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Why would people in Maine vote for Mitt Romney for President? Romney brags about his record as an executive at Bain Capital, but when Romney was at Bain Capital, he bought up companies in Maine and then destroyed them, eliminating huge numbers of jobs that communities in Maine have never gotten back.

Consider the example of Randy Johnson, who had a good job at a paper plant in Maine – until Mitt Romney and Bain Capital moved on. Mitt Romney ordered the paper plant to be closed, and Randy Johnson was out of work.

Randy Johnson didn’t do anything wrong to lose that job, and he wasn’t offered another job by any of the companies that Mitt Romney owned. Romney just moved on, leaving Mr. Johnson, and other workers in Maine, as collateral damage to his effort to build up a personal fortune for himself.

Mitt Romney offers up abstract justifications for destroying jobs in Maine. That’s easy for him. All Mitt Romney saw was a balance sheet, and a way to exploit a vulnerability to make a short-term profit. Romney didn’t bother to get to know the people whose lives he was wrecking.

Workers in Maine have another perspective. To them, jobs aren’t just theoretical economic principles. They’re what it takes to keep their children fed and clothed. “These are not just thoughts. There are real jobs there were lost,” Randy Johnson explains.

Mitt Romney doesn’t understand that. Romney has never had to work in a job he didn’t want. Romney has never lived in fear of what will happen to his family if he loses a job. Romney inherited millions of dollars when he was born.

A politician who is out of touch with the reality of the jobs destroyed through corporate abuses is not suited to serve as President of the United States. That’s why, in the 2012 presidential election, Maine is against Mitt Romney.

Once upon a time, not very long ago, Newt Gingrich shut down America. He took our public square, the democratic government that the Founding Fathers fought for, and closed it off, locking the doors and turning out the light.

Why would Gingrigh do such a thing? It was all just because he had a grudge – a personal grudge against Bill Clinton.

Newt Gingrich tried to rob the USA of its democratically elected President too, on the accusation that Clinton had a series of extramarital affairs. Well, guess what? At the very same time, Newt Gingrich was having a series of sexual affairs.

This kind of selfish arrogance has been typical throughout Newt Gingrich’s political career. Now, as America is fighting its way out of the recession that Gingrich helped to cause, is the very last time that we should accept the flawed leadership of man who allows himself to be ruled by fits of rage.

Responsible voters need to turn out at the polls, because it’s time to shut down Newt Gingrich before he shuts down America

American liberals, ask yourself this question: What has Barack Obama done for you lately?

Obama has helped Republicans arrange for huge budget cuts to education, to Medicare, and to American infrastructure. He’s extended George W. Bush’s tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. He’s done this while expanding military spending to record breaking levels.

Barack Obama has refused to support marriage equality for same sex couples. He’s actually sent lawyers to court to argue that homosexuality is like bestiality – an argument we thought was better suited to Rick Santorum.

Barack Obama has expanded the unconstitutional White House Office Of Faith Based Initiatives. He’s extended the Patriot Act without reforms. He has refused to reform the FISA Amendments Act, as he promised he would.

When the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling platform exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, unleashing the biggest oil spill in American history, Barack Obama did not respond with a moratorium on new offshore drilling. Instead, Obama expanded oil drilling both offshore and onshore.

Barack Obama’s record in the White House is unacceptable to progressive Democrats.

Luckily, progressive Democrats have an alternative. Darcy Richardson is running for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 2012 – and he’s on the ballot.

Give Darcy Richardson your vote, and wear this Darcy Richardson for President campaign tshirt to show your support. The shirt is made in America, not in a nasty overseas sweatshop.

Yes, it looks like Mitt Romney is probably going to win the 2012 Republican presidential nomination contest, but let’s be honest – it wasn’t really a very vigorous contest, was it? The Republican presidential candidates competed with each other to see who could be the most insane, the most pathetic, the furthest outside of America’s boundaries of reasonable behavior.

So, Mitt Romney won that competition, huh? Well, that only means that Mitt Romney was chosen as the most outrageous of the whole bunch. That’s no distinction to be proud of.

Romney’s particular problem is that he’s still following a political agenda that was dying 50 years ago, a narrow vision of American values that was dead and buried long ago. Mitt Romney has dug that 20th century politics up out of its grave, and is trying to convince everyone it’s still alive and breathing. It’s disgusting to watch. Mitt Romney is the political undead of the 2012 election.

This political keychain perfectly captures the idea of Mitt Romney’s moaning, shuffling, tired old routine. It recasts Mitt Romney as Mitt Zombie, campaigning for Lord of the Underworld instead of for President of the United States.

I can picture Romney now, giving a speech to his fellow Republican zombies, promising “Brains in every pot!”

In the topsy turvy realm of Republican presidential politics, we’ve just seen a major upset. Oh sure, Mitt Romney won the Iowa caucuses, but he won by only 8 votes over Rick Santorum. That kind of victory, given that Mitt Romney was the presumed frontrunner, is really a loss.

It’s a troubling surprise, given that Rick Santorum benefits the most from Romney’s failure.

Rick Santorum is a former United States Senator. He’s a former senator because he was soundly driven out of office by Pennsylvania voters who were upset at his extremist right wing social agenda. Rick Santorum has the values of medieval times, expecting everyone to follow the commands of his Mother Church, supporting torture and endless war, suggesting campaigns of repression against cultural minorities.

Rick Santorum’s regressive zeal is a dangerous threat to American democracy. That’s why people, shocked by the Iowa caucus results, are now joining together as Americans Against Rick Santorum. Let’s hope we’re not too late.