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Mitt's top 10 reasons why he dropped out of the race

POSTED BY ALEXANDRA STEIGRAD, APRIL 17 2008 05:03 PM | PERMALINK

From the Radio & TV Correspondents' Dinner:

10. There weren't as many Osmonds as I thought.

9. I got tired of corkscrew landings under sniper fire.

8. As a lifelong hunter, I didn't want to miss the start of the varmint season.

7. There wasn't room for two Christian leaders.

6. I was upset that no one had bothered to search my passport files.

5. I needed an excuse to get fat, grow a beard and win the Nobel prize.

4. I took a bad fall at a campaign rally and broke my hair.

3. I...
The End of Mitt

POSTED BY THOM FILE, FEBRUARY 06 2008 11:35 AM | PERMALINK

... and his lie of a campaign.

The best thing about Mitt Romney’s atrocious Super Tuesday performance came early in the afternoon when his campaign released the statement excerpted below. In direct response to losing something called the West Virginia State Republican Party Convention, where voters cast ballots until a clear majority emerges, Romney’s irritated campaign unleashed a vitriolic screed that reeked of the juvenile sulking that increasingly defines this torpedoing campaign. More and more,...
Romney-rama in Denver

POSTED BY RALEIGH-ELIZABETH SMITH, FEBRUARY 05 2008 12:23 PM | PERMALINK

More from our Ground Hounds: This time we ask, who are the folks in the overflow crowds when a presidential hopeful comes to town? These are some of the people who waited outside a Denver car dealership hoping for a chance to see Mitt Romney, even though they couldn't hear the speech. Not a far cry from the Barack Obama rally also in Colorado?
Rudy Lowers Expectations for Florida as McCain Leads in Polls

POSTED BY KEVIN BRANNON, JANUARY 24 2008 07:30 AM | PERMALINK

I knew things were looking bad for Rudy Giuliani when he appeared on This Week with George Stephanopoulos wearing more eye make-up than Liza with a Z. Note to Rudy: The mascara does open up your eyes for the camera, but it also makes you look kind of crazed in a Fellini Satyricon sort of (bad) way.

With Stephanopoulos, Rudy stuck to his usual elliptical reasoning for why he thinks he can still win Florida. He boasted that Sunshine State voters will turn out in droves to vote for him once he...
Meeting in Michigan, Mitt and McCain Battle it Out, Dems Voting "Uncommitted"

POSTED BY RALEIGH-ELIZABETH SMITH, JANUARY 14 2008 03:40 PM | PERMALINK

They’ve been vying for control of the Michigan polls for months, but tomorrow, Mitt Romney and John McCain will be battling for first place in the state’s presidential primary.

It wasn’t too long ago that polls indicated Romney had a firm grasp on Michigan – as well he should, it’s his home turf. Family politicos made their bones in the great lakes state: Mitt Romney’s father was the state’s governor and in 1868 made his own bid for president, his mother was a candidate for the U.S. Senate. Son of...
Romney Redefines Verbs, Rewrites History

POSTED BY RALEIGH-ELIZABETH SMITH, DECEMBER 21 2007 04:57 PM | PERMALINK

It was a big day for Mitt Romney. It seems that famous "religion speech" he gave at College Station is starting to become infamous - and fast.

“I saw my father march with Martin Luther King,” he told the audience. Only it seems he didn't see anything.

So instead of apologizing, Mitt waxed pathetic:

“If you look at the literature, if you look at the dictionary, the term ‘saw’ includes being aware of in the sense I’ve described,” he said. “It’s a figure of speech and very familiar and it’s very...
Romney Can't Find Christmas Values, Only Spars with Polished Preacher

POSTED BY RALEIGH-ELIZABETH SMITH, DECEMBER 19 2007 09:56 AM | PERMALINK

Mike Huckabee, the preacher (but not seminarian... controversy!), has Christmas down pat at this point. And so it's no surprise that his latest political ad includes garland, all manner of ornaments, and a blue spruce.

But what is surprising is that Mitt Romney's doesn't. (Wasn't he just telling us that Mormons are Christian too?) Romney has spent his latest advertising dollars not on his well wishes to the Christian Right on their favorite holiday (no presents are exchanged on the ~~...~~
The Romney-Medvedev Dynasty

POSTED BY RALEIGH-ELIZABETH SMITH, DECEMBER 10 2007 05:17 PM | PERMALINK

Just picture it: one major, gas guzzling nation headed by a man financially knee-deep in an oil company. Specifically, a state-owned oil company of a former-enemy state whose chairman happens to be its president as well. Sound a little like monopoly? What about a lot frightening.

It will be reality if Mitt Romney swings the election here and Dmitry Medvedev does the same in Russia. Medvedev won the support of Vladimir Putin today and is likely to succeed the President in March of this year....
The Feral Ramblings of Mitt Romney

POSTED BY THOM FILE, DECEMBER 07 2007 12:49 PM | PERMALINK

It’s clear to anyone paying attention to the 2008 Republican Primary that Mitt Romney is the most recent in a long line of political aspirants with absolutely no idea why he is running for President. He’s the partisan inverse of John Edwards in 2004, a stand-for-absolutely-nothing mattress salesman who stumbled onto so much good fortune in the private sector that he eventually had no choice but to buy into his own bullshit.

In all fairness, how many years can people tell you things like, “Hey, you seem...
More Christmas Trees in Schools! Or, Mitt Romney Talks About Religion, Just Not His

POSTED BY RALEIGH-ELIZABETH SMITH, DECEMBER 06 2007 11:30 AM | PERMALINK

Mitt has a lot to say about faith ... just not a whole lot when it comes to his own. He can talk about the religion of the Founding Fathers, the religion on our dollar bills, and the religion he thinks still has a place in school. But in this much-heralded speech addressing his faith and the role it would have in his presidency - arguably the potential break-through moment of his candidacy - Mitt doesn't do a whole lot of explaining.

We've heard the comparisons to JFK, but Catholicism doesn't come with...