Mitt Romney grew up in politics. His father was the governor of Michigan, a cabinet secretary in the Nixon Administration, and ran an unsuccessful race for president himself. His mother ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Senate herself in 1970...
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Mitt Promises Third Bush Term
Mitt's millions may have bought himself a second-place showing at the Iowa caucuses, but he can’t buy credibility. Even Republicans think Romney is telling them what he thinks they want to hear instead of what he really believes.
Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney
You're not exactly the best person to be making dog metaphors, in light of PuppyGate.
Conservatives push Romney as VP choice:
Mitt Romney's son, Josh Romney, is considering a run for Congress in Utah's second.
As somebody in the office just noted, it's Romney's last flip-flop. Various news outlets are reporting Mitt Romney will be dropping out of the race.
Maybe he should have invested in something else. Romney is getting
a bad return on candidacy:
Sen. John McCain kept up the trend of winning his home state of Arizona. Up north, the state of North Dakota goes for Gov. Mitt Romney with a 13 point win over Sen. McCain, 36-23 with 98 percent reporting. Reports...
Georgia closed their polls at 7:00pm tonight and we are still waiting on a final result in the Republican primary. MSNBC reported a slim margin between Gov. Mike Huckabee leading Sen. John McCain with Gov. Mitt Romney hanging around for a close three-way race.
The networks called several states since the polls closed at 8:00pm. Here's a shocker: Gov. Mike Huckabee won his home state of Arkansas. Gov. Mitt Romney was able to hold on to the state he, apparently, despised for the twenty-plus...
A reader sent in the following photo while waiting to board a plane at Logan International Airport in Boston. (Photo credit: Jon, Flight Blogger)...
Gov. Mike Huckabee won the West Virginia Caucus with 52 percent on the second ballot.
Last night's debate was yet another reminder of why smooth talking Mitt Romney keeps wracking up the silver and bronze medals, but just can't seem to make it across the finish line. After losses in almost every critical state heading up to next Tuesday, Romney's campaign has apparently decided that his last hope is to try to re-brand himself yet again -- this time as an "authentic conservative."
Mitt Romney doesn't care about you:
It's the must-see video of the day. Stick around for the end and you can watch Mitt Romney talk about a child's "bling bling."
This morning, Mike posted the video of former Gov. Mitt Romney's meltdown when confronted by a reported from the Associated Press on the inconsistencies with Romney's rhetoric and his ties to lobbyists. Romney says that he "doesn't have lobbyists running...
Smooth talking Mitt Romney is at it again. Yesterday, Romney was caught on tape playing semantics with an Associated Press reporter over the role of lobbyists in his campaign. Romney grew visibly irritated when the reporter challenged his claim that he did not have lobbyists running his campaign or sitting in on strategy meetings, despite the fact that veteran Republican lobbyists like Ron Kaufman, Barbara Comstock and Al Cardenas have served as high-profile advisors and strategists since he announced his candidacy. [Associated Press, 1/17/08]
South Carolina Republicans beware…. The Mitt Romney you see this week may bare little resemblance to the Romney you saw last year. After losing in Iowa and New Hampshire, smooth talking Mitt Romney retooled his message in order to reposition himself as a champion of working families. In reality, not only did Millionaire Mitt have to redefine the "middle class" before he could offer working families any relief, but Mitt's mismanagement left a major mess in Massachusetts. On his watch, Massachusetts saw unemployment rise, jobs leave, higher taxes and fees, and increased cost of living. Not only is he promising to bring that brand of change to Washington, he's flip-flopped and morphed himself into a Bush Republican on taxes, promising to extend the Bush tax cuts he once refused to support, and endorsing tax cuts he previously said were for "fat cats."
Mitt Romney takes Michigan in the Republican Presidential primary, offering four more years of the Bush presidency.
If only all of the voters in Michigan were mothers of his staff, he wouldn't have been forced to devote so many resources into the state. But, alas, he'll have to settle for photo-ops that simply hide the family ties:
So much for being the Hometown Son... Romney's roots in Michigan so far not winning him the primary there:
Republicans aren't very excited about their presidential candidates in New Hampshire.
"People want change in Washington, not in the White House," says Mitt Romney, ignoring the polling that shows that people want change in the White House by huge margins. Only 26 percent of Americans approve of Bush's handling of foreign policy and his handling of the economy.
Mitt's millions may have bought himself a second-place showing at the Iowa caucuses, but he can’t buy credibility. Even Republicans think Romney is telling them what he thinks they want to hear instead of what he really believes.
Here's what he had to say to those tiny percentage of voters -- and shrinking -- who still approve of President Bush: "We also love a president who has kept us safe these last six years."
Do I even have to tell you who I'm referring to? Or is the title enough to tell you it's about Mitt Romney? A couple days ago: "I think I'm going to win." Today: "I can't possibly predict that I'm gonna take first place in any particular state."
Just days before the Iowa caucus, the reviews are in. Despite running "the least honorable campaign of any major candidate," Romney is still being "dogged" by questions about his flip-flops and a lingering "candor gap" that have left voters wondering "if there's anything at all at his core" and convinced that he'll say whatever he thinks voters want to hear instead of what he believes.
People across the blogosphere have been documenting the bizarre excuses Romney has been throwing out there to explain his statement that his dad marched together with Martin Luther King.
And for those of you trying to keep track of all these excuses, I've embedded this helpful English to Romney translator:
1. into or in one gathering, company, mass, place, or body: to call the people together. 2. into or in union, proximity, contact, or collision, as two or more things: to sew things together.
Sliding in the polls and struggling to overcome his image as a serial flip-flopper, the New York Times reports that smooth talking Mitt Romney is trying to shift attention away from ideological issues and toward his business record. In light of recent revelations about his leadership at Bain Capital, he might want to reconsider.
Mitt didn’t actually mean his father marched with MLK, when he said that remembered seeing it.
We've all heard about business setting up "shell" companies overseas in order to take advantage of tax loopholes and avoid paying their fair share.
Romney 'doesn't recall' attending a Planned Parenthood fundraiser, but the photographic evidence is at Blue Mass Group.
For smooth talking Mitt Romney, the word of the week appears to be "taxing:" as in taxing his credibility, misleading on his tax raising record, and new revelations about the millions he made millions steering companies toward offshore tax shelters.
On Meet the Press yesterday, Mitt Romney had to answer a lot of questions about flip flops on almost every single issue. But he had an answer to the reversals on gun rights -- he was endorsed by the NRA!
On the same day the Los Angeles Times cited former colleagues who criticize his style at Bain Capital as "grasping and greedy," smooth talking Mitt Romney fumbled to explain his crassly calculating flip-flops today on NBC's Meet the Press.
The Republican presidential candidates are set to take part in the Iowa Public Television/Des Moines Register debate Wednesday but if previous debates are any indication, it's unlikely the American people will hear anything more than the same over-the-top rhetoric and failed Bush foreign policy from the Republican hopefuls.
Mitt Romney today garnered the support of the right-wing magazine National Review. Romney has donated thousands of dollars in order to support various right-wing causes. In March the NY Times reported that Romney and allied organizations had paid thousands of to The National Review and various Republican causes.
After launching a negative ad misleading Iowa on his immigration record, flip-flopping on the issue of amnesty for undocumented workers, and after getting caught having undocumented workers doing his yard work TWICE, Mitt Romney issued the following press release criticizing Rudy Giuliani for -- you guessed it -- flip-flopping and harboring illegal aliens.
After the grilling Rudy Giuliani got yesterday on NBC's Meet the Press, smooth talking Mitt Romney must be concerned about his long awaited turn in the spotlight this weekend. But if Romney is wondering how to explain away his staggering array of flip-flops and blatant pandering, the voters are wondering which Mitt will show up.
Smooth talking Mitt Romney still seems to think he can talk his way out of his campaign's biggest problems. After failing to address his litany of flip-flops and complete lack of credibility in yesterday's speech in Texas, Romney is giving a speech in Iowa today aimed at tackling another challenge: his lack of foreign policy experience.
Smooth talking Mitt Romney's blatant hypocrisy on immigration reform is on full display today. One year ago, the Boston Globe revealed that Romney had employed a landscaping company that used undocumented workers on the lawn of his Belmont mansion.
Romney nixes landscaping company after hiring undocumented workers... again.
Some Romney supporters were caught red-handed stuffing the ballot box in a Tampa Bay, FL straw poll. Here's the video evidence:
Mitt's twists and turns on abortion leave the voters wondering where he really stands:
Mitt and Rudy's ever-evolving positions:
On the same day the Los Angeles Times reported that cancer survivors could be left out of the leading Republican presidential candidates' health care proposals, smooth talking Mitt Romney is slated to discuss health care at Des Moines University today.
Are the Republicans are so used to dirty tricks, that they may be playing dirty tricks on themselves?
Republican operatives conduct nasty calls against Republican candidates.
Today, Nevadans will get a first-hand look at the contrast between the strong Democratic presidential candidates who took part in last night's DNC-sanctioned debate in Las Vegas and smooth talking Mitt Romney's empty rhetoric and crass flip-flopping.
Having already sold off all his previous positions on every important issue from choice, immigration to the minimum wage the Mitt Romney campaign is asking his supporters to sell off their past on EBay to help fund Romney's campaign.
Having apparently run out of policy positions to auction off this campaign season, smooth talking Mitt Romney is now calling on his supporters to join him in selling off parts of their pasts too.
Poor Romney, and endorser calls him a flip flopper and a cousin isn't sure which candidate she's going to support.
Republicans like Mitt Romney just can't bring any change to American foreign policy.
What does Romney’s Blackwater adviser say about him?
Smooth talking Mitt Romney today unveiled a new trade policy that raises more questions than it answers, but does leave one point perfectly clear: electing Romney would mean trading one Bush Republican for another.
Sure beats waiting tables.
Tonight, the AARP will be hosting a forum for the Republican candidates in Iowa to address issues important to America's seniors but only one of the Republican frontrunners will attend as the others cited "scheduling conflicts."
El Presidente Bush ofreció un discurso sobre la política hacia Cuba de su Administración luego de casi ocho años de ofrecerle promesas vacías a la comunidad Cubano Americana, y luego de haber repatriado a unos 8,000 refugiados Cubanos que huían del regimen Castrista durante su presidencia. [New York Times, 10/23/07; AP, 10/24/07; New York Sun, 1/18/06]
On the same day McClatchy News reports that President Bush and his fellow Bush Republicans have raised government spending to its highest level in more than 40 years, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is using yet another new ad to try to smooth talk voters into thinking he offers a new direction.
While both Republican presidential candidates are skipping this week's AARP forum on issues affecting seniors, South Carolina voters will get a firsthand look at how dangerous Fred Thompson and Mitt Romney's policies would be for seniors in the Palmetto State and across America.
A look at Mitt Romney's fabled war room that monitors his flip-flops.
No take-backs.
How's Mitt Romney getting so much support in South Carolina? Could he be buying it?
He's got no conservative record to run on, so he simply makes one up.
]In the wake of last week's endorsement of Mitt Romney by Bob Jones III and Bob Jones University Dean Robert Taylor, a column in today's USA Today asks how far Romney is willing to go to smooth talk Republican primary voters into backing his campaign.
Followers accuse him of abandoning his faith.
Values Voter Summit doesn't answer any questions.
After Value Voters straw poll, Huckabee supporters cry foul.
The Republican Candidates are debating tonight at a country club. We'll be watching them and documenting their flip-flops, exaggerations, and pandering in this thread.
Mitt Romney tried to smooth talk reporters yesterday about why he decided to turn a blind eye to the racist, anti-Catholic, anti-Mormon, and homophobic statements and policies of Bob Jones III and Bob Jones University when he accepted their endorsements.
After a week of fighting over who is the true conservative candidate in the race, the Republican presidential frontrunners are in Washington this weekend trying to win over evangelical leaders at the Family Research Council's Values Voter Summit.
Somewhere between $20 and $40 million dollars.
Romney channels his inner Dan Quayle.
Apparently, smooth talking Mitt Romney is so desperate to win over the extreme right wing of the Republican Party that he is willing to turn a blind eye to the racist, anti-Catholic, anti-Mormon, and anti-gay policies of Bob Jones University and its leadership.
When in doubt, buy the election!
This man is worth $250 million?
This election is not for sale.
Feel the burn.
On Friday Mitt Romney, the candidate who's flip-flopped on every major issue of the last generation, stood on stage and stole a phrase from Governor Dean and the late Senator Paul Wellstone by saying he represented the "Republican wing of the Republican Party."
One of Mitt Romney's advisers is once again at the center of a political scandal.
The embarrassing part is that Mitt Romney actually showed up...and Ron Paul didn't.
As part of his multimillion-dollar marketing campaign, smooth talking Mitt Romney today rolled out a new ad, entitled "Jihad," that aims to distract from his complete lack of foreign policy credentials and litany of blunders on international affairs.
As part of his multimillion-dollar marketing campaign, smooth talking Mitt Romney today rolled out a new ad, entitled "Jihad," that aims to distract from his complete lack of foreign policy credentials and litany of blunders on international affairs.
Mitt Romney is now loaning his campaign money at a faster pace than Steve Forbes.
Just days after misrepresenting and exaggerating his economic record during this week's CNBC Republican presidential debate, Mitt Romney is taking his relentless campaign to distract from his failed leadership to Oklahoma City and Phoenix.
The talk doesn't match up with his record:
One day after trying to smooth talk his way through yesterday's Republican presidential candidate debate, Mitt Romney is back in Colorado for a fundraiser today.
Within an hour he'd changed his tune, saying that he'd protect American companies from foreign competition.
No, seriously.
In today's CNBC debate, Mitt Romney continued his unrelenting campaign to smooth talk Republican primary voters into ignoring his real record on economic issues.
Millionaire Mitt Romney conveniently forgot to mention his investments in China and Iran today during the debate.
The Republican presidential candidates debated about which candidate would be tougher on Iran. At the same time, Romney has millions of dollars invested in Iran.
Two times over the weekend Mitt Romney showed how out of touch he is with normal voters.
Smooth talking Mitt Romney is heading back to the Granite State today to defend his support for President Bush's veto of legislation that would provide health care for 8,700 uninsured children in New Hampshire.
Mitt Romney writes himself some big checks in order to stay competitive.
Too bad he can't buy back his words.
The four leading Republican presidential candidates embrace Bush's decision to veto health coverage for poor children.
The leading Republican presidential candidates have skipped most debates that address issues important to people of color. We've responded with a new web video on the American Dream.
In this interview from 2006, Romney says that he wanted to run for Governor for a second term, despite the fact that he had become highly unpopular in Massachusetts because of flip-flops he'd made in preparation for his run president.
As Americans contact their members of Congress demanding they override President Bush's veto today that would have covered 10 million low income children with health insurance, all the Republican front runners are standing with George Bush and against insuring children.
