Robert Duvall hosts fundraiser for Romney

[Michchamp]

link. $2500/head to attend, $25,000/plate to eat.

when celebrities stump for GOP candidates, is it as worthy of ridicule as when they do it for democrats, or is it somehow different?

 

[Mitchrapp]

Its the same. As long as he doesn't sing.

 

[byco42]

link. $2500/head to attend, $25,000/plate to eat.

when celebrities stump for GOP candidates, is it as worthy of ridicule as when they do it for democrats, or is it somehow different?

Both are contemptible. But it's Dems who are paying $35,000 a plate for an Obama fundraiser in places like Greenwich, CT, and still claiming that Romney is "out of touch" with the average American. It's a straw issue that somehow never applied to JFK or FDR, but the liberal-leaning masses are still lapping it up like spilt whiskey.

 

[redandguilty]

link. $2500/head to attend, $25,000/plate to eat.

when celebrities stump for GOP candidates, is it as worthy of ridicule as when they do it for democrats, or is it somehow different?

What? But I just saw him playing Lee in Gods and Generals!

 

[Michchamp]

Both are contemptible. But it's Dems who are paying $35,000 a plate for an Obama fundraiser in places like Greenwich, CT, and still claiming that Romney is "out of touch" with the average American. It's a straw issue that somehow never applied to JFK or FDR, but the liberal-leaning masses are still lapping it up like spilt whiskey.

but could you agree that whether a person is in-touch or out-of-touch with the average american has nothing to do with how much they are able (or willing) to spend on a plate for a political fundraiser?

 

[byco42]

but could you agree that whether a person is in-touch or out-of-touch with the average american has nothing to do with how much they are able (or willing) to spend on a plate for a political fundraiser?

I'm pretty much thinking that that was exactly my point. I'll play it straighter from now on so there is no misunderstanding.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Its the same. As long as he doesn't sing.

Duvall's a pretty good singer though. Do you guys remember "Tender Mercies?"

 

[Michchamp]

but could you agree that whether a person is in-touch or out-of-touch with the average american has nothing to do with how much they are able (or willing) to spend on a plate for a political fundraiser?

I mean, Romney IS out-of-touch with the average American, unless you're asking him to relate to some the trouble of finding adequate winter storage for your yacht, or how to handle the occasional pesky SEC officer who deigns to actually hold up your latest LBO deal by asking some stupid question...

one of our fellow posters said it well in this thread.

 

[tinselwolverine]

link. $2500/head to attend, $25,000/plate to eat. when celebrities stump for GOP candidates, is it as worthy of ridicule as when they do it for democrats, or is it somehow different?

Me, I like either Green Party or Libertarian Party fund raisers, and for the same reasons - admission is a lot less, and in both cases, they're usually held at Medieval Times.

 

[byco42]

I mean, Romney IS out-of-touch with the average American, unless you're asking him to relate to some the trouble of finding adequate winter storage for your yacht, or how to handle the occasional pesky SEC officer who deigns to actually hold up your latest LBO deal by asking some stupid question...

one of our fellow posters said it well in this thread.

So then, is John Kerry, Jane Harman, Jay Rockefeller, Herb Kohl, Diane Feinstein, John Corzine, the Clintons (but not DeWitt) and Mark Warner.

It's either an issue for both sides, or it's not an issue at all. I say it's not an issue at all. After all. John Kerry docked his 7-million-dollar yacht in Rhode Island to avoid paying $500,000 in taxes to his native state of Massachusetts. I say "great!" It communicates that Massachusetts is charging too much to park his yacht in state, except that Kerry is a tax-and-spender to his last breath, unless, apparently, it's his money being taxed.

 

[Mitchrapp]

So then, is John Kerry, Jane Harman, Jay Rockefeller, Herb Kohl, Diane Feinstein, John Corzine, the Clintons (but not DeWitt) and Mark Warner.

It's either an issue for both sides, or it's not an issue at all. I say it's not an issue at all. After all. John Kerry docked his 7-million-dollar yacht in Rhode Island to avoid paying $500,000 in taxes to his native state of Massachusetts. I say "great!" It communicates that Massachusetts is charging too much to park his yacht in state, except that Kerry is a tax-and-spender to his last breath, unless, apparently, it's his money being taxed.

Slam dunk.

 

[Michchamp]

So then, is John Kerry, Jane Harman, Jay Rockefeller, Herb Kohl, Diane Feinstein, John Corzine, the Clintons (but not DeWitt) and Mark Warner.

It's either an issue for both sides, or it's not an issue at all. I say it's not an issue at all. After all. John Kerry docked his 7-million-dollar yacht in Rhode Island to avoid paying $500,000 in taxes to his native state of Massachusetts. I say "great!" It communicates that Massachusetts is charging too much to park his yacht in state, except that Kerry is a tax-and-spender to his last breath, unless, apparently, it's his money being taxed.

no, you know, he's not out of touch just because he's rich. that was my point in the 2nd post of this thread. he's out of touch because (as Victor's said) he is an out-of-touch assclown.

GWB was rich, yet was typically considered more of a man of the people than Al Gore.

for the record: I am no fan of Feinstein, Corzine, or Kerry.

 

[byco42]

no, you know, he's not out of touch just because he's rich. that was my point in the 2nd post of this thread. he's out of touch because (as Victor's said) he is an out-of-touch assclown.

GWB was rich, yet was typically considered more of a man of the people than Al Gore.

for the record: I am no fan of Feinstein, Corzine, or Kerry.

Yet your own derision of him involved the "concerns of the wealthy." The yacht. The SEC dodges, et. al.

I think that BHO is completely disconnected from the people in this country, based on his actions and his words. His vision of America is highly personal and without regard to the ideology that it is founded upon. He actually thinks what is mine is yours, if I have more than you. For someone who has more than me, I don't want it. Just don't prevent me from attaining what I can earn with my own will and intelligence.

So far, no one has obstructed me. Oh, wait(!) ... the business I am building for myself? I didn't do that!

I'll take an ass clown any day who ignores me over a statist who could care less about me. The distinction is clear.

 

[tinselwolverine]

GWB was rich, yet was typically considered more of a man of the people than Al Gore.

Al Gore didn't exactly grow up the son of a steel mill worker.

 

[Thumb]

Al Gore didn't exactly grow up the son of a steel mill worker.

That, and the little fact that he was oh say; Bat-Shit Crazy?

 

[tinselwolverine]

That, and the little fact that he was oh say; Bat-Shit Crazy?

That did not help him much, neither...

We could carry on here as to how Kerry could have possibly lost to Bush...but

It's been chronicled.

Byco's "Frankensteinhead," or that's what it was, as I recall; maybe it was "MrEdHead..."

But as Juliette Binoche said in "Chocolat...." "these are discussions for another day..."

Or something to that effect.

I'm going to bed now with my wife.

In the words of Johnny Depp from Chocolat, when he finally tasted hot chocolate -

"My favorite."

 

[Michchamp]

shit.

 

[byco42]

That did not help him much, neither...

We could carry on here as to how Kerry could have possibly lost to Bush...but

It's been chronicled.

Byco's "Frankensteinhead," or that's what it was, as I recall; maybe it was "MrEdHead..."

I always pegged Kerry as one of those apple trees in the Wizard of Oz.