Romney's Iran-Contra Foreign Policy?

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Monday October 08, 2012 · 8:49 AM PDT

2012/10/08 · 08:49

Remember when President Reagan's Administration illegally sold U.S. Weapons to Iran in order to arm rebels in the Nicaraguan Contras and to exchange U.S. Weapons for hostages.

At the time I remember thinking that Reagan's foreign policy was one of weakness and one that was a failure. One that negotiated with Terrorists and one that was also a violation of United States laws.

One, it was a violation of US Law for any American, including the government, to sell anything to Iran, especially U.S. Weapons, Tanks etc. Two, under the Boland Amendment, arming the Contras was also illegal for Americans.

Talking Points Memo is reporting that Romney Advisor Alex Wong, told reporters that Romney preparing to tell us that if he were President, he would miraculously be able to decide which rebels in Syria "share our values" and arm them with U.S. Weapons.

In Syria, Romney will come out in favor of providing arms to the rebels, according to excepts of his speech. “In Syria, I will work with our partners to identify and organize those members of the opposition who share our values and ensure they obtain the arms they need to defeat Assad’s tanks, helicopters, and fighter jets,”

That entire notion reminded me of Reagan's corrupt Iran Contra scandal. It has been reported that Iran is aiding Syria -- so -- which one of Romney's Foreign Policy Advisors worked for the Reagan Administration came up with the idea to sell/give US Weapons to rebels that could end up in the hands of Iranians helping the Syrians ... like Iran Contra?

Here are some

Romney Advisors who worked with Reagan Administration during Iran Contra corruption scandal.
Alex Wong: Reagan's Chief of Staff
John Lehman: Reagan's Sec. of Navy
Richard Williamson: Reagan's Assistant Secretary of State-International Organization Affairs
Dov Zakheim: Reagan's Deputy Under Secretary of Defense

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Saturday October 06, 2012 · 12:43 PM PDT

2012/10/06 · 12:43

The Romney campaign's new Ad features Tea Party supporter, Melanie McNamara, who owns Absolute Furniture in North Carolina. McNamara claims she voted for President Obama in 2008 but now she will vote for Romney.

Apparently, Melanie McNamara has ties to the North Carolina Tea Party.

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Wednesday October 03, 2012 · 9:23 PM PDT

2012/10/03 · 21:23

For all Dkos readers who haven't seen the Talking Points Memo article where Romney's Top Adviser, Eric Ferhnstrom, admit Romney lied tonight during the debate -- I wanted to share it with you.

Pressed by TPM’s Evan McMorris-Santoro, Fehrnstrom said those who currently lack coverage because they have pre-existing conditions would need their states to implement their own laws — like Romney’s own Massachusetts health care law — that ban insurance company from discriminating against sick people.
“We’d like to see states do what Massachusetts did,” Fehrnstrom said. “In Massachusetts we have a ban on pre-existing conditions.”

TPM wrote:

After the first presidential debate at the University of Denver in Colorado on Wednesday night, one of Mitt Romney’s top advisers acknowledged that, as a result Romney’s plan to repeal Obamacare, people with pre-existing medical conditions would likely be unable to purchase insurance.

Eric Ferhnstrom is Romney adviser who told us Mitt would Etch-A-Sketch his way to the White House.

Romney is a pathological liar ---

Romney Advisers: Bring Back Torture

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Monday October 01, 2012 · 5:21 AM PDT

2012/10/01 · 05:21

No kidding, no joking and no snark ... Mitt Romney's Foreign Policy Advisers seriously wrote Romney a memo outlining the reasons why Romney should Pledge to bring back torture. In my opinion, that disgusting fact needs to go viral!

In a memo obtained by the New York Times, Romney's Advisers wrote Mitt a memo advising him to bring back torture.

Romney's Advisers wrote that Romney should Pledge to one of two options; although, Romney's advisers write, in their memo, that they prefer Romney Pledge to Option One.

Option One:
Governor Romney could pledge that upon taking office, he will rescind and replace President Obama' s Executive Order restricting government interrogators to the Army Field Manual.

Option Two
Romney to pledge only that upon taking office, he will conduct a comprehensive review of interrogation policy under Presidents Bush and Obama. He could promise that if this process leads to the identification of techniques that would constitute a viable and legal enhanced interrogation program, he will rescind the Obama Executive Order and approve such a program.

Romney's Advisers go on to say which "Option" (one or two) they think Romney should "Pledge" to commit to:

The Subcommittee recommends the first option. Governor Romney has recognized for years that the sounder policy outcome is the revival of the enhanced interrogation program.

Romney failed to even look a wee-bit Presidential during his Foreign Policy PR tour and proved he cannot aim straight in the middle of an international crisis when he politicized the death of 4 Americans in Libya. As a result, Romney campaign is claiming that Romney will deliver a Foreign Policy speech sometime soon.

The question I have is: Will Romney disclose, to the American people, the fact that his Advisers wrote him a memo outlining reasons "why" Romney should Pledge to bring back torture.

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Friday September 28, 2012 · 10:37 AM PDT

2012/09/28 · 10:37

In a memo obtained by the New York Times, Romney's Advisers wrote Mitt a memo advising him to bring back torture.

Romney's Advisers wrote that Romney should Pledge to one of two options:

Option One:
Governor Romney could pledge that upon taking office, he will rescind and replace President Obama' s Executive Order restricting government interrogators to the Army Field Manual.

Option Two
Romney to pledge only that upon taking office, he will conduct a comprehensive review of interrogation policy under Presidents Bush and Obama. He could promise that if this process leads to the identification of techniques that would constitute a viable and legal enhanced interrogation program, he will rescind the Obama Executive Order and approve such a program.

Romney's Advisers go on to say which "Option" (one or two) they think Romney should "Pledge" to commit to:

The Subcommittee recommends the first option. Governor Romney has recognized for years that the sounder policy outcome is the revival of the enhanced interrogation program.

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Thursday September 27, 2012 · 7:15 AM PDT

2012/09/27 · 07:15

Now that all the rightwinged talking heads are out bellowing that the polls are wrong as they cite Fox's Scott Rasmussen's polls as having them tied.

Ok, everyone ~~reading this~~ with a functioning brain, knows that Scott Rasmussen polls are not trustworthy. But, in a 2010 blast from the past, Nate Silver wrote:

While 2000 was generally a fairly rough year for pollsters, who had to deal with an unenthusiastic electorate, some third-party challengers, and some late-breaking developments like Bush's DUI charge, Rasmussen was the worst of the lot, missing by an average of 5.7 points.

Silver went on to say that Rasmussen screwed up state polling as well.

They also called 7 states wrong.** Some of this was the result of bias, as they were 3.5 points too high on Bush's margin in the states they surveyed, on average.

As you can see from Silver's bar graph ranking pollsters on the 2000 General Election, Rasmussen was, as Nate wrote, the worst of the lot.

Fast forward to 2010 Mid-Term Election polling, Nate Silver wrote

"Rasmussen Polls Were Biased and Inaccurate; Quinnipiac, SurveyUSA Performed Strongly."
[P]olls conducted by the firm Rasmussen Reports — which released more than 100 surveys in the final three weeks of the campaign, including some commissioned under a subsidiary on behalf of Fox News — badly missed the margin in many states, and also exhibited a considerable bias toward Republican candidates.

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Wednesday September 26, 2012 · 6:44 AM PDT

2012/09/26 · 06:44

Mitt Romney thinks that by writing a book titled "No Apologies" and prancing around spouting "I won't apologize" that somehow he'll be looked at as some sort of 'bad ass' but rather when a 65 year old man is unable to apologize when he has done something wrong, offensive or insulting then that old man is an ass.

Mitt Romney, by virtue of not being able to apologize means that Romney cannot admit when he is wrong about something.

To me, one of the most serious flaws a person can have is being unable to admit when they are wrong because if a person cannot admit they are wrong then that person cannot correct their mistakes and they cannot strive to make anything better.

That's not Mitt's only "severely" serious flaw, Romney's other major flaw is he is a pathological liar. Add the two together: Pathological + unable to apologize and that equals one f'cked up asshole.

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Tuesday September 25, 2012 · 10:37 AM PDT

2012/09/25 · 10:37

Remember when President Obama attended the DC Correspondent's Dinner the same night the mission to kill Bin Laden was underway? Remember how awed both Republicans and Democrats were that President Obama made jokes, was cool as could be that night?

Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan and the rightwing talking heads have their panties in a bunch over President Obama allowing a pre-taped showing (taped Monday) of the View be aired on the day Foreign Leaders are in NYC at the UN.

Romney, Ryan and the rightwing talking heads are implying that President Obama must not take Foreign Policy seriously if he isn't sitting in a New York hotel holding meetings with Foreign Leaders who are attending the UN General Meeting?

So, does that mean Romney thinks President Obama should have cancelled on the DC dinner the night he ordered Bin Laden killed?

Let's see, President Obama taped the View on Monday day and ... President Obama spent Monday night at a UN Reception with Foreign Leaders of Foreign Countries. But, according to rightwinged talking heads, that fact is no excuse for Obama declining to meet with other Foreign Leaders one-on-one for you know, no apparent reason.

Eric Cantor, who on January 20, 2009 plotted to sabotage the US Economy in a 4 hour covert meeting with Paul Ryan and 10 other Republican members of Congress complained about President Obama and said:

CANTOR: “The president’s unwillingness to meet with Bibi Netanyahu when he is in New York but instead willing to go on the ‘The View’ in New York – I mean, I think it speaks volumes to the lack of seriousness with which the president is taking the current situation,”
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R) of Virginia in a Monday conference call organized by the Romney campaign.

Republicans will never be accused of letting facts get in the way of their bullsh!t. The fact is, President Obama did not turn that down a meeting with Bibi Netanyahu due to time pressure of pre-taping "The View" show. Um ... Fact is, Prime Minister Netanyahu is not in New York in the days President Obama is in New York. And President Obama is not in New York on the days when the prime minister, Netanyahu, will be in New York.

Oh, and let's not forget, last week President Obama had an hour long telephone conversation with Bibi.

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Sunday September 23, 2012 · 7:40 AM PDT

2012/09/23 · 07:40

In January 2012, Mitt and Craig Romney did a small rally in Plymouth, Iowa. At that rally, Mitt Romney admitted he tripped his daughter-in-law, who had just given birth, in order to win a family race.

CRAIG ROMNEY: ...And it was down to my wife and my dad over here.
ROMNEY: I tripped her.

CRAIG ROMNEY: And it was kind of in the home stretch in the run there. And she had a slight lead on him. And he said that in that moment, he decided he was going to win that race or he was going to die trying. And you see this fight to the finish, and he went for this -- he gave it everything he had. He gave it a good kick and he beat her in the end. And he did almost die trying, by the way.

He passed out in a lawn chair and we didn't see him the rest of the day. He barely made lot of life. But it's that type of hard work, it's that type of determination, I think, that we need in the White House.

The Atlantic Wire, January 31, 2012

That's nice, an old man trips his own daughter-in-law to win a foot race ... hmmm ... well, at least he didn't impersonate a cop this time like he did when he was in college.

Was Mitt 'kidding' when he volunteered on stage that he tripped his daughter-in-law in a foot race to win? hmm ... I seem to recall the family laughed when the story first broke of Mitt driving 12 hours with a dog on the roof of his car ... then they stopped laughing. But, in their defense, Ann Romney has told us that the dog loved being placed on the roof for 12 hours.

In June 2012, the rightwing blog Daily Caller wrote that Mitt Romney would often impersonate police and pull drivers over.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was once quite the prankster. Apparently he was also somewhat of a felon.
Reporter Joe Conason writes in an article published by The National Memo that Romney routinely impersonated police officers by sporting a cop uniform that he owned. Romney would show off his uniform, apparently a gift from his father, to friends.

One of Romney’s college friends, Robin Madden, claims the former Massachusetts governor “told us that he was using it to pull over drivers on the road.”

“He also had a red flashing light that he would attach to the top of his white Rambler,” Madden said.

“We thought it was all pretty weird,” recalled Madden’s wife, who also attended Stanford University with Romney. “We all thought, ‘Wow, that’s pretty creepy.”
Daily Caller June 2012

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Friday September 21, 2012 · 5:39 AM PDT

2012/09/21 · 05:39

Jon Stewart's Moment of Zen last night was a 2005 video of Romney saying his childhood dream was to be rich and famous.

ROMNEY: When I was a boy ... when I was a boy ... I used to think that becomine rich and becoming famous would make me happy, (hehehe) boy was I right!)

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

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Moment of Zen - Mitt Romney's Boyhood Dreams

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Tuesday September 18, 2012 · 8:45 PM PDT

2012/09/18 · 20:45

Hat Tip to Zeke Miller at BuzzFeed who snagged this, very odd, counter reaction from Mr. Turnaround CEO: Mitt Romney.

The saddest rapid response… The Romney campaign just uploaded a video with the title “Ann Romney to FOX31: Mitt Doesn't Disdain the Poor.” UPDATE: Apparently the campaign has removed the video from their official account.

Unbelievable!! Mr. Turnaround Romney has his wife go on tv declarling "Mitt doesn't disdain the poor." What the hell?

Look, if Mr. Turnaround Romney has to have Angry Ann go on tv with this video ... then ... Mitt, you've already lost.

John Aravosis from AmericaBlog said it best:

Wow, it sounds like an Onion piece. Titling it "Mitt doesn't disdain the poor." What's next? "Mitt doesn't rip the heads off bunnies?"
Who needs SNL when you got these guys.

If James Carville's wife, Mary Matalin, sees this she will blow a gasket. Matalin was on CNN earlier praising Romney for his disdain and loathing of poor people.

MATALIN: "There are makers and takers, there are producers and there are parasites"

I'm going to call Mr. Turnaround Romney's campaign and ask them to have Angry Ann do another video Titled: "Mitt doesn't hate parasites who don't pay income tax, Mitt is a parasite who does not pay income tax."

Since the Romney Campaign deleted the Angry Ann says "Mitt Doesn't Disdain the Poor" video from youtube, if you want to see the video you have to click Buzzfeed

Romney - How Do You "Elegantly" say "Poor People Not Entitled to Food?"

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Tuesday September 18, 2012 · 5:11 AM PDT

2012/09/18 · 05:11

I think the most appauling thing Mitt Romney said at the Billionaire's Secret Fundraiser was that poor people think they are 'entitled' to food.

ROMNEY: “There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care,
to food, to housing, to you-name-it,”

First, let me challenge Mitt Romney: Dude, if you want to see what a country looks like whose leaders do not: provide healthcare to their poor, food to their poor and shelter to their poor ... then go check out Yemen and/or any other 3rd World Country.

Second, let me say: the first time America elected a 'CEO' for President we got Hoover, who gave us the Great Depression as Hoover didn't give a rats ass about feeding the poor either.

Then 2nd time America elected a 'CEO' for President we got W. Bush, who gave us the 2nd Great Depression as W Bush didn't give a rats ass about Deficits or feeding the poor.

Mitt Romney has hired Bush/Cheney Advisers who gave us that 2nd Great Depression.

Mitt Romney has proven that he is not qualified to be the President of any country.

ROMNEY: 47 percent [of Americans] ... who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it,”

I wonder ... is Mitt Romney part of that 47% who paid no taxes in a 10 year period?

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