Tag Archives: Mitt Romney

Danation: Does Truth Even Matter Anymore?

Yeah, yeah. Obama won last night’s debate. Everyone says so. In fact, he killed it. The same CBS poll on the “who won the debate?” question that gave Romney a 23-point advantage after the first debate — and thus started the ball rolling among pundits that Romney had knocked it out of the park — [...]

Danation: Further Explanation on the Doom of Mitt Romney

A couple of weeks back, before the debate in which Mexican-American presidential candidate Willard M. Romney’s cheat-and-lie-to-win performance gave his campaign a boost, I wrote a post describing why his campaign was essentially doomed regardless of the fact that the national polls have the race as a dead heat. And amid all the post-debate hoopla, [...]

Danation: Romney Lied, Broke the Rules, and Won

Mexican-American presidential candidate Willard M. Romney had a great night last night. Even over at MSNBC, the most-liberal of the cable news operations, the immediate concession among everyone on the post-debate panel was that Romney had won, the lone exception being the Rev. Al Sharpton, who will concede nothing to Republicans, even if they were [...]

Danation: The Doom of Mitt Romney

Well, we’re a month out from the presidential election, more or less, and most of the punditry seems to be coming around to the opinion I’ve had for the whole race, which is that Mexican-American presidential candidate Willard M. Romney is an abysmal candidate who stands about as much chance of living in the White [...]

Danation: Rush Limbaugh Speaks For Me

By now, anyone who follows politics has heard the “47 percent” gaffe of Mexican-American presidential candidate Willard M. Romney. Posted Monday afternoon by David Corn of Mother Jones, the story features Romney saying some shockingly stupid things. But one thing, one beautiful, shiny, crystalline phrase, so overwhelmed the stupid found elsewhere in the video that [...]

Dear Allen: Allah Bunch of Babies: Toughen Up, Muslims!

Note from the editor: In the tradition of “Congressman’s Corner,” Salty Eggs has invited Rep. Allen West to field questions from his South Florida constituents. Until we get a response to our query, we will do our best to answer questions on his behalf, based on what we know of his temperament and politics. Dear [...]

Free Speech and Cowardice

When trouble began in north Africa this week, it found Mitt Romney, and to a lesser extent Barack Obama, behaving like cowards. Mitt Romney, sensing the possibility of political gain, distorted the meaning of a statement issued by the American embassy in Cairo and then treated it as though it was issued from the desk [...]

Democratic National Convention, Night Two: Utter Shit, and Then Bill

5:10 p.m.: Branford Marsalis, the second most famous of the Marsalis brothers, is playing the National Anthem on a soprano sax. Lovely articulation, warm timbre. After a moment, the C-SPAN sound people figure out how to give the singing crowd a little volume, so the sax rests upon a warm, soft bed of voices. Ghostly [...]

Democratic National Convention, Night One: Sikhs, Gays, and Grace

5 p.m.: Convention opens with a blast of funk, and a huge scrim displaying a pastoral, and the words “Democratic National Convention: Americans Coming Together.” Debbie Wasserman Schultz looks gorgeous. Hair, white dress, makeup — this is the least tired she’s looked in a year or so. “Welcome to our deliberations,” she says. “We shall hold [...]

Mitt Romney’s Flip-Flops Might Not Be All Bad

At this point, complaining about Mitt Romney‘s inconsistency seems almost as fruitless an exercise as it is predictable. The GOP pick for the presidency routinely changes his positions in what can best be described as shamelessly pandering to voters. We know this — and we have known this since Mitt’s first White House bid. This [...]

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