In last night's debate, a tightly-focused President Obama pointed out how severely conservative Mitt Romney has become in this campaign: [The] last point I want to make is this: You know, there are some things where Governor Romney’s different from George Bush. George Bush didn’t propose turning Medicare into a voucher. George Bush embraced comprehensive immigrationContinue reading “Obama: Romney more extreme than George W. Bush”
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John Cassidy: Start the blame game — it’s over for Mitt
From veteran writer/editor John Cassidy, blogging for The New Yorker: When Romney decided to run in 2012, the best argument for his candidacy was that he had nothing to do with the Bush Administration and could appeal to moderate voters. But rather than trying to make a break with the Bush Administration and portraying himselfContinue reading “John Cassidy: Start the blame game — it’s over for Mitt”
Mitt Romney: Worse than George W. Bush?
One of this country's lesser-known great writers, Edmund White, writes for The New Yorker about the Cranbrook School, where Romney and a gang of followers ritually humiliated a gay classmate in l965. White attended the school, just as Mitt Romney did, but a few years earlier, and as a gay person. He speculates about Romney's motivationsContinue reading “Mitt Romney: Worse than George W. Bush?”
Romney 11/22/05: For and against climate pact on same day
The Internet is an astonishing thing: this evening the the entirety of the book of research into Mitt Romney's record, as compiled by the staff for his bitter GOP rival John McCain's staff in 2008, hit the intertubes. The 200-page document included this gem of a flip-flop on climate change, as reported in the Boston Globe:Continue reading “Romney 11/22/05: For and against climate pact on same day”
The pen is mightier than the Mitt Romney
As the inevitability of dreary Mitt Romney's candidacy for President for the GOP becomes inescapable, one has to wonder — will today's character artists be able to make fun of him? Will he be a target-rich opportunity, as exemplified by the likes of Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, or will he just be bland, likeContinue reading “The pen is mightier than the Mitt Romney”
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