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The New Democrat 2 September 2012 TThhee NNeeww DDeemmooccrraatt A Publication of the Peninsula Democratic Coalition (PDC) September 2012 RomneyFlop.com Website NOW OPEN! By Dave Walter, CD 14 Delegate In April, I was elected Mid-Peninsula to serve as a delegate to the 2012 Democratic National Convention Democratic (DNC) in Charlotte for CD 14 (Anna Eshoo’s Volunteer Center district). I am honored to serve our district at the November is fast DNC. This will be my first approaching! A group of DNC and I’m beyond local activists, in excited! The California cooperation with the Delegates were asked to step up our volunteer efforts for the Obama Campaign prior to Santa Clara and San the DNC. In addition to making phone calls to swing states and Mateo County donating to the Obama Campaign, I wanted to get involved in Democratic Central a unique way. Committees, the Silicon I decided to create a website to help educate voters about all of the flip-flops that Mitt Romney has made over the years. I’m Valley Action Network, the Peninsula Democratic not aware of any presidential candidate in American history Coalition and Obama For America has organized and that has changed his position on issues as frequently and opened the Mid-Peninsula Democratic Volunteer significantly as Romney. His constant flip-flopping proves that Center. The headquarters is located at 350 El he has no integrity and will say anything to get elected. While I Camino Real in Menlo Park (the old Towne Ford was able to find some websites and videos out there about Romney’s flip-flopping, I couldn’t find any up-to-date resource showroom) . It is the place where volunteers are that listed all of his flip-flops complete with sources. I also gathering to work on behalf of Democratic thought that it would be really cool to make a webpage with a candidates and progressive initiatives up and down workable etch-a-sketch on it that would allow people to “shake the ballot. To learn more about the Democratic it” to see how Romney’s positions have changed (dramatically!) over the years. Volunteer Center and join the team, please stop by Thus, www.RomneyFlop.com was born. I’m hopeful that as the Center or visit www.demvolctr.com . the November election nears this site will serve as a great reference for Democrats who want to educate uniformed and 650-327-2923 undecided voters about Mitt Romney’s flip-flops. The fact that Monday-Friday: 10am-6:00pm Romney has been a huge flip-flopper over the years is Saturday: 10am-5pm • Sunday: 12-5pm common knowledge to many of us in the PDC who follow politics closely but there are many uniformed voters out there who have no idea that Mitt Romney has taken such contradictory positions on issues in the past. I would appreciate your help in spreading the word about www.RomneyFlop.com. Our goal is to get ranked at the top of Google’s search results for “Romney flip flops”. This will allow more people to learn about the site. I also welcome any feedback that you have about the site. If you know of any major Romney flip-flops that we don’t already have listed, please let us know. Also if anyone wants to write a guest blog or provide website design expertise we would welcome your help. The e-mail address for our site is [email protected]. Together we will Stop the Flop in November and get President Obama reelected. The New Democrat 2 September 2012 the ridiculous notion that the President forged his birth certificate as part of a plot to achieve world domination. Republicans haven’t even tried to hide their real motivation President’s over the last four years. Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, one of the most influential Republicans in the country, was quoted in October of 2010 as saying “The single Column most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.” When asked about it eight Marc Berman months later McConnell doubled down, saying “Well, that is true, that’s my single most important political goal, along with every active Republican in the country.” This is why Republicans have done everything possible to block the President’s pro-growth policies while pushing job- Republican National killing austerity measures and holding the economy hostage during the debt ceiling debacle. They have obstructed the President every step of the way from the day he took office, Convention: Revising Reality appealing to the nuttiest and most conservative factions of their This past week I found myself doing something I told myself party. I wouldn’t do – tuning into television coverage of the Now that the general election is upon us Republicans have Republican National Convention for the stories by Paul Ryan realized that they desperately need to win over Independent and Mitt Romney (unfortunately I missed Clint Eastwood, but voters if they hope to take back the White House – voters who plan to find it on YouTube). I say story, rather than speech, don’t react favorably to the petty partisan politics that because that’s what they were – fictional accounts of previous Republicans have been playing since January 20, 2009. events which were twisted and turned for maximum story-telling Republicans found themselves faced with the challenge of effect with little regard for what actually occurred. explaining to these non-partisan voters why they had let the Much has been made of Ryan’s falsehoods and deceitfulness: quest for political gain dictate each and every decision they’d highlighting the closure of a GM plant in his hometown that made in the previous four years, threatening to drive our was actually scheduled for closure before Obama ever became country into the ground in the process. president; hitting the President for making practically the exact Rather than try to defend this uncomfortable reality, same cuts to Medicare that Ryan himself proposed in his own Republicans went with option #2: they lied. budget; and criticizing the President for not acting upon the We must push back on these absurd assertions. Republicans recommendations of the Simpson-Bowles debt commission – want to re-create a historical context in which President Obama when Ryan himself was a member of the commission and was provided every opportunity to succeed and yet he still voted against the suggestions, helping to kill the proposal. failed. The truth is that the President inherited a country on the We’ve since learned that Ryan began his lying about a week brink of economic disaster, created by the unfettered before the RNC when, on a radio show, he claimed to have incompetence of the previous administration, and only through run a marathon in 2 hours and 50 minutes, which comes out Herculean efforts has he managed to keep the country afloat to an average of 6 minutes and 30 seconds a mile. This is while simultaneously confronting Republican obstructionism at incredibly impressive…and 100% fantasy. It was later every turn. discovered by fact checkers, those truth seekers that the Look, I get it, if I were trying to devise a strategy for Romney team has such contempt for, that Ryan’s marathon Republicans I would also probably be tempted to lie. Their time was actually 4 hours and 1 minute, an average of about 9 record is pretty indefensible. We can’t let them get away with it. minutes and 12 seconds a mile. While 4 hours is still quite impressive – a feat I don’t think I could achieve – what’s even more impressive is Ryan’s need to lie…about anything and everything. Romney’s lies, however, sound much more genuine and There is no more heartfelt and are therefore that much more dangerous. Romney is actually trying to promote the preposterous notion that, in an important job for effort to see America succeed, Republicans rallied around President Obama once he took office. Romney had the Democrats this audacity to state that “I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed.” Who is this guy kidding?!? Does he really expect anyone to year than believe this rubbish? The scariest thing is that it was one of the biggest applause lines of his speech – the Republican delegates registering voters exploded with approval. My guess is that some of these delegates protested the President’s healthcare reform by and getting them parading up and down their towns with posters of the President with a Hitler mustache. Many of them probably perpetuated to the polls! The New Democrat 3 September 2012 Helping Democrats Win this Year In 2012, there Eight Senate seats are considered toss-ups, with only a few are more critical polling points diference between the candidates races for [www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/senate/2012_election Democrats than s_senate_map.html]. usual, all across Four of those seats are “open”—there is no incumbent in the country. the race; the candidate who is slightly ahead at this time is President Obama shown first: is in a tight race CT: Chris Murphy over Linda McMahon against Mitt ND: Rick Berry over Heidi Heitkamp Romney. In the VA: Tim Kaine over George Allen Senate, where IN: Richard Mourdoch over Joe Donnelly Democrats now In most of the other four toss-up Senate races, the hold a slim incumbent is currently slightly ahead: majority of 53 MA: Scott Brown over Elizabeth Warren seats, there are MI: Debbie Stabenow over Pete Hoekstra more Democratic OH: Sherrod Brown over Josh Mandel seats being One Senate race has the incumbent and the challenger neck- contested than Republican seats—and that means more and-neck: chances of losing seats.
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