Tag: mitt romney

Quick widget I threw together for Crooks and Liars and here. CNN’s entrance polls have Ron Paul and Mitt Romney both tied at 24%.

Told ya it was crazy season! There’s off message and then there’s Mitt Romney’s son, Matt Romney, who suggested on Thursday that President Obama should release his birth certificate and grades before his father releases his tax returns. Again – President Obama DID release his birth certificate. As far as the grades? Well not many […]

We are one week from the Iowa caucuses and things don’t look good for the GOP: If I were running the Iowa Republican Party, I would be seeking to vastly increase the turnout at the Jan. 3 caucuses. After all, those who turn out can be recruited to help in future Iowa Republican campaigns. I […]

Newt has constantly denied that he once supported Mitt Romney’s health insurance mandate in Massachusetts, but the wayback machine has something else to say about that. Here’s a letter written by Newt in April of 2006: The most exciting development of the past few weeks is what has been happening up in Massachusetts. The health […]

We are all used to hearing politicians make promises they have no way of ever keeping, but the pandering done by Mitt Romney has taken it to a whole new level. Here’s what Mitt Romney said in New Hampshire on Thursday: “What I can promise you is this – when you get out of college, […]

Mitt Romney has found a way to make himself more conservative……by paying for it! In the Republican primary struggle to define the most reliably conservative presidential candidate, Mitt Romney has put his money where his mouth is. Over the past six years and two presidential campaigns, Romney has donated at least $260,000 from his family […]

Awwww…. Newt wants us to see him as a big softy: Forget the back and forth attacks with Mitt Romney. Newt Gingrich’s campaign has decided to take another route on his bid to the Republican nomination: pets and music. The campaign said today that it will soon launch a “Pets With Newt” site aimed at […]

He wants you to think he’s the common man, while hiding his estimated wealth upwards of a quarter billion dollars: Mitt Romney, who is one of the wealthiest men ever to seek the presidency, said on Wednesday that he had no intention of releasing his tax returns if he became the Republican presidential nominee, breaking […]

It’s hard keeping up with all the flip flops of Mitt Romney (as well as Newt Gingrich), but Mediaite has caught him in a doozie of one: At Christmastime, it’s comforting to know that a Mitt Romney interview is the gift that keeps on giving. On Wednesday’s The Daily Rundown, host Chuck Todd drew a […]

Something that really deserves more attention is the lack of any powerhouses within the GOP. We saw this in 2008, when Republicans had to suck it up and vote for John McCain. We are seeing it again now with the right trying to figure out which Republican candidate is the lesser of two evils. Are […]