Mitt Romney News

Romney’s Cash Source

1:32 pm EST December 19th, 2011 | Republicans | Comments Off

Mitt Romney is still making millions of dollars from layoffs engineered by Bain Capital, the private equity firm he helped to start.

As revealed by the New York Times, Romney negotiated a backroom deal with Bain that gave the already wealthy Romney a share of Bain’s profits even after he left the firm.

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Heck Of A Job, GOP

11:23 am EST October 19th, 2011 | Republicans | 22 Comments

In all the acrimony between Obama and Clinton in 2007-8 (and God knows I was in the thick of it), there wasn’t any instance where one of them physically touched the other in this fashion. It is amazing that the Republican frontrunner grabbed someone in the middle of a debate. What???

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Mitt Romney’s Amazingly Deceptive Chart

4:27 pm EST September 6th, 2011 | Politics | 48 Comments

This is a chart showing job growth, or lack thereof from Mitt Romney’s jobs presentation (page 16).

Except Romney counts negative job growth while Bush was president 2007- Jan 2009 as part of the “Obama Recovery.” Talk about creating your own reality that has no resemblance to the truth.

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Ick, Heaven Forbid Anyone Call Romney Weird

4:20 pm EST August 16th, 2011 | Politics | 35 Comments

Ugh.

As Romney began to leave the company after his hourlong visit, he looked at the owner’s girlfriend, Ellen Boss. “Nice,” Romney said as she blushed. “Nice choice. Just like me.”

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Mitt Romney Super PAC Gets Shady $1 Million Donation

8:16 am EST August 4th, 2011 | Politics | 1 Comment

Yeah, that’s not suspicious at all.

A mystery company that pumped $1 million into a political committee backing Mitt Romney has been dissolved just months after it was formed, leaving few clues as to who was behind one of the biggest contributions yet of the 2012 presidential campaign.

The existence of the million-dollar donation — as gleaned from campaign and corporate records obtained by NBC News — provides a vivid example of how secret campaign cash is being funneled in ever more circuitous ways into the political system.

The company, W Spann LLC, was formed in March by a Boston lawyer who specializes in estate tax planning for “high net worth individuals,” according to corporate records and the lawyer’s bio on her firm’s website.

Topic: 2012 Election, Mitt Romney

VIDEO: Unreleased ’94 Kennedy Ad Hits Romney On His Federal Bailout

10:19 am EST July 14th, 2011 | Republicans | 7 Comments

From Politico:

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Willie Horton Adman Working On Romney SuperPAC

2:24 pm EST June 27th, 2011 | Republicans | Comments Off

You don’t say. No, really.

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“Struggling” Man In Romney Web Video Isn’t

3:09 pm EST June 24th, 2011 | Republicans | 52 Comments

Mitt Romney has a new web video where a young man claims to be struggling in Detroit’s tough economy. Nobody disputes that Detroit is going through bad times, even when compared to the national picture, but the Wall Street Journal looked into the guy — and found he wasn’t exactly as hard up as he sounded:

But in struggling Michigan, where unemployment is 10.3%, Mr. King’s story doesn’t appear to be the worst.

According to his Facebook and MySpace pages, he graduated just last month from Northwood University in Midland, where he studied accounting, was a residential adviser and mail clerk. On May 6, just as he was graduating, he announced that he “got the job, booya!!!” at Quality Marketing Enterprise, a Midland company.

On June 10, he cut the Romney video, telling his Facebook friends, “Last night went great and I hope that I make the final cut. It would be refreshing to be part of something nationwide. Off to work for the day.”

“Haha I was trying to make it in the video, I was dancing in the Honda Pilot in the drive thru lol. We didn’t know it was you until we drove away,” a friend said, commenting on the video-making outside a Starbucks in Midland.

He’s also a vice-chairman of his county’s Republican party.

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Romney Campaign Connected To Karl Rove’s American Crossroads

11:35 am EST June 24th, 2011 | Republicans | 9 Comments

American Crossroads GPS, the political attack ad organization co-founded by Karl Rove was responsible for some of the most dishonest attack ads in the 2010 election.

Romney is clearly the favored candidate of the Republican country club set, aka the Rove wing of the party. So it isn’t a big surprise that there’s a connection between Crossroads and the Romney campaign. But is it legal?

Carl Forti is the political director of American Crossroads. Coincidentally he’s also the political director for Restore Our Future, a Super PAC that consists of Romney backers. Super PACs, formed after Citizens United, are legally prohibited from coordinating with individual candidates.

Yet, as Ben Smith pointed out, here was Forti talking up Romney after the GOP debate:

Carl Forti, an adviser to Romney’s 2008 campaign who’s now the political director of American Crossroads, said what Romney’s opponents have in common is that they must show they’re ready to compete at the frontrunner’s level.

“It’s up to the other candidates to knock him off the top rung, and at this point the other candidates have shown an unwillingness to even really try,” Forti said, offering that Pawlenty had “whiffed big time at the last debate when presented a great opportunity.”

Forti pointed to the focus on economic issues as a driving force behind Romney’s rise. The former governor has also been helped as a string of nationally known opponents have dropped out of the race.

Topic: 2012 Election, American Crossroads, Karl Rove, Mitt Romney, Super PAC

Tim Pawlenty Is Very Brave… On Twitter

3:24 pm EST June 16th, 2011 | Politics | Comments Off

In the recent Republican debate, Tim Pawlenty showed cowardice when he refused to back up his previous attack on Mitt Romney and “Obamneycare.” Days later, he decided to attack Romney from the safety of his keyboard: