Obama, Not Reid, Should Be Taking on Mitt Romney's Tax Record. Open Thread. Ryan: a Reactionary Without Scruples. We’re approaching a stretch of time when it would be a blessing to fall into a stupor; better that than endure two mind-numbing marketing campaigns — one promoting a corporate ass kisser and drone-wielding devil we know, the other a corporate asshole and devil we’d rather not.
Apologies for not putting the point more decorously. But in this instance, let the language reflect William Blake’s teaching: “as the air to a bird or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible.” Before Mitt Romney chose Paul Ryan for a running mate, there was a slim chance that the election might at least be amusing. If only he had named a certifiable whack job – there were so many to choose from! I was hoping for Rick Perry, but only because Newt Gingrich and Michele Bachmann were too preposterous even for Mitt. Would that Sarah Palin was back! Everybody knows the answer: she’s out bilking her celebrity for all it’s (still) worth. Have Congress and the White House “Just Say No.” It wasn’t. The Angry Lightweight - By Michael A. Cohen.
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If there is one apparent truism of the 2012 U.S. presidential campaign, it is that foreign policy doesn't matter. It's the economy, stupid. No one is interested in drones, Afghanistan, China, or the future of NATO -- or so say the political pundits. While such arguments are almost certainly overstated, Republican candidate Mitt Romney's campaign appears to buy into this construct. After all, how else can one explain the candidate's complete lack of seriousness on foreign policy in this campaign?
Beginning with July 24's speech at the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) annual convention and continuing with his three-country trip to Britain, Israel, and Poland, the past week was supposed to showcase Romney's foreign-policy bona fides. Ryan pick in 5 easy steps. So it’s Romney-Ryan.
At least the ticket has a nice, alliterative ring to it. Mitt Romney and the return of the repressed. At a certain point, you have to feel sorry for Mitt Romney.
He’s so determined to hide his Massachusetts moderate past, to deny his years as governor there, that he’s gone into his own self-created Mittness protection program. Now he wears a brand-new identity, “severely conservative,” as he tries to court the GOP’s ultra-right Tea Party base. Except every once in a while, though, Romney or the folks closest to him trip up. Something makes them tell, well, something like the truth. A month ago, after days of Romney hitting President Obama for the “massive tax increase” allegedly represented by Obamacare, Romney advisor Eric Fehrnstrom famously defended the fine levied on those who refused to buy insurance as a penalty not a tax, because his boss had done the same thing in Massachusetts. RedState.com editor Erick Erickson headlined his post “The Moment All the Doubts About Romney Resurfaced on the Right.”
Mitt Romney Started Bain Capital With Money From Families Tied To Death Squads. In 1983, Bill Bain asked Mitt Romney to launch Bain Capital, a private equity offshoot of the successful consulting firm Bain & Company.
After some initial reluctance, Romney agreed. The new job came with a stipulation: Romney couldn't raise money from any current clients, Bain said, because if the private equity venture failed, he didn't want it taking the consulting firm down with it. When Romney struggled to raise funds from other traditional sources, he and his partners started thinking outside the box. Bain executive Harry Strachan suggested that Romney meet with a group of Central American oligarchs who were looking for new investment vehicles as turmoil engulfed their region. Romney was worried that the oligarchs might be tied to "illegal drug money, right-wing death squads, or left-wing terrorism," Strachan later told a Boston Globe reporter, as quoted in the 2012 book "The Real Romney.
" Romney's 'Free Stuff' Speech Is a New Low. Romney Stuck In Endless Loop Of Uncomfortable Chuckling. PORTSMOUTH, VA—According to increasingly concerned campaign sources, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney entered his 400th consecutive hour of uneasy chuckling Monday, apparently stuck in an endless loop of discomfort and apprehension that so far has shown no sign of abating.
Staffers confirmed Romney’s interminable nervous laughter has prevented him from sleeping, eating, or speaking a word for the past 16 days, leaving him visibly fatigued and haggard. Yet the presumptive GOP nominee has maintained a full schedule of campaign appearances, reportedly attending fundraisers, headlining rallies, and sitting for televised interviews, all while emitting an unending stream of anxious chuckles. “Last night I put my ear to the door of his hotel room after he was in bed, and I could still hear him chuckling in there,” Rhoades continued. “Everyone’s really worried about him.” This is not the first time the former governor has found himself stuck in a ceaseless cycle of discomfort. Mitt Romney Denies Knowing When His Wife's Olympic Horse Will Run. Jon Stewart mocks Romney’s Israel gaffes: Jews are culturally money-making motherf*ckers. By Eric W.
DolanTuesday, July 31, 2012 23:54 EDT On his show Tuesday night, Daily Show host Jon Stewart mocked Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s latest series of gaffes. While Romney was in Israel, the Republican candidate remarked at a fundraising event that the Israelis were more economically successful than the Palestinians because of their culture. “Romney appears to be saying that the Palestinians are purely the architects of their own poverty, or, if you prefer to look at the converse, that Jews are culturally some money-making motherfuckers,” Stewart joked. Romney also said Israel was prosperous thanks to the “hand of providence.” Jon Stewart Rips Romney for His Disastrous Visit to London. Bibi Netanyahu: No, Mitt Romney Isn't A Close Friend of Mine.
Mitt on Taxes: 'I Don't Pay More Than are Legally Due' How Uncle Sam Helped Mitt Romney Build His Fortune. Mitt Romney Closes Israeli Fundraiser To Reporters. No one vetted Mitt. Mitt Romney Registered As Lobbyist For Salt Lake City Olympics. WASHINGTON -- Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney loves to talk about his role salvaging the 2002 scandal-tarnished Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
It's one of the only items on his resume that he will discuss without hesitation. He's so proud of the accomplishment, he wrote a book about it called "Turnaround: Crisis, Leadership, And The Olympic Games. " His Olympics success was pivotal in his winning run for Massachusetts governor in 2002, and it may turn out to be just as important in his current campaign for the presidency. It's why he plans on cheering from the good seats when the opening ceremonies commence for the summer games in London this week.
But when it comes to the retelling of his Olympics story, Romney never mentions the L word. Romney wasn't just the head of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee. Romney and The Other. By Rev.
WILLIAM E. ALBERTS Mitt Romney recently visited a successful White-owned trucking company in the predominately Black Roxbury section of Boston to hype his repeated lie that President Obama said, “If you’ve got a business—you didn’t build that. . . . Somebody else made that happen.” Throwing salt in Mitt’s wounds. “When your opponent is drowning,” James Carville advised in “All’s Fair,” the 1995 book he wrote with his wife, “throw the son of a bitch an anvil.”
His words came to mind yesterday, when Mitt Romney opened what was designed as a friendly, image-boosting international tour by questioning Britain’s preparation for the Olympics and the readiness of its people to rally around the games, comments that provoked a loud and derisive outcry from the British press and political class. In Romney’s defense, what he said about the London games is actually tame compared to what Britons themselves have been saying. But surely he should have known the country would have no appetite for hearing it from a visiting American. And so he’s become an unwitting source of national unity – the ill-mannered Yank that all of Britain now wants to prove wrong. Stephen Colbert Makes a Mockery of Romney's Deceptive Campaign Ad. Romney Requiring Potential Running Mates To Write 5,000 Word Essay On Favorite Things About Money.
BOSTON—As part of its vetting process to select a potential vice president, the Romney campaign reportedly asked each of its shortlisted candidates this week to submit a 10-page essay describing, in detail, what they like most about money. "Before Mitt makes a final decision, he feels it's necessary to know what a prospective running mate’s favorite aspects of money are, be it its rich green color; its ability to be exchanged for luxury items like cars or beachfront homes; or the way it looks in neat, towering stacks," deputy campaign manager Katie Packer Gage told reporters Thursday. "We've made it clear to each essayist that Mitt’s not looking for anything specific here.
In fact, he wants candidates to just cut loose and really explore attributes they may not have even realized they loved about money, such as its durable cotton paper stock or how it spontaneously grows when left completely alone in a bank account. What Mitt Romney Learned From His Dad. Mitt’s “retroactive” escape. Without a doubt, the quote of the weekend was provided by Ed Gillespie, one of Mitt Romney’s top advisors, who tried to explain the candidate’s departure from Bain Capital by noting that he’d “retired retroactively.” The mockery was immediate and intense on Twitter, even though Gillespie wasn’t technically breaking any new ground. “Retroactive” is actually the correct way to characterize Romney’s retirement from Bain, the result of a 2002 severance agreement that declared February 1999 to be the date of his departure.
Politically, though, Gillespie’s phraseology is problematic for two reasons. One is just the way it sounds – slippery and comically legalistic, sort of like Bill Clinton expounding on the meaning of the word “is,” or John Kerry explaining how he “actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.” Comic-Con: Romney the Robot Pokes Fun at Mitt Romney.
Bain, Bain, Go Away: In Defense, Romney Attacks. Hide captionMitt Romney appears on ABC News in one of the five TV interviews he did Friday. He mostly responded to comments from the Obama campaign about his role at Bain Capital. ABC News Mitt Romney appears on ABC News in one of the five TV interviews he did Friday. He mostly responded to comments from the Obama campaign about his role at Bain Capital. UPDATED: Romney's Protests About Outsourcing Unravel. Which Lie Did He Tell? Romney on NAACP Booing: If They Want More Free Stuff, Tell Them to Go Vote for the Other Guy. Mitt Romney Loudly Booed at NAACP for Calling for Repeal of 'Obamacare' Romney Raises Record-Breaking $106 Million. Open Thread. Report On Continuing Plight Of Millions Of Unemployed Americans Results In Round Of High-Fives At Romney Campaign Headquarters. BOSTON—Bleak unemployment numbers released Wednesday reportedly sent a wave of applause cascading through the headquarters of Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, with staffers rejoicing at news that millions of jobless Americans will continue to face crippling debt and emotional hardship as the election draws near.
Calling the Labor Department report a "major boost" for the campaign, sources confirmed the grim economic data and deeply troubling descent of unemployed Americans into utter financial ruin spurred a round of high-fives among Romney aides, followed by repeated hoots, hollers, and whistles. "Yes! " said senior strategist Stuart Stevens, slamming his hand triumphantly on his desk while scanning recent household survey figures that confirm recovery of the labor markets remains discouragingly slow. "Are you guys seeing this? Someone go make copies. "Has anyone told Mitt yet? " Investigation: Mitt Romney’s Offshore Accounts, Tax Loopholes, and Mysterious I.R.A. Romney Invested in Medical-Waste Firm That Disposed of Aborted Fetuses, Government Documents Show.
Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/Zuma Earlier this year, Mitt Romney nearly landed in a politically perilous controversy when the Huffington Post reported that in 1999 the GOP presidential candidate had been part of an investment group that invested $75 million in Stericycle, a medical-waste disposal firm that has been attacked by anti-abortion groups for disposing aborted fetuses collected from family planning clinics. Coming during the heat of the GOP primaries, as Romney tried to sell South Carolina Republicans on his pro-life bona fides, the revelation had the potential to damage the candidate's reputation among values voters already suspicious of his shifting position on abortion. Mitt Romney Wants Americans To 'Get All The Education They Can Afford'
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