Tag Archives: Mitt Romney

Dead Blogging The Fender Bender In Denver

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Ads ‘n’ ends from last night’s Barack Obama/Mitt Romney bakeoff in the Mile High/Low Expectations City: • If you picked “crushed” for your drinking game, you were knee-walking by 9:14. • The first half hour of this thing was strictly … Continue reading →

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Union Runs Trashy Attack On Mitt Romney

Posted on October 2, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

From Politico’s Morning Score: EXCLUSIVE – AFSCME TRACKS DOWN ROMNEY’S GARBAGE MAN: The public service union features Richard Hayes, whose route includes Romney’s ocean-front mansion in La Jolla, Calif., in a new video that highlights the 47% comment. “We’re kind of … Continue reading →

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Let The Whatever-Billion-Dollar Rumpus Begin! (MISTIA Edition)

Posted on September 27, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

From our More In Sorrow Than In Anger desk Perhaps aware that their presidential race is becoming too much of a smashmouth tilt, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are starting to take the not high – but soft – road. … Continue reading →

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Romney And Ryan Historic Losers?

Posted on September 23, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

From Politico’s Morning Score: NOTABLE: It looks increasingly likely that Romney and Ryan will be the first ticket since 1972 to lose both their home states: http://goo.gl/IuG3O. Said Huffington Post piece: Romney-Ryan Ticket Could Be First To Lose Home States Since 1972 As new … Continue reading →

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All Those Dollars And No Sense

Posted on September 19, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Fun fact to know and tell: According to the Associated Press, through the end of August Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign and the various independent groups supporting him had spent $245 million on advertising. Barack Obama’s campaign and its allies had … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ad spending, Associated Press, Barack Obama, Buzzfeed, gut welfare reform, Los Angeles Times, Mark Halperin, Mitt Romney, Real Clear Politics, Scott Conroy, Time | 1 Comment

Former Boston Herald Editor To WSJ: Romney’s A Potemkin Republican

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Eric Convey, a former reporter/editor at the Boston Herald, had this op-ed in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal: Massachusetts Lessons About a President Romney Its more likely he will try to reform Obamacare than make good on his promise to repeal … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Boston Herald, Eric Convey, Mitt Romney, ObamaCare, Potemkin Republican, Wall Street Journal | 4 Comments

Quote o’ the Day (Learning To Like Mitt Edition)

Posted on September 3, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

In his column for the September 3rd edition of the Weekly Standard, Andrew Ferguson “[feels] free to admit, in the full knowledge that nobody cares, that I never liked Mitt Romney.” Further: My distaste for him isn’t merely personal or … Continue reading →

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Peggy Noodnik Writes Again (Mitt Romney’s Sense Of Humor Edition)

Posted on August 26, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Peggy Noonan, the Annie Hall of the chin-strokerati (see: any of her Meet the Press appearances), has outdone herself – or is that, undone herself? – in this week’s Wall Street Journal column, headlined “America Meets Mr. Romney.” In it, … Continue reading →

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Let The Whatever-Billion-Dollar Rumpus Begin! (Mitt Romney Third Lying Welfare Ad Edition)

Posted on August 21, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Via Politico’s Playbook: This is the Romney campaign’s third TV spot claiming Barack Obama removed the work from workfare, which every fact-check site has labeled untrue. To be sure, the Obama campaign is doing its fair share of lying … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Wall Street Journal, welfare, workfare | 1 Comment

Let The Whatever-Billion-Dollar Rumpus Begin! (Buy Your Way Past The Fact-Checkers Edition)

Posted on August 18, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Sad Fact to Know and Tell™: The lying political ads always drown out the fact-checking hall monitors. From yesterday’s Boston Globe: Points amiss in Romney’s ads on welfare Fact checkers criticize, but voters respond Mitt Romney’s ads attacking President Obama … Continue reading →

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