The Cognitive Dissonance that Made Offensive Mitt Possible
It’s so nice to know what Mitt Romney really thinks of our troops, the elderly, the working poor and students who comprise the 47%.
It’s so nice to know what Mitt Romney really thinks of our troops, the elderly, the working poor and students who comprise the 47%.
If Romney loses Michigan or Massachusetts and wins the White House, he will be the first candidate since 1916 to lose his home state and win the presidency. He’s not only losing his two home states, but Ryan’s as well.
Mitt Romney and Republicans pounced on a deceptively edited video of Barack Obama, never bothering with facts or reality. Now they look like fools. Again.
Best Obama ad ever. If Mitt Romney wants to know what out of context means, and how it feels, Barack Obama will oblige.
In one the dumbest political moves of 2012, Tim Kaine was asked about the 47% and said he would be open to a minimum tax. Tim Kaine could use a little education, so here’s a lesson on the 47%.
As 2012 falls apart, Republicans are starting to turn on each other. Wisconsin Senate candidate Tommy Thompson is blaming Mitt Romney for his nine point deficit to Tammy Baldwin.
It is high time for Romney to get some continuity in his people who do not pay income taxes are parasites meme because the real parasites are his corporations-are-people.
Here’s a video you can send to your Independent and Republican friends who want to know what Mitt Romney meant when he called half of America victims.
Mickey Corsi of Bedford, Texas, holds a sign reading: ‘Romney/God Bless Half of America’ as he protests outside of Romney fundraiser.
Romney promises his wealthy donors that if a hostage situation arises, he will ‘take advantage’ of the ‘opportunity’.
Today, Romney debuted two ads in Eastern Ohio and Western Virginia hitting Obama on coal, and he used coalminers in his ads who were forced by their employer to attend Romney’s rally at no pay.
Buried in the secret Romney tape was a telling moment wherein Mitt Romney gloated over Hilary Rosen ‘attacking’ his wife Ann Romney.
The Romney campaign has embraced an edited clip of Barack Obama from 1998 claiming to be in favor redistribution. Here’s why this counterattack is destined to spectacularly fail.
Priorities USA released a new ad today called ‘Doors’ in which they skewer Romney with his own words.
Another video the Romney campaign doesn’t want you to see. They up a video last night titled ‘Ann Romney to FOX31: Mitt Doesn’t Disdain the Poor’, and then quickly scrambled to take it down.
Mitt Romney is Money Boo Boo. A thin-skinned, petty, mean-spirited child kicking his feet about the losers who think they’re entitled to eat.
Fed by Netanyahu and Republicans at home, America’s right wing Christian fanatics are jonesing for a holy war against Islam.
Mitt Romney went on Fox News and managed to make his situation worse by refusing to release his tax returns, yet claiming that Americans would like to pay taxes.
Clint Eastwood calls out the Romney campaign, saying ‘If somebody’s dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they’re gonna have to take what they get.’
More evidence that the roof is caving in on Mitt Romney came today from a poll of small business owners conducted by George Washington University, which found Obama leading Romney, 47%-39%.
There is an unspoken group of voters who are never talked about. These people have abandoned Mitt Romney, and have become Republicans for Obama.
There’s more secret video and this time, Mitt Romney says he’d kick the can down the road on Israel.
Was it the day Romney lost the election? That’s one of the reactions to Mitt Romney’s 47 percent secret video.
Mitt Romney is doubling down and rebranding the leaked video as a ‘focus on the people in the middle’, but he stands by his comment that Obama is attractive to people who don’t pay taxes.
It turns out that when Mitt Romney attacked 150 million Americans for being dependent on government, he was really targeting the ten red states who have the most non-taxpayers
In a secret video, Mitt Romney admitted that the economic rationale for his campaign is the Fox News lie that half of Americans don’t pay taxes.
A new poll from Public Policy Polling shows President Obama leading Mitt Romney 51%-46%.
Showing that they will blame Obama for anything, Republicans have revived charges that the president has abandoned Czechoslovakia. A nation that hasn’t existed since 1993.
Nancy Pelosi did everything but send Mitt Romney a thank you card and a fruit basket, while discussing how the GOP nominee helped House Democrats by picking Paul Ryan.
In 2011, House Republicans ignored warnings from conservatives of emboldening terrorists and voted no on authorizing the Libya mission in order to obstruct Obama.
The Obama campaign answered Mitt Romney’s are you better off question with a devastating 60 second reply showing Americans exactly why they are better off today than they were four years ago
The new Philadelphia Inquirer poll revealed the shocking statistic that 35% of Pennsylvania voters who watched the Republican convention came away less likely to vote for Mitt Romney.
All things considered, it’s sort of tough to comprehend how the polls like the recent Yahoo!/Esquire numbers don’t skew much father left.
Mitt Romney has never been very specific about what he would do as president to “fix” things. He just says he’d fix this and he’d fix that. The “how” is vague. Instead of specifics, we get emotion: God. Apparently, Romney will fix America’s problems by not taking “God out of the public square.” That’s what…
Mitt Romney showed just how out of touch he is when he claimed today that people earning $200,000-$250,000 are middle income.
Charlie Rangel said what everyone is thinking after Romney foreign policy/statesman debacles with Putin, Britain, Poland, Israel, Iran and now Libya, adding, ‘We just cannot afford that type of incompetency.’
The choice in this election is between a slow, but gaining, political struggle towards better environmental policy or a return to Industrial Era abuses
A new CNN poll explains why President Obama is leading in the polls. By margin of 57%-35% registered voters blame George W. Bush and the Republican Party for the poor condition of the economy.
Mitt Romney is not a leader, even conservatives have called his foreign policy positions ridiculous and accused him of merely mimicking others’.
Mitt Romney could barely contain his glee while discussing the murders of four Americans including the US Ambassador to Libya. What was he smiling about?
Without using a single personal attack, Obama used Romney’s disastrous handling of his remarks on the Libya attack to bury the Republican nominee.
In his desperation to defend Mitt Romney’s botched Libya comments, Rush Limbaugh has devised a wild conspiracy theory that claims the media is trying to protect Obama by blaming Romney.
This morning, Mitt Romney doubled down on his embarrassingly tone deaf and flat out wrong accusations against Obama over the Libya and Egypt embassy attacks.
Paul Ryan sang the praises of first responders on 9/11, but what he didn’t tell his audience is that he and his running mate have long planned on cutting their federal funding.
Putin claims that Romney’s comments about Russia being our ‘number one geopolitical foe’ justify Russia’s opposition to the US’s European missile defense plans.
The portrayal of Romney as a well-meaning guy who’s just misguided, misinformed, and in over his head needs to come to an end.
While Americans reflect on the events of 9/11, they should remember that as catastrophic as the attacks were, it was subsequent events that really changed this country for the worse.
Today’s edition of ‘We’re not gonna take it anymore’ features a desperate attempt by Romney’s to conflate a 2011 Joe Biden statement as the President’s position on today’s Chicago teachers’ strike.
On his radio show today, Rush Limbaugh claimed that any poll that shows Obama leading is an attempt to suppress the Republican vote.
The Romney campaign sent out a rather breathless memo this morning warning the press to not get too worked up about the latest polling and Nate Silver is being admonished to ‘wait’.
No one puts on a better show of pretending to push back with stern looks while his words actually just open the door for Romney spin than David Gregory.
Paul Ryan claimed today that he has more foreign policy experience that President Obama had in 2008, but a look at the congressional committees that each served on tells a vastly different story.
While extolling her own suffering, Ann Romney complained about how You People have demonized the great compassion evinced in The Mitt Romney.
Proving how little he knows about the issue of abortion and how little David Gregory cares about the facts, Romney announced a policy position today that has already been in place since 1976.
Critics have been saying President Obama has not done enough to address poverty. They don’t seem to understand the reasons he couldn’t.
As 11,000 enthusiastic supporters crammed into St. Petersburg to hear President Obama, Mitt Romney spoke to gathering of several hundred Republicans in an aircraft hanger in Virginia Beach.
Mitt Romney told Fox News today that he did not talk about the troops in his convention speech because ‘You don’t go through a laundry list; you talk about the things you think are important.’
Mitt Romney is so desperate to make it appear that young voters support him that he is literally doing stadium style giveaways in order to get people to attend.
Romney, running on the same Republican policies as Bush, the same policies as McCain, hypocritically accuses Obama of having no new ideas
Bill Clinton’s delivered a dose of DNC truth serum to Romney, Ryan, and their crowd of habitual liars, religious sycophants, and gun-toting angry white people.
Since we know it is possible we may soon be told we must give birth, how much of a stretch is it to imagine someone might tell us we can’t?
Mitt Romney’s mother, Lenore LaFount Romney, is on video talking about how his father George was on welfare relief after he was a refugee from Mexico.
The Democrats missed an opportunity to take a step forward for the Founders’ vision of a secular government by putting God in their platform
On the day Rush Limbaugh called Democratic women FemiNazis again, Mitt Romney is ordering Obama to get Democrats to ‘cease and desist’ Nazi references.
Deval Patrick issued a fiery call to Democrats to rally around Obama, implying that Romney is more interested in having the job than doing it
Obama for America puts out a new ad hitting at Mitt Romney’s tax loopholes, using Paul Ryan to do it, proving that this Republican ticket is its own worst enemy.
Proving he can’t speak without lying, Paul Ryan defended his previous lies about the Janesville GM plant closure being Obama’s fault by lying some more on NBC’s Today.
Mitt Romney celebrated the college football season with lies about the economy and job creation and Obama told Ohioans to punt his plan away
Canada has cut corporate taxes by almost 30% in 6 years, and their economy is doing no better than that of the United States.
What is happening in the Republican Party transcends dog-whistle racism and birtherism; they are brazen racists counting on bigots to help them win an election.
The usual BS’ers took to the podium on the last night of the GOP convention. An addled Clint Eastwood was the sad highlight of the night.
Mitt Romney’s convention speech was watched 25 million Americans, which is 13 million fewer viewers than watched John McCain accept the Republican nomination in 2008.
Mitt Romney proved once again that he is not really good at this being a Republican thing, as his personal aide tweeted a pic of him watching the RNC convention on C-SPAN, not Fox News.
How bad was Mitt Romney’s acceptance speech? According to Intrade, the odds of Obama being reelected have increased from 55.7% before the speech to 56.8% after.
Republicans made their convention a festival of lies, but the biggest lie was one of omission. No speaker dared mention the deficit inflating five trillion dollar wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Republican National Convention set new records – and lows – for blatant dishonesty and the mainstream media makes it all possible
Mitt Romney delivered an acceptance speech that stretched, massaged, distorted, and flat out violated the truth. Here are the five biggest lies uttered by Romney in Tampa.
Personhood fell victim to its own dishonesty yesterday in Colorado, even as the Romney campaign called the abortion debate a distraction
Ann Romney targeted women voters with a speech that was a mix of pure corn syrup, and blatant lies.
The rebranding of the GOP and Mitt Romney took a hit last night, when RNC attendees threw nuts at a CNN African American camerawoman and said ‘This is how we feed animals!’
The Republican Dream apparently being one where children will be forced into life by Big Patriarchy but allowed to die in poverty after that
According to new poll by the Pew Research Center, more Americans are interested in Bill Clinton’s convention speech (52%) than Mitt Romney’s (44%).
The Obama campaign responded to Mitt Romney’s attempt at Hollywood image makeover with a bit of comedy worthy of wide release.
While Americans are still demanding that he release his tax returns, Mitt Romney went on national television to discuss the virtues of buttermilk pancakes.
Ann Romney announced from one of the couple’s vacation homes that you people had her all wrong. Ann gets you, because she shops at Costco and makes buttermilk pancakes!
Mitt Romney learns the hard way that birtherism doesn’t pay in this amazing 15 second destruction put out by the Obama campaign.
All Big Corporations would be Olympic Gold Medal Winners with a Romney Ryan 2012 Presidential Election win!
Thanks to the margin of error in polling, the rather surreal scenario suggests that the actual number of black folks who do not want Romney to be president is less than zero.
The Obama campaign put the hammer down on Romney’s attempt to go birther by labeling him a birther and calling out his desperate dog whistle plea to the GOP.
Warren says he canceled his planned forum with Obama and Romney because of incivility but the real reason was neither man was interested
Not even trying to fool anyone anymore, the Romney campaign has admitted that their energy policy was written by the oil and gas industry.
In 2010, one of the companies where Romney parked his money sent out a letter from its advisers to their investors warning of a coming fiscal catastrophe if the GOP took control in the midterms.
Ironies abound as the only network that will be carrying Ann Romney’s convention speech is that the same broadcast network that her husband has promised to kill (PBS).
President Obama asked Mitt Romney the fundamental question of this election. Obama asked Romney. ‘How many teachers’ jobs are worth tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires?
Buried in the latest results of the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll is an 18 point swing in economic optimism for President Obama.
Paul Ryan says women won’t be distracted by ‘side issues’ of Ryan’s positions on rape, which align closely with Republican Representative Todd Akin’s views.
The insincerity of GOP Akin-rebukes have become apparent with the revelation that Romney accepted the endorsement of the doctor behind Todd Akin
As Akin begs forgiveness for his words, not one Republican apologizes for the mountain of legislation that proves ‘legitimate rape’ is a GOP policy, not a gaffe.
There has been a firestorm over comments made by Todd Akin regarding what he calls ‘legitimate rape,’ and although it is a big story, it is just a microcosm of the entire GOP’s overall view of women.
Todd Akin is running out of friends. Even an anti-abortion group wants him to quit. But his biggest loss will be Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS