Say No to Rubio and the "New American Century"

The first thing I noticed back in April when Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio announced his run was the banner with the words "New American Century" in the background.

This is code word for a defunct think-tank by the same name which provided the intellectual ammunition for George W. Bush's disastrous Iraq foreign policy.

One writer describes the defunct Project for the New American Century as desiring and demanding "one thing: the establishment of a global American Empire to bend the will of all nations."

I agree.

The Project for the New American Century was a place warmongers turned to hear the intellectual justifications for their warmongering and hawkish foreign policy. This organization was started by neoconservative William Kristol, who is currently an editor of the neocon Weakly Standard.

Dick Cheney, Vice President under Bush II, is a founding member.

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is a founding member.

Not that Rubio is hiding hawkish views, as you might see in the debates, but his selection of "New American Century" is very telegraphic of the kind of people he would place in his administration.

The next thing I noticed was that Mitt Romney's former aides embraced him.

This should tell you all you need to know.

We don't need a Latino George Bush. Say no to Rubio.

Vote Rand Paul.

Video: Obama's Syrian rebels are practicing cannibalism

Remember, Mitt Romney said he would work to organize and arm Syrian rebels 'who share our values' back in 2012 when he was running for President.

Former Reagan Official: Bain Capital less likely to exist in a free-market

(GoinsReport.com) -- Bain Capital, the company Republican Presidential Candidate spearheaded for XX years, is a product of years of a rigged crony capitalist system, not true free-markets, says former Reagan budget director David Stockman.

[Editor's Note: The link is, admittedly, from an article published in October 2012.]

Vox Day on Mitt Romney

What we learned from the convention is that Mitt Romney is a dictator who expects obedience and does not tolerate even the mere appearance of dissent. More ominously, he is also a rules lawyer who is more than willing to smash the spirit of the game while rewriting its rules any time it appears to suit his interests. From keeping important party figures such as Ron Paul and Sarah Palin off the podium to refusing to recognize the duly-elected delegates from Maine, from changing the party rules on the fly to indulging in a Soviet-style vote count in which only votes for Romney were reported, it is clear that Mitt Romney is even more inclined toward authoritarian rule than Barack Obama has ever shown himself to be.

Romney's Fair Warning || Vox Day

Weekly Health Review, Vol. 12

Romney's Vice Presidential running mate is far from a fiscal conservative as evidenced by his voting for the biggest Medicare expansion in history, POLITICO reports.

The men of the 2012 Presidential election, Romney, Ryan, and Obama, have all supported near trillion dollar cuts in Medicare, ABC News' Jake Tapper reports.

The key to fixing emergency rooms' overcrowding problem is to put more emphasis on primary care, a doctor wrote for Politic365.com.

Flashback: Mitt Romney invested in a company that disposed aborted fetuses by placing them into an incinerator, Mother Jones reports.

Pat Buchanan: Is Mitt being neoconned into war? - Conservative News

“No option would be excluded. Gov. Romney recognizes Israel’s right to defend itself and that it is right for America to stand with it.”

What does “stand with” Israel, if she launches a surprise attack on Iran, mean? Does it mean the United States will guide Israeli planes to their targets and provide bases on their return? Does it mean U.S. air cover while Israeli planes strike Iran?

Pat Buchanan: Is Mitt being neoconned into war? - Conservative News

WaPo: 'Mitt Romney, Keynesian'

Ezra Klein notes.

Obama leads in donations from women; Romney donations from men

(GoinsReport.com) – President Barack Obama leads against Republican candidates former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) in the number of campaign donations given by women and the number of women that donated.

According to OpenSecrets.org, which uses the latest figures from the Federal Election Commission released May 21, President Obama received $39,733, 646 from 42,898 female donors in the 2012 election cycle.

In contrast, Mitt Romney received $24,787,174 from 15,546 female donors and Ron Paul received only $2,358,242 from 3,226 female donors.

More men donated than women in all three candidates’ campaigns, but as a percentage of who gave the most between Obama and Romney, the former Massachusetts governor leads with 69.3 percent of his funds coming from male donors; whereas 55.5 percent of Obama’s contributors were men.

If Paul is included, he exceeds both Obama and Romney in male donors as a percentage of campaign contributions accounting for 81.9 percent of his funds.

Most of the female donors that contributed to Obama’s campaign gave between the $200 and $499 range. That category, which consists of a little over 20,000 women, accounted for $5,257,560 of the $39.7 million total.

But the real money-maker for Obama was from the 4,608 female donors who gave in the $2,500+ category whose total donations equals $19,196,719; also, that category proved a bonanza for Obama as well with $28,201,786 coming from over 6,000 men.

Unlike Obama, who received most of his donations in the $200 and $499 range, Mitt Romney received most of his donations from 7,312 women giving in the $2500+ range, giving him $18,870,800 in that category alone.

Over 7,000 more men donated to Barack Obama’s campaign but donated less than Romney in total.

Obama received $49,568,913 from 45,154 male donors. Romney, in contrast, received $55,832,327 from 38,134 male donors.

Most male donors to Obama donated in the $200 to $499 range a total of $5,001,890. And most male donors to Mitt Romney donated in the $2,500+ range.

Obama received the most contributions in the $5,000+ category in comparison to Mitt Romney and Ron Paul.

Obama received $31,456,467 in the $5,000+ category from 6,241 donors.

The number of donors that contributed in the $5,000+ category to Romney was only 619; and for Paul, 17. Paul received $10,692,020 total from 15,601 male donors.

All figures account for the 2012 cycle, which accounts for Jan 1st, 2011 to the latest disclosed information, which was April 30th, 2012. They do not include SuperPAC money.

Ron Paul: Romney would be ‘marginally’ better than Obama, not ‘100 percent different’ - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room

Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) conceded Thursday that Mitt Romney would make a “marginally” better president than Obama.

“We can’t boil it down and say it’s Obama’s fault and Romney will be 100 percent different and it will all be better,” Paul told conservative Laura Ingraham on her radio show.

Ron Paul: Romney would be ‘marginally’ better than Obama, not ‘100 percent different’ - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room

Ron Paul: We have to stop worrying about whose mowing Mitt Romney’s yard

(GoinsReport.com) -- GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul qualified his recent comments about being disgusted during the Las Vegas Presidential debate on Meet the Press, adding that the debates need to focus less on who’s mowing whose lawn and more on pertinent issues.

Meet The Press Host David Gregory asked Paul on Sunday what turns him off about the presidential debates.

“I guess it’s the uselessness of some of this rhetoric,” Paul said. “I mean arguing over who mows Mitt Romney’s lawn in the midst of a crisis—a sovereign debt worldwide crisis. The biggest in the history of the world and the financial system of the world is about to collapse.”

Paul added that the United States is getting ready to have another devaluation of its credit rating and that the United States has to get it’s spending under control.

“We’re gotta have to get a hand on this. We have to quit worrying about whose mowing Mitt Romney’s yard,” Paul said.

The Des Moines Register quotes Paul on Friday as saying “I can tell you that after the first 45 minutes I was tempted to walk off that stage. I thought it was disgusting.” Paul made those comments after he toured a wind-turbine blade manufacturer in Newton, Iowa.

Perry: Social Security is ‘Ponzi Scheme'; Romney: It’s Not a Failure ‘By Any Measure’ | CNSnews.com

In 2010, however, the Social Security system ran a deficit, not a surplus. Social Security benefit payments equaled $701.6 billion, according to the Social Security Board of Trustees Report, while payroll taxes for Social Security equaled only $637.3 billion.

Perry: Social Security is ‘Ponzi Scheme'; Romney: It’s Not a Failure ‘By Any Measure’ | CNSnews.com