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McCain: Romney’s ‘self-deportation’ scheme is inhumane
While former Republican presidential nominee John McCain may be a big supporter of Mitt Romney, the Arizona senator isn’t a fan when it comes to the GOP frontrunner’s policy of “self-deportation” for undocumented immigrants. During a recent NBC Republican presidential debate in Florida, Romney explained that he would make life…
Republicans ‘struggling to woo Latinos’
Astrid Silva came to the United States aged four with her parents from Mexico in search of “the American dream.” She’s 23 now and fears being deported every day. She is one reason Republicans are struggling to woo Latinos — key voters in heavily Hispanic states like Nevada, Colorado and…
Mitt Romney wins the Nevada caucus by a wide margin
Former governor Mitt Romney (R-MA) scored his most decisive win to date in the Nevada Republican caucus tonight, winning the race by more than 15 percent and leaving former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) and Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) to battle for second place again with former Sen. Rick Santorum…
Maddow: ‘Mr. Romney, you do not always make sense’
The economy appears to be sputtering back to life, showing surprisingly good jobs numbers in January. On Friday, the Dow Jones closed at its highest point since May of 2008. This leaves the Republican candidates — who have largely been building their platform on President Obama’s supposedly disastrous handling of…
Fox analyst: ‘The very poor suffer from gout’
Fox News business analyst Charles Payne continued his usual attack of America’s impoverished Saturday morning, agreeing with Mitt Romney’s much discussed and criticized comment this week. In fact, Payne told Neil Cavuto that the country’s financially challenged actually suffer from gout. “Mitt was right,” he said. “The very poor in…
Bill Maher ‘unbaptizes’ Mitt Romney’s dead Atheist father-in-law
As Gawker noted last week, Ann Romney’s father, Edward Davies –a scientist and engineer who worked on NASA’s early space program– died a “resolute atheist who insisted that his family be raised without participating in an organized religion.” But that didn’t stop GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney from having his…
Corporations taxed less on U.S. profits than Mitt Romney
Many Americans were shocked last month to learn that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney only paid an effective tax rate of 13.8 percent in 2010, but a recent report shows that corporations are paying even less. Corporations in the U.S. paid only an average of 12.1 percent in taxes on…
Maddow: Republicans nominating ‘Thurston Howell’ for president
On Wednesday on the campaign trail, Mitt Romney announced to CNN’s Soledad O’Brien that he’s “not concerned about the very poor” because they have a “safety net” in our society. On Wednesday night’s The Rachel Maddow Show, Rachel put the remark in context…which is to say that she noted how…
Colbert launches ‘vicious personal attack’ Twitter meme to ‘help’ GOP
In his victory speech in Florida Tuesday night, Mitt Romney said that while some may say that a long, bloody primary battle weakens the Republican Party, he believes that it prepares them for the general election battle to come. On Wednesday’s The Colbert Report, host Stephen Colbert agreed, and presented…
Romney stumbles as Gingrich eyes Trump boost
Republican White House frontrunner Mitt Romney stumbled a day after his Florida triumph with a gaffe about poor Americans, while rival Newt Gingrich eyed a boost Thursday from Donald Trump. Populist real estate tycoon and reality TV star Trump, who flirted with running for the presidency himself last year, was…
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