After Election Defeat, Mitt Romney Caught Slumming It with the 47%
With pomp and circumstance gone, sans security details and motorcades, Mitt Romney actually spoke to a member of the human race, and has even been seen associating with the 47%.
With pomp and circumstance gone, sans security details and motorcades, Mitt Romney actually spoke to a member of the human race, and has even been seen associating with the 47%.
Ever since Democrats passed the Civil Rights Act and championed policies supporting minorities, whites have been defecting from the party.
The Religious Right says some laughable things, but there is nothing laughable about their money, power – or influence on American politics
Mitt Romney is now claiming that Bill Clinton told him that he might have won, were it not for Hurricane Sandy.
We’ve seen some crazy conclusions drawn since Election Day, but Larry Klayman’s claim that conservatives are the new N-words is obscene.
Analysis of the white vote reveals they choose Romney by significant margins. What does this mean when it comes to race issues in the USA?
The Religious Right took a black eye in 2012 but they are far from powerless and will be back to attack the Constitution in 2016
The Republican Party is like a dry drunk, yet only two days sober, who is not in any kind of recovery program. They are just looking for a new way to escape reality.
Mitt Romney is taking zero responsibility for being routed by Barack Obama. Instead, Romney is blaming Hurricane Sandy for killing his momentum.
America won four more years for President Obama, but did we issue a mandate for change or for the status quo?
Obama swept the country in a decisive defeat of Romney with so far 303 electoral votes to 206, and possibly more. It’s called a mandate.
In a poll of countries around the world, President Obama is preferred to Romney in 20 of the 21 countries polled. The Romney holdout? Pakistan.
The lid was blown off Mitt Romney’s latest attempt to fool voters today, as it has been revealed that Romney bought ads in Pennsylvania because it is the only state with ad space left for sale.
On ‘Meet the Press’ this morning, Senior Advisor David Plouffe pointed out that Mitt Romney would be a rubberstamp for the Tea Party if elected.
On Meet The Press, Chuck Todd debunked Romney’s Pennsylvania spin by pointing out that the Republican is going there because he is losing Ohio and Wisconsin.
Romney surrogates are busy blaming Hurricane Sandy and Chris Christie, which is really the perfect way for them to flame out.
As the President praised leaders from different parties working together, the Romney camp is threatening Chris Christie for working with Obama.
Mitt Romney took to CNN’s opinion page to lie about his vision for America but his real vision is somewhat different
Is the once bright red state of Georgia trending blue? According to recent polling and voter registration statistics the answer is yes.
From New Hampshire to Colorado, President Obama leads Mitt Romney in 14 of the 16 battleground state polls released today.
Obama told supporters that change is when everyone has a fair shot, ‘Making stuff again. Selling it all around the world. Products stamped with three proud words: Made in America.’
The Obama camp’s terrifying new video shows the news on the 100th day of a Romney presidency. Yikes. Elections do have consequences.
With Hurricane Sandy, Republican fantasy met the facts on the ground and lost; our shared reality is more potent than wishful thinking
The panic of some of the left after the first debate has eased into the realization that President Obama is in a good position to win a second term.
As we head into the last few moments of the 2012 election, Mitt Romney has not answered a question from the media in 22 days.
Today on Bloomberg News, Al Hunt called Mitt Romney’s GM and Chrysler lies desperate and dishonest. The word fraudulent was also used.
There are 25 dead Americans because Romney believes government oversight restricts corporate profits, and that a company with a poor safety record should be allowed to regulate themselves.
The American people, Vice President Biden said, want a President they can trust, and they know Romney doesn’t pass that test.
Want a photo-op with Mitt Romney just after Sandy hits New Jersey? Just grab a campaign pre-purchased jar of WalMart peanut butter and hand it to him at his ‘Relief Rally’ .
Obama is piling up such large margins in early voting that Romney will have to get 54%-60% of the votes on Election Day in Iowa, Nevada, and North Carolina in order to win each state.
Mitt Romney has been smearing people his entire campaign, but when he took down GM and Chrysler, the press woke up with a vengeance.
Not only has God decided Mormonism is not a cult, but that former heretic Mitt Romney is his last true hope: vote Mitt or burn in hell!
Mitt Romney and other Republicans love to talk about the profits that deregulation builds, but will dismiss the very real and deadly consequences that come with their ideology.
Mitt Romney is out with a new radio ad that takes his previous Jeep lies to a whole new level, saying Obama is sending jobs to China but Romney will stand up for jobs here, not in China.
Team Obama is calling Romney’s bluff, saying ‘Voters who haven’t heard from the Romney campaign in two years will see this desperation for what it is.’
Asked if Romney was lying about Jeep moving production to China, Blackburn said, ‘Oh, well, I don’t know. I haven’t talked with the campaign staff about that.’
Today, the real blow for Romney comes from Massachusetts, where he was Governor. The Boston Globe has endorsed President Obama.
Romney jumped the lie shark with his new ad. The press is not impressed and they are calling Romney out on it. Here’s a roundup of reaction.
As the East Coast braces for a massive storm, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are trying to cover up the fact that if elected they intend to cut funding for both FEMA and disaster relief.
As Sandy bears down, we flash back to when Mitt Romney called disaster relief ‘immoral’ and wanted to privatize it because it added to the debt.
Some liberals have the mind-boggling view there is no difference between Romney & Obama, and are even planning not to vote for Obama in swing states.
Mitt Romney’s 5 point plan to create jobs was John McCain’s 5 point plan in 2008, and George W. Bush’s 2004. In reality, voters are voting for Bush’s economic ideas, not Romney’s.
Former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland and Congressman Tim Ryan appeared on MSNBC’s The Ed Show to address Romney’s ies about Jeep moving to China.
Miley Cyrus already embraced going forward and now her father follows in her wake, coming out for Obama on Piers Morgan Friday
Biden took Romney to task today for his lack of gumption, failing to condemn Mourdock’s comments that pregnancy after rape is ‘something that God intended.’
The GOP is headed into Election Day as the Party of Rape, a group of white fratboys who never grew up
An obviously embarassed Mitt Romney and a drunk Meatloaf treanded on Twitter last night #MITTLOAF
There is a report that Willard Romney committed perjury in his friend’s divorce proceedings, and it is not the first time he is accused of perjuring himself.
Republican Jon Hunstman told HuffPost Live, ‘I cringe. It’s like fingers on a chalkboard every time I hear men talk about women’s health issues.’
Even Joe Scarborough slammed Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock’s rape comments and said that Romney should come out stronger against them.
President Obama told Jay Leno on Wednesday night that ‘rape is rape’ . He added that mostly male politicians should stay out of women’s health care decisions.
Unlike Mitt Romney, John McCain won’t continue to support ‘rape pregnancies are God’s will’ Richard Mourdoch unless the Republican Senatorial candidate apologizes.
The Mitt Romney momentum myth has been going on since Romney ‘won’ the first debate by lying about his positions. It’s taken a lot to keep the myth alive.
Three new polls of the critical swing state of Ohio all agree. Barack Obama is currently leading Mitt Romney in the Buckeye State.
According to Gallup, President Obama’s job approval rating has jumped to 53% since the third presidential debate. This is Obama’s highest approval rating by since Bin Laden’s death in May of 2011.
NOW issued a statement Wednesday saying that Richard Mourdock (pregnancies from rape are ‘God’s will’) is ‘Romney Unmasked’.
President Obama was on fire in Davenport, Iowa Wednesday on the first stop of his two-day, non-stop ‘America Forward!’ tour.
Mitt Romney wants Richard Mourdock, who thinks rape pregnancies are a gift from God, changing things in Washington, D.C.
Steve Rattner, former US Treasury Auto Adviser, said that if Mitt Romney had his way General Motors and Chrysler would have died.
Despite the fact that Politifact gave Romney’s claim a pants on fire rating, Romney’s new ad claims our Navy is smaller than at any time since 1917.
While there were moments that Romney mentioned sending troops to this place and that not once did he acknowledge, let alone express concern, for veterans.
Mitt Romney stepped into a hornet’s nest last night full of horses and bayonets and the Republican effort to extricate him is frantic
Rachel Maddow believes Mitt Romney isn’t fit to be president. While talking about his lies and shifting policies she said, ‘It’s a character issue, and I find it disqualifying.’
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An empty suit of a man who couldn’t even fake giving a damn about our troops.
Kerry lists 6 questions Romney must answer tonight. He commented, ‘Romney, who once even said ‘a president is not a foreign policy expert,’ appears unprepared to be either.’
The LA Times writes that Romney’s ever-changing positions leave the impression that ‘the only thing he really stands for is his own election.’
Today, NBC’s Chuck Todd called concerns about Romney owned voting machines conspiracy garbage, while conveniently ignoring the 2012 primaries that Mitt Romney has already stolen.
In one term, Romney managed to explode the debt per capita and decimate job growth, in addition to raising taxes and fees on everyone but the wealthiest residents.
Swing state papers in Colorado, Ohio, North Carolina, and Arizona endorsed President Obama this weekend, with Ohio saying Romney’s 47% comments render him unworthy of the presidency.
Romney surrogate Sen. Marco Rubio confirmed a troubling fact: as President, Mitt Romney would sign a bill banning abortion. He doesn’t tell us which bill, of course.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer in Ohio endorsed President Obama for a second term today, noting that he’s been met with unbending resistance and belligerence from Republicans.
Conservatives are hoping to save Mitt Romney from his failed attempt to avoid a policy discussion about equal pay by feigning outrage over Mika Brzezinski’s pay.
America’s worst nightmare is a Romney presidency bolstered by conservative Christians in Congress and a bible-based Supreme Court.
Obama for America’s new ad, ‘Made in Ohio,’ features Ohioans who know just how important President Obama’s rescue of the auto industry was for them.
Major papers in two swing states (FL and CO) endorsed Pres. Obama for a second term, and the SLT in Utah – considered by some a home state of Romney’s – also endorses POTUS.
While speaking at George Mason University today President Obama coined the term Romnesia to describe Mitt Romney’s shifts, flip-flops, and lies.
Mitt Romney has spent years undermining his own credibility with female voters and there’s no reason, particularly after Monday night’s showing, to trust him now.
Reagan/Bush national security expert Richard Clark indicts Mitt Romney’s criticisms of Obama over Libya, saying Romney poses novice questions.
Former President Clinton slammed Mitt Romney in Ohio today, and spelled out the four biggest things that the Republican nominee is hiding from voters.
While on The View, Ann Romney said their family finds different ways of serving, with their sons having served their mission instead of in the military.
According to the latest PPP poll, Massachusetts voters who supported President Obama in 2008 have powered Elizabeth Warren to a nine point lead over Scott Brown, 53%-44%.
The Romney campaign is taking refuge in the bullies defense, saying Tagg was only joking when he said he wanted to take a swing at POTUS.
Romney said Bain is ‘a profession that has yet to attract many women and minorities’ but at the time, almost 30% of Harvard Business School were women.
Despite right wing efforts to smear and damage her, debate moderator Candy Crowley is refusing to walk back her accurate fact check of Mitt Romney’s Libya comments.
Romney never asked for those binders full of women. So, not only was his comment strikingly offensive in its insensitivity, but it wasn’t even true.
Most people wouldn’t buy a car without test driving it first and knowing what it cost, but Romney wants to sell us a presidency without telling us anything.
The President made the case for another four years after a debate full of specific policies versus Romney’s anecdotal avoidance tactics, and he also got in the 47% comments.
Billy Graham was clear about what constituted a cult. But for the sake of theocracy in 2012, Billy Graham sold his soul to Satan
Romney had a seriously damaging Libya moment in the second debate in which he claimed that President Obama had not called the attacks in Libya a terrorist attack for 14 days.
President Obama rebounded with a much stronger second debate performance, debunked the lies of Mitt Romney, and likely took control of this election.
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Romney could have stopped Sensata employees from losing their jobs if he wanted to either from his Sankaty Advisors or Bain Capital connections, but he chose profit over people and did nothing.
Mitt Romney won’t release his tax returns because he’s afraid of what Obama would say about them, but he’s going to ask the President to ‘man up’ tonight.
Not only is President Obama ready for The Other Mitt this time, but his team is in place to do real time fact-checking and post debate commentary.
On the eve of the second presidential debate, Anderson Cooper took down Mitt Romney’s false claims about the six studies he claims support his secret tax plan.
Ask yourself why the laws of mathematics work differently for Mitt Romney than for the rest of the universe before casting your vote in 2012
The reaction is pouring in, and the consensus is that Mitt Romney lost the second presidential debate. There was one moment, specifically 96 seconds that lost the debate for Mitt Romney.
Mitt Romney shocked no one by suddenly announcing that he will not go on the high risk TV show ‘The View’ this Thursday, but Ann will go on for him.