Doesn't Romney get it?

Why won't Romney let
Us see his old tax returns
What's he got to hide?

Back in '94
He challenged Ted Kennedy
To release his own

Kennedy refused
So did Mitt, which was their right
Kept their privacy

But ten years ago
He ran for Mass. governor
He claimed he lived there

Although he mostly
Seemed to be out in Utah
Tax returns give proof?

Romney insisted
He was a Mass resident
Taxes should prove it

But he would not let
Anybody check them out
"Take my word for it?"

The press discovered
later that he'd had to file
to amend his tax

He incorrectly
had not filed residency
in Massachusetts

Still he refused to
Release his returns to us
But asked us to trust

How can we depend
On his statements about them
When he lied before?

Running for office
Sometimes means you sacrifice
Your own privacy

If he wants us to
Trust him he must prove to us
That we can do so

A wise man once said
On a much different subject
"Trust but verify."

Mitt's IRA "problem"

Romney's IRA
one hundred million dollars
Taxed like salaries

This includes money
Which would be taxed much lower
If not in IRA

So he pays more tax
Because he used IRA
He should have just saved

People who struggle
To put food on the table
Might like this problem.

Click Clack Moo

Useful idiots
According to the right wing
Indoctrinate kids

Deep thinkers, they say Click Clack Moo
Is union propaganda
Sneaking into schools

Not only that, but they
Charge that the book is against
Creationism

Why? Because the cows
Are portrayed as equals of
The human beings

I think these great minds
Talking about this on air
Need to get a life

In America, they haven't spoken it for years

In Puerto Rico
Rick Santorum visited
For the primary

Spoke with reporters
About possible statehood
For Puerto Rico

Rick is all for it
But only if they adopt
English officially

He seems to believe
That the law forces each state
To speak just English

This is not the case
And besides, if that were true
What about Texas

Lesson in Contraception

According to Rush
If you use contraception
It's by the sex act

So in other words
Only a "slut" needs as much
as Sandra Fluke claimed

Apparently Rush
And his ilk have yet to learn
Just how The Pill works

Listen carefully
You must take The Pill each day
Even celibate

Perhaps he only
Knows about prophylactics
Or he's ignorant

How can people still
Still let an ignoramus
Influence their thoughts?

He has no children
He has been married four times
Total impotence?

Nausea addendum

Help is on the way
Once we get healthcare reform
He'll get Dramamine!

Santorum and the Constitution

The oath of office

requires that the President

protect and defend

the Constitution

including the amendments

and the bill of rights

Is Rick Santorum

qualified to take the oath

since he seems to think

"God's" law overrides

the protection provided

by the amendments?

This is frightening

Unless "protect and defend"

really means "ignore"

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/02/19/3025210/santorums-ideas-small-not-mainstream.html

stupidity

Santorum argues
Prenatal testing is bad
Immoral parents

He must not know that
Sarah Palin's last baby
Has a birth defect

Trig has Down Syndrome
Palin had prenatal tests
And knew in advance

She was like most moms
Not having an abortion
She prepared instead

Sarah Palin as
An argument against fools
An oxymoron

If Rick Santorum
Receives the GOP nod
Who will vote for him?

Only bigger fools,
Bigots, misogynists,
I sincerely hope

His conception of
The American voter
Has just miscarried

Related articles

• Bob Schieffer And Santorum Clash Over His Belief That Prenatal Care Leads To Abortions (mediaite.com)

quick hits

Santorum paid tax
On nearly one million bucks
Man of the people

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When Newt was Speaker
He was investigated
And had to resign

Now he refuses
To release the documents
From that period

He claims "wild goose chase"
Even though he paid a fine
And had to resign

Cleared by IRS
But unethical actions
Might still be legal

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Is Mitt in trouble
With Rick's surge in Michigan
Some favorite son

Related articles

• Gingrich declines to release ethics documents (sfgate.com)
• Santorum Releases 4 Years of Returns (myfoxphoenix.com)

Romney's dog

Dogs against Romney
A real animal rights group
Or some kind of front

Apparently Mitt
Kept his dog on the car roof
For twelve poop-filled hours

Fido got distressed
Mitt sprayed a hose to cool him
Life can be a b*tch

Mitt Romney gets little love from mutts

Santorum Surge?

Polls now indicate
Santorum threatens Romney
Just don't Google him.

Can Rick beat Barack?
Can Romney beat Santorum?
Does Gingrich matter?

The GOP race
Seems like a soap opera
Tune in tomorrow!

Obama "designer" fundraising items

Obama campaign
Selling designer handbags
GOP cries foul

Items underpriced
Might mean gift violation
From corporations

With super-pac bucks
And negative ads its a
Drop in the tea pot

Appeals court rules against Prop 8.

Homophobes beware
State must permit gay marriage
Federal Court rules

Proposition 8
Anti-gay religious groups
Pushed California

They won at the polls
But law by referendum
Must have some limits

Circuit Appeals court
Enhanced human dignity
By ruling this way

Romney wins Nevada

Mitt won Nevada
By a very large margin
Did he beat the spread?

The delegate to
Noise ratio up to now
Remains very low      (In spite of multiple wins, Romney only has about 80 delegates, for example)

Short takes

A Gingrich staffer
"polished" wiki pages on
Callista Gingrich

The edits reframe
negative info about
Callista and Newt

Going back three years
Unabashed image upgrades
Conflict of interest?

Newt Gingrich's Communications Director Polished Callista's Wikipedia Page 23 Times

Romney says the poor
not his first priority
Maybe he's tone deaf?

Who Cares about the Poor?

Politics is all
About public perception
These guys don't get it

Teacher pay

'Bama lawmaker
Has strong opinions on pay
Say the news reports:

Teachers must be called
Not attracted by higher pay
Or quality falls

But legislators
Must be paid highly enough
So bribes don't tempt them

Clearly his teachers
Were paid insufficiently
Darn Republicans

See article here

Florida results

Mitt wins Florida
Nearly a majority
Pretty impressive

Other candidates
Gingrich, Paul, and Santorum
Claim to be uncowed

Will they all survive
The whole primary process
Or will they drop out?

Next we get a lull
A few caucuses and then
it's Super Tuesday

Just a quick roundup

Florida today
Will they ever finish this?
Hell must be like this

Frontrunner Romney
Will he beat the predictions?
High expectations

After Florida
We go to five caucus states
Mitt's favored in all

The happiest news?
The next GOP debate
Not for a whole month!

It's somebody else's fault

Newt's declining polls
In Florida make him mad
"They're attacking me"

Not an insider
He insists.  Establishment
Party is at fault

Who does Gingrich blame
Everybody but himself
Is Gingrich paranoid?

Palin claims party
using Stalinesque tactics
against Newt Gingrich

Will he disappear?
Perhaps he'll get a show trial
Then darkness at Newt.

Gingrich lashes out at Romney, Establishment

Romney's credentials as a conservative

Mitt says he always
Votes for Republicans
Gingrich pooh poohs this

Voting for Tsongas
Back in 1992
Was it tactical?

"Factually incorrect?"
Does it make a difference?
Glass house resident.

Gingrich hits Romney for "factually incorrect" statements