March 2012
42 posts
How about a Romney-Santorum ticket? →
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Romney: Yeah, um, no kthxbye.
“Our strategic objectives have not changed, and they will not change.”
—WH spox Jay Carney on Afghanistan mission following the alleged slaughter of 16 Afghan civilians by a U.S. soldier
Happy 65th Birthday Mitt Romney!!!
Guess who isn’t signing up for Medicare… (via Daniel Gross, Yahoo Finance)
A "golf glove with love" for President Obama?
What’s the secret to giving the president of the United States a memorable gift? “Opposition research,” Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell quipped Friday after gifting Obama a left-handed “golf glove with love.”
Why Mitt Romney can't shut up about his money →
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Liz Goodwin of Yahoo News explains
“Paul, for all his flat, engineer-like charisma, hardly seems like a Julian Assange mastermind, able to bend the Internet to his Machiavellian hacker will. Instead, it seems the President of the Internet just got lucky.”
—Ron Paul’s pointless Internet presidency - Yahoo! News
“I’ve resigned myself to the slow descent into obesity and caffeine addiction”
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—McKay Coppins, reporter at Buzzfeed
We polled members of the press corps about their relationship to caffeine on the trail.
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This primary season has been characterized by the absence of familiar friends. Where is the ‘momentum’ of yesteryear? When did voter preferences start shifting so suddenly, so violently, that a double-digit lead is gone within a matter of days?
But there’s one reliable old friend that’s been with us from the start: a widespread incomprehension about how to count. What’s more, there’s every reason to think that this cluelessness will shadow the political conversation once the general election begins.
” —Welcome to Jeff Greenfield, Yahoo News’ newest columnistRomney: Hoping for a 'reset' among voters after long, heated primary
Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Eric Fehrnstrom, a senior Romney adviser, dismissed concerns the primary process could prove to be too damaging for his boss.
“When this primary is over and people have had their heads knocked in by one another, that’s just the nature of a hard fought campaign,” he said. “We hit the reset button and the campaign begins anew with a different opponent. We’ll be able to draw sharp contrasts with the president and the president alone not worrying about our competition. It will be a different race at that point, and the numbers will begin again.”
