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Anti-choice faux embrace of single mothers a victory for feminists
This story is definitely flying around feminist circles. Michael Kranish and Scott Helman, two investigative reporters for the Boston Globe, have published an excerpt from their new book about Mitt Romney in Vanity Fair. In it, they tell the story of a woman who was in Romney’s church and when she…
Palin slams Romney’s jobs record: ‘Is there proof?’
Failed Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Wednesday urged current GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney to release his tax records and prove that he had created more than 100,000 jobs as the head of Bain Capital. In an interview on Fox & Friends earlier this month, Romney said that he…
Maddow: Newt’s best weapon against Romney is… Romney
According to Rachel Maddow, Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry are both under tremendous pressure from the “Republican establishment” not to attack Mitt Romney on his “vulture capitalist” business background at the investment group Bain Capital. If Gingrich and Perry “cave like spineless twerps,” she asks, and agree to those terms,…
Romney lacks clear remedy for U.S. economy: analysis
(Reuters) – Mitt Romney, the frontrunner for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, is promising Americans deep spending cuts, smaller government, trade penalties on China, a new Federal Reserve chairman and sweeping deregulation. The bold economic strategy Romney has sketched out in his White House bid seems designed to appeal to…
Romney’s cash conspicuous for a White House hopeful
WASHINGTON — Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney “is probably one of the richest people ever to run for President of the United States” according to his party rival Rick Perry. With an estimated net worth of $250 million, Romney is certainly very wealthy compared with most Americans. And after the biggest…
With eye on Romney, Obama talks jobs
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama sought to strike an implicit contrast with his most likely general election foe Mitt Romney on Wednesday, imploring big businesses to bring home US jobs outsourced overseas. Obama gathered consulting professionals and company chiefs at the White House hours after Romney won the New Hampshire…
Ron Paul: Romney will see the GOP ‘demolished’ by Obama
Showing signs that he is in the GOP presidential race for the long haul, Rep. Ron Paul expressed further concern over Mitt Romney’s record on Wednesday morning. Asked by Morning Joe co-host Mika Brezinzski if he thought Romney was a “big-government conservative,” Paul agreed with that label. “I would think…
Colbert: Media jumped on Romney like ‘Gingrich on a younger, healthier wife’
Instead of focusing on the overall final results in GOP New Hampshire Primary, Stephen Colbert took a keen interest Tuesday evening in the small town of Dixville Notch. Despite having just a population of nine people, the winner of Dixville Notch has amazingly gone on to win every Republican presidential…
Ron Paul’s campaign defends Romney’s ‘I like to fire people’ remark
Ron Paul’s presidential campaign defended rival Mitt Romney on Tuesday and accused Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Jon Hunstman of using “leftist tactics” against him. “Two important issues that should unite Republicans are a belief in free markets and an understanding that the media often use ‘gotcha’ tactics to discredit…
Gingrich group marshals hatred of Wall Street for new anti-Romney film
A pro-Gingrich Super PAC released a trailer late last night for a project former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney cannot be pleased about: a half-hour documentary about Romney’s time running Bain Capital, a venture company that bankrupted nearly a quarter of the businesses it bought-up. Produced by a former top Romney…
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