It IS hard to dump your family like a sack of garbage so you can marry a beer heiress. Try it sometime, I'll bet you can't even find a beer heiress.

Rich people always think they deserve what they got, while the rest of us just get breaks. And no, they don't know how foolish they sound when they are enunciating around those silver spoons.

Mittens should watch his language. "Hard work" in this case makes McCain sound like a gigolo.

Oh, wait.

I doubt that John and Cindy want to talk about being linked to a "convicted felon".

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/content/printVersion/167059

From what I've seen of Cindy McCain, putting up with her for the sake of a few houses would certainly qualify as hard work. Maybe it's just me.

"[Mitt Romney] does know that McCain's second wife is an heiress to a lucrative beer distributorship, right?..."

Right...thereby, making Mitt Romney a LIAR!

Romney knows that, like John McCain, he can say whatever he wants, no matter how blatantly false or absurd, and the propaganda arm of the Republican Party -- also known as the corporate-owned mass media -- will not only let him get away with it, but will quickly adopt it as a talking point to be repeated endlessly on corporate-sponsored "news" programs.

Yes, it is every election cycle that the likes of Romney et al. proffer themselves as sensible people when we all know they are ACTUALLY auditioning for Old Nick, since lying is a deadly sin! To say with a straight face the things you attribute to Mr. Romney is to gain a straight trip to the lower 40 we know so dearly as HELL! -Kevo

Not fair to criticize Mac on this one. It's Mitt's miscue.

Seems to me it would be harder work to have to bed John McCain than Cindy. (Oops--I just threw up in my mouth a little.)

However McCain "earned" his cash, at least he wasn't a corporate hit man, throwing scads of people out of work, the way Mittens was. He chose to throw people out of work the old-fashioned way: by supporting a Republican president.

It's hard work saying this crap with a straight face.

Wait a minute, aren't all those houses Cindy McCain's? So how did John McCain "earn" them, they're not even his houses, or so the Republicans say. And how hard did Cindy work for them, anyway? I guess it's hard work being born into a crime family, maybe we should give her a break.

Nah.

You know what's hard work? Keeping my hair looking like this all day.

Hey, any fool knows that the path to oligarchy is paved with trophy wives and trophy homes. McCain got both with the cost of one ex, previously trophy wife, and 5 and a half years. McCain worked hard for the flash so now he can trash the undeserving elites.

I wonder when Obama's camp is going to start hammering away at McCain's relationship with Jim Hensley...

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/08/26/the-american-dream-or-married-to-the-mob/

Still my favorite picture of Romney:

http://www.kennethinthe212.com/2007/06/another-day-at-fudge-factory.html

As for Romney's assertion that McCain "deserved his houses because of the 'hard work' of himself and his family," he does know that McCain's second wife is an heiress to a lucrative beer distributorship, right?

He does know that, but he doesn't care.

This has been another edition of simple answers to simple questions.

And this is the same guy who claimed that when his sons were working on his presidential campaign, they were "serving their country".

One two three streeeeeeeeeetch!

Four five six Beeeeeeeennnnnnnd!

I think Romney is secretly trying to convince McCain that, if he picks him for VP, he'll be getting a really, really hard worker beside him on the ticket.

So how did John McCain "earn" them,

In the words of Karen from "Will and Grace", "You call it sexual harrassment. I call it a night off."

'Behind every great fortune lies a great crime' - Honore de Balzac.

.. and bigamy's a crime. At least that's the one we know of.

when i first read the headline, i thought it said "Romney defies hard work"

and perhaps that would be more accurate anyway.

The McCains were able to buy their houses through hard work. Just not their hard work.

Its hard work marrying a wealthy beer heiress.

This reminds me of my favorite Depression era joke.

A newlywed groom asked a millionaire how he made all his money. The millionaire answered, "One day, when I was about your age, I went out and I bought an apple for a nickle. I spent all day shining and polishing that apple, until it gleamed. At the end of the day, I sold it for a dime. The next day, I took that dime and I bought two apples. I spent all day polishing and shining them, and then I sold them both for 20 cents. The third day, my wife's rich uncle died and left us all his money."

And now, I know that the young man in the joke was John McCain.

Any hard work involved in amassing the Hensley-McCain fortune was done by someone who is now dead. The idea that there's something admirable about living large off a dead man's hard work is... well, very Republican, come to think of it.

If you are a Republican, marrying some bitch with money IS work.

Honestly, don't you peasants know that we Republicans do not work? Ever?? We make our money off of YOUR backs. We earn our money the old fashioned way...we fuck for it.

Now go away, you little people. Be gone with you! There's cognac to be drunk and cigars to be smoked. Oh, and tee time is at 8:00.

A.Maze.Ing.

Im still wondering how supplying beer, alcohol, which leads to drunkeness and drunken drivers is conservative. Seems pretty liberal to me...just sayin'.

How dare you criticize how hard he works! He was a POW for 5 1/2 years!

Romney would probably say that Cindy's father falls under the category "John McCain's family".

Why does every Republican born on third base think he's hit a triple?

And why does the media let them get away with it?

P.S. And I don't care if it's true or not. Let them disabuse it if it's not. Grab the narrative and rub their faces in it. (I used to be a pacifist. Now I'm a pass-a-fist (since last week))

Oh please, oh please! Pick either Mittens or Joe or Ridge, or even better, Huckleberry!!! Either way, you've either screwed your base Senator McLame or you can look forward to the creation vs. evolution drill till you and Huckleberry pray to even be able to pop!

I stayed at Marriott last night, I cant do brain surgery or anything, but man did they have good porno!

Anbody seen a single beer heiress?

Mark D wrote: "Why does every Republican born on third base think he's hit a triple? And why does the media let them get away with it?"

Because the media and the Republican Party are both wholly-owned subsidiaries of America's Ultra-Rich Ruling Class, Inc.

Well, you can stake that claim --
Good work is the key to good fortune
Winners take that praise
Losers seldom take that blame
If they don’t take that game
And sometimes the winner takes nothing
We draw our own designs
But fortune has to make that frame

I, for one, am pretty impressed that McCain was able to bag a millionaire blond, a decade plus younger than him.

You laugh, sure, but you know Cindy's a hellcat freak. John has to swim 3.5 miles a day just to stay in shape.

It's hard work.

it's profoundly stupid argument either way - saying because he has money McCain is therefore out of touch is no different than saying Obama with his fancy education can't possibly understand people who barely made it through high school - so it's stupid no matter how you parse it, but still, Cindy McCain is a little more reputable than Tony Rezko, so don't really see how Obama wins that argument.

"Why does every Republican born on third base think he's hit a triple?" Posted by: Mark D

That made me LOL.

I'd love to see Romney on the ticket. I'd print up yard signs.

McCain/Romney 2008
A Polygamist...
... and a Mormon

"But Mitt Romney may not realize how foolish he sounds when pushing the rhetorical envelope as often as he does."

The problem is that it doesn't sound foolish to many voters, especially conservatives. It fits with a worldview that many people have that:

1. The rich are at the top because they deserve it.

2. Without discipline you can be neither prosperous nor moral, and hence if you don't prosper, it's your own fault.

3. Getting a special deal is undisciplined, and therefore immoral.

Therefore it is irrelevant that McCain's wealth came through his wife, or that Obama did not get a special deal. Romney's statement fits how many view the world to be, and that is why he is trying to reinforce it.

While these mindless twits twitter about who bought whose home and how many homes they own, the mainstream media may have missed this – Medvedev has now re-affirmed that Russia will respond militarily to the missile shield in Poland.

I, for one, am pretty impressed that McCain was able to bag a millionaire blond, a decade plus younger than him.

Hell, at the time he was still young enough to qualify as a dashing older man, still doing all that top gun BS, no doubt. Now he's just an old man.

Racer X wins the thread in the first post.

I, for one, am pretty impressed that McCain was able to bag a millionaire blond, a decade plus younger than him.

Plus he did it while his wife and kids were waiting for him at home. Impressive!

Anyone who believes the story of Joseph Smith and the golden tablets can believe just about anything he sets his mind to.

And of course all the beer distributership profits only exist because the law prohibits brewers from selling directly to retailers but all Republicans know that government regulation is evil and bad for business ...

Mitt's right - this straight face stuff is hard work.

The democratic response should be blah blah Keating five, blah blah Keating five.

Cleared but showed poor judgement. Is this presidential material?

How dare you criticize how hard he works! He was a POW for 5 1/2 years!

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Don't laugh, I'm sure, if Mitt were ever pressed to explain this comment, he'd invoke McCain's POW status as to how McCain earned all he has.

Aaaaah, who am I kidding? No one's going to call him out on anything.

I, for one, am pretty impressed that McCain was able to bag a millionaire blond, a decade plus younger than him.

"Bag" one? Sheesh. The rhetoric of a stud-muffin wannabe, circa 1963. Hubba hubba there, fella. Hotcha.

Guess it's kinda age-appropriate though, considering we're talking about Crusty McCain.

I am convinced that the Ken doll would be simply delightful as a running mate to the garden gnome.

Not bad, Blue Girl. I still think Huckabee had the best zinger on Romney, though: ""People are looking for a presidential candidate who reminds them more of the guy they work with than the guy that laid them off." Ouch.

McCain is toast if he picks Romney as VP which more and more it looks like is gonna happen. This column explains why:

http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/john-mccain/22038/why-mccain-should-not-pick-romney-for-vice-president-guest-voice/

Please-oh-please let this be the GOP ticket:

McPOW/Mittens '08:
We're Just Like You, Just With More Houses and Bank Accounts Than We Can Possibly Keep Track of

The Rezkos bought the vacant lot (for full value)next door to the property purchased by Obama (at $300,000 below the asking price). Rezko bought the vacant lot on the exact same day the Obamas bought their property. Rezko sold part of their lot to Obamas to expand their back yard. Was it at fair value or not? You guess...

Of course it's crap, but I heard something very similar on NPR the other morning, out of the mouth of their "reporter". The Repubs don't have to really believe it, but it's exactly the kind of thing that will take hold. The Obama folks had better figure out how to push back HARD against this.

I guess it's a preemptive strike on Mittens' part. He wants to make sure that all of *his* houses are hard earned before we start counting those.

"As for Romney's assertion that McCain "deserved his houses because of the 'hard work' of himself and his family," he does know that McCain's second wife is an heiress to a lucrative beer distributorship, right?"

And he does know that Cindy's "hard working" daddy was, um...connected, right?

"The Rezkos bought the vacant lot (for full value)next door to the property purchased by Obama (at $300,000 below the asking price). Rezko bought the vacant lot on the exact same day the Obamas bought their property. Rezko sold part of their lot to Obamas to expand their back yard. Was it at fair value or not? You guess..." - Posted by: brad poole

When I sold my first home to a Fudrucker's employee it turned out he did not have the money necessary to pay the closing costs to get his loan. I ended up paying them. Is that fair?

People have to cut deals to get into houses, unless of course they are Cindy McCain, who buys houses as investments to prevent them from being bought by average Americans.

There may be something unwholesome about the Obama's ONE house, but there is something disgusting about McCain's seven.

Steve: "In June, Romney announced that counter-proliferation is a "liberal" issue, so Obama's work on the policy doesn't count."

Oh, good job, Mittens. Way to tick off Obama's co-sponsor, highly respected REPUBLICAN Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana. Say, isn't Indiana sort of a swing state?

I guess Romney is perfectly happy letting any interested parties have nuclear weapons. Idiot.

Steve, I'll bet you never had to live with a rich broad.

"Hard work" doesn't begin to describe it. :)

I'm just waiting for the next GOP talking point be that the earth is flat, and that the idea that it's round is a sinister liberal conspiracy. Or that 2+2=5, and anyone who disagrees is an ivory-tower elitist who should be shot.

Seriously, what areas of abject stupidity have been left untapped? Not many.