The Self-Made Myth Haunts America and Is Contributing to Our Demise
The self-made myth perpetuated by conservatives has been allowed to shape policy, demonize government, and deny how much is built together
The self-made myth perpetuated by conservatives has been allowed to shape policy, demonize government, and deny how much is built together
Mitt Romney refuses to meet with the folks from Bainport to discuss his company shipping their jobs to China, yet he says he didn’t mean what he said about the 47%.
Candy Crowley, who is moderating the upcoming Presidential debate, called Mitt Romney out on the inconsistencies in his abortion positions today.
On ‘This Week’, Jake Tapper called out Mitt Romney’s claim that he would get tough on China when he is still invested in Chinese companies.
Romney claims he had a bipartisan record as Governor, but history tells another story. He issued 800 vetoes, most of which were overturned.
Mitt Romney is running around Ohio talking tough about China today, but one place he won’t go near is Freeport, IL where the Bain owned Sensata Technologies is sending 170 jobs to China.
President Clinton explains Mitt Romney’s $5 trillion tax cut and how middle class families will have to pay for $250,000 in tax cuts for multi-millionaires.
V.P. Joe Biden warned women today what was at stake in the election, saying that the Romney’Ryan ticket has a social policy out of the 1950’s.
To suggest that t Obama should have handled Romney’s lies like Biden did Ryan’s is to miss the bigger point: These two Republicans are not the same kinds of liars.
Paul Ryan made clear last night that he wants his religious beliefs to inform our decisions, while claiming it is his that are under attack
Mitt Romney politicized the attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi today as the House GOP outed the CIA, suggesting that they might be investigating the wrong agency.
While campaigning in Florida today, President Obama used his strongest language yet to take on Mitt Romney’s strategy of lies and political amnesia.
Without being able to remember his five point plan, Ann Romney promises that just electing Mitt Romney will instantly improve the economy.
The Obama campaign announced today that their voter registration and early voting margins in Ohio, Iowa, Nevada, North Carolina, and Florida are bigger than they were in 2008.
Republicans reacted with cries of media bias when they saw this photo, but they conveniently forgot how they laughed at a 2009 Obama photo
Romney should be focusing on selling himself to the center, not driving attention to his very radical positions on abortion and women’s health.
Scott Brown tried to morph into Mitt Romney with an endless stream of lies, but Elizabeth Warren was ready and stormed past the incumbent in their third debate.
The mother of slain Navy SEAL Glen Doherty is not happy to hear Mitt Romney using her dead son for political gain, and the late SEAL’s friend is sickened by Romney’s act of political exploitation.
Bill Clinton is hammering Mitt Romney for saying anything in an attempt to get elected president. The former president is also warning voters not to fooled by Romney’s lies.
Romney said he had no plans to make any legislation restricting abortion and two hours later, his campaign quietly issued yet another retraction.
Ryan’s budget plan is heartless, bad for America and when properly scrutinized, indefensible. At the VP debate, Joe Biden will keep smiling and watch the young kid strangle himself.
The Romney camp interprets conservatives’ increase in support post debate as tacit approval to move further to the left.
Mitt Romney was greeted in Iowa by protest sign carrying versions Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Elmo, Cookie Monster, and Bert and Ernie affiliated with Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement.
The GOP has surrendered its platform to the most extremist elements within the Religious Right and offers a candidate who has done the same
The Romney campaign threw a fit tonight and cut off an interview when a local reporter asked Paul Ryan a tax cut question. If Ryan can’t handle the local media, how will he deal with Joe Biden?
We can add children to list of list of victims who are the 47%, as Mitt Romney refused to participate in a Nickelodeon special and answer questions from kids.
For at least the third time during this campaign, Mitt Romney delivered what was billed as a major foreign policy address that contained no foreign policy, but promised more war.
Mitt Romney gave us ample warning of what he would do to the Supreme Court’s balance when he chose Robert Bork as the head of his judicial advisory team.
Mitt Romney is campaigning as not-Obama and in this case at least, he is being entirely honest: he is not Obama
In order for Romney to determine that he needed to fire Big Bird, surely he did some math. Why won’t he tell us about his secret tax plans?
Post debate polls back up the fact that Romney failed to establish himself as presidential, as new media tools show the public thought Obama won on substance.
Obama for America’s new TV ad brands Romney as dishonest for citing a ‘non-partisan’ study by a group comprised of Dick Cheney, Newt Gingrich and a person from Bain Capital.
The money men were beginning to realize the wisdom of the old saw about throwing good money after bad and many pundits were speculating that the debate was Romney’s last gasp.
After irritating Spain during the Denver debate by getting his facts wrong, the AP Says Mitt Romney might need a crash course in diplomacy 101.
It was generally conceded that Mitt Romney won the first debate. The question is can you trust anything he said? He is not to be trusted.
The Romney campaign reacted to the latest jobs report, not by being happy for the country, but with stone silence and depression.
Mitt Romney attacked Obama over jobs Friday in Abingdon, Virginia, but coal jobs are at the highest level in 15 years and unemployment is at its lowest level since 2009.
Mitt Romney had planned to say he wrong to say what he said about the 47% at the Denver debate, but he wasn’t given that chance so he took his case to Fox.
Post debate discussion focused on Romney’s energy and ability to take down Jim Lehrer. One problem: he isn’t running against Jim Lehrer
Mitt Romney said Scott Brown was sent to DC to stop ObamaCare, calling out Brown as a Republican obstructionist sent to DC to do the Republicans’ bidding
President Obama wasted no time taking advantage of Mitt Romney’s web of debate lies, by calling out the numerous falsehoods that Republican nominee uttered at the first presidential debate.
Here we go. Obama is hitting Romney on the trail, fact-checkers are having a field day with Romney, and now the ads have started.
Mitt Romney told outright lies about his record on several occasions – at least 12 times. The day after the debate, the brutal results of presenting a fictional Romney are starting to sink in.
The mainstream media was quick to proclaim a Romney victory afer last night’s debate, but who really won remains to be seen
The President and Mitt Romney were fighting about their tax plans when MittFit number one erupted.
The President, a man of nuance and policy, is squaring off tonight against Mitt Romney who’s armed with zingers and evasions.
There is one policy area in which Mitt Romney has remained consistent: namely his support of the Bush era torture policy.
The Obama Bombshell video has done nothing but discredit the peddlers on the Right on multiple levels. Their days of ACORNing their opponents are numbered.
The Obama camp explains in detail what Mitt Romney is really saying in case he does spend those ninety minutes avoiding the facts and sticking instead to the same hollow plans he’s shown us before.
A judge ruled that Pennsylvania’s voter suppression law not be enforced this election, that those without photo IDs must be allowed to vote
Mitt’s handlers will give him talking points, while President Obama will be armed with the truth at the first presidential debate.
We found out today that offshore investments did help Romney get as rich as he is, even though he told you otherwise. Also, he is still dodging specifics on his tax plan.
According to a new CNN poll, President Obama is expanding his already huge lead with Latino voters. Among all Latino voters, Obama leads Romney 75%-21%.
When pressed during a local Wisconsin interview, Paul Ryan admitted that the whole Romney tax plan is based on the trickle down theory that more tax cuts will magically bring growth and prosperity.
Proving that all he can see in Obama is his skin color, George Will had decided that the only reason Americans aren’t firing Obama is because he’s black.
Romney tried to pivot on immigration, but the Obama campaign hit back reminding voters that Romney hasn’t said whether he would continue the President’s policy and has failed to provide specifics.
‘It is also very difficult to win an election when you are getting shellacked among women, the group that makes up about half the electorate.’
The swing state of Nevada is pumped up. 11,200 people waited in line during 90 degree heat to see Obama yesterday in Las Vegas.
The North Carolina Republican Party announced Monday that they have fired the fraud scandal-ridden Sproul shell company that has also done around 70,000 voter registrations for the Romney campaign.
Pundits and Republicans have been busy setting Romney up for Great Expectations on Wednesday night at the first debate, contrary to his message that he is the underdog.
Mitt Romney heads into the first debate at a disadvantage with the middle class according to the results of the latest USA TodayGallup poll
A 70-year-old retired store owner told the Columbus Dispatch ‘All you have to do is look at the Republican platform. I’ve never seen such HATE this year in the Republican Party, national or state.’
Chris Christie went on ABC’s This Week supposedly to defend Mitt Romney, but he ended up praising an Obama ad that claimed Romney will cut taxes on the rich.
If the Republican Party didn’t want or expect Sproul to engage in election fraud, they would be demanding that he give their money back.
Republicans have been complaining endlessly about the polls all being skewed towards Obama, so PPP gave conservatives the ‘unskewed’ results of their polling in Florida.
Obama is pulling a Clinton (Explainer in Chief ) before the debates, explaining to the people what Romney’s business record really involved.
Americans are becoming informed consumers, and if Republicans persist in selling the same broken merchandise with a different salesman, they will lose elections.
You would think that in 2012 we’d be in a position to say goodbye to patriarchy but instead it has become the focus of the Republican Party
Ann Romney told a reporter in a local TV interview on Thursday that her biggest concern with Mitt was his ‘mental well-being’.
President Obama artfully and diplomatically manipulated Netanyahu and Mitt Romney is like a puppy chasing Obama, copying Obama’s words on Iran.
Most Republicans would rather we completely forget how bad the economy was in 2008, yet have nominated someone who will repeat those policies, it is Obama who has America on a healthy economic path.
Romney is trying to lower expectations for his debate performance via a sympathy boost because he’s not Obama. The Obama campaign came back with ‘facts matter’.
Innocent misunderstanding or more? A young Mormon woman says she works for the County Clerk and is only registering Romney voters
The one discussion that has not been receiving quite as much focused attention is the race – and racism – factor in this campaign.
Paul Ryan was on Fox today trying to walk back Mitt Romney’s inadvertent admission yesterday, when he told working class Ohio that he’d be raising their taxes.
MoveOn.Org submitted a complaint to the DOJ Thursday, urging an investigation into Romney’s alleged violation of the False Statements Act.
Fox News viewers are so out of touch with reality that 90% of them actually think that Mitt Romney is going to win Ohio.
The DNC is mocking Mitt Romney’s latest ad in which he pretends to care about the poor. Romney’s new strategy is to sound like Obama, without being Obama.
The latest Quinnipiac polls of Florida and Ohio show support for President Obama surging in each state. Obama gained 4 points of support in Ohio, and 6 points in Florida over the past month.
Since Ryan was chosen as Romney’s running mate, he attempted to distance himself from his devotion to Randian ideology, but his budget and audio tapes remain.
When Mitt Romney wandered off script and admitted that Obama hasn’t raised taxes, Paul Ryan looked like someone just punched him in the stomach.
In a new ad, Obama used Mitt Romney’s contempt for half of the country against the Republican nominee. Again. Only it hurt a lot more this time.
Mitt Romney took aim at working moms today at NBC News’ Education Nation Summit, saying that it’s better if one parent can stay at home during early years.
If you like the work of the NFL’s replacement refs, then you’ll love how Mitt Romney will govern the country if he win the election in November.
Romney has made it perfectly clear that he does not care, or worry, about nearly half of America and that includes their health.
Ralph Reed, the 90’s Evangelical Wunderkind, once disgraced, is back again mobilizing the vote he once said was mythical, for Mitt Romney
The Romney campaign is planning their White House transition. When Obama did it in 2008, he was accused of measuring the drapes, but Obama appeared to have a good shot of needing those drapes.
Seven new swing state polls released today all came to the same conclusion. President Obama has at least a four point lead in Michigan, North Carolina, Florida, Colorado, Nevada, Iowa, and Wisconsin.
Romney’s 47% remarks have been viewed 8.8 million times, in contrast with a combination of the Romney and SuperPAC ‘Fine’ ads, which only got a combined 2.3 million views.
The problem for Mitt Romney and the Republicans is the reality of the economy is not fitting into the rhetoric they are spewing to the American people.
In a new ad, Obama uses Romney’s attacks on the 47% against him, ‘He won’t release his tax returns before 2010. Maybe instead of attacking others on taxes, Romney should come clean on his.’
Mitt Romney told the press that his campaign is failing because of Obama. Romney blamed Obama for running ‘inaccurate ads’ and ‘fooling people’ about his beliefs.
According to a new Zogby Poll the wheels are close to coming off the Romney campaign. President Obama leads Mitt Romney among NASCAR fans, 48%-41%.
Obama for America delivered a hard punch to the Romney campaign with a new ad titled ‘Mitt Romney’s Tax Returns: What Else is He Hiding?’ Investments in a Chinese oil company are just one example…
Mitt Romney’s lawyer admitted that they manipulated the returns so as to conform to an August Romney claim that he always paid at least 13%.
Not only did Romney pack the forum with bused-in supporters, but he refused to go on stage until the introduction to him was re-taped.
Mormon David Twede asked if President Romney would answer to the Mormon prophet; David Twede was interrogated and now faces excommunication
In an interview with 60 Minutes, Romney claimed that his comments that 47% of Americans are victims was him talking, not his campaign, and so they aren’t hurting his campaign.
Mitt Romney wants to convince Ameicans that Obama has quit on them, perhaps to cover up the fact that he himself isn’t even really trying
In a full blown meltdown, Ann Romney lashed out the Republican Party and told them that they were lucky to have husband as their nominee.