Oct 31, 2012: Pile On
Romney’s Post-Truth Campaign: Auto Rescue Edition Last week, Mitt Romney made now infamous comments in Defiance, Ohio claiming that Jeep was going to “move all production” to China. The comments were immediately exposed as completely false. This, however, did not stop the Romney campaign from doubling down on the comments and making several other misleading [...]
Oct 26, 2012: A Closing Argument
Six Facts About Mitt Romney’s Plan The Romney campaign promised a “major address” today on the economy that was to be the Republican candidate’s closing argument. Instead, we got a gauzy version of his stump speech with nothing new, other than promises that Romney would bring “big change.” We happen to agree that Romney will [...]
Oct 25, 2012: Let Them Have Microwaves!
Romney Campaign: Out-of-Touch on the Economy We already know that Mitt Romney thinks almost half of Americans are lazy moochers with a victim mentality and that he is “not concerned about the very poor.” And that his running mate Paul Ryan also dismissed an even larger swath of Americans as “takers.” A pair of top [...]
Oct 24, 2012: Stand By Your Man
Another Republican Makes Outrageous Comments About Rape Over the last two months Republicans have talked about “forcible rape,” “legitimate rape,” “easy rape,” and even “emergency rape.” Republicans simply refuse to admit that rape is rape — period. Last night, Indiana’s Republican Senate candidate, Richard Mourdock, doubled down on these ugly views when he said that [...]
Oct 23, 2012: Myth Romney
41 Minutes, 24 Myths If you watched last night’s debate, you already know that Mitt Romney came down with a particularly serious case of Romnesia. He not only tried to hide his real positions and obfuscate his record, he even went so far as to pretend that he agreed with the president on several key [...]
Oct 22, 2012: Debate Prep, Foreign Policy Edition
Five Facts to Memorize Ahead of Tonight’s Debate Tonight is the third and final presidential debate. It will take place in Boca Raton, Florida — the same city where Mitt Romney made his now infamous 47% comments. The candidates will be seated at a desk (like the vice presidential debate) with the moderator, CBS News’ [...]
Oct 19, 2012: A 1-Point Plan
Everyone Else Pays More So the Wealthy Can Pay Even Less First, Mitt Romney had 59-point plan. Lately, he’s been touting a 5-point plan. But the truth is that Mitt Romney really just has 1-point plan: Make everyone else pay more so the wealthy and huge corporations like Big Oil can pay even less. What [...]
Oct 18, 2012: The Real Voices of Small Business
What Small Businesses Really Think About the Issues Republicans talk a lot about small businesses out on the campaign trail, but often times the “small businesses” they talk about are anything but. According to Republicans, Donald Trump, Oprah, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, and construction giant Becthel, the largest construction company in America, are all small businesses. In order [...]
Oct 17, 2012: Mitt Romney’s Binders
Taking Women Backwards in Every Way The internet is abuzz with send ups of a comment about “binders full of women” that Mitt Romney made at last night’s presidential debate. Behind all the jokes, however, lies something serious: Mitt Romney’s dangerous agenda for women and their families. Romney’s agenda would drag women back to the 1950s [...]
Oct 16, 2012: A Job-Less Plan
Mitt Romney’s ‘Jobs Plan’ is a Total Bust This morning, the Washington Post’s in-house fact checker tore Mitt Romney’s claim that he will create 12 MILLION jobs to shreds. The Post wrote that the “‘new math’” in Romney’s plan “doesn’t add up. In awarding the claim four pinocchios — the most untrue possible rating, the [...]
