“There is no doubt that the Romney administration would be able to claim — in the event of a Romney presidency — a democratic mandate for torture.”
“The former head of Israel’s spy agency criticized Romney’s policy on Iran.”
“[T]he military’s support has shifted toward Obama. Romney has consistently received little financial backing from military donors.”
“She isn’t publicly associated with the U.S. in any other way but she’s now named in this cable. It’s a danger to her life.”
“The Romney ran aground in November 1804 while sailing to join the fleet off Den Helder. She broke up after attempts to float her off failed.”
“It’s been tough finding someone electable who doesn’t make me feel like I’m selling out my own unique vision. Thank goodness for Mitt Romney!”
“Mitt Romney is running, truly, for a third Bush term.”
“It says, quite loudly, ‘I do not want my tax exemption any more and am also a terrible dinner companion.'”
“We’re going to cut taxes on everyone across the country by 20 percent. Including the top one percent. … I will not reduce the taxes paid by high-income Americans.”
“These rich guys have more at stake because Obama has helped make them richer, which means they have more money with which to try and elect someone who won’t raise their taxes.”
“I’m thankful GM is still making cars. What else would I write about? I’d have no job without that.”
“Really, truly, the last thing we need to worry about is whether the Chinese love our bonds.”
“Coming during a fiscal crisis, that larger political shift, so perfectly reflected in Romney’s lying, should be viewed as a promising development.”
“It’s actually very bad economics to enshrine the private sector as the place from which all good things flow and conversely, the public sector as the evil one incarnate.”
“There is shooting yourself in the foot. Then, there is shooting yourself in the foot, cutting off the foot, placing it upon your head, and then shooting yourself in the foot and in the head simultaneously.”
“While it’s certainly Patriarca’s right to say and write what he likes, the lack of vetting by the Scott Brown campaign, and allowing him to speak for Brown in a TV ad for re-election to the United States Senate is disturbing, as are what appear to be Patriarca’s apparent misogyny, racism, and homophobia.”
“Whatever the case, the obvious conclusion — that the American Right has always contained, and continues to contain, both racist and extremist elements that act out in violent and repugnant ways, and that the current campaign is bringing them back into the mainstream of politics — simply can’t be true.”
“Arizona’s largest county puts wrong date on voter cards. Only in Spanish though. Wonder how that happened?”
“Walsh and Akin start with wanting an absolute ban on abortion, and reason back from that commitment to a world in which rape victims never get pregnant and and mothers’ lives are never threatened by a pregnancy.”
“Mitt Romney is no stranger to shifting positions on reproductive rights, but even for him, his latest move is audacious.”
“Under Romney’s preferred agenda, employers can end contraception coverage for their women employees, and millions of Americans would no longer be able to afford birth control.”
“Utah is the most inegalitarian state, with its women earning just 55 cents for every dollar earned by a male Utah resident.”
“Bishop ≠ pastor. There’s some overlap, but it’s like saying that a president is a mayor.”
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