Revealed: Mitt Romney Would Prefer to Trade Places with Paul Ryan

Revealed: Mitt Romney Would Prefer to Trade Places with Paul Ryan
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Was his introduction of Paul Ryan as "the next president" actually a Freudian slip?

Mitt Romney has asked the GOP to look into the possibility of trading his top spot on the Presidential ticket with his choice for Vice President, Paul Ryan. Mitt Romney Begs to Trade Places with Paul Ryan Citing reasons such as “I don’t want to do this anymore,” and “I just found out how little the President actually earns,” as justification for his request, Romney is hoping the GOP will come up with an answer for him in enough time so that he can deliver the news at the GOP convention being held in Tampa the week of August 27, 2012. “I had no idea campaigning for President would be so hard,” whined Romney in his letter to GOP Chairman, Reince Priebus. “And today, I get this e-mail from Dick Cheney telling me that once I’m President, he’s gonna be in charge again, so I better get used to it. I mean, who died and left him boss?” Romney claims that once he saw how energetic Ryan was the first few days after being introduced as the Vice Presidential pick, he knew Ryan would make a much better President. “If nothing else, I think Ryan could totally kick Cheney’s butt,” wrote Romney to Priebus. “Plus, the kid is a dynamo who actually already has a budget plan in place. I have to tell you, Reince, I was getting pretty darned tired of saying I had a budget plan just to keep the base ignited, when, in fact, I had nothing.” “Besides that, I honestly don’t know what I stand for anymore. I thought I was for women’s rights until they kept telling me I’m not supposed to be for women’s rights. You know, that kinda put a real kink in my marriage. I was getting it from both sides,” he said. “At least with Ryan, if he says he doesn’t give a whit about women’s rights, and his wife is OK with that, then it makes more sense for him to be saying that kinda stuff.” In closing, Romney assured Priebus that he would be as good a Vice President as Joe Biden. “Look, Reince, what it comes down to is this. Romney/Ryan, Ryan/Romney, in the big scheme of things neither one of us is really going to be the power behind the presidency, so please, I’m begging you, don’t make me be leader of the free world or so help me God, I’ll pull a Rick Perry on you.” [post_title] => Revealed: Mitt Romney Would Prefer to Trade Places with Paul Ryan [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => open [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => mitt-romney-begs-to-trade-places-with-paul-ryan [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2015-08-08 16:32:26 [post_modified_gmt] => 2015-08-08 23:32:26 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://www.humortimes.com/?p=11770 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )

Was his introduction of Paul Ryan as “the next president” actually a Freudian slip? Mitt Romney has asked the GOP to look into the possibility of trading his … Read more

Karl Rove Secret Plan Exposed: Replace Mitt Romney with Jeb Bush

Karl Rove Secret Plan Exposed: Replace Mitt Romney with Jeb Bush
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    [post_content] => Karl Rove is tired of playing nice guy. In fact, those closest to him know that he reached his limit with Mitt Romney long before he was even declared the winner in the Republican primaries. While some folks thought Rove would simply suck it up and get behind the party’s candidate, that just isn’t happening.

Spurred on by Dick Cheney, Rove has come up with a plan that will not only unseat Romney as the top Republican candidate at the Republican Convention in late August, but will most likely ensure Jeb Bush’s success at the polls in November.

“It’s a little thing I like to call “write-in votes,” said Rove at a recent meeting of extremely old and influential (up until now) Neo-Conservatives who have one purpose in mind—making sure Barack Obama doesn’t win a second term.

“We can’t do it with a dunderhead like Mitt Romney,” said Rove. “He’s beginning to make Sarah Palin look like a Rhodes Scholar.”

Rove told the crowd his ingenious plan. “Fortunately, Dick [Cheney] and I had the foresight to see this coming and began the process of filing the necessary paperwork in states that will allow it, to get our guy, Jeb Bush, on the ballots as a write-in candidate.”

Rove claims to not only have gotten all the paperwork squared away, but has already lined up the necessary electors in those state to assure a Bush victory.

“Is it the way we’d have liked to see Jeb Bush get on the ticket? No, of course not,” said Rove, “But the truth is, we don’t have the money to fight the Sheldon Adelsons and Koch Brothers, who don’t really share our views on world dominance, so we have to beat their money with strategic thinking,” he said.

“In the end, it really does come down to one thing…war.”
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Protecting Political Insiders from Our First Amendment

Protecting Political Insiders from Our First Amendment
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    [post_content] => Ah, it's almost August -- time for another quadrennial flowering of America's glorious democratic process, otherwise known as the presidential nominating conventions!

This grand testimonial of our citizens' rights and liberties will begin with the Republicans in Tampa, Fla. Flags are being mounted, majestic music is arranged, uplifting speeches are being scripted -- and, as has now become normal for these spectacles of democracy-in-action, heavily armed police repression of our cherished First Amendment rights is being ordered.

Of course, the delegates, candidates, lobbyists and billionaire funders inside the GOP's convention bunker will be perfectly free (as they should be) to gild the promises and lies that will frame their presidential campaign. They will not be bothered by the riot-geared police authorities deployed around Tampa. However, any citizens who come to practice the hallowed freedoms of public assembly and speech can expect to be welcomed by a thoroughly un-American, weeklong police state.

In May, at the behest of national Republican officials, Tampa's mayor and council passed a temporary ordinance to suspend our First Amendment and authorize a crackdown on protestors. Warning ominously that a few vandals might get out of control, the ordinance tries to force all citizen demonstrations into a few restricted parade routes and what amounts to "protest pens." Pre-emptive detainments, indiscriminate mass arrests and police infiltrations of peaceful protest groups can be expected. Ironically, that's the kind of autocratic excess that led to the American Revolution itself.

The city's top lawyer recently barked that "troublemakers ... will not be tolerated." But the real troublemakers are those inside the hall -- and inside a police system that's being used to stomp on the very freedoms that America is supposed to embrace and encourage.

One of the juiciest ironies of Tampa's newly minted law to suppress protest at the upcoming Republican National Convention is that it bans the carrying of water pistols by protestors. However, thanks to Florida's nutty right-wing governor, anyone with a concealed-weapon permit is free to tote an actual bullet-firing pistol throughout the proceedings! Apparently, the authorities really do consider blood to be thicker than water.

Even nuttier is the fantasy of convention organizers that they can lock down the feisty and essential American spirit of political protest with a rash of ridiculous liberty-repressing laws. Among their ordinances is a directive that thousands of demonstrators squeeze their public expressions into short "parade routes" and out-of-the-way "viewing areas." This is as futile as King George III demanding 225 years ago that American revolutionaries march into battle by lining up in neat rows to be shot down by his Redcoats.

A spokesman for one protest group says flatly that its members will pick their own spots to assemble and have their say: "We (Americans) were born with the right to move freely from place to place and speak our minds," he rightly points out. Also, a poor people's coalition is setting up a "Romneyville" on private property in Tampa, providing what it calls "a kind of refuge" against the government's attempt to box in its protest of official policies that are increasing poverty all across America.

The opposite of courage is not cowardice, it's conformity. What makes America great are courageous folks like these who refuse to go along with authoritarians and elites who always demand that we surrender our most basic liberties to protect them from speech they don't want to hear. To keep up with this never-ending battle of rights versus wrong, go to the National Lawyers Guild's website at nlg.org.


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