The Republican Nomination For President: The Race For The Race For The White House

Republicans really don't like Mitt Romney.

In southern Illinois, where they get idiots from Chicago and St. Louis, they paint "COW" on the sides of their livestock with white wash in letters about two feet high. Which doesn't mean that cows don't get shot, but it lowers the casualty rate.

Michele Bachmann may be out of the GOP presidential race, but the Minnesota congresswoman still believes she was "the perfect candidate."

Bachmann told Bloomberg TV in an interview taped last week that she won't be endorsing any of her Republican rivals anytime soon. But when asked by by Bloomberg's Al Hunt who was the most conservative of the GOP candidates, the Tea Party favorite plugged ... herself.

"I was. I was the perfect candidate," she said. "America had their chance with the perfect candidate. Any of our candidates are going to be acceptable to the American people. More than acceptable because right now, if you look at the Gallup map that came out this week, President Obama is in big trouble all across the country."

Bachmann, who announced last week that she'll seek a fourth term in Congress, said she hopes to be a "unifying" person in the GOP presidential race and help tie together disparate factions in the Republican Party.

She abandoned her presidential bid the day after finishing sixth in the Iowa caucuses last month.

In the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, President Obama leads GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney in a head-to-head match-up, 51-45 percent, with serious weaknesses for both candidates lurking in the poll details.
Romney’s business experience is seen as a net positive, and he leads the president when it comes to whom voters trust to handle the economy and create jobs. Only 44 percent approve of the president’s handling of the economy.
But they trust the president on the issue of taxes, and 66 percent believe Romney personally didn’t pay his fair share in taxes.

Barack Obama's Job Approval Average by Subgroup
Most recent weekly average: 46%.

Romney’s Returns Revive Scrutiny of Offshore Tax Shelters
By JONATHAN WEISMAN
Published: February 7, 2012

WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney’s tax returns have drawn political scrutiny on multiple fronts, like his relatively low tax rates and the money parked in a Swiss bank account. But on Capitol Hill, his returns have caught the eyes of members of both parties for what appears to be his use of a type of complex shelter that has been debated for years in battles over evasion and fairness in the tax code.
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For Romneys, Friendly Code Reduces Taxes (January 25, 2012)

The technique in question allows nonprofit institutions and large retirement funds to exploit the advantages of shell companies set up in tax havens like the Cayman Islands by investing money with private equity firms like Bain Capital, which Mr. Romney ran. Ordinarily, such private-equity investments are frequently subject to something called the unrelated business income tax. But by going offshore, pension funds, universities, foundations and even large Individual Retirement Accounts can structure those investments to avoid that heavy tax.

The technique in question allows nonprofit institutions and large retirement funds to exploit the advantages of shell companies set up in tax havens like the Cayman Islands by investing money with private equity firms like Bain Capital, which Mr. Romney ran. Ordinarily, such private-equity investments are frequently subject to something called the unrelated business income tax. But by going offshore, pension funds, universities, foundations and even large Individual Retirement Accounts can structure those investments to avoid that heavy tax.

Do you get a kick out of calling him "Willard?"

Why not try "Poopy-Head," it might give you a bigger thrill.