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Cher Rips Romney's 'Racist Tea Bagger Masters'

She deletes tweets after anti-Romney rant

(Newser) - Don't expect Cher to sing a duet with Ted Nugent any time soon. If Mitt Romney "gets elected I don't know if I can breathe same air as Him & his Right Wing Racist Homophobic Women-Hating Tea Bagger Masters," she wrote in one of several tweets...

Romney&#39;s Secret Meetings With Voters: What Gives?
Romney's Secret Meetings With Voters: What Gives?
John Dickerson
May 8, 2012 12:25 PM CDT

Romney's Secret Meetings With Voters: What Gives?

John Dickerson says Romney doesn't seem to be learning much

(Newser) - Mitt Romney says he's been secretly meeting with voters to hear about their economic suffering. In an interview last week, Romney said he met with "three or four families almost every day," according to the AP . The revelation shocked "nearly everyone who has covered him,"...

Santorum Endorses Romney via Email

'We agree that Obama must be defeated,' he tells supporters

(Newser) - Nearly a month after he dropped out of the race, Rick Santorum has formally endorsed the former rival he once described as the worst Republican in the country to challenge Obama. Santorum made the endorsement in an email to supporters after a one-on-one meeting with Mitt Romney that lasted more...

Mitt Takes Credit for Saving Auto Industry

Comments a 'new low in dishonesty,' Obama campaign says

(Newser) - Mitt Romney says he deserves a lot of the credit for saving America's auto industry, despite his vocal opposition to taxpayer help for General Motors and Chrysler in 2008. The Republican, speaking at an auto parts maker in Cleveland yesterday, said Obama followed his lead by allowing both firms...

Insiders: Christie Wants VP Nod

But some doubt he'd stay on message

(Newser) - Chris Christie may not have wanted to be president, but apparently he'd love to be vice president. New Jersey government insiders tell the National Review that Christie would happily accept the number 2 slot on the ticket if Mitt Romney offered it. "Christie is open to it, his...

Hispanics Key to 2012 Electoral Map

And things aren't looking good for Mitt Romney

(Newser) - If he wants to win in November, Mitt Romney will need to make giant strides among Hispanics, and he knows it. A failure to do so "spells doom for us," he was caught saying at a fundraiser. President Obama already appears to have a large electoral-vote lead—247...

Voters Really Like Obama— but Romney's Dead Even

Obama, Romney dead even in new poll

(Newser) - Americans really like Barack Obama—they're just not sure they'll vote for him. In a new Politico/George Washington University poll , a whopping 70% say they approve of Obama personally, and 56% approve strongly. That's compared to only 29% who strongly approve of Romney. But when it came...

Grenell Exit Proves It: Romney's Spineless

Won't stand up to GOP power: Ruth Marcus

(Newser) - In letting openly gay spokesman Richard Grenell depart without a fight, Mitt Romney is making his usual "calculus": As he sees it, "the risk of alienating powerful party figures or constituencies exceeds the benefit of repositioning himself, if not in the reasonable center, then closer to it,"...

Despite Exit, Gingrich Still Slamming Mitt

Romney 'said things ... that weren't true,' Newt tells CNN

(Newser) - For those of you who thought the next words out of Newt Gingrich’s mouth on national television would be an endorsement of Mitt Romney, think again. Despite his ( painfully drawn-out ) exit from the race , Gingrich was on CNN yesterday to once again point out that “the...

Team Romney's Game Plan: Win These 6 States

On the to-do list: Winning back Indiana, North Carolina, and Virginia

(Newser) - While Team Romney certainly isn't expecting a landslide win for its man this November, the Republican's campaign staffers see a clear—but narrow—path to 270 electoral votes and victory, the Washington Post finds. The campaign plans to focus on winning back three GOP-leaning states Obama took in...

Grenell Departure Is Romney Campaign's First Big Mess

Campaign failed to anticipate problems: NYT

(Newser) - At least six top Romney campaign aides and advisers called Richard Grenell after he submitted his resignation , urging him to reconsider and remain Mitt Romney’s foreign policy spokesperson. But after weeks of being silenced and, he felt, not allowed to do his job, Grenell was done, the New York ...

Mitt Romney Mocks Obama's New Slogan

Forward ... over a cliff, ha, ha!

(Newser) - President Obama got his Mitt Romney zinger in on Saturday night, and the GOP candidate returned the favor last night, reports ABC News . At a $2,500-and-up-a-head fundraiser at a Ritz-Carlton just outside DC, Romney tweaked Obama's new slogan, "Forward," saying "it's like, forward, what,...

Bachmann to Endorse Romney
 Bachmann to Endorse Romney 
May 3, 2012 3:00 AM CDT

Bachmann to Endorse Romney

Tea Party favorite to appear at campaign event today

(Newser) - Four months after dropping out of the Republican race, Michele Bachmann has finally decided to endorse another candidate—the inevitable one. The conservative Minnesota congresswoman will endorse Mitt Romney at a campaign event in Virginia today, the Romney campaign tells CBS , which notes that the endorsement from Bachmann, a fierce...

Romney&#39;s Bain Pal: Rich Should Get Richer
 Romney's Bain Pal: 
 Rich Should Get Richer 
NYT MAG COVER STORY
May 2, 2012 12:53 PM CDT

Romney's Bain Pal: Rich Should Get Richer

New book 'may be the most hated of the year' New York Times predicts

(Newser) - If you're angry about the growing divide between America's rich and poor, former Bain Capital executive Edward Conard has a message for you: Get over it. Conard is a member of the 0.1%, a top Mitt Romney donor, and the author of Unintended Consequences, a book arguing...

Romney's Openly Gay Spokesman Resigns

Richard Grenell had been controversial

(Newser) - Richard Grenell's job as Mitt Romney's foreign policy spokesman lasted all of about two weeks. Grenell had been a source of controversy on two fronts: He was openly gay, which rankled some conservative commenters, and he had issued a long trail of tweets before taking the job that...

Why Mitt Should Avoid Condi as VP

 Why Mitt Should  
 Avoid Condi as VP 
OPINION
May 1, 2012 1:59 PM CDT

Why Mitt Should Avoid Condi as VP

Rice's lousy record should keep her off Romney ticket: Bret Stephens

(Newser) - Did you like the Bush administration? No? Then why the heck would you want Condoleezza Rice to be Mitt Romney's running mate, asks Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal . A recent poll had Rice as Republican voters' top choice for the ticket, and it's easy to see...

Boehner: Americans Won&#39;t Vote for a Loser

 Boehner: 
 Americans 
 Won't Vote 
 for a Loser 
talk show roundup
Apr 29, 2012 11:56 AM CDT

Boehner: Americans Won't Vote for a Loser

Romney's a winner because he's rich, he says

(Newser) - Americans hate "losers," and won't vote for one, House Speaker John Boehner insisted today. That means Mitt Romney, whose wealth makes him a "winner," has a good shot at becoming president, Boehner explained on CNN's State of the Union . Americans "don't want...

Repeat Butt of WHCD Jokes: Romney

Jimmy Kimmel, President Obama pile on

(Newser) - Jimmy Kimmel received generally good marks as host of the White House Correspondents' Dinner last night, tweaking both parties without going for the jugular. And both Kimmel and the president dinged Mitt Romney—not in attendance—a few times. Among the top lines of the night, as per Politico :
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Romney to Go-Getters: Borrow $20K From Parents?
Romney to Go-Getters:
Borrow $20K From Parents?
OPINION
Apr 28, 2012 7:30 AM CDT

Romney to Go-Getters: Borrow $20K From Parents?

ThinkProgress: It shows again he's 'out of touch'

(Newser) - Good advice for young entrepreneurs or another sign that Mitt Romney can't relate to ordinary Americans? Romney told Ohio college students yesterday that if they wanted to start a business, they should just borrow $20,000 or so from their parents, as a friend of his did. (Jimmy John...

Obama Ad: Mitt Wouldn't Have Killed bin Laden

Romney calls new ad divisive

(Newser) - The Obama campaign turned heads today with a new video that strongly implies Mitt Romney wouldn't have ordered the raid killing Osama bin Laden. The video starts off innocuously enough, with Bill Clinton praising Obama's decision to go after bin Laden. "He took the harder and the...

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