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Romney advisor: Republicans ‘largely lost’ the culture wars on marriage equality
The former Iowa advisor for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign said the Republican party should heed the demographic shift on issues like marriage equality. “Frankly, the culture wars are kind of over,” Dave Kochel told WHO-TV on Sunday. “And Republicans largely lost.” Kochel, a longtime GOP strategist in the state, said…
Maddow: Republicans taking all the wrong lessons away from 2012 drubbing
Friday night on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow discussed how the Republican Party appears to have taken all the wrong lessons from the drubbing it took in 2012. Even as the GOP feverishly tries to scrub away all signs of former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA), she said, it…
Romney ‘wanted to be president less than anyone,’ says son
No one wanted to be president less than Mitt Romney, his son said in an interview out Sunday that raises new questions about the candidacy of the losing Republican nominee. In an interview with the Boston Globe examining what went wrong with the Romney campaign, his eldest son Tagg explains…
Gunman wearing Romney mask robs Virginia bank
A man carrying a long gun and wearing what appeared to be a Mitt Romney mask robbed a bank in Sterling, Virginia on Thursday. WRC-TV’s Pat Collins reported that the robbery “was not a grab-and-go type of operation” because the suspect went to all five tellers demanding money before he…
Mitt Romney joins Marriott board
Mitt Romney stepped back into the top reaches of the US corporate world Monday, rejoining the board of hotelier Marriott International a month after losing the presidential race. Romney, a career investment company chief and former Republican Massachusetts governor before his challenge for the White House, has twice before served…
SNL’s Sudeikis: Don’t ask me about politics, ‘I’m an idiot’
“Saturday Night Live” actor Jason Sudeikis appeared on Conan O’Brien’s TBS show on Thursday and discussed the way he found to imitate the speaking voice of former presidential candidate, Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA). Sudeikis, who has played Romney as well as Vice President Joe Biden on the long-running sketch comedy…
Man arrested after approaching Romney at White House
WASHINGTON — US Secret Service officers arrested a man who became “combative” Thursday after approaching a motorcade carrying defeated Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney to the White House. The incident happened as Romney arrived at a security checkpoint before entering the White House complex for his first meeting with…
Romney face tattoo guy wants ‘R’ removed because Mitt has ‘no dignity’
Eric Hartsburg, the man who infamously got a Mitt Romney logo tattooed on the side of his head, says he now wants the ink removed because the former Republican candidate is “shameful” and has “no dignity.” In an interview published on Wednesday, Hartsburg told Politico that he was taking tattoo…
Dan Senor: Romney lost because of a ‘systemic failure’ in polling
Neoconservative Dan Senor is blaming everything and everyone but former nominee Mitt Romney for Republicans losing the White House in 2012. In his first appearance on Morning Joe since the election, the former Romney adviser said that a “systemic crisis in the world of polling” gave the campaign bad data.…
CNN’s Don Lemon tells Will Cain of The Blaze he ‘doesn’t make sense’
CNN host Don Lemon was aghast on Sunday to hear that CNN contributor and The Blaze analyst Will Cain agreed with Mitt Romney’s recent controversial comments about “gifts.” Last week, Romney said that he was defeated by Barack Obama because the President gave “gifts” to young voters, minorities and women…
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