Originally Posted by Relentless

You forgot to ask how many million we inherited from our well-connected parents. How many of us had a Harvard education paid for in full? How many of us made money using leveraged buyouts to bankrupt companies like Kaybee Toys and funneled the proceeds of our bustout scheme off shore to avoid paying even the reduced 14% tax rate Romney paid?

Seriously Minte, Americans deeply respect hard working self-made altruistic titans of industry. I don't recall anyone ever questioning Steve Jobs contributions to society or claiming he didn't pay his fair share of taxes while rocketing from a middle class garage workshop to billions in compensation. The problem here is Romney isn't that guy. He built nothing, made nothing and contributed much less than he sucked out of the system he keeps saying unfairly helps the same people he screwed. His daddy handed him every advantage and he used that boost to drain equity rather than create it. Even his own father would lose his mind if he heard Mitt wanted to be President but refused to disclose his own tax returns. His father was the guy who made that act universally expected of all candidates.

If the republicans ran a Steve Jobs, a Bloomberg or anyone of that ilk they would win by 20 points. Instead they ran a plutocratic douche who used his daddy's fortune to damage our economy for his own benefit at the expense of companies and their employees. The sooner successful self-made people distance themselves from him, the faster they can heal the GOP and get off the retard-go-round that keeps churning out horrible candidates like Bachman, Santorum and Trump. It really does say a lot when Mitt Romney is the pick of the litter.

I'd love to vote conservative... The GOP failed to provide one. I'd love to vote pragmatist, the Democrats failed to provide one.
Maybe it's time to stop supporting horrible douchebag candidates and get some actual statesmen to run.
Publicly funded campaigns, reverse Citizens United, say no to crazy... And we would get real candidates from all sides once again.

Clinton and Dole...like whichever you want more, and accept that the other wasn't a douche. That's what we need now...