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Convention lineup crafted to change perception the GOP is ‘the party of middle-aged white men’
A black former top diplomat, a Cuban-born senator, an Indian-American governor — the speakers list for next week’s Republican National Convention reads like a conservative Rainbow Coalition. The convention, which will formally tap former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney as the party’s presidential candidate, headlines a multi-hued line-up meant to belie…
Krugman takes dig at Romney in Netroots Nation address
Paul Krugman addressed the Netroots Nation conference on Saturday morning and took a dig at the Republican nominee for president, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (R). Talking Points Memo reports that while his speech was brief, it pulled no punches. The Nobel Laureate said that the current state of the…
Warren: ‘No, Mitt, corporations are not people. Learn the difference.’
In her keynote address on Friday to the Netroots Nation 2012 conference in Providence, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Democratic candidate for Senate Elizabeth Warren enlarged upon her themes of economic fairness and took aim not just at the Republican she’s running against, Senator Scott Brown (R-MA), but the Republican candidate for…
Nobel-winning economist predicts Romney recession
Economist Joseph Stiglitz is hitting the media circuit to promote his new book. And as with any good book tour, he’s also throwing out a few political bombshells. Primary example: Speaking to reporters in New York on Monday, the Nobel Prize-winner and former World Bank chief claimed that if former…
Colbert rewrites ‘America the Beautiful’ to honor Romney’s iPhone app
On Tuesday night, the campaign for Republican nominee for president, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney released its smartphone app, a set of 14 photo banners that would allow users to decorate pictures of themselves with slogans like “I’m with Mitt.” Wednesday night on “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert devoted…
Romney’s ‘With Mitt’ smartphone app mocked for misspelling ‘America’
It seemed like a simple enough concept on Tuesday night when the campaign of the Republican nominee for president, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, released its first smartphone app, “With Mitt.” Within hours, however, internet pranksters had found a glaring spelling error and wasted no time ridiculing the app and…
‘How to stand behind Mitt Romney,’ a young person’s guide
Perhaps not many of our readers are Young Republicans, but for those of you who are, there is always a chance that in the approaching months you could be asked to appear on a stage behind presumptive presidential nominee and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (R). In this helpful instructional…
Colbert offers to help Romney find ‘Mr. Right’
Now that former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (R) is the de facto Republican candidate for president, like all young men who have come of age, it’s time to find him a proper (running) mate. The natural choice would probably be the candidate who gave him the strongest challenge in the…
Romney blames Obama for women job losses actually caused by GOP
Republican presidential hopeful and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney says that President Obama’s economic policies amount to the real “war on women,” according to a post at CNN’s “Political Ticker” blog. The presumptive 2012 nominee was speaking at a Delaware factory when he delivered the remarks. He claimed that 92.3…
NOM calls for federal investigation of LGBT group, IRS
The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) has called for a federal investigation as to how the LGBT rights organization the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) acquired tax documents exposing a confidential list of donors including presidential hopeful and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (R). According to the documents, Romney donated $10,000…
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