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Romney: Candidate Con Man "Wake Up America!"
This is an excellent read!
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Romney? First of all, as for the bikers being concerned about vets, they should know that Romney was and is a chicken hawk, always pushing for war but never serving. First he received deferments for college and then a questionable deferment as a Mormon missionary serving in France for two and a half years, which wasn’t much of a hardship since he resided in a classy apartment there. As a matter of fact, thanks to his father’s millions and power, and then his own, neither Mitt nor his sons ever served in the military.
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Today’s Republicans are pretty good at doing that. They are a shrewd pack of double-dealers who are trying to swindle us out of our rights while stealthily buying up our democracy and our country. They are proficient and persistent liars and know the power of perpetuating a lie until half this country is convinced it is reality. In order to accomplish their goals, they needed to control the media by buying up enough stations and newscasters to get their lie out there. And toward that end they needed money, lots of money, so they sold their allegiance to the highest corporate bidders, the Koch Brothers for instance, as well as Wall Street banks, Big Oil, Monsanto, and even foreign governments.
And they needed a whole slew of immediate followers, millions of dumbed-down middle class Americans who would buy the lies until their realities were turned inside out.
Wake up America! Go take a cold shower! Think! Republicans don’t care a wit about the planet or the country or you! The only thing they care about is the money that changes hands. The Romneys and the rest of their ilk are selling this country to the highest bidders. Wake up! It isn’t theirs to sell. It belongs to us because we are the people who keep it going even when things get tough. We are the farmers and the teachers and the miners and the firemen and the librarians, and the factory workers, the filmmakers, the engineers and the cops.
Romney? First of all, as for the bikers being concerned about vets, they should know that Romney was and is a chicken hawk, always pushing for war but never serving. First he received deferments for college and then a questionable deferment as a Mormon missionary serving in France for two and a half years, which wasn’t much of a hardship since he resided in a classy apartment there. As a matter of fact, thanks to his father’s millions and power, and then his own, neither Mitt nor his sons ever served in the military.
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“Con men succeed because they are able to convince you that the alternate reality they create is genuine.”
Today’s Republicans are pretty good at doing that. They are a shrewd pack of double-dealers who are trying to swindle us out of our rights while stealthily buying up our democracy and our country. They are proficient and persistent liars and know the power of perpetuating a lie until half this country is convinced it is reality. In order to accomplish their goals, they needed to control the media by buying up enough stations and newscasters to get their lie out there. And toward that end they needed money, lots of money, so they sold their allegiance to the highest corporate bidders, the Koch Brothers for instance, as well as Wall Street banks, Big Oil, Monsanto, and even foreign governments.
And they needed a whole slew of immediate followers, millions of dumbed-down middle class Americans who would buy the lies until their realities were turned inside out.
Wake up America! Go take a cold shower! Think! Republicans don’t care a wit about the planet or the country or you! The only thing they care about is the money that changes hands. The Romneys and the rest of their ilk are selling this country to the highest bidders. Wake up! It isn’t theirs to sell. It belongs to us because we are the people who keep it going even when things get tough. We are the farmers and the teachers and the miners and the firemen and the librarians, and the factory workers, the filmmakers, the engineers and the cops.
http://www.democratsforprogress.com/2012/08/07/candidate-con-man/#more-9806
