Picture of the Day: God Bless Half of America
Mickey Corsi of Bedford, Texas, holds a sign reading: ‘Romney/God Bless Half of America’ as he protests outside of Romney fundraiser.
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.
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.
It’s probably needed but Obama is not going to do it, and why are we even talking about something like blasphemy? It’s so sixteenth century
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.
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.
OFA took to the streets to share Mitt Romney’s 47 percent comments with a few Americans and as you can imagine, the response was not good.
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.
Martin Bashir took Mitt Romney to task Monday night for failing to deliver the specifics he promised us today, as well as delving into the internal meltdown of the Romney campaign.
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 mystery video of Mitt Romney speaking at a closed-door fundraiser surfaced today, in which he claims that Obama supporters ‘believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing.’
Netanyahu’s vague conflations of the attacks on our embassies with the regime in Iran are being to force Obama’s hand.
It is un-American to have as a president a man who preaches religious intolerance and who promotes the idea of state-sponsored religion
The Republicans are trying to manipulate tragic events in the Middle East to the benefit of foreign-policy challenged, Mitt Romney.
Sunday night, South Carolina Representative, Trey Gowdy was sitting in his car when a woman walked up and stuck a gun in his face.
In 2011, House Republicans ignored warnings from conservatives of emboldening terrorists and voted no on authorizing the Libya mission in order to obstruct Obama.
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
Mitt Romney is not a leader, even conservatives have called his foreign policy positions ridiculous and accused him of merely mimicking others’.
I blame the First Amendment. Don’t get me wrong: I’m not making excuses for bad behavior by Islamic fundamentalists or any other fundamentalists. And the First Amendment is great. It’s my favorite amendment. It’s why I can do what I do here. It’s why I can read what I read and believe what I believe…
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?
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.
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.
The unsavory ingredients that go into making a Republican politician create a perfect storm for America and the world in 2012
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.
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.
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.
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.
John Kerry exposed the Romney-Ryan foreign policy as the neocon shell game that it is, contrasting it with the steady hand of Barack Obama
It’s no secret the Republicans want to take us back and that Democrats want to take us forward, but isn’t Genesis a little unrealistic?
Romney, running on the same Republican policies as Bush, the same policies as McCain, hypocritically accuses Obama of having no new ideas
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
Mitt Romney celebrated the college football season with lies about the economy and job creation and Obama told Ohioans to punt his plan away
The Republican Party wants approbation for its plutocratic principles; the Obama team counters with an America built by teamwork
The Democratic National Convention in Charlotte is being targeted by fundies as Ground Zero for acts of martyrdom and cries of persecution
The Republican vicious and unrelenting attacks on the U.S. Postal Service is the canary in the coal mine for our future if Democrats and particularly minorities (10% vote in mid-terms) stay home on November 6th.
Odd as Eastwood’s “Eastwooding” performance was, Mitt Romney was back stage laughing and Eastwood was praised for hitting key talking points
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 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.
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.
The speakers are all plugged into the same outlet. Obama as job-killing monster; the end is near and the ongoing distortion of the President’s you didn’t build that statement.
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.
Ann Romney lectured Hispanics today that they should focus on issues this time around, and warned them to ‘wake up’.
While admitting Romney’s welfare to work ads are less than truthful, Gov Sam Brownback (R-KS) told us we shouldn’t focus on little things — like Romney’s lies, the truth or policy.
The Republican Dream apparently being one where children will be forced into life by Big Patriarchy but allowed to die in poverty after that
Republicans delayed their convention a day, taking no chances with Isaac. There will be no political chances taken with the base either.
Most of us like a little reality in our diet, but the Republican Convention seems to be focused more on how to mainstream the crazy
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!
We have had it drilled into us that storms are not storms – I think it’s quite obvious that Isaac is God’s answer to the Republican platform
An South Carolina Democratic Luncheon meeting attendee challenging the presence of a Republican spy, triggers a DINO defense of Republicans.
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
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).
The insincerity of GOP Akin-rebukes have become apparent with the revelation that Romney accepted the endorsement of the doctor behind Todd Akin
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
Romney and Ryan are trying to run away from Akin this morning, saying they are for abortion in the case of rape, but history tells a different story.
Missouri Republican Todd Akin says that women who are legitimately raped don’t get pregnant and that abortion punishes the child, not the rapist
In a desperate attempt to change the subject, the Romney campaign is now claiming that you don’t care about his tax returns.
Christian end time fantasies are not limited to the world of fiction; these people get elected to office and influence, even control policy
The Obama campaign challenged Romney to release more tax returns, and his campaign responded with answer that proved to everyone that they are hiding something.
In an interview with Fortune, Mitt Romney told PBS that it needs to stands on its own two feet, and pledged to kill federal funding for PBS.
Have noticed how often President Obama is mentioning beer on the campaign trail? This is no accident. Obama’s taste for beer is part of strategy being used to define and defeat Romney.
Ross Douthat removes the details from the picture so he can clarify it, getting rid of all those pesky, distracting facts
Ann Romney’s lip curled in Cheneyesque contempt as reporter Morales asked, Are you angry that it’s been in the press? I mean, should you not be questioned about your finances?
Tired of playing games, the Obama campaign has called out Mitt Romney for his hypocritical outrage over Joe Biden’s in chains remark.
Obama has answered Mitt Romney’s demand for an apology over Joe Biden’s in chains remark by laughing in the Republican nominee’s face.
Mr. Romney keeps acting like he is running against John Kerry, when he is in fact running against a Bill Clinton meets JFK President Obama. Mitt Romney, meet President Obama.
Rachel Maddow shows us what a monumental mistake the Romney Campaign made in selecting the Kill Medicare Guy as his running mate
Mitt Romney handed yet another gift to Democrats by choosing Randian Paul Ryan, who is just here to follow Koch orders, not to do the decent thing.
Glenn Beck thinks Romney’s selection of Ryan was political genius. When Glenn Beck is hailing your political genius, you’ve got some serious problems.
With Rick Scott by his side, Mitt Romney stood up in front of the voters of Florida and completely lied about his plans for the future of Medicare.
This ticket will absolutely depend on low-information voters enamored with right wing media. In point of fact, the vast majority of this country would be harmed by the policies these men represent.
60 Minutes Romney/Ryan interview Romney & new VP questioned by Bob Schieffer TV interview exposes BS of Mitt and Paul.
Does Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan as his running mate signal his campaign is tacking to the right again, or is Ryan tacking left? It seems the first casualty will be Ryan’s near-universally reviled budget plan, but can Mitt really defang Ryan and get him ready for primetime?
For years we’ve been told Obama’s Christianity matters but where Romney’s Mormonism comes in, will expediency win out over dogma in 2012?
Two of the oddest couples in election history were created this year when Mormon Governor Mitt RMoney picked multimillionaire Congressman Paul Ryan as his veep.
So Romney picked Paul Ryan, eh? And at the decidedly unmedia-worthy time of 7 a.m. ET on a Saturday morning. Who’s staffing newsrooms on early Saturday mornings? Well, Clyde, the 75-year-old ex- 6 & 11 p.m. anchorman now doing weekends and still threatening an age discrimination suit if they let him go and ace weekend…
Mitt Romney is hurting in the polls, has insulted nearly everyone he’s met, and now plans to take to the road to show his blue-collar cred
In a press release of talking points sent to reporters this morning after the Big Announcement, team Ryan Romney drew attention to Ryan’s lack of military service.