Today’s Slate wonders whether Mittens just lost Florida: In choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney: a) doesn’t get a bump in Florida from choosing homestate Senator Marco Rubio b) risks scaring off elderly people worried abour protecting their entitlements. As Marc Caputo points out in the Miami…
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Game on Mitt Romney selected his VP candidate on Saturday, enthralling Democrats everywhere. Time and time again Romney has embraced Ryan’s budget, which sets out a plan to steal money from the poor to give to the wealthy. On top of this, Ryan embraced the Personhood Amendment. He is anti-woman.…
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OFA Sues to Restore Early Ohio VotingYou know the Republicans have done and will do everything within their power to steal this election. The voter suppression laws that have cropped up all over the country are bankrolled by the GOP. Romney, pulling a Karl Rove, is now accusing Obama of…
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There is no question Romney is off the rails. He is visibly shaken by the allegation that he hasn’t paid income taxes for an entire decade. The empty-suited man looks downright unstable, agitated, and angry. How dare the megalomaniac be questioned and held accountable! The irony lost on him, he…
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From NYT: MITT ROMNEY’S latest controversial remark, about the role of culture in explaining why some countries are rich and powerful while others are poor and weak, has attracted much comment. I was especially interested in his remark because he misrepresented my views and, in contrasting them with another scholar’s…
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This is absolutely brilliant. Excerpted from the Borowitz Report: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney today released the following letter to the American people: Dear American People: Yesterday, comments I made about poor people made me look terrible. This always seems to happen when I say what I really believe. The…
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