Posts tagged “Mitt Romney”
Mitt Comes ROARING Back in Florida CNN Debate
“Our problem is not 11 million grandmothers” “You’re fired” “That’s simply inexcusable…the idea that I’m anti-immigrant is repulsive. Don’t use a term like that.” “Wouldn’t it be nice if people didn’t make accusations somewhere else that they weren’t willing to defend here.” “The idea of getting something for free when they can afford to pay for them [...]
Focused On Things That Do Not Matter
Tomasky and others are focused on the wrong things when they are doubting Mitt Romney’s general election prospects. Tomasky is a generally insightful pundit. Unfortunately, too often his judgement is critically clouded by his partisanship. Early december he speculated about Romney out losing the primary, which I suspect was simply out of his wholesale dislike [...]
Picking Apart The Romney Tax Returns
It was with much fanfare and anticipation that Mitt Romney released his federal tax records for 2010 and 2011 yesterday morning. To keep it brief, Romney made $21.7 million in 2010 and paid 13.9 percent ($3 million) of that to the federal government. It hardly has to be mentioned that a rate of 13.9 percent is far below [...]
Romney’s Lingering Troubles
Today on This Week (now with George Stephanopolous) George Will phrased the essence of what happened in South Carolina in a simplistic but accurate way. He said, “Mitt Romney’s problem is somehow his Romney-ness… there is something about him that is not connecting.” The populist wing of the republican party wants a game changing candidate. They [...]
Bizarro Election Day #1
When I speak in private and people ask me for handicaps of the different races in the news on I always assign percentages. Recently I had been giving Romney an 85 percent shot of taking the nomination and a 60-70 percent shot at taking the general. Often times after giving these numbers I’m asked why [...]
Is this real life?
Mitt Romney told reporters today at a press stop in South Carolina that he pays “probably closer to the 15 percent rate” on taxes. This is way lower than what most middle-class families pay in taxes. Taking into account this cherry-on-top consideration, Greg Sargent of the Washington Post today decided to add up the equation that [...]
Taking A Candidates Word For It
Earlier today, the New York Times Public Editor Arthur Brisbane wrote an interesting piece that delved into the question of whether the news media should add disclaimers to quotes by political figures that can demonstrably be proven false. Brisbane phrased it like this: I’m looking for reader input on whether and when New York Times news reporters should [...]
New Hampshire Primary Live Blog
All day today I’ll be semi live blogging about the New Hampshire Primary and the GOP 2012 nomination in general. All times are EST. 11:25 – Another night, another claim that Obama is going to somehow fundamentally change the American way of life. Mitt Romney said this in his victory speech: Our campaign is about more [...]
Pot and Kettle
Yesterday, Mitt Romney made an incredibly stupid decision when he decided to frame his views on health care as “I like being able to fire people who provide services to me.” This is a highly potent string of words that can be easily used to characterize him as out of touch with everyday Americans, millions [...]
Happy New Hampshire Primary Day
Or, happy End-of-The-GOP-Primary day. Latest polls out show downward momentum for Romney and upward momentum for Huntsman. But none of it really matters. The size of the number separating first place (Romney) the rest of the field is too large for any last minute change of fortune. If there is, you will see a lots [...]