You might be a Republican if...

[Hayduke]

You might be a Republican presidential candidate if your favorite author says you don't even understand the book you keep referring to:

It is not true that my book “Guns, Germs and Steel,” as Mr. Romney described it in a speech in Jerusalem, “basically says the physical characteristics of the land account for the differences in the success of the people that live there. There is iron ore on the land and so forth.”

That is so different from what my book actually says that I have to doubt whether Mr. Romney read it. . . .

. . .Mitt Romney may become our next president. Will he continue to espouse one-factor explanations for multicausal problems, and fail to understand history and the modern world? If so, he will preside over a declining nation squandering its advantages of location and history.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/op...s.html?_r=2&hp

[F-Stop]

Could go in the random image thread, but I think it's a better fit here. (from the reddits)

[Hayduke]

So you've been paying 10% or so in taxes for years and the pressure is building to release the returns. How do you minimize the damage? Have someone leak to Harry Reid that you've been paying zero and let him keep doubling down on it until you finally release the returns and turn what should be an election-losing revelation into political gold. That's my working theory. We'll see.

[Keef Riffers]

... Poe's Law!

[Hank IV]

You might be a Republican if you're not a Republican anymore.

http://themoderatevoice.com/149571/w...n-guest-voice/

[B-Boy]

You might be a Republican if you're not a Republican anymore.

http://themoderatevoice.com/149571/w...n-guest-voice/

Other GOP members are not the only ones who lack the guts to call out the fringe that had taken over their party. Nearly all of the media is afraid to do the same thing. The 'Baggers ARE the G.O.P., and it's sad to see the media lack the guts to call them out on it. It is not another party, it is the modern day GOP. All one needs to do is look at their current puppet running for POTUS to see all of this in action.

[rikki]

So you've been paying 10% or so in taxes for years and the pressure is building to release the returns. How do you minimize the damage? Have someone leak to Harry Reid that you've been paying zero and let him keep doubling down on it until you finally release the returns and turn what should be an election-losing revelation into political gold. That's my working theory. We'll see.

Given that Reid is both fabulously corrupt and running on a blown intellectual bulb, you've got a credible shill in your cast. Of course, Romney's tax returns are already political gold. His 2010 return shows deep connections with many Americans: $0 in wages and big real estate losses. He feels our pain.

[Hank IV]

Given that Reid is both fabulously corrupt and running on a blown intellectual bulb, you've got a credible shill in your cast. Of course, Romney's tax returns are already political gold. His 2010 return shows deep connections with many Americans: $0 in wages and big real estate losses. He feels our pain.

Wouldn't his Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) records be open to the public.

[Hayduke]

[Hayduke]

Salon has Ten Theories on Romney's Taxes.