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As a political grandstander, was firm in pointing out that in the West, "[[marriage]]" has meant "one man and one woman" for over two thousand years, not just since 1890 when the Mormon church leaders <s>caved before the U.S. government seizure of all their property</s> experienced a [[divine revelation]] and gave up [[polygamy]]. [[Stopped clock|Despite being a Mormon]], he has had fewer wives than [[Newt Gingrich]], [[Ronald Reagan]], or [[Rudolph Giuliani]], as he has only married one woman, to whom he remains married to this day.<ref>[http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2011/12/07/mitt_romney_is_married_to_one_woman_to_the_only_woman_he_s_ever_married_hint_hint_.html Slate:Mitt Romney Is Married. To One Woman. To The Only Woman He's Ever Married. Hint, Hint.]</ref>
 
As a political grandstander, was firm in pointing out that in the West, "[[marriage]]" has meant "one man and one woman" for over two thousand years, not just since 1890 when the Mormon church leaders <s>caved before the U.S. government seizure of all their property</s> experienced a [[divine revelation]] and gave up [[polygamy]]. [[Stopped clock|Despite being a Mormon]], he has had fewer wives than [[Newt Gingrich]], [[Ronald Reagan]], or [[Rudolph Giuliani]], as he has only married one woman, to whom he remains married to this day.<ref>[http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2011/12/07/mitt_romney_is_married_to_one_woman_to_the_only_woman_he_s_ever_married_hint_hint_.html Slate:Mitt Romney Is Married. To One Woman. To The Only Woman He's Ever Married. Hint, Hint.]</ref>
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Snoop <s>Dogg</s> Lion made a list of why he wasn't voting for Romney and why he was voting for [[Obama]]. He wrote that Mitt is a Mormon but he ain't got no hoes.
  
 
==2008 campaign==
 
==2008 campaign==

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The main problem with trying to distance yourself from Romney is you don't know in which direction to head. Is it Governor Romney, pro-choice and advocate of what looks like Obamacare? Or is it Candidate Romney who is opposed to both those things? Is it Primary Romney, pandering to the social conservatives and warmongers? Or is it Late Campaign Romney who thinks there might be a place for people who are outside the mainstream and who just wants everyone to get along? Is it Private Equity Romney who wants the US government to get out of emergency relief and turn it over to the private sector? Or is it this week's Romney who thinks FEMA is just great in its response to Sandy?
—BlackAcre[1]

Willard Mitt "Mittens" Romney (born March 12, 1947) was the best only hope the Republican Party had to defeat Barack Obama in the 2012 US Presidential Election.

One of Romney's claims to fame was saving the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics from rampant corruption.[2] However, he is probably most notable for his perfect[3] hair.

Romney served as governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007. He ran unsuccessfully for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008.

While he won the GOP presidential nomination in 2012, he did not enjoy enthusiastic support from his party's rank and file, and critics on the right often painted him as a RINO.[4] Romney is a man of deep conviction who holds fast to his principles unless it is convenient to abandon them, leading The Economist to characterize him as "several vertebrae short of a backbone."[5]

Contents

Religion

Romney's membership in the Mormon Church was an element of controversy in the run-up to both the 2008 and 2012 primaries. His faith was at first thought to be a substantial handicap to his candidacy, as 22% of Americans say they would not vote for a Mormon as president (though JFK was elected despite similar opposition to Catholicism at the time).[6] The critical question for Romney and the Republican Party perhaps was: What proportion of Republicans would prefer a comfortable chair in front of a television, rather than go out and vote for a Mormon?[7] In the end, though, it didn't matter.[8]

He avoided the Vietnam draft for several years through studying and Mormon missionary work.[9] Later, he wanted to nuke Iran.

As a political grandstander, was firm in pointing out that in the West, "marriage" has meant "one man and one woman" for over two thousand years, not just since 1890 when the Mormon church leaders caved before the U.S. government seizure of all their property experienced a divine revelation and gave up polygamy. Despite being a Mormon, he has had fewer wives than Newt Gingrich, Ronald Reagan, or Rudolph Giuliani, as he has only married one woman, to whom he remains married to this day.[10]

Snoop Dogg Lion made a list of why he wasn't voting for Romney and why he was voting for Obama. He wrote that Mitt is a Mormon but he ain't got no hoes.

2008 campaign

In 2008, Romney attempted to woo social conservatives by running as a right-winger, a significant departure from the moderate positions which he held during his days in Massachusetts. He flip-flopped on abortion, gun control and a whole lot of other hot-button issues (see below).[11][12] Romney also claimed that he'd seen his father march with Martin Luther King, though it was proved that both of them had been in different places at the time. This earned him the coveted "Pinocchio Award" for lying from the Washington Post, as well as a "Pants on Fire" rating from PolitiFact.[13][14][15] He also wanted to show everyone how tough he is by doubling the size of the Guantanamo Bay prison.[16]

Romney's 2008 campaign was surprisingly free of personal scandals and embarrassing revelations. The only notable mini-scandal it yielded involved one of Romney's senior aides, Director of Communications Jay Garrity, who took a peculiar approach to handling the press: he and a few other campaign workers dressed up as policemen and used fake badges to order reporters away from events and avoid highway tolls.[17][18]

Mitt Romney eventually suspended his campaign on February 7, 2008 after seeing his results in the Super Tuesday primaries, saying that his staying in the race "would make it easier for Senator Clinton or Senator Barack Obama to win" and that his campaign would "be a part of aiding surrender to terror." He then endorsed John McCain on February 14 (mmm... Valentine's Day). This must have impressed McCain, as he later considered Romney as a potential choice for a running mate.[19]

2012 campaign

His religion isn’t the issue--he’s the issue...At some point you need to be honest about who you are. He has an authenticity problem. People don’t get him. They don’t feel that they know the guy.
—Penny Young Nance, president of Concerned Women for America in stopped clock mode[20]

Romney took another shot at the presidency, but his record for flip-flopping made it hard to ascertain exactly what he stood for or what he would have done in office.

Romney had hurdles to overcome; he's not very popular among his own party's base, and tends not to come across as the type of guy people like.[21] That said, throughout the primary campaign he was portrayed by the media as the presumptive nominee, most likely because all most of the other Republican candidates were batshit crazies who wouldn't stand a chance in the general election.

Romney's drive to secure the nomination did not come cheap. He spent four times as much money per vote (and three times as much per delegate won) as Rick Santorum.[22] At times, he did outraise Barack Obama, who raises money well, both in smaller increments from a broad donor base and in large donations to so-called "Super PACs."

Romney announced in late August that his campaign would "not be dictated by fact checkers."[23] This may have been a less-than-prudent move on his part, as the fact checkers ultimately wound up pounding every noxious lie he was caught in into a thin paste of noxious pasty lying stuff.

After all was said and done, Romney's campaign ended about fifteen minutes after the West Coast polls closed, in one of the quickest "dead heat" races in history, with Oregon and/or Ohio (depending on what station you were watching) putting Obama over the top and not a recount threat in sight.

Primary and caucus highlights

Romney's campaign for the Republican nomination revealed the deep ideological fault lines in the party:

  • Iowa Republicans were pretty much evenly split between Romney and Rick Santorum.[24] Although Santorum won a narrow victory after a recount,[25] the margin was a mere 8 votes.
  • Despite the caliber of the opposition, the Bible Belt state South Carolina had little confidence in him, throwing their weight behind Newt Gingrich.[26]
  • Romney did well in Florida, a state whose panhandle is in the Bible Belt.[27]

However, a few hiccups aside, once Santorum pulled out (heh), it became clear that Romney would secure the nomination. In effect, his faction — finance capital — once again subordinated the other factions (the Religious Right and various other globules of bigotry) as useful idiots.

Obama

On May 31, 2011 Romney called Barack Obama "one of the most ineffective Presidents" he's ever seen, and argued that he could beat him in the general election.[28] That sufficed at the time to set him apart from the rest of the field, making him the closest thing to a frontrunner. For the 2012 campaign, Romney has apparently given up on trying to sell himself as a social conservative, and bases his candidacy mostly on criticizing Obama's handling of the economy:

Obama did not cause this recession, but he made it worse... it will be essential to have a person who understands how the economy works, understands what it takes to create and grow jobs, in the White House.[29]

After Romney made the assertion in his announcement speech, fact-checkers demolished it.[30] According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the recession ended in June of 2009.[31] The Associated Press, meanwhile, pointed out that GDP picked up modestly after Obama took office, adding that while unemployment is still very high, "the recession officially ended six months into his presidency”, which is obviously an improvement. Yet Romney was cheerfully repeating the bogus claim again. What is being seen here are the limits of fact-checking — something rediscovered every election cycle:

  1. Candidates, party committees and outside groups make false claims.
  2. Media fact-checkers go to work and debunk the claims.
  3. The candidates and groups go right on making them anyway.
  4. Reporters stop pointing out that they’re false.

Romney seemed to hope that a lie repeated often enough will eventually be believed, and he might be right on that account. When challenged he tried to deny he had ever said it.[32][33]

Romney-care problem

Did someone say hideously dishonest? Mitt Romney is up to the task.
—Fred Clark[34]

Mitt Romney faced harsh criticism for stating that nothing is "more misguided and egregious" than the Obama administration's federal health care overhaul. He then went on to state "Obamacare is bad law constitutionally, bad policy, and it is bad for America’s families,” Romney said. “The federal government isn’t the answer for running health care any more than it’s the answer for running Amtrak or the Post Office."[35] Despite his relentless attacks on Obamacare, on September 9, 2012 Romney said on Meet the Press that there are some things about the recent health care reform that he liked and would continue under his own plan, including letting young adults keep their coverage that they get from their parents' plan and "[making] sure that those with pre-existing conditions can get coverage."[36]

This is because the Massachusetts' health care overhaul he signed into law in 2006 served as a model for the federal legislation.[37][38] And the Democrats have even thanked Romney on their website for the model he gave them.[39] Romney proudly touts the law in his list of achievements, while refusing to acknowledge large similarities between the two laws.[40] When pushed about how he stated it was unconstitutional at a federal level, he pleaded it was different because it's a state plan.[41]

Trying to help uninsured sick people get better is a serious weakness in the eyes of some Republicans as The Onion notes.[42]

Unemployment

Apart from bashing Obama, Romney also frequently promised voters that the unemployment situation would dramatically improve once he was in office, and as late as February 1st he was promising an era of prosperity. How exactly does he plan to get people working? Mitt just said he'd "focus, focus, focus." That certainly sounds impressive, but what will Romney focus on? Mitt did not said anything clear about that. He’d just "focus, focus, focus" on something or other and somehow that will create jobs.[43] Since he already made the same promise during his tenure in Massachusetts, it was worth checking out his record:

During his full term in office, Massachusetts ranked 47th in the nation in terms of job creation according to the U.S. Labor Department. The only states that created fewer jobs were Ohio, Michigan and Louisiana. Also, when you examine Romney’s job creation ranking during the first two years of his administration (the period that Obama has now been in office), you will discover that Massachusetts ranked 50th.
—Some liberal blog[44]

Despite this less-than-stellar achievement, his supporters still hoped that the whole country would fare better under his leadership than Massachusetts did; his opponents, on the other hand, argued that if Mitt Romney’s an economic "heavyweight," we’re in trouble.[45]

Lying about job creation

WaPo gave Romney the Pinocchio award again because he lied about firms under his control creating jobs in the private sector. Romney further lied about jobs falling in the auto industry under Obama when auto jobs in fact increased:

But since January 2009, when Obama took office, overall there has been an increase in jobs. The number of jobs hit a low point in November 2009, but then it has slowly inched upward so that Obama can point to the auto industry and says there has been a net gain.
—Glenn Kessler[46]

Lying about 47% of Americans

The only person who has seen Romney's taxes is John McCain and he took one look and picked Sarah Palin.
Democratic strategist James Carville[47]

Romney did not know he was being taped when he said "47% of Americans don't pay income tax," they see themselves as victims, won't take personal responsibility for their lives and expect the state to provide. 47%, Romney said will vote for Obama come what may and Romney will disregard them.

Ironically, many of those 47% were willing to vote for Romney,[48] at least they were before they found out he insulted them and doesn't care about them. Did fewer of them vote for Romney now? But perhaps they did anyway, after Romney epically flip flopped again when on October 4, 2012, he admitted on Fox News that, "Clearly in a campaign with hundreds if not thousands of speeches and question-and-answer sessions, now and then you're going to say something that doesn't come out right, in this case, I said something that's just completely wrong."[49]

Cutting spending

Romney is campaigning on a promise to cut public spending, eliminate some government departments and merge others. Romney has been cagey about exactly how he would enact budget cuts.[50][51] He told private sponsors a bit about his plans when he had no idea reporters were listening in; what the reporters overheard heard led to speculation that education and public housing may be targeted for cuts should Romney win the election.[52]

Gay marriage

Romney opposes same-sex marriage or civil unions that are marriage in all but name—supporting some partnership benefits such as hospital visitation rights. Romney further opposes federal recognition of gay marriage and gay civil unions.[53][54][55]

Political positions

Romney apparently is a politician, and as such, presents a strong principled position from time to time. The trouble is his principles change so much it becomes hard to tell what he stands for or will stand for in the future.[56]

Issue Flip Flop
Abortion "I respect and will protect a woman’s right to choose. This choice is a deeply personal one. Women should be free to choose based on their own beliefs, not mine and not the government’s." (2002)[57] "I am pro-life. I believe that abortion is the wrong choice except in cases of incest, rape, and to save the life of the mother." (2005)[57]
Gun control "That's not going to make me the hero of the NRA. I don't line up with the NRA." (1994)
"We do have tough gun laws in Massachusetts; I support them. I won't chip away at them; I believe they protect us and provide for our safety." (2002)[58]
"I have a gun of my own. I go hunting myself. I'm a member of the NRA and believe firmly in the right to bear arms." (2008)[58] - The part about owning a gun was a lie, by the way.
Don't Ask, Don't Tell "Clinton’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy on gays in the military is a fine first step, but must ultimately lead to gays and lesbians being able to serve openly and honestly in our nation’s military." (1994)[59] "As for military policy and the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, I trust the counsel of those in uniform who have set these policies over a dozen years ago. I agree with President Bush’s decision to maintain this policy and I would do the same." (2006)[59]
Stem cell research "He supports stem cell research on new and existing lines, in both private and federally funded settings.” - Romney's spokesman in 2004[60] "The governor has never been a proponent of expanded federal funding or state funding for embryonic stem cell research.” - Romney's spokesman in 2007[60]

Etch-a-Sketch

In an interview on CNN, a campaign staffer for Romney responded to questions regarding Romney's far-right positions during the primary hurting him in the general election by stating that Romney can "reset"[61]:

It's almost like an Etch-a-Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all over again.
—Eric Fehrnstrom[62]

The obvious redundancy of "restart all over again" aside, opponents Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich jumped on this gaffe to show further how Romney's political views change with the wind.[63] Romney later backtracked from his staffer's statement, saying his political positions would remain the same during the general election.[64] The statement and its backlash, however, did cause a temporary spike in the stock price of Ohio Arts, the creator of the Etch-a-Sketch[65] as well as a 15-fold increase in sales on Amazon.com.[66] The comparison also drew fire from Rachel Maddow who not only criticized Romney for his ever-changing positions but also remarked that Ohio Arts was now producing the Etch-a-Sketch in China at substandard wages—even by Chinese standards—a move that had been previously decried by major purchaser Toys "R" Us, a company owned by Bain Capital which Romney co-founded.[67][68]

Miscellaneous weirdness

Bullying a blind teacher

Young Romney pretended to help a blind teacher, he guided the blind man through one set of doors, then laughed hysterically as the teacher bumped into a second set of closed doors.[69]

Cutting hair

During the campaign, allegations emerged that when Romney was 17, at the elite Cranbrook School, he helped gang up on a boy who was visibly gender-nonconforming and rumored to be gay. While his cronies held the boy down, Romney forcibly cut his hair.

It's a haunting memory, when you see somebody who is simply different taken down that way and is terrified and you see that look in their eye, you never forget it.
—Philip Maxwell, one of Romney's classmates.[70][71][72]

Romney claims he forgot about that, though the victim certainly did not.

Romney also viewed poorer students with disdain, "souring" upon learning that a classmate commuted from east Detroit.[73]

Mitt the Ripper

Romney argues that "corporations are people." How did he treat those people?

Much of the business of private equity, especially in the hostile takeover area, amounts to bullying as a way of doing business. That Mitt the high-school bully chose a profession that inflicts pain on companies for profit indicates to me that a core character defect can be detected here.
—The American Human[74]

As one analysis put it, as head of Bain Capital, he "...bought companies, carved them up and got rid of what he couldn’t use."[75]

Subsidiaries include LexCorp, Weyland-Yutani, and Umbrella Corporation

Mitt originally co-founded Bain Capital with investments from Central American war criminals.[76]

Mitt the superpatriot

To kickoff the campaign season, Mitt toasted his wealthiest donors aboard his yacht, the Cracker Bay, as a Cayman Islands flag fluttered overhead.[77]

One law for the rich and another for the poor

If a mother is poor and on welfare she should be forced to go out and work, because Mitt thinks work is more dignified.[78] However, if a mother is wealthy (like his own wife) and is staying at home to raise children, then that is hard, dignified work and an acceptable career choice.[79][80][81]

Mitt the dog lover?

Is it kind to keep a dog in a carrier, strap it to the roof of a station wagon, and keep there for the duration of a long road trip, even when the animal shits itself in sheer terror? Romney's critics don't think so.[82]

Unfortunate coincidence

A ship named the "HMS Romney" was once used to enforce import taxes in the North American colonies.[83]

Cold fusion

I do believe in basic science. I believe in participating in space. I believe in analysis of new sources of energy. I believe in laboratories, looking at ways to conduct electricity with — with cold fusion, if we can come up with it. It was the University of Utah that solved that. We somehow can’t figure out how to duplicate it.[84]

Diplomacy? What's that?

In July 2012 Romney went on an international trip in an attempt to portray himself as worldly and presidential. It was an unmitigated failure, with Romney insulting just about everyone he engaged with.[85] While at Downing Street, the United Kingdom's seat of government, Romney forgot the name of the Labour Party leader, Ed Miliband, referring to him throughout the conversation as "Mr. Leader."[86]

See also

Footnotes

  1. Massachusetts’s Republican Senator distances himself from Romney in campaign
  2. PoliticsUSA: Dropping a Word Bomb of Truth On Mitt Romney’s Olympic Leadership
  3. Werewolves of London
  4. The RINO list on Romney
  5. American politics: The right Republican
  6. The Guardian: Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman aim to seize America's 'Mormon moment'
  7. The Guardian: Mitt Romney's problem with evangelicals
  8. For Mormons, Mitt Romney's loss was still a win for their faith Los Angeles Times
  9. The Boston Globe: Mormon church obtained Vietnam draft deferrals for Romney, other missionaries
  10. Slate:Mitt Romney Is Married. To One Woman. To The Only Woman He's Ever Married. Hint, Hint.
  11. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/04/AR2008020402805.html
  12. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/160351/20110609/mitt-romney-flip-flop.htm
  13. Romney Wins WaPo Pinocchio Award
  14. http://thephoenix.com/Boston/news/53200-was-it-all-a-dream/
  15. Mitt Romney, a man of falsehoods
  16. "Double Trouble", Time.
  17. http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2007/06/fortune_reporte_1.html
  18. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/22/us/politics/22romney.html
  19. "Report: Romney's wealth played role in '08 VP pick", USAToday
  20. Politico: GOP to Mitt Romney: Own your Mormonism
  21. ‘Likability’ scores are hurdle for Romney
  22. [1]
  23. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/23/mitt-romney-_n_1836139.html
  24. Iowa caucuses: Romney pips Santorum
  25. Mitt Romney stripped of Iowa win after recount
  26. South Carolina poll: Gingrich triumphs over Romney
  27. Mitt Romney scores big Florida primary win
  28. Huffington Post - Mitt Romney Blasts Obama: 'One Of The Most Ineffective Presidents,' He's 'Failed' (VIDEO)
  29. Washington Post: Mitt Romney again repeats debunked claim that Obama made recession “worse”
  30. Mitt Romney again repeats debunked claim that Obama made recession “worse”
  31. NBER: US Business Cycle Expansions and Contractions
  32. http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_07/romney_makes_it_worse_with_obv030618.php
  33. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20076136-503544.html
  34. Fred Clark. "Obama drops F-bomb: Tells ‘Internet’ to ‘F— off’." Slacktivist. 2012 July 22.
  35. Politico - Mitt Romney's prescription for 'Obamacare': Repeal it
  36. The Atlantic: Romney Wants to Keep Key Parts of Obamacare 9 September 2012
  37. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/06/06/110606fa_fact_lizza
  38. http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2011-06-22-obama-romney-health-care-Massachusetts_n.htm
  39. Say "Thanks" to Mitt Romney
  40. Mitt Romney vs. ObamaCare
  41. Transcript: Mitt Romney on 'FNS'
  42. Mitt Romney Haunted By Past Of Trying To Help Uninsured Sick People
  43. Mitt Romney will say anything to become President
  44. http://lynnrockets.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/mittwit-romney-makes-it-official-the-flip-flop-campaign-begins/
  45. If Mitt Romney’s an economic heavyweight, we’re in trouble
  46. Mitt Romney’s claim that 100,000 auto jobs have been lost under Obama
  47. [2]
  48. Fact-checking Romney's "47 percent" comment
  49. [3]
  50. Romney offers policy details at closed-door fundraiser
  51. What would Romney cut? Overheard conversation holds clues
  52. [http://articles.latimes.com/2012/apr/16/news/la-pn-romney-mentions-possible-policy-details-in-florida-fundraiser-20120416 "Romney offers possible policy details in Florida fundraiser" Los Angeles Times
  53. Mitt Romney reaffirms opposition to gay marriage and civil unions
  54. Mitt Romney Reaffirms Opposition to Gay Marriage
  55. Mitt Romney Not Eager To Play Up His Opposition To Same-Sex Marriage
  56. Mitt Romney: Flip-flopper or not?
  57. 57.0 57.1 http://www.bestnewspolitics.com/republican-beliefs/mitt-romney-shifts-on-abortion/
  58. 58.0 58.1 Boston Herald: Romney, appealing to core GOP voters, toughens pro-gun rhetoric
  59. 59.0 59.1 Democrats.org: Mitt Romney’s Top 5 Flip-Flops
  60. 60.0 60.1 New York Times: Romney Faces Another ‘Flip-Flop’ Question: Has He Changed on Stem Cells?
  61. Sexism, plutocracy, bigotry? What does the Republican nominee stand for?
  62. [4]
  63. [5]
  64. [6]
  65. [7]: Stock price went from USD$4.00 to USD$12.50, representing a more than 200% increase in value to shareholders, should they have dumped at the peak.
  66. [8]
  67. [9]
  68. Is your head spinning yet?
  69. Romney faces accounts of homophobia and bullying
  70. Bob Holt. "Mitt Romney’s teen bullying incident shows his crazy side." NewJerseyNewsroom.com. 2012 May 11.
  71. David Greene and Ari Shapiro. "Romney Apologizes For High School Bullying Incident." NPR. 2012 May 11.
  72. Sydelle Zabow. "Mitt Romney bullying incident offers clues to his character." NJ.com. Letters to the Editor. 2012 May 12.
  73. Jason Horowitz. "Mitt Romney’s prep school classmates recall pranks, but also troubling incidents." Washington Post. 2012 May 10.
  74. Romney's High School Hijinks
  75. "Colbert’s ‘Super PAC’ Runs Attack Ad."
  76. "Mitt Romney Started Bain Capital With Money From Families Tied to Death Squads."
  77. "Romney Party Yacht Flies Cayman Islands Flag."
  78. The Mommy Wars: Mitt Romney says poor women with kids should work to get dignity
  79. Mitt Romney's flip-flop on stay-at-home moms: Will it matter?
  80. Feud Alert! Roseanne Barr vs. Mitt Romney's Wife, Ann
  81. Mitt Romney: Mothers Should Be Required To Work Or Lose Assistance
  82. Mitt Romney’s dog-on-the-car-roof story still proves to be his critics’ best friend
  83. You can't make this up
  84. http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/992671#.UEjxAaDYFGz
  85. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2012/07/mitt-romney-in-poland.html
  86. In Mitt's defence, forgetting Ed Miliband's name and his existence in general, is easily done.
  87. Daily Caller: Romney used to impersonate police officers, stop cars with siren
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Topics: 2012 U.S. Presidential Election - Democratic Party - Debate:Religious beliefs and public office - Republican Party - Same-sex marriage - United States Electoral College
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