Cali may be whatever phucked up thing it is, socal especially, but SoCal, my hometown, is THE most diverse place on planet earth, bar none, not even phooking close.  

And I've been to Houston. It's fine. Beyond that, we shall never agree.

I remember George Romney. He was CEO of American Motors, where he championed smaller, more fuel-efficient cars. He famously returned part of his salary when the company was not doing well, and believed that no executive should earn more than $100,000.00 (approx. $1.4 mil. in today's dollars).

When he ran for governor, George released 12 years worth of tax returns, something that was not routinely done at the time.

The GOP goes there all the friggin' time in making some pretty horrific personal insinuations, and I've never been terribly fond of the Beltway Democrats' policy of unilateral disarmament when they should be responding in kind.

When it comes to political dust-ups, my policy is this -- I promise to never throw the first punch to start a fight, but will assure you that I'll always land the last blow which ends one. That's how to deal with political bullies.

Now, speaking for myself only, I would never presume to know what Mitt Romney's father would have thought personally about his son's current political activities, were he still alive. What George Romney would say privately to him, I couldn't begin to tell you. Our own rule of thumb in our house is that whatever is said in private behind closed doors, stays there.

However, given that it's the nature of parents to become pretty aggressive in the defense of their own children when it comes to outside public criticism, I couldn't see old George taking too kindly to what's being said about his son by others.

But given also the substantive public record of both men, I think one is on pretty safe ground to say that Mitt Romney is certainly no George Romney.

...Romney has a great opportunity to make a fool of the majority leader by releasing his tax returns that would show he paid his fair share of taxes...

It's not something new, if R's didn't lie, cheat, steal, and disenfranchise, they wouldn't exist.  It even mentioned a lot of white folks in suburbs are going to be hopping mad when they show up to vote and can't because their license is expired.

It's BS for sure, but I disagree about the actual effect.  We should be more worried about those GD voting machines, which last time, were still vulnerable to hacking.

And according to this article, there is no racial skew for expired licenses, it disfavors the elderly, but not in any political sense.

Like 2000, the only way the dirty tricks work if it's a nearly even race.  I think once they debate, Romney tanks.  And by tank, I mean that sliver of people who haven't decided (not to be confused with 'Independents') start heavily leaning towards Obama.

With so many Republican Governors, presiding over Republican State Houses, the number of dispossessed voters could be in the hundreds of thousands.

But if 80+ percent of Dems approve of Obama's job performance, shouldn't his overall approval rating be higher?  Should he still be struggling to get more than 50% of voters to pick him over Romney?  Are these numbers a reflection of there being fewer registered Democrats?