Mitt Romney

Barack and Mitt Will Have Lunch Today; Here's What They Could Talk About

It has been almost a month now since America went to the polls and re-elected President Obama to another four years of running this whole place. Since then, we've collectively done well in the whole "taking our minds off the election" business. We've had Petraeus, the progress of the Sandy recovery, ... More >>

Here's the Official Post-Election Petition Asking Obama to Let New York Secede from the Country

Up until election night, there was a legitimate, widespread fear that President Obama was going to lose the 2012 election. Liberals were pissed; many even spoke about moving to Canada, or Australia, or Britain, or any place that wasn't the United States but where people still spoke English. Then c ... More >>

UPDATE: The Pennsylvania Decision

Fox News has just called Pennsylvania, with 20 electoral votes, to Barack Obama. With eight percent of ballotss counted, Obama so far is up 68-30 on Mitt Romney. In the race to 270, Romney currently leads the electoral college 154-143. Though Pennsylvania was not largely thought of as a battlegroun ... More >>

The Conversation Both Romney and Obama Don't Want to Have

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Clint Eastwood Narrates New Pro-Romney Ad, Makes It Sound Much More Epic Than It Actually Is

For a while, Clint Eastwood was the true third party in this election. After his endorsement for Romney, the Hollywood bravado set off a media firestorm with his self-destructive tirade against a stool during the RNC and his even more self-destructive explanation of said speech. We laughed, we cried ... More >>

Outside Last Night's Presidential Debate, Protest, Police, A Penguin

While Barack Obama and Mitt Romney were getting ready to take the stage at Hofstra University last night for the second presidential debate, the streets outside the campus were lined with anarchist banners, tricorn hats, "don't tread on me" flags, and papier-mache Reaper drones. "We're here to voic ... More >>

Mitt Romney Haters Picket Bain's Manhattan Office. Confusion Ensues

About 50 Mitt Romney haters gathered in front of the midtown offices of Bain Capital -- the controversial private equity firm co-founded by the presidential candidate -- to protest "the Bain way of outsourcing jobs" this afternoon.Specifically, they were protesting the moving of Bain-owned Sensata T ... More >>

Gawker: Paul Ryan Calls Romney "The Stench." Only, He Doesn't. At All

Here's the latest example of lazy journalism leading to blatant inaccuracies and falsehoods in the blogosphere, compliments of our friends at Gawker -- and their incessant crusade to make Mitt Romney look stupid (as if he's not doing a fine job of that on his own): "Paul Ryan's Cute Nickname For His ... More >>

Rightbloggers Rejoice as Ryan Revives Romney, Reaganesquely

The ideologically fluid Mitt Romney surprised a lot of people this weekend by choosing as his Vice-Presidential running mate Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, a hardcore conservative best known for frightening off independent voters. Democrats portrayed the choice as a gift. So did rightbloggers, often for ... More >>

La Raza Endorses Gay Marriage, Joining the NAACP, President Obama, a Majority of Americans, and Even Prop 8 Defenders!

Happy Pride weekend. Here's some more good news on the marriage beat to share with you this beautiful weekend here in New York. La Raza, the nation's largest Latino civil rights organization, unanimously approved a resolution supporting same-sex marriage equality, the Washington Blade reported excl ... More >>

Mitt Loves N.Y.: Bruce Kovner

Since the Citizens United decision, realpolitik has accepted the harsh reality in which a corporation has the same pedestal in our democratic elections as an ordinary Joe Schmoe. And, as a financial hub in America and abroad, New York has transformed into a politically charged Gotham; its corporate ... More >>

Obama's Comedy Routine; Apple Avoids Billions in Taxes; DSK Blames Sarkozy

Good morning! Start your Sunday off with some comedy, courtesy of your commander-in-chief. Last night was the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner, which gave President Obama an opportunity to poke fun at himself, Donald Trump, the Secret Service, and of course, his rival Mitt Romne ... More >>

Newt Gingrich: 'Genius' or Idiot?

Newt who? Just kidding! He's still totally relevant in this election. Promise. Anyway, Gingrich introduced Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal at the New York State Republicans annual dinner Thursday night. He wasn't quite the rabble-rousing Newt of the past, according to Buzzfeed reports. Rather, he ... More >>

This Week in The Voice: Mitt Romney, American Parasite

This week in the Voice, out today: Pete Kotz examines Mitt Romney's brand of capitalism, and finds that it represents everything you hate about America's economic system: "His specialty was flipping companies -- or what he often calls 'creative destruction.' It's the age-old theory that the new must ... More >>

Etch A Sketch, Teddy Bears and Lincoln Logs: A History Of Presidential Toys

In a brief break from the depressing news we've been covering lately, we wanted to weigh in on presidential toys. You may have heard that Romney aide Eric Fehrnstrom had something to say about Etch A Sketch yesterday. "I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign," Fehrnstrom said, before ... More >>

Mitt Romney Condoms, 'for Anyone With an Elitist Penis,' Hit the Market

And now we present a form of birth control that will make people want to be abstinent. Forever. Runnin' Scared introduces the Mitt Romney condom -- recently unveiled by the same New York company that first marketed Barack Obama rubbers in 2008 (h/t New York Post). Say It With a Condom's "Never Se ... More >>

Poll Shows Obama Would Have a Good Chance Against Romney in General Election

​As Obama begins to make the case for a second term, a joint poll run by ABC News and the Washington Post has found that the president currently has a solid lead on Mitt Romney in a general election matchup, with 52 percent of Americans saying they would support Obama, over 43 percent for Romn ... More >>

Donald Trump Takes Credit for Mitt Romney's Nevada Win

By now it's quite obvious to anyone paying attention that Donald Trump will do anything to stay in the spotlight during this election season, despite already calling it quits on his own candidacy. So after very publicly declaring his support for Mitt Romney, a move that caused many Americans to enga ... More >>

Romney Wins Florida Primary, but GOP Resists

Despite the fact that Mitt Romney won the Florida primary in a landslide, many Republicans continue to pretend that he will not be their eventual, inevitable presidential nominee. Romney won the Florida primary with 46.4 percent of the state's Republican vote, compared to Newt Gingrich's 31.9 perc ... More >>

Mitt Romney Admits He Doesn't Care About "Very Poor People"

Despite a rousing victory in Florida yesterday, Mitt Romney continues to mess things up for himself without any help from his rivals. In an interview earlier this morning on CNN, Romney practically handed the GOP ammunition to take him down. "I'm in this race because I care about Americans," Romne ... More >>

Mitt Romney Beats Newt Gingrich by 20 Points in Florida Poll

​Mitt Romney, who routinely gets shit from other conservatives for being too rich, too Mormon, and too willing to help people get healthcare, is crushing top rival Newt Gingrich in Florida a day before the Jan. 31 primary -- a just-released Suffolk University/7 News poll puts the former Massac ... More >>

Ally Ally Alinsky! Rightbloggers See Saul Alinsky Everywhere -- Even Among Themselves

Now that Newt Gingrich, newly amplified as a Presidential candidate, is regularly using Saul Alinsky as a club to beat Obama, the conservative obsession with long-dead community organizer has gone bigtime. Perhaps overexcited by this new opportunity to lecture America about one more thing that they ... More >>

Rightbloggers Explain How Newt Gingrich's Big Win Can Help Someone Other Than Newt Gingrich Become President

Was it the video hit his Super PAC put out on Romney? Was it his heroic denunciation of his ex-wife and the Liberal Media (mostly the Liberal Media)? Whatever the reason, Newt Gingrich won a big surprise victory in Saturday's South Carolina primary. Rightbloggers who've always loved the former Spea ... More >>

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Rightbloggers Rush to Defend Mitt Romney -- The Corporate Raider, Not the Candidate

When last we left our heroes, the 2012 Republican Presidential challengers, they were inevitably folding to Mitt the Man Whose Turn It Is. Then Newt Gingrich -- or, excuse us, a Newt Gingrich Super-PAC to which he is not connected -- decided to go out swinging with a little film that portrayed Romne ... More >>

Mitt Romney, Alleged 'Vulture Capitalist,' Gives Woman $50

​Mitt Romney, Republican presidential frontrunner, has been called a "vulture capitalist," but recently gave an unemployed supporter at least $50 -- maybe even $60 -- according to the Spanish-language daily.

Definitely Not Coordinated With Stephen Colbert Super PAC Releases Anti-Romney Ad

The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive Want to hear the star of Harry and the Hendersons -- no, not Harry, the human one -- narrate a Mitt Romney attack ad? You're in luck. Watch the above video.

Romney Wins New Hampshire, Surprising Nobody At All

Mitt Romney won the New Hampshire primary last night, winning 39 percent of the vote more or less exactly as expected. Ron Paul came in a distant second with 23 percent of the vote, John Huntsman took third with 17 percent, and Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum each got about 9 percent. Texas Govern ... More >>

Rightbloggers Prepare to Swallow Their Santorum and Root for Romney

Since the recent Iowa one-two finish by Romney and Santorum, there've been a couple more debates and a lot of palaver about the GOP Presidential race. But let us level with you: Despite all our jokes about The Next President of the United States of The Week/Month, it's become painfully obvious tha ... More >>

Mitt Romney Likes Being Able to 'Fire People'

Let's start with a hypothetical: Say you want to be president of the United States, but are said to give off an unappealing, out-of-touch, millionaire businessman vibe, making it hard to relate to most Americans. If this happens to be the case, a thing that you might strongly consider avoiding on ... More >>

Gingrich Tells Romney to Drop the 'Pious Baloney'; Which Baloney is he Talking About?

The GOP debates have essentially turned into a traveling theater production, and today's matinee in New Hampshire was surprisingly energetic given their late performance last night. After going easy on Romney yesterday, the other candidates tried to stick it to him during this morning's MSNBC debate ... More >>

Kim Kardashian Enters The Political Discussion On The Eve Of The Iowa Caucus

Republican candidates are making their last moves across Iowa today as GOP voters try and decide who they will support in tomorrow's caucus. The Iowa Caucus doesn't really pick the official nominee, as much as it just kills off the struggling candidates. Essentially, a bunch of white corn farmers ge ... More >>

Holy Shit! Mitt Romney Made a Fake Bet!

Last night, the remaining Republican presidential candidates met at Drake University in Des Moines for a debate that lasted almost two hours. What they said doesn't matter, however, as the only thing people will remember is the moment when Mitt Romney asked Rick Perry if he wanted to bet "ten thousa ... More >>

Mitt Romney Hammers Gingrich on Moon Policy, Space Mirrors

Newt's America.​Earlier, we wrote about last night's GOP debate in Des Moines and Mitt Romney's proposed $10,000 bet with Rick Perry over claims that Romney's book was edited to change a portion about health care. This fleeting and insignificant moment overshadowed the real issues that were di ... More >>

Mitt Romney Lies About His First Name, Which is Really Willard; Rick Santorum Says Africa is a Country (VIDEO)

The Republicans are engaging in their twelfth (that's right, an even dozen) debate tonight in Washington, D.C., in a CNN foreign policy debate sponsored by the Heritage Foundation and American Enterprise Institute. Mitt Romney got things off to a fun start by lying about his first name (or, at least ... More >>

Presidential Campaign Stores: Who's Got the Best Crap?

With the New Hampshire primary less than two months away, candidates are taking to the airwaves with commercials and televised debates to get their messages out. They have been honing their talking points and refining their images to make you, the voter, comfortable enough to buy what they're sellin ... More >>

Which Was the Worse Gaffe: Herman Cain's "Princess Nancy" or Rick Perry's Dementia?

These Republican debates are getting more bizarre every week, and last night, we were treated to not one but too epic moments. Herman Cain, the one time Godfather's Pizza CEO and implausible front runner in primary poling for the GOP nomination, has been on the ropes the past couple of weeks for, as ... More >>

Mitt Romney: "I'm Running for Office, for Pete's Sake! I Can't Have Illegals!"

It was a strange debate last night, even by the standards of this year's crop of Republican primary candidates. Michelle Bachmann (who looked disarmingly like a post Jedi Princess Leia) promised to build a "double fence" along the length of the United States/Mexico border; Herman Cain slipped into h ... More >>

Mitt Romney's The Republican Frontrunner

​Check out this thoughtful piece which explains why, after his endorsement from Chris Christie and his performance at the last debate, Mitt Romney is the top dog to try to boot Obama from employment. Author John Dickerson says that at the New Hampshire debate, Rick Perry "was too vague and fu ... More >>

Mitt Romney Not a Christian, Says Mega-Christian With Megachurch

Robert Jeffress, the evangelical megachurch pastor who introduced Rick Perry at the Voter Values Summit yesterday, has publicly questioned Mitt Romney's faith. Politico reports that when asked whether Mitt Romney was a Christian, Jeffress said, "No." Jeffress added, "That is a mainstream view, that ... More >>

Mitt Romney and Barbra Streisand, Two "People Who Love People," Sing Duet Together

It's been quite a week for Mitt Romney.

Mitt Romney as Opposed to Gay Marriage as Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum

​We've been watching reactions all day about the fact that Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum signed a National Organization for Marriage pledge to eradicate gay marriage in the United States, in the event they become President. There is little newsworthy about this development, except to se ... More >>

Mitt Romney: "We're Going To Hang" Barack Obama

​The smooth-haired former governor of Massachusetts placed his foot firmly in his mouth last night at an event in New Hampshire. Mitt Romney told the audience that the Republicans were going to hang Barack Obama. Well, it sounds worse than it was, but it was pretty bad!

Mitt Romney Throws His Exploratory Hat Into the Exploratory Ring

Mitt Romney has taken to YouTube to announce that he has formed an exploratory committee for the 2012 presidential race. He calmly talks about jobs while standing in front of what looks to be a high school football field (because nothing says "America" like adolescent concussions). It is subdued, re ... More >>

Mitt Romney Wins Southern Republican Straw Poll by One Vote

​Mitt Romney couldn't make it to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference this year, but with the help of a "grass roots" group of supporters led by '08 Romney presidential campaign advisors (one of whom is Mrs. Romney's ghostwriter), he scraped by second-place Ron Paul to win the preside ... More >>

Mitt Romney Attacker a Grammy Nominee, Says Ex-Gov Started the Fight

​Usually assailants of prominent politicians, if they do not achieve Lee Harvey Oswald lethal status, disappear into obscurity and/or the criminal justice system and are not again heard from. But the man accused of taking a swing at former Massachusetts Governor and GOP Presidential candidate ... More >>

A Salute to the LMFAO Goons, Who Almost But Did Not Quite Punch Mitt Romney In the Face

Despite being stalwart defenders of all things that could possibly be called "joke rap"--from Plastic Little to Das Racist to Donald Glover--we've always found it impossible to enjoy LMFAO, the two twerps responsible for the phrase "I'm in Miami, Bitch" entering the lexicon. Not OK. It's even wors ... More >>

Mitt Romney Attacked, Frank Lautenberg Falls, and Other Politician Disasters

​It's already a tough week for Democratic senators. Hard on the heels of Evan Bayh's departure from the 2010 Senate race, rumors are floating that Maryland's Barbara Mikulski is not going to run, either. And 86-year-old New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg has been hospitalized after falling ... More >>

Trump Weighs In on "Bottom-Heavy" WTC, Election, Etc.

Golden Tablets and the American Dream

Those wacky Mormons and their mandate to love illegals