Tag: Mitt Romney
Christie Criticized Romney’s Advisors, but Paid Them $46k Anyway
$46,000
Amount New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s (R) re-election campaign paid a political consultancy firm run by Mitt Romney’s former top political strategists even though over the weekend Christie said no one should “give a darn” about their political advice, Yahoo News noted.
One Trader Lost Big Betting On Romney Near End of 2012 Campaign
$4 million to $7 million
Amount that a single trader lost in the final weeks of the 2012 election placing 1.2 million Intrade bets on Mitt Romney, according to a new academic paper examining presidential betting — perhaps to “make the Republican nominee’s chance of victory appear brighter,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
Romney ‘Disappointed’ In Rice Pick
I find that a disappointing appointment on the part of the president. I think what she did was to very seriously mislead the American people about what happened in Benghazi. My greatest concern about the Benghazi events was the fact there was not a rescue effort attempted and that is very troubling to me.
— Former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, telling CNN that he was disappointed with President Obama’s pick of UN Ambassador Susan Rice to be his next national security adviser, and proving once again that he really has no idea what the facts are.
Romney’s Transition Plan a Monument to Wasted Work
138 pages
Length of Mitt Romney’s transition organization’s report detailing how it had prepared for a potential Romney victory in the 2012 presidential election, Time reports. “It is the product of a team of nearly 500, who labored in Washington and around the country to be ready to help Romney assume the reins of power on January 20th, 2013, in accordance with the Pre-Election Presidential Transition Act of 2010.”
Romney Recuses Self from Republican Reform Recommendations
Having lost the election, I don’t look at myself as the person best equipped to prescribe where the party should go, going forward.
— Mitt Romney, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, on offering the Republican party guidance.
Mitt Romney is, Apparently, a ‘Normal’ American Citizen
I have to admit, being able to go back to our own life and going to the grocery store and shopping on my own is kind of nice to be by myself without a bunch of people hanging around with me. I like the life of being an American citizen. It’s good to live a normal life again.
— Mitt Romney, interviewed on Dennis Miller’s radio show.
Republican Senator Comes Out for Marriage Equality After Acknowledging His Son is Gay
Even as his party at CPAC confirms its commitment to denying one set of taxpayers the right to marry the adult they love and somehow concluding this is not discrimination, Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) is speaking out in defense of marriage equality.
Portman’s position on the subject has “evolved,” as the saying goes, for a very personal reason. His son, a student at Yale, is gay.
Portman: ‘I told Mitt Romney everything’
“I’m announcing today a change of heart on an issue that a lot of people feel strongly about that has to do with gay couples’ opportunity to marry,” Portman told CNN.
It has to do with another revelation, one deeply personal. His 21-year-old son, Will, is gay.
“I’ve come to the conclusion that for me, personally, I think this is something that we should allow people to do, to get married, and to have the joy and stability of marriage that I’ve had for over 26 years. That I want all of my children to have, including our son, who is gay,” said Portman.
Portman campaigned for Mitt Romney for president in 2012, and was among Romney’s choices for the vice presidential slot. Team Romney denied that Portman’s son, or his acceptance of him, was a factor in their decision to choose someone else.
Perry Disses Romney at CPAC
The popular media narrative is that this country has shifted away from conservative ideals as evidenced by the last two presidential elections. That’s what they think. That’s what they say. That might be true if Republicans had actually nominated conservative candidates in 2008 and 2012. Might be true.
— Gov. Rick Perry (R-Tx), speaking at the 2013 CPAC conference. Perry lost his 2012 presidential primary bid to former Gov. Mitt Romney, who will speak at the event tomorrow. No word on whether Perry will be present when he does.
Super Bowl Flashback: It Really Was Halftime in America
As the country gathers tonight to watch the big game — and the million dollar ads — let’s not forget this little gritty little ditty from only one year ago.
The ad was widely misinterpreted as Clint Eastwood endorsing the Obama administration’s decision to bail out Chrysler (and GM), despite many Republicans, including eventual presidential nominee Mitt Romney, saying we should let the biggest manufacturing sector in America, and about one million jobs, liquidate.
Eastwood denied that he supported Obama and backed up that assertion last summer, when he gave arguably the strangest performance of his career at the Republican National Convention. Eastwood rambled through an improvised exchange with a chair that he pretended was the president, and which he fantasized was arguing with him and threatening him.
Maybe Eastwood should have embraced the ad’s original interpretation because it turns out it really was halftime in America, and the majority of voters were better players than Eastwood or Romney.
