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IDW Convention Cancelled

April 23rd, 2012 | Posted by skaczmarski | Permalink

Sorry to report that this year’s annual convention scheduled for this coming weekend has been cancelled.

We are sorry for the inconvenience. Please remember to cancel your hotel reservations. Refunds will be issued.

“It’s almost like an Etch-A-Sketch”

March 25th, 2012 | Posted by skaczmarski | Permalink

Mitt Romney has had a reputation for years that he’ll say and stand for anything to get elected. As if Romney’s record of flip-flops didn’t prove that point enough, his top advisor confirmed yesterday that Romney has no core and will in fact say anything to get elected.

Romney’s top advisor said yesterday that Romney would “hit a reset button” for the general election and that “it’s almost like an Etch-A-Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all over again.” But Romney, who repeatedly calls himself a “severe conservative,” may not be able to shake his commitment to conservative voters. Romney:

  • Said he would “get rid of” Planned Parenthood, which provides lifesaving health care like mammograms and cervical cancer screenings for millions of women.
  • Recently embraced the Blunt Amendment, which would take women’s health decisions out of women’s hands and give it to their bosses.
  • Promised to veto the DREAM Act, denying young immigrants who came here as minors and who know no other home a chance to earn a path to citizenship by going to college or serving in the military.

Romney’s willingness to say and stand for anything to get elected is nothing new. He has flip-flopped on issue after issue to try to win over Republican voters:

  • Once he said that “abortion should be safe and legal in this country,” but now he says he’s pro-life.
  • Once he said that undocumented immigrants “should be able to sign up for permanent residency or citizenship” but now he says he would veto the DREAM Act.
  • He’s also flip-flopped on contraception, health reform, climate change, Afghanistan, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, China trade enforcement, and just about everything else.
  • He even faked a Southern accent while campaigning in Mississippi and Alabama.

With Romney’s repeated flip-flops on almost every single issue, it’s no wonder why voters don’t trust him. 

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Romney wants to “get rid of” Planned Parenthood

March 16th, 2012 | Posted by skaczmarski | Permalink

Democrats have produced a web video highlighting GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney’s recent statement that he plans to “get rid of” Planned

Parenthood. The ad features Romney speaking to St. Louis TV Station KDSK. In it, listing programs he would cut to help reduce spending

andthe deficit, he says, “of course you get rid of Obamacare, that’s the easy one, but there are others: Planned Parenthood. We’re gonna get rid of that.”

Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill) said Romney has “become the most extreme candidate on issues affecting women” as a result of “just trying to woo Tea Party voters.”

Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards said her organization wasn’t the only target.

“This disregard for women’s health has been [a] growing theme for Mr. Romney and his campaign,” Richards said. She cited Romney’s support for the Blunt-Rubio amendment and his endorsement of personhood campaign as other examples of this trend.