Mitt Romney Leaves $4.75 Tip at Child’s Lemonade Stand – New York Times calls Foul – Engaging in Obama’s Class Warfare?

Mitt Romney, Lemonade Fan, get's the "Bad Republican, Millionaire" treatment from the New York Times - image: mittromneycentral.com



Anyone who is aware of former Massachusetts Governor, 2008 GOP Presidential Candidate and 2012 Presidential GOP Candidate, Mitt Romney, understands the man has made some money in his lifetime – in fact, he would be categorized my some as “rich”. That said, apparently, it is a faux pax for a Republican candidate (or possibly anyone today) to a) carry $100 bills in a wallet if they are running for office, and or b) leave what the New York Times suggests is a large tip at a child’s lemonade stand.

Perhaps, just perhaps, the candidate should have been praised for his kindness towards a child who was out trying to make a few bucks by selling some lemonade, for encouraging the young entrepreneur who may one day become a small business (or large) owner – something that this nation needs and the whole premise of our financial system – free enterprise.

The article here at http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/04/mitt-romneys-5-lemonde is, at first glance, merely petty, however when one looks at the bigger picture so to speak, one understands that the “tag”, “millionaire presidential candidate”, fits in perfectly with incumbent Presidential candidate, Barack Obama’s “corporate jet” rant at a recent campaign stump speech and press conference where he used “corporate jets” in a “Carteresque” ”Three Martini Lunch” line, (a slur against big business used by Carter to "rally the poor" during Carter’s failed bid for re-election) In other words, the “Tax the Rich”, line but with a vengeance, and, some might suggest with consequences.

With the economy in shambles, to paint someone as a have, against the tide of have nots suggests that they are somehow “less worthy” for being well-to-do, and that someone having made “millions” is a negative. However, for anyone who invests, (in say even a 401K) or a young lemonade stand owner who dreams of one way having a big business, and possibly owning one of those jets so that they can travel from office to office or manufacturing plant to manufacturing plant (hopefully in the USA), that million dollars is a worthy goal. In other words, don’t’ buy that lottery ticket, or you too, may become a target of the “have nots”. Frankly, one who is “generous” and leaves a “decent tip” (above and beyond the 20%) at a restaurant, or where-ever tips might come into play, are helping those who are making either minimum wage, possibly working two jobs, or even hoping to save up for that nifty new bike, which helps out their parents, should be praised for their “good deeds”, especially since, the President, on the campaign trail in 2008 suggested that those “have’s” might “spread the wealth” to those who “have not”.

Obama, like Carter, and other progressives, somehow suggest that taxing corporate jet owners and making $3 billion in taxes off the deal, is going to alleviate the trillion dollar debt he’s got going and ensure continued entitlement programs. However, with stump speeches that are inflammatory, especially those coming from a President, might result in a group of the “have not’s” (underprivileged teens) feeling perfectly ok with say forming a mob of hundreds and robbing, pillaging and assaulting anyone who might even look like they “have” more – in places such as Delaware, Philadelphia, Chicago, Kansas City – (see article here). This from June 27th, with the President speaking on the same day, about “Republicans” siding with the “rich” (i.e.: “billionaires and corporate jet owners” as part of his ongoing attack against Republicans cutting the federal budget rather than taxing his way out of the massive mess.

Therefore, according to the New York Times, Romney, (bad guy who has “millions “and is a Republican to boot!) was wrong for carrying “$100 bills” at some point, and then giving a kid a generous tip. In other words, sharing in the Presidents current attempt to gain reelection through the use of class warfare – one has to wonder how many of those who have been victimized by any of the aforementioned “mobs of teens”, or those who might be making that six figure income, are feeling about the President these days?

Fortunately, those teens who are rampaging through the streets of whichever city is nearby – taking what they think the world owes them – because everyone’s check isn’t going too far what with the high unemployment rate and inflation on food and clothing through the roof, most likely aren’t reading the New York Times. However, these teens do listen to the “hate speech” about “the rich” from teachers, politicians and the like who are more anti-business and pro-“spread-the-wealth”.
The sad attempt to make Romney out to be some kind of bad guy because he is successful and left a generous tip at a lemonade stand is, in a word, shameless, campaign rhetoric (It is what it is), coming from what once was “the newspaper of record”.

The Declaration; Read Worthy, no Matter how Often One has Done So.

From The Charters for Freedom www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration:

The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

The 56 signatures on the Declaration appear in the positions indicated:

Column 1
Georgia:
Button Gwinnett
Lyman Hall
George Walton

Column 2
North Carolina:
William Hooper
Joseph Hewes
John Penn
South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge
Thomas Heyward, Jr.
Thomas Lynch, Jr.
Arthur Middleton

Column 3
Massachusetts:
John Hancock
Maryland:
Samuel Chase
William Paca
Thomas Stone
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe
Richard Henry Lee
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Harrison
Thomas Nelson, Jr.
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Carter Braxton

Column 4
Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris
Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Franklin
John Morton
George Clymer
James Smith
George Taylor
James Wilson
George Ross
Delaware:
Caesar Rodney
George Read
Thomas McKean

Column 5
New York:
William Floyd
Philip Livingston
Francis Lewis
Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
Richard Stockton
John Witherspoon
Francis Hopkinson
John Hart
Abraham Clark

Column 6
New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett
William Whipple
Massachusetts:
Samuel Adams
John Adams
Robert Treat Paine
Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins
William Ellery
Connecticut:
Roger Sherman
Samuel Huntington
William Williams
Oliver Wolcott
New Hampshire:
Matthew Thornton

Palin 2012 - Will She Or Won’t She Enter GOP 2012 Race – Time is On her Side

Palin most likely to announce 2012 via social media, not the New York Times, image: Another-Black-Conservative - blogspot blog



An excellent article in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette by Jack Kelly, entitled “The Power of Palin” brings to bear some excellent points in favor of a Palin announcement and run.

Anyone who has been watching this GOP unfold understands that there are several GOP “figures” still sitting on the fence, among them Governor Rick Perry of Texas, and the focus Kelly’s article. Apparently, Palin’s daughter, in an interview on Fox and Friends, indicated her mother knows now when/if she is running, yet, as noted by Kelly, she declined to tell the New York Times. The Times, among other “old guard media” should be prepared to be the last to know – as Palin is more apt to announce in a less than “mainstream” manner.

The whole rush to enter the race and the countdown of the Cash on Hand, has begun, pushing Mitt Romney to the front of the cash pack, with others bringing in 4 million here, 2 million there – does it matter? Not one whit - due to the restructuring of the GOP nomination rules which actually makes it easier for candidates with less cash to compete.

Of course, the “mainstream” media continues to harp on about “no choices for GOP field”, and the fact that few can beat Obama (citing early June polls), which, to be fair, will all be out of date within the next two months.

When will Palin announce, if she is running, that is: Most likely when she chooses – Bill Clinton entered the Race against incumbent Present George H Bush in October of 1991 going onto win the nomination and the presidency.

Apparently, that leaves a lot of room for Palin to ponder the if’s/when’s and overall strategy, while her PAC is busy getting copies of ”The Undefeated”, a documentary by Stephen Bannon on Palin’s early career to her crucifixion by the “main stream media” during the 2008 general, out to the public by any means possible.

The film will debut in ten cities on July 15th, her grassroots organization is asking individuals who are not in those cities to host viewings as well as make a donation to the PAC. When one has a strong grassroots, the likes of Palin’s, then one can count on one’s grass roots to get out the “movie” before getting out the “vote”. Interesting choice of locations for these debuts include heavy red states: (Nationwide Release): in Dallas, Denver, Oklahoma City, Orlando, Atlanta, Orange County, Phoenix, Houston, Indianapolis, and Kansas City. The film has debuted in the Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. Strategic Planning - Yes!

The media has exhausted its ability to criticize (but will, of course, keep on trying) , Sarah Palin (or any other female Conservative Candidate (see Michelle Bachmann, try to find specific news article that does not contain slurs – good luck.) will face a constant battle from the Press, but, Palin has lived through, media stalkers, liars, and crackpots fighting for their fifteen minutes of fame on MSNBC, and is, perhaps, more prepared than any other candidate in the history of the GOP. She also has the wherewithal to stand up and tell it like it is, something that irks those who think they know better than the “masses”. (Plus puts her miles ahead of her male counterparts - ditto to Michelle Bachman.)

The conventional wisdom of Mr. Kelly suggests that Palin can forestall, but must shine in the debates, the schedule for GOP debates allows Palin that time. For example, viewing the entire schedule at www.2012presidentialelectionnews.com/2012_debte_scheude one finds that if Palin, like Clinton announces in October, she will be able to participate in six to eight national debates. (Depending on when in October, an announcement would be made). In total the GOP Dates scheduled post July: 1 Debate in August: FOX, 3 in September: CNN, MSNBC (type that with a straight face) and FOX, 2 in October: Bloomberg and CNN, One in December: ABC, 2 in January: ABC and PBS, 2 in February: ABC & Fox, and finally one in March on NBC.

One might suggest that prior to the nomination, the nation will have ample opportunity to view these candidates, make up their minds (those Republican and Independents and Moderate Democrats who have no home), and chose the candidate they wish to support - the one in the field who can beat Obama – which according to some polls, could be any Republican by at least 4 points (46% to 42%) (Minus margin of error a 1 to 2 point spread, which is, historically, about the norm.