Talk Elections

But the role that helped propel Mr. Cain into politics was that of an ultimate Washington insider: industry lobbyist.

From 1996, when he left the pizza company, until 1999, Mr. Cain ran the National Restaurant Association, a once-sleepy trade group that he transformed into a lobbying powerhouse.

He allied himself closely with cigarette makers fighting restaurant smoking bans, spoke out against lowering blood-alcohol limits as a way to prevent drunken driving, fought an increase in the minimum wage and opposed a patients’ bill of rights — all in keeping with the interests of the industry he represented.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/us/politics/herman-cain-running-as-outsider-came-to-washington-as-lobbyist.html

By the way, the same source breaks down all the TV ad spending so far through 2011. Among the GOP presidential candidates:
-- Perry $2.8 million (including the campaign's national FOX buy)
-- Paul $2.1 million
-- Romney $134,000
-- Cain $78,900
Among the Super PACs:
-- Our Destiny PAC (pro-Huntsman Super PAC): $1.4 million
-- Make Us Great Again (pro-Perry PAC): $775,000
And among the national political parties:
-- DNC $6.8 million

There is a guy that developed a online game. He is donating $5 for each person that kills the white dragon (very easy). If you broke like I am it's an easy way to donate without spending what you don't have. I did it with four different email addresses (that's $20 that didn't come out of my pocket). the address is dungeoneers(dot)com/ronpaul . Thumbs up to keep this going.

I'm only 15 and don't have a credit card or anything for me to be able to donate but I will see if my mom or dad can take some on my money I've been saving and donate it. I might not be old enough to vote but I will make sure I still do my part!

Last I checked he had more experience laying people off and personally profiting from it than creating anything, and he's suppose to be the alternative? What a joke.

And please point me in the direction of this evidence that people are starting to like Romney when they hear him speak. Being a "good person" is subjective, as is success - 1994 wasn't a successful year for him and neither was 2008, for example.

And why is a supporter of a candidate who has spent the past five years trying to get elected deriding the President as a perennial campaigner?

Chuck Todd @chucktodd
Just what has Romney promised Paul? This latest Paul attack ad (against Santorum) is in MI; a state Paul hasn't OVERLY campaigned in

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is casting Mitt Romney as a greedy, job-killing corporate titan with little concern for the working class in a new, multi-pronged effort that seeks to undermine the central rationale for his Republican rival's candidacy: his business credentials.

At the center of the push — the president's most forceful attempt yet to sully Romney before the November election — is a biting new TV ad airing Monday that recounts through interviews with former workers the restructuring, and ultimate demise, of a Kansas City, Mo., steel mill under the Republican's private equity firm.

"They made as much money off of it as they could. And they closed it down," says Joe Soptic, a steelworker for 30 years. Jack Cobb, who also worked in the industry for three decades, adds: "It was like a vampire. They came in and sucked the life out of us."

The ad, at the unusual length of 2 minutes, will run in five battleground states: Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Colorado. The campaign declined to describe the size of the ad buy though it's in the middle of running a $25 million, month-long ad campaign in nine states. A longer version of the ad was being posted online Monday.

The commercial will be coupled with a series of events Obama's campaign is holding this week in Florida, Missouri, Iowa, Nevada and North Carolina to highlight Romney's role at Bain Capital, a company he co-founded.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hq9vXhQfGBh8eOUnhDK1v7QDtNrw?docId=bec7e09e38f64a50bfac658b55664838

also by the Hilary Rosen standard that resume would be correctly described as:
 "He never worked a day in his life."