Tag: Campaign 2012
Paul Ryan’s Desperate Powerpoint Presentation to GM Execs in 2008 Failed to Save Janesville SUV Plant
In his speech to his party’s convention last night, Rep. Paul Ryan falsely accused Pres. Obama of allowing a GM plant that built SUVs in Janesville, Wisc., Ryan’s hometown, to close.
But Ryan omitted at least two key facts in his prosecution of the president. One: GM announced it was closing the plant in June 2008, fully six months before Pres. Obama took office. And two: it was Paul Ryan, not the president, who tried and failed to convince GM to keep the plant open:
Hilarious New Video Exposes Mitt’s Real Life Story
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Ann Romney’s Convention Speech Omitted the Fact That She and Mitt Lived on Proceeds from Stocks During Their Hard Times in College
Ann Romney’s speech to the Republican National Convention last night included an anecdote about the hard times she and Mitt faced when they were young — a story intended to assure middle class voters that, despite the fact that the Romneys are multimillionaires, they’re really just regular folks like you and me:
Boehner’s Boozy Republicans-As-Bar-Flies Analogy in Convention Speech Backfires – Romney Said ‘Big Business Is Doing Fine’ Just Last Week
In his speech to the Republican Convention last night, House Speaker John Boehner, who also serves as the convention chairman, deployed a boozy analogy in which Republicans are bar flies and the president is a drunk, presumably, who says something that the bar fly hive mind collectively finds offensive:
Republican Delegate Removed from Convention Floor After Racist Outburst
Update: The RNC released a statement saying that two “attendees,” not just one, were expelled from the convention. The statement reads, “Yesterday two attendees exhibited deplorable behavior. Their conduct was inexcusable and unacceptable. This kind of behavior will not be tolerated.” No information has been released about the identity of the two attendees, including whether they were delegates and, if so, from which state or states.
Original post:
Um, GOP, your sheets are showing:
The Game to Play Before You Drive
SAFE DRINKING GAME: Drink when you see a non-white person in the Republican Convention audience.
— LOLGOP on Twitter
Is the Media Elite Growing a Spine?
First Chris Matthews smacked down the Republican Party national chairman over Romney’s false, racist Welfare ad, now Ron Fournier at National Journal calls out a Romney operative. Josh Marshall at TPM wonders if the media elite is growing a spine:
