I don’t know how much coverage this is getting in the traditional media, but you — yes, you, reading this right now — have got to read the original story in Politico, because this is almost too funny to be true:
As results began to stream in Tuesday night, prominent Romney supporters in Boston tried to stay positive, reassuring themselves that there was still a path to the White House. But dejection quickly turned to anger a day after an Electoral College rout that shocked many who had heard self-assured projections about voter enthusiasm and turnout in private conference calls and meetings in the campaign’s final stretch.
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Another Republican outside the Romney campaign but privy to its thinking described the defeat as a complete pummeling, with Senate losses adding salt to the wound.
Romney supporters point to a series of brash statements made by advisers that seem out of touch with reality in retrospect. Inside the Beltway, Republicans trained their fire on senior Romney advisers like Ed Gillespie and political director Rich Beeson for appearances on last weekend’s Sunday shows. Gillespie said the electoral map was expanding, and Beeson predicted a 300 electoral vote win for Romney.
“There were a lot of Republicans who were on calls that the campaign was having led to believe we had shots in Pennsylvania and Minnesota,” one Republican operative supporting Romney said. “I think Republicans are split right now between confused and shocked, and also I think they are wondering did the Romney campaign have numbers we didn’t have. … Was last week a head fake, or were they just not that smart?”
So, Romney talked a load of bull to his investors about the probable success of their venture, to keep them happy — and now they say that they’re surprised? Why, it’s as if he left a company go bankrupt while keeping the fees!
Look: they knew he was a scorpion when they let him climb onto their back; they should have expected to be stung. (For those thinking that perhaps I would have no sympathy for Mitt Romney, this proves you wrong.) Romney was a liar, but his donors were the greater imbeciles.
Meanwhile, this paragraph from a similar Huffington Post story is, if anything, even funnier:
“The billionaire donors I hear are livid. There is some holy hell to pay. Karl Rove has a lot of explaining to do … I don’t know how you tell your donors that we spent $390 million and got nothing.
How do you tell them that? While puffing on a fat Cuban cigar that their donations allowed you to buy, of course! Karl Rove doesn’t have to explain a damn thing and need not pay a penny towards holy hell.
Welcome to the real world, Republican donors. You’ve been away too long.
Still, it is sad sad sad that nearly half of America chose to believe in the lies of the 1% posterboy.
*Romnesia…..Lies, Videotapes of Mitt Lying, Sound-bites of Mitt Lying, Hours and Hours of Coverage about Mitt Lying and Changing Positions. Mitt used the Kama Sutra to figure out his Healthcare position just as a start.
Mitt has a whole bunch of unfunded debt. We suggest that all those loyal Romney-Ryan folks……send the campaign MORE money to pay off that unfunded debt. Mitt has a great Campaign office in the Cayman Islands and a Post Office Box…..don’t complain to Mitt……just send money!
Given the 1% donors’ sheer stupidity in believing this re-run of liars, it’s hard to suss how they manage to find the bathroom. It was evident that Romney would NOT win the electoral college. As for the popular vote, the only question was how much of a win the president would have.
Maybe next time they will listen to the Sam Wang and Nate Silver and good pollsters like PPP. Then again, I hope they don’t. If they just keep their heads in the sand, the view won’t change much in 2014 or 2016.
A good portion of that money spent ends up getting into the government coffers…good for the deficit and the economy- yeah, I know strange way of looking at it but that is my strange tax mind. Political donations…not deductible. Spending of the money donated by those PAC’s and campaigns…subject to sales tax on good purchased and ultimately adds to someone’s gross income for income tax.
*You are almost right……these rich guys…love to give Karl Rove 25% for collecting the cash for Romney’s Election Committee. They get that cash out of their Off-Shore Accounts which they have not paid taxes on. The good news is that when they buy all other television ads and print newspaper ads…..that money does eventually get taxed. So, they steal from the government and never pay taxes and then whined up like Meg Whitman….spending frivolously and that money finally does get taxed…..but it’s the major media providers that pay the tax. You wonder why the media is squeued? Dollars and sense…says Fox News, CNN, CBS, NBC…..et. al.
if a foreign corporation holds money oversees and it is only taxed once it is repatriated back to the US and that foreign entity donates to a PAC, then the money would be ultimately taxed by the end user here in the US. The foreign corporation donation would just be taxed 1X while if you or I donate out of our own savings account, that money is actually taxed twice- once when we earn it and then secondly when it is used by the PAC or Campaign. I guess at least the foreign corporation’s money is getting circulated in the US.
Is it legal for a US PAC/Campaign to accept foreign money? I know that Jay Chen’s brother gave to a US PAC from, but he may be a US resident to begin with. Either way, elections actually seem to be good for the economy.
I don’t wonder why the media providers are skewed…it is all about the money- follow the money and you get answers. At the local level, it is often small businesses who benefit as they do much more in the way of mailers, signage, events, consultants, etc… as opposed to major media buys.
*Certain jobs…..way back in the olden days…….when employed overseas by either a US Company or on an Approved list……were all tax exempt from Federal and State Taxes. Years ago, when US Citizens were used as Consultants to Foreign Companies…..their Salaries and perks were also tax exempt. Then things got complicated when Foreign Companies started M & A activity with US Companies (Mergers & Acquisitions)…..when many so-called “Shell Corporations” like those that Mitt Romney uses with impunity became USINO……(US in Name Only). They started with the English who were supposedly our allies and then the Dutch, The Germans, The Spainards and a bunch in the Eastern Block after the fall of the wall. Now, you would be hard pressed to figure out “what is what” or “where is there”!
As we said: The Foreign money is going to come in either through “surrogates” – like Wholly Owned Subsidies….like Honda America or the like…..or through Independent Super PACS…..they can occlude the truth origination location.
As you said: Once spent on Media ADs or the like…..someone eventually might pay taxes……..depending of course.
We love the Tea Potty folks…..they want to do away with Tax Write-offs for everyone but “their folks”. Idiots! No Steve Forbes Flat Tax…EVER!
Just another license to steal…..
Typing too fast….”…Jay Chen’s brother gave to a US PAC from China, but he may be a US citizen to begin with…”
He was and is a U.S. citizen — he was born in Philadelphia. He’s just working overseas.