“We wish you and your family a Merry Christmas, happy holiday season and a joyful New Year. The Romney family.”
Inside the Romney Christmas card.
Photo by Marlon Correa (The Washington Post)
Four-year-old in Fort Collins, Colo: “I’m tired of Bronco Bamma and Mitt Rommaney.”
Us too, kid.
Via NPR
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Every politician changes his mind sometimes; you’d worry if not. But rarely has a politician gotten so far with only one evident immutable belief: his conviction in his own fitness for higher office.
So voters are left with the centerpiece of Mr. Romney’s campaign: promised tax cuts that would blow a much bigger hole in the federal budget while worsening economic inequality. His claims that he could avoid those negative effects, which defy math and which he refuses to back up with actual proposals, are more insulting than reassuring.
By contrast, the president understands the urgency of the problems as well as anyone in the country and is committed to solving them in a balanced way. In a second term, working with an opposition that we hope would be chastened by the failure of its scorched-earth campaign against him, he is far more likely than his opponent to succeed. That makes Mr. Obama by far the superior choice.
"— the editorial board of The Washington Post, in its endorsement of Barack Obama.
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Nowhere has Mitt Romney’s pursuit of the presidency been more warmly welcomed or closely followed than here in Utah. The Republican nominee’s political and religious pedigrees, his adeptly bipartisan governorship of a Democratic state, and his head for business and the bottom line all inspire admiration and hope in our largely Mormon, Republican, business-friendly state.
But it was Romney’s singular role in rescuing Utah’s organization of the 2002 Olympics from a cesspool of scandal, and his oversight of the most successful Winter Games on record, that make him the Beehive State’s favorite adopted son. After all, Romney managed to save the state from ignominy, turning the extravaganza into a showcase for the matchless landscapes, volunteerism and efficiency that told the world what is best and most beautiful about Utah and its people.
In short, this is the Mitt Romney we knew, or thought we knew, as one of us.
Sadly, it is not the only Romney, as his campaign for the White House has made abundantly clear, first in his servile courtship of the tea party in order to win the nomination, and now as the party’s shape-shifting nominee.
"— the opening paragraphs of The Salt Lake Tribune’s endorsement of Barack Obama.
"Dad says, ‘First you go into business and you make a lot of money, you give the church half of it, and then you go into public service. And then you become president of the United States.’"
— Mitt Romney, according to his Bain colleague and Marriott roommate Patrick Graham. Read more about how Romney’s 1994 Senate run shaped his 2012 campaign ambitions.
"Governor Romney: I created the TV Show ‘Friday Night Lights’ and came up with the phrase ‘Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose.’ I was not thrilled when I saw that you have plagiarized this expression to support your campaign … Your politics and campaign are clearly not aligned with the themes we portrayed in our series. … Please come up with your own campaign slogan."
— writer-director Peter Berg, in a letter to the Romney campaign, via soupsoup via The Hollywood Reporter.
"Lousy candidate; highly qualified to be president."
— a “top Romney official,” as quoted by Politico.
'The Daily Show' strung together some Romney TV interviews last night
- Mitt Romney Sept. 23, 2012: Well we do provide care for people who don't have insurance. We pick them in an ambulance, and take them to the hospital, and give them care. And different states have different ways of providing for that care.
- Mitt Romney March 2010: Look it doesn't make a lot of sense for us to have millions and millions of people who have no health insurance and yet who can go to the emergency room and get entirely free care for which they have no responsibility.
- Mitt Romney Nov. 2007: When they show up at the hospital, they get care. They get free care paid for by you and me. If that's not a form of socialism I don't know what is.
