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We’ve already had one post-modern Presidency, under Bush the Lesser. Do we want another under Romney?
Archive for the ‘Mitt Romney’ Category
January 2nd, 2012
Category: Mitt Romney, Wayward press
Why does Roger Simon think Jon Huntsman is “in the wrong party”?
December 27th, 2011
Category: Mitt Romney, Taxation
Willard Mitt Romney pays a lower tax rate on the millions of dollars he continues to earn from his asset-stripping activities at Bain Capital than ordinary folks pay on their income. Sounds like an issue to me.
December 21st, 2011
Category: Mitt Romney, Terrorism and its control
Back in 2008, Romney denounced Barack Obama for saying he would do what he later did: strike terrorist targets in Pakistan without playing “Mother, may I?” with the ISI. He should be reminded of that, often.
December 17th, 2011
Category: Mitt Romney
Next October, when Mitt Romney is campaigning as a moderate Republican,to win independent votes, do you think any journalist will remind him that now, when he’s campaigning as a wingnut to win votes from the fringe movement that is now the Republican base, he described himself as “pretty much the ideal Tea Party candidate”?
Neither do I.
November 13th, 2011
Really! TIME’s Amy Sullivan notes how Michigan’s Republican-controlled legislature agreed to allow anti-bullying legislation only if it contained an exemption for “a sincerely held religious belief or moral conviction”. (h/t Cohn) It’s obvious where this is coming from: Republicans wanted to empower evangelical bullies to harass gay and lesbian children on campus. It’s an ugly — and in [...]
