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The Bain of Romney’s Existence
Obama is having trouble replicating Ted Kennedy’s successful 1994 attacks.
For a few weeks in 1994, Mitt Romney appeared poised to do the unthinkable. In his first run for public office, Romney threatened to deny Ted Kennedy a sixth full Senate term. A statewide poll showed Romney leading Kennedy by eight points. Republican incumbents were heavily favored to hold on to the Massachusetts governorship, lieutenant governorship, the state treasurer’s office, and a pair of congressional seats.
Kennedy fought back like a cornered animal. His campaign aired no fewer than six ads attacking Romney’s business record at Bain Capital, with special emphasis on the paper company Ampad and a factory in Marion, Indiana. The ad claimed that Bain laid off 350 of the paper factory’s workers and told them they could reapply for their old jobs at a 25 percent pay cut — and that Mitt Romney was to blame.
“He has cut our wages to put money in his pocket,” complained a worker featured in one of the Kennedy ads. Workers from Indiana were brought into Massachusetts to hand out anti-Romney leaflets. The campaign took its toll. Romney’s lead in the polls evaporated. “I was kind of attracted to Romney,” a woman told the Boston Globe less than a month before the election. “But this really make me rethink things. I’m undecided now.”
Romney wound up losing that Senate election by 17 points, running 30 points behind GOP Gov. Bill Weld in what was a fairly good year for Republicans even in Massachusetts. Kennedy didn’t even end up running ad charging Romney-led Bain with accepting a taxpayer bailout. He didn’t have to — he was already ahead in the polls again.
There were some factual problems with the Ampad story. Romney wasn’t in charge of Bain when most of the major decisions affecting the Indiana plant were made. Ironically, he was on leave running against Kennedy. Romney offered to meet with the workers and see what he could do to help find a solution, “But I’m in no position to negotiate with the union negotiators or the company negotiators.”
None of these details mattered. Such nuances can get lost when a negative ad conforms to concerns voters already have about a candidate. Willie Horton worked because many Americans already feared Michael Dukakis was a liberal drip who would be soft on crime. There has always been great attention paid to Romney’s wealth and criticism of his ability to connect with working-class people. He has struggled to win over voters in lower income brackets even in Republican primaries.
It was only natural that Barack Obama’s campaign team would dust off the old Kennedy attacks and, being environmentally sound liberals, see if they could be recycled. Newt Gingrich and, to a much lesser extent, Rick Santorum also incorporated some Bain material in their hits against Romney. Gingrich put together a whole movie about the “King of Bain” titled “When Mitt Romney Came to Town.” The Atlantic’s Elspeth Reeve concluded, “Newt Gingrich merely re-aired the 1994 argument about Romney’s record, but with better production values.”
Obama and his super PAC are focusing on a different company that went bankrupt under Bain management, GST Steel, though surely they have more in their arsenal. Their two-minute TV ad, augmented by a six-minute web ad, will air in five key swing states: Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Iowa, and Colorado. Romney is labeled an “economic vampire.”
Like the Ampad story, there are some holes in this story. Romney was no longer with Bain when GST Steel was shuttered in 2001. Obama bundler Jonathan Levine, who has raised $100,000 for the president, was still with Bain at the time. There is nevertheless ample precedent for such facts getting lost in the campaign maelstrom.
Yet so far, even some Democrats have seemed uncomfortable with this line of attack. Before he was taken to the woodshed, Obama surrogate Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, told Meet the Press that this criticism was “nauseating.” Booker exclaimed, “Stop attacking private equities!” Harold Ford, a former head of the Democratic Leadership Council who moved left when contemplating a campaign in New York, concurred: “Overall, I agree with the substance of [Booker’s] comments on Meet the Press.”
Ed Rendell, a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, called Obama’s Bain ads “very disappointing.” Rendell continued: “I think Bain is fair game, because Romney has made it fair game. But I think how you examine it, the tone, what you say, is important as well.” Even Steve Rattner, the former Obama car czar who has assailed Romney’s claim to have a record creating jobs, has called the hits on Bain “unfair.”
Of course, Rattner has two good reasons to be sensitive on this score. First, as car czar he has presided over some layoffs himself, which the Romney camp has been quick to point out in their counterattacks. Secondly, Rattner is a — somewhat controverisal — former private equity executive himself.
Maybe Obama will yet emulate Kennedy’s success in tying Bain’s record around Romney’s neck. But there seems to be a greater realization today in 1994 that private equity is complicated, with innovative wins and sometimes heartbreaking losses, that can’t be so easily or accurately lemon-picked. And Ted Kennedy didn’t have to run for reelection on Obama’s jobs record.
About the Author
W. James Antle, III, author of the new book Devouring Freedom: Can Big Government Ever Be Stopped?, is editor of the Daily Caller News Foundation and a senior editor of The American Spectator. You can follow him on Twitter @jimantle.
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Jack in Wi.| 5.29.12 @ 7:05AM
They haven't got started on Romney yet. It won't really start until after the conventions. They will slice and dice Romney like a block of Swiss cheese going into the fondue pot. Both sides will conduct a campaign of personal vituperation unlike any other one in American history. Meanwhile the country's finances collapse and we are headed for another world war.
Doctor Right| 5.29.12 @ 8:00AM
Is that your fantasy, Jack? That Romney will lose?
Will that be a salve on your broken ego for backing a loser like Ron Paul?
Or do you secretly harbor dreams of a Paul-bot insurgency at the GOP convention?
You might not have noticed, but Obama's attacks on Bain have been flops. That's because nobody really cares about Bain; they care about getting rid of Obama.
And if there's another World War, Jack, don't worry...you can probably be a "Proud 4-F" again.
Jack in Wi.| 5.29.12 @ 8:09AM
Who cares who wins moron? It is all more of the same. If Obama wins at least I won't have you neocons getting us into anther war. Let Obama drive the truck into the ditch instead of having Romney doing it. At least then, we have a chance to take the country back. A Romney win with his present policies will finally destroy the conservative movement. Of course Romney can change like the wind, so we don't know where he will be on election day.
Calvin| 5.29.12 @ 8:59AM
I always knew Jack was doing the Big O's bidding. It is nice to see him admit it.
Oldefarte| 5.29.12 @ 2:26PM
Who pays you to blog this excrement? Media Matters? Eric the AG? Who????????????
Doctor Right| 5.29.12 @ 3:00PM
Let's take a stroll down Jack's fantasy lane...But be warned, it's a scary place.
In Jack's fantasies, Obama wins re-election, and Romney and the neo-cons (meaning the Jews, and by proxy, Israel - since they are our REAL evil overlords) are defeated.
The new Muslim states of North Africa, hand-in-hand with the PLO, and Hamas, and Al-Qaeda, all unite to drive the Israelis "into the sea." Netanyahu is drawn-and-quartered after he's caught making motzah with the blood of Christian and Muslim children.
The new state of Palestine emerges. Smile all around...
But back home, Obama's inept handling of the economy worsens. Employment shoots up to 20%, and there is civil unrest.
Obama threatens to declare Marshal Law. It's a catastrophe!
But the...on his off-white horse...into the fray rides OUR HERO: Dr. Ron Paul!
Obama and his minions are thrown out of office! Ron Paul is made President by proclamation! Rand Paul is VP!
A NEW ERA of constitutional conservatism sweeps the land! All liberals move to France! All American Jews are deported to...somewhere.
And peace, happiness, and prosperity reign supreme!
Anyway, that's Jack's fantasy.
In Realville, Romney kicks Obama's ass in a landslide, and Jack and his illegitimate son Clint crawl back into their holes to campaign for Lyndon Larouche.
Occam's Tool| 5.29.12 @ 5:31PM
Ever watch LaRouche's facial tics?
Occam's Tool| 5.29.12 @ 11:15AM
Running against a socialist helps. Jack, allow to repeat that the USSS agent who DIDN'T shoot you on the day you physically harassed President Johnson did a disservice to his country.
W| 5.29.12 @ 4:16PM
Jack
Romney will win in a landslide, with a Republican Congress.
Occam's Tool| 5.29.12 @ 5:24PM
Kennedy was also running in the People's Republic of Taxachusetts, whose denizens are known accurately as "Massholes."
I see Romney winning fairly big.
Occam's Tool| 5.29.12 @ 5:33PM
Good to see you Dr. Right. I do hope there will be plenty of verbal pyrotechnics and forensic dissections! (I'm trying to get the line from Never Say Never Again paraphrased).
Seriously, I love watching you make their teensy weensy heads explode!
Doctor Right| 5.29.12 @ 8:00AM
Is that your fantasy, Jack? That Romney will lose?
Will that be a salve on your broken ego for backing a loser like Ron Paul?
Or do you secretly harbor dreams of a Paul-bot insurgency at the GOP convention?
You might not have noticed, but Obama's attacks on Bain have been flops. That's because nobody really cares about Bain; they care about getting rid of Obama.
And if there's another World War, Jack, don't worry...you can probably be a "Proud 4-F" again.
Occam's Tool| 5.29.12 @ 11:16AM
I expect to see Jack actively aiding the enemy, not being a 4-F. Needs his child brides, Dr. R.
Boar Hunter| 5.29.12 @ 2:16PM
Oh don't worry about Jack turning us in.
I suspect many of us on this site are already on the governments list of charter members in camp "Iknowwhatyoudidandyouneedtolearnbetter."
Just look up how King Kenya's friend Bill Ayres and his buddies intended to deal with those in opposition after their take over.
Oldefarte| 5.29.12 @ 2:30PM
Yeah maybe we'll be assigned the task of penning another book entitled DREAMS OF MY HO HO HO!!!!!!!!!!!
Occam's Tool| 5.29.12 @ 5:26PM
I'm sure I gave the Feds Headaches. Subscribed to Moscow News as a kid (I took Russian), then became a YAF officer as a teenager.
Oldefarte| 5.29.12 @ 2:28PM
My guess is that it's already happening, from his cubicle in the basement of the DofJ!!!!!!!
Boar Hunter| 5.29.12 @ 2:09PM
Like a contestant in a beauty pageant, Jack's recurring fantasy is world peace.
From gang members of the same race killing each other over which colors they wear, to countries fighting over territorial boundaries or false religions like Islam fighting each other over control, Jack cannot grasp in his pea brain that war has and always will be part of life.
Despite Jack's demented would view, it is not the fault of Israel and the Jews or America's presence in other countries.
Like the beauty contestant, Jack's fantasy of no war is evidence of his intellectual vacuousness.
Simply put, Jack is a retard.
Oldefarte| 5.29.12 @ 2:32PM
Come on now, we all know that the Arab Spring is a peaceful, patriotic occurrance, right?????
Occam's Tool| 5.29.12 @ 5:27PM
Boar: you overestimate Jack quite a bit, sir. Otherwise, as almost always with you, spot on, sir. Well hunted, indeed.
Oldefarte| 5.29.12 @ 2:23PM
Bring it on douche! Can't wait! Wanna talk the Kennedys? I'm drooling for that! Come on, let talk about those sleezy SOB's. Venture capitalism a problem, what about old Joe's '''''BOOTLEGGING''''' and anti-semitism that got him kicked out of England as ambassador and sent back to the US with his slimy tail between his legs????? Wann talk about the Kennedys morality ????? About Robert Jr ex that recently hung herself from dispair? What about old Teddy's first wifey who was turned into an alcoholic by the Chappaquidick [alsong with the also dispicable Dodd-Master Sleezeball] '''''Sandwich King"""""'???????Bring it on, bring it on.....I dare ya!!!!!!!!!!!!
Only One Mediator Christ Jesus| 5.29.12 @ 2:32PM
So sad it is, indeed concerning R Jr.'s ex wife. And I read that her family had to go to court to try and take possession of her body for a funeral. The slimebag fought for it, and won.
Can you imagine? He dumped her, was fighting for custody of the children on the grounds that she was "unfit", and yet had to USE HER BODY to try and look good, gain sympathy from the world by him having a funeral for her!
Now THERE'S a man with zero conscience.
Oldefarte| 5.29.12 @ 2:34PM
Just like the rest of that good for nothing family [mainly the males]. ''''''WHITE TRASH''''' doesn't even come close to a description, sadly!!!!
Oldefarte| 5.29.12 @ 2:39PM
Hell-Fire! I'd vote for Romney for no other reason than he had the guts to run in Massachusetts against the Kennedy p[olitical machine and lived to tell about it. And the fools talk about the poor state of that state's economy from Romney's tenure as governor......hell the Kennedys no doubt destroyed that state decades prior to his even entering politics!!!!!!!!!
Only One Mediator Christ Jesus| 5.29.12 @ 5:31PM
Reason and logic, it's a wonderful thing! If only some had the ability to use it. If you listen to these ones who have all the reasons not to vote for Romney, they mainly try and make it sound like he's worse than Obama, and that voting for him is SIN.
Did their Religion teach them this?
Jesus says that no one is good, but God alone. If Jesus can say that, then so can I.
No matter WHAT candidate becomes the nominee, he or she cannot be perfect.
There's good, better and best.
Personally, I liked Herman Cain and think he would have been best, but they destroyed him. And even he wasn't perfect.
Sarah Palin isn't even perfect, (but close to it IMHO).. but everyone has their likes and dislikes, even with her!
Why can't we just grow up and face the music?
We're not electing so much the individual, but a person who represents our party's platforms and principles~ Sarah said that as well, and she's right.
Either we're helping re-elect the Communist party again, or helping to oust them.
Only One Mediator Christ Jesus| 5.29.12 @ 2:34PM
He got possession of her body because the divorce hadn't been finalized.
Pathetic.
Alan Brooks| 5.29.12 @ 5:55PM
Ron Paul lost because he is too honest, same was true of Paul Tsongas back in '92.
People want to be lied to so they can live in the fantasy lands of their choice.
Bubba Shawn| 5.29.12 @ 6:39PM
Liberal Romney = Liberal Obama.
The best way to finally be rid of Romney is to stay home this November.
Appleby| 5.29.12 @ 7:26AM
It's the end times and everybody knows it. Leave those deck chairs alone and find your lifeboat.
TLP| 5.29.12 @ 9:50AM
I don't believe it. The old bag got one right.
Saints be praised.
Only One Mediator Christ Jesus| 5.29.12 @ 2:32PM
But she refuses to vote for Romney.
Alan Brooks| 5.29.12 @ 5:56PM
She can hide in Canada.
Steve| 5.29.12 @ 7:48AM
On Morning Joe two weeks ago Steven Rattner was on talking about how Uncle Mitty did a great job running Bain. Then he said "well there was 4 or 5 companies that were treated badly". I looked up the companies that Bain took over in the 1990's and found that a case could be made that 5 companies were looted and surprise every time this happened Uncle Mitty was on leave.Then I saw that according to SEC filing's Uncle Mitty was CEO until 2002 and did not step down until after 2002 not 1999 as reported. Don't know what is worst, looting companies or knowing that he played fast and loose with the rules and covered up what happened.
TLP| 5.29.12 @ 9:58AM
Morning Joe?
Apparently your Methedone Clinic's door wouldn't open, or there's a new Treatment for Pedophilia.
And, p.s. sweetheart?
Why don't you tell the rest of us, who don't suffer from your Obvious need for De-Programming, how what Bain did, is any different from what your boy did, when he closed HUNDREDS of GM and CHRYSLER Dealerships, throwing THOUSANDS OF WORKERS, out in to the streets.
Take your time.
We'll wait til your done eating that other guy's face.
Only One Mediator Christ Jesus| 5.29.12 @ 12:17PM
Uncle 'Bammy can do no wrong in their deluded eyes.
Steve| 5.29.12 @ 2:39PM
I am not voting for Barry. Uncle Mitt would make a better president that Barry. I was just commenting on the fact that Uncle Mitt is a big cow pie.
Oldefarte| 5.29.12 @ 2:46PM
Ohhhhhhh there's a whale of a difference. Venture capitalism takes over dying entities to either restore same or to kill off profitably speaking. There's no profitably in the Detroit auto manufacturers' RESCUE BY THE ONE, since the one and only purpose of same was to salvage the LABOR UNION JOBS that Detroit representated [along with to financially screw its bondholders of course]. detroit would have bee better off being taken over by Japan's Toyota etc, but then that would have represented a NON LABOR UNIONIZED EMPLOYER, right???????
Occam's Tool| 5.29.12 @ 5:28PM
TLP: glad to see you also noted Patient ZERO in Miami.
Boar Hunter| 5.29.12 @ 2:26PM
LOL, what an ignoramus.
Break time is over, get back to work and quit using the companies computer for your personal activities.
I read that Obama was born in Kenya and raised by communists. He was (is?) a drug user, a criminal, a friend of terrorists, a racist and a muslim.
I don't know which is worse, his looting the country or knowing that there were enough people like you who were stupid enough to vote for him that this evil man was elected president.
Oldefarte| 5.29.12 @ 2:48PM
You're being far too kind to him!!!!!!!!!!!
kwan| 5.29.12 @ 7:51AM
Zilkov: In fact it's one of the few Soviet operations in America that actually showed a profit at the end of the last fiscal year.
Dr. Yen Lo: Profit? Fiscal year? Tsk! Tsk! Tsk! Beware, my dear Zilkov. The virus of capitalism is highly infectious. Soon you'll be lending money out at interest!....The Manchurian Candidate.
Yes Comrade Obama is on a mission to eradicate the virus of capitalism but he needs the help of the knuckleheads and dimwits in the electorate to give him another four years in office.
old skeptic| 5.29.12 @ 7:51AM
What is troubling is Romney's inability to explain that Bain's very purpose was to salvage companies about to go under, not to drive them under and sell off assets. A company already on the brink of failure cannot be made successful by continuing its previous practices, which were demonstrably unsuccessful. Excessive labor costs tend to make companies unsuccessful.
If 25% of a failing company's workers lost their jobs in the course of a turnaround, this means that 75% kept their jobs. The ones who kept their jobs were able to buy goods and services that helped workers at other companies keep THEIR jobs.
Contrast this to the record of Obama.
TLP| 5.29.12 @ 1:28PM
Indeed.
Oldefarte| 5.29.12 @ 2:50PM
Except of community organizing swatting of course!!!!!!!!!!
R Martin| 5.29.12 @ 7:52AM
In the coming campaign I suspect Obama will make the 1994 Ted Kennedy look like a Golden Retriever puppy. Romney’s team knows this and, one hopes, is well prepared for it.
It seems to me Obama is ripe for Swift Boating. He came to wide attention with a fabricated identity and affirmative action fueled accomplishments. There must be quite a few people who know the real Obama and his true past. Some of them may even be willing to talk about it.
Cobalt| 5.29.12 @ 8:31AM
We all know Obama has many secrets.
However, the media won't cover Obama's negative past, and the Republicans won't go there, preferring to focus on the economy.
Obama gets a pass, because he is a minority.
Anthony| 5.29.12 @ 9:10AM
How many Kenyan companies did Obozo salvage?? Only his publicist knows for sure!!!
Oldefarte| 5.29.12 @ 2:51PM
His supposed old man ''''salvaged''''' a number of women supposedly!!!!!!!!
Jefferson| 5.29.12 @ 8:30AM
The problem with your "story" is that Bain always made money, just like Corporations do today, and the little guy's job is the last thing anyone is concerned with. That resonates with Americans, even those with a job. They see all this wealth around them, but not shared by them. And, you think any sane worker doesn't feel that? Creating wealth is NOT what the average wage earner wants. He wants a job.
And, in this election, only one man has the experience of BEING President - and has done a d* good job at it. Obama 2012.
kwan| 5.29.12 @ 8:44AM
That's right don't believe your lying eyes voters but listen to this fool and vote for Obama in 2012 cuz he got da experiance. Experience at what being an incompetent Hugo Chavez wannabe???
Von Mises Jr| 5.29.12 @ 8:59AM
Hey Perp. Do you think that just because you changed your name, we still don't want to know what books you read?
Brokaw and Charlie Rose contemplated that "we don't know the books Obama has read. We don't know the influences on his thoughts."
Perp, if you are to be taken seriously, you need to come clean. We now know Obama sought out Marxist Professors and Islamist. What have you read and who are your mentors?
Calvin| 5.29.12 @ 10:59AM
And, in this election, only one man has the experience of BEING President - and has done a d* good job at it. Jimmah Carter II
Drunken Sailor| 5.29.12 @ 11:09AM
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
Oldefarte| 5.29.12 @ 2:54PM
Nah what he's done a d-good job at is [1] playing golf [2] playing basketball and [3] wasting taxpayers' money on fueling up AF One for trips to Hawaii, Paris, etc !!!!!!!!
W| 5.29.12 @ 4:20PM
Purp,
Why the switch to Jefferson? In due time the name "Jefferson" will carry the same credibility as Purp.
Anthony| 5.29.12 @ 9:07AM
So let's see, that dispicable POS Kennedy ran misleading ads against Romney, and all Romney could do was to offer to meet with the fired workers, do I have that right?
How long had Romney been on leave when the firings occured? That's an important bit of information to know.
Well let's hope Romney and his "braintrust" of D.C. insiders have learned a lesson or two.
Hey Mitt, you're no longer on leave from Bain, so maybe when Obozo starts his attacks, you might have an intelligent response ready?
If your cadre of D.C. brighbulbs can't come up with something intelligent, call us at TAS, we're happy to provide sharp, intelligent, on point responses to Obozo's pit vipers.
Here's a hint, think of Obozo as Gingrich and Santorum and attack baby, just like you did to them!!
TLP| 5.29.12 @ 1:31PM
When The Muslim took over GM and CRYSLER, he Closed Hundreds of Dealerships, and threw THOUSANDS of people in to the streets.
Remember that.
Obie Wan| 5.29.12 @ 9:10AM
Ha,ha,I love my fellow citizens. When it's time to vote, everybody's down on the "rich" guys who took away all the jobs. Nobody seems to have had a problem over the last FIFTY friggin years buying anything and everything made anyplace but the USA and associating that with loss of jobs,cuzz then people got to start looking in the mirror at who's really to blame and nobody wants to do that !!!
TLP| 5.29.12 @ 1:39PM
Why would we look in to the Mirror?
Everybody knows that THE UNIONS, and their Unsustainable Benefits, and Work Rules, are what FORCED Companies to find someplace more hospitable, to do business.
After WWII, we were the Only Game In Town. That's not true, any more. We have a World Economy, and all you need to know is that, the Japanese Auto Companies IN THIS COUNTRY, are doing just fine, thank you very much.
RIGHT TO WORK States are kicking UNION ONLY State's asses.
Any questions?
Oldefarte| 5.29.12 @ 3:03PM
Correctamundo, but don't forget that the unions [due to their deminishing organizing abilities within the private sector] have re-directed their efforts at organizing governmental workers; and that that is where their power lies presently. That is why the valiant fight being faught by Walker and Kleefisch in Wisconsin is so very important. As that state goes, so goes the nation [and it appears they are pulling ahead]. We have to gain back control of state governments from unions in order to begin to solve this excessive expendature problem by governments nationally!!!!!
Obie Wan| 5.29.12 @ 7:39PM
Well I worked in the computer business for 18 yrs and at the time there were multiple high tech companies across the country,now very few left. To the best of my knowledge very few were union companies, they just couldn't compete with overseas competition. As far as unions,they've been on the downswing for years and if you took out civil service unions the percentage is fairly small in the private sector. Blaming unions is as easy as blaming Mitt Romney and Bain Capital for the lack of good jobs. Government, local,state and federal taxation and regulations probably have more to do with American companies not being able to compete then anything else !!!
TLP| 5.29.12 @ 9:09PM
Okay.
Let's talk REGULATIONS, TAXES, and UNFUNDED MANDATES.
JimH| 5.29.12 @ 9:20AM
For those looking for media conspiracies, the chief villain in the upcoming Batman move is named Bane.
Occam's Tool| 5.29.12 @ 11:17AM
Hey, I contributed to Romney. Hope I get lunch with Ann. (I'd bring my horse crazy daughter)
Oldefarte| 5.29.12 @ 3:04PM
If you do, inquire as to why SHE HASN'T WORKED A DAY IN HER LIFE [ha ha ha]!!!!!!!
Only One Mediator Christ Jesus| 5.29.12 @ 12:20PM
"The Bain of Romney's Existence".
Nyuk, nyuk. Verry funny, Mr. Antle III.
Bill| 5.29.12 @ 2:35PM
Bain?Romney?Say what.
Scorpio51| 5.29.12 @ 4:58PM
Has anyone here heard Romney's version of what he did at Bain? No, not really.
Mark my words, the main stream media is waiting for Romney to get crowned in Tampa. They will then unleash a media blitz like no one has ever seen. Will he survive? Not unless he answers who Park Romney is. We'll see what Bishop Willard is made of then.
Occam's Tool| 5.29.12 @ 5:30PM
Romney destroys Obummer in November. Gents, it will not be even close.
RCV| 5.29.12 @ 8:25PM
....I can taste that steak already
POST American| 5.29.12 @ 11:39PM
----------------------FINAL WORD----------------------
"The world is in a constant conspiracy
against the brave."
-General Douglas MacArthur
Back in the REALITY of this, the 11th hour
of the CFR---RED China handover and 'cull-chore'
takedown op ---
ONE and ALL MUST CHECK OUT yesterday's
(ie Monday's) InfoWars Nightly News.
-----SEEEEEE if you can sit through that
video compilation that starts about 10 minutes
in.
WE DARE YOU
Remember, this is happening while American
forces are in joint training with Russian troops
to take on 'American terrorists'
-------while NDAA 1021 is being implemented
wqithout so much as a discussion
--------while Peolosi is calling for a full spectrum
surveillance police state ----from RED China
--------while the last of our economy (GM) is
being relocated to RED China ---at OUR expense
---------while 30,000 surveillance drones are
poised for takeoff over the US --again, at US
taxpayer expense
----------while Ginzburg disses the US Constitution
----------while arch Globalist, arch EUGENIST,
arch USURER Warren Buffet lucratively ships
our oil --to RED China
----------while RED China occupies its
'first of many' 50 square miles soveriegnty
zone due south of Boise
----------while DHS makes a one month purchase
of some 450 MILLION hollow point rounds
of ammo
-----------while the Breitbart coroner is poisoned
----after the substance of the Obama college
videoes are removed ---and the ONLY person
to have witnessed Breitbart's end --'disappears'
ON this, the BURIED without a trace
60th Anniversary of the RED China --Globalism,
mind control, GENOCIDE and EUGENICS 'unfriendly'
---------------------KOREAN WAR----------------------
--This is INDEED ---the 11th hour. . .
Bilderberg is having its world USURY
and EUGENICS pow wow at the Westfield's
Marriott in Chantilly Virgina this week.
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