Rick, you’ve been Romney’d
All the headlines this morning are blaring “RICK SANTORUM WON THE DAY AND YES I’M SHOUTING!!!
[Image credit: Daily Kos via Newseum]
But they are wrong. As it turns out, even in Mississippi where Santorum got the most votes, Mitt Romney walked away with more delegates that poor Rick. In fact, yesterday Romney ended up with 43 delegates and Rick Santorum got only 36. (Newt Gingrich got 24 and Ron Paul got 1.)
That’s what happens when you have rich friends who are Superdelegates and you and your SuperPACs outspend your rivals by leaps and bounds:
[Chart courtesy of Zeke Miller | Buzzfeed]
And yet Mitt still can bring it home, can he? In Alabama, he outspent Santorum and Gingrich combined nearly two-to-one yet they both got more delegates than Romney did there.
The Republicans don’t need the Democrats to tinker with their primaries. They are making a complete Clown Show hash of it all on their own.
Adding… Let’s not forget that Mitt’s tax proposal, which is supposed to reduce the deficit, is lopsidedly in favor of the über-rich:
The central feature of Romney’s new plan is an across-the-board 20 percent tax cut — on top of continuing the Bush tax cuts, by McIntyre’s reading. For the top earners, that means the tax rate drops to 28 percent. The plan also cuts the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 25 percent, repeals the estate tax, and maintains the current tax rate of 15 percent on income from capital gains.Bottom line?“The wealthy will pay far less in taxes than they do now, including a wealthy person named Mitt Romney,” McIntyre says.
As Obama Campaign Manager Jim Messina put it:
Mitt Romney yesterday on how to reduce the national deficit: “Planned Parenthood, we’re gonna get rid of that.” THAT’S his solution?
— Jim Messina (@Messina2012) March 14, 2012
And, as my blogging partner LOLGOP responded:
Anyone who would pretend to go from pro-choice to shutting down Planned Parentood in less than a decade is corrupt beyond all hope.
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) March 14, 2012
