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Romney party yacht ‘Cracker Bay’ flies Cayman Islands flag in Tampa
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s campaign on Wednesday partied with wealthy donors on a 150-foot yacht that flies the flag of the Cayman Islands, according to an ABC News report. Members of the Romney Victory Council, who have each raised more than $1 million for the candidate, mingled with Romney’s…
Republican governor acknowledges Romney welfare attack is a lie
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R) has acknowledged that the presidential campaign of Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA)’s current main line of attack against President Barack Obama, that he gutted welfare reform’s work requirement, is based on a falsehood. Brownback made the admission in an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Jansing, host of…
Santorum: FDR ‘stopped creativity’ and ‘drove businessmen away’
Former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Wednesday suggested that President Franklin Roosevelt actually made the Great Depression worse with “class warfare politics” that “stopped creativity” and “drove businessmen away.” The former Pennsylvania senator delivered red meat to attendees of the Republican National Convention on Tuesday in a speech where…
Juan Williams stuns Fox News panel: Ann Romney just a ‘corporate wife’
Fox News political analyst Juan Williams shocked his fellow panelists during Tuesday night’s Republican National Convention when he went off script and said that Ann Romney was just a “corporate wife” whose husband takes care of her. Following Ann Romney’s convention speech, the conservative panelists all offered praise for the…
Colbert does the talking for Todd Akin
Stephen Colbert took on what he called “the other storm” swirling around the Republican Party on The Colbert Report Tuesday night – Missouri senatorial candidate Rep. Todd Akin’s “legitimate rape” debacle from last week – by donning the congressman’s face in order to expand on Akin’s position. “All he’s saying…
House Speaker John Boehner asks ‘Where are the jobs?’ in convention speech
House Speaker John Boehner delivered a rousing convention speech, indicting President Barack Obama as inept in his management of the US economy as he laid out a well-honed case for electing Mitt Romney instead. “He can’t fix the economy because he doesn’t know how it was built,” Boehner said to…
Ann Romney: Mitt ‘makes me laugh’
Republicans crowned Mitt Romney their presidential nominee as his wife Ann sold their wholesome family and sweetheart love story to US voters in a prime-time convention speech. Romney took to the stage at the packed convention center in Tampa, Florida to proffer a polite thank you kiss as part of…
Santorum defends ‘good man’ Todd Akin
Former Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) said Tuesday that Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO), whose comments about “legitimate rape” stirred up a rhetorical firestorm, is a “good man” who just made “a ridiculous statement.” Speaking to CBS News from Tampa, Santorum added that Akin “didn’t do a very good job in dealing…
Chris Christie: Republicans shouldn’t have to ‘cater’ to women
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) is advising his party not to “cater” to women with a different message than men because it would be “condescending.” During an interview on Tuesday, Christie told CBS host Charlie Rose that there was a “fallacy about having to cater to a particular sector…
Paul Ryan redefining rape as ‘forcible rape’ was just ‘stock language’
Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan on Monday insisted that wording in a bill that he co-sponsored with Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO), which Democrats say would have redefined rape as “forcible rape,” was just “stock language.” Under the proposed “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” only victims of “forcible rape”…
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