Tag: Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney Has Secret Black Friends

Filed in National by on July 12, 2012 9 Comments

And he won’t tell you who they are. This is from TPM, who has some of the video of Rmoney making this claim of secret support from black leadership.

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Mitt Romney Is Not Having a Good Week

Filed in National by on July 5, 2012 1 Comment

At least that is what it looks like from the radio and online news I see. Let’s start with his campaign not knowing how to settle on whether the penalty for not having health coverage built into Romneycare and Obamacare is a penalty or a tax

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Mitt Romney’s Such A Prankster

Filed in National by on June 17, 2012 2 Comments
Mitt Romney’s Such A Prankster

He’s just not funny or clever, but he thinks he is. Weatherly, Pennsylvania (CNN) – Mitt Romney, known as a fan and perpetrator of practical jokes, left a note for reporters covering his multi-state bus tour on Saturday. This is what passes for Mitt humor: Sad.

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Republican Super PAC Threatens To Put Religion On The Table

Filed in National by on May 17, 2012 18 Comments

My first thought is… are they seriously considering putting religion front and center?  That strikes me as politically nuts since the last thing Romney obviously wants to discuss is his Mormonism – Hell, he can’t even refer to his religion by name!  And if this PAC goes down the religion road then I’d expect Romney’s religion would suddenly become fair game… and he’d end up not only uttering the word Mormon, but explaining its tenets to his Real Christian base.

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The Bane that Bain Was

Filed in National by on May 16, 2012 12 Comments

Vice President Biden today will be reminding voters of the carnage Bain left and of Mitt Romney’s ineffective business leadership.

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Late Night Video — How Bain Capital Destroyed Jobs

Filed in National by on May 14, 2012 115 Comments

This is round one from the Obama Camp, working at defining Romney. This is being played in a handful of swing states — not a big ad buy, but if the cable news is an indicator, this is a big deal and nicely played.

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Late Night Video: Eminem Disses Cranbrook

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on May 13, 2012 1 Comment
Late Night Video: Eminem Disses Cranbrook

The Wrap points us to this scene from Eminem’s surprisingly good movie, 8 Mile. In this scene, Eminem’s character is in freestyle rap battle with his archenemy who Eminem destroys by associating him with Cranbrook.

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A Look Back on the Chen Guangcheng Crisis

Filed in National by on May 13, 2012 0 Comments
A Look Back on the Chen Guangcheng Crisis

There are a couple of important lessons regarding the Chen Guangcheng crisis of last week. The first is an understanding of the dissident’s problems and the second is a foreign policy lesson which Mitt Romney failed.

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Romney Preaches to the Choir

Filed in National by on May 13, 2012 20 Comments
Romney Preaches to the Choir

Yesterday, Mitt Romney passed his first audition with evangelicals as he gave the commencement speech at Liberty University, a private Christian university founded by Jerry Falwell, who infamously blamed gays, lesbians, feminists, the ACLU and others for the attacks on 9/11.

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The Education of Mitt Romney

Filed in National by on May 11, 2012 1 Comment
The Education of Mitt Romney

A life of privilege does not always give one a realistic outlook on the world. Sometimes it’s a hindrance.

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Mitt Romney’s Pattern of Homophobia

Filed in National by on May 11, 2012 37 Comments

There’s been lots of debate over whether Mitt Romney’s teenager years as a bully are fair game, but what I find interesting is that it shows a pattern of homophobia over many years.

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Grenell Wasn’t Romney’s First

Filed in National by on May 5, 2012 4 Comments
Grenell Wasn’t Romney’s First

As Liberal Elite pointed out, Mitt Romney likes to fire people. As Mother Jones reports, when Romney was governor he fired Ardith Wieworka, head of the state’s Office of Child Care Services. The reason? Wieworka concluded it was her marriage to another woman.

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Is Mitt Romney a Wimp?

Filed in National by on May 4, 2012 5 Comments

Mitt Romney lukewarmly backed Richard Grenell today on Fox News. Could this “backing” be any more tepid?

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