landslide? I think the Republican "winner" of the GOP primary race needs to be prepared to be buried!
Romney vs. President Obama:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/general_election_romney_vs_obama-1171.html
Santorum vs. President Obama:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/general_election_santorum_vs_obama-2912.html
Gingrich vs. President Obama:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/general_election_gingrich_vs_obama-1453.html
Paul vs. President Obama:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/general_election_paul_vs_obama-1750.html
So again Sailcat,
I see you have cutting and pasting down, still haven't actually looked at that poll yet? still ignoring the truth I see.
What's the Problem, it's CBS? New York Times? Bastions of liberal thought!
Because it doesn't matter to you hard core liberals, even if Obama himself said he was going to lose you would even argue with him about it!
Perfect demonstration of a closed mind.
RoadKill,
Vegas doesn't have anyone, gambling on political elections in the US is illegal. All the sites that offer wagers on the US Elections are offshore or online.
I look at offshore for this type of info because it represents actual people putting down money at an actual window, ie. making a REAL bet, not some online button pushing and reporting by a website.
Right now they are showing that Obama is a slight favorite, given that incumbent Presidents usually win re-election 85% of the time, this reflects one of two things.
#1 Betting is light until a known opponent is named, or
#2 His support is weak
The odds in England on a democrat victory in the US presidential election is 4-1, odds on a republican victory is 9-2, a virtual dead heat.
Until an opponent is known, it will remain that way.
Clear facts that are salient to the topic, Egilman. What more could you ask for? Unless, of course, the facts are do not support your fantasies, right?
...and I provided poll results from EIGHT different national polls; CBS, Reuters, Bloomberg, Pew, ABC, IBD, Rasmussen, and FOX. Plus, the only other place I happened to post those polls was to refute another of your posts in which you were drawing some rather bizarre conclusions based on limited information.. I am only here to help and the extensive poll numbers I provided to you should help you come to more informed conclusions.
No need to thank me.
Egilman - I'm not sure where Bovada operates from, but I know they're in several casinos that I've been to. The operate a mostly sports booking operation. However, they're taking bets on the presidential election, like several other venues that I've been to. Right not, Obama leads by BARELY 2 to 1! lol!!
politicalbettingodds(dot)com/2012-us-presidential-election-odds.html
Sure wish the GOP had competitive imaginative ideas that would force the Democrats into being more creative giving we the citizens choices that while imperfect would keep us in a positive empowering and prosperous direction. I refuse to hate republicans or democrats it is hard enough serving the public giving the conflicting demands we citizens put on our public servants. I just want both parties to remember that being in "Power" does not mean saying to my fellow country person that their views and considerations are now to be subjugated and regarded as meaningless or foolish. Being in Power means having the courage to fight for the citizens of your community whose opinions differ from your political allegiance as much as you would for those whose opinions agree with yours when those views hold elements that have the possibility of contributing to the greater good. Being in power means actively demonstrating your ability to be gracious to the citizens in your community regardless of a political doctrine or lack thereof.......Being in Power means being a champion for people and prosperity!! Ok sorry I caught on a soapbox just started having these asinine idealistic ideas about the possibility of the United States of America!!!!
QRT
Old Grumpy, your post is the most intelligent post I have read in a long time! To bad that those in power don't use their powers for good. Thank you for posting.
On January 20, 2009, when Mr. Obama was inaugurated, the average price of gasoline was $1.84 per gallon and the price of oil was about $39 for a 42-gallon barrel.
CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN!!!
I wonder if that was due to the economy being knocked on it's ass...
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal jumped feet-first into this misleading statistic Wednesday on “Fox & Friends,” when the Republican governor said the Obama administration has seen the “highest prices for oil and gasoline in 150 years.”
The reality: Gasoline prices are still below the peaks they reached under Bush in June 2008, when the inflation-adjusted monthly average price for a gallon of regular gasoline hit $4.26, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. And even at $107 a barrel, crude oil is still well below that summer’s high price of $145 a barrel.
Jindal worded his statement more carefully in a Wall Street Journal op-ed published Wednesday: “In 2011, the average annual prices of a barrel of oil and a gallon of gas were higher than at any time in the last 150 years.”
But that still leaves plenty of room for misinterpretation. An annual average price is a blend of many peaks and valleys from throughout the year, and the highest peaks on record occurred in the summer of 2008. But later that year, oil crashed to less than $40 a barrel and gasoline to $1.80 a gallon after the global financial system collapsed.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/74120.html#ixzz1pPNeQsdA
CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN!!!
C'mon Steve. Let's be fair. He since has changed the slogan to:
"I NEVER SAID THAT CHANGE WOULD HAPPEN OVER NIGHT"...
SI
Laker Steve, please look up the price of gasoline in June and July of 2008 and then get back to me. The only reason the price fell at the end of Bush's term was because the economy tanked, so people quit buying gasoline. Get real man and look at the facts.
According to those purveyors of truth (Faux Nooz), gas prices were $3.84 in May of 2008, and spent quite a bit of airtime telling us there was nothing the POTUS could do to bring prices down.
Go to YouTube and search for Flashback: Fox News on Gas Prices
I, for one, don't remember the $2/gal drop in prices over six month between the May prices and the election. Don't believe the outright lies being perpetrated by those without a moral compass.
Satanick
Although a weak economy does cause a drop in price, The price of both Oil and Gasoline peaked Jun 15, 2008. On that Day George Bush Signed the executive order resciding his fathers' ban on off-shore drilling. The price declined steadily until January 2009 when congress passed a law re-banning new offshore drilling that they had released for drilling in novemenber of 2008. We have been on a climb overall since.
Let's follow the Economy. The economy actually peaked in October 2007 and began a gradual decline until October 5, 2008, when finance fell apart. Althought The steep descent stopped in June of 2009, the descent continued until June of 2010.
So much for the imagination of you and may others who are active on this blog site.
The country was under a great recession that came during the Bush adminsitration and it was a world wide event. Now if you think with your little one line comments tou can change the fact that the oil companies and very wealthy investor, not to mention some oil producing countries have created the current prices world wide and the demand thta China, India and Russia are buying more oil than ever before. So do all the research before you make silly and dumb coments,\.
Dan,
To suggest that any one here do any real research, is a pipe dream, Research is work, and besides they are the types that just love to spout opinion as fact.
The truth, which they would learn from research, would give them all heart attacks....
Santorum... suggested that Puerto Rico should adopt English as its lone official language as a prerequisite for statehood.
That Santorum really knows how to woo the voters!
He also said women should stay bare ft. and pregnant; no contraceptives and no abortion. He also complains there are too many unwed mothers on welfare. Hard to believe he graduated from college.
Well, apparently Sanitorium did graduate from college - it's just that nobody has ever seen his transcripts. What's he afraid of?
The same thing as Obummer?
No Ricky baby, you are not our friend.You rode in like the colonial master on his high horse talking down to us brown people, just like columbus you said "drop your language and religion and speak mine." Nobody quoted you out of context.Romney took the chicken trail and wouldn't denounce you.you're both from the same club.Y abran muchos lambeojos en Borinquen qud votaran por estos dos.Ron Paul es el lider verdadero.
I was with you until the last sentence. Lo siento.
As a republican having voted in every presidential election since 1960, I will not vote for Santorum. He is a wolf in sheeps clothing. His Catholic views are so extreme he will have all of us saying Hail Marys an kissing the pedophiles ass. Maybe Santorum had a little expierence behind the alter
Lowell...you are indeed one sick puppy...poor person...
Rick Santorum thinks Puerto Ricans should speak only English? That's probably because as an elitist politician he's too lazy to learn Spanish. He probably also thinks they should learn ecclesiastical Latin too.
There is nothing wrong with Puerto Ricans learning English. That 's a very necessary language today and it will always be. If you visit any country in the world and you do not know their native language at least you will find somebody that speak English so you can communicate. It is a blessing to be able to speak more than one language. I feel that we should not get offended because he suggested it. As people we should be open to positives changes and look for better ways to increase our knowledge not only in languages but in other areas that can help us improve our personal lives. I am from Puerto Rico. I love my country and my culture, but I'm not against learning and improving whenever I have a chance.
I was born and still live in PR. The Republican primaries will have a very low turnout. The island is divided into two main political factions (those favoring statehood and those favoring the current status), in addition a small group favoring independence. The party favoring the current status are unaligned or are Democrats, but I haven't heard of a single Republican in that party. The party favoring statehood is more fractured: there are unaligned members, a rather large number of Democrats, and a sizable amount of Republicans.
I estimate that even though Romney will win the nomination, the amount of votes will be laughable at best.
Joe:
What was the local reaction to Santorum's comments about first the Puerto Ricans will have to learn English if they really want to gain Statehood? Anger or just "par for the course this time around?"
Santorum strikes me as a lot like Gingrich without the ability to backtrack as effectively. I am trying to think of a single cultural group he hasn't offended so far, most recently the Dutch, the French and now this, and I am drawing a blank.
My understanding is that schools in Puerto Rico require that all students learn English.
Yes, it's true. English is compulsory in primary and secondary schools. University education there is conducted in English, and then they are taught to speak proper Castilian Spanish as opposed to their own "calle" (street) version of it.
My husband is from there and was educated over there up to university level. Still, Spanish is spoken at home, at church, though there are English services. Most TV stations, newspapers, tabloids, magazines are in Spanish, but you can get English programming if you can afford cable. Most people there, cable TV is a luxury.
Like all languages, if you don't practice it, or get to use it, you will forget it. Most of them forget it, or decide on principle not to speak it, unless they like you. Even when I speak Spanish to them when I am over there, they speak back to me in English. Then they apologize if they don't speak enough English, and I just smile and say, I don't speak Spanish well, but I do understand a lot of what you are saying and they are cool with that.
I have read your posts about Puerto Rico and really.....cable T.V. Luxury... when you can get it just for 20 dollars... i guess you know a whole lot about it being prosperous and all, because i bet there are no percents of poverty in the United States either.
OH and Cancun would be the center or Mexico entirely too... as there would be no poverty ther either.
The one thing you said about the rest of the island being poor, well let me endulge you please:
I was raised on the west side and never i saw on the years i lived there, the cases you are putting up for people to feed on.
Yes some people may be not concerned about keeping this jewel clean, but some as well are very concerned, not all the hotels are as low as you depict them and the cranky people who attended you could have bad days as everyone in the world does.
Not all the beaches are in San Juan, Las Pargueras is on the other side, where the green resides and fills the island with beauty, even Ponce has the Serralles Castle, Guancha and many other sites to admire.
In the west and north, many beaches are still intact, blue water and there is one secret beach were the water is so pure you can see thru" it all.
Puerto Rico is not so poor at all, yes ther is deficit, there is middle, high and low class... there is everything and that is what i love about it, the diversity of it all.
There is the phosphorescent laggon as well as the Toro Verde Park, if i continue i might not end.
Tourism is getting better and yes it had it's downside at some time, i know i was studying that manner... so next time when you visit my beloved or extremely poor island as you say, take your time to buy a tour magazine,the ones that are made now are reallt appealing i might add.
Oh and something else as an oppinion of mine: The people from the west and the rest of the island far from San Juan are very polite and humble,caring and love to have new comers.
I believe everything Romney says about Santorem, and Gingrich and Paul. I also believe everything Santorem says about Romney and Gingrich and Paul. I definitely believe what Gingrich says about Romeny and oh forget it...
Damn, these guys are a such a bunch of asssholes...
Well said.
Since when is a territory something that can change what those in the United States thinks????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????/
Puerto Rico is not a state so why are we listening to them???????????????????????????????????
Outdoor:
I agree, but since when was a single vote worth something? I am thinking that had to be some time before billionaires could fund these elections. I honestly think the billionaires keeping Santorum and Gingrich alive right now love the feel of "playing with the dials," just to see what will happen.
Ricky InSanitorium has alienated too many ethnics, whites, women, and Anglo-Europeans, in much the same way Newtie Tootie has!
Neither will win the nomination or be POTUS!
BTW: Obama/Biden win in 20121! No doubt!!
My husband is a true Boricua (even born on the Island), but he is saddened by the number of people on public assistance. We hadn't been back there in 4 years and we went back last year and we were appalled. Unemployment up around 50% (the recession hit them hard with the decline in tourism), but no shortage of work to be done.
The pristine beaches you see on the tourism ads are really on the islands of Vieques and Culebra; the rest are trashed out or marginal at best. Go read the reviews on hotels even the Ritz Carlton and you will be amazed at how many people complain about the mold in the rooms and the shoddy service.
Don't get me wrong, I'm by no means a snob, but I have few expectations when I travel, only that the room be clean and those who wait tables or tend bar, should at least be friendly and reasonably timely when I'm being cheerful and friendly and undemanding.
When my husband went to Cancun for the first time, he was impressed. He said that PR could be more than Cancun ever dreamed of being if the people there would only make the effort to keep the island nice and clean and more tourist friendly.
HILARIOUS how the Rethugs are sucking up to same people they rail against for living in poverty and being on welfare. 60% of the island is on public assistance.
I want to know where the hell you get your statistics from? The unemployment rate in PR in 2011 (because you stated you went last year) was 16.3% for June 2011, certainly not 50% you mistakenly stated. Also 60% of the island is most certainly not on public assistance, I however agree there are many people on public assistance. Like in all states there are people who abuse welfare.If you don't believe me take a look around the parking lot of Plaza las Americas (the biggest shopping center on the island) and count how many new cars are parked. Still don't believe me? Look at real estate listings on the island and tell me what person on public assistance can afford them? Yet new houses are constantly being bought. My point is unless you have hard facts don't go around spewing nonesense about a country you only visit every few years.
My husband is from there and somebody who still lives there told me what the unemployment rate was.
We have several friends there who are affluent and own businesses as well as a nephew who is a doctor there, so I actually DO speak from some authority to know that there are basically two classes of people there, those who have and those who don't. At least over there, the haves have some sympathy for those who have not, which is more than most can say for themselves over here.
Yes in San Juan, where most of the tourists go, the employment rate is higher and the properties are VERY expensive. There are so many cars in San Juan, you are basically paralyzed in traffic from 2-7 pm every day. Plaza las Americas is a complete waste of my time. I don't come to the island to visit a shopping mall; there are plenty where I live.
It is very expensive to live there, so unless you actually go elsewhere on the island besides Plaza las Americas you will see the abject poverty that I'm talking about. Those houses that belong to the poor are not new listings, they are handed down from generation to generation. There is also plenty of Section 8 housing on the island as well.
It's such a beautiful place and could be so much more than it is if the people there would treat it like the jewel it could be.
Who told you that the unemployment rate was 50%? Chencha caricortá? (ask your husband who that is). Think about it would Saks Fifth Ave open a store in a country where the unemployment rate is 50%? Would Victoria's Secret, JC Penney, Macys etc? Yet we have those and plenty more American businesses heading out our way. So these businesses would expect to do well in a country where half the people don't have jobs? Your earlier post made it seem like the island is a third world country and it certainly is not. Like every country in the world we have rich and poor, but the way you made it sound on your post is that PR is full of poor unemployed people looking for hand outs. Yes I venture out of the metro area and yes there is poverty, but not as bad as you would have people who have never visited think it is. And the comment of also having plenty of Section 8 housing so what? What is your point?The US also has plenty of Section eight housing and plenty of housing projects, and trailor parks with poor people living below the poverty line. By the way I have visited other countries where I have seen poverty even in tourist area and beleive me Puerto Rico is not at that level.
There is one thing I will agree with you, PR could be so much better if people learned to appreciate it and value our resources.
@lemur lady, I'm sorry but your statistics and info are wrong. Yes, there's poverty, of course, just like in the US, but not the way that you imagine it to be. I was born and raised in PR until almost 7 years ago when my family and I decided to move to mainland US, so I guess that 35 years living there gives me a good idea how things really are. There's actually 3 socio-economic classes as mentioned before: low, middle, and upper. Most of the burden falls on the middle class, just like in mainland US; in fact PR is almost like a small scale version. Don't take me wrong, I can be very critical regarding PR, that's why we left. I still have my parents living there, tried to make them sell all their pieces of property and move here, but they are too accustomed to the island, even when they own property here and visit often.
The island suffers from a copious exodus of educated professionals looking for better things, just like we did. I was a Criminalistics investigator and my wife earned a Master's Degree so we took the leap. Many years ago I worked for a big hotel there and it was actually 5 star rated, like many others, and I hear that the new resort in the eastern side is exquisite, even celebrities like Michael Jordan own property there. The comment made by Joesie regarding Plaza Las Americas was aimed as to do the little exercise of taking a look at the regular kind of vehicles you'll find around that area, it is an eye opener for the ones that think that people still roam around in horses. Most of my friends, the ones that are still living there for that matter, are professionals like engineers, doctors, lawyers, scientists, etc. Cable TV as a luxury, I don't think so, PR had enjoyed Cable TV since at least the 80's, and since some years ago digital and satellite service. Just pay attention next time you are flying there, when you are approaching the island you'll see a sea of satellite dishes, name your poison: Directv, Dish Network, etc. Before we moved we had satellite and we paid the same we do here in FL for digital cable and broadband internet. So, as mentioned before, it is not the hell hole some people may make it look like.
Regarding your comment about Section 8 here in Florida we have tons. As Real Estate professionals our office also manage rental property, we have lots of Section 8 participants moving here from many states. And yes, we have areas full of low income residents in FL as well.
The two main issues in PR right now are crime and governmental corruption, take care of those two and the island could easily go back to the paradise it used to be. Again, as with everything else assimilated from the Usonians, PR suffers from similar problems.
I don't know, it's not like they have served on every single armed conflict the US has taken part since World War I, that Federal Law precedes their own laws, or that they can't do any business with any other country in the world due to being bound by a Cabotage Law that dictates any trade has to be done thru the US, and exclusively by the US merchant navy.
I mean, didn't they beg to be taken over from Spain in 1898?
/sarcasm
Dictatoring thug can be defined with one word now....obama!!!!! The inept clown will be voted out in Nov. reguardless of what this radically biased leftwing MSNBC web site posts for the thugocRAT sheep.
7.6:
Your lecture series (plural) are growing tiresome. Try some brave and interesting ideas for a change. Do you have any idea what the Rich Guy or the Crazy Others will do once in power? Either do I. Go ahead and ask them yourself. First off, lets get back to the Wild West Health Care System, where only the well off can afford the life saving treatments, as an example?
All Romney seems to know is negative advertising, and he has already reached the point of no return. What is left of the GOP is abandoning the decade long candidate in favor of the crazies.
What is next?
Should my posts bother you just skip past them!. It's not my problem obama's an inept clown, and I never voted for the fool.
And worthless troll describes you mm. If you get paid for this crap you're ripping them off. Begone troll!I see nothing new or original coming out of you, kind of like your party. Your shelf life is expiring troll. We won't miss you and the hate you continually spew.
That is why he is on the ignore list. Anyone who disrepects the president of the United State, is a lousy, citizen. Creative criticism is acceptable, disrepectful and mean, ignorant, un-true, words, are not.
The right wingers like "Spider" keep saying that the Obama policies are causing oil prices to rise, yet the oil companies and the Koch brothers are supporting the Republicans. The oil companies and the GOP are practically the same thing.
So wouldnt it make more sense to conclude that the oil companies are raising gas prices in support of a Republican election? That the GOP and the oil companies are wrecking the economy to discredit Obama?
The Oil companies are funding the GOP candidates, gas prices are high because high gas prices work for the GOP campaigns. The GOP and Oil companies and the Koch brothers are behind the rise in gas prices. You would have to be an idiot not to see that.
Bats:
Some scary but plausible truth to what you are saying. Oil prices may decline post summer driving, just before the election, but what if they were backing the other guys? Someone once suggested how the oil folks need to keep US oil prices low to keep new technologies from coming online.
It will be interesting to see what happens, provded there isn't a shock to the system....
The idea that it was being done purposely to sabotage Obama has crossed my mind on several occasions. It makes a lot of sense. Plus with Iran, it gives them a good cover :P
Even though this whole string of the blog is off topic, I have maintained from the very beginning that after I heard Rash Limpballs say he hopes that Obama fails, I knew that we were in for a long ride of the GOP seeing that he did just that.
The GOP, holding millions of jobs hostage to put one man out of a job.
I am shocked there are Republicans in Puerto Rico. I know lots of major formerly US companies have plants there because of the cheap labor, and tax benefits....... but that there are actually "R's" there is a shock. Must be the very few managers of those formerly US companies........ can think of no other reason, why working people would vote for reptiles.
Santordum better learn to speak spanish before he sets one hoof in Puerto Rico.
I have yet to see anything from the Obama haters say anything positive about their own candidates and I've seen hundreds of posts. Come on Repubs say something positive about your candidates. Hasn't Fox told you what the talking points should be yet?
Ummm... Mitt likes grits...
That should count for something...
Cheesy grits, no less.
Article from the Wall Street Journal - by Eddie Sessions:
"I have this theory about Barack Obama. I think he's led a kind of
make-believe life in which money was provided and doors were opened
because at some point early on somebody or some group (George Soros
anybody?) took a look at this tall, good looking, half-white, half-black, young man with an exotic African/Muslim name and concluded he could be guided toward a life in politics where his facile speaking skills could even put him in the White House.
In a very real way, he has been a young man in a very big hurry. Who else do you know has written two memoirs before the age of 45? "Dreams of My Father" was published in 1995 when he was only 34 years old. The Audacity of Hope" followed in 2006. If, indeed, he did write them himself. There are some who think that his mentor and friend, Bill Ayers, a man who calls himself a "communist with a small 'c'" was the real author.
His political skills consisted of rarely voting on anything that might be deemed controversial.. He went from a legislator in the Illinois legislature to the Senator from that state because he had the good fortune of having Mayor Daley's formidable political machine at his Disposal.
He was in the U.S. Senate so briefly that his bid for the presidency was either an act of astonishing self-confidence or part of some greater game plan that had been determined before he first stepped foot in the capital.. How, many must wonder, was he selected to be a 2004 keynote Speaker at the Democrat convention that nominated John Kerry when virtually no one had ever even heard of him before?
He outmaneuvered Hillary Clinton in primaries. He took Iowa by storm. A charming young man, an anomaly in the state with a very small black Population, he oozed "cool" in a place where agriculture was the antithesis of cool. He dazzled the locals. And he had an army of Volunteers drawn to a charisma that hid any real substance. And then he had the great good fortune of having the Republicans select one of the most inept candidates for the presidency since Bob Dole. And then John McCain did something crazy. He picked Sarah Palin, an unknown female governor from the very distant state of Alaska . It was a ticket that was reminiscent of 1984's Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro and they went down to defeat.
The mainstream political media fell in love with him. It was a schoolgirl crush with febrile commentators like Chris Mathews swooning then and now over the man. The venom directed against McCain and, in particular, Palin, was extraordinary.
Now, 3 full years into his presidency, all of those gilded years leading up to the White House have left him unprepared to be President.. Left to his own instincts, he has a talent for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. It swiftly became a joke that he could not deliver even the briefest of statements without the ever-present Tele-Prompters. Far worse, however, is his capacity to want to "wish away" some terrible Realities, not the least of which is the Islamist intention to destroy America and enslave the West. Any student of history knows how swiftly Islam initially spread. It knocked on the doors of Europe, having gained a foothold in Spain ...
The great crowds that greeted him at home or on his campaign "world tour" were no substitute for having even the slightest grasp of history and the reality of a world filled with really bad people with really bad intentions. Oddly and perhaps even inevitably, his political experience, a cakewalk, has positioned him to destroy the Democrat Party's hold on
power in Congress because in the end it was never about the Party. It was always about his communist ideology, learned at an early age from family, mentors, college professors, and extreme leftist friends and colleagues.
Obama is a man who could deliver a snap judgment about a Boston police officer who arrested an "obstreperous" Harvard professor-friend, but would warn Americans against "jumping to conclusions" about a mass murderer at Fort Hood who shouted "Allahu Akbar." The absurdity of that was lost on no one. He has since compounded this by calling the Christmas bomber "an isolated extremist" only to have to admit a day or two later that he was part of an al Qaeda plot. He is a man who could strive to close down our detention facility at Guantanamo even though those released were known to have returned to the battlefield against America
He could even instruct his Attorney General to afford the perpetrator of 9/11 a civil trial when no one else would ever even consider such an
obscenity. And he is a man who could wait three days before having anything to say about the perpetrator of yet another terrorist attack on
Americans and then have to elaborate on his remarks the following day because his first statement was so lame. The pattern repeats itself. He either blames any problem on the Bush administration or he naively seeks to wish away the truth.
Knock, knock. Anyone home? Anyone there? Barack Obama exists only as the sock puppet of his handlers, of the people who have maneuvered and manufactured this pathetic individual's life. When anyone else would quickly and easily produce a birth certificate, this man spent over a million dollars to deny access to his. Most other documents, the paper trail we all leave in our wake, have been sequestered from review. He has lived a make-believe life whose true facts remain hidden.
We laugh at the ventriloquist's dummy, but what do you do when the dummy is President of the United States of America?
75KCapitalist
The fact that you had to take an editorial that was written by someone voicing what appears to be biased comments designed only to alter reality is a clear reflection of your mindset. Your an un-educated buffoon who lacks the intelligence to stand on your own well constructed and investigated opinions. The reality is your part of a small group who is unhappy with the notion that a man-of-color is in the "White" house and it upsets you to no end. Sour Grapes is what it is. You failed at writing your own memoirs at a young age, achieving anything significant in life and have yet to recieve your 15 minutes of fame. So please keep your opinions to yourself as they bear no significance as well
75K- You should change your name to "CopyNPasteFascist".
The truth hurts huh. Funny how this liberal rag of a blog deleted the two posts that truly expose what a fraud the president of the United States is. I don't have a racist, bigoted bone in my body and I have many friends of African-American and Hispanic ancestry. Oh yeah, the only fascist around here is living in the white house.
fas·cist
[fash-ist] Show IPA
noun
1.
a person who believes in or sympathizes with fascism.
2.
( often initial capital letter ) a member of a fascistmovement or party.
3.
a person who is dictatorial or has extreme right-wing views.
See I can copy and paste too. Wasn't that fun? Also, if you have to proclaim that you are not racist or bigoted you probably are.
Fascism: modern political ideology that seeks to regenerate the social, economic, and cultural life of a country by basing it on a heightened sense of national belonging or ethnic identity. Fascism rejects liberal ideas such as freedom and individual rights, and often presses for the destruction of elections, legislatures, and other elements of democracy. Despite the idealistic goals of fascism, attempts to build fascist societies have led to wars and persecutions that caused millions of deaths. As a result, fascism is strongly associated with right-wing fanaticism, racism, totalitarianism, and violence.8
Here's some more copy n paste for you.
YOU SIR ARE A COMPLETE AND UTTER IDIOT! Most of you never search for facts but that wouldn't matter since you apparently HATE THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES and would vote for ANY jack-legged jack-hole on the earth!
Eddie Sessions and The Wall Street Journal Size Up Obama-Incorrect Authorship!
Summary of the eRumor:
This is a forwarded email that contains a commentary about Barak Obama that was allegedly written by Eddie Session and appeared in the Wall Street Journal.
The Truth:
Eddie Sessions is not the author. This commentary was actually written by Alan Caruba and posted on his Warning Signs blog under the title of "Obama's Make Belief Life." Click for a complete text of Caruba's commentary.
Sessions is not a writer for the Wall Street Journal and Caruba's commentary was found posted on a Wall Street Journal reader comment forum with Sessions' name in the by line, according to a February 5, 2010 article in Iowa's Coralville Courier.
Eddie Sessions and The Wall Street Journal Size Up Obama-Incorrect Authorship!
Summary of the eRumor:
This is a forwarded email that contains a commentary about Barak Obama that was allegedly written by Eddie Session and appeared in the Wall Street Journal.
The Truth:
Eddie Sessions is not the author. This commentary was actually written by Alan Caruba and posted on his Warning Signs blog under the title of "Obama's Make Belief Life." Click for a complete text of Caruba's commentary.
Sessions is not a writer for the Wall Street Journal and Caruba's commentary was found posted on a Wall Street Journal reader comment forum with Sessions' name in the by line, according to a February 5, 2010 article in Iowa's Coralville Courier.
75KCapitalist - It took me 4 minutes and 32 seconds to find out that not only did Eddie Sessions not write this article - he's not a writer at all for the WSJ (by admission of the WSJ editor) and most likely is nothing more than a name that was used to post a plagiarized article from Alan Caruba's blog from about a year before. I don't know Alan Caruba - but a least he has a legitimate blog. It kind of points to the fact that you are an enabler of liars, Mr. 75KCapitalist, and, more than likely, are a liar yourself.
If there was a black republican in office, I guarantee to everyone reading this that they would not be championed by the news media like this. What is so annoying is if any Republican made a tenth as many mistakes as President Obama they would be lambasted by the liberal news media, and would be the most reviled president since Nixon. As a matter of fact, if Pres. Obama ever does commit a major crime(proceed with me on the assumption that violating the Constitution is not a crime, because so many politicians do it) he would either be championed for it by the liberal news media, as yet another example of change we can trust in, or it would be hushed up completely. Open your eyes people! Be discerning please! The elitist media wants to help Obama lead us to socialism, please think back to the founding values of our country, and don't believe everything the liberal media tells you.
Yeah...Killing Bin Laden was a mistake, right? Otherwise Bush would have done it. What you call 'mistakes' mean "life" to other people.
I wonder if you have air-conditioning and cable tv in your cave "voicecryingoutinthewilderness"....one thing's for sure though. There's plenty of white bedsheets with eye-holes cut out and Swastikas aren't there?
"Voicecryingoutinthewilderness"...and parroting the words given him by faux news. So original, so unique, such insight :)
Do you just like typing, or are you trying to make an argument? The operation that killed Osama Bin Laden was put into play in 2002. Who was in office then? Why I do believe it was the very same George Bush that you are wrongfully laughing at. Blaming Bush for 9/11, because if so you might be interested to know that Clinton, another Democrat, had a chance to kill Bin Laden and did not take take the chance. So if all you can say to defend Obama is that he managed to not botch an operation planned by Bush, then Republicans may win this actually win this year.
I apologize for the typo, the last line should be, "Then Republicans may actually win this year."
Hey lost voice-"I don’t know where he is. I really just don’t spend that much time on him, to be honest with you." Who said that? Funny how you give credit to GWB for an operation that was given up on by him, even though the actual killing of Osama happened in 2011. Then Bush remains blameless for 9/11, who was president when that happened? Then when the economy tanked in 2007 somehow that was Obama's fault. You guys might be able to spread your revisionist history over at Hannity's site with the rest of the lost sheeple but there is no voter amnesia over here.