Mitt Romney
FREMONT, CA - MAY 31: Repubican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks during news conference in front the shuttered Solyndra solar power company's manufacturing facility May 31, 2012 in Fremont, California. The company filed for bankruptcy in 2011 after receiving $535 million in federal loan money.
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Mitt Romney has been much clearer and more direct even than John McCain in his interest in dismantling women’s health care ... The threats have intensified. The Republican primary laid bare and made clear what their agenda is.
When Mitt Romney says, ‘Planned Parenthood, we’re going to get rid of that,’ Romney is saying he’ll deny women the birth control and cancer screenings they depend on.
You have to wonder what George and Lenore Romney would have made of their son the candidate ... The last week has brought two insightful profiles of Mitt Romney’s parents, offering an implicit, and disappointing, contrast with their more successful son.More quotes »
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McFeatters: OK, Romney's a citizen, too
now Reuters has obtained a copy of Mitt Romney 's birth certificate, and, to no one's surprise, he was born in Detroit on March 12, 1947.His birth certificate would be of no interest, except that President Barack Obama 's is of interest, and red states that 5/31/12 Read more »
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Dems attack Romney at Mass. Statehouse
backdrop for the White House campaign on Thursday as President Barack Obama 's top political strategist assailed Mitt Romney 's record as governor while competing against a steady stream of chants and catcalls from a group of Romney backers.Standing with a 5/31/12 Read more »
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McFeatters: Romney offers unrealistic advice
but otherwise Libya has dropped off the American radar screen and completely off the list of Republican talking points.Now Mitt Romney , freshly anointed as the presumptive Republican nominee and tacit supporter of Donald Trump 's birther delusions, is criticizing Read more »
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Obama team to focus on Romney's record in Mass.
Barack Obama 's campaign is opening a new critique of Mitt Romney , focusing attention on the Republican 's economic record as governor of Massachusetts.Obama's team looked to respond to Romney, who seized the GOP presidential nomination with his primary win Read more »
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Carlson: The hole in Mitt Romney's resume
the matter with Massachusetts that would make Mitt Romney want to pretend he'd never been its governor? Yes, it presents some image problems for the conservative candidate Romney now wants to be. The last time a Massachusetts governor ran for president, it Read more »
Around the web
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Former U.S. President Bill Clinton says Syria similar to Bosnia
The White House, which has said its options are limited, also has rejected calls by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for more direct steps to end the rule of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Clinton said he believes the world “would come rushing 46 m ago from Vancouver Sun Read more »
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Syrian violence puts Obama, Romney campaigns in a tough spot
violence in Syria has become the ultimate no-win political situation for President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney: The deepening crisis is impossible for their campaigns to ignore, but too complex for them to articulate an easy solution. 2:16 AM from Detroit Free Press Read more »
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Bill Clinton: Obama Will Win
former President Bill Clinton said that he thinks President Barack Obama will win re-election, but didn't criticize Mitt Romney's role at Bain Capital as other Democrats have been doing. Clinton said Romney had a "sterling business career" and was capable 1:43 AM from The Daily Beast Read more »
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EDITORIAL: Presidential race has its two chief nominees, so let's roll out detailed visions for the future
amid some of the contentious down-ballot race outcomes on Election Day: news that Texas voters finally put Republican Mitt Romney over the top in delegates. Tuesday’s vote saw him surpass the 1,144 delegates required to clinch the Republican presidential nomination 1:36 AM from Waco Tribune-Herald Read more »
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Letters to the editor on education experts, turnarounds, health rationing, Pompeo mailer, Memorial Day
realized no downward change in output. But by that letter writer’s standards, I was apparently more of an ogre than even Mitt Romney. We laid off employees we wished we could keep, but we did return to profitability. When I felt comfortable in growing again, 1:35 AM from Kansas.com Read more »
