A few weeks ago, Mitt Romney’s campaign manager made headlines when he said his candidate was like an etch-a-sketch, and he would just erase all of the extremism that we’ve seen from the GOP during the primary season. Now that Mitt’s the only candidate with a shot at the nomination, he’s working overtime to make the public forget about issues like the GOP’s war on women, the way they alienated minorities, and the creepiness that the Tea Party has brought to the entire Republican Party. Mike Papantonio talks about Romney’s efforts to make the public forget about how extremist the GOP really is, with Nation magazine correspondent Ben Adler.
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Thought I would check in and give my opinion of the story from a Conservative who doesn’t support Romney. I think he is just another slick pol. who will say anything to get elected, much like Obama. Two peas in the same pod except Obama lies more then Romney. Yes, I am in the GOP, but I think it is corrupt just like the Dems are corrupt. There is not two Conservative party based on the UK with a man like PM David Cameron to be head of. Half Brit, I trust, respect, and obey the British government more then the American government who taught me at 14 when my dad was in house arrest after some cue in a foreign country they would tell someone born in Lynn, MA to British parents that it wasn’t their problem, which to me is the same as go to hell. Who saved my dad and brought him home to be safe, the British Government because my dad was considered a British Subject because both my grandparents on his side were British Sujects. My grandmum from Manchester England. Manchester United. I am a big Manchester United fan. My Grandpa was from Glasgow Scotland. I have always considered myself have Brit and actually when traveling I tend to stick with the Brits and I am more British in thought then American. David Cameron is my kind of Conservative, not Mit Romney who is just another slick pol. Who franky I don’t believe anymore then all the other lying pols in political office.
Forgive me if I sound a little gruff, but I am fighting withdrawals from oxycodone which I have been taking for years because in American insurence only pays for pain pills and doesn’t look into alertnative pain relief beside opiates. I was the one who took myself off the oxycodone 15 mg and I would take 3 to 4 or 5 a day as needed. You the first doctor said I have fibro so he started the pain meds root. That was back in 02. In 10 the doctor I was seeing then suspected I didn’t have fibro and ordered and mri which showed valid reasons why I was in such pain and the pain was real. The shoulder and neck doctors are pissed at the first doctor for letting me suffer for all those years and just increasing the dosage and the strength of the opiate pain pills. I have been on these pain pills since 02 and in 12 I have taken myself off and called the pain management doctor I was stopping the oxycodone and they would have to think of new way to help with pain releif without opiates as I am a drug addict. I am a slave to the oxycodone. I am being open about my journey to get clean as I was about my journey to leave White Nationalism. When you conquer one feat, then another one is shown to you to defeat.
I have found a forum of recovering people and it is a great tool. Na is so far away from me, but when I am felling human again I will make a point to join up with them.
Why am I being open, because my best friend in White Nationalism and out of White Nationalism has a bad back and she is still on the oxycodone 15 mg for her pain. I tried to talk to her and say I think we have become drug addicts and we need to get off of them. She only sees at this time it helps the pain in her back. The sad thing is that people who just go to the doctor for valid reasons of pain, become addicted to opiate pain pills and at some point they become addicted and so the first step is to admit one is a drug addict. I hope by being open that the light will click and she will see that she needs to admit to herself the truth and make the first step to get off the drugs. We both made the choice to take the first step to leave White Nationalism and they are doing a wonderful job in shining a light on them. I hope she will join me on this journey to become clean.
It is not easy as I am day 2. But I believe I will overcome. I have a strong will. It is hard right now, because withdrawals are no fun, but just think I won’t ever have to go through them again if I don’t cave in and take opiate drugs.
Found out I am diabetic a few weeks ago so my body is fighting me on that front too. Since I was sexual abused and raped at 11 I used food and sugar to cope with the pain. At 11 I was to young to buy boose, so I don’t have the addiction. But mine is substance abuse like drugs. Many of us have a couple of addictions because we have a personally to become addicted to things that other people have no problem with. maybe it is crazy killing to addictions the same time, but I never chose to take the easy out.
I ask for you prayers these next few weeks as I try to overcome my opiate addition and sugar addition.
I saw my nephew over the weekend, he voted for Obama and when I pointed out he is a liar, he said they all lie so what is the big deal about lying. I tried to get up to understand that lying is a big thing, because you can’t trust your own leader to tell you the truth. Without trust their can be no respect and without respect their can be no submission. That because Obama lies, he is not worthy to shake my hand or be in the same room with me. I feel that way about Romney but on a lesser scale. I may still be in the Republican Party but I don’t support them. I consider myself a Conservative Party like in the UK, but haven’t changed party as to what true Conservative party is out there. I sure won’t join the Dems. So I vote for the moral character of a man and woman regardless of party. Obama will not get my vote. He is a proven liar. Romney might not get my vote either as he seems slick to me and not totally honest. So what is a Conservative to do, stay home. In my heart, they are both bad for America.
I knew at 14 it was better to be British. I have always gotten along better with Brits then Americans. Different mindset and I seem to have more of the British mindset. Like my grandmum, I like the UK better then the States. My grandfather met my grandmum on the ship and when she left Boston to go back to Manchester he followed her married her and brought her back to Boston, so she didn’t get to stay in England very long. I am stuck in America and I want to go back the the UK. Maybe someday I will be able to leave America for good and go back to my homeland.
The American government is one big lie. It doesn’t matter what party they LIE. I won’t vote for any liar. so this is an election that I may not be able to vote for as either one is lying to me. How did we get so low that only liars are allowed to run for President and be President and hold political office?I don’t care anymore. so unlike the last election when I helped local Green Candidates I won’t be helping anyone.
I am happy to say that I have totally broken away from White Nationalist. Haven’t been on SF for ages now. The Lord is great he takes one area at a time and now we are focusing on this hurdle to a happy and life without drugs or White Nationalists, lol.
I haen’t given up that somewhere out there is a real man who loves me that I can trust, respect and obey without question. I am still saving myself for him only. That is a gift I want to give to him.
With my change in diet due to the diabetis I will be loosing weight. As a goal of making 90 days clean, then i will reward myself with buying a new outfit, as my days of celebrating with food are over. Wish me luck in making 90 days. It is day two and still feeling like the living dead.
Even though we don’t agree, does that mean that we can’t agree to disagree and still find a way of solving the problems that face us as human beings?
God Bless
Love and Blessings
Chrisy