Yes, Ann Romney is exactly the type of woman to be advising her husband on issues facing working mothers. NOT.
Mitt Romney has claimed that he wants to keep his campaign’s focus away from absurd distractions like birtherism, but his campaign has kept close ties with many who refuse to abandon the conspiracy theories.
Here are six notable birthers on Team Romney.
Conservative super-PACs are attempting to gin up disillusionment among President Obama’s supporters and keep their turnout low in November’s election, in part by highlighting his ties to Wall Street.
Within the past month, three separate ads — two from the American Future Fund and one from Crossroads GPS — have assailed Obama from broadly comparable perspectives. Especially striking are the American Future Fund ads which make the kind of anti-Wall Street argument heard largely on the left.
The outside groups’ message contrasts with the one being pushed by Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate, who has called the Obama’s “the most anti-business administration” since President Carter’s.
Super-PAC ads look to tie Obama to Wall Street, turn off his base
“Mitt Romney has a Latino problem,” House Democratic Caucus Vice-Chairman Xavier Becerra (Calif.) said in an interview with Jordan Fabian of Univision News. “And like those who are alcoholic and go to Alcoholics Anonymous when they’ve got a problem, Mitt Romney should go to a place where he could learn what his problem is and really try to change his ways.”
“You’re not going to get rid of that disease that infects you if you don’t treat it and you don’t believe it,” he added.
Becerra is the No. 5 Democrat in the House. His comments come as polls show Romney trailing President Obama among Hispanic voters by as much as a 45-percentage-point margin…
Romney’s ‘Latino problem’ similar to alcoholism, says Rep. Xavier Becerra
Sixteen lies this week.
(Source: quickhits)
Mitt Romney got pretty specific about unemployment in an interview with Mark Halperin yesterday, arguing that his “policies” will “get the unemployment rate down to 6 percent, perhaps a little lower.”
It was an odd sort of prediction. For one thing, earlier this month, Romney told voters any unemployment rate above 4 percent is a problem. For another, according to the Congressional Budget Office and the Office of Management and Budget, if existing policies remain in place, the unemployment rate is already on track to reach 6% by 2016. (In other words, Romney is promising to deliver results we’re supposed to get anyway.)
It was an odd sort of prediction. For one thing, earlier this month, Romney told voters any unemployment rate above 4 percent is a problem. For another, according to the Congressional Budget Office and the Office of Management and Budget, if existing policies remain in place, the unemployment rate is already on track to reach 6% by 2016. (In other words, Romney is promising to deliver results we’re supposed to get anyway.)
NBC polls: Obama edges Romney in three key battleground states
President Barack Obama holds a narrow advantage over presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney in three of the most pivotal presidential battleground states — Florida, Ohio and Virginia — according to new NBC-Marist polls.
But in each of these states, Obama’s share of the vote is below the 50 percent threshold usually considered safe haven for an incumbent president, and Romney has narrowed the margin in these three battlegrounds since earlier this year.
In Florida and Virginia, Obama leads Romney by an identical four-point margin, 48 percent to 44 percent, among registered voters, including those who are undecided but leaning toward a particular candidate.
In Ohio, the president is ahead by six points, 48 percent to 42 percent.
Republican Bruce Bartlett on why Romney has been praising Clinton while refusing to even utter George W. Bush’s name. Bartlett points out that Clinton’s policies — unlike Bush’s and the GOP’s — actually worked and are still popular with Americans. Unfortunately, Romney is only praising Clinton, not embracing his policies. Instead, it’s Bush’s policies that Romney would use to govern.
The American auto industry has a real problem: it’s doing so well, it’s struggling to make enough cars…
There is, of course, a political angle to all of this. It was, after all, just two weeks ago that Mitt Romney boasted, “I’ll take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry’s come back.”
It’s credit he doesn’t deserve, but President Obama does.
Just to recap, Romney has said, publicly and repeatedly, that he opposed Obama’s industry rescue plan — the one he now wants credit for. The former governor has said repeatedly that GM and Chrysler should rely on private funding to restructure and get back on their feet.
Of course, in early 2009, the credit markets were frozen and there was no private funding available. (When a company called Bain Capital was approached, it refused to invest.) How does Romney reconcile his demands with reality? For the last three years, he hasn’t even tried to explain the contradiction. In fact, he’d prefer if we just overlook the details altogether.
On some key issues, like Iran, Romney and his team are to the right of Bush. Romney’s embrace of the neoconservative cause—even if done cynically to woo the right—could turn into a policy nightmare if he becomes president.
Ari Berman, writing for the Nation in Mitt Romney’s Neocon War Cabinet
(via kathiek)
NBC/WSJ poll: Obama, Romney locked in tight contest
Despite a volatile and eventful past few weeks in the early presidential contest, President Barack Obama continues to hold a small – and slightly narrowing – lead over Mitt Romney, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll…
This poll – which was taken after the anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death, Obama’s announcement in support of gay marriage, fresh economic worries about Europe, and last month’s tepid jobs report – shows the Democrat leading Romney by four points among registered voters, 47 percent to 43 percent.
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